Power Levelling

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How can people power level so early on in games, like do people actually reach level 99 right at the start? I can't begin to imagine how long that would take I do not have the patience for that shit. It would be a form of torture for me

I usually try to get maybe a level or so higher than I need to be if I'm struggling somewhere and occassionally I'l spend afew hoours in one area for the sake of it if the fancy takes me (did that monster catching in the Calm Lands - I need motivation for power levelling I think)

I'l generally just get as near to the end as I can then find myself a good training spot. I hate training at the best of times, whhhhy would you want to power level? Bragging rights? Making the Game ridiculously easy? I dun get it
 
I trully dunno, I do the exact opposite thing: I'm always, ALWAYS underleveled, :) making the game way more fun, and hard, :)

Well, except when it's necessary to be a certan level to do a certain something or beat a certain boss, XD

But anyways, the most "logical" answer would be for Bragging rights, XD
 
Im gonna have to agree with Agent Smith on this one, I dont see how anyone can have the patience to do that. I would much rather do it at or around the end of the game when you dont have a lot of storyline to worry about and can basically go anywhere and do anything.
 
I done it on my latest play through of FFXII using Dustia, got Vaan to level 38 then gave up because it got uber boring and repetitive. Plus, level 38 aint too bad, I've gone up to level 46 (with everyone) now and some places are still challanging, like Nabudis, which is what I wanted.

Nothing to do with bragging rights or whatever, just decided to do it, I've played through the game a few times, levelling up the traditional way, so just thought I'd give it a try.
 
To me power leveling just takes all of the fun out of the game! If you're so insanely powerful where you can just plow through enemies, then where's the challenge in going through the game and finishing it up? I enjoy the challenge of fighting through, the game, and those moments where I wonder: Hell, am I going to make it or not!? And then the moment when you finally win after a grueling battle - it's really great.

But like you guys have said: I just wouldn't have the patience and I'd say people do it just to be able to brag to others about it. You know: ' Ha ha - I got to level 99 in the first few hours I'm soo GODLIKE. Bow before my supreme gaming skillz. ' What impresses me, more, is someone getting through a game at a lower level then usual. Now that's what I enjoy to see. ;)
 
Lol i have lvled myself to lvl 19 before Ice cave in FF IX.
Atm i am lvling myself in FF VII just after leaving Gold Saucer first time(not exatly lvling but trying to get all limit breaks and that means alot of killing).
 
I've never done it and have no intention of doing so in the foreseeable future. If I ever decided to take myself up on the challenge, it'd only be for the sake of nostalgia and being able to say I did ... not that it means anything or is necessary at all.

At most, I over-level for particular areas but never so much so that there's no chance of losing.
 
I don't see the problem with it if you've already played through the game a couple of times, done all the challanging things, levelled up in the traditional way and so on.

Doing it on your first play through of a game is a bit shit and I would never do it.

It's like cheats for other games, I'll only use them once I've finished the game a few times. Never on my first play through.
 
It just seems like hours and hours of boredom, especially as you get so little exp so early in the game, even as something to do just fo the sake of doing it seems a little pointless, it would probably take hours and hours just to get one level after a while
 
I never power level. Well, the only exception to this is FFXII. I just felt like being more powered and plow through battles, but only in that game. I always get to the maximum level in my FF's but that's because I undertake the task of beating superbosses like Emerald, Ruby, Omega, Ozma, Nemesis, Yiazmat, etc. where this is an absolute necessity. But I only beat superbosses after I complete the main storyline. I always beat the last storyline boss first. Of course, after I go back to my file and beat the last boss again when I'm at the maximum level is easy. That's why I beat the storyline boss first, so he'll be more of a challenge.
 
Agent Smith said:
It just seems like hours and hours of boredom, especially as you get so little exp so early in the game, even as something to do just fo the sake of doing it seems a little pointless, it would probably take hours and hours just to get one level after a while
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With Dustia on XII it's a little different. Chaining Wolves until you get 99 of the loot will level you up normally, but once you've bought your phoenix downs and go for Dustia, he gives just over 1000 exp and 3lp, so for early in the game that's quite alot for one enemy. So if you buy 10 phoenix downs, that's 10, 000 exp which will easily get you up a few levels. When I got past level 30 though, it was taking 20+ phoenix downs to go up just one level, that's how it got boring and I gave up at level 38.

So for the most part it doesn't take that long.

I wouldn't of done it if it involved just running round killing things that give you something like 12exp like the wolves.

But, as I've said, I've already played through the game a few times, levelling up normally and done the whole challange bit. This play through is just a bit of fun, doing the things I haven't already done, getting the items I've never had and so on.

Plus levelling up on XII takes ridiculously long once you get pretty high, which gets more boring and repetitive than power levelling with Dustia does.
 
Nah, I don't do that, as I find it boring. Games are supposed to be fun. I will sometimes go around killing enemies for gil if I want to buy something though...
 
I only find about power leveling when I got the intrawebz.

So now of nearly FF I always power lvl! :gasp: Chaining Dustia ftww!!
 
I power level like crazy...but only if I get beat. I don't take defeat well, so I like to make sure that I'll win with my next attempt. Completely annihilating the boss that beat me earlier is satisfying. I'm willing to train for hours on end to accomplish that.

Makes the game last a bit longer, too.
 
Power leveling in the very beginning of the game takes the challenge out in the game later. I know someone who powered-leveled their characters to 100 in FFVIII right after they got the GF Ifrit and just leveled up in that one island that you start off in. =O I would've been soooo bored! Sure, in the world of FF, the battle-system is a major part, but not THAT biggie. I would've been so anxious to start the story already and find out more about the characters...not spend months training the characters. >.>
 
I make and have many files on the games, and yes I have power leveled. I think in FF8 at the very beginning of the game I went to the training center and trained Squall extremely high and gathered tons of magic from the grats. The only problem was this made a huge level gap later on in the game which was bull. I only got Squall to level 70 before stoping becuase I couldn't stand the repetivity at that point. Yeah but I've done the same in FF12 and FF10.
 
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