Whats the best stat for lvl bonus?

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Well is it Vigor, speed, stamina or mag power?
Because I'm replaying the game on PSX and I was just wondering what is in everyones view the best stat point to work with for most characters?

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Try to balance with speed, magic and vigor. I think magic and speed are better. Stamina is the worst of all and I think it should be avoided.

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Originally posted by Hawcker:

Try to balance with speed, magic and vigor. I think magic and speed are better. Stamina is the worst of all and I think it should be avoided.

What does stamina do exactly?

I never really looked up what each stat does, I assume speed or magic is what it says but vigor and stamina confuses me.

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Vigor is STR (strength). Increases your physical attack power. Stamina should be the defense, but it seems that increasing stamina does not help much in defense.

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So stamina is like health?
But yea I thought vigor mighta been something to do with agility but strength sounds even better thanks for the info.

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No. Stamina would be physical defense. But from what I've read, it does not seem to work very well. There are Espers that have the proper bonus for HP and MP and are shown as a percentage. Ex: HP + 10% at level up.

[Unseen]

Originally posted by Hawcker:

No. Stamina would be physical defense. But from what I've read, it does not seem to work very well. There are Espers that have the proper bonus for HP and MP and are shown as a percentage. Ex: HP + 10% at level up.

So far I maxed edgar and celes with speed, and cyan, but not sure what I should do for Terra, Gau and strago, plus the rest (the ones mentioned are my favs to work on so much to do for gau/strago)

Really wanna get all the rages this time, play the anthology version on PSX but I might buy the steam version if the mods are good.

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I'm playing this version of Steam to achieve everything with all the characters and gain the minimum of levels possible to be able to get them at the end (or who knows to leave them with low level). I highly recommend earning magic points, as it will be very useful to use Ultima. It seems that this version of Steam does not accept the old trick of using Vanish + Doom. I do not know yet if it was removed, but I tried to use it in Intangir and it never works.

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Originally posted by Hawcker:

I'm playing this version of Steam to achieve everything with all the characters and gain the minimum of levels possible to be able to get them at the end (or who knows to leave them with low level). I highly recommend earning magic points, as it will be very useful to use Ultima. It seems that this version of Steam does not accept the old trick of using Vanish + Doom. I do not know yet if it was removed, but I tried to use it in Intangir and it never works.

Probably was removed.
They even removed the merit award being equiped to gau in the anthology version, I guess cause it made him OP, like genji/offering didn't lol.

[Bamethyst38]

Originally posted by FinalFantasyLore:

Well is it Vigor, speed, stamina or mag power?
Because I'm replaying the game on PSX and I was just wondering what is in everyones view the best stat point to work with for most characters?

Depends on the character

Magic Power overall has a huge effect on most characters, especially Terra, Celes, Sabin, Strago, Relm and if you plan on using Gau for Magic attacks. Or you still have 2 Kazekiris and you want to Wind God Cyan everything.

Strength is more for Locke, Edgar, Mog, Shadow, Cyan or if you want to Stray Cat, Bogy or Gold Bear wreck everything with Gau.

Speed helps in almost any build for obvious reasons

Stamina doesn't really do much.

Originally posted by FinalFantasyLore:

Probably was removed.
They even removed the merit award being equiped to gau in the anthology version, I guess cause it made him OP, like genji/offering didn't lol.

It was removed as of the GBA version. Wind God Gau using Stray Cat was incredily broken back then.

[O N N E T B O Y Z ™]

Stamina isn't defense, is some sort of status resistance, it helps you avoid getting statused. But it's bad because later in the game you can find relics that prevents status all together.

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Originally posted by O N N E T B O Y Z ™:

Stamina isn't defense, is some sort of status resistance, it helps you avoid getting statused. But it's bad because later in the game you can find relics that prevents status all together.

It really is not defense. I have read in some places that stamina helps in resistance against some things, like doom. It also increases the amount of HP the character recovers when he has the Tintinabulum equipped.

[RegalStar]

Magic is a multiplier applied to all magical damage, which covers not just Magic but also a lot of other things like Lore, most Blitz, some Tools, some Bushido, offensive scroll, and a lot of rage attacks. It has a very large effect on those kind of attacks and is generally the jackpot stat to raise.

Strength gives an additive bonus to a component for physical attacks. It doesn't have as much of an effect on physical damage as Magic does, but for characters who use primarily physical attacks, raising it can still help out quite a bit.

Speed helps out on anyone, but it also doesn't really help out all that much. It's completely inferior to Magic as a DPS stat for magical damage, and while it theoretically can help out more than Strength for physical damage, in practice it gets hurt a lot by the time you have to spend commanding other characters. If you've already maxed out magic and strength, then you can consider raising this.

Stamina grants an extra saving throw against most instant death attacks, and increases healing from Regen and Tintinnabulum, but also increases damage taken from Sap and Poison. It's pretty much completely worthless as a stat, never mind as a stat to raise.

[Unseen]

Ok so basically, magic character its better to up magic, and a fighter its best to up vigor?