So I got to lvl 70 which is a good point to retire I guess.
I wanna switch to L/R N/A D/N on the front row and R/I A/M on the back.
Thoughts?
Have you explored the 6th dungeon yet? If not, don't retire yet because you don't need to...yet.
My recommendation:
Explore the whole 6th stratum up to the postgame boss with your current party. You don't need to be level 99 to beat him if you use the chem weakening method (which is a completely legit way of beating him with a party that isn't geared and designed specifically for killing him un-weakened). I beat him one time before I retired my main party, have killed him like 10 times since then with my retired+releveled party.
Hitting the 6th stratum at level 70 and exploring it thoroughly while also not neglecting to farm other FOEs/bosses (like dragons) as they respawn will get you close to 99 by the time you've explored the whole 6th stratum, probably--the encounter rate is very high in there and the warp tile rooms in floor 2 will ensure you get lots of encounters as you map out the correct paths.
At that point you can probably kill the postgame boss though it might not be easy.
Finish leveling to 99 and retire then if you are interested in bigger numbers.
By the way, I fully endorse auto-leveling for that kind of "catch up" grinding for retired characters or new parties once you have fully explored everything and don't have that exploration carrot-on-a-stick to encourage additional grinding. My EOIV guild now has 15 level 99 re-leveled level 99 retires and 4 more level 99 retires who are still at level 30. My main party was leveled to 99 the "right" way but after that I had no issues using auto-battle because while I like EOIV enough to want to keep trying different stuff out at the endgame, I don't like it enough to manually grind
that much.
tl;dr: Don't retire now. Go explore 6th stratum and try to beat its boss. Retire after that if you want. Do not retire your high level party just to change classes--at endgame it is more efficient to just recruit a brand new party, slap really strong gear on them, and go FOE-grind/auto-battle your way up. Retiring to change classes can be a good idea in the 30-50 range but not really a good idea at endgame IMO.
Lastly, as to your proposed new party comp., I can't really say how that would work. I want to say you will have a rough time on postgame boss with that party and without having a fortress because, but you might be alright (put points in Auto-Cloak).
Hey guys, I'm enjoying the hell out of EO4 right now, but I got a couple of questions:
1) Are there any bad classes? I'm currently rolling with landknight/fortress/dancer (front) and nightseeker/medic (back).
2) Are there any "wasted" skills? I'm currently spending points as I level up, but I'm wondering if I should hold on to them for later levels.
3) Is it worth it to level up those herbology/mineralogy skills that allow you to harvest/mine more?
Thanks!
1) There are not really any "bad" classes, but as Anteo said, there are "bad" party make-ups. Personally, I'm not a fan of the Sniper class or the Bushi class (as a main class--Bushi is an awesome subclass for several other classes), but neither are "bad" really.
In your case, your party sounds durable but will have increasingly low damage output with that formation, at least until level 50+ when your Nightseeker will become a destruction machine with Venom Throw (from either row) and Swift Edge (from front row).
2) This depends a *lot* on what classes comprise your party, actually. You can make an argument for the usefulness for every skill in the whole game, but in reality there are many you will never need to spend points on.
Like for example, Dancers can be a party's primary healer, but if they're doing that then putting skill points in something like Beat Dance or Wide Dance is a waste. For Nightseekers, putting points in Shadow Cloak is a waste if you have a Fortress. In Medics' case, my main party has had a medic from 1-99 and I never encountered a single situation where I was in a battle biting my lip and wishing I had Full Refresh so I never "wasted" points on it.
One good piece of advice that I read (but didn't implement because I didn't feel like my party needed to) is to do a Rest at level 22 and 42. Doing this, you can heavily invest in the "tiers" of skills you have access to from 1-20 and 20-40 and then give up 2 levels to sort of heavily "shift" your investment into the higher tier skills when you get access to them. Some classes will benefit more heavily from this, such as Nightseeker, Runemaster, and Medic. Some like Dancer and Fortress have skills in their starting tier that remain too awesome to shift points out of (Attack Tango, Auto-Taunt, for example).
3) In EOIV, no. In the other games in the series, yes.
