Materia load-outs

[Ironman]

i couldn't see a thread for this so i figured i would make one.

How did you set out your Materia, did you have a 'class' system set up using your materia, or did you Balance everyone out with a mix and match of Everyone having a bit of everything?

Personally i tried many different ways, but i discovered that having everyone balanced out with a bit of everything turned out to be the best way. With everyone able to do Everything, it made tricks like Miming so much easier as your attacking turns were always high damaging and you could heal massive amounts of HP if it was needed upon anybodies turn.

 

[Bambi]

I just gave whoever whatever. My main reason was mastering materia, not really using it

 

[Saix]

There are the obligatory super-combinations later in the game (when they're practically needed anyway), but I did try sticking to character classes as best I could for as long as possible. I might give a physical attacker something like Poison for supplementary damage, which I felt counter-balanced the incurred loss in strength, but they would all have some miscellaneous materia on them. Barrier, Heal etc. Saves my magic user spending all their MP/time protecting everyone else.

Enemy Skill was just about the main piece of materia I shared.

 

[Noize]

Well to begin with, i made sure everyone on my party had a different elements. When i got outside Midgar i evenly distributed the green and yellow materia among the 3 members i chose to train, but i made sure that one of my party members had "All" linked with "cure".

Once i got to disc 2, i'd have enough materia for each party member, plus the standby members to have their own materia, but also by then, i'd make sure i had every party member with all-cure linked together.

At the end of Disc 2, i usually have everyone with fire, ice and lightning elements linked with "all" once they've been mastered then i'd slot them with their ultimate weapons.

The party member with the highest HP after the materia has been set is the one who got 1-2 summons to even out the HP.

End-game, i want everyone to have "all" and the three elements mastered and linked with their ultimate weapons, excpet for cloud, who'll also have "added effect" and "destruct" linked in the weapons slot, also have everyone with an "enemy skills" materia mastered (or so-to-speak.)

I'm not sure what else i want to do with my materia, Tifa's my caster at the moment she does the highest magic damage for some reason so she's got Ultima and W-magic linked, when i get around to fighting the "weapons" you should all know the set up i'll use, if not i'm just going to use the standard set-up with KoTR mastered, W-summon, 4x cut W-item ect....

 

[GalaxyFlare]

Oh this is gonna be fun

Well Cloud I have:

Master Magic+All, A Magic+materia , Long Range, 2 Encounter+ Materia
bahamut+MP TURBO,Dethblow+HP absorb,...........4XCUT and sense

Tifa: 2X Magic+ materia, long range
Pheonix+Final Attack, Cure+ALL, Comet, 2Xcut

Barrett: W-Item, Sense, deathblow +HP Absorb, 2X sneak Attack
Dude is a walking tank with 99 8 inch cannons at his disposal
+regenertates parties item with W-item cheat.

Aerith:Cure+ALL, Lightning+ALL, Full Cure,Revive+ALL(?)
Ulitima, Longrange, Magic+, 2xCut

RedXIII:Fire+ALL, Cure, Sense, DeathBlow, 2XSpeed+ materia, ????
Neo-bahamut?,2X Cut

Yuffie: Leviathan, Throw+Steal As Well, Enemy Skill or I think poison, transform and other status materia Steal.

Vincent: MasterMagic, Magic+, Sense,

Cid: Contain, Sense, Cure+,2XCut

I got rid of all my HP+& MP+ materia to make it harder
all these guys have 6 Slots on there weapons and and Armor
accept tifa whio has the God hand, and Aeris who has the Princess Staff
and Wizards Bracelet.

That was fun

 

[jdcloudff7]

I pretty much did what Gord Lolbez did, randomly putting materia on my characters to level it up.