(If this hasn't been up in the air before, I'll have to eat my hat.)
So, how did you... go about de-cursing the Cursed Shield? And I don't mean equipping it for that amount of battles, 255 or whatever. I mean, who did you equip it on, and how did you make sure you weren't knee-deep in trouble?
Me, I just gave it to Relm, equipped her with an Offering (attack x4) and Heal rod. You do the math. Never really had to cast Cure.
BTW, is there some kind of trick so you can meet Doomgaze more frequently? I've been floating around the WoR for ages now, and I've only bumped heads with him once... I want Bahamut, dammit! *sulk*
[Edit] Well... Now you don't have to woory about this for my sake anymore. That oversized bat gave me another visit - the third, for the record. Had to peel off all his 55555 HP that time... Almost troublesome, but not really. Relm configured as above helped out a bunch. An' now I've got the Big B! A trick for increased encounter-rate would still be nice to know, though.