Quote Originally Posted by Dan558 View Post
The one where you have to max out all your characters crystalarium in all roles seems like a horrible waste of time
Xithor banged the nail on the head. It's not that much of a waste of time if you do it correctly. With a Growth Egg, you earn like 80,000CP per Adamantoise you take down. You'll also spend a LOT of time farming them.

Doing the math:
Killing one Adamantoise with a Growth Egg will net you 80,000CP.
Killing ten Adamantoise will net you a net you 800,000CP.
One Adamantoise took me about two to three minutes to kill when I worked out a strategy.
So ten will take you about half an hour or so if you save and reload in the right place.

You need six Trapezohedron to get everyone their final weapon. Chances are, you could grind all day and not even get one.
You'll need loads of Ingots to buy components, especially the Ultra Compact Reactors - you can buy three per Ingot, and with a x3 in the upgrade section, you'll need about three or four to max second tier weapons to their max.

So yeah. You'll be spending a lot of time farming, and CP will just come in without out you noticing it.