White Mages were rough… until we beat the Piscodemons. That seems to be a pretty common refrain for every class, isn’t it? Here’s the Final Fantasy I challenge playlist.
So, how hard was the White Mage trip through the Pixel Remaster?
Everything was easy, except for the Piscodemons and… no. That’s it. Astos required a few cast of Silence, then hammer beat down. Lich required some castings of Dia-whatever. We went to get Kraken next so we’d have Giants Gloves… and then he died. Then we went to Tiamat so we’d have the White Robe… and Tiamat died. Then… poor Marilith. Just… just hammered. Then we did it all again in the Chaos shrine. Between Full Life, Protera/Invisira and Null All for the White Mage without a Ribbon, Chaos was just a long, boring slog. We even had time to drop a few Holy casts in to speed it up, that’s how easy it was. Yeah. If you can make it through the Piscodemons and remember you don’t have to do the fiends in order, White Mages are a breeze.
White Mages at 39 (Double Flip off Chaos while Casting!):
Constance: HP 650 / STR 19 / AGI 17 / STA 24 / INT 30 / LCK 15
Shoust: HP 588 / STR 14 / AGI 18 / STA 19 / INT 28 / LCK 16
Emikis: HP 582 / STR 15 / AGI 21 / STA 21 / INT 28 / LCK 19
Filomena: HP 545 / STR 18 / AGI 16 / STA 18 / INT 31 / LCK 18
Ninjas at 40 (Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!):
Prescott: HP 505 / STR 24 / AGI 31 / STA 16 / INT 9 / LCK 30
Oakencrest: HP 501 / STR 23 / AGI 30 / STA 22 / INT 13 / LCK 37
Sayalynn: HP 518 / STR 25 / AGI 28 / STA 20 / INT 13 / LCK 36
Kelmar: HP 480 / STR 27 / AGI 28 / STA 14 / INT 14 / LCK 37
Monks at 57 (Thanks for PUNCHING!):
Sabin: HP 805 / STR 33 / AGI 21 / STA 43 / INT 19 / LCK 27
Suplexes: HP 871 / STR 29 / AGI 23 / STA 43 / INT 21 / LCK 31
A: HP 799 / STR 30/ AGI 26 / STA 41 / INT 22 / LCK 30
Train: HP 790 / STR 32 / AGI 24 / STA 43 / INT 24 / LCK 28
Black Mage at 41 (Flare is not the way):
Mycean: HP 413 / STR 9 / AGI 15 / STA 14 / INT 44 / LCK 19
Jaarvix: HP 357 / STR 14 / AGI 17 / STA 13 / INT 42 / LCK 22
Meron: HP 376 / STR 12 / AGI 15 / STA 12 / INT 45 / LCK 21
Lelias: HP 533 / STR 17 / AGI 16 / STA 17 / INT 43 / LCK 20
Red Mages at 42 (Protect, Haste AND Temper? The Best Of All Worlds… Except Excalibur):
Rouge: HP 452 / STR 19 / AGI 23 / STA 24 / INT 24 / LCK 18
Red: HP 444 / STR 20 / AGI 25 / STA 21 / INT 25 / LCK 19
Carmine: HP 421 / STR 22 / AGI 23 / STA 20 / INT 25 / LCK 22
Rose: HP 439 / STR 24 / AGI 21 / STA 20 / INT 24 / LCK 23
Looking at the comparative stats, you can see that the best determination of what makes an easy run is HP. That’s why Red Mages needed Level 42, to get that last guaranteed HP growth to push them out of being killed by back-to-back Chaos spells. STR and AGI really don’t matter thanks to the Masamune, Haste, Temper and the Giant’s Gloves. INT and STA are pretty much unimportant for anyone but Monks. LCK and INT don’t scale to any useful value. The second most important stat? Magic Defense (again, to survive back-to-back Chaos spells.) A stat you can’t even see.
That’s FF1 for you. Anyway, on to Fighters.
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