I try and do as much as I can in Chapter 2 before moving to Chapter 3, because I really want to buff my party up. Chap 2 is where I try out a lot of the NPCs, I usually have only 4 permanent NPCs with me, the fifth is usually a rotator until I get to Chapters 4-6 where that slot gets taken, then I've got my party for the entire endgame. Then Chap 6 I do the mopup stuff before Chap 7 which isn't really all that long.
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