Natural Magic Challenge
I'm doing a natural magic challenge for the first time. I'm playing on pixel remaster, and my rules are that I have set AP to 0, but I'm still allowing everyone to equip espers for the stat boosts. Just that no one is allowed to learn any magic from them or from any other items. Strago can learn lores, Celes and Terra learn spells by leveling, but that's it.
So far, it's been fun. It's definitely made me have to think more strategically, and struggle with bosses I normally could cheese. I'm now in the world of ruin and have just picked up Cyan.
I've been relying on Gau way more than usual and having to learn how to use him and which rages do what instead of just using Straycat and calling it a day. He's pretty much the center of all my boss fighting strategies.
Strago is becoming incredibly important as well. Normally he just sits on the airship the whole time, but now I actually need him.
Has anyone done this challenge before? Are there any things in the world of ruin you think I should look out for? Do you think that I should next time not allow espers at all and not do the stat boosts?