Does Leveling Raise Chaos Frame?

[GrandMajora]

When preparing to do the Cressida recruitment quest chain, I read that you can increase chaos frame by leveling up units. However, even with a bunch of Galgastani in my party, and raising them from level 1 all the way up to 50, my standing with Galgastan has not gone up a single point.

So, I find myself questioning if this information was accurate or not? Do I need to set up a 'death march' to be able to recruit her? Because IF leveling does indeed advance the meter, it seems to be way, way too slow for my liking.

And yes, I'm aware of the dialogue choices that can increase the rating. I don't want to pick those, because they will deny me greater power in the long run.

[Super Ourico]

I tried the death march weeks ago and it seemed to be even slower than reported. With 7 Galgastani - plus Denam - on the first stage of Phorampa Wildwood, I found that I was getting one (1) Galgastani reputation per four to five fights of letting them all get knocked out and then retreating.

Instead, I played through the story to the point where you decide whether or not to punish people for sacking Heim. If I remember right, you don't punish them. After doing this, my Galgastan reputation went from 37 to 56 and this was enough to recruit Cressida.

If you are intent on punishing them for sacking the city, I cannot say how substantial your reputation hit is going to be.

[Pickleton]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

When preparing to do the Cressida recruitment quest chain, I read that you can increase chaos frame by leveling up units. However, even with a bunch of Galgastani in my party, and raising them from level 1 all the way up to 50, my standing with Galgastan has not gone up a single point.

So, I find myself questioning if this information was accurate or not? Do I need to set up a 'death march' to be able to recruit her? Because IF leveling does indeed advance the meter, it seems to be way, way too slow for my liking.

And yes, I'm aware of the dialogue choices that can increase the rating. I don't want to pick those, because they will deny me greater power in the long run.

Chaos Frame in battle mostly comes from a character of that race being knocked out (or stilled if undead). If you're able to World, try going back to the Nybeth fight in Ch1 without scaling and recruit a few lvl6 zombies. They'll be Galgastani and super low lvl, so you can just bring a couple of them with you as you do other stuff and set them to AI control. In going through the story with Chaos as first playthrough, I was able to get enough Chaos Frame doing this that I didn't even have to grind out rep at any point and was able to get her on first try.
The added advantage of doing it the zombie way is that zombies being stilled gives CF, but doesn't count as an incap if you're doing a no-incap run.