How do you avoid gaining levels when there are predetermined encounters like Zorn and Thorn sending black mages at you and the soldiers in Cleyra?
How do you avoid gaining levels when there are predetermined encounters like Zorn and Thorn sending black mages at you and the soldiers in Cleyra?
Alexandrian soldiers run away if you do a certain amount of damage to them (without killing them). As a result, you don't earn EXP from them.
To defeat Black Mages without earning EXP, you must cast Stop on them with Vivi or have Quina attack them with Needle Fork in order to petrify them. Stop is more successful, seemingly (but both have a low chance of succeeding). The first time you encounter Black Mages (in Gizamaluke's Grotto) you don't have Stop yet, so you have to rely on Quina's Needle Fork to petrify them.