Aside from some notably problematic fights (I'm looking at you 3.1 Magik boss), the difficulty felt like it was between 6.1 and Var 2/3/5 for me. I put a signficant amount of units into revives (benefits of arena grinding) in 3.1 mostly because of the boss fight, just because I don't want to go through the paths again everytime I run out of champs to fight her.Not focusing on the rewards, which could really use some improvement, I found it as a good training ground for tougher content. I'm currently chilling on UC EQ exploration and will head back to Var 5 for Chap 3 exploration for full explo rewards.
Completion on chapters 2 and 3. Exploration chapter 1. Undecided if I'll go further or not. The effort vs rewards vs a swollen thumb are weighing in on me.
Im in the process, doing uncollected too inbetween to keep my moral on a level. Will feel down if it did Cav 100% and Uncollected 0% lol uncollected is around 60% done, when i get less time i do a quick path in UC and when i get abit more time i do a run in Cav difficulty.
I actually quite liked CEQ overall. The different quest buffs had me using different parts my roster instead of just the same squad.