Am i underleveled?

[BlueTatsu]

i have all my party level 19 and my objective is bur omisace

[ezzypixel]

The most important thing is your weapons and armor. As long as you bought the latest weapons and armor in the shops, you should be good.

[Hinnyuu]

Levels are the least important part of character progression in this game; in fact there's an entire game mode where you can't level up at all, and people still kill everything including the superbosses.

As stated above, the focus above all else should be on gear - get the best gear you can, and that'll make you noticeably more powerful. Next are jobs and licenses.

That being said, if you do want to level up I recommend the Zaghnal enemies in Ozmone Plains - Dagan Flats. They're fairly easy to defeat and give a lot of HP as well as 2 LP, and by running through the adjacent areas in a circle they're easy to reset (enemies in an area will respawn once you move two screens away from it).

But really, you shouldn't need to grind levels at all. If you stick to the story progression the game isn't very hard. If you stray and go to optional areas it may be more demanding, but even then it's mostly about having good gear.

It's not uncommon at all for people to finish the game in their 50s or 60s, and even if you do all optional side content and all superbosses you probably won't be much over lvl 70 - a far cry from the maximum 99 ;)

[Casurin]

Levels are not important because they "only" give you stats.
Strength, magic, Vitality - at lvl 99 they are in the range of 60-70 mostly (bash with ~50 Vit only), speed barely changing not even reachin 40.
And most damage-formulas benefit double from it as the level is added to Str/Mag and then multiplied again.
Vaan leveling from 20 to 30 will give him 5 Str, increasing damge by ~40%. Going from lvl 30 to 40 is another near 40%.
(People tend to underestimate that a lot).


So sure, grinding levels will make your characters considerably stronger, but compared to equipment... there are downsides.
Leveling takes longer than getting decent equipment and equipment can be swapped to other part-members. And equipment also comes with other effects like immunity to certain elements.
And the most important part: Equipment gives Defense - level does not.
There also is a stat-cap (99) at which point gaining more Str/Mag from equip is pointless, but the level can still increase damage - buuuut - at that point we are long past the point of beating even the super-bosses so entirely irrelevant for normal playthrough.


i would say - just do not intentionally avoid fights - that will just make it harder for you in the long run, but usually just the bit of leveling from farming materials is enough to make the main-game easy.
Going on a detour to get/farm some equip early on can reeaaallllyyyy help as the game has several methods and points in the story were you can get strong equipment easily and outright OP equip with just a bit of trial-and-error:
You can get weaopns with WELL over 60 attack in like the first 3-5 hours of playing - farming to level will take way longer to get nearly as strong.

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by Casurin:

You can get weaopns with WELL over 60 attack in like the first 3-5 hours of playing - farming to level will take way longer to get nearly as strong.

To explain this a bit further, the way damage works in FFXII is that most power ratings (from weapons, spells, armor, etc.) are additive/subtractive first, rather than multiplicative. For example, if you have a weapon with 40 attack, first that is tallied against the enemy's defense - so for an enemy with e.g. 20 defense, you'd get 40-20 = 20. Only THEN is it multiplied by stats and level.

This is important because what it means is that if the enemy has as much/more defense than the weapon has attack, you will do NO damage. E.g., 40 attack vs. 40 defense is 40-40 = 0, and since that happens before multiplication by stats and level, it will always remain zero. You could be level 9,999 and have 9,999 Strength and it'd STILL be 0 damage (0 * 9,999 = 0).

The same is true for your defenses, of course: if your defense/magick resist are higher than the enemy attack's power, they'll deal 0 damage no matter their level or stats.

That's why equipment is so much more powerful in this game than levels or stats, generally.