Back in Disgaea 3 again, I repeated level 5-2 a couple more times, and then decided to finally delve into the Class World for my zealot, since he was still lower level and it would be fairly safe. Class World is a lot like the Item World, except you subdue ‘dropouts’ instead of ‘innocents’, and boost the character’s stats and skills instead of an item’s.
It was slow going since I wanted to clear out all of the geoblocks on each of the 10 maps, which earns you bonus mana, and in the end I got quite a few levels for my lower characters thanks to the xp-heavy bonus meter, raised some of the aptitudes (the rate at which stats increase) on the zealot, transferred a female healer skill over to him, and got thousands of mana points on him. That was far more than I’d ever gotten before, so I splurged on a whole bunch of magic skills for him, making him my best healer right now even though his level is still lagging a bit.
I also unlocked the female archer, beast master, and magic knight classes along the way, and had enough leftover mana to create a good magic knight character. They’re supposed to be pretty good at both melee and magic, so I’ll have to try and get her caught up to everyone else…