How much HP does friggin' Jenova DEATH have? I thought Jenova WAR was a pain but jesus, I'm using up all my Elixirs, all 3 of my Megalixirs, dropped at least 3 Meteorains, Neo Bahamut, Bahamut, Tifa's Limits, Tifa Deathblows and Cloud Comet + Added Attack and I still lost.
Cloud's Comet/Added Attack does about 5000 thanksto Gigas Armlet and Magic Plus. Neo Bahamut and Bahamut do another 14000, Tifa is constantly hitting for 3000 or 4000 with Limits if I'm lucky and get Yeah's... After summons I just have Vincent on constant healing duty because you need it.
But it still wasn't enough.... I might have won with the last Meteorain but she musthave some cheap "goes before everything else" gimmick that beats even Limits because she got off 3 Red Lights while I had selected Meteorain after the first one.
Maybe it's time everyone starts packing Restore materia. I have used only two healers for the entire game and have managed well enough. I made it here, didn't I? I had Barret, Cid and now Tifa just concentrate on physical attacks and Time magic. But now, I'm really feeling the lack of a third healer. Curaga-All is worthless to keep up with the damage here.
EDIT:
A clinch win if ever there was one. I was all out of Phoenix; Downs, Vincent just got KO'ed by Red Light and Cloud just took a Red Light which gave him his Limit. Meteorain won me the day.
Used up all my Elixirs and my last X Potion. Luckily, I have been discovering that "Morph", while annoying, is absolutely amazing. I can Morph those Harpy's in the Gold Saucer desert into Elixirs. I only did it once, because I 've been trying Morph on everything just to see if it's any good, but I resolved not to grind for Elixirs like this because I'm playing a challenge mod for a reason. But I feel fully justified in at least replenishing my stock a little. I didn't want to use Tifa anyway. My party should have Cid in it. Stupid Tifa and her slot limit breaks....