How do you get your characters to level 99 before leaving midgar?

[Halenite]

Though really why would you need to be level 99 before leaving Midgar, or getting to Junon for that matter?

Why would you need to be level 99 for the final boss? Seriously, I don't think I was even level 60 for him.

Case in point, getting to level 99 is completely pointless.

[Serapy]

Game shark. Atleast that's the only way I got to level 99 before leaving Midgar.

Either way, anyone trying to get to 99 while in midgar is clearly insane.

Maybe not too insane, because that would be the greatest achievement in the history of FF7 ever.

The only problem is, even if I have managed to do it. How do I prove it?

Why would you need to be level 99 for the final boss? Seriously, I don't think I was even level 60 for him.

Case in point, getting to level 99 is completely pointless.

I don't think it's pointless. You need to be level 99 in order to beat Emerald/Ruby Weapons effectively, unless you don't have the PAL version.

[Big D]

I'm not mathematographist, but judging from the small number of EXP you earn from defeating the monsters and guards in Midgar, I'd guess you'd have to slaughter perhaps half a million enemies to get all the way to level 99.

Did somebody say Mathematographist?

To get to level 99, Cloud and Barret require 2,420,933 XP points. Tifa and Red XIII require 2,452,783 while Aeris requires 2,484,643. The best place to Level-Up in Midgar is in the Shinra building after the Jenova events, with each battle giving approximately 154ish experience points. So, assuming you were to start at level 1 (not possible), it would take 15721 battles to get Cloud and Barret to level 99, 15928 battles to get Tifa and Red XIII to level 99 and 16135 battles to get Aeris to level 99. So while no where near half a million enemies (more like fourty-eight thousand), it's still a sizable amount.

Now that is awesome. Nearly sixteen thousand battles... and it's not a location where you can buy items, so you'd be totally dependent on winning recovery items from the battles, especially for MP. The battles would get faster over time, but it'd still take many an hour.

[Breine]

Game shark. Atleast that's the only way I got to level 99 before leaving Midgar.

Either way, anyone trying to get to 99 while in midgar is clearly insane.

Yeah. Midgar's got to be one of the worst places to level up.

[Dolentrean]

I havent ever gotten to level 99 before I have gotten out of midgar that would be boring and pointless, but I have gotten every available charecters 3-2 Limit before I got out (this was also boring and pointless), I did it just for the hell of it becuase I was bored.