I've been thinking, and I'm sure I'm missing quite a few here, but what are other methods of improving your character?

Traditional way to level up and obtain items:
- Quests, explorers, rare encounters, slayers
- Obtain items by opening chests or buying them from stores

Other ways to improve your character:
- Favor
- Risia Ice Games/Festivult
- Tomes
- Crafting
- Collectables

Any ideas on expanding this?

Hopefully this will not only help myself, but other people as well.

Thanks!