JUDE'S PROFILE

I almost never remember my dreams. When I do, it's usually a ten second dream where I get hit by a train or a semi-truck and wake up.

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I like living in the boondocks. There is simply more land to call your own, more privacy, less noise, friendlier neighbors, you can drive faster, play hockey on a frozen pond, lose a dog in the bush, and feel isolated as an adolescent, forcing you to develop some personal character.

Its not bad.

Sounds boring.

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Black belts increase exponentially. I'm talking about vanilla FF here. Eventually they become so powerful, they can be naked and just destroy everything.

Not disagreeing with you, but Fighter doesn't need to -become- powerful, he's always powerful. He destroys them almost as equally well as the Black Belt, except he can take a hit 100 times better.

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Actually the bestest best best best party (in terms of being stupidly overpowered) is Fighter, Black Belt, Black Belt, Red Mage.

This is untrue. Black Belt's do only slightly more damage than Fighter but are squishy. Additionally, there are portions of the game where the Black Belt is very weak, most prominently during the Marsh Cave. Fighter is always strong. You could argue for F/F/BB/RM because there are only three Ribbons in the game (if you equip a Ribbon on Black Belt, he loses his natural armor making him a decent candidate as your Ribbon-less fourth). The only reason you even bring a Red Mage is because they can cast the Fast spell, and early-to-mid-game they can clear large, low-HP groups with spells. Black Mage is bad for this role because of the way FF1 handles MP. As soon as he's out of spells he's utterly useless except for using spellcasting items (which the Red Mage ad Fighters can use just as well). Fighters don't need much healing because of their impenetrable defenses so you just mow through everything. And when dealing with larger dungeons towards the end, you now have all the Heal armor.

Anyway, the remakes are a wholly different matter. Suddenly Thief/Ninja is pretty good, Black Mages can consistently nuke, and White Mages are the only way to heal through the damage dealt by some of the optional bosses.

Hot chicks, firearms, explosions, etc.