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See the guide "army optimisation" to know the forging of weapons (the last one is done before Chaos),some differences are mentionned only in the forums:the water saber against Belias should be replaced with the anti fire armor of V,the forged sword 2H-M before Chaos (barely better than the superior one but it's not available and you save the money for the holy lance).The best code of the storm wand is H-M-L for a maximal speed,extra item,superior magic only since Chaos.

4 ) and 7) are done differently from the guide,to unlock the VQ was the complicated part.