As anyone figured how the ultima spell works in this version

[Fusei]

I find Ultima rather underwhelming at the moment, Firion 74 spirit, no penalty to magic accuracy or spirit from equipment, and he's also got a fair amount of spells close to level 10 :

Average Ultima 7 damage 500
Average Holy 9 damage 1000

Also magic penalties from equipment do not seem to affect Ultima damage. Just hoping they didn't re-introduce the "famous bug" : https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Ultima_(ability)#Final_Fantasy_II

[cantseeshit]

Pretty sure ultimate doesn't start showing it's worth unless you have a full list of lv16 spells.

[the_atolm]

Ultima was doing huge damage for me -- much more than Holy, which was a level or two higher -- but I had more or less maxed all weapon proficiencies to 16, save for fists and bows. Ultima also isn't affected by the magic penalty, which would suggest that it doesn't take Spirit or Intelligence into consideration.

[Fusei]

Originally posted by the_atolm:

Ultima was doing huge damage for me -- much more than Holy, which was a level or two higher -- but I had more or less maxed all weapon proficiencies to 16, save for fists and bows. Ultima also isn't affected by the magic penalty, which would suggest that it doesn't take Spirit or Intelligence into consideration.

Only worked on two weapon skills so that might explain it... Also wondering about stat affecting it or not. Wiki says yes but who knows in this version right?

Anyways thanks for the answers guys. Time for a "few" auto-battles ^^

EDIT : btw what would you recommend for leveling up spells past level 10? It's kinda starting to be a crawl even when auto-casting on the party.