Quote Originally Posted by Devil Shroom View Post
Ok so I just started a new game on my FFXII (I'd already beaten it but I wanted to play again). I decided that I'd have a better strategy this time and made the decision to buy a butt load of phoenix downs, go off and fight Dustias, get Vaan to level 20-25 and then go off into the palace. That way when Fran and Balthier joined I'd have a really high levelled party.
That's not strategy. That's called 'leveling up until the game is no longer challenging'.

You need to get the Crescent Stone from Dalan before you can buy Phoenix Downs from Migelo Sundries
in the NTSC version. If this is different in the Japanese or PAL version no one has taken note of it.