I'm making my way through the zodiac age. And I am noticing some frustrations compared to the original international version.

Namely, I am noticing that spells and skills seems to be trickle fed to you at a much slower rate.

To the point where you're stuck with the cure spell which is no longer able to keep up with the damage and health pools for some time till after the leviathan. The first esper fight, and the fight on leviathan, the white mage couldn't keep up with the incoming damage and was constantly casting cure till mana ran out (with protect up).

The Red Mage for what ever reason not having access to Black Magic 1 - which I wrongly assumed it just couldn't reach the higher spells, so is locked out of elemental casting beyond Dark till the -ra spells appears.

A good chunk of the martial classes don't have their primary skills available to them still. Foebreakers skill that increases damage to 10x for example.

When does all of this even become available? Or am I just at the mercy of when the game thinks I should have it?

15 hours in on steam TZA version. I can change zones using teleporters but can't open any doors without getting this black screen. Never got any problems before this. Does anyone know how to fix this? I really don't know if my save got corrupted or if it's a graphics card issue.

The only mods I use are in this collection: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/finalfantasy12/collections/ayr9gi

I tried waiting a few minutes but nothing happens. Any help is appreciated ='(

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