It depends. On original/WSC FF1, I take a Fighter, Thief, White Mage, and Black Mage. My logic is as follows: Fighter becomes Knight, who can equip Excalibur, one of the three most powerful swords in the game. Thief becomes Ninja, who can equip the Katana, another of the three. White Mage becomes White Wizard and exists solely to keep the other three in good shape. Black Mage becomes Black Wizard, who can cast the better of the two attacking magics (Flare and Holy/NUKE and FADE) that retain full effectiveness against Chaos. (Yes, really, Chaos is resistant to all other attacking magic. I verified this in Hackster.) When he runs out of Flare casts, there's no point in casting other magics, so he can use the most powerful sword in the game, Masamune, to keep on dishing out good damage. So we have two great attackers, one excellent healer, one awesome caster, and are able to use all the best weapons in the game.
On DoS, the stat growth seems to be somewhat different, so I don't know what my favorite party is yet. |