Quote Originally Posted by ShunNakamura
hmm.. I think you are more about average. Plus keep in mind that monks and knights are strong in the begining(and you are still early enough that you are in the begining). That and the game isn't really tough anyways.

Kerwin is the water town.. right? the enemies should be cake then.

As for blue magic. It can be very useful.. particually if you learn aqua rake early on from the chimera. However Blue magic takes a bit of mp and isn't always worth it, even though you can get some GOOD ones early on. Blow fish in the first world is nice, so are some of the others. They can be worth it.. but best if you have it on another mage char so you have higher magic power, I many times have my white mage double as a blue mage.
Blue magic is an easy way of defeating almost all the bosses in world 1 and a few early on ones in world 2 aswell. Doomclaw, level 5 doom and blowfish will destroy alot of bosses