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adjl posted...

That's metagaming. You're going outside of normal gameplay to exploit the game's mechanics to your advantage. It may not be particularly hard or obscure metagaming, but it's metagaming nonetheless.

Note that I'm not saying you're wrong to have had fun playing that way. Just that other people also aren't wrong to not have fun playing that way. Not everybody likes thinking about game mechanics beyond face value.

But it tells you to do that. Right when you get Ifrit it tells you to junction strength. In the class room it tells you to train the GF and how to do it.
And unless this is your first RPG ever, you already know to grind levels.
If you missed this, well... Start again, the intro is pretty easy after you get past all the talking. You will probably know something is wrong when you die horribly to diablo gf or can't beat the robot in the first city.