Leveling question

[Vyse]

I'm at the start of Disc 3 (just after getting the boat) and I've got this feeling that my party and characters in general are underleveled for this point in the game. I've got Zidane, Vivi. Aramant, Eiko and Dagger up around level 25-29 but I've got Freya & Steiner at about level 17-19 and Quina at 20ish. I'm not exactly rushing I don't think (18hrs or so to get to this point) but the leveling just doesn't seem to feel right for where I'm at. Skills seem to be OK as well but I need to get some more summons on Dagger by the looks of things.

So I'm about OK for where I'm at in the game or are overworld enemies going to start one shoting me for giggles?

[polymath]

Get something with a "level up ability" (fairy earrings), then go some location with moderate enemies, speed up the game with F1 and you'll level up quickly.
Thank's to the speed up, grinding is super easy in this version.

[SenMithrarin85]

You're not as low level as you think. Even the last boss can be beaten at level 40 or so. Even Ozma with a bit of luck.

[Zunnoab #931]

If you want a specific answer:
If Quina and Steiner are super low level you will have a bad time in a certain scene. My nephew nearly got stuck there but pulled through with phoenix down spam.

As far as I recall you have the opportunity to level up otherwise.

[MythicDawn]

Originally posted by polymath:

Get something with a "level up ability" (fairy earrings), then go some location with moderate enemies, speed up the game with F1 and you'll level up quickly.
Thank's to the speed up, grinding is super easy in this version.

They are absolutely right, I recently started playing this game after purchasing it a year ago. It was the only final fantasy game I havent beaten, aside from the MMO games, but the fact that you can speed up the game using "F1" helps tremendously with level grinding.

Even at the very beginning of the game, with experience being so low maybe netting you 50exp per battle, this nifty tool literally makes it a breeze. So imagine what it would be like in an areas where experience given is 2500! you'd most likely gain 10 levels in roughly 15-30 minutes

Unfortunately I am still on disc 1 and my ship just crashed in the cursed forest sooooo ya lol im just now getting out into the world, but I hope this helped you out.

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by MythicDawn:

Originally posted by polymath:

Get something with a "level up ability" (fairy earrings), then go some location with moderate enemies, speed up the game with F1 and you'll level up quickly.
Thank's to the speed up, grinding is super easy in this version.

They are absolutely right, I recently started playing this game after purchasing it a year ago. It was the only final fantasy game I havent beaten, aside from the MMO games, but the fact that you can speed up the game using "F1" helps tremendously with level grinding.

Even at the very beginning of the game, with experience being so low maybe netting you 50exp per battle, this nifty tool literally makes it a breeze. So imagine what it would be like in an areas where experience given is 2500! you'd most likely gain 10 levels in roughly 15-30 minutes

Unfortunately I am still on disc 1 and my ship just crashed in the cursed forest sooooo ya lol im just now getting out into the world, but I hope this helped you out.:trolol:

It also helps you can disable the obnoxiously long battle intro for the regular battles.

[beltara]

I was at about the same point, maybe a couple lvls higher. So I went and did all the chocobo hunts and obtained my flying chocobo. By doing this I could fly anywhere, if you can find monsters that give 3 ap and 8700 xp within 2 hrs you should have 5 characters about lvl 60 with all of the abilities associated to the gear obtained from the chocographs. You may need the hildi 3 to get to one spot in particular on disc 3.

[Sogreth]

This is a game you can complete with a full party at Lv1. Without hacking/cheating either.

I don't really ever think I'm underleveled. I don't go out of my way to level up, but I don't ever run from battles either. The game will turn into Super Easy Mode if you use Auto-Regen and Auto-Haste together too.

But I wouldn't think too much on it if you're underleveled or not. As long as you aren't running from every other battle, you'll be fine.

UNLESS, you're going for a "Steal" playthrough. If you intend to Steal every item each boss has, then you might want to grind a little bit.

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by Sogreth:

This is a game you can complete with a full party at Lv1. Without hacking/cheating either.

I don't really ever think I'm underleveled. I don't go out of my way to level up, but I don't ever run from battles either. The game will turn into Super Easy Mode if you use Auto-Regen and Auto-Haste together too.

But I wouldn't think too much on it if you're underleveled or not. As long as you aren't running from every other battle, you'll be fine.

UNLESS, you're going for a "Steal" playthrough. If you intend to Steal every item each boss has, then you might want to grind a little bit.

That's a bit misleading because such a run through the game would require specific resources and such. I think it's in fact very possible to get stuck where Steiner and Quina have to fend off attacks until Zidane joins the battle if you are too unprepared. The desert/Kuja palace might be a pain too, though not quite as locked as the previous example?

[Sogreth]

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

Originally posted by Sogreth:

This is a game you can complete with a full party at Lv1. Without hacking/cheating either.

I don't really ever think I'm underleveled. I don't go out of my way to level up, but I don't ever run from battles either. The game will turn into Super Easy Mode if you use Auto-Regen and Auto-Haste together too.

But I wouldn't think too much on it if you're underleveled or not. As long as you aren't running from every other battle, you'll be fine.

UNLESS, you're going for a "Steal" playthrough. If you intend to Steal every item each boss has, then you might want to grind a little bit.

That's a bit misleading because such a run through the game would require specific resources and such. I think it's in fact very possible to get stuck where Steiner and Quina have to fend off attacks until Zidane joins the battle if you are too unprepared. The desert/Kuja palace might be a pain too, though not quite as locked as the previous example?

I guess? Maybe?

But as long as you keep up to date with gear, you should be fine. Honestly, one of the hardest parts for me was when you have to fight that boss with only Zidane and Quina, in I think a desert area? As I never use Quina, and I rarely get him the first time you leave Lindblum, so he has almost no Blue Magic either.

Steiner is a beast though. Give him a couple up-to-date pieces of gear and a good weapon and he can carry that fight. Some playthroughs I use Steiner, others I use Freya (either way I never use Quina), and the only trouble I had was that one boss I mentioned earlier. And it was probably because I wanted to Steal everything he had.

Maybe it's just second nature to me so I don't ever have these issues, lol. I've played this game so much, it's also the only FF game I've completed 100%.

[Zunnoab #931]

To be clear I didn't mean intentionally misleading. Just if someone goes completely unprepared those couple locations can be troublesome since you can't really leave to level up or anything. In my nephew's case in the first example he lost over and over again desperately spamming phoenix downs until help arrived. If he didn't have phoenix downs it would have been bad.