Quote Originally Posted by BG-57 View Post
Cloud's best move is actually Finish Touch, which causes some great status ailments. Omnislash and Cherry Blossom are rarely worth the bother. Ditto with Meteor and the other top-tier black and white magic.

Short Charge combined with Haste is the best way to deal with long waits. You can also raise speed with Yell, Scream, Setiemson (females only), Excalibur, Cheer Song, and Masamune.

For the record I love Math Skills. I only master the prerequisite classes long enough to get the spells and I almost never go back to that class afterwards.
while i agree with the maths skills being awesome, you could never actually keep an arithmetician/calculator in your party; that class is just terrible...they're impossible to train because they're so slow, it's ridiculous...to combat this, i usually send them on errands until that class is mastered, then always have it as my second skill set while i master the other mages, etc.