Originally Posted by
Xurts
To me neither Ups nor Devouring are good ways of increasing your stats. Ups, like you said, are incredibly expensive. Devouring would only be useful if you used it to Devour the fixed encounters below the DSRC. Other than that you have to run around for awhile waiting to encounter a certain enemy. Neither of those are really my thing. I raise my stats by leveling up. After that I might make a couple Vit Ups from Adamantines, but that's it.
Actually, you can devour a lot more often than you'd think-- t-rexaurs are a common encounter on the ICtH, or you can go to the training center in balamb. And I always seem to run into more malboros on the island closest to heaven than anything else xD
The only really difficult one is ruby dragons for hp+. Not only are they a rare encounter (aside from the ones in front of bahamut) but they're hard to get down to a small enough HP without killing them to be useful
Adamantines are also pretty hard, just because they take forever to find. I don't usually ever fight much around esthar, so I can't say for behemoths
(or apparantly get lucky with an Angelo search). Still, behemoths are fairly common near Esthar, IIRC. Adamantoises, obviously, near Dollet, and the rest are on the ICTHs. To each his own though, of course. Maxing without junctioning has almost no use, and is only for those who enjoy it. I do, so I'll go to those lengths, but I can see why anyone could say it's not worth it... it really isn't. I already am level 100, though, so levelling up won't work anymore. =P
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