The spells Water, Haste, among others magically disappeared.
The Spells Death, Holy being relegated to Scene Drive attacks in the original were flawed decisions.
Of course Ultima, and other high tier spells being enemy only is regrettable.
You have Ultima Arrow and Meteor...whatever that thing Noel does that made me break the damage limit in one battle which took me by surprise. I'm unsure as to why they removed Water, though; heck, they removed a lot of elemental attacks because reasons.
I don't like FF13's version of Holy. It takes a bit from FFX, but I don't like the overall animation for it. Death is kind of quick. Ultima... it sure is fun when those Guis use Ultima four times in a row, isn't it?!
Yeah, what the hell happened to Synergists in 13-2? What a disaster. You need a monster to cast Bravery, Faith and all the En- skills, what the hell?
It's a huge shame to me because I used Defender, Enhancer and Jammer more often than I did the other three classes in FF13. I love those classes, and if I had to give FF13 any credit in terms of how battles went, it's that it forced the player to buff/debuff and start tanking more. In other FFs, you could just press attack and get things done. Here, you have take it more strategically otherwise the Undying or Guis will cream you.
I wish the two playable characters had more access to offensive buffs. It's like you're playing as an unlevelled up Hope for the entire game.
Fuck, 13-2 has no haste? Haste is like my go-to spell in every one of these games. I'm prolly the only dude who rolled a time mage in 12 zodiac even though they suck except for haste.
Haste-at-will will break the game; it's easy enough already.
You'll get an auto-haste if you get a pre-emptive strike on enemies. Outside of that, you can't cast it yourself, which is kind of a good thing.
