Continuing on in Disgaea 2, I finished Chapter 4 today and rescued Hanako from the washed-up TV star, though Taro is apparently going to have to wait until the next chapter. I also discovered why 4-3 is considered a good leveling spot, though it’s not quite as safe as 5-3 in the original Disgaea. The developers seem to have caught on to how people abused the hell out of invulnerability tiles there, so it’s a bit harder here.

I rechecked with the Dark Assembly and noticed I could now unlock the Beast Tamer, Heavy Knight, and Gunner classes, and passed their bills with little trouble. I only created a knight and a gunner though, since I don’t use many monsters that would benefit from having the beast tamer around. Next up I’ll try to focus on unlocking the Archer, Ninjas, the Magic Knight, and the Ronin, since I just need to keep raising weapon skill levels a bit more for them.

After that I redid 4-3 a few times to level up some people, ending the night with Adell at level 15. The trick, as usual, is to put someone strong in front on the bridges, so that they’re the only ones that can get attacked, and then put the person you’re leveling behind them so that they can join in on team attacks. The monsters on this map hit pretty hard when they’re counterattacking though, so it’s preferable to put someone with a low counterattack rating in front (which is a good idea anyway, since kills via counterattacks don’t count as team attacks and the other guy won’t get any xp).