It's simple, really. If you think the game is too hard to be fun, level up a bit. If it's too easy, avoid levelups. Don't pay attention to "recommended levels", if you can handle the fights, the level is high enough.

Quote Originally Posted by Levian View Post
What's Barrage? There's so many different words for the abilities in the various versions!
It's called Barrage in FF11 too! That's probably where they got it from when translating FF3 for the DS.