FF6 - Brave New World

A quick note: there's actually two copies of Heiji's Coin in the game. The first is indeed available right after Daryl's Tomb: the Tarot trades in for it at the Colosseum.

The one in Kefka's Tower is mostly just a cue to unload all of your cash, and probably works better with Gogo than it does on Setzer.

CORRECTION: you're *supposed* to get one from the Colosseum, but the Tarot currently incorrectly trades in for a Relic Ring. This will be fixed in the next version.

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Looking at Coin Toss's formula, the good news is that this should be *really* easy to tweak since it's a simple formula that I don't think needs to be changed beyond altering some of the values (and likely removing the damage split). I think that GP Rain is a really good candidate to utilize a bit 'o stamina-based damage, as well - just substitute it for level and adjust the other values as necessary.

Of course, Synchysi is the one who'd be editing it, so we'll see what he thinks.

In other news, I finally sat down tonight and crunched some numbers with Cyan. I'd like to see this bad boy really shine in the next update, so here's what I came up with:

• Dispatch from 150 power (same as Pummel) to 180 (same as Suplex)

• Empowerer to maximum power because why not?

• Flurry (A.K.A "Quadra Slam") from 75 power to 90

• Dragon from 90 power to 60 and set to use stamina instead of magic power

• Eclipse from 90 power to 100

• Tempest from 60 power to 75

• Aero to have twice as much power (120 instead of 60) when randomly cast from from the Mutsunokami

So, yeah, pretty much bumped up across the board except for Dragon, which will only do the same kind of end-game damage it does now with a pure stamina build. A good equipment load-out in the early game helps keep it the most powerful attack Cyan has when he learns it, even without any levels in Kirin. And bear in mind that it still retains back-row damage capabilities *and* the capacity for instant kills with petrification, so it's still a badass bushido to hold and to love.

On the physical end of things, I wanted to make sure that Tempest was unchallenged for pure damage output even on a stamina-focused Cyan. A high-level (35+) vigor-based Cyan in the front row will eventually break the damage cap with a single-target Tempest; if he seems in danger of being overpowered, I could always slow him back down to being Strago's physical counterpart. Flurry getting a bump likely won't be noticed since those attacks don't ignore defense and still probably won't be hitting for much (the main draw there is still the muddle effect), and I'm still on the fence about bumping up Dispatch to match the power of Suplex instead of Pummel. On one hand, this will help keep it (albeit slightly) relevant in the late-game. On the other, most humanoid opponents are fought early in the game and already eat it hard enough to Dispatch. On the third hand (I can't count), one of those humans is Number 24, and I'm always itching for a good reason to take Cyan to the IMTRF. If I decide against it, my fallback plan is to switch Dispatch to being Cyan's seizure-setting attack rather than Empowerer.

(Bear in mind I'm trying my best to avoid turning Cyan into a Sabin clone, so the more distinct I can keep their skillsets, the better. I'm already giving them both a row-ignoring stamina-based attack that tempts the player with an alternate build, so I sort of don't want to add to that the fact that both of them have their initial attacks set seizure.)

Lastly, Eclipse is probably the most-ignored bushido of the bunch, but I only ended up giving it a slight boost. This is because it has to compete with random Aero casts from the Mutsunokami, since there's no reason to wield said weapon when its random cast is significantly weaker than something you can spam at will and for free. Another concern was Gogo, since I didn't want to make bushido any more overpowered on him than it already is. As for the random Mutsunokami casts, 120 power seemed to be the sweet spot, as I felt it worked best for both Cyan and Shadow with respect to the other MT attacks available to each character.