FINAL PARTY IN FINAL FANTASY 6

Man, i don't know how many times I played FF6 before I relalized I could give Gogo other people's special attacks. Then I was like, MUAHAHAHAHA.

Anyway, i think my party was Terra, Edgar, Sabin, and Locke.

The Templar has Fire 2, which is pretty good right from the get-go.

Here's what I learned:

"Stray Cat is an early Rage you'll likely find useful throughout the game (early in the game, it's just insanely powerful, later you can combine it with the Merit Award for numerous effects including massive MT damage).

Also useful in the first half of the game are Aspik (Giga Volt), Anguiform (Aqua Rake), Marshal (Wind Slash), ChickenLip (Quake), Chimera (Aqua Rake, better than Anguiform but not available till a little later, and several others (check a Rage guide, preferably Djibriel's).

For the second half of the game, Stray Cat will still come in handy, but you'll want some updated Rages also. Good ones include SrBehemoth/Brontaur (Fire 3, Brontaur is better but is in the last dungeon), Woolly (Ice 3 and absorbs all but Fire and Pearl), Magic Urn (Cure 3, absorbs all elements and blocks all statuses, Karkass/Punisher (Bolt 3, Karkass has Death Protection but is Undead, while Punisher has inherent Haste), and Tyranosaur (Meteo). Quite a few others are useful also; once again, use a Rage guide."


Also, Charm is apparently like Muddle, but unblockable, even by bosses.

Edgar and Sabin (because I needed someone to equip Sprint Shoes) was my final party.

I may have had just Edgar for Kefka, but I can't recall. It was either just him or the brothers Figaro.

I fought a lot of brontosaurs la~

author=cho
same goes for Sabin

woah woah woah there friend

iirc FF6 stats do work except Evade (and consequently Blind is just Cool Shades Time), it's just that stat gains mean a fraction compared to level gains for damage output. +1 Vigor is trivial compared to +1 Level.

Gau should start with Stray Cat, double check if you have it already because I don't think you can find Stray Cats in the wild yet.

*edit*
Stray Cats are "in the North East map" and have 156 HP so you probably just didn't encounter one. Still, Gau should start with Stray Cat, else I wouldn't worry too much about it. The game is very anti-Gau for a while, you can always go back to pick up more Rages when you get Mog's water dance.

It's useful if you want meaningful HP progression while having rather static stats, which is why FF games use level in their calculations.

STR usually only increases one point at a time, if at all, while HP is increased based on an exponential curve. If damage was STR * 2 - VIT with that HP growth, battles would drag on unless enemies had very uneven stats compared to the party. Having it also based on level means that you can say "at level 50, enemies should have X HP because the party will have, on average, Y STR." The player can alter this with ATK/MATK/PDEF/MDEF/whatever, while still having their simple and small main attribute numbers. Notice how FF stats rarely breach 99 until FFXIII!

in the context of final fantasy VI everyone is functional really, it's worthwhile just picking the guys you like

author=tardis

author=cho
same goes for Sabin

woah woah woah there friend
*youtub vid*

that was my favorite part because it was like "check out these rad fucking dudes smash a train, bet you wish you could use them for real"

like i said though, despite the fact that they're probably not even that bad, i am an asschop about rpg stats

(actually my favorite part is when i spent an hour grinding at that place where you can just hold down the A button and then "oh lol no espers = shit stats")