but not really needed.
that's my whole point about this entire topic
everything that's missable I've listed is entirely unrequired to beat the games that they're in
Who care's if it's the best weapon and it does over 9000 damage, do you *really* need it? For example, you don't need the Moogle Charm or the Ragnarok sword to beat Final Fantasy VI; an item that lets you evade all random encounters, and the second-best sword in the game. Missable? Definitely. Obscurely placed? Not particularly. If anything, the Moogle Charm makes it more tedious to beat the game if you use it too much, and there are fucktons of other decent swords everywhere.
An offender from that exact game that comes to mind, though, is the Paladin Shield. It's only minorly hinted at how to break the curse, if I remember, and you're never told that it teaches the spell Ultima once the curse is broken, so you may end up accidentally grabbing the Ragnarok esper instead of the sword if somebody misinforms you. Seeing as all of this shit is entirely optional, though, it doesn't matter that much.
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bobbias: to get Magus, you follow him up a cliff and choose not to kick his ass, pretty much. I think you have to choose one of the two options for the story to continue, anyway.