How did you setup your characters with Materia?

[Zephni]

~ Like some people have been saying Enemy Skill is a huge help from the second you get it, to the end of the game. Even when everyones maxed out, things like 'white wind', 'big gaurd', 'lazer'. Then youv'e got things like 'shadow flare' an 'pandora's box' wich are just awsum AND effective.

I generaly use attacking now because i took quite alot of time to get '2xCut' maxed (iow 4xCut) with all three party members. Actualy i have 2 master commands wich is even better. But either way thats 9999 dmg x 4 with each character. (btw i usualy have Cloud, Barret, Cid/Yuffie.{bassed on limit breaks})
This amounts to almost 120,000 dmg in one round!

Um, then some one should have curative magic, something like 'full cure' or 'regan', 'Esuna' and 'revive' magic put on a link with 'all', this way your sorted, esspecialy if everyone has this, works best really if you have 'master magic' materia paried with 'all' on all three members, but there is always ways around.

If you like have knights of the round with somone, but you generaly don't need this (alough it's awsum i agree) if youv'e been getting 'e skills' through the game. Also remember that equiping summons/magic effects your status. Alough master summon/magic doesn't.

Finaly think about link materia such as 'final attack' and 'magic counter' or 'counter' (wich you pair with command materia), there are 100's of different ways to do this. Alough i generaly have somthing like.

magic counter - curative magic/or strong offensive. (prety obvious)
final attack - i can't remember if this works with 'revive' but it would be handy! (can somone reply if they know this, "can't remember for the life of me!" ;p)
counter (my frave) - 'Mug' , 'mime', not sure if 'eskill' or '4xcut' works

Oh and don't forget your independant magic if your feeling a lil' low on Hp, Mp, Luck, Magic!

In the end there are literaly thousands of possibilitys on how to set up your party, it generaly comes down to what you like, and what you feel
is most effective.. making your final fantasy 7 save different than me/ff7 fans, that's why 7 freaking rules =)