So are there any main missions later in the game that requires higher affinity for like... non-Elma/Lin characters? I ask because I read a few pages ago that you could be blocked from progressing if one of your character's affinities were low and you couldn't do the prereq affinity quest for the main story. The thought of having to grind for affinity on a character I don't care about using really worries me.
Yes, I can already see in game some affinity mission for level 30+ for most of my companions and I'm only at chapter 4, lol.
I can"t...stop... doing... sidequests!
Blade fetch quests (from the board), don't do them (the gathering ones)
Just take them when you've the items.
The effort to do them isn't worth your time (imo) and they can be completry messed up in term of difficulty.
The reason is that I noticed more higher my blade rank was more diffult quests I got even if they were just 1 star Q_Q
Better do instead red and green markers when you don't have anymore to do, it might be time to advance in the story, lel.
But beware that those quests can be unlocked with dialogs you get from the citizen (named or not) and when you will also advance the affinity tree.