Expert Status

In Grandia III, Expert Status refers to your playable characters' inner abilities to perform certain tasks in battle. There are three main aspects to a character's expert status: their Magic Level, their Skill Level and their Special Level. Each of these levels will increase over the course of the game through a hidden experience system based on what actions your characters take in battle. A higher level will grant certain bonuses to your characters. This system is therefore not unlike the Weapon and Magic Experience system from the first game. The highest each one of these levels can reach is 15, but each character has their own caps for each of these levels.

Each of these types of levels requires the same number of Experience in order to increase.

Magic Level
A higher Magic Level allows a character to equip more magic spells and higher level Mana Eggs. The character can equip one spell for each Magic Level, so a character with Level 7 Magic can equip 7 spells.

Skill Level
A higher Skill Level allows a character to equip more skills and higher level Skill Books. A character will have the same number of skill units as their skill level, with different skills using different numbers of skill units.

Special Level
A higher Special Level will unlock more Special Moves in addition to increasing a character's max SP. Also, a higher Special Level may make it easier to unlock Secret Methods for your Special Moves.

A character's max SP is given by the formula        50 + (Special Level X 10)