Quote from: "Aquilae"
LD beat Omega with the same party he tried it with 6 hours ago (Terra / Relm / Cyan / Edgar). Pretty awesome to watch since he was doing about ~9k a pop around the end. You'd have to ask LD how he did it though, but it's great. Props to saestrol who came up with the strat lol.
EDIT: I got through the game all the way to the Returner's Hideout, I tried to fight whenever I could (aka not much =/)
The first part was fairly easy, Whelk was no problem at all. I used Mog's team for the rescue Terra fight, avoided all the fights except one (to learn Dusk Requiem), and beat the Marshall with it. Didn't blick the Marshall though, needed to chug a few Potions to survive and kill him with Cave In.
Magitek Armors were evil, heh. It took a bit of luck since Tek Laser one-shots Terra and puts Locke and Edgar in critical, but I spammed Fire with Terra and used Potions as necessary and got through the fight. Also, I hate that Auto-Crossbow can miss now and Noiseblaster is useless =(
Anyways, made my way to South Figaro, and the random monsters are a pain in the ass. Poison from Hornets (I only learnt Poisona just before Mt. Koltz) and Sleep from the Blearies, so I ran away from these guys and only really fought the crawly thingies.
Bought 50 Potions at South Figaro, and had ~25 when I reached Vargas. Why do all these monsters have status ffffff
Anyway, Vargas was pretty easy, just had to watch out for Gale Cut and heal as necessary, even then he only uses it once every few turns. Used Fire + Bioblaster on the Ipoohs, and once Vargas was alone I pummelled him with Bioblaster and used Terra to heal. I ran out of Potions, but I managed to end the fight with Locke and Terra in critical and Edgar at almost full health. Sabin... well you know the rest.
Thank you for your feedback, Aquilae- and fight where you can. It's possible to find a few cheap/free healing spots throughout the game and it's best to fight randoms and heal up there. Once you get magic, though, it gets a lot easier to train.
About Noiseblaster... many enemies late game are vulnerable to Confuse. Assuming you wish to take advantage of an AOE confuse such as Noiseblaster, you can form your party around that strategy and have Noiseblaster barely affect them at all. =D
Mt. Kolts statuses are easy to deal with- just equip everyone with a Star Pendant and a Jewel Ring. There, no more Mt. Kolts statuses. ^_^