Training focus

[mechaboy]

So what did you guys do for training?

Early on I tried not to go too hard in one direction. Lately I've been focusing on speed (since I get a bit of STR & HP too) and I'm not having much trouble with story content.

Also Life Staff is bonkers.

[Missing Spartan]

i'm not very far into the game but i think i'm going to start focusing into MAG, MP and HP. I grabbed the middle staff and because of that I have zero mana issues

[cro]

I don't think it matters what you do. If you challenge every enemy you see, then you will probably end up OP pretty quickly, because you will find stat booster items, upgrades for your weapons, and gain combat exp/stages (which grants a bunch of stats). All of these seem like they can be accomplished faster than the training meter replenishes. Despite all of that, you should still do the training for the training stage effects (increased crit, recovery, more skills like extra strikes and overload strike). That said, I pick balanced.

[Kain]

I went a hard focus into kick training for HP, STR, AGI early game because the available stat boosts and equipment favored magic.

So in a way it balanced out. I can't imagine myself focusing too hard on magic because that'd lock me out of the turn bonus, and too hard on physical because magic aoe saves time.

YET

I'm still in the first stages of the game. Game is addicting for stat grinding junkies like me. I need to move on with the plot to get equipment but when a boss respawns you just gotta do that rotation y'know?

EDIT: Just finished Chapter 1 with these stats, I'm slow for these stat respawn rotations.

HP: 225
MP: 426
STR: 278
MAG: 710
DEF: 51
AGI: 237

Yeah me going hard on kick training and MAG is still highest stat from the stat items available in the start.

[Korelis]

Originally posted by Kain:

magic aoe saves time

That's true for chapter 1, but right after that, physical completely dominates for both single-target and AoE.