up till now I've played only FF Tactics Advance and FFI (also on GBA). Now I started playing newly bought FFVI for android devices. I've made a few steps, fought a few battles, then thought that maybe I should read about how should I raise my heroes … and gamefaqs.com killed me with the info, that on my first battle I should kill Terra. Further reading of other guides/walkthroughs made me think that I really should do it and always try to keep my level as low as possible because of some level averaging. I understand that at some point levels of my "heroes" is going to be "averaged" … ok, whatever, but why should I keep my levels low? usually in RPG games it's better to be on as high level as possible, so WTF?
Can anybody tell my how should I play this game (i ask only about this leveling stuff) and why? should I really run away from most of my battles?
that's really unusual style for me so it would mean to me that I must play with the guide all the time 😐 this takes away all the fun
Best Answer
The only reason to keep your heroes low level until the end of the game would be espers: specific espers grant stat bonuses on level up, and the best ones are late game. This is by no means necessary and I don't recommend doing it unless you're really trying to min-max.
You should, however, attempt to have most characters at a decent level by the end of the game (40ish), as you'll need to use 12 characters for the final dungeon.
Note that characters do not gain stats on their own, they only game them from espers at level up.