Game forces parties on you way too often

[alumlovescake]

Caith Sith and Aerith are not fun to play one bit and are useless. Need to keep swapping materia in and out for members I'd never use. It would be ok if it didn't happen every 5 minutes

[Leonaras]

Theres so much materia floating around you have literally no reason why everyone cant be kitted out.

[Darkclaw3050]

Materia is cheap and available every 5 minutes at vending machines, even without it the character abilities are enough to get by on without it especially now they gave everyone elements for no MP at all. I wouldn't bother swapping it, it is never that long before the party rejoins.

Give Cait Sith auto weapon and he will do just fine with his moogle. Honestly he is kind of OP once you have a couple abilities. Aerith has problems with ATB charging so you might as well just ignore her unless you want to spam her attacks yourself, then you can get off some magic spells that will devastate.

[slymanrc]

Seriously, Aerith is ridiculously OP later on. Like, stupid OP if you kit her out right. Which is to say, just having a basic amount of reading comprehension and how to link materia.

[mpcgannon]

It's okay for me because I can ignore who I want 90% of the time without worrying about leveling.
The lazy ass in me wishes the materia equipped to inactive members would level up too.

[Fistraiser]

If you keep 'having' to swap all your materia in and out with characters you dont like it sounds to me more like you dont know how to play those characters.

[alumlovescake]

Originally posted by Fistraiser:

If you keep 'having' to swap all your materia in and out with characters you dont like it sounds to me more like you dont know how to play those characters.

Aerith and Cait aren't just weak they aren't fun either. Strength wise

Looking it up both of them often come last in both those categories so its not just me

[ProfessorFrog]

On the superficial level Aerith isn't as fun to play as in remake. And i really miss that.

But Aerith does wreck everything if you play her correctly.

EQUIPS
Give all your ATB increasing materia to her. and all your magic attack increasing equips/materias.
ATB stagger
ATB battle start
ATB skill usage
Magic Up material
all of them.
Give her the staff with the strongest magic attack.
Give her 1 magic materia. fire or wind. Whatever her staff skills can increase the damage for. And connect it to an MP absorb materia. This will allow you to cast twice as much magic.
If you have the chocobo cape, give that to her so she can start up in battles fast.


IN BATTLE
Build up some synergy points, so you can use the synergy ability where another party member protects her if she is hit.

Then have aerith cast radiant ward, and arcane ward, and later ATB ward if you have it.
Then you basic attack enemies. If you have to move from the wards that's fine. Just lure them away. When you have enough ATB to cast what you want, press triangle for ward teleport, and immediately start casting.

If you have an aggressive enemy targeting you, wait until they come attack you and then start casting. The radiant ward will make you invincible while casting.

[Zhaidel]

Originally posted by alumlovescake:

Caith Sith and Aerith are not fun to play one bit and are useless. Need to keep swapping materia in and out for members I'd never use. It would be ok if it didn't happen every 5 minutes

Aerith is widely regarded as the most overpowered character in both Remake and Rebirth.

A luck build Cait Sith is probably the only thing in the entire game that actually rivals Aerith.

I find it a bit odd to call the two most powerful characters in the game "useless". You just don't know how to use them yet. Cait Sith makes sense due to having hidden mechanics and a unique design in how you control/manage his parts. Aerith just requires a bit of strategy and using the right skills/setup such as her wards. Radiant Ward, in particular, boosts her auto attacking capability, stagger, and dodging.

Aerith also pairs extremely well with Yuffie for some of the most broken setups you can use.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Originally posted by Zhaidel:

Originally posted by alumlovescake:

Caith Sith and Aerith are not fun to play one bit and are useless. Need to keep swapping materia in and out for members I'd never use. It would be ok if it didn't happen every 5 minutes

Aerith is widely regarded as the most overpowered character in both Remake and Rebirth.

A luck build Cait Sith is probably the only thing in the entire game that actually rivals Aerith.

I find it a bit odd to call the two most powerful characters in the game "useless". You just don't know how to use them yet. Cait Sith makes sense due to having hidden mechanics and a unique design in how you control/manage his parts. Aerith just requires a bit of strategy and using the right skills/setup such as her wards. Radiant Ward, in particular, boosts her auto attacking capability, stagger, and dodging.

Aerith also pairs extremely well with Yuffie for some of the most broken setups you can use.

Aerith is pretty meh, honestly. Sure with the right setup she just dumpsters screens of trash mobs but anyone can do that with the right setup.

What Aerith excels at is abusing her wards with Doppleganger and Quake to petrify everything. She's a petrification bot, basically.

[Zhaidel]

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

Originally posted by Zhaidel:

Aerith is widely regarded as the most overpowered character in both Remake and Rebirth.

A luck build Cait Sith is probably the only thing in the entire game that actually rivals Aerith.

I find it a bit odd to call the two most powerful characters in the game "useless". You just don't know how to use them yet. Cait Sith makes sense due to having hidden mechanics and a unique design in how you control/manage his parts. Aerith just requires a bit of strategy and using the right skills/setup such as her wards. Radiant Ward, in particular, boosts her auto attacking capability, stagger, and dodging.

Aerith also pairs extremely well with Yuffie for some of the most broken setups you can use.

Aerith is pretty meh, honestly. Sure with the right setup she just dumpsters screens of trash mobs but anyone can do that with the right setup.

What Aerith excels at is abusing her wards with Doppleganger and Quake to petrify everything. She's a petrification bot, basically.

She also can nuke bosses, too. Extreme magic stat and double cast, plus her staggering capability. She just has slow ATB generation and dodge until Radiant Ward. In fact, she still out DPS even Yuffie when using Arcane Ward and her own Doppleganger. Of course, why not use both in the end lol.

[exshizu]

You dont have to swap materia in and out all the time except hard mode bosses and challenges. The party leave is also temporary anyway. Also.. Aerith is god tier although slowest ATB charge and Cait is top tier albeit the most unpopular.

[DrPepperProduct]

I disagree because it forces you to figure out how to have fun with characters that you might not usually use.

Aerith is a ton of fun to play btw ? Use the wards , tempest and ward shift, and use synergy skills to build ATB fast. I make her my party leader quite often

[sajmon]

Originally posted by DrPepperProduct:

I disagree because it forces you to figure out how to have fun with characters that you might not usually use.

In other words SE be like: you'll use Cait Sith and like it!!

[This PC]

aerith is useless ? that's news to me
she absolutely shreds stuff lol, just takes a little time for her to build up.
She is a great boss killer. ;p

Originally posted by sajmon:

In other words SE be like: you'll use Cait Sith and like it!!

Do you see bad intentions in everything you dislike like this ? ;o
Maybe there's none behind it.

[sajmon]

Originally posted by This PC:

Originally posted by sajmon:

In other words SE be like: you'll use Cait Sith and like it!!

Do you see bad intentions in everything you dislike like this ? ;o
Maybe there's none behind it.

No, i think they had good intentions