wait, isn't leveling up a bad thing in FF8?
He meant grinding as in sucking magic from enemies one or two at a time to have a full stack of 100 so you can get the max stat boosts from Junctioning. That's only early game, though, later you'll be refining more magic than you suck if you know what you're doing.
It is a bad idea. Enemies level up with you so you never really have a huge advantage. You should wait until you unlock the stat boosts at level up before power leveling. Every level in the game requires 100 XP. Going from level 1 to level 2? 100 XP. 70 to 71? 100 XP. 98 to 99? 100 XP. It's so bad. Don't forget that you can never drop Squall from your party, so he'll always grossly outlevel everyone else unless you control it by not leveling at all. Some enemies drop different items at different levels, but you have abilities that will change the levels of enemies just for that purpose. Another hint is that bosses give you no XP at all. Leveling in FF8 is done for stat boosts alone, the end.
I hated the game so much I learned all its systems inside and out and finished it 100%. Everything that can be done in that game, I did it. I don't want anybody telling me I don't like it because I don't understand it. I understand everything about this game, inside and out, and I hate it.
