praetarius5018

I don't think you really need an optimized team to get everything in time; do you have encounters turned off? The stats listed at the top are just a minor hint, they are worth maybe 2-3 points at base not much by midgame, really. Technically magic would have weapon switching as well once you get your hands on some elemental boosting rods. Also 1.130 is ancient at this point. An update might help with the differences between Faris and the rest a bit.

sorry, but I disagree - I don't see it as a bad mechanic

this endure property is only present on difficulty 1 and for a specific few enemies on regular difficulties.

what makes you think it is out of date? to me it looks like it has the current data

You couldn't be more wrong about that. +3 stats per job level do not sound much but they add up fast, and I certainly do not want any braindead 99/99/99/99 characters running around. Seriously, stats matter, a lot. You always have the option of still switching a job which gives you that job's main abilities so you can't lock yourself out of those. Hard is supposed to be hard. You don't need an exact setup but planning ahead helps. Dunno why everyone just jumps ahead to the highest difficulty on their first run, 4 is supposed to be the vanilla-esqe normal grade.

Since you have only a few ability slots to use at a time it is kinda hard to screw yourself over, plus you get a few abilities just for being in a certain job; and if you want to play a caster and then spent all 30 levels on melee jobs that is entirely on yourself, really. Character levels do very little here; a bit HP,MP and damage multiplier, all three you also gain from jobs. And the effect of level on those falls off hard around 30. The final boss iis meant to be fought around 35.

Depends on what difficulty you want to play; on difficulty 4 (default) you should be fine just going in blind, on difficulty 1 you should have a plan. Who says you can grind to win? The total of job levels is capped at 30.

Did you have different accessoires? Maybe one of the monster level up items by mistake?

do you happen to still have a savegame (not savestate) from before the final at that level? I'd want that to look into what is wrong there.

v1.500 added field combos, e.g. field with 2 fire + 2 light adds 4 sun icons field combos require the world balance to sufficiently shattered (2 crystals destroyed) reworked !mix to a 8 skill menu reworked !red to 8 unique skills around combining fight, white and black spells replaced !drink with !imbue, a skill menu for Mystic Knight turned !rose from low level white/black spells to its own 8 spells changed some abilities learned by jobs accordingly cover can now also catch certain single target damage spells status effect randomness threshold is increased unless a special moon icon is on the field, 25% with, 80% without void field icons now reduce effective def by 5 each added workaround to status resistance stacking exploit replaced "Row" (left in battle command selection) with "Brv." (!Brave) replaced !Brave ability that was available by default with !Skill, 8 skill menu to get better through the early game changed most damage amplifier effects - incl. weakness, exluding field - to stack additive instead of multiplicative changed most damage reduction effects to incur diminishing returns past 25% total reduction increased rare item drop chance by x2.5 (1/16 -> 5/32) battle auto-reset can be cancelled by holding B battle auto-reset is not available in expert mode Valor/WideShld and Mystic/VoidElem apply now only once per battle but cover all elements and absorb instead of reduce damage increased scaling of monster %maxHP damage skills reduced scaling of barehanded m.atk increased unlock requirements for !Drag-On skills (highest from 1984 to 4032) non-boss encounters now give half ABP relative to exp gain if exp gain is turned off, ABP gain is now also removed adjusted ABP requirements per job level increased max possible ABP gain per encounter from 200 to 250 increased STR and MAG growth of monster again; less than previous reduction increased heal power of !Mantra from 30 to 55 increased heal power of !Esemte/Recover from 52 to 90 increased heal power of !Yin/Vivify from 70 to 93 changed targetting of !Esemte/Recover from one/all to one changed !Recover from full status heal to 40 power cure with blind/poison cure changed formula for healing spells fixed outdated tutorial dialog noting about automatic replacing passive skills with active skills inbattle song buffs can at most give +50% to STR/MAG/AGL for damage calculation purposes decreased limit of black/temper and item/powerdrink from +50 to +30 attack; both grant +10 each use increased HP and damage of Sol Canon increased boss monster start-up delay from 30 to 50 increased non-boss monster start-up delay from [10..70] to [10..90] potion heal soft caps at 25% user's maxHP, hi-potion at 50% !x-item hp heal reduced to 2/3 !x-item can no longer be used with bombs, web, elixirs or feathers !item and !x-item can now use drinks as well giant drink now adds 200~1000 maxHP (based on stack size), can not stack with +50% maxHP buffs speed drink now adds +5 AGL to a max of +15 (shared with songs) might drink replaces protect drink and adds +5 STR&MAG to a max of +15 (shared with songs) replaced turtle shells with panacea, cures status damage and MP sickness replaced dragon fangs with wing, inflicts float replaced dark matter with decoy, creates 1x image replaced !SwdSlap with !DethBlw, 2x damage but subject to cooldown !x-fight, !x-magic and !twincut are now subject to cooldown !x-magic now is a free action that makes the next spell in the current turn act as a free action (=cast ANY 2 spells in one turn, no own restricted spell selection) !x-magic's free action can not be carried over to a future turn increased damage and accuracy of !x-fight and !twincut active !abilities that are subject to cooldown mechanics now show "cooldown" instead of "active" in the ability menu first !ability no longer adds to stats added softcap to base stats at 50 reduced HP per job with "HP up" bonus from 50 to 20+total job levels, capped at 50 fixed bug that made drain spells heal double the intended amount against targets that survive the spell increased CQC from 20% to 27% increased Y-Magic from 25% to 30% Y-Magic now does not work on the free action spell cast by X-Magic's effect instead of the complete turn increased global cooldown recovery a bit increased item cooldown for softs from 8~1 to 255~7 reduced mightamp/rod element boost from 50% to 30% (physical 30% to 20%) increased power of Wind Slash from 90 to 115 increased power of Black/Bio from 106 to 120, cost from 18 to 23 increased power of Black/Psych from 30 to 70 increased cost of Arcane/ChainBolt from 10 to 16 increased cost of Bushido/Cleave from 10 to 15 increased cost of Bushido/TeraBreak from 17 to 27 increased power of Yin/Siphon from 28 to 63 reduced power of Zombie Breath from 20 to 12 increased power of Icestorm from 99 to 110 increased power of Electric Shock from 118 to 132 increased power of Mustard Bomb from 90 to 115 increased MP drain from psych-like spells from 1/32 to 1/16 fixed some issues in the calculation of psych damage on multi element attacks field attacks that oppose one element but boost another ignore the opposing part bosses get 50% damage reduction from armor/shell instead of 25% bosses get +25 power on ground type spells (quake, flood) def piercing spells when used by monster ignore 15/16 def instead of 1/2 old status additionally reduces damage output by 20% blind status additionally reduces physical damage output by 20% fork tower (physical) reduces mag. accuracy to 0 and magic power to 25% bomb damage can now be absorbed as fire damage changed formulas for !released monster relic with "catch up" effect increases damage of released monster slightly buffed attack power of Galura, reduced speed a bit nerfed stats of Gilgamesh (dungeon, solo Galuf) fixed some sprite errors on tinker Bartz and tinker Galuf renamed Blue/???? to Minus Strike and made it display in top box when used Tinker/Overload now ignores endure level down spells like Blue/DarkSpark are now subject to status damage, treated as "old" defense down spells like Blue/Guard-Off are now subject to status damage, treated as "berserk" increased base accuracy of Blue/DarkSpark from 66% to 80% changed wounded status from poison to water changed mute status from holy to wind changed mini status from water to poison changed confuse status from wind to holy replaced !aero with !bless, next received cure spell gets +50% power, +2 def until used Bard learns !Bless instead of !Drink Berserker learns !Flirt instead of !Drink Chemist learns !Bless instead of !Drink Magus learns !Sleep instead of !Aero MysticKnight learns !Imbue instead of !Aim Tinker learns !BuildUp instead of !Drink WhiteMage learns !Bless instead of !Aero

maybe, but I won't look into that further what's wrong with the palette?

I'm not totally sure but I think that is because he only checks at the end of an AI cycle if it is time for the phase change (HP below threshold) and I made the cycle a bit longer to fit certain moves in.

it increases by level but post 30 the increase is very low

weapons and spells work equally well I know of the following status counts:

I'm pretty sure the furnace has no weakness at all - you may just have fought the boss on gnome day.

you can use this feature to your benefit by only debuffing his atk values (power down, mind down, magic shield on him so m.def is neutral)

well, you can defend, equip relics with poison element resistance, put fire element icons on the field, etc. to lower poison status chance and then cast pure before too much status damage piles up and the chance gets up to 100% anyway.

pure cures HP leak and status damage not status effects directly. status damage is what you take when it status spell or skill hits but does not yet inflict a status effect - it makes follow up status attacks more likely to succeed.