Leveling Up

[Kamrusepas]

What's the best place for it?
Is there some place with über enemies like the Islands Closes to Hell/Heaven in FFVIII?
The best I've found so far is the Mideel area, with 1950-2600 EXP per battle. It's just not enough. Besides, I'd like to level them up on Disc One.

[DaremihC]

I'd say you found it... That's my level up spot, right on the beach with the worms.

Worms and more worms... all day...

[Kamrusepas]

Oh? I prefer the insect-looking thingies in the forests, 'cause when they appear in groups of four.... it's 2600 EXP :)

[DaremihC]

True, but I like the worms because it's pretty much the only thing on the beach... you get them so often, it's rediculous. Plus they're really weak against Ice and use a lot of Earth attacks. (Elemental materia and items help with that.)

Man, I wish I had Windows XP so I can play my PC version...

Stupid Windows 2000

[Shadow Knight]

Where would the best place to level up level 81 characters be? Northern crater?

I've found that the secret little forest area with the frogs mini game gives about 3000xp... but thats quickly turning into hardly anything.

[DaremihC]

yah, Northern Crater or the Gelnika...

Master Tonberrys give 6000, but they're freakin' scary.

[claw]

:D I go to junon airport the soldiers are 1000 each and missle cannons
are 1200 u can get into battles with 2 soldiers and 1 M-cannon they all
very easy plus u get 3200 exp. and 270 AP. go check it out.

[Zante]

In the early parts, the sleeping forests works well for me, later it's either the gelnika or the northern crater (magic urns).

[Swordicanus]

is there a way I can level up knights of round quicker apart from Mideel forest

[Shoden]

yeah go down to the NC battle the bouncing balls there worth 500 AP each and they usually come in 5s or more

[Raistlin]

The second-best place to level up is the Mideel forest.

The best place to level up is deep in the North Crater where you fight Magic Pots. You'd need lots and lots of elixirs for this method, and if you don't have or are not willing to use the W-Item glitch, this method is not advised. Also, an Enemy Lure materia helps A LOT.

EDIT: the bouncing balls in the Crater are also great, but they're rare. Even with an Enemy Lure materia, at most one in ten battles were with the bouncing red ball-things. Pretty inefficient. Unless you do Magic Pots as well, the Mideel Forest is better.

[Shoden]

Mideel forest is boring you dont get more than 500AP a battle whilst in the crater theres 300 AP+ for every creature there i get the bouncing balls more than the magic pots

[Raistlin]

But Magic Pots are worthless without elixirs, and you need W-Item for an infinite supply of those.

And I never got the bouncing balls more than a few times a trip. And I always had an Enemy Lure materia equipped.

[Shoden]

strange i only got the pots 2 times in total through my time round

[Raistlin]

Hmm...you probably didn't have an Enemy Lure materia equipped. I noticed that when I didn't have one equipped, the Magic Pots became much rarer encounters.

[limallama]

i got into a fight with two magic pots once, i had no elixers and they nicked one of my weapons, bastards

[Dark Rydia]

I use Mideel forest near the end of the first disc. I've gotten my characters almost level 60 so far. It takes forever, though, because there isn't a forest accessable in that part of the game, and 4 insects are hard to come by. I usually get three at a time. Another saved game I have, I'm attempting to master three mimic materia, and I use the mideel forest. I think I have three right now, but I haven't played for a long time so I'm not positive. When I get to the Third disc again, I think I'll go after the little balls and magic pots. :P

[RIP Dime]

The Northern Crater, Fighting Magic Pots using the W-Item Trick! and EXP Plus Materia

[-N-]

For reference, the bouncing balls are the Movers. They come in groups of three, and yield Turbo Ethers and 24000 AP, I believe. Magic Pots come in groups of 1 or 2 and yield 10000 AP each.

[RIP Dime]

I thought it was LEVELING UP? and Movers have 2400 and Magic Pots have 1000

[Perducci]

I you have W-Item, then you could get yourself a whole lot of Elixers and fight the Elixer pots in Northern Crater... Usually when i'm training on Disc 1, I go to the Wutai continent, but make sure you don't start going up the mountain, if you haven't already done that part.

[-N-]

I thought it was LEVELING UP? and Movers have 2400 and Magic Pots have 1000Off by a factor of ten, sorry. Magic Pots also yield a lot of EXP. I think those might be the numbers I was thinking of.

[Raistlin]

In my experience(and from what I can remember), a good group of Magic Pots(two or three) yields more AP than Movers.

[eestlinc]

the Gelnika is great, especially if you bring Yuffie with the Conformer to morph the monsters into sources.

[Raistlin]

Yeah, but later in the game, AP is more important than Exp. The Gelinka will give you good exp along with sources, Mideel forest will give you good exp and great AP, and North Crater will give you great exp and great AP. Just depends on what you need at the moment, and how powerful your party is.

North Crater- high-powered party with a lot of elixirs.
Mideel forest- any party can fight here(which is why I say it's the 2nd best place in the game to level up)
Gelinka- high-powered party with Yuffie and Conformer.

[Masamune·1600]

Movers give enormous amounts of AP and gil, but actually give no EXP. Just worth noting.

[-N-]

After EXP becomes worthless, the Gelnika is the place to go for sources. I've never stat maxed completely down there, however.

[Drift]

ok...so wheres the best place to gain AP for materia w/o b4 u get to the northern crater???

[Lenna]

Can't you level up in the Northern Crater.. I'm pretty sure you can land there and climb down and then climb back out when ever you want to ?

[Drift]

nt dat i dnt cnt go into NC bt dat i dnt want 2 im scared of it lol

[Lenna]

lol Awww, You'll never finish the game then :P

[Drift]

i'll ova come the fear bt i jst dnt feel like walkin into the crater since once i'll go in i knw i aint coming back out cz i'll b determined 2 finish the game den

[Lenna]

Well you can come back out but if you want to level up quicker then I suggest leveling up in there, as the enemies are pretty hard and give you a fair amount of EXP. If you decide to train long and hard and cant be bothered with doing it quickly then that's your choice. But again I suggest trying it. Even if you are scared of it..

[Raistlin]

The best place to level up for AP before the Northern Crater is the forest around Mideel.

[DaremihC]

What about the Gelnika? Thats pretty good huntin'