Mira

Technically speaking, the CRA Hat is better than Arcane when you have a Genesis weapon, as it allows you to get the 4 set bonus for CRA, and the bonus level for having an Arcane Umbra hat is negligible compared to the 4-set CRA effect. But since an unsealed Genesis weapon is a loooooong way's away, you can go for an Arcane Umbra hat. However, it'll be much easier to scroll/star a CRA hat than an Umbra one.

If you like doing quests to level up (which I do), then this is the guide I use to level up:

1-30 - job-related quests (depending on class)
30-35 - Ellinel Fairy Academy
35-45 - Gold Beach
45-50 - Kerning City
50-60 - Riena Strait
60-70 - Mushroom Kingdom
70-75 - Orbis
75-90 - Afterlands. If you don't know how to do Afterlands/don't like it, you can do Ariant/Magatia from 75-100. Afterlands is only really good once you know what you're doing - when you struggle to figure out how to get the keys and whatnot, it can be much, much slower.
90-110 - Zakum/Ariant/Magatia/Ellin Forest
110-120 - Ludibrium
120-130 - Fantasy Theme World
130-145 - Golden Temple/Temple of Time
145-150 - Kerning Tower/Temple of Time
150-165 - Stone Colossus
165-180 - Omega Sector. Detective Rave just came out as 175 content, though I cannot confirm/deny how good/bad the exp is, but that could be a consideration ?
180-200 - Future Perion/Forsaken Excavation Site 2

This is a very rough guide. Depending on many factors, you may be overlevelled when getting to some of this content (especially in the case of (tera) burning characters), but the exp is usually fine to continue even if you're overlevelled (it also unlocks all of the Maple Guide stamps which makes for easy travelling later). In many cases (especially the later levels), by the time you're done the quests you'll be underlevelled for the next area's content, so there will usually be some semblance of grinding required, though it's usually only 1-4 levels by the time you've finished the entire quest line.

As Aggraphine said, the Maple Guide is actually a really good source (in most cases) to know what quests you want to do. Although, if your focus is just to straight up level as fast as possible, unfortunately straight up grinding monsters is going to be faster (especially once you factor in 2x coupons and whatnot).

MigiSouthpaw wrote: »

My bad I should be more specific.
I am talking about the second part of the link skill

With the status ailment extra damage

No, there is no icon/indication that you're getting the extra damage. As a Fire/Poison Mage, I'm sure that I would have seen it throughout my times training/bossing. =P

Aggraphine wrote: »

Horntail's arms seduce, like AK said. However only chaos mode has damage reflection, and it's only on the two side heads. I believe left head does magic reflect while the right does weapon reflect.

If you need help to actually see when this happens, here's a video that will help you despite its 2015 upload date.

Other way around for the heads, but yeah, it's a very obvious animation when they're using reflect. It's a big hexagonal shield thing coming from his mouth, followed by the little purple logo. Now, mind you, any buff the heads cast use the hexagonal shield thing, so he may not actually be casting reflect, but at least you'll know to stop attacking for a bit when you see it.

YinYangX wrote: »

HousePet wrote: »

If you have a crew of all one type, you have a 75% chance of getting free crew members that can't be collected. That is an even worse outcome.

Not sure where you're getting the 75% but you can opt to not level your soldiers to max until the fifth round second stage to avoid wasting any crewman. Otherwise that's just on you for rushing your promotions.

There are 4 characters total. If you have a team of all the same kind, that means you have a 3/4 chance of having a rescued crewmember that cannot be added/used to upgrade your crew.