Today I finally made it to Chapter 5 of Disgaea, and the all-important third mission therein. It’s important because this is one of the best spots for leveling up characters, so I pretty much stuck around here all evening. It’s kind of a cheat since it’s not how the map is intended to be played, but hey, it’s within the rules.

I used the technique described in one of the FAQs on Gamefaqs (throwing and combining enemies onto one of the two non-invulnerable spots), but it was slow going at first as I couldn’t do much damage to them. Eventually though, I figured out that the best way to do it was to always use Laharl one space away as the second person in the team attack, with the person I want to level in front. In order to trigger the team attacks, I gave each character being levelled a sword as well, since the odds of a team attack increase a lot if they’re using the same weapon.

Using this method, I leveled up a handful of characters, and created some new ones of classes that had been unlocked in the process (a ronin, ninja, and star mage). Laharl is up to level 32 now too, and though I’m tempted to swap someone else in instead so he doesn’t get too far ahead, he can now do enough damage that I can combine all of the enemies into a single level 112 monster and still be able to hurt it. When I do that, I can take a character right from level 1 to 22 in a single battle.

The only downside is that since they level up so quickly, they don’t have very high weapon or magic skills, since they only go up with use. I should probably be letting them practice them on the invulnerable enemies as they’re being gathered up, while someone else is being leveled.

I’ve also unlocked various higher tiers of existing classes, like Fighters (a better version of Brawlers), but I probably won’t bother with them for now. I’ll eventually transmigrate characters to them, but it doesn’t seem that urgent.