FF6 - Brave New World

I've got a couple questions though: first, what's up with the treasure map? I assumed the "old man" was the guy who painted it, but he didn't say anything new. I flew around everywhere and still couldn't find anyone who explained it.

The "treasure map" is just the old "Emperor's Letter" key item that I tried to have actually follow some sort of logical path. We haven't changed anything related to the quest or its triggers; if you can't figure out what to do with it, it's probably because you got Locke before talking to the old man.

Second, would I be able to get the password to the Unlockme? I've been really curious about what's in there.

I sent you a PM.

Taking Phoenix away from her might not be a bad idea - She loses out on Life 2, Cure 3, and any esper MP boosts until Ragnarok, which would help hammer in her role as a powerful anti-boss character that has limited use during random encounters. Does end up making yet another summon relegated to a single character, though.

Yeah, that's not very easily doable >.>

The character/esper structure in the mod is a very delicate house of cards, and moving or taking away just one of them sort of causes the whole thing to collapse.

Another option might be to just take away RegenX from her. With how powerful Stamina is/was, along with a lot of bosses having Purge or seizure-inducing attacks in general, I had a tendency to use RegenX as my catch-all "Heal up the team" spell; the MP cost was a notable hurdle if I didn't at least have Cure 2/3 as an alternative, but in general having RegenX was a higher priority for the team than Cure.

This one's actually doable if I deem the spell to be overpowered, but I think a better option would probably be to lower her base stamina to limit the spell's effectiveness.

(If, again, we consider her to be OP. I think she's the best character, but not overwhelmingly so.)

Also, I'm still waiting on the Unlockme password as well ;[

Sorry 'bout that... >.>

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I also feel Morph should be counted, since it usually lasts for about half to three quarters of a boss fight if you play your cards right with the menu. To give an example, in my first playthrough, when fighting the Ice Dragon, Terra probably did 100K by herself while the rest of the party chipped in nuts and bolts. I got that number by counting her damage, and I don't know how much HP he has total, but you get my drift (is that stuff in the Unlock Me?). Of course, she did have an elemental weakness to exploit, but at the same time, she often does.

In the interest of fairness, I wouldn't say that the average player (or even most veterans) are as good at manipulating the menu to screw with the battle timers as you are. The average player is going to see *far* less effectiveness out of morph than you.

Comparing her to Celes (because I assume that's who we're stacking her up against), it's important to note a few things. First, Celes gets Ice 3 and Bolt 3, and is thus able to hit the same elemental weaknesses that Terra can. She'll do less damage, but that's largely because players tend to build Celes for vigor and Terra for magic. Celes is capable of far outstripping Terra in magic damage if you choose to build her that way, particularly given that she gets a +2 Magic boost that one could access as early as they know where to find it.

(Again, I'm not counting Morph here; if we count it in a Terra/Celes comparison, then we also have to factor in how useful Runic can be)

I also second Julford's comment. When she's so good at attacking, she shouldn't be such a great healer at the same time IMO.

Well, I sort of designed her to be one of the game's four primary healers (Locke, Setzer, and Relm are the other three). she's meant to function as a Red Mage/Sage-type character, with good white *and* black magic, but less on the physical offense unless you sacrifice magic boosts to build her that way.

Like I said above, her main disadvantage compared to Celes is that Celes has much better stats (and stat growth opportunities) than she does.