FF6 - Brave New World

From my perspective, Terra is my go-to character for boss killing. She's earned a permanent place in my top 4 characters due to her being awesome and looking cool too. The Gem Box is a wonderful Relic for Terra, giving her a way to make her MP last much longer than expected. Without it, her expensive booms are spiffy, but generally not sustainable.

This is why I tend to spam her status magic in random encounters.

Sabin is still one of my favorite characters due to him just being cool - Blitzes, personality, and relation to Edgar - and I've not found him to be overpowered. He's near the top of the power list and someone I'd rather have on my team permanently (since I pretty much have over the past 20 years), but not someone I'd seriously consider nerfing.

Well, again, the big issue is that if you slap a Life Bell on him, he'll never die. And this is more an issue with how we've handled stamina than it is with Sabin himself (a Vigor-based Sabin is much more in line with the other characters).

Why not change Relm's Control ability into a simulacrum of Rosa's Bless abilty? You can either let it randomly cast a white magic spell on all targets or make two more relics that randomly allow her to cast a black magic spell on all enemy targets or a gray magic spell on the appropriate targets. This would allow some use of her magic stat, which is underused IMO since she gets only high spells. To offset the randomness, perhaps a MP cost could be attached.

I think Flare and Meteor do a good enough job of using Relm's magic, not to mention Cure 3 or any magical attacked popped off of Sketch.

Would it be possible to rework the Dancho Doll into a relic that increased Relm's stats (by, say, 25%) expressly for Sketch attacks?

I like this idea a lot, but it'd be up to Synchysi.

I'm all for Shuriken being free-targeting, especially if it splits. It might also give Shadow users another reason to choose Vigor/Stam over Speed when leveling up.

My two driving points behind this are 1) Shadow is typically seen as one of the weakest characters, so anything that can help him out is appreciated, and 2) it helps make stars and knives more distinct as throwing weapons.

As far as Magicite goes, I never used it personally, but I saw the appeal in random summon, especially with how useful the retooled summons have been. It also let characters possibly use a summon they wouldn't ordinarily have access to (albeit with terrible odds if you're looking for something specific like Zoneseek's ShellX-like effect).

Yeah, the big problem with Magicite is that they have too low of a chance of summoning something useful to be worth using (and would be *way* too overpowered if you could manually select which esper to summon). Having it summon the currently-equipped esper seems like a good compromise.

Not going to lie, at this point I've been wrong on nearly half of the Bushidos, as far as what they use to determine damage or effectiveness. I would recommend adding a "relevent stat" column to the printme, to help avoid confusion (Would also help with some of the Tools and Blitzes.)

All damage is magical unless otherwise stated; all attacks that deal physical (Vigor-based) or stamina-based damage are specifically noted.

I think the only non-intuitive thing is that stamina-based attacks are considered magical (except for Gau's *physical* stamina-based attacks), and thus follow the same rules (i.e. use the magic damage formula and don't get damage boosts from the Atlas Armlet).

I was actually alright with Eclipse's base damage, mostly because I wasn't increasing anything but Vigor on Cyan but it was still dealing acceptable (Though not great) damage when I needed a reliable full-party smack. But, if Tempest/Flurry are getting buffed, then Eclipse could use one as well I suppose.

I'm really not sure how Cyan is going to be handled yet. All I'm really looking at right now is how players are using him: Tempest seems under-appreciated, Flurry and Eclipse are largely ignored, and Dragon ends up being way overused.

I had no issues with the success rate, mostly thanks to having Thief Glove on Locke from Zozo on; Mug gives me two shots to steal so even if I missed on the first try (Which was uncommon in and of itself), it was rare to miss on the second. Though if you're trying to encourage using Switchblade steals rather than defaulting to Locke, it might not be a terrible idea.

I'm trying to encourage stealing in general, really. And this means if it's not fairly easy in the early game, most players are going to be turned off by it.

Not sure how I feel about this one. Yeah, the damage on auto-attacks is pretty poor (Not awful, I could get 1200 a hit with Celes endgame in the back row, which was about par with VigorShadow's Fight in back row), but the main advantage of Omega over Zantetsuken was being such a great stat stick along with back row functionality.

The back-row functionality was really just something that was put there as a desperate attempt to make the Omega Weapon appealing (bear in mind that I grossly under-estimated how appealing the "all stats +7" bonus was). Ideally, it would function much better as a weapon, albeit a more gimmicky, harder-to-use one than the Zantetsuken since it still gives nicer stat boosts. This also has the added benefit of (maybe) even making the Atma Weapon somewhat-useable when you first get it.

If you want to back-row Locke, give him a Wing Edge

Shurikens being free-targeting would be nice (Does this include Ninja Star, or just base Shuriken?), though I'm worried that the game might crap itself trying to do the animation for that. Would make Shadow more useful in the Imperial base for sure, possibly worth picking up for Zozo too.

This would be Shuriken and Ninja Stars (as I noted above), though using Ninja Stars in such a manner would probably be a waste.

I actually tested this animation awhile back with throwing knives (though I don't think I tried it against a fully enemy party of six) and noticed no ill effects, so it should be good.

Magicite being based on currently equipped summon could be problematic, since it would make it much easier to get Shell/Rerise on everyone during the tougher boss fights since Magicite isn't a rarity by endgame (I had about a dozen when I finished, plus 7-8 items in my inventory I could trade for it, and I only stole from 2 dragons at best). Or, on the offensive side, give me free Ragnarok/Crusader/Bahamut spam during the endgame bosses, making it easy to cheese them if I horde the item all game long.

Hey, more power to you. That's the sort of thing I'd like to see magicite actually useful for. I have no problem whatsoever with people actually making use of rare items in the end-game to make their lives easier - that's what they're there for.