one thing i have noticed is that the people at the top of the list of characters on the battle screen have a higher HP growth and the one at the bottom has a slower HP growth im quite sure. if you play a game with 4 fighters im sure you will notice they have very different health stat. im quite sure this is correct for the DoS.
as for what rpgN saida bout FF7,8,9,10 and 10-2. there is nearly always a way to abuse RPGs to make things easy. on FF7 there is KoTR and omnislash which is why people say safer sephiorth is an easy boss. he isnt so easy when you dont have either but some people have never tried to beat him without them. in FF8, its easy once you know how to junction and refine. you can get 100 megalixirs from the bahamut card. im not sure about FF9 but there are loads of abilities thats do an instant 9999 damage. in FFX you can spend hours leveling up like mad and completing the sphere grid. the only thing thats different about FF1 DoS is that its easy nearly no matter what you do. you dont have to abuse it to make it easy.
