Disgaea Hour of Darkness

[Lasers are brilliant]

I'm sure this is all in previous pages, but there's an early map with a nice geopanel combo that's sweet for early levelling, but really it's all about levelling Laharl, getting him to create some sword-based fighters then levelling them and transmigrating to open the character classes. Basically, if you can level a sword carrier until they get winged slayer, you're sorted for easy XP raping on the later story levels (like the first stage of Stellar Graveyard) and, provided you always transmigrate at Genius level, any character class is piss-easy to level. That's how I got Omega Heal in about 20 mins starting from a basic Cleric.

The other amazing 'exploit' comes from Foresights, one of the eyeglass items. If you can push through as many 'more expensive item' bills with the assembly as you can, Foresights with stupidly high-level residents already subdued, so you can transfer them into your party's stuff right away. It think it's shop rank 9 or something when they start turning up. With these, you can easily boost XP, Mana and weapon skill gains by hundreds of percent.

Ploughing through the story is important, at least until you unlock the blatant levelling maps. They're quite easy to spot. If you need more power, level items, although it's worth bearing in mind that the item level is sort of comparable to the character levels you'll need to win, so to get to level 10 on a starter sword, you'll need level 10 dudes.

So yes, to start:

Level Laharl

Create sword fighters, level them until they get Winged Slayer

Unlock Stellar Graveyard

Transmigrate like fuck

Upgrade shop like a motherfucker

Get Foresights, move residents to make ultra-weapons

Win

[Great_Sage_Equal_of_Heaven]

Wasn't the Cave of Ordeal (no 3 I think) the best palce to pwn the levelling using the winged slayer move?

[Lasers are brilliant]

Yah but you need seriously high attack stats to make a dent on them, so it's for chars at level 150+ with really sweet weapons and spells. Stellar Graveyard stage 1 does you from 0-150 once you get some decent swords. (35 levels in a single move and all that hilarity, though I hear you can go up thousands with a single move when you've properly fucked the system).

[Great_Sage_Equal_of_Heaven]

I would just use an super sword filled with Statisticians and Gladiators (sometimes with Marksmen to up the skills, on the stage with the invincible squares and all the cat enemies), that way whichever char I gave the super sword to could rinse through it.

[Lasers are brilliant]

I haven't got any decent Gladiators yet! Plenty of Armsmasters, Statisticians and Managers, but no Gladiators.

[Great_Sage_Equal_of_Heaven]

I think Statisticians and Marksman were the two essential ones for me, definately helped Porn the levelling and weapon mastery, but yeah Laharl - transmogrified a few times with a super sword stuffed with Gladiators, no powa in the 'verse could stop me.

[Zathras]

You know a RPG is a good one when folks discussing it are talking a foreign language.

[LongHairStu]

You know a RPG is a good one when folks discussing it are talking a foreign language.

Particularly when it becomes apparent that you thought you knew what you were doing, but evidently you barely scratched the surface.

[spaceyjase]

Aye, Statisticians and Marksmen for me too. You can 'exploit' the game again if you use thieves to steal stats (or even just experience) off other characters (including your own ) and transmigrate them further.

"Do you want me to give the kids of Earth an addictive video game so they cannot sleep?"

[spaceyjase]

ALSO! Easiest way to get a vote your way is to bribe the highest level character in the room until they won't vote anything other than yes. Begin vote and if you fail chuck everyone else into the high level character that voted for you. Kill off the easy ones mind

PASSED!

[Great_Sage_Equal_of_Heaven]

I am missing some strategy RPG fun right now - I need something of this caliber for the 360 :angry:

[spaceyjase]

Bump me do. Just sharing my love for Disgaea on the PSP and I've not even opened Etna mode yet (no cheating for hardcore bad guys!) I'm playing through some mid-level items now, bad guys as hard as they can be. Can't help but feel immensely satisfied at ploughing through a level and being rewarded in typical Disgaea fashion