Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: How To Level Up Faster | Double EXP Guide

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There’s plenty of EXP to go around in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Just by playing the game normally and completely all the side content, you’ll level up to what you need to be to overcome almost every challenge. There’s on major exception to that rule though, and if you’re eager to beat the biggest challenge in the game after the credits roll, you’ll need to gain about twenty levels total. That’s a lot of grinding — but there are ways to make all that grinding a lot easier. Here’s what you need to do to reach max level a whole lot faster.

EXP Up Materia: Located in Chapter 13. In the Temple of the Ancients dungeon, you’ll reach a massive Labyrinth with strange gravity. Progress until you’re near the exit of the labyrinth area, before the Red Dragon Boss.

Equipping the EXP UP materia to a character causes that character to earn x2 EXP — double EXP — from all battles. EXP is shared at slightly different rates for all characters, even characters that aren’t currently in your party. They’ll all level up, but whoever is wearing the EXP UP materia will level up first.

For most of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth there’s no reason to farm EXP. You’ll earn enough levels by completing quests and other activities in each region. There are only two points in the story you’ll want to grind levels.

The most important time to grind is in the endgame. You can choose to reload any chapter and carry-over your current progress or you can reset quests. You can also play any chapter on Hard Mode difficulty to earn much higher EXP. But, completing chapters on Hard Mode is pretty challenging. There are easier ways to grind and earn infinite EXP.

There are more ways to earn easy EXP. Complete the Beast Battleground in Corel Prison, or the Combat Simulator under Shinra Manor. Playing through Battle Square challenges in the Gold Saucer can push you to Level 70 easily if you can complete most of them. In the later part of Chapter 12 more difficult combat challenges will unlock — going up to the very