Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
It's not really much of a factor since you literally have to go out of your way to make the most of it, but the real isue here is why bother when you're going to be spending the end game spamming Thievery/Dragon's Crescent/Shock/Frog Drop which all have either grossly overpowered damage algorithms that can easily be exploited without min/max. Just play the the game and have fun without sweating all the minor details.
*Sigh* If only my brain let me do that. It doesn't. I've wound up building spreadsheets to calculate ideal stat growth setups in games before. Even though they don't really matter. Just because my brain rankles at imperfection in my save files.

Honestly it hurts my enjoyment of the games. But I can't stop doing it. And its part of why I hate so many stat growth systems in the FF games. I far prefer ones which let you manipulate or grind, rather than those that rely on randomness, or ones like this that use a stilted growth pattern. It's why I actually liked the Sphere Grid and Crystarium. I actually enjoyed maxing the sphere grid and going back to figure out which nodes to wipe, in which order, in order to most efficiently max out all stats. Or XIII-2, where I had to calculate which jobs to level in which order to get the best stats.