Ni no Kuni grinding spot

[kane_magus]

Well holy shit, I guess I just found the grinding spot. I was at the mountain city Perdida and had used up all my money on buying equipment and needed some more, so I figured I'd go out and grind a bit to get some more money, since I'd been getting something like 500g per fight in that area. Fought an enemy called Toko-something, and when the fight was over, I got like almost 10,000xp (as I'd already taken both of the exp boosting merit award things). Everyone leveled at least twice (Oliver went from 48 to 50, for instance), and one of the level 1 familiars I had popped on just to level it up went up like 20-something levels, just from one fight. Definitely wasn't expecting that at all.

Looked it up online and found there is a variant that occurs in the apparent final dungeon that gives 22,000xp. There was also a lesser variant on an island somewhere that I could have gotten to way earlier that gave around 2,000xp, but I hadn't know about that, until now. Oh well.

Honestly, though, this is the first time I've felt the need to grind (for money) so far, all game. If I kill more of these Toko-whatever guys while doing that, so much the better, I guess, but I don't think I'll bother to actually exp/level grind until I get to that final area.

(EDIT) And then right after making this post, I went back to the game and got into a fight that had two of those Tokotoko guys in it, for another almost 20,000xp. It's pretty ridiculous.

Thing is, though, they don't really give all that much gold, which is what I'm actually after now. ^^; (/EDIT)

Comments

[owsf2000]

Yeah that's the grinding spot I was referring to. It's certainly worth staying there a little bit though rather than depending on the final dungeon - there are stronger enemies in that dungeon to worry about at the same time after all!

At the very least you could try to level up any of the familiars you have caught and aren't using so that they can at least be considered usable later on. Plus your main characters will level up enough so the later dungeons won't feel as bad.

At the very least you should stay until your main characters aren't getting a level every 2 fights.

[kane_magus]

In the process of getting enough money to buy equipment in Perdida, I managed to get Oliver up to level 60, which is 12 levels above where he started when I first entered the area, so I think I'm pretty good for now. If not, I can always come back. But so far I haven't really struggled much, outside of a couple boss fights early on that I had to redo a time or two.