Where in TOB can you grind XPs?

Einhardt

Usually I don't grind either for gold or XPs but I've just finished TOB with Sarevok dualed to thief (my first time doing so) and I didn't gain any HLA yet. I read that some people do this to enable him to use Carsomyr so this means there are enough XPs, right? I've already done Watcher's Keep but in the end he's got only like 2.4 million something. Where do people grind in TOB? (Or is this not for a 6-people party?)

billbisco

Get a quiver or bow with infinite arrows. For to the top of Sadish and that character can kill offscreen spawning fire giants again and again. Leave your device on overnight and reap the rewards.

dunbar

You can abuse the machine of Lum the mad (in WK) by save/reloading ad infinitum.

sarevok57

there are 2 spots to grind, the forest where you fight the imposter gorion or in yaga shura's enclave ( before going up the stairs)

so what you need to do is set 7 traps around your party, and then have some chain contingencies set to horrid wilting ( or chain lightning or the such)

then when you are all set up and ready, press the rest button as fast you can, if you do it fast enough you should be able to spawn in huge amounts of enemies, sometimes the battles can be hard, but if ya win, you will get HUGE XP

worst case scenario you can just go to the first area inside yaga shura's enclave and just rest spawn the group in there, with the 3 fire giants 2 hell cats and fire elemental that battle is worth around 84 000 XP or some such

so that would probably be your best bet

Gallowglass

Note: you can't manually target the out-of-sight (not actually off-screen, but hidden behind the tower) Fire Giants from the walls of Saradush, but if you have AI on, then an attacking AI script can target them automatically.

If you don't have Sarevok, then you shouldn't need to grind much (or maybe not even at all) to max out a full party by the end of the game, if you play a completionist game with all the quests etc. However, if you've done all of SoA (except WK), then Sarevok will join at a much lower level than your continuing characters from SoA, so there's no way to max him out without serious grinding.

The walls of Saradush are the classic grinding-place for ToB, with infinite Fire Giants. There are some other places you can grind as well, but in some locations which were infinitely-spawning in the original games, the EE seems to have introduced a finite (albeit non-trivial) limit on the number of re-spawns - enough for a small grind, but not the sort of heavy-duty grinding needed if you want to max out Sarevok. If you're too late for the walls of Saradush to be still available when you decide that you want to go grinding, then there are still some other places which have unlimited spawns ... the North Tunnels of Sendai's Enclave, for example, where infinite re-spawning (until you kill the local boss) is part of the story.

Lord_Tansheron

If you're into things like auto-grinding Fire Giants, honestly just console/EEKeeper in the XP and save yourself some time.

Otherwise you can rest repeatedly in areas where you encounter high-XP monsters (like Fire Giants) though spamming the button for a screen full of enemies could probably also be substituted with the above-mentioned.

Gallowglass

Lord_Tansheron said:

If you're into things like auto-grinding Fire Giants, honestly just console/EEKeeper in the XP and save yourself some time.

You might as well just advise people to mod in a "WIN!" button on the opening menu (which takes you straight to the end-credits) and "save yourself some time" instead of wasting all those hours actually playing the game.

Nevertheless, there are many of us (perhaps even most of us) who like to win by actual gameplay instead of resorting to editing-cheats.

Lord_Tansheron

Gallowglass said:

(which takes you straight to the end-credits) and "save yourself some time" instead of wasting all those hours actually playing the game.

billbisco said:

Get a quiver or bow with infinite arrows. For to the top of Sadish and that character can kill offscreen spawning fire giants again and again. Leave your device on overnight and reap the rewards.

Actually playing, indeed.

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Gallowglass said:

Lord_Tansheron said:

If you're into things like auto-grinding Fire Giants, honestly just console/EEKeeper in the XP and save yourself some time.

You might as well just advise people to mod in a "WIN!" button on the opening menu (which takes you straight to the end-credits) and "save yourself some time" instead of wasting all those hours actually playing the game.

Nevertheless, there are many of us (perhaps even most of us) who like to win by actual gameplay instead of resorting to editing-cheats.

there actually was a mod called game-be-gone once that used to do exactly that. google can't seem to find it, so I guess the mod is gone.

ThacoBell

Gallowglass said:

Lord_Tansheron said:

If you're into things like auto-grinding Fire Giants, honestly just console/EEKeeper in the XP and save yourself some time.

You might as well just advise people to mod in a "WIN!" button on the opening menu (which takes you straight to the end-credits) and "save yourself some time" instead of wasting all those hours actually playing the game.

Nevertheless, there are many of us (perhaps even most of us) who like to win by actual gameplay instead of resorting to editing-cheats.

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megamike15

story mode.