FF6 - Brave New World

Finished the game last night

Groovy. I'll send you the Unlockme password in a bit (and hopefully the next update will have the Unlockme documentation updated).

had a question about the Kefka boss rush; didn't vanilla FF6 kick dead characters out after a certain period of time rather than just during the transition between phases?

No.

I should note that even without ANY Stamina levels (Veldt abuse ftw), LifeBell still gave him back a very significant amount of health thanks to all the +Stam equips he has available. Just reloaded to check, and Sabin is packing +18 stamina in my endgame build, putting him at more stamina than Terra (Who has been holding Maduin for a good majority of the game). At full health (2138 at level 35, roughly 20 levels of Golem and a Red Cap factored in) he's still dishing out massive heals with Mantra too. I don't know if it's the formulas so much as the bonuses he has available to him in his claws; endgame claws are amazing stat sticks for him, especially Frostgore.

Yeah, one of the major changes in the next update is going to be a total rewrite of the Regen formula so that stamina still factors appreciably in, but certain characters (SABIN) don't just run away with the game.

Compare the current formula...

Code:

Tick = ((MaxHP * Stam) / 512) - (Random Variance)

...with the new one:

Code:

Tick = (((Stam * 4) + (MaxHP / 8)) / 4) - (Random Variance + 15)

(Now might be a good time to point out that I suck at math)

Of course, this will work together with reeling Stamina in to be treated more like a normal stat (+1/2 boosts from espers instead of +3/4) and lowering base stamina for most characters.

Nah, I've had him frontline all game. The numbers I gave were around the mid-20s though, but after gaining levels during Kefka's tower he started dealing closer to 800 a slash with Tempest - Still not amazing compared to my primary damage dealers, but certainly better. I think if I continued leveling him into the mid-30s (He was 30-31 for the statue fight) I would've started seeing better numbers all around for him.

Cyan will likely be getting a bit of a bump in the next update, as well. Tempest, Flurry, and probably also Eclipse will see power boosts. Since Cyan is much more about the physical damage than any other character (and has far less else going for him than his teammates do), he needs to be the best at dishing it out.

He had both Raze and Shockwave when I fought him, and I have the newest version (ver 1.2.0). Raze was why I carried Ribbon for the fight in the first place; the +Stam helped a lot for Life Bell, as did the poison immunity. Sabin was basically betting on Raze only getting used 2-3 times during the fight, as Siegfried's physical attacks were easily healed off by Life Bell regen (I may have had Sabin in the back row just for that fight, I don't recall).

Ah, that's right... I took away Hyperdrive, not Raze.

...Hyperdrive may be a bit much to give back to him >.>

Yeah, Rogue Cloak became my staple item for Shadow at the end; Scroll spam was at an all-time high by then, though I actually ran out of things to throw come Kefka himself. I actually started chucking Mythril Daggers and Butterflys at Kefka by the end of the fight.

I like how you still had Mythril Driks and Butterflies lying around >.>

On that note, is there a particular reason staves can't be dual-wielded?

Yes.

(Also, what is it with you and Synchysi? They're rods, not staves.)

...or something to make him a more appealing Dragoon than Edgar, because imo "Edgar has better options" isn't really a reason to make Mog a dragoon moreso than it is an incentive to not dragoon at all.

Someone who dragoons Mog is probably doing it because they don't like the randomness of his dances; it's his most reliable/consistent way of dealing damage. I'd have to say that the "true" hidden advantage of dragoon Mog over dragoon Edgar is doing it with rods instead of spears.

(Coin Toss)

Fair enough... I'll look at the formula and see how it can stand to be made less shitty.

You probably didn't notice because even though the Unlockme and BTB both say it should give you Heiji's Coin, it actually gives a Relic Ring. I guess that's a bug report by the way.

Edit: Sorry that sounds so snarky. I'm going to blame a headache and lack of sleep, because you guys are doing a great job and don't deserve snark.

No need to apologize; thanks for letting me know.

The reason it's a Relic Ring specifically is that it, Heiji's Coin, and the Nirvana Band all got moved around a *lot* late in development, and I sort of lost track of where they ended up (and missed a few loose ends, like the one you just pointed out).