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I mentioned it in my previous video about endgame grinding, but you want to save the serious grinding for after the Full Power Dragon God because the Enhanced Boss switch you unlock after that fight also raises the limit on post-battle bonuses. There seems to be a hard cap at around 400% (for the normal dungeon. The Infinity Corridor's hard cap is much, much higher, at around 1000%). You can actually go higher than the cap by maxing out the bonus with other characters first, and then bringing in Shou, Nitori, Nazrin and Rinnosuke (all Subbed as Appraisers). Note that even with the near 500% boost to battle spoils, Jewels still barely drop from B11F enemies :/

I also decided to hit my highest battle streak. The unedited footage is over an hour long. The 20 minutes was accurate but the "Many, Many Moments Later" was about 40 minutes. I could have gone further than I did, but after 1 hour of straight gameplay, I needed a break...

You can push the bonuses even further if you fight in the Corridor with it's 1000% boost, but on the floors right after Will of Gensokyo (641-650) the random encounters are NOT worth the effort, as mobs harder to kill than B11F with way worse rewards. Due to the scaling content, the IC will eventually be worth it, but it seems like you're stuck at B11F for the longest time, unfortunately.

I'll mention that my party was basically all the grinding characters (Shou, Nazrin, Nitori), the characters with passive reward boosts (Komachi, Rinnosuke, Keine), the characters with dungeoneering boosts (Sanae and Reimu), Sakuya (who has the extremely cheap Misdirection skill) and Tokiko, Yuugi and Wriggle (characters with the highest possible base TP). I added 1 Diva instead of going full Appraiser because the Diva has an EXP increase. With Diva, you slightly lose out on some rewards but gain slightly more EXP... but only if Diva is in front.

For effective B11F grinding, attackers should have 90K speed (so that they always act first) and Tomes of Accuracy (since the enemies will dodge otherwise). Note that Wriggle and Tokiko are capable of killing most B11F mobs with their AOE's but not all enemy types (e.g. Wriggle won't be able to kill the Vines without a REALLY HIGH ATK stat, Tokiko can't kill the Demons since they're not weak to FIR etc). If you're going to go 11xAppraisers, 1xDiva, I recommend Yuugi as the Diva (instead of Tokiko, who I used in the video) since Yuugi lacks AOE's with her default moveset anyway. Also, Yuugi's PHYS damage boost helps out with the damage of Sakuya's Misdirection.

If you want to really max out TP, you need the highest ranked Ethos of Bodybuilding (which you need to craft) as the main equip. For Sub equips, you have several choices. The absolute best item for TP boosting is Large Macaron Collider but that requires trawling through the IC and saving up for the IC Shop. After that are Grond, Will of Gensokyo and Fundoshi Dimension Coupler but the first two are semi-unique (only attainable after beating the respective boss in the IC, unless you use a *certain trick*) while Fundoshi Dimension Coupler requires you to beat Enhanced Fundoshi Man first and is also only available in the IC Shop. The more realistic options after that are Platinum Yendorian Card and Necronomicons. They're still not *easy* to get and the boosts are much smaller, but they are certainly easier to attain than the other items.

Off the top of my head, Miko and Renko might be possible options for high TP too due to Maintenance / OOPART, but I didn't look into it.

...And... I think... that's it. That's all of my notes, and all of my LOT2 playthrough. I'm finally done with Labyrinth of Touhou 2! There are obviously still the Enhanced bosses but unless the game gets patched to make the postgame more bearable (like the Enhanced switch also boosting the mobs on B11F, maybe increasing the Jewel drop rate, and letting them drop base Tomes + Veteran Tomes), I'm not gonna bother. I'd rather wait for LOT3 (which is confirmed to be in development) than try and reach level *checks notes* 12,800.

I still have a few ideas for replays. The main one is a Mamizou-centred playthrough. Still thinking up a party, but it'll have Mamizou, the Sealing Club and the Eientei squad at the very least. The other ideas are Myouren Temple run (the team seems a bit underpowered, so it might make for an interesting challenge) and EVA party (aka Koishi Party. Could also be an interesting challenge). I also have to clear Main Game on the Steam version (and doing that would be my fourth time clearing Main Game overall). These probably won't happen for a while though

The tracks at the start is the 20F/30F Theme from Labyrinth of Touhou 1. The rest of the music is in-game music. The "Later" screens are from here: https://www.youtube.com/c/SpongeBobTimeCards/videos