Final Fantasy 16: What Is The Level Cap & How To Increase It

Final Fantasy 16 offers a more linear world that focuses on following Clive’s story. There is a lot of bonus content to engage in, but not a fully open world to explore. Completing side content can help players reach the max level, but it may not be as high as some players think.

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While only focusing on the main story, you’ll be able to complete the game without any additional grinding, but getting better stats and gear can make the game’s bosses much easier. For those wanting to make Clive as powerful as possible, there is a way to go beyond the level cap, and it’s tied to your playthrough.

What Is Final Fantasy 16’s Level Cap

For the game’s first playthrough, Clive’s level cap is 50. The rest of the world will scale to this level cap, with later game enemies and bosses only reaching the mid-40s, and a secret boss being level 50. Main areas of the world will have enemies set to a specific level, which will scale to about what level Clive should be when reaching that part of the story.

It is possible to farm enemies in different regions, but the easiest way to level up fast is through hunts and side quests. Completing main missions will give the largest sums of XP and will often keep Clive at the minimum level to continue to the next story mission.

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Increasing The Level Cap

For those wanting to go beyond level 50, players can begin a new game plus playthrough on Final Fantasy mode, which increases Clive’s level cap to 100. Enemies in this playthrough will also scale to this new level cap, with some of the first enemies in the game being in the mid-40s.

While higher levels require much more XP to level up, XP for completing missions, hunts, and enemies has been significantly increased to help you level up just as quickly as lower levels. Enemies’ levels scale much quicker in the more challenging Final Fantasy mode, making it important for players to grind for extra XP to fight the more difficult late-game enemies eventually.

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