easy lvl up

[crazybayman]

Wrong. Like rubah said, it is only a good idea to keep low levels for most of the game. Once you get the Ragnarok and are able to land on the ICH, it is a very good idea to level everyone up to 100. Give them Abilityx4 and equip 4 Bonus abilities. Leveling up with these equipped will give you a boost of 92 points if you started at level 8. Using this strategy for every character will make you much, much stronger than any random enemy.

Once you get Eden Devour is pretty much useless to me. The only time it would be useful is if you modified PuPu's card into a Hungry Cookpot, and then used it to teach Devour to a GF so you could eat all of the fixed encounters below the Deep Sea Research Center.

Making Ups yourself is definately not worth it, either. It costs 1,500,000 Gil just to make ONE. Except for Vit Ups, which can be easily refined from 5 Adamantines. 1 Hundred Needles needed for the Spd Up wouldn't be so bad either. Just spend a couple minutes at Cactaur Island and you'll have 100 Cactus Thorns in no time. Everything else would take way too long to make.

Oh-oh. look out. The FFVIII faq-king has spoken. :rolleyes2

If your just talking about strength stats, you don't need to level up to level 100 with strength bonus to max out your strength stat. Not even close, actually. With the right junctioning, i.e. a magic like tornado or flare, with strength + 60% ability, and the character's ultimate weapon, you will be able to achieve 255 strength at a relatively low level.

Unless you want to max out vit, mag, spr, luck, etc, there's still no point to going to level 100 with bonuses, because you can't boost them all at once, and therefore you won't be able to max everything out by levelling with bonuses alone. If you want to do that, you'll need to devour, like Rubah said. Although leveling with the bonuses will help.