Poll: Hardest sidequest?(unmarked spoilers ahead, you have been warned)

[Edgar]

Finding Master Duncan is a nightmare; I couldn've done it without the walkthrough.

2nd from it is the Auction House. Getting the Magicites to auction is a pain. Damn Hero rings...

I remember the first time I entered Phoenix Cave. My party's average level is 40-45. I was proceeding well and just when I was somewhere at the middle of nowhere, I found out that I have run out of tents (for the heal_both_party_at_one_shot_bug) and worst of all, I had only 20 potions left O_O!!!

I was grim striken; I didn't know what to do. My last save point? Uh...just after I tented about 1 minute ago. Backup save point? Uh...wtf? 4 days ago?

I realizedthat I have no choice. Upon seeing the 'weak magic' (fire 3, Flare..yada...), my saviour happened to be none other than Celes. We were retreating halfway and soon, everyone except Celes and Sabin was dead. I threw all my evade% stuffs at Celes (I have full Force Armor at that time I think) and have her Runic-Evade-Run all the way out.

2nd time I went in, I got a whole stock of potions (99), Fenix downs (99) and Tincture (99). We survived of course.

You might be asking how did I escape blow fish attack. I didn't. The blow fishes hit me everytime but as I said, Celes Runic-ed once every battle to gain mana enough to heal herself.

Technically everything between gettin the airship in the WoR and Kefka's Tower is a sidequest. You can finish the game with just Celes, Edgar and Setzer (you have to beef 'em up proper, though).

I think it went in this order: Celes ---> Sabin ---> Edgar ---> Setzer ---> etc.
Think you missed Sabin.

Bah, who needs the other 11? Sabin and Edgar can do the job =\, or at least that what i did. I didn't bring setzer tho, there's eomthing wrong with my emulator...

The Eight Dragons/Crusader Magicite

Tip: For Ice Dragon bring Umaro and watch some TV.
I was sooooo forunate to bring him up Narshe that time

The hard part is to find the dragons without a walkthrough tho (no, I didn't use walkthroughs at this part). Fighting them can be a pain at first (bah to Lightning Dragon) but with Celes, almost everything's fine.

Fanatics Tower(AKA Magic Tower)

What Flying Mullet said.

Ebot's Rock(getting Strago's GrandTrain Lore magic)

It should be annoying? Then my ROM is bugged. Oh yeah, I used Moggle Charm :P

Cyan's Nightmare(Alexandr Magicite and Cyan's other swortechs)

duuuuh *yawn*

Narche Revisited: Getting Mog and Umaro, the Tritoch and Rangarok Magicite(or Cursed/Paladin Shield)

Ragnarok Magicite(or Cursed/Paladin Shield)? Why is there an 'or' there? You can get both the shield and magicite. It's the SWORD and Magicite.

The Mog part was annoying with Moogle Charm (gosh, I must be addicted to it...). The option between the sword and magicite is annyoing too =\ There goes my 'perfect' game...

The Odin Magicite

Nothing much, except that I enjoyed searching for Offering there

Triangle Island(acquiring the mimicing enigma known as...Gogo!)

probably the most ridiculous of all. The bridge part was annoying (I want the treasure!), the falling pit is annoying, but the auction house is still the most annoying.

[Flying Mullet]

Originally posted by Edgar
I think it went in this order: Celes ---> Sabin ---> Edgar ---> Setzer ---> etc.
Think you missed Sabin.

Sabin's optional too. You only have to get Celes, Edgar and Setzer to finish the game.

I'll agree that the auction house is annoying. Why can't you exit if you don't see what you want? There's nothing worse than hanging out watching an auction on a Hero Ring or a Cherub Down. And the one time that I wanted to buy a Hero Ring all tha twas offered was Cherub Downs!!

[Edgar]

Ban Hero Rings!! Ban Hero Rings!!

I would prolly give Setzer that incredible makeup (can't remember the equipments) tho.

[Storm]

The Phoenix Cave always creates problems for me. There are a lot of irritating random encounters in there, and it's a fairly long dungeon.

For some reason I always have trouble defeating the Katana Soul in the Ancient Castle to obtain the offering.

But I would have to say the toughest side quest is defeating the Storm Dragon immediately after finding Cyan in the WOR. I think it has more HP's than the dragon's in Kefka's tower.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

sigh...
if i had to say, i voted for fanatics tower, cyan's nightmare, and ebot's rock.
Reasons why:
Fanatics Tower - takes too goddamn long to kill MagiMaster
Cyan's nightmare - DAMN Dr. Seuss characters! (three dream stooges) but that was before i learned X-Zone
Ebot's Rock - i brought my strongest party (sabin, locke, mog, edgar), but since i didn't bring strago along, the chest wouldn't move, so i must've collected about 3563 coral when i only needed about 12. :P

and if i had to include something else that wasn''t on the poll, i'd have to say THE hardest thing to do was kill goddess and doom in Kefka's tower. i fought poltergeist first and since the instant kill combo didn't work, i thought it didn't work on any of 'em. So doom kept killing me and when fighting goddess, she cast something like a Death Sentence that hits all my characters at once, and i didn't know Life3, and i killed her with Terra and Cyan (Shadow and Mog dead) when they were on the 01 seconds left mark.