FF6 - Brave New World

Finished the game last night, had a question about the Kefka boss rush; didn't vanilla FF6 kick dead characters out after a certain period of time, rather than just during the transition between phases? I ended up only using the first 6 characters in the line-up, so some of my powerhouses like Terra never even got to show up - Shadow/Setzer/Edgar essentially handled the entire set of final fights, thanks to Rerise spam and Jump dodging 75% of the attacks.

It's good to see someone giving vigor Sabin a go at this point. We're currently working on a bit of an overhaul so that !Stamina Sabin doesn't run away with the game (but also that stamina remains useful for other characters).

I should note that even without ANY Stamina levels (Veldt abuse ftw), LifeBell still gave him back a very significant amount of health thanks to all the +Stam equips he has available. Just reloaded to check, and Sabin is packing +18 stamina in my endgame build, putting him at more stamina than Terra (Who has been holding Maduin for a good majority of the game). At full health (2138 at level 35, roughly 20 levels of Golem and a Red Cap factored in) he's still dishing out massive heals with Mantra too. I don't know if it's the formulas so much as the bonuses he has available to him in his claws; endgame claws are amazing stat sticks for him, especially Frostgore.

Isn't your Cyan in the back row? >.>

Nah, I've had him frontline all game. The numbers I gave were around the mid-20s though, but after gaining levels during Kefka's tower he started dealing closer to 800 a slash with Tempest - Still not amazing compared to my primary damage dealers, but certainly better. I think if I continued leveling him into the mid-30s (He was 30-31 for the statue fight) I would've started seeing better numbers all around for him.

Siegfried originally used Raze instead of Shock Wave, which made him very difficult to take out since Raze is powerful and unreflectable.

Given the unexpected popularity of the Omega Weapon, I think I'll given him Raze back.

He had both Raze and Shockwave when I fought him, and I have the newest version (ver 1.2.0). Raze was why I carried Ribbon for the fight in the first place; the +Stam helped a lot for Life Bell, as did the poison immunity. Sabin was basically betting on Raze only getting used 2-3 times during the fight, as Siegfried's physical attacks were easily healed off by Life Bell regen (I may have had Sabin in the back row just for that fight, I don't recall).

Bear in mind that an Edgar set up for dragooning will do less damage with the Chainsaw/Drill than one that isn't due to a lack of vigor boosts from a Sword/Shield.

Also, I think you meant to say Unicorn instead of Palidor; Palidor gives vigor and speed >.>

I'd forgotten that I had Edgar using Golem for ten levels or so in the WoB (And WoR prior to getting Palidor), which is where the extra health came from actually. Daryl's Tomb was hard on poor Edgar, but after that is when I noticed him dying a lot less often.

And yeah, Vigor Edgar that isn't a Dragoon seems like it would be a better pure-damage option on enemies without elemental weaknesses to jump onto (Even Trident was still useful endgame with Water-weak enemies), but survival would definitely be an issue if Dragoon Edgar is anything to go by. He seems like a really good candidate for Omega Weapon in that scenario, though that would take the amazing stat stick away from Terra/Celes (Making Illumina/Apocalypse an even tougher choice).

The Rogue Cloak is meant to have synergy with the Thief Glove, since it's basically the old Sneak Ring. A Black Belt works, too, though Locke might get the same thing from the Ninja Mask.

I'm with you, though; I give my Rogue Cloak to Shadow and let him wreck shit with his scrolls. He's incredibly useful in places like WoR Narshe where he can nail elemental weaknesses.

Yeah, Rogue Cloak became my staple item for Shadow at the end; Scroll spam was at an all-time high by then, though I actually ran out of things to throw come Kefka himself. I actually started chucking Mythril Daggers and Butterflys at Kefka by the end of the fight. Turns out 35 of each scroll, shuriken, and Ninjato was not nearly enough; Guardian and Isis probably took a total of 70 throws between them. He definitely redeemed himself by endgame as enemies started individually lasting several rounds even for larger groups, so his high damage multi-target spam was well appreciated.

The defensive ones do seem to be the more popular choices, and they go well with his tank-like style. Something I'm going to do in the next update is look at his offensive ones and make sure they stack up.

More specifically, I'm thinking of having Specter deal some direct damage, which will greatly help Love Sonata's status as a ST damage dance (and help Dusk Requiem suck less).

On that note, is there a particular reason staves can't be dual-wielded? Strago desperately needs a shield so he doesn't fall over in a stiff breeze, and Relm wants brushes anyway, but Mog could have some decent single-target potential if he could dual-wield staves while still having good defenses thanks to his heavy armor selection. Hell, double Punisher Mog would be a force to be reckoned with endgame for bosses, while allowing him full utility thanks to Dance not relying on MP.

Dance damage endgame is kinda hit or miss, and even when it's hitting a weakness consistently (Water Rondo was great on Guardian, as every spell hit its' weaknesses) he's not out-damaging my other characters. I had quite a bit of Magic Power on him too (59 total), but compared to how everyone else saw their damage skyrocket late game (When he'd been more or less even with them back in WoB), Mog got nothing to save him from mediocrity. Either better scaling with stat increases (Though I don't know how viable this is, since the spells are used by so many enemies and I have no idea how that would affect their damage) or something to make him a more appealing Dragoon than Edgar, because imo "Edgar has better options" isn't really a reason to make Mog a dragoon moreso than it is an incentive to not dragoon at all.

You can get the GP Toss relic by trading in the Tarot at the Colosseum, else you'll find one in Kefka's Tower.

If you do make use of it, let us know. I have no qualms with adjusting its formula to make it stronger, but *nobody* f**k**g uses it, so we have no clue.

Huh, don't know how I missed that Tarot becomes that relic; I'd been checking all the starter gear because quite a lot of it turns into something better than useless. Anyway, I just checked and a level 28 Setzer is doing 1680 every turn with GP Rain. I don't know the formula for GP Rain (If it scales on level, or a specific stat, or if it is entirely static), but compared to double Fixed Dice it is notably weaker; even the tamer throws for Fixed Dice tend to be closer to 1k each, sometimes jumping up to 5-6k, and I throw twice a turn. For an endgame attack option, Daryl's Soul is far better despite being obtained early WoR - Heck, compared to Shadow's scrolls it is still less impressive damage-wise, and probably costs more per use than those too. It is nice that it ignores defense, but by the time you'd find the relic in the tower, you're already past the point where you're facing high-defense enemies with low enough hp to make using GP Rain a viable option; I would have loved having it during Phoenix Cave and Fanatics Tower, for sure.