hint2: It also isn't a bug. It's something programmed into the game.
...oh. Crap! I was about to guess the overflow trick.
Wait, isn't Barret's weapon's special thing that it does more damage based on the total AP on its equipped materia? And that's not a bug, right? Is that it?
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