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[Peter_20]

Maxx Power cried aloud with mirth and merriment:

It entirely depends on what version of the game he's playing. If it's NES or Origins, then of course the "best" equipment is going to gimp him back into the stoneage. But I assume automatically anyone playing FF2 these days is doing so through DoS, in which case weapons/armour have absolutely no bareing on your magical ability.

Actually, I've used the combos Sword/White Magic and Bow/Black Magic for quite a while now, and those chars (Firion and Maria) rock in both those aspects; so, honestly, I don't really see whence all this "gimped" stuff comes from.

[DJZen]

Maxx Power cried aloud with mirth and merriment:

I assume automatically anyone playing FF2 these days is doing so through DoS, in which case weapons/armour have absolutely no bareing on your magical ability.

Oh? You've compared the damage? That's good to know, 'cause I don't have anywhere near as much info on DoS

[Captain Maxx Power]

DJZen cried aloud with mirth and merriment:

Oh? You've compared the damage? That's good to know, 'cause I don't have anywhere near as much info on DoS

Yeah I remember we had a discussion a while back about DoS' monster stats. You believed that they were lowered, whereas they're the same. For future reference the gamefaqs entry on the game has quite a lot of information, including damage formula, stat gaining formula and equipment bonuses/penalty. Note that the whole Agility/Evasion thing is still present in DoS, even if the stat reduction system isn't.

[DJZen]

Wow, it so got Easytyped...

[Captain Maxx Power]

DJZen cried aloud with mirth and merriment:

Wow, it so got Easytyped...

If FF2 got Easytyped, FF1 got YouCanCompleteItWithNoArmsAndCateractsty ped.

[blacknoir_619]

the thing about red mages is i dont particularly care if they dont rear the strongest fighters or if when you attack you lower your intellegance after each round ect, i have a red mage team who have well rounded stats and can kill nearly every monster in one hit but also have good magic and magic defense to fall back on the team requires more training but it can work unbeleivably well if you know what your doing so i say go for it and if you need any help or advice on making it work then you can ask me seen as im one ov the only ones who supports this system.

[Sephiroth1999AD]

I find a party of Red Mages annoying just because you need to level up everyone in so many areas. Raising a few spells for a mage is already tough, raising weapons and spells for every character takes even longer.

[Sagensyg]

Perfect sense, Sephiroth1999AD.