FFII levelling system

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what do you think of FF2's character system? did you like it?

personally I've thought of a game with a system like this but I never saw it anywhere else. Square sure made wide changes after FFI. It's unique and I had fun with it but the only thing that kinda bothers me is the slowness of development. I mean it's like you have to decide as early as possible if you're going to build one character as your supporter/white mage, attacker/knight, spellcaster/black mage etc. or you'll have a hard time later when the enemies are stronger. It's been very experimental but wasn't so bad in my opinion. I'd say it's impressive for such an early game. I rate it 6/10

how about you?
 
I had Firion be a healer/Attacker, Maria be the Black Mage and Guy be the Brute Basher.

I loved this system to be honest, it made leveling up be a little more realistic and I think square should reuse it later in the series.
Maybe revamp it a little bit but still reuse it.
 
PreZ said:
I loved this system to be honest, it made leveling up be a little more realistic and I think square should reuse it later in the series.
Maybe revamp it a little bit but still reuse it.
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yeah I totally agree about it being more realistic and they should do it some little refinements. wasn't that reused in another game? I think it's FF Legend.

I built Firion as my Knight, Maria as my white and black mage and Guy and Leon as secondary attackers with some support spells.
 
What I did was, in the normal FF2 game:
I made Firion my pure attacker. I mean, he had no magic on him what-so-ever.
I made Maria into a White Mage. Got her Cure to Level 16 before my first real runthough the Castle Fynn! I was deperately in need of it.
I made Guy into a Black/Support Mage. I know that sounds totally stupid, but it actually worked. You do not want to see Firion with Max Strength and Berserked, Hasted, and Auraed. It hurts.
I just made Leon a secondary attack with the Blood Sword. He didn't help much.

In Soul of Rebirth:
Minwu: Obvious I hope. Pure White Mage. Never attacked at all. Except for Ultima.
Josef: Made him my secondary attacker/support mage. He just didn't give the damage I wanted at times, and he served much better as a Support Mage.
Scott: Black Mage Ahoy! Give him: Flare, Holy, and all elemental skills, and he's a beast!
Ricard: My physical brute. I'm amazed that in the actual game, Ricard is sooooooo weak. In SoR, he kicks ass! Simple as that.

As for the leveling-up system, I found it frustrating at times. Like, I'd hit a guy 20 times in a row, and never got a strength point. I liked the variety though.
 
I didn't quite understand it at first but once you get used to it it's easy to use and can be pretty helpful seeing as it's quick and easy to get stronger with different weapons and such.
 
I HATE the FFII leveling system with a psssion ;_; its so damn confusing when your 12 years old, and it really hasn't aged well at all IMO
 
The level system was a good idea but they could've done it better. I don't like having to attack my own characters to increase their max HP. Plus having to cast a spell 1,000,000 times to get one level point at higher levels was just stupid.
 
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It was a unique idea, but it could've been implemented better. I found it frustrating yet refreshing.

Btw did anyone else have a situation where Guy got hit the most and made it to 9999 HP the fastest of everyone?
 
Yiazmat said:
Btw did anyone else have a situation where Guy got hit the most and made it to 9999 HP the fastest of everyone?
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he got the highest max hp on my game but only about 5000+. whoa it was fun but I can't play this game forever.

and I wanna ask too, what is the highest level any of your spells reached people?
 
I got Cure, Fire, Ice and Bolt to level 12. Protect and Shell (i don't believe those were the names in FFII but never mind) were level 8 and everything else was between level 1-5.

Another question, who didn't use the cheat to level up spells?
 
I cheated after my first playthrough to see each spell go through the more powerful animations (only to disappointed that most change little to none).

But, unless I'm thinking of something else, the cheat is basically setting the cursor to "memory," setting up a repeatable set of actions against a non fleeing enemy (usually black flans outside of Mysidia), and leaving something heavy on the "X" or "A" button.

Example set up:
Firion: Fire attack on Party
Guy: Scourge on flans (heals them)
Maria: Casts cure on party.

I hope that makes sense...
 
th lvl system was allright it. i liked how it was possible to get ALL training done in the beginig of the game. butr still that takes FOREVER. my charaters got to the point of doing about 6000 damage and had about 5000-6000 hp. then agion ive only had the patients to play it once lol
 
I dont know Maria as a white mage or even a mage period... >.> I guess you can say I turned her into a Monk... her without a weapon or shield.. she could hit 6000+ with relative ease... which is waaaaay better then the other guys can hit with weapons...
 
I dont know, Im nowhere near the end, nor have the bloodsword... >.>
 
Iv only just started and Im not really sure how I want to develop everyone at the moment....can't say i'm a huge fan of it but then I'v only just left Altair & I have whoever the woman is as a white mage (or at least thats what I'm going for) And the others are all just doing physical attacks. I just have the annoying feeling it's all gunna go tits up somewhere because I've done it all wrong
 
The freedom of the system can definitely be a little daunting. Just make sure you don't try to spread the skills out too thinly. It'll be much better to plan out what kinds of spells you want each person to have (i.e. assign each character a customized job class).
 
Assigning each person a "class" is okay, but (in my opinion) you need to have backups. I have Maria with high level magics, but my others have decent levels as well. Maria has very little weapon skill, though. I just like the idea of having powerhouse magic users (level 12 fire and climbing...and I haven't even gone anywhere other than around Altair and Fynn). I mean, you get to a point that having good magics becomes easy. If you want the strength, just make sure to build the magics first.
 
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