09-01-2015, 04:20 AM
One thing I've struggled with in a couple runs is the utter lack of curative magic. In two runs, I've had no espers with any cure spells in the WoB, and no natural magic casters with a cure spell.
In fact, in one run, I never got a cure spell at all, and in the other I didn't get one until Alexander, when I finally could learn Cure 3. Worse yet, there was only one shop in the WoB with dried meat, none of them carried potions. In the WoR, there was only one with potions.
Seems like there should be some kind of assurance that we can at least have one WoB esper with either Cure or Cure 2. It doesn't even matter which. Trying to play through using only dried meat for healing is absolutely crippling.
Maybe I just got horrid luck, I have no idea how often this happens, but it happened twice in a row to me, which is very frustrating.
And you talking about the flame eater is even more funny. I had to get by it with no cure spells, Terra had sketch, Strago had berserker, and I think Locke had tools (making him my most useful guy there). A total recipe for disaster.
There are certain aspects of the game that were meant to have access to certain things, and are nearly impossible without them. 99% random is good, but I think there needs to be 1% of assurance that we have reasonable (see: not having to overlevel) means to overcome all obstacles.
Interesting that you mention Vargas. I can't relate, I've always had someone with blitz for that fight, oddly enough.
In fact, in one run, I never got a cure spell at all, and in the other I didn't get one until Alexander, when I finally could learn Cure 3. Worse yet, there was only one shop in the WoB with dried meat, none of them carried potions. In the WoR, there was only one with potions.
Seems like there should be some kind of assurance that we can at least have one WoB esper with either Cure or Cure 2. It doesn't even matter which. Trying to play through using only dried meat for healing is absolutely crippling.
Maybe I just got horrid luck, I have no idea how often this happens, but it happened twice in a row to me, which is very frustrating.
And you talking about the flame eater is even more funny. I had to get by it with no cure spells, Terra had sketch, Strago had berserker, and I think Locke had tools (making him my most useful guy there). A total recipe for disaster.
There are certain aspects of the game that were meant to have access to certain things, and are nearly impossible without them. 99% random is good, but I think there needs to be 1% of assurance that we have reasonable (see: not having to overlevel) means to overcome all obstacles.
Interesting that you mention Vargas. I can't relate, I've always had someone with blitz for that fight, oddly enough.