Once you get to Gran Pulse, the difficulty spikes a bit, and I added Sahz to my party and set his default class to Synergist so he'd immediately caste Haste on everyone. Before then it's pretty pointless to cast buffs and duffs during grunt fights except when you're fighting with only Sahz and Vanille, and Sahz can't use the Commando class, cuz duffs slow the enemy's stagger meter. How far i am from reaching pulse? Fang just joined my party for the first time.
Somewhere around 6 hours. Fuck me. This game is trash. Hopefully i get my copy of Resonance of Fate soon enough.
And Gran Pulse doe