When you're leveling up before disk three it's making things easier for disk three. (And four, lol) But which ever way you chose to level up is your choice. If it gets you to the end quicker, then hooray you. :P

I'm about to start a new game over because my disk finally decided to break. I'm going to gamestop sometime this week to get a new game..lol, but once I do I'll post up my levels and stuff like that.

Before the game broke, I was at the middle of disk three, with Zell and Squall at 100, Rinoa in the mid 90s, Selphie in the 70s or 80s, Quistis in the 60s, Irvine in the 80s..with some good junctions. I junctioned death somewhere in there to kill the monsters faster--killing monsters at such easy HP gets annoying after a while. lol..but yea, that's all I remember.