Levelling up is to difficult in this game.

[Beclem]

My characters are at about the Lv.65-70 mark, with the exception of Zidane who is up to about Lv.85 obviously because he hardly ever leaves the team and has gained the most EXP throughout the course of the game.

One of my favourite aspects of Final Fantasy games is to level the characters up so they become stronger, and although levelling up in this game has no effect on characters stats, I still want to build on their HP, but on this game, I find it takes to long to level up, and thus it's very time consuming, and overall, not much fun.

Where would you say is the best place to level up once near the end of the game? I've been messing about by Gizmaluke's Grotto and beating the Grand Dragons with Quina's 'Lv.5 Death' spell. This gives me like 10000+ EXP with the 'Level Up' ability equipped, which is quite good, but it still takes quite long to level the characters up when they reach about Lv.60.

Anyone found any better places to level up, or have you just given up when you got to a certain level because it's too time consuming/boring?

[GunbladeMaster]

yeah wanna get up to 100, 000 experience per battle?

theres an island called Vile Island (the BIG island in between Outer and forgotten continent) the island carries creatures called Yans. They are somewhat difficult to beat
(22,000 HP)
but they give a whoppin 42000 per Yan and usually u run into like 3 so u do the math
but it is 100,000!
wanna know y?
cas the Yans can blow ur characters rit out of the battle field so that means the less characters the more experience for the remaining character
so if u have just zidzane and u beat 3 Yans ull get probably over 100,000
try it
ull see
2 levels up per battle **guaranteed**

[Dr. Casey]

Well, now that some good advice has been given... I like leveling up because it makes me think that the characters are aging, and I find the aging process really interesting and all that.

I like numbers. =[

[rubah]

just beat the game already. You're about ten or twenty levels higher than I was when I beat it xD

[GunbladeMaster]

yeah i beat the game around level 65 so fight a couple of yans and thats it

[SoftReset]

The exp needed to hit Lv.99 is 6633167, so yeah, very difficult.

Yans give 42,673 each, not 8800. You're thinking of Grand Dragons.

[GunbladeMaster]

o yeah
my mistake

[Dreddz]

I stopped at lvl 73 ( for Zidane, other were lvl 69-71 )

yes, its hard to lvl up after, but I only lvl'ed up to be able to beat Ozma, I did, I found no point in lvl'ing up after.....

[eestlinc]

levelling up too much in this game is pretty useless, although the Yans do give a good challenge.

[Chris]

Funny, I thought levelling was a cake-wake in this game. But really, you can easily beat the game at level 40-45.

[Beclem]

I think I'll just get everyone up to Lv.70 then go after Ozma. I think I remember watching my friends fight the Yans a few years ago.. they inflict some kind of status effects which prevents you from recieving EXP if I remember correctly. Is there any way to stop that from happening?

Funny, I thought levelling was a cake-wake in this game.

How so?

[Craig]

I think I'll just get everyone up to Lv.70 then go after Ozma. I think I remember watching my friends fight the Yans a few years ago.. they inflict some kind of status effects which prevents you from recieving EXP if I remember correctly. Is there any way to stop that from happening?

They snort you out of the battle, and it sucks.

I leveled in Memoria, and I found that to be tolerable, although as others have said you don't really need to.

Not even for Ozma, you can beat Ozma at level 1.

[Old Manus]

Where can I fight Yams?

[SoftReset]

You don't fight Yams. You eat them ^_^

Yans can only be found on Vile Island, which is that little island west of the Iifa Tree on the world map with the odd square based pyramid-looking mountain on it.

[White_Knight]

I got to level 99 even without getting to Ozma. I didn't really find it that hard to level up, as I was always looking for somewhere new. But unfortunately, I knew not of the Ozma thing, so I just left the game after beating it.