Final Fantasy Tactics - 10 levels in under 10 minutes

Weaklings - they're of little use and downright slow with little HP and MP and few abilities learned. However, with level 99 characters that can put the level 90+ enemies out of commission (sleeping) before they can even attack, and with Ramza's "yell" command, I can easily fix the speed issue. With both Ramza and weakling as thieves taking gil from the sleeping, blind, poisoned, etc. enemies. As a consequence to the high speed, the high-level enemies, and the weakling, leveling up comes so quickly, the fastest I've ever seen in any RPG game. The formula to determine the amount of EXP gained per action is this:

EXPGained = TargetLevel-SourceLevel+10;

Some actions, however, have 10 EXP as the minimum, as with the case of "gil taking". All others have 1 EXP as the minimum. This is why the weakling gains 80+ EXP per turn and why the EXP gained goes down by one each turn. You might then be wondering why Ramza is taking 4950 gil per turn when the weaking is taking barely 1000, increasing by 50 after each level up. This is another formula:

GilTaken = SourceLevel*SourceSpeed;

The speed for both is 50, but the levels are different. Ramza is at 99 and 99*50 gives 4950. The weakling is barely around 20 and 20*50 is 1000. There's also a relationship with the JP gained as well, but I don't yet have a formula. I know it involves the job level and the character's level with some adjustments. Target level makes no difference. The minimum is at least 10 JP per turn, however and it caps at 48, hinting to 38 as the "base" value.

This is related to the "fastest gil" method as note how frequently Ramza and the weakling go, making several turns before one of the others go. I have a video of this process here on YouTube.

As usual, I'm throwing status effects around. The monk, with talk skill, is used to permanently raise the faith (to 80) and brave (to 92 as my original intent) of the weakling from 60-something to their intended targets. The video starts very shortly after putting the enemies out of commission, taking the equipment from the human enemies, and right after the speed of both have maxed. 3 hours into this and I've maxed the level and EXP to 99 each, all in one battle. This is just 10.2 minutes of the beginning part where levels come by very quickly (some parts are chopped out, but only highly repetitive spell effects to keeping the enemies asleep).

Edit: more formulas added to description with a few very minor adjustments elsewhere.

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[DjolMito]

Beware

The monsters are level at the same time as you (the next battle), but not your equipment.

If you do this (10 more lvl 1 battle), you'll get stuck.

You get killed, 1 or 2 shot by the usual little monster

I advise you to increase only the weakest of your character at the same lvl as other or slightly increase the lvl of the team before a boss

[ulillillia]

Once I discovered the usefulness and effectiveness of "sleep" and "don't move", then later "frog", I could face level 99 enemies at level 1 without problems. Sleep is what really got me going and is how I was able to reach level 99 and master every job before doing the Sweegy Woods battle for the first time.

[DjolMito]

@ulillillia

It's true but those who do not maximize their brave/faith will not control enemies easily like you do.

With 92/80 amuses you like crazy

With 60/40 much less...

I use only speed break & accumulate to do this faster at the beginning of the game & I hit the lowest lv (friend or ennemy I don't care) to max jp min exp

[ulillillia]

97 and 83 are what I use for brave and faith respectively today. This video is quite old - I've more than exceeded the 10 levels in 10 minutes - I can do 70 if I really push it, 68 being my record (I have a video showing over 50 levels being gained in 10 minutes. It's been a little more than 11 months since I last played FFT - Disgaea has taken over it and then some.

[Labtop215]

Low leveled characters arn't that bad. Especially if you level them up to 99 and down again. Otherwise known as -

*random oldguy comes along*

haaaaaaaaaacks

*monitor starts to roll towards me*

[ulillillia]

I've not only got videos explaining the downleveling/upleveling trick, but I also wrote the guide on GameFAQs.

[NinjasAlways]

ulillillia is the FINAL BOSS OF THE INTERNETS KEEP IT UP!

[spike007980]

@bumper212 The Port of FFT WotL was horrible for the psp

[ulillillia]

I can reach level 99 from level 1 in only about 20 minutes. See my "50+ levels in 10 minutes" video for some hints. There's still room for improvement though over this - 68 levels in 10 minutes is my current record though 70 seems possible. I've had level 99 (with all jobs mastered) before doing the story-based Sweegy Woods battle.

[asianbillionare109]

my god level 99

[ulillillia]

You should see my "max stats guide" video series. The "rocket speed method" shows a case of gaining 50 levels in 10 minutes and I know how to get it as high as even 70 (68 is my record). I've literally maxed out 4 of Ramza's stats (999 HP, 999 MP, 50 speed, and 99 physical attack), done not by cheating, but exploiting an apparent design flaw or weak point in the game. My Ramza is seemingly invincible!