FF6 - Brave New World

It really helps to make him feel less reliant on Sprint Shoes to be relevant as a damage dealer in fights, if nothing else.

Still haven't finished the newest version yet (I stalled on the Warring Triad fights due to being out of Revivify and getting low on Phoenix Down; not looking forward to scaling the entire tower again so I keep putting it off), but in general Cyan's magic attacks feel more relevant (I actually had him Holy spamming during a couple fights where I wanted high single-target damage instead of good all-target damage) even with a Vigor-focused build. Dragon is still good when you get it, but by endgame it was rarely used in favor of Cyan's other magical options, mostly due to no +Stam levels.

Elemental Shadow is totally legit though, with a MementoRing/RogueCloak you can hit around 6k a scroll if you hit a weakness on a single target (And don't forget that you tend to get 2-3 times as many turns as the rest of the team). Made stuff like Magimaster and Guardian much easier this time around compared to my first playthrough when I didn't know what to expect. Even with around a dozen Phantom levels in WoB, Shurikens were not nearly as potent as a neutral scroll. With the reduced cost of his scrolls, I ended up bringing Shadow pretty much everywhere in WoR since fights could be cleared in a scroll or two and would leave me with more money than I spent.

GP Rain is much more usable this time around, but by endgame I had ditched it for Fixed Dice/Daryl's Soul and a Ribbon to make sure Setzer played a medic with the occasional hard-hitting attack rather than my main spread damage guy. Leveled him more with HP bonuses than stamina
though, about a 75/25 share, and he's definitely the best tank on the team.

And finally a question about jumping in general, I suppose. I had Mog getting multiple jumps with Punisher equipped, but I'd only ever see one Flare go off at most, and always after Mog landed; is this how spellcasting from jumps works in FF6? I never bothered with Holy Lance jumping in vanilla FF6, so I wasn't sure. Ultimately ditched the jumping plan and went with a full mage Mog; Break and Bio are still good spells and Quake is strong provided you make your team immune, and Dances have some great spell choices (Triple 9999 Cockatrice cast saved me against KatanaSoul, dropped him after he'd took out everyone else in the party over a couple rounds)