Progress update~
Disgaea 4 is slowly driving me to despair. I remember now why I gave up after Zetta: getting decent equipment is a nightmare. High rank items are found only in the Land of Carnage, and that place takes stats up to eleven...billion. To get a Trap, which is pretty much essential for stat maxxing, you need a Legendary rarity Arcadia, and to get one of those, you have to take down 8 Pringer X, unless you feel like wasting hours in the Item World begging for luck...which I don't, yet. But getting a Pringer X to spawn a Legendary Arcadia is bad enough - it took me nearly an hour - but keeping it once you've stolen it? Yeah.
There are eight of the little ****ers on the field, they have ridiculously high stats, and I...do not. I might need to get a Level 300 Makai Wars maxxed out and dupe the hell out of that before I start going for an Arcadia and, by extension, a Trap....ugh, **** this game. I've still got so much to do. Finding the pirate ship parts is going to be another brand of hell as well after this. I might take a break, play something simpler, like a visual novel. Or maybe I should start running through high-level item worlds in LoC and gencying out once I've stolen something worthwhile...it's tedious, but I have a few runners with 14 MOV who could probably handle it. If I need more MOV, I'll just have to run through a Legendary pair of shoes, pass three bills, then dupe the hell out of that instead, and...ARGH.
Otherwise, I'm trying to unlock Chaos in Zestiria for trophy purposes before I do the bonus dungeon...and it's taking forever. I've done nearly 750 battles now, so I'm fairly sure I'm nearly there, but since there is no way to tell in-game...I wish they'd fix that. It's annoying as hell. On the plus side, I have a lot of equipment now in the late fifties because I've been in the same place all this time, and my characters are in the late eighties with around 900 in their primary offensive stat...Sorey has about 1200 attack. I'm still shy one Lindwer for a 16 stack bonus though, because Adamantite Tiaras are rare as hell and I've not even SEEN a Dragon Ring. Bah.