Back in Disgaea 3, it was time to level it up the Trapezohedron for a rather dramatic improvement in stats. I duped a few of them first, so that I had fresh copies I could level up in different ways, and then tried to follow a guide to creating “perfect” items, which requires passing certain bills early on, double-killing bosses, finding enough level spheres, reverse pirating, etc.

I thought I followed it pretty strictly, but in the end I wound up with stats slightly lower than what the guide said they should be. I think I might have found a level sphere too early, before all of the ATK bills had been passed, so that some level ups didn’t get the full effect. Oh well, it’s only something like a 0.1% difference, so it’s good enough as is.

I then wanted to dupe more of them, of course, and discovered the hard way that someone equipped with one of these is tough to beat. I had to rearrange my equipment and give Laharl the Puppy Paw Stick before I could reliably beat the dropouts. And, in the end, Laharl now has a complete, rarity-matched set of these Traps and his rank 40 weapon, and in total he now has over 50 million ATK and does over 207 million damage with some of his special attacks. The only improvement left for him will be to level up his weapon as well, though that’ll make a smaller difference.

I then finally went back and defeated Baal easily, now that his 47 million HPs wasn’t so intimidating anymore. Baal was also available in the Land of Carnage afterwards, and I took a shot at that, but…one of his guards killed Laharl in one hit. No matter how obscenely powerful you get, the game always has something worse to throw at you…