Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26171444-20181228233615/@comment-182.1.66.206-20181228235115

Most of the early maps relies on off-routing or not going to boss node.

Like 2-1 off-route, 2-2 off-route, or 3-2 off-route. 2-3 & 3-1 could work but you don't go to boss node.

For full sortie (costly), 4-1 is kinda perfect for this, as well as 3-3 while doing weekly boss kills quests.

3-5 is the first map in which, technically, you could do 1st node leveling like old 3-2 with good amount of EXP/node. In 3-5's case it'd be 1st node for north and south route, but it comes with its own trouble, namely Ta-class on first node of northern route.

Then there is 5-2 air raid node method, and 5-3 transport node method, which gives really good EXP for its cost but can be frustrating (since you need to have good ships to reach that map in the first place).

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But none of them is as good as old 3-2, or 4-3, or 5-4.