Is this your first Final Fantasy? Or do you just not remember grinding in past games?

[Amberion]

Grind in my opinion is when you work towards a guaranteed reward like in FF10, catching 10 monsters of 10 different locations for the Arena guarantees you get the Mars Sigil for Auron's Celestial Weapon. RNG is not grinding at all, its hoping that the game favors you this kill for the drop that you want.

So.. You are saying that you could get the right mob to spawn 100% of the time in FFX? If not, then it was just that the RNG was higher.