FF6 - Brave New World

Putting a description that it's useless would be helpful...

Well, that would just take the fun out of it.

And if there's room for it, why not call the new revive thing Phoenix Pinion?

That's too long. We only have 12 characters to work with, so we went with "Phoenix Tear".

Why was the phoenix crying? Probably because we ripped off all of its feathers >.>

Now, on to other news...

I'm looking at Gau's stamina-based attacks that currently do shit for damage. The reason for this is that they're physical attacks, and attacks that do physical damage don't seem to be playing very nicely with the hack we're using to use stamina in place of magic power (which would be vigor if the "physical damage" flag is set). I don't fully understand the mechanics of what's happening, since it's disregarding the battle power of his weapon (this is expected - Battle and "Special" seem hard-coded to consider it, but no other physical command will), but for some reason appears to be *subtracting* his base battle power from that of the attack (though it could just be a coincidence that adding Gau's base battle power to the attack's power results in almsot exactly the damage it should be doing). Clearly, I'm missing something.

In any case, the above is moot since these attacks simply cannot deal competitive physical damage because the damage multipliers from the rages specials far outstrip any benefits Gau (or Gogo) might have from having even twice as much stamina than vigor. However, I find them to be balanced exactly as I want them to be if they do magical damage, so it shall be so.

To summarize: Rock, Tentacle, and Shrapnel will deal *MAGICAL* damage when raged. It'd be nice if Synchysi can find a way to make them use the magical damage formula but still deal physical damage (i.e. consider physical defense), but it's not really a major concern. In fact, I think the fact that they don't get damage boosts from the Atlas Armlet is probably a good thing and helps keep them in check in the early game. It's also good for consistency since all other stamina-based spells/attacks are magical, and this is a subject I'm actively trying to alleviate any confusion about.

So, yeah, we'll just leave it at Gau and his magic tentacles.