It’s actually worse than useless if you look at it objectively because in the game your stat growth when you level is influenced by your total stats including gear. Meaning you are actually loosing out on a bunch of stat growth if you use these instead of leveling normally.

There is also the fact these aren’t really “DLC” items. These are items which you can normally unlock at the start of a NG+ (since levels don’t carry over) and are mostly just there for people who want to say play the game on a higher difficulty the first time through rather than playing it through on normal first.

The fact you think that tells me you like making assumption based on nothing.

If you have a problem grinding don’t play a jrpg then. Go back to Call of Duty with your other 12 year old friends.

Ulquiorragurl26, that comment was almost as absurd as you are stupid. I have played several of the “Tales” games, “dlc” or “pay to win” has to have a need. So these games have built in needs to get a player to buy them. Else suffer retarded slow grinding.

Well I like it! I always get immerse into every tales game. I have watched so much anime I never get tired of this tales games.

I’ve heard a lot of Tales fans think this is the worst of the series.

This is the 5th game with this DLC system and it hasn’t happened once. How does it tell you that?

And if you want to know how we figured out that they haven’t done it, there are many, many, many Tales games that came before them and the rate of EXP, battles per level, etc, hasn’t really changed at all in the entire scope of time.

If you want to see for yourself, play this a little after playing Tales of the Abyss or Tales of Symphonia, then compare the rate and feel. It’s the same.