Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch
Palom and Porom are at Level 40? Holy hell, man, that's quite a bit of leveling, ain't it? And if you still have Palom and Porom, you've got a little ways to go before the Dark Elf.
It IS quite a bit of leveling, but there's an easy strategy: just walk around the west side of those mountains north of Mt. Ordeals.
This will lead you to a secret leveling place, with enemies from the continent of Silvera.
Now make sure to have a large supply of Tents (yes, TENTS, not Cottages), and kill off Cecil and Tella.

Now start killing the enemies around there with Palom's Bio magic.
It'll take a while at first, but eventually you'll learn Quake, which deals about 2500 DMG for all enemies right away = instant win.
Use your Tents every once in a while (they won't revive Cecil and Tella, who you wanna keep dead for EXP purposes).

Combine this strategy with repeated use of the Fast Forward Button (the ½§ button next to the number 1),
and you'll actually reach LV40 in about two hours.
Really.

I don't consider the Fast Forward Button cheating; the game doesn't get easier from using it,
but everything goes much faster.

The cool thing about Palom and Porom is that they don't care about the fact that they are temporar characters who'll soon leave your party; they can actually learn EVERY SPELL IN THE GAME!
How about spells like Cure4, Life2, Holy, Flare and METEO?