I just want you to know...

[ljkkjlcm9]

it is not boring playing with 4 fighters... just expensive. Plus, you'd be just as well off with say, 2 fighters... seriously. I say 2 because twice the exp, half the price, and you don't have to worry about one guy getting stunned forever. Then when you make them knights, they both know cure.

Though best party ever, and fastest/easiest game is fighter, fighter, red mage, red mage.

THE JACKEL

[Black Mage FF1]

Every character is inferior when you compare them to a fighter like that, but you don't want to play the game with 4 fighters, that's boring.

The low MP is only a problem for me for part of the game. If you need something useful for him to do, give him a magic-casting weapon.

Yeah I agree that four fighters is a boring team. My personal favorite is a Fi/Th/Rm/BB. No crappy white or black mages and no two of any character. That team is the most fun imo. That's pretty much a perfect team imo (Perfect team without using two or more the the same character).

[Zeromus_X]

Yes, I would definitely agree that the Black Mage is overrated at best. It's wonderful that he's a series mascot and everything, but he isn't too hot in battle, and this is especially true for the NES version of the game where Intelligence doesn't really do anything.

And of course, I'd rather use a Red Mage if I wanted to cast level 2 spells at random encounter # 4,529.

[robfinalfantasy]

In FFV I found the black mage to be almost indispensable (the only other decent replacement was a summoner).

In FFX-2 and FFT he/she was a pretty decent support attacker, but not necessary.

[ljkkjlcm9]

In FFV I found the black mage to be almost indispensable (the only other decent replacement was a summoner).

In FFX-2 and FFT he/she was a pretty decent support attacker, but not necessary.

In FFV the best two magic are Time and Blue magic. If you learn all the blue magic, it's the best in the game by far. Time also has the strongest attack spell with meteor, as well as awesome support spells like haste.

THE JACKEL

[Black Magic Shopkeeper]

This is why a smart Black Mage levels up like a madman.

[Mr. Graves]

I never really had a problem with Black Mages myself personally. They're alright for physical attacks early on in the game for use on enemies like goblins and skeletons, but on the stronger foes they're pretty bad, which is a problem as I tend to save MP for Garland as dropping the 30 Gil is too much to pay at that early point. Beyond that, Black Mages aren't a problem for me too much as I do a lot of levelling early on, so MP is never a problem. The only real crippling handicap for the Black Mages are the fact that they have no good armor to go with the lower HP count.

[Zora]

Is Final Fantasy I a game where you actually need to care how weak/strong a character is.

I mean there is a fine-line between having an inferior class and a unuseable class, but is a black mage merely an inferior class? All I gained from that post was that a black mage was inferior to a red mage. I never gained the fact he was unuseable. Unuseable as in using Edward against the final boss in FFIV, not unuseable as in difficult or choreful to use.

Now with that said, is a Black Mage an unuseable class? It may be inferior, but I think he is still useable.

[Dr Unne]

He's plenty usable. I use one every time I play. I never find that he dies any more frequently than any other mage class. RM/RM/BM/BM is a fun party. I played as 4 BMs once back in the day, that was fun too.

[ReloadPsi]

He's plenty usable. I use one every time I play. I never find that he dies any more frequently than any other mage class. RM/RM/BM/BM is a fun party. I played as 4 BMs once back in the day, that was fun too.

Lucky, the Black Mage has one of the better looking mapman sprites. As opposed to that damn White Mage...

[The black mage]

Black mages are amazing. Sure there atacks aren't that good. But magic is the most usfull part of the game. For example. the last attack on chaos ever time i've played is the black mages flare/NUKE

So far we've had a Black Belt, Black Mage and Thief hater threads. Only three more classes left to go. Mercy on the man who makes the one for Red Mages.

I think i'll take that chalange.