Easy leveling.

[Seifer]

Before your gain any party members, with just vaan, go to the dalmasca estersand. And let one of the wolves get your HP to <10% and enter the corridor of sand (north exit)

Once load screen dissapears you will see a rare spawn named Dustia, just use a phoenix down in it before it casts dark, and exit the area as soon as it dies, (so it can respawn instantly) and you will receive 1200 xp every time, get you to around 15 before even entering the royal palace, and all your party members will join you at that lvl or higher

Helped me out heaps.

enjoy.

 

[Clyde]

didnt know you could do that, thanks

 

[Seifer]

no worries,

just make sure u have lots of phoenix downs.
Its hard to get too many early in the game, due to lack of gil.

 

[Daenerys]

woah! didn't know about that one, ill be sure to check it out the next time i restart XII...

theoretically though couldn't you use it to train a weak character later on too? by removing everyone else from the party you'd get all the experiance on that one person

 

[livingDeadGirl]

woah that must be cool gotta try it as soon as i start new save : )

 

[DL Clyde]

You can actually get Vaan up to level 30 before you go to through the Barheim Passage at the beginning.

 

[Clyde]

I might consider restarting one of these days... it would cut down my game time by a few hours i think if i use this method. Again, nice one seifer

 

[BustaMo]

That would save a lot of time leveling up in the game expecially early on, but for some reason, I love leveling up in this game. The constant action, moving, controlling who you want to face and who you don't want to really makes the battle system sooo much more enjoyable.

However, nice tip Seifer.

 

[Howl]

I just tried doing this, but it won't let me use a pheonix down on him...
It'll only let me cast pheonix down on Vaan. =[

Doesn't work. =[

Edit: nvm I got it to work. ^__^
Now the only problem is...where to buy pheonix downs!

 

[Seiryuu]

Migelo's shop always helps.

 

[Howl]

I tried going to his shop, but so early in the game, he doesn't sell pheonix downs. I had to go all the way to Nalbina fortress. lol.

I have a question...
If you run out of pheonix downs while you're doing this...ifyou simply run offscreen/back to the last area and come back again later, will he respawn as usual?

 

[Scooter1900]

Man that is kool i might check that out