Am i just Weak or what?

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Ricard is smurfing worthless. I want Leila back.

Of course Ricard is useless, but why would you want Leila back? She's slightly better than Ricard, but that's not saying much since it's almost impossible to be as bad as him. She pales in comparison to Gordon for heaven's sake, who was trash in comparison to Minwu and Josef.

Also what's this I hear about you not needing magic? I tried hacking and slashing my way through the game but once I got to the Wyvern place and ran into Hill Gigas and Flans, that seemed like an outdated way of fighting.

Most the magic I used was non-offensive, especially curing after battle. I never really took the time to level up the basic elemental spells, Holy, Flare, nor any of the status spells. You don't really need this stuff to crush everyone in the game. Pretty much, you only need things like Haste and Cure leveled up. Leveling up other spells is just for fun. If you take the time to do it though, then you can dish out some nice damage. However, I still think you get more damage-output by using magic to support heavy melee damage [specifically, Haste].

Also attack magic is good. I have Level 10 Fire and Blizzard and I'm leveling up my Ultima and they're great helps.

Leveling Ultima is useless unless all of your spells are level 16, otherwise its damage will be mediocre [and in many cases, less than other spells like Flare or Holy]. I've read conflicting "explanations" stating that [in reference to the person using Ultima] not only do you need his/her spells all maxed out, but that you need everyone else in the party to max their spells out as well. I've also read that you need to max out the user's stats as well, and I've also read that you need to max out the stats for everyone else in the party to "truly max out Ultima's damage". I've even read that you only need the user's spells all maxed out [along with Ultima] and all of their stats as well, but you need only max the other spells of all party members since their stats don't count.

Even though this is a response, I'd actually like to see if I can get a clear answer on this. I hear a different story each time, and I want to get the definite 100%-correct-explanation-with-proof-as-backup answer. None of this "well I read somewhere that blah-blah-blah", no. I want someone that looked at the coding of the game or something and was able to determine an actual, clear answer to this. Does anybody have such a source?