I originally picked the standarized party of Fighter, Thief, W.Mage. B.Mage...but later replaced Thief with R. Mage. The R. Mage is a better fighter and has both white and black magic as his disposal. I found it was only near the end of the game that I found the R. Mage lacking but by then most of the hard parts of the game were over (aka Marsh Cave and Ice Cave). Recently I've done a personal challenge of four W. Mages. God, that was hard. Hitting the bosses for 1 point of damage (or missing)....
