You pretty much answered my question, thanks.

what i meant by that was if the game was dungeon based like Tales games/other story driven RPGs where in the end of the dungeon you fight a boss, OR if the game was quest based with no story like Monster Hunter/World of Warcraft (i have yet to see a conventional "boss battle" in monster hunter).

i like story driven RPGs better, though i WILL be trying out Monster Hunter 3 when it comes to the US, it's not really my favourite type of game.

How is it?  I'm trying to build up some Mage stats to go along with Lvl 11 Priest and Lvl 17 Fighter stats before I head online.

It's good Tayne just remember to add me eventually.

I've added you.

Alright I got this game! :) I've only did the first quest, and didn't even start the "Main" story yet. I'm trying to figure out how to use magic. I made my character a mage, put points to the fire attribute, "equipped" the attribute, but in battle... no magic. I also find the battle system slightly frustrating. The enemies have over the top luck, and after you use an attack you move very slow almost guaranteeing that they will hit you. While it isn't hard, it just isn't fun that way. I mean I would much rather have harder enemies than ones that take 20 tries to hit, but aren't that tough.

Magic is interesting, to get the magic spells you need to on wiimote press down go to skills, after you level you get skill points, select which magic you want to master.

I recommend picking one type honestly because you unlock other magics later if you follow one attribute line it’s easier.
As for combat, you can lock on to enemies, your only hope is to do the avoid trick which is to go thief first to get avoid then after maxing it go back to mage and have it equipped on passives. Dodging should be easier.

I’ve seen online mages though and trust me that guy was kicking serious butt, so mages aren’t under powered.

We ran into an area with level 45 enemies and he merced them all with some area holy spell.

Another thing I've found out is that this game very very item finding heavy. In order to get the best gear you need to find them. Raw materials can later be used to craft rings and so on.

Certain enemies drop certain items, so if your looking for a certain dagger with 3 slots you need to milk that enemy.

Also WL and AL means weapon levels and Armor Levels.

You can refine these items to make them stronger, Refining them more than 3 times is dangerous but you can go up to I've seen 8 but you run the risk of breaking the item. (You need raw mats to refine also)

By refining you bump the value of the item versus it's weight.

In this way the heavy armors with naturally high weight and AL wil see a huge growth in defense instead of the measly one you get when you first equip them which makes a 5 AL 5 WT armor near worthless to a 0AL 0 WT one that allows you to equip heavier weapons.

Yeah, I figured that out. What I was missing was that you needed a wand or a staff equipped to use magic. Anyway I got to the part with the Dwarf boss, and it is pretty impossible when using magic. I have fire at 6, and Fire Strike at 2. My stats are:

Overall LVL 8
STR 1
VIT 11
INT 12
RES 10
SPD 8
DEX 1
Luck 8

My fire attacks are EXTREMELY weak though. They only hit like 5. I also have a partner(the first guy you meet in the side quest that is required to start the main quest. He is pretty much all my power, but at the boss he dies in less than 10s. Then I try to do magic, but by the time it "loads" the dwarf king hits me making my magic pretty much pointless. Pretty frustrating. I'm thinking of changing class to thief like you said, then boosting my magic.

Edit: Otherwise the game is fun, and the story is pretty neat.

Edit 2: I would also like to mention that most of my time spent in the game so far was running away from enemies. They just far outnumber  and outluck me. I only kill when there is one around. Unfortunately they accummulate by a LOT when you run away from all of them, and it doesn't seem like the A.I has a "stop chasing" code programmed into it, they will chase you until you kill them or enter another load screen.

I read in gamefaqs something that sparked my interest. Somebody said that people starting out the game should level up 5 lvls for each job because that gives a good stat increase that may help in your specialized job. I might do that, but I need to find some money to change my class and accommodate to the armor/weapons. :(

Oh and btw my friend code is 2364-5218-6952, username sc94597. I will be adding everybody who posted theirs in this thread, so add me.

You don't need a wand or a staff to do magic.