I wanted Leila back because she had a lot of good magic. Gordon was cool too as I rmeember he started out pitifullly weak then became my best character in a few fights.

Also I don't care about any of them anymore. I have Leon in my party and he's all kinds of awesome from both a gameplay and story perspective.

And I admit I was leveling up Ultima solely to justify the hype it got. It's supposed to be like a superspell like FFVII's Holy. I want to make sure the trouble I went through getting it wasn't in vain.