how do you use a party with both a redmage and a blackbelt. Come to the end of the game and one of them will have really crappy absorb. unless you get them up to really high levels of course. i played through with the default party(Fi,Th,BB,RM) and i had put my master on the bottom spot and had my red wizard with the opal bracelet among other stuff. but still when the master would get hit by a ghost or a dragon of some sort he would be on his knee. I this was at like level 30-32. I had to get this party around lvl 40 to beat it. I like that party but replace the black belt with a thief. It gives some extra defense and a little more black magic. And all the characters at the end of the game are red which is pretty cool i think.