Best materia

[Zidane77]

What is your best materia settings?
I find it hard to switch materia when doing missions, because i really need some of the stats.

-Hell Firaga (Mag 96)
-Status Ward (Vit 57)
-Costly Punch (mag 13) /Assault Twister+ (luck 94)
-Wall (HP 990)
-Aerial Drain (Atk 100)
-Atk Up++ (Atk 87)

(Definetly think i could switch up something for Aerial Drain and atk up, but i need more SP)

accessories
-Wizard Bracelet/Shinra Beta+
-Feather Cap
-Adaman Bangle
-Brutal

On Lv 77 with everything mastered which i use, tend to try 1-2 new materia from time to time.
Currently on my second playthrough in hard difficulty with 81% mission progress

[Kyreaan]

Some of these were already put up on a previous thread. This is my equiped list with best so far:

Quake 'master' HP+700% ('cause it was so much faster than Flare and Ultima)
Firaga Blade 'master' SPR+80 ('cause I liked Proto Spellblade)
Dispel Blade 'master' ATK+45
Mug 'master' MAG+100
Libra 'master' MP+100%
Dualcast 'master' MP+60%

Alt:
Costly Punch 'master' sometimes switched depending on area, just like Drainga 'master' with HP+500% or Curaga but rarely. Other switch outs in different areas are sometimes fun.

Acc:
Protect Ring
Ziedrich
Adaman Bangle
Genji Glove

77% mission progress

[Zidane77]

Like that you use mug and spellblade, also im pretty sure i dont have Genji Gloves ,what does it do?

One thing though, with this settings you're vulnerable against status ailments, especially like stop and death, that's what Status ward/Hell Firaga covers, regardless of your spirit stats.
Do you have brutal accessory?

Quake also drains MP so fast, without Gold Hairpin it's gonna be ether every 10 seconds.

[Kyreaan]

I'm used to using Ethers, and I liked having my Libra doubling my MP pool. It's like having Bubble for magic points. Quake is only 58MP. Gold Hairpin just took away a slot where I can use much better accessories. Feather Cap was useless for me because my pools boosting up to double through DMW was almost maxing out HP and MP anyway.

As far as status, I know what you mean. The set up I came up with gave me a fast character. The set up also maxed my magic and spirit. I wanted to take a lot of magic punishment.
Plus I ended up getting the Ribbon and Super Ribbon accessories where I could replace Protect Ring, which gives Auto Wall.

Genji Gloves do the same thing as Brutal, except you always have Critical status. The ability given is called Break Damage Limit+.

[Zidane77]

Wow that's absolutely awesome, then i wouldn't need luck for critical.
Where do you get the Genji Gloves, it's fine if you don't remember

I stopped using Feather Cap for the same reason.
I need a Ribbon too, then i wouldn't use 2 materias for protection.
So how much damage do you do only with attacks?
I assume you're mainly going for magic damage.

[Kyreaan]

Spoiler: The Genji Gloves are located deep in the Great Cavern of Wonders, where I found the best stuff so far. During those missions, I also found a store card where they sell the Genji Helmet. I haven't found if there are other Genji equipment, but I'm hoping for it. Keep at that list of missions and build Zack up. Search entire areas for all chests. The last mission is a surprise.

I wanted a good balance between attack and magic. My normal swing at high level monsters is a few thousand, but my Firaga Blade swings around 42,000-49,000 and has a wide swing. Dispel Blade is less than Firaga Blade's damage, but still higher than normal attacks.

Costly Punch, as you probably saw already, doesn't care about your set up. It varies, but hits hard. Oh, there's also a neat little combo I mentioned to someone else. It doesn't work on all enemies, but using Graviga with Dualcast is pretty fun.
'I slice your HP in half, and then I do it again!'

I didn't even think about it, but my Zack turned out to be the best Red Mage ever.

[Zidane77]

Nice sounds good, i was mostly focusing on trying to get critical up and running, i was auto-hitting with each hit 33.000-52.000 but this sounds pretty good.
I might try this with Firaga blade, sounds interesting.