FF6 - Brave New World

Umaro is fun, especially when you want to do something like team auto-pilot (Mog/Gau/Umaro/Gogo) and just watch as they demolish everything. Haven't tried him out in the hack yet, still running around recruiting in the WoR myself (Have everyone but Gogo, after that I need to grab Odin and go dragon-hunting).

Wanted to mimic something said earlier in the thread, btw; I absolutely, positively, LOVE what you guys did with the Cyan Dream sequence boss fights. I almost had to replay the entire sequence (My party was Sabin/Strago/Shadow, and I only had 3 phoenix down/tent each because I forgot to shop), and I was looking forward to trying to focus Larry or Moe rather than dropping Curly early in the fight.

Wrexsoul, thankfully, did not bother putting up much of a fight; Strago fell early in the fight (And I was out of PD at that point), but Shadow/Sabin managed to stay alive thanks to Rerise and Regen abuse beating out the damage of the Soul Fires. Sabin spammed Bum Rush while Shadow whipped out the last of my Wave Scrolls, and I managed to beat Wrexsoul without him ever showing his face.

Typo during the Hidon cutscene in WoR Thamasa (When you bring Strago/Relm there for the first time); "I'm not going just to sit by blahblahblah" should be "I'm not going to just sit by blahblahblah"

And now, time for my impressions on each of the characters (Except Umaro/Gogo), since I'm later in the game. Was going to wait until after I finished, but I'm not expecting things to change much for most of the characters and I had the time now soooooo:

-Vigor Sabin drops 4-4.5k Bum Rush, but if he hits an element weakness his Fight does 5-5.5k. While elemental weaknesses are great to take advantage of, I just wish he had better variety in weapon options come late WoB/early WoR (Being limited to just the Fire/Water and later Ice/Fire claws due to the others being so much weaker really sucked). Even though he's mostly Vigor, Mantra is a nice heal when I am in a pinch, and overall he's one of the best staples in the game; regardless of the team around him, he can hold them together.
-Even though I'm pumping Vigor into him, Cyan's Tempest is still weaker than Dragon on a single target. In fact, with Atlas Armlet equipped, I'm only doing 450 a swipe while Dragon does 2200-2300. Cyan's only 24 atm though, so I'll see if another 6-7 levels of Vigor don't notably improve it, but as it stands Tempest pales in comparison to a move he unlocked back in the WoB. Still very useful and a strong fighter, and Empowerer is a must-have for most boss fights, but it doesn't feel like he's gained anything since WoB except for Cleave (Which was great in the Phoenix Cave, half the fights were won from the get-go with a good Cleave)
-Gau is absolutely amazing and I love him. LifeBell/SprintShoes relic combo makes him an absolute monster that needs little to no attention, and if I pick the right Rage I can solo a good 2/3 of the fights in any given dungeon with him. Sad that his undead Rages (Of which there are a lot) take damage from Life Bell healing, but I still use them thanks to all the instant death options they present.
-Celes is pretty good, but I feel like pumping magic into her was wasted - Of all my primary mages, she is the most disappointing of them so far. I think I would've been better off giving her Stamina so she can tank better, or else just more health to better abuse Atma/OmegaWeapon. Speaking of, OmegaWeapon is godly and Siegfried probably should be buffed a little bit so that I can't get it so quickly come WoR. Ribbon/LifeBell on Sabin took I believe 4 resets, and this was right after getting the Airship.
-Vigor Edgar is a great Dragoon, so much so that I'm skipping out on Tools a lot of the time so that I can jump. Regen lets him heal up in the air despite having pisspoor Stamina (I think he's only breaking 20 because of equips), and he's dropping 3.5-4k jumps compared to 2.2-2.4k drills. Add in the occasional double jump and we have an amazing random encounter fighter, though bosses tend to drop him easily thanks to the rampant counter-attacks; with no stamina and 3/4 of his equipment spoken for, he's nearly impossible to have survive a slight breeze sent his way from a boss, let alone the stronger attacks. Palidor's HP increase have been helping him tank slightly better now though, but it was really noticeable earlier in the WoR.
-Relm is love. Meteor/Flare are not nearly as overkill as the Readme led me to believe, but they still provide her with consistent damage output that none of the other mages can boast. Her biggest issue is that she doesn't have the ability to abuse elemental weaknesses, meaning that most of the time Terra is outdoing her in damage even before Morphing. Terra also has 7-8 levels over Relm though, so I expect that gap to close as soon as I pump some levels into her.
-Strago is, well, Strago. Lores are more or less the same bag of tricks they were in vanilla FF6, but with the fat trimmed; lots of powerful elemental options at your disposal, along with some potent buff skills. My biggest concern is that his health is so pitifully small that Holy Wind is not as useful as it could be (And as his only healing skill it kills his usefulness as a support option), but he wrecks things pretty well, and thanks to X-Magic even Ice 2 remains an effective spell choice for him.
-Terra is probably the most overpowered member of the team. Just, hands down, wow. Access to nearly every high-level spell in some manner (Flaresword is a thing that should not be but I love it regardless), along with her equipment/esper options, allow her to go in any direction and dominate. She outdamages any other mage I have thanks to having Fire/Ice/Bolt 3, while still having respectable defenses and a Fight command that 50% of the time explodes the target.
-Locke just got back, and already he's reclaiming his spot as one of the premier damage dealers of the team. Thief Glove's +25% physical damage is still great on him, though Rogue Cloak seems conflicted (Why would I need a 100% fight chance if I'm abusing the +25% magic damage) and I've left it alone in favor of a Black Belt for the counterattacks it brings. Easily keeps up with Sabin in terms of raw physical power (I had Ramuh on him for nearly the entire WoB, so he's sporting 90 Vigor with his current set-up), and his repertoire of support spells is good enough to let him fall back on them when needed.
-Mog is difficult to love, but I do regardless. Despite having a lot of +Magic boosts, his spell selection is too poor to really take advantage of them, though his dances are another matter entirely; he revolves around picking the right dance to use, similar to Gau's rages, but I usually find myself picking a defensive dance because the offensive skills are blocked by immunities often enough that I'll just spam Wind Song for the Sun Bath cure. Despite this frustration he's still one of my top picks for a support unit, due to being so tanky that he'll rarely fall in battle.
-Setzer is a tank, plain and simple. Similar to what I just said about Mog, he can stay standing during a fight for forever and take nearly anything that is dished out at him; he has a better spell selection for supporting too, which helps him considerably. Still haven't gotten the Fixed Dice or GP Rain relic though, so his damage is practically non-existent, even with Daryl's Soul giving him twice the Dice.
-Shadow is just kinda disappointing. I was expecting him to play like a more offense-oriented version of Locke, trading in the utility of Steal and healing magic for a few buff spells and a strong offensive skill; Throw is incredibly powerful (The cost at this point of the game makes it hard to justify using though), but otherwise he comes off as a frailer, less powerful Locke with the option to drop a nuke via Throw.