actually, if you take her limit break as an indicator, and the role that ONLY she can do for a good portion of the game, she's a saboteur. (also, for most of the game, only hope, vanille, and lightning can heal, and she is by far the best of the three, gaining access to curasa and curaja FAR earlier than hope (and lightning doesn't get them at all) (plus, even if you are telling me you grinded the few hundred thousand CP to make the other characters healers, she is still one of the best, since only her and hope are magic foused, everyone else focuses on STR except lightning who is balanced)CrimsonBlaze said:
and an ungodly powerful one at that, she's the only character that can kill an adamantoise before the post-game thanks to that limit break, Death has a flat 1% chance to instakill an enemy that isn't immune to it, and increases by 1% per debuff on the target. Fang can debuff with slow, curse, deshell, deprotect, imperil, fog, pain, and daze, boosting that chance to 9% PER TURN. then you add vanille's saboteur bonus boosting the success rate of her spells, and the boost from the belladonna/malboro wand and she becomes INCREDIBLY overpowered.
oh, and adamantoises give you about 20x the CP of anything else at that level (and about 5-10x the endgame stuff) with a chance of dropping a platinum bar (sells for 150k gil, in a game where 10k before postgame is considered a fortune) or a trapezeohedron, an upgrade mat to create the ultimate weapons, which other than dropping from adamantoises, can only be bought for TWO MILLION GIL.
so yeah, she may be annoying, but christ, I can forgive that when she has about a 15% chance to kill an enemy with a FEW MILLION HP IN ONE HIT when the rest of your party is hitting in the region of thousands (oh and said enemies can oneshot the whole party within 5 seconds of starting the fight if you don't instantly summon hecatonchier), and as a reward give you 40k CP in an area where enemies give you 2k, and the chance of getting either 150k gil or an item worth 2M gil and give you access to ultimate weapons before finishing the game
as for snow, he's THE tank, he's the only character who can break 10k HP without using items before beating the final boss, far from useless (and good luck fighting neochu without either using snow to tank it's single target hits or vanille to abuse instant death)
and goddamnit, why do people have such a problem with hope for being a whiny ***** for the first part of the game? he just fled from being exiled to what people believed was basically hell, just watched his mother die, got turned into something that for most of his life believed was pure evil (because an insane girl convinced him to grow a pair and try and confront the guy who put his mother in danger) and given a choice of either "destroy the world or turn into a soulless yet still aware and horribly tormented husk", whilst being forced to flee for his life from the army and teamed up with the person who he believes got his mother killed (and said person's personality flaw is that he hides his own pain by being overly cheerful, giving the impression that he doesn't give a shit about hope's mother's death). All because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time (on holiday in bodhum with his mother). and he's doing all this as a 14 year old boy who just feels like dead weight when the only people he has left as allies are a highly trained soldier, a rebel leader, an insane australian lesbian who has taken to it all incredibly well, and a guy who at least seems fairly competent.
all in the space of about 2 hours. (it's actually mentioned by lightning near the end of the game "it's certainly been a week", and since it is nighttime by the time the party reaches the vile peaks, it implies that about half a day has passed (it was daytime in the cutscene where lightning and sazh free the people on the train)
I'd LOVE to see anyone calling hope a whiny ***** go through all that in that short amount of time when THEY were 14, my reaction when fang revealed that the cie'th countdown speeds up the more stressed you are was "holy shit, how did hope not go cie'th instantly?"
