Quote Originally Posted by Omega Cloud View Post
I just started FFX about 3 days ago and I have gotten very into it. I'm starting to get really good a blitz ball. During the normal quest my characters are really weak and kind of messed up. I got the best weapons money can buy at the part at about where you just get Rikku. So far though my highest character has 1850 hp and my weakest has 320 which is Rikku. I'm just wondering about when I can start doing sidequest and what my stats should be with each of my characters. I also want to know how I can maintain a good average stats for every parts of the game. Any advice would sure help at this moment.
Your stats are already too high. Your characters should only have JUST broken 1000 by the time you get to the Thunder Plains. You can boost Rikku's HP by setting down some HP Spheres, but she gets a rather reasonable boost (~700) within 5 levels. If you are having problems with enemies with these stats, you may need to reconsider playing video games, period.

Side-quests can't really be done in entirety (you can do snippets of a part of a quest, only to find that you have to do it again all over) until you get to the Airship. You're about halfway there. FFX is far too linear to be able to do anything freely until the Airship. Just keep going on with the plot. That's all you can do at this point.

Since your stats are so high, I would agree that you could basically scrap a bunch of the characters. You'll only need three for the rest of the game if you keep going on as you are. Normally I would tell you to restart the game, you're screwed; but, since this is your first playthrough, I'll cut you some slack.