I completed my Thief, Time Mage, Bard and Chemist run. I Death Potioned my way past Twin Tania and Necrofobia's barriers. Against Exdeath, I used Life Shield, Giant Drink and Protect Drink to wall myself in while I sang my team to 99 Speed, Strength and Magic. Between the magic lamp, Chicken Knife and broken Thunder Rods, I don't think Neo Exdeath ever attacked me. This team really destroys bosses when it gets going and due to Thief class I barely fought any random encounters starting from around halfway into World 2. I ended the game at Lv29 but I'm pretty sure I could have went a fair bit lower pretty easily.
I beat Shinryuu as well. I used Bacchus' Wine for Berserk and just beat him down with a Chicken Knife while spamming Phoenix Down. When I found time, I lowered Shinryuu's defense with Split Shell and buffed my Chicken Knife user with Dragon Power via Quick + Mix.
This was my first time using Thief. There really isn't a whole lot of things worth stealing. The Genji equipment is probably pretty good but I didn't have anyone to use it. I was mostly just stealing material for Chemist mixing and even that was mostly done halfway into the Cleft of Dimension. Being able to run in dungeons, no back attacks, passages and an Escape command still made Thief pretty useful for support.
This was my first time using Bard. Bard helped a lot with random encounters. Love Song largely meant the enemies just sat around doing nothing. Speed Song let me eventually run circles around bosses.
The was also my first time using Chemist. I never realized just how rare Dark Matter, Turtle Shells and Dragon Fangs were until now. I always felt like I needed to save them so it wasn't really until they became easily farmable in the Cleft of Dimension that I really started using Mix. It was mostly just Death Potions until then. It also kinda felt like most bosses just weren't threatening enough to bother with a Chemist setup. It was mostly just Shinryuu, Omega and Neo Exdeath that I felt it was really worth trying to set up my team with Chemist buffs.
You can actually farm Turtle Shells in World 1 near Karnak. ---
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