Ack wrote:Hey null, do you know about the special summon and Ultima? If you absolutely, positively must do everything, they are part of the experience.
Good call! I did manage to snag Ultima through Luso's Game Hunter learning ability, and then later (much later than I meant to actually) I had him cast it on Ramza so he could learn it as well. From what I could tell, the common wisdom seems to be to try and learn it during the battle at Riovannes where you're tasked with keeping Rapha alive, but her AI is so aggressive that she kept on dying before I could actually acquire the spell. I think I learned it in a later battle with those same assassins from Riovannes.
I don't have that special summon (Zodiac I believe?) ... yet. My understanding is that you can learn it from the superboss in the lowest level of the optional Midlight (AKA Deep) Dungeon (which I think is my next task and as far as I know the last optional side quest to complete). I have to admit though, I haven't gotten a whole lot of mileage out of the summons in this game (particularly as compared to other FF games), due to the fact that the more powerful summons have relatively high casting times. Once my other Mage learned all the Arithmetician skills I started using him almost exclusively for my mage slot and all but abandoned my Summoner in training. So when I embark into Midlight Dungeon I'll probably use Summoner as the primary class on my Artithmetician in an attempt to learn that special summon. We'll see how it goes! Do you know if this dungeon allows (or prompts) you to save in between floors? That might have an impact on my approach strategy.
For the bulk of Chapter IV my 'secret weapon' has been to just send in Orlandeau (AKA the Thunder God ) to plow through anything set before him. Seriously, between the fact that his learned abilities are laughably OP and he comes equipped with Excalibur which grants him permanent Haste effects ... he deals exclusively in the currency of death. It also certainly doesn't hurt that his portrait makes him look like Obi Wan Kenobi.