>>11924461
Yeah you really were not supposed to grind out all the cards in the first playthrough because otherwise getting them all from the beginning in magician mode is kind of anticlimatic. Whatever random ones you happen to get by sheer luck usually are sufficient.

But that being said, making it clear that all this shit is out there, giving you a list and then expecting you not to try and fill in the list is kind of counterintuitive. And they could have done a much better job conveying what some of the combinations actually did instead of expecting you just just try street fighter style directional inputs or getting poisoned on purpose or whatever context unlocked the entry and told you what the combo was actually good for. The system was too opaque. And some of the drop rates fucking fucked

>>11914214
>>11914327
>I did the equivalent of grinding to level 99 before the first dungeon and the game was too easy after that
>then I didn't level up at all ever and the game got too hard

Have you considered the issue isn't that the games are badly balanced but you just seem determined to play them in the most unsatisfactory way possible. Stop going to extremes, progress normally, and you'll have a better time.

And honestly these games were intended to be more immersive experiences than brutal challenges anyway. I wouldn't go so far as to call them braindead but they're supposed to be manageable if you just put in the time and learn proper strategy. If you want to get your shit pushed in on a regular basis there's always Wizardry or other such games. FF is not a difficult series

>>149793314
>the sixers wont have enough time to gel the roster together into a polished competitive group

Oh yeah, that's the problem. Not the franchise player being a physically and mentally weak flopper whose productivity drops 20% in the postseason, getting hurt every year, and being perpetually overweight. It's the lack of gelling. That's the real problem