I'm not editing the previous post any more, I'm friggin double posting, if I make my previous thread any longer I'll cry. This is an UPDATE.

I played for the better part of the day today and made it all the way through the Black Mage village and am at the part right before you meet Eiko. I gotta tell you, I considered giving up on the challenge because I didn't pick up the reflect ring in Treno and I thought Alexandria was gonna be impossible. The part where you have to battle like 7 battles in a row of bandersnatches and black mages type C was so hard and frusterating I almost deemed it impossible.

And then I got lucky. I think that was definately the hardest part in the game thus far. Here is some more delicious information for you:

Antlion

Quina uses Auto-Life on his/herself and then allows him/herself to be killed by Freya, next turn Quina uses Limit Glove (dead) Zidane and Vivi should be utility characters for using potions and phoenix downs where necessary.

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Alexandrian Soldiers @ Cleyra

Freya should be in the front row with mythril spear equipped and man eater enabled, Zidane should be in the back row with the Ogre equipped and man eater enabled. Most of the time the attacks from both of these characters will send the soldiers running away keeping you from gaining any exp, sometimes it will not do enough damage, in which case the soldier should be healed to full health and attacked again properly. Can be stopped as a last resort as well.

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Black Mages @ Cleyra

Everything spirit+ equipped on Vivi and Quina. Just like before, Vivi stops, Quina attacks until they are stopped/stoned.

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As a note, these battles in Cleyra are one after the other in a lot of cases are require extreme patience and persistence. Everything has to go right for you to eventually pass this part.

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Beatrix @ Cleyra

Same strategy as before except this time you can use the auto-life / Freya kill trick like with Antlion. Limit Glove will take her down.

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Alexandrian Soldiers @ Alexandria

Steiner in front row with Mythril Sword and Man Eater equipped (no MP attack). Steiner's attack should do between 400-450 damage, in most cases making them run away. In the case you get 400-409 or so and they do not run away, have Blank heal them up to full HP and try again. One Hi-potion will do the trick if you have to resort to this.

Remember to unequip Blank of everything after you climb the ladder

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Zorn + Thorn

Zidane with Mythril Dagger and Bandit, Steiner with Ice Brand, Power Belt, MP Attack, and Man Eater. Zidane steals every turn, Steiner attacks the recipient of power ONLY when Zorn or Thorn decide to send power. Zorn and Thorn will not even make one move against you with this strategy.

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Beatrix @ Alexandria

Just attack with Steiner, Bio with Vivi, heal and phoenix down with the others. She'll go down after a few rounds.

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Bandersnatches

Make sure Freya is dead when Beatrix kills them, after killing one she will go from level 1 to 8 making her climhazzard strong enough to kill bandersnatches in one turn. Utilize it.

With Zidane and co. use tents on them to blind and silence them and have vivi focus a few times and then stop them. Zidane can also use the ogre + soul blade to blind bandersnatch.

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Black Mage type C

Pains in the ass, if you have Reflect Ring it will be easier, put it on Zidane and enable auto-reflect. If not, have everyone use tents on them and hope for status effects to stick. Have Vivi focus and stop once they're all blind and silenced. Chances are you will die here many times and have to redo the whole sequence.

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Ralvuimago

Hope you go first, in which case you ATTACK with whoever it is, Ralvuimago will go compact and allow Vivi to focus a couple times. As soon as Ralvuimago uncompacts physically attack again. Once Vivi has focused 2-3 times have him use Bio as soon as Ralvuimago uncompacts followed immediately by Zidane attacking. If you play this right and get lucky in the beginning, Ralvuimago will never get a turn against you.

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Lani

Set up Quina at 1 hp beforehand, equip Zidane with Mythril Dagger and Bandit, steal once before taking her out with Limit Glove.

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Um, I think that's about it for now. I'm going to bed.