Who is currently playing Octopath ?...your thoughts about it?

[Darc Requiem]

Bandorr said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

No, you're supposed to decide on a team and stick with it, so that most of your XP gains go into the same 4 party members. Also, if you are using the passive ability that lowers random encounters, turn that off, because it also lowers XP gains. Oh, and be sure to finish most of your battles without getting touched. Also, be sure to challenge anybody that is worth fighting for the XP. 

Finally, you can go to level 15 areas on your way to the chapter 2 towns and quickly grind out a few levels. Win about five or ten fights in those areas and you'll jump from level 10 to level 17. 

If I pick a team and stick with it half of them will be massively underleveled. Although I may keep three as part of the team and sub a fourth one out constantly.

Challenging people will only level up the one doing the challenging right? Not the whole party.

You just need to cycle your party members. Swap out members to keep them evenly leveled. If you are going to "grind" all you need to do is this. After you run through a Chapter. Go to the tavern, swap in your other party members, and run back through the dungeon again. That will keep your party's levels balanced. I recommend going to all the initial job shrines ASAP as well. This will allow you truly take advantage of the enemies weakness. Giving everyone a sub job will allow you to have more weapon types per character. Between that an additional skills and spells, you can keep enemies broken and reduce the length of your battles.