Michael-5 said:
Nah skip the strong guys. The enemies you face in an hour award more exp then those guys in the cave, and you come back to the cave at a higher level not much later anyway. When I played this myself it took me 2 hours to get passed the cave, when my girlfriend played (and she is much worse then me at this game) she took an hour and ten minutes, with me telling her to skip those guys. At the 3 hour point for her, and the 4 hour point for me, we had the same level and amount of story completion, and she did end up taking down those guys. Experience is exponential in this game. If you're level 10 and kill a level 5 guy you get 1 or 2 exp, where a level 5 guy gets 28 exp. They made the game so it's always somewhat challenging, no matter how much you grind. |
It's a good point actually, but sadly experience gained from exploration and sidequests never scale down. Only enemy fights do...
The key point is, no matter what enemy you're fighting, if you're 4 or more levels above them you'll get on 1 SP. If you're level 80 and the enemy is level 75, you'll get the same amount of SP as if you fought a lv. 3 enemy. It's really the only thing that drastically scales...
Fortunately, there's fewer sidequests later on, but the enemy levels increase at the same rate, even if you're slowing down. So if you're overlevelled early on, you'd be much closer come endgame. Of course, it's best to not overlevel at all!
OT: I've just finished the story quest 'We Made It', and the party has re-united. My word, I love that scene...
Currently level 51, starting to feel things getting a bit difficult now...need to go around the area, kill some lower level enemies, do some sidequests and some exploration me thinks. Still a great game, loving it just as much the second time through, even though I know what's gonna happen...
