You guys should really put things like location and stuff in spoilers, 828 sphere's first playthrough of the game might be ruined... anyway

quote Millet

I think that Poach helps if you are in a crunch for cash. For instance, once you let Tchigri help you across the river, at I don't know, maybe level 40, you can score a consistent raise by 5000 Gils,

If you read the method in the spoiler tag above, you'll see its possible to make 150,000+ Gil in under 10 minutes at level 35, or possibly lower.Also Tchigri sidequest can be completed just after the events at the Tomb.
And with good armour i.e Dragon mail (which is also available after you help him) you can solo in the broken sands quite easily at level 15-20. After all, they do cause 0 damage with the mail equipped, which is quite a small amount.

quote Millet

Of course you have to have a Cura Magic, and the appropriate license for every party member. I think Cura comes available near to, probably after the Tomb of Raithwall, not much sooner.

Cura is available after fighting Ghis. Much sooner than the Tomb of Raithwall

This message was edited by chromeKeyblade on Jul 22 2009.
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I got to level 50 before even defeating the Rogue Tomato.

Going around killing wolves, then finally killing the T-Rex helped.
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Everyone has probably made an error like that before, the earliest I took him out was when I was level 5 and amazingly unleashed a series of hit and run quickenings. It worked and I got a rare item from him too, gave me a huge advantage in the beginning.
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I tried to kill the T-Rex on level 1
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Leveling up makes FFXII easier to play. One has to be careful to manage too the plot advancement.

Naturally total playtime is longer in the end by how much you level up versus advancement. Especially as of '*>>unecessary preparation` in leveling as eases advancement. Tournaments with your friends will involve leveling minimally toward the FFXII 100% complete game.


However, a frustration about the failure to level up carefully is that the enemies pose a challenge/opportunity to the player character or party involved from level to level.

Therefore it is worthy of mention that:

1, A.) Poach does not earn points which you need in leveling.
1. B.) Whereas Poach seems the best way to advance Gils.

2. A.) Steal meanwhile does not interrupt the earning of points needed for leveling, while use of itself does earn sellable items and therefore subsequently may advance the earning of Gils as one sells any items to earn Gils.
2. B.) Steal requires nonetheless one turn per Player Character. Turns could be as spent defeating enemies without any thieving Technics. Also to use Steal is not as lucrative as to use Poach, on a given enemy. Also that Steal must be set in a Gambit position higher than unchecked offensive options, or you will never see Steal deploy until the maximum checking condition validates against the previously higher condition but now in favor of whatever, in this case of deploys Steal.

3. A.) Therefore that Steal is better than Poach for leveler's points per-enemy-engaged. Steal is good even if one wants to see levels increase as the most important single factor. The use of Steal saves on those footsteps that the use of Poach always necessitates between finished encounters.
3. B.) Poach is better than Steal for earning mere Gils since the use of it earns bigger sellable items which once earned and if sold yields comensurately bigger amounts of Gils. Yet since poached enemies disappear from the field once poached, Poach is not useful for earning points toward leveling. Instead all enemies poached disappear prior to points earned. This is out of presumed waived defeat of enemy in favor of poached enemy; poached; instead of defeated enemy. Anyway anything poached in Final Fantasy XII disappears even if with no points earned, so that once one has poached a mob, one is required to take time in further footsteps taken to each ensuing target/targets in any overall poaching campaign.

Then the real trap of leveling badly is that you can get 'stuck` as being **better than your enemies,** but not of poor enough to use the trick of downgrading your equipment and accessory/accessories at the time which it is to begin to use Poach. Then all is there is to use Steal to get your Gils up there. Which tends to be an inferior option especially if your area enemies suddenly level without you everywhere else. Leaving you splashing for points in the figurative kiddy pool instead of stroking along swimmingly in an Olympic Size lap pool like you are supposed to be working out in, end of figurative. You will be working over enemies that are too easy to the use of Poach, and which don't give many points per defeat, and which offer not much for the use of Steal. Whereas you would use Steal in harder areas. Since while Poach is only available at the last critical hit on an enemy, Steal can be used by raiders who are not up to battering very tough enemies to get their Poach into action. Well, even by Steal you could get clobbered at those enemies in the harder areas so thoroughly that the only reliable method will be that of skimly dipping for just enemies near those light colored lines between area borders, and otherwise running from border area to border area to reset already worked over enemies so that further use of Steal can be attempted! That, I think, is a time-consuming option.

Alternatively, you might use only one member out of a party to become weak enough to balance Steal, and moreso Poach while touring along subsequential battles, and to advance your Gils. Note that it is comparatively swift to go mob for mob with limited Poach and Steal. This is also due to the fact that enemies are very frequently engaged near to other enemies that join to form a mob of enemies. Thus a mob is general to a mob; so you will somehow proceed from encounter to encounter the most quickly even if it against a mob, if you also employ your own mob; overall. Gambits being my standard, which you will tend to turn off for specially frugal attempts; making this discussion still relevant; that I think you will find.

Really, all that is restricting your rapid accomplishment of goals in Final Fantasy XII is surviving to defeat enemies, whatever is the natural fastest way to do this.

Either way, it is fun to play long and for much levels. It is also fun to play short by letting your level remain as low as possible for whatever your goal is in the game.

Have fun!!
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