Final Fantasy VI Randomizer

Removing Moogle Charm seems fine to me. It's a nice convenience item but does detract from the difficulty a lot. When I've tinkered with ROM hacks of this game I have always changed it so that there is no "no encounters" item, for similar reasons.

My planned visit to the Cave on the Veldt was interrupted by an ambush! This time, it was a normal part of the game--Doom Gaze. I usually don't fight him this early in the WoR so I was hoping he'd put up a fight. To some extent, he did. His Aero hit the party quite hard, and his L.5 death downed to characters right at the beginning. But he wasted too much of his time doing weak physical attacks for 300 or so against Edgar, and ultimately fell to a flurry of Bum Rushes. Also, I noticed that Mog randomly learned Pearl as natural magic. Cool. Bahamut only teaches Slow 2, at a terrible rate of x2. Not cool.

The Cave on the Veldt was full of Toe Cutters, like usual, but I managed to rescue Shadow with all ten toes still intact. One Bolt 3 to his face in the Colosseum and he's mine. Next I paid a visit to Mt. Zozo. Jeez, the encounter rate seemed really high there. But aside from having weirdly high evade, the enemies didn't put up much of a fight, including the Storm Dragon, which I expected more resistance from. But yeah, Bum Rush is just too strong. I decided to to the Phoenix Cave next.

I divided my party members as follows: Edgar (Bum Rusher No. 1), Mog (Physical Attack w/ Genji Glove and 2x Sniper), Cyan (Dancer, spent most of his time falling flat on his face), and Umaro (does Umaro-like things) made up one party, while Sabin (Bum Rusher No. 2), Shadow (Genji Glove w/ 2x Doom Darts & decent magic user), Terra (Rager, mostly using Rhyos), and Celes (strong magic user) made up party #2. Having my strongest party members divided did make things a little more difficult, especially with the unreliability of things like Rage, Dance, and Umaro factored in. In one battle an enemy cast X-Zone, killing three party members. Rather than do the dungeon the "right" way, I just walked over the spikes a lot. One thing that seemed odd was all the chests that are normally empty had stuff in them, but it was really bad stuff. It seems like "empty" just got randomized with early game items like Shurikens, Tonics, and Sleeping Bags. That makes sense a lot of the time, but doesn't seem fitting in the Phoenix Cave. A lot of item shops in the WoR have a similar problem, selling lots of early game weapons and armor, presumably because those are in the same tier as things like Antidotes and Softs. The Red Dragon didn't really do anything. He only lasted a couple of rounds with Sabin and Celes each hitting for 6000-8000 per turn. I also picked up two more Coin Tosses here, bringing my total to 8. I still don't have anyone with Slot, but I assume Gogo has it by process of elimination.

One more errand to run before finding out... we take Locke to Narshe. We pick up the Cursed Shield--might need to decurse this to get access to Ultima via the Paladin Shield. As for Ragnarok, I opt for the sword rather than gamble on an Esper with only one slot that could have ended up bad like Bahamut. I guess that also means no access to morphed items, which would be a more predictable source of items since it is presumably not randomized. But I wasn't planning on spending time morphing enemies anyway. That leaves three party members to collect: Gogo, Relm, and Strago.

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Btw, I noticed that the guy in the airship who unequips party members doesn't unequip Umaro. This is probably a holdover from the regular game, where you can't modify his equipment. But it would be nice if it applied to him now that his equipment can be changed.