I finally started this game and am enjoying it so far. I just finished the first dungeon and until I got the fire element everything in the game just seemed like it took a little bit longer to kill than it should for this type of game. The AI partner Emilie was also killing stuff way faster than I could.

Is this just an early game issue and now that I have an element it will go away? or am I doing something wrong? I did nearly every sidequest I could before doing main story stuff, and I made armor and weapons from the vendors you see around the game that require materials so I cant be underleveled or underquipped.

Also is it just me or is it sometimes hard to judge what level a cliff is on when making jumps?