Last Year year you posted this chart
My question is, are there 26 steps you're saying should happen in the evolutionary process? Because that is how the chart reads, and the Lyle i had did not take that many to max and did not have that much def. Also can you give clarification as to the route that creates the glitch where you cannot level them anymore? This was an old post that I looked through but the questions were never answered.
The Glitch = Compounding I-a to II-a you will never be able to completely upgrade your merc it'll get stuck at V-a and never become V-b. <-----this right here (creds to Jar)
TIA!