i doubt i will be fighting the new omega, neo shinryu and enue. I have never fought them before... my chances of victory would be zero

After the initial goblin fights i head straight for the recovery spring in the pirates cave and start leveling. Bartz kills Galuf and reina (ooooo she's lenna now lol) I get rather lucky here because in the battles directly after using the spring (where i have to kill Galuf and Lenna) i get pre-emptive strikes.

The enemies i fight here are Steel bats (dealing 4hp damage from front row and 2hp damage from back row, and 0hp with blood suck) and Devil crabs (dealing 3hp with pincer) It's easy to gain a few levels here (Im receiving between 14EXP to 25EXP, and picking up 40gil to 60gil per battle). I get my first back attack at level 7 where i have a hp of 129 so easily survive. I get to level 8 before moving on.

I pick up the leather cap which reduced the damage i received from stropers from 6hp to 4hp.

I made a save exactly 30minutes into the game and did the pirate scene... anyone notice that every single pirate has an eye patch?

I made a detour to Tule to pick up the items and buy potions ( i opted for 8) and headed for the Windshrine. Got my 5 free potions, fought two easily won battles and confronted Wingraptor.

Wingraptor: I used a number of potions here because he insisted on using windslash every turn he had. But he went down rather easily as you'd expect with him being the first boss

Was back attacked by some magey looking fellas who cast Fire and Blizzard on me (50 damage a shot is was nearly the end of me!) but i survived and made for the crystal room gaining my first set of jobs.

Im going to level a knight i first ive decided... the sooner i learn doublegrip the better. Leveling in the Torna canal should be easy... the monsters don't attack males so the enemies are basically free kills