Can't be sure but I think they keep the equipment they are given.  Can't hurt to take it away, it won't cause any issues.

You can unequip the chips before but it's not needed. Give rocco some good chips and you will wipe the floor with them esp heal as you attack chip. My first few attempts were bad but once I figured it out,honestly it became a cakewalk.

Okay, after I finally beat Morag, Zeke and Tora were a complete pushover.

I'm so sorry guys, I know my repeated rages are kinda pathetic, it's just I want so badly to love this game, and it does so much right, but there are times when it frustrates me out of my mind. Now that I'm so close, I just want to end the game on a positive note.

Good news is no more tricky stuff ahead :P.  Just, my advice, look to end the final boss before he hits 1/3 health.

The game is, like X, designed to cater to a certain play style I feel.  Or rather approach.  It rewards heavily those who invest themselves heavily in the layered systems.  I mean, keep in mind the mightiest Super Boss is more than 30 levels higher than the level cap.  So the game's battle system is less and less about levels and more and more about blade affinities, aux cores, tactics, etc.  So if you put in the time to get really good at it, you can crush enemies many levels higher than you.  Buuuuut that means not approaching it that way gives you a less than optimum experience.  So even though it is open world esque, 2 (like X) really isn't designed for the "play it your way" mindset, though you can certainly beat them that way.  

I think one thing you have to leave at the door is the assumption that levels are king in the battle system.  I think it's an automatic assumption when looking at this kind of system.  And it will cause frustration if that's your expectation.  Late advice I know :P.

Thank you guys ! I guess it is time to see the credits...

I was running out of stuff to do anyway... I am glad finishing the game leads to some unlocks. 

ps : Ursula's quest is ridiculous, she is the second Rare blade I got, I am 110h in, doing her merc missions all the time, and I am still not done... I feel sorry for those pulling her in post game...

Honestly, I haven't even bothered going for max affinity with Ursula, got her to the next to last level and I'm good, she's already considerably improved.  

Well, I most likely won't use Ursula at all as I am going to use Nia as a Blade in my team (Rex/Zeke/Morag). But as I have been doing this crap the whole game, I have to see the end of it...lol

For me, the best part of that opening cutscene to chapter 10 was the Zohar.

I suppose it depends on how far you have her. I stopped upgrading Ursula when she had the second last row of Affinity skills, and she was my most powerful Blade all the way through the remainder of the game.. aside from Mythra’s main form.

Yeah, I was wondering about Ursula, when I started her quest, I didn't get why people hated her relatively quick missions. Then the missions stopped and I realized they expected me to do some of them repeatedly to "level up" before she actually moved an affinity node. Ugh.

I have to try because I am completionist to a degree but they dropped the ball on that one. At least with Zenobia, hers were just in and out one time with the abilities unlocked via certain unique monster battles. Also, despite starting the quest over a hundred hours in the past, I finally looked up the Old City of Teddim for Perceval's quest... they call that little shack a 'old' city? I had been there several times before without realizing it.