FF6 - Brave New World

Finished the playthrough last night, amazing what a handful of levels (Average was 35 instead of 30) will do for trivializing the endgame. Myria aside because I brought a bad teamcomp for it (Umaro/Mog/Setzer/Edgar), nothing was too large of a threat in the last boss fights. Terra/Strago/Shadow/Setzer took on all of Kefka on their own thanks to Rerise spam and heavy multi-target damage.

Did have one question about an item, since I didn't find it in either playthrough; can you get a Mirage Vest outside of the arena? Even after trading in all the gear I wasn't using, I only had a couple (I outfitted Locke/Shadow with Vests; Snow Muffler is too good on Gau and Royal Jacket is still very good for Sabin. 95 speed Shadow with perma-haste is insanity and with HasteX/Rerise he's probably my MVP from the sheer utility, provided you pay the cash to keep Throw relevant.)

Didn't mention it before, but Umaro is a beast this time around; RageBelt/Ribbon means he won't go down easy, constantly hits the 9999 cap if I have Mog in the party, and still does around 8000 with a toss if Mog isn't present for whatever reason. Blizzard Orb's attack is incredibly powerful as well, but keeping Umaro from being statused ended up being more important I found. One of the best physical damage dealers in the game and the only time from recruitment to the end (I brought him nearly everywhere) I felt he was a liability was the Inferno fight, where he often wasted turns attacking the wrong parts. I wouldn't even consider bringing him to Owzer's Mansion, I suppose, but other than that he's great for bringing the pain if your team otherwise is a little on the soft-hitting side.

Relm I'm a little torn over, mostly neglecting her this run in favor of Umaro (Gogo did not get used endgame either, though that is admittedly due to not finding anything for Gogo to do in a fight that someone else couldn't do better, and Gogo generally being incredibly frail). Unless you're pumping her full of Starlet levels in order to have a 60 stamina Relm, she's going to be so frail that even Protect and back row won't save her from a lot of the later physcial attacks in the game. The number of Quasar spammers lategame isn't doing her any favors either, since she's either killed outright or so low on health that I'm spending a turn healing her regardless. Add onto all of that, Setzer arguably does her job better due to better gear, having access to the same support spells (And a +2 Mag esper), and having access to +HP to help out as well. Relm's only real saving grace compared to Setzer is Flare/Meteor, but once you get Fixed Dice even that's only minor.