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Well, it is the second to final area. If it was five levels lower I'm pretty sure you'd be bitching at how easy it is instead.

>I cannot understand anyone that would want to play a single player MMO which includes the MMO grinding, but without guilds, raids or anything actually interesting to support it.

You keep up easily in levels just exploring the areas fighting everything in your way, combat is by far the most efficient way to get XP. Also if you're going to praise fucking guilds and raids as the main reason to play a video game you can fuck right off to SomethingAwful.

>>14572998

> If it was five levels lower I'm pretty sure you'd be bitching at how easy it is instead.

Even as it is I'm still bitching, I can kill the yellow enemies easy enough since they don't do anything that any other enemy before hasn't done, but a single red enemy means that I would have to build a full cheese agility + dot + chain attack set-up (which would also take a ton of grinding to do right) and spend a fucking year waiting for the enemy to slowly die from dots, while hoping that it doesn't get a lucky crit or some wonky collision causes me to go flying off a ledge.

I killed every one of the unique enemies in agnirath, cleared almost all of the sidequests and spent a good amount of time going around in circles to check that I'd actually got all the uniques and I was still 7 levels too low, this is already way more grinding than I would ever normally do in an rpg that I wasn't heavily invested. After that I went and killed a bunch of stuff in the Bionis dungeon and some other things levelled ~70 ish and barely even made one of 7 levels left to be at base level for this dungeon. I would actually have to spend more time grinding than I would actually playing through this dungeon and the next one, which is supposedly something like level 80 minimum to stand a chance, in order to match the level scale, after already doing a bunch of pointless shit in the previous dungeon.

And no, I don't enjoy MMOs much at all, even with the 'social' aspect included, so it really baffles me to a story heavy game like this requiring so much grinding before post-game. Not even disgaea ever makes you grind more than a few minutes to complete the main story.

>>14572998

>guilds and raids in a mmo are for goons

Eternal exodus.

>>14573094

The issue is most of the good strategies require getting reliable mega heat with rare gems, I was already kind of burnt out by Egil and this 'No Shulk, you're the demons' plotline twist has been dragging on for so long that I'm not really interested in continuing with grinding affinity and gems any more than I have the patience to grind for levels beyond the bare minimum. I like the game, but I don't love it.

Post-game bosses are very different to regular bosses, and there are certain thresholds for gear and skills you need to reach (specifically keeping some auras up with 0 downtime or something along those lines), but I might take another stab at it later just running to the next two bosses and seeing if I can't eke out some cheap win. I managed to get through the second egil battle at ~66 or so, but his immobility made a lot of strats more viable than they'd usually be and the level difference put him in yellow range, not red.

All I'm saying is that the game would be fine if either the level difference boost sytem was removed, or yellow/white level ranges were based around completing an average amount of quests instead of having to do pretty much every single one of them in every area.

>>14573169

I can get that. I remember taking some sort of break from game for a couple of weeks too so maybe that's why I never felt the burnout

Either way I am pretty sure you have a better grasp at the mechanics right now than I do. Good luck, anon, it really is worth finishing.