Quote Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪ View Post
I love this game so much.

But yeah, the junction system. I love it, but I don't expect anyone else to. I did the same as you the first time around and just used GFs on everything until I hit a wall at disc 2. Of course, once you come to understand what junctioning does, everyone's first instinct would be to spend forever drawing troutty magic from enemies (which is also what I did the first time). This is probably the least efficient way of getting magic to junction to your stats. Using the GF refining abilities in combination with Card Mod yields better magic for time spent. Especially if you game the Triple Triad trade rules to get all your opponent's cards on every victory. You could have a virtually infinite amount of some of the game spells to junction before you even leave the Balamb region. This game is grindy, but it does give you a few different ways to get it done.
Yep, the drawing 100 of each spell from an enemy is certainly as you said inefficient. And speaking of inefficient, it took me until about Disk 3 to realize I could junction multiple GF's to a single character. How embarrassing is that?

I also hit that "use GF for every attack" wall on Disk 2. I was just barely, and I do mean barely, able to win the boss battle at the end of Disk 2. It was enough to make me realize I had to do something different.

Also on Disk 3, I started to use some of the GF refine abilities. A bunch of them allow you to convert items to spells, but that typically costs money to buy enough items to do so. And despite hearing that Triple Triad is an amazing mini-game, I only attempted to play it a single time. I was still able to win some cards in battle (ie. from Bahamut), which allowed me to convert a Bahamut card to 100 Megalixers (I think). This was necessary to defeat Omega Weapon.

It's one of the weirdest levelling up/stats systems I've ever seen.