I didn’t bother with progressing any further in the main story in Disgaea tonight, focusing instead on beefing up some of the weaker party members. With the muscle items I mentioned earlier, I could easily solo all of them up to at least level 5 in the earlier maps. I also gave a cleric a bow, even though it’s not their preferred weapon, just so he could gain three weapon levels in it and unlock the Archer class, since none of the starting classes can really use a bow that well.

Just for kicks, I tried doing an item world run on one of the more useless items I’d picked up recently, a belt that added some attack points but reduced defense a lot. The item world wasn’t too difficult, since the enemies were mainly level 2 or 3 at worst, but there were a lot of them and it was a bit of a slog since you have to go through at least 10 levels before it will let you exit the item world. I eventually made it, gaining a few more levels for some more party members, and the stats on the belt improved quite a bit, with the attack bonus now far outweighing the defense loss. I might actually use it now, and it’s shown me how useful doing item worlds can be. You just have to make sure you have a good chunk of time set aside for it…