Man, Gran Pulse is kicking my ass at the moment. Did anyone have real trouble with Mark 7/The Undying? I died the first time and then for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to use a sentinel, which didnt really work because the marks most damaging attacks a AoE anyway, but didnt want to restart, which meant I literally spent like 20 minutes duking it out on the edge of my seat, nearly dying every couple of seconds lol.
I should have used some different Paradigms I think.

Its gonna take a long time for me to level up by the looks of it.

Im really enjoying the game so far, including the difficulty. My few gripes however are the before Pulse it really was extremely linear (even for a Final Fantasy, which might go as far as giving you the ILLUSION of non-linear gameplay)

Also, does every little trash mob have to take 2+ minutes? I know they wanted every fight to be tough, but then maybe they should have lowered the number of fights a little with better rewards or thrown in a few more quicker battles.

I wanted something to break up the sheer exhaustion of playing this game. Ultimately though, it feels really rewarding.