Do you teach everyone magic?

I personally abhor the task of running around grinding for magic, I prefer to get the bloody game overwith, but for those of you who simply have a plan, who do you teach magic and why?

What's your magic-teaching process like?

I leave out Cyan and Sabin, because I intend to use them in the Coliseum later, and I leave out Mog, as I am unable to avoid using Dance whenever his turn comes up (except strangely when I'm trying to learn a dance), and after he starts dancing, he can't cast magic anyway.

I leave out Setzer cuz Setzer's a jerk and probably says to the party "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side," and then downs another swig of bourbon.

I teach them all Magic because I like a versatile team, but I only teach a couple of people as much magic as possible. But I'm usually just cycling the espers, it's not like "oh no they must learn everything" except for the first lot; everybody learns those basic spells just in case.

You mean Ramah, Kirin, Siren and Cait Sith?

Yeah, that's the ticket. The Magitech Facility is tough so I like to have some magic on my side.

I usually teach everyone Phoenix's spells in the desert by Maranda. It's fast and everyone has powerful healing spells, which is always useful.

Half of them I teach Vanish, the other half I teach Doom

I tend to wait to really launch into teaching magic until after I have Seraphim, because more than anything else, I want everyone to have basic medical abilities. Carbuncle is nice too, for various utility-based stuff...

Have you ever tried keeping a character magic-free for the Coliseum? It's always nice when one more attack will win the fight and your character casts Teleport.

I teach them all magic. But I don't teach all of them all of the magic, I assign them each different magic based off of weird ideas I have in my head as to which magic suits them the best :3:

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Have you ever tried keeping a character magic-free for the Coliseum? It's always nice when one more attack will win the fight and your character casts Teleport.

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my favourite part of ff6 is how the endgame is literally "try not to get smurfed by the rng"

a bit like ozma but you have to actually cripple yourself for it

I always taught my main characters every single spell when I was a kid, but I haven't played the game in many years. I'm planning on starting a new play through pretty soon, so I might switch it up a bit.

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I always taught my main characters every single spell when I was a kid, but I haven't played the game in many years. I'm planning on starting a new play through pretty soon, so I might switch it up a bit.

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It's very strange seeing you here. Not that I mind!

I think everyone gets a spell in this game but Gau and Umaro, because I never really use them. A couple of other characters are light on spells, but the majority of them are well armed.

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I always taught my main characters every single spell when I was a kid, but I haven't played the game in many years. I'm planning on starting a new play through pretty soon, so I might switch it up a bit.

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It's very strange seeing you here. Not that I mind!

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I guess it took me 11 years to really work up the urge to start posting.

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I always taught my main characters every single spell when I was a kid, but I haven't played the game in many years. I'm planning on starting a new play through pretty soon, so I might switch it up a bit.

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It's very strange seeing you here. Not that I mind!

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I guess it took me 11 years to really work up the urge to start posting.

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Yeah, bro! Stick around! It will be fun to bro it up on the forums again.

Don't want to veer off topic, so I'll put something I forgot. There was one time I did learn every spell for everyone, but I totally used Game Genie to do it in a matter of minutes. This was before I knew about that patch of desert in the World of Ruin with the Cactuars and whatnot.

Yes, every character with every spell in Fanatic's Tower.

I use to teach everyone every spell back in the day but I don't anymore. Largely cause I realize I never used magic much for half of them and partly because I felt I always got more "bang for my buck" by specializing certain characters with specific magic builds. It's kind of fun making one character a Time Mage or making Celes into a Paladin, or building Relm into a traditional Red Mage (only low to mid tier magic). It has made the game more fun in more recent years.

I usually teach all spells to everyone eventually.