[Guide] Getting Your Characters to Lv 99 Easily

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Re: [Guide] Getting Your Characters to Lv 99 Easily

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Dividing by the number of party members is just an adjustment for having help really. It's extremely simple, but there you have it.

They could have done some scheme where a person counts for more or less based on their level (as an indicator of contribution), or tallied up damage or kills to use as a factor. All in all, keeping it simple works as well, and gives them less opportunity to introduce loopholes and errors.
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Small Note, it's probably okay to have Tir at level 3 when fighting Kwanda. This would also allow you to recruit Sarah at Level 99. Since Kirke joins at -2, you may be tempted to hold off to leveling to 3 until after you recruit him but you can't pick him up until after the duel with Teo. Since Teo would probably cream you no matter what it's not really possible to recruit him at 99.
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Are there enemies in groups of 6 before Moravia? Like in Seek Valley, Dragon's Den, or the Dragon's Den area? I can't seem to find any.
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Re: [Guide] Getting Your Characters to Lv 99 Easily

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Celes wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:43 pm
Characters left, you have to train the hard way
Alen, Fukien, Grenseal, Hellion, Juppo, Kai, Kasumi, Pahn, Ronnie, Stallion
Whats the best way to level these characters? I tried level trick with level 36 900 XP and get them just to level 66, obviously without fortune rune.
Is there a better method possible ( getting higher than 66 from a different starting level) like doing the trick at a later level, e.g. 4 soldiers in shaz or 5 higher levelled opponents in moravia?
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There is none. Otherwise it would not be the hard way.
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Celes wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:56 pm There is none. Otherwise it would not be the hard way.
I suspect that you are able to do so by corrupting Memory Card files for these characters, by manipulating Tir's level to overwrite an existing file and transferring his level from a much later portion of a memory card save to that of an earlier point in the game.

Example: Have Save File A with Tir at level 96-99. Load Save File. Save over File B at an interval before you recruit Valeria. Intentionally corrupt the file by hard resetting the game mid-save. Load File B, recruit Valeria, Tir's level may be at the level of file A but you are in the run of File B. It's a theory that I do not care to test out, as it's entirely not worth it and may have some other undesired effects such as importing characters into your army that you wouldn't normally have access to, among other nasty glitches. Might as well just use a Shark at that point.
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One thing that really needs to be pointed out, don't bother trying to keep your main character underleveled until you get to Moravia Castle which is basically the very end of the game. That will just turn your playthrough into an unbelievable chore of pure unfun. Play the game the way it was intended and if you need to max out all characters levels for S2 transfer, just do it with a gameshark because it is not worth wasting your time on such a crazy grind.
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Re: [Guide] Getting Your Characters to Lv 99 Easily

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Recent findings in the speedrun community might be helpful for a few characters here. There are some characters who are present on certain screens "invisibly". You may be familiar with the invisible Viki glitch to get early access to the teleport menu. Well, there are some characters who you can recruit multiple times by talking to a certain spot and triggering their recruitment again and again, each time triggering the level gain they get on recruitment. There are three known at the moment, Hellion and Fuma (both easy), and Sonya (kind of a pain).

For Hellion, after recruiting her legitimately, make sure Camille is in the final slot of your party formation, exit and re-enter the inn and speak to a spot just above the right edge of the door and it will trigger Hellion's recruitment scene again. Recruit her an additional 3 times and she'll be level 99. Here's the speedrun, go to 1hr 21 mins to see it in action:
https://youtu.be/-PF8Y2LR90U?si=fNNyWOa_fgxu_5d-

Fuma has been discovered since that run so there's no video of it in action yet, but when you arrive at Dragon Knight Fortress, recruit him once legitimately, then exit and re-enter and make sure Liukan is in the final slot of your party when you enter from the world map, and run round to the left of the fortress and you'll find his invisible spot tucked up in the corner (McDohl facing up from pictured position). Stand there and recruit him an additional 2 times and he'll be level 99. (If you only have castle level 2 and he doesn't appear legitimately, you can just head straight to the invisible spot with Liukan in the final party slot and recruit him 3 times.)
Fuma.PNG
Sonya is kind of a pain because she is recruited in the basement of the castle, and for her to become available invisibly, you need to have recruited all other characters who hang out in the basement, and they need to be present on screen, which includes Crowley, who is only available at castle level 4. I'm pretty sure the earliest possible point you can do this is after the Dragon Knights section (that's when I do it in the speedrun anyway). In the above speedrun link, go to 2hr 37min to see me recruit Crowley and then speak to a spot in the castle basement and recruit Sonya invisibly. She appears here with Cleo in the last spot of the party (same spot as invisible Viki was earlier - Sonya's coordinates have now moved into that memory space).
What's fun about recruiting Sonya after Dragons is that it's earlier than you're supposed to have her in the game, so you can bring her to Moravia, even use her magic against herself in the Shassazarade war fight and bring her through her own dungeon to fight herself. But it's a bit of a hassle to get all the recruits for castle level 4 right after dragons. There's one other opportunity to do it before Shassazarade...
You can't do it during Moravia, even if you have Cleo in your final party slot, because Krin is forced into your party, and is therefore missing from the basement screen, and all characters down there need to be present. Once you get back from Moravia, watch all the cutscenes after Mathiu tells you he'll prepare 500 boats, then BEFORE going down to the dock the next morning, speak to Sanchez and put Eileen in your party. Go to the dock, then tell Mathiu to wait before advancing. Go to the basement and speak to the spot where I speak to invisible Viki in the speedrun at about 54min 15sec (sorry about the language :lol: ) - that's the spot where Eileen moves invisible Viki / Sonya to.

Just wanted to add this here. Hope it helps with the effort!
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death_to_sanchez wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:33 pm which includes Crowley, who is only available at castle level 4. I'm pretty sure the earliest possible point you can do this is after the Dragon Knights section (that's when I do it in the speedrun anyway).
Not sure how the routing is for recruiting in speed runs, but the earliest castle 4 upgrade is available right after Hix and Tengaar join, but only if you recruited everybody else up to that point. Not sure that's helping you though.

Interesting finds, thanks for sharing!
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