FF6 - Brave New World

-=1.2.0=-
1: The 'Hero Shield' (former Cursed Shield/Paladin Shield) still gives the Condemned/Countdown status to whomever wields it, even with a Ribbon. (A Ribbon should work or outright tell me it doesn't work on Condemned.) Does this shield uncurse if different people wield it in battle, such as Terra for some fights and Locke for others?

2: I feel like I've been everywhere short of Kefka's Tower (and even through most of the tower) and haven't found the Crusader magicite. It'd be the last one on the list. What hints and advice have you?

3: Did you intend to make the girls (Terra, Celes, Relm) generally the most powerful party members? All can equip armor to completely negate Ice/Fire/Bolt damage and can spam 9999 damage spells against energy-weak foes.

4: Is Cactrot/Cactuar still around? If so, what's the best place to find and fight him?

5: In the Maranda Desert, I went hunting for quite some time. (Maybe 20 fights.) After that, I walked around and tried to find a random encounter. I walked around the overworld for about a minute and thought, "I rolled really well on the 'don't find random encounters' table." And no Cactrot/Cactuar. Sleeping at Maranda's inn fixed things. (I probably only needed to reenter the overworld.)

6: Another way to make Cyan better (or suck less) is to reduce the wait time of Bushido. It shouldn't take as long as Magic to go off.

7: In a forest, I encountered 4 Leap Frogs. I controlled one, but wasn't able to kill it. While controlled, my spells couldn't target it and I couldn't force it to attack itself to break control. (I think it was because it had lept already.)