- you might need to check for any ties in the data, and if yes, then address it.. e.g. through jittering for example - as in papers by Prof Carlo de Michele & Prof. G Salvadori
3 Analyse the dependance structure of the variates
4 Select the most appropriate copula from the set of Archimedian copulas or other copulae families
5 then use the selected copula to derive or determine what you want for FFA --- conditional distributions, joint return periods, conditional return periods, trivariate return periods etc...
-- R loaded with copula packages, provides a good starting point!!!!