leveling up before disc 3 end? Good or bad?

[Nishan]

So Im grinding the hard enemy lambs and friendly lamb on vile island.

I've heard your stat increases are based on the gear you have. So would it be bad to grind at this point? I've done all of chocobo hot and cold except for the disc 4 ultima weapon.

I'd say my gear is pretty good except for when I purposelly give unoptimized gear so my characters can learn new abilities.

That's why I'm on vile island tryng to get the friendly lamb to get the abilities maxed out asap. Is it better to do this on disc 4?

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

There are specific pieces of equipment that, when equipped during a level up, will increase a certain stat, or multiple stats, by a fraction. Leveling up x times while wearing the same piece of gear will increase the stat(s) by a full point.

That being said, you don't need the extra stats to do anything in the game, it will just make certain things easier to deal with.

I'm sorry I can't Google it for you, but if you search for "stat maxing" or something of that effect, it should bring you back several guides that will explain how it works and what to equip better than I ever could.

[Nishan]

Well.. I certainly don't think full stat maxing is completely necessary. I just want to able to take down harder enemies and superbosses through leveling my characters up.

I even did a bit of the marcus/eiko glitch before the patch but i gave up around level 30 for marcus because of how boring it was...

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Rydia:

maybe you should stat max..... just so, you won't have to worry about it later on in Disc 4, and you'll be invincible, kupo!
(Defeat Ozma like a boss)

Pretty much every character is going to hit 9999 on a single/multiple enemies at level 99 either way. Party composition + strategy is better than high stats.

Stat maxing also depends on your own personal preferences, there isn't an "optimal" way to do it. You can choose to cap spirit and speed at the expense of strength and magic, or have more strength and magic but leaving spirit and speed relatively untouched.