I started off in Disgaea 3 today by duping more sprinter specialists, while also working on the class worlds of various story characters. I eventually got enough of them to fill Laharl’s equipment, and with a full set of sprinter-enhanced Testaments, he now has an ATK rating of over 11 million. The number doesn’t even fit in the screen’s field anymore.

I cleared more of the X-Dimension maps, though I had to skip a few since they were too tough, annoying, or needed things I was still a bit weak at, like long-range non-special-based attacks. All I needed was to complete 25 of the 43 total though, and it didn’t take too long, finally unlocking the Land of Carnage.

The Land of Carnage is…well, it’s just like the regular world, really, except that the monsters are much higher level. But higher levels means more xp, and after filling Mao’s equipment with Statisticians, a single round in the LoC version of HoO4 took him from level 1 to 6645. It only took three rounds to get to level 9999. I could probably do it in two if I put statisticians on his weapon as well.

I spent a while repeatedly reincarnating Laharl and getting him back up to level 9999, to maximize his reincarnation stats bonus, but that’s only part of what’s needed. I then spent some time reverse pirating to farm for legendary weapons from green chests, and when you do it in LoC you can find the rank 35-39 weapons. The monsters are extremely tough, often with dozens of millions of HPs, but all you really need to do is run in and smash as many chests as you can before dying.

After a bunch of aborted attempts (you can only reverse pirate items a finite number of times, so there’s no point in saving if you don’t find anything good that run), I eventually wound up with the rank 39 versions of the bow, sword, gun, fists, staff, and spear. I also found a pair of Barefoot X shoes, the best you can get and with a whopping movement bonus of 3, but I’m still missing the rank 39 versions of an axe and an emblem. The emblem will be particularly important, to replace the Testaments I’m using now.

The rank 39 weapons aren’t really important by themselves, though. Instead you have to enter their item world to get the ultimate rank 40 weapon of that type, and I started in on it on the sword I found. I skipped most of the levels, as usual, but it became tougher later on. The monsters started getting to the point where I couldn’t reliably kill them in one hit, so I had to start relying on using martial arts specials to knock them off the exit gate.

Around floor 80 it was getting too tough to continue, so I went back to the regular world and undid all of the Stronger Enemy bills I’d passed earlier. Even with the enemy difficulty back down to normal though, they were still quite difficult and couldn’t be killed in one round. I eventually made it to level 100, where the Item God is, and managed to steal a rarity 0 Baal Sword, the rank 40 sword, from him (though it took a few reloads to get that particular rarity — it’ll be important later on when trying to make a matching set).

But it’s still not over — now I have to do the Baal Sword’s item world, and then reverse pirate it and capture the level sphere all five times, trying to ensure I get the sword to level 200, before it can be considered “finished.” And then repeat that for all of the other weapon types as well. But at least once I’ve done it once for each type, I can then dupe them for other characters that use the same type, and I’ll probably actually do the fist weapon first, since most of my main characters use that.