Quote Originally Posted by boys from the dwarf
refine as many items and cards as you can (unless you collect and play cards.) to refine you need to junction the GF and set it to learn its refine ability. there are refines for different elements that you learn from ifrit , shiva and quezcoatl E.G. fire refining gets you magic like fira and firaga and fire related items. card refine can be learned from queztcoatl and gets you tons of great items. E.G. the odin car drefines into 100 items that give you about 20 haste spells each which is more than enough to last throughout the game. the sacred or minotaur card gives you dino bones which refine into quake spells which are great for rasing damage. and the biablos card refines into 100 black holes and each of them give you 30 demis which are good for raising health and magic and pretty much everything.
Odin's card mods into 100 Dead Spirits, which are used to refine Death spells. I prefer using Chef's Knives for 30 Deaths each, since Odin's card is useful.

I get my Haste from Vysages. Another good way is refining Magic Stones.

Sacred's card modifies into 100 Dino Bones. However, Abyss Worms mod into Windmills which refine into Tornadoes. Tornados are better for strength.

Demis are only good for Magic. It sucks for everything else, depending on your other magic of course.