Optimize

The Optimize Glitch is a series of glitches and errors regarding the Optimize command in Final Fantasy VI. Optimize automatically equips the best equipment the player has, but it does this based soly on attack power and phyiscal defenses, ignoring stat boosts and magic defense changes. Thus, if a weapon is two attacks points weaker than another weapon but gives +50 Mblock, Optimize will still equip the weapon with the higher power.

Beyond this oversight, Optimize will ignore certain weapons and armor. For example, although the Ultima Weapon has 255 attack power, Optimize will always ignore it and never equip it, even if it is the only weapon to be equipped, in which case the party member will go barehanded. This also applies to the Force Armor, Force Shield, Blood Sword, Soul Saver, and various other equipment. As well, if the player is Imped, the Imp Halberd will have 253 attack power, but Optimize will ignore the status change and its affect of attack power and equip what would be the strongest weapon is the party member's status was normal.

These many oversights and errors overall make the Optimize command very unreliable as more often than not the weapons and armor it equips are usually not the best the player has.