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[Peter_20]

Originally Posted by Maxx Power

The number one rule of FF2 is thus : Don't spread yourself thin. This isn't a game where "Red Mages" will work. Specialise, specialise, specialise.

The sad thing with many guides for this game is that they actually RECOMMEND the player to spread him-/herself thin; "buy Cure, Fire, Ice and Bolt for everyone and equip your best weapons and armour".
Right...

[Crossblades]

I always make my Firion a Paladin type character, Maria a Black Mage, and Guy a Fighter.

However, for the rest the characters like Richard, Leila, Josef, Gordon, and Leon, I never teach them Magic, because I feel that they don't need to learn any. Maybe I'll give a Cure spell to someone like Gordon, but that's about it

[Peter_20]

Originally Posted by Crossblades

I always make my Firion a Paladin type character, Maria a Black Mage, and Guy a Fighter.

However, for the rest the characters like Richard, Leila, Josef, Gordon, and Leon, I never teach them Magic, because I feel that they don't need to learn any. Maybe I'll give a Cure spell to someone like Gordon, but that's about it

I thought Cure and Fire for Josef was pretty idealistic as well.

[Crossblades]

Originally Posted by Peter_18

Originally Posted by Crossblades

I always make my Firion a Paladin type character, Maria a Black Mage, and Guy a Fighter.

However, for the rest the characters like Richard, Leila, Josef, Gordon, and Leon, I never teach them Magic, because I feel that they don't need to learn any. Maybe I'll give a Cure spell to someone like Gordon, but that's about it

I thought Cure and Fire for Josef was pretty idealistic as well.

That could work too.

You know, I recently started to play this game again, and I have to say I'm enjoying this game a lot more than I did before. I love the fact that you can customize your characters into any way you see fit

[Peter_20]

Originally Posted by Crossblades

Originally Posted by Peter_18

Originally Posted by Crossblades

I always make my Firion a Paladin type character, Maria a Black Mage, and Guy a Fighter.

However, for the rest the characters like Richard, Leila, Josef, Gordon, and Leon, I never teach them Magic, because I feel that they don't need to learn any. Maybe I'll give a Cure spell to someone like Gordon, but that's about it

I thought Cure and Fire for Josef was pretty idealistic as well.

That could work too.

You know, I recently started to play this game again, and I have to say I'm enjoying this game a lot more than I did before. I love the fact that you can customize your characters into any way you see fit

Yeah, I also thought so.
I loved to increase HP and MP forever, until I reached about 2000 HP and 150 MP at the Warship, or something.
I don´t really care about that Level glitch, the game would be impossible without it anyway.

[rubah]

Guy is my black mage axe smasher status inpenetrable person. Well, with ultima, I really guess he's just the offensive white mage, but what are you gonna do about it?

Frioniel is the leet swordfighter who uses level 5 holy, Maria is the caneslady who uses level 6 holy xD

I'm happy with lionheart as a swordsman who can use a nice level 5 cure.

Man, I gotta finish this game one of these days. Perhaps I should level today xD

[DJZen]

Party setup reccomendations will be forthcoming in the next revision of my site

Meanwhile, I'll just say some basics on it.

Don't give mages good weapons or armor (in fact, barefisted mages seems like a better idea than you might think), make sure you can heal a good amount of HP in one round, and if you want to know if something works, just battle test it. If you're getting through the dungeon fine, keep going. If you're not, re-think your strategy.

My current setup is...

Frioniel: Paladin until Minwu dies, then pretty much dedicated white mage. Uses knife, NOT SWORD!
Maria: Black mage, back row when making a serious dungeon run, front row for training, equipped with staff, NOT BOW!
Guy: dual axe wielding cuisinart of doom

Minwu: White mage, duh
Gordon: Archer, BACK ROW STYLEE!!!
Josef: Monk, again, duh
Leila: Th... HEY! Where did all my gils go?!
Richard: spear guy (tm)
Lionheart: sword guy (tm)

[Peter_20]

Originally Posted by DJZen

Party setup reccomendations will be forthcoming in the next revision of my site

Meanwhile, I'll just say some basics on it.

Don't give mages good weapons or armor (in fact, barefisted mages seems like a better idea than you might think), make sure you can heal a good amount of HP in one round, and if you want to know if something works, just battle test it. If you're getting through the dungeon fine, keep going. If you're not, re-think your strategy.

My current setup is...

Frioniel: Paladin until Minwu dies, then pretty much dedicated white mage. Uses knife, NOT SWORD!
Maria: Black mage, back row when making a serious dungeon run, front row for training, equipped with staff, NOT BOW!
Guy: dual axe wielding cuisinart of doom

Minwu: White mage, duh
Gordon: Archer, BACK ROW STYLEE!!!
Josef: Monk, again, duh
Leila: Th... HEY! Where did all my gils go?!
Richard: spear guy (tm)
Lionheart: sword guy (tm)

Sounds fine, dude, even though I don´t fully agree on the Jobs.

I usually go like this:

FIRION: Knight, feels strange having the *main* char as a healer.
MARIA: dedicated White Wizard in the back row, for some reason I always buy her a Cane.
GUS: dedicated Black Wizard in the back row, to whom I always buy a Knife.

MINH: Paladin-ish dude, fights with his Cane and heals.
JOSEF: Monk, who knows the Cure and Fire spell (great use in the Ice Cave).
GORDON: Dragoon or something, he has a spear.
LAYLA: Thief, who can´t steal. Dual Knives and high Agility.
RICHARD: DRAGOON! Dual Spears and high Vitality.
LEON: Wow, my favourite char! Uses the Masamune and an Axe, co-works with Firion as a Knight.