I'm doing a level one playthrough right now, besides resetting few times the only problem I had was with Black Waltz no 2, though, nothing extreme, I've beaten him after two or three times. So everything went smoothly so far until I've encountered...

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I am absolutely having the hardest time with the Black Mages that you have to fight at the beginning of Gizamaluke's Grotto. The Needle Fork is equipped on Quina so I blind and silence the two of them with tents and have Quina attack away trying to inflict petrify on them and I either petrify one, or kill one of them because Quina hits for such erratic damage, 25 one turn then 500 the next which kills the mages in one hit. It's so frustrating and I've done this battle like 25 times and still no luck!!!!
...yes, the ****ing Black Mages. After many, many attempts I got rid of the first obstacle sometime last night, from what I've seen it took me over an hour to accomplish something like that. I'm not really eager to fight the other two Black Mages today, I also had harder time since I totally forgot about the Tent trick, can you imagine how many potions and phoenix down's I've spent.

I also had a hard time encountering only two of those plants in evil forest, I didn't want Blank to gain any levels since I want Amaranth on lvl one, it was tedious to fight the Plant Brain over and over again.