Talk:New Game Plus/@comment-84.112.108.27-20130331211457/@comment-202.188.45.98-20130910105300

Just to put things into perspective... the level cap is 200. Past level 100 most classes gain at most a +1 or +2 advantage on certain stats. So on average a min-maxed character will have maybe 200-300 points more in the stat they focused on.

Now compare that to the high end weapons, which can have like nearly 2k to attack, versus the crap regular un-enhanced weapons. The difference is huge. I can raise a sorcerer for most of the game, then pick up a fully-enhanced top-end sword and rock at melee.

TL;DR min-maxing isn't worth it with such a low level cap. It would be different if we're talking about, say, Disgaea - that game has a way higher level cap, you can revert to level 1 and re-level-up with a cumulative bonus on top of that. So yeah there it makes sense. In this game? Not so much.