grinding levels… your tips?

[SgtSweetieBelle]

god i do not relish the idea of farming all these monsters just to bump my characters’ stats up over and over again. anyone got any advice on this? does returning to the stars i saved at “restore” my characters’ levels?

[superfid2006]

Every save point keeps track of your highest-reached levels at that savepoint for each character, with the exception of Siffrin.
What you can do is save, loop back to the same save point for free in order to reclaim your previous highest levels, then continue like that. I made new saves both for the End-of-floor and Beginning-of-floor savepoints in order to record my current levels before advancing each time I went through the dungeon.

[bugbird]

For what it's worth there's a point where the equipment and memories you obtain for your party plus Siffrin leveling up balances out the need to grind.

Like the previous poster said, the savepoints will save your highest-reached levels. When I needed sadness points for loops I just grinded on floor 3 and then proceeded to the King once I felt strong enough. I think the highest the rest of the party got was level 56 or 57?

That being said though, once I entered Act 4, I was able to get by just fine with an under-leveled party starting from the very bottom. Eventually there is a Memory skill that will grant your party (not Siffrin) double XP if you absolutely want to grind, but it really isn't necessary - truly.

[brickey.8]

Once you've leveled Mirabelle up twice so she learns Pretty Moving Cure (which I think is guaranteed just from beating the first two bosses), you're basically done needing to care about levels. It's possible to kill the king without any further levelups for non-Siffrin people (especially if you complete the Bomb and/or keyknife sidequests), Siffrin will become OP on their own no matter what, and as you get into the later acts you'll just keep growing stronger while the enemies don't.