FF6 - Brave New World

Wanted to mimic something said earlier in the thread, btw; I absolutely, positively, LOVE what you guys did with the Cyan Dream sequence boss fights. I almost had to replay the entire sequence (My party was Sabin/Strago/Shadow, and I only had 3 phoenix down/tent each because I forgot to shop), and I was looking forward to trying to focus Larry or Moe rather than dropping Curly early in the fight.

The two big inspirations for that fight were the Magus Sisters from FF4 (whom they were meant to act like, and now actually do) and the Golbez fight following the Calcobrenna (which was very buggy and could be broken in fun ways, which is bound to happen in this fight if you do it out of the intended sequence).

I also laughed my ass off while writing pretty much everything related to that sequence, so yeah >.>

Typo during the Hidon cutscene in WoR Thamasa (When you bring Strago/Relm there for the first time); "I'm not going just to sit by blahblahblah" should be "I'm not going to just sit by blahblahblah"

Good catch.

-Vigor Sabin drops 4-4.5k Bum Rush, but if he hits an element weakness his Fight does 5-5.5k. While elemental weaknesses are great to take advantage of, I just wish he had better variety in weapon options come late WoB/early WoR (Being limited to just the Fire/Water and later Ice/Fire claws due to the others being so much weaker really sucked). Even though he's mostly Vigor, Mantra is a nice heal when I am in a pinch, and overall he's one of the best staples in the game; regardless of the team around him, he can hold them together.

It's good to see someone giving vigor Sabin a go at this point. We're currently working on a bit of an overhaul so that !Stamina Sabin doesn't run away with the game (but also that stamina remains useful for other characters).

-Even though I'm pumping Vigor into him, Cyan's Tempest is still weaker than Dragon on a single target. In fact, with Atlas Armlet equipped, I'm only doing 450 a swipe while Dragon does 2200-2300.

Isn't your Cyan in the back row? >.>

-Gau is absolutely amazing and I love him. LifeBell/SprintShoes relic combo makes him an absolute monster that needs little to no attention, and if I pick the right Rage I can solo a good 2/3 of the fights in any given dungeon with him. Sad that his undead Rages (Of which there are a lot) take damage from Life Bell healing, but I still use them thanks to all the instant death options they present.

Funny... I was not aware that regen ticks would harm the undead since seizure ticks don't reverse on them.

-Celes is pretty good, but I feel like pumping magic into her was wasted - Of all my primary mages, she is the most disappointing of them so far. I think I would've been better off giving her Stamina so she can tank better, or else just more health to better abuse Atma/OmegaWeapon. Speaking of, OmegaWeapon is godly and Siegfried probably should be buffed a little bit so that I can't get it so quickly come WoR. Ribbon/LifeBell on Sabin took I believe 4 resets, and this was right after getting the Airship.

Siegfried originally used Raze instead of Shock Wave, which made him very difficult to take out since Raze is powerful and unreflectable.

Given the unexpected popularity of the Omega Weapon, I think I'll given him Raze back.

-Vigor Edgar is a great Dragoon, so much so that I'm skipping out on Tools a lot of the time so that I can jump. Regen lets him heal up in the air despite having pisspoor Stamina (I think he's only breaking 20 because of equips), and he's dropping 3.5-4k jumps compared to 2.2-2.4k drills. Add in the occasional double jump and we have an amazing random encounter fighter, though bosses tend to drop him easily thanks to the rampant counter-attacks; with no stamina and 3/4 of his equipment spoken for, he's nearly impossible to have survive a slight breeze sent his way from a boss, let alone the stronger attacks. Palidor's HP increase have been helping him tank slightly better now though, but it was really noticeable earlier in the WoR.

Bear in mind that an Edgar set up for dragooning will do less damage with the Chainsaw/Drill than one that isn't due to a lack of vigor boosts from a Sword/Shield.

Also, I think you meant to say Unicorn instead of Palidor; Palidor gives vigor and speed >.>

-Relm is love. Meteor/Flare are not nearly as overkill as the Readme led me to believe, but they still provide her with consistent damage output that none of the other mages can boast. Her biggest issue is that she doesn't have the ability to abuse elemental weaknesses, meaning that most of the time Terra is outdoing her in damage even before Morphing. Terra also has 7-8 levels over Relm though, so I expect that gap to close as soon as I pump some levels into her.

I don't have anything to say here, so I'm just going to make a joke about pumping something into Relm.

-Terra is probably the most overpowered member of the team. Just, hands down, wow. Access to nearly every high-level spell in some manner (Flaresword is a thing that should not be but I love it regardless), along with her equipment/esper options, allow her to go in any direction and dominate. She outdamages any other mage I have thanks to having Fire/Ice/Bolt 3, while still having respectable defenses and a Fight command that 50% of the time explodes the target.

I agree with you about Terra being the game's MVP. Her only weakness is that she needs a lot of MP to be really effective, and she has to sacrifice a lot to be a good physical fighter.

-Locke just got back, and already he's reclaiming his spot as one of the premier damage dealers of the team. Thief Glove's +25% physical damage is still great on him, though Rogue Cloak seems conflicted (Why would I need a 100% fight chance if I'm abusing the +25% magic damage) and I've left it alone in favor of a Black Belt for the counterattacks it brings. Easily keeps up with Sabin in terms of raw physical power (I had Ramuh on him for nearly the entire WoB, so he's sporting 90 Vigor with his current set-up), and his repertoire of support spells is good enough to let him fall back on them when needed.

The Rogue Cloak is meant to have synergy with the Thief Glove, since it's basically the old Sneak Ring. A Black Belt works, too, though Locke might get the same thing from the Ninja Mask.

I'm with you, though; I give my Rogue Cloak to Shadow and let him wreck shit with his scrolls. He's incredibly useful in places like WoR Narshe where he can nail elemental weaknesses.

-Mog is difficult to love, but I do regardless. Despite having a lot of +Magic boosts, his spell selection is too poor to really take advantage of them, though his dances are another matter entirely; he revolves around picking the right dance to use, similar to Gau's rages, but I usually find myself picking a defensive dance because the offensive skills are blocked by immunities often enough that I'll just spam Wind Song for the Sun Bath cure. Despite this frustration he's still one of my top picks for a support unit, due to being so tanky that he'll rarely fall in battle.

The defensive ones do seem to be the more popular choices, and they go well with his tank-like style. Something I'm going to do in the next update is look at his offensive ones and make sure they stack up.

More specifically, I'm thinking of having Specter deal some direct damage, which will greatly help Love Sonata's status as a ST damage dance (and help Dusk Requiem suck less).

-Setzer is a tank, plain and simple. Similar to what I just said about Mog, he can stay standing during a fight for forever and take nearly anything that is dished out at him; he has a better spell selection for supporting too, which helps him considerably. Still haven't gotten the Fixed Dice or GP Rain relic though, so his damage is practically non-existent, even with Daryl's Soul giving him twice the Dice.

You can get the GP Toss relic by trading in the Tarot at the Colosseum, else you'll find one in Kefka's Tower.

If you do make use of it, let us know. I have no qualms with adjusting its formula to make it stronger, but *nobody* f**k**g uses it, so we have no clue.

-Shadow is just kinda disappointing. I was expecting him to play like a more offense-oriented version of Locke, trading in the utility of Steal and healing magic for a few buff spells and a strong offensive skill; Throw is incredibly powerful (The cost at this point of the game makes it hard to justify using though), but otherwise he comes off as a frailer, less powerful Locke with the option to drop a nuke via Throw.

It depends on how you have him set up. He's one of only two characters in the game (the other being Setzer) who can hit more than once in a single turn with an insta-kill weapon, and he can get a lot of mileage out of spamming random Wind Slash/Aero.

But again, I prefer back-row Shadow in the late game to spam scrolls.