Quote Originally Posted by Psi View Post
People dislike FFIX because they're horrible idiots.

*ahem*

No, it does get back to its roots in one respect: There's a Black Mage who's completely useless and gets upstaged embarrassingly by the Summoners :P
Gimme one of them Red Mages running around the towns and villages anyday.
Vivi is FAR from useless. If anything, the summons are useless. Eiko and Garnet are healers, who cares for their summons? They don't do massive damage unless you take time to collect 99 of a summon's gem and even then you have to be lucky to not have to heal that turn and to have the full summon animation.

Vivi's Trance + Flare (2 times) = win

Or

Vivi's Trance + Shadow Absorbing Equipment + Doomsday = win

And Vivi + Steiner is win as well. But Steiner has Shock, so you don't really need Doomsday sword.