FF6 - Brave New World

Hey all, just registered to discuss Brave New World. Spent most of the weekend buried in it and just beat it about five minutes ago. Everyone was level 50, so Kaiser and Kefka weren't much trouble. All in all, it was an absolutely fantastic take on one of my favourite RPGs. Well done to everyone involved.

To offer some perspective on Umaro: I did find him quite useful early in the WOR, since he was consistently doing 2 - 3k non-elemental damage every turn, which helped me brute force my way past enemies with specific weaknesses. By the time I'd started seriously building the rest of the characters, though, he was totally outclassed. I'd suggest he needs much higher stamina, but I see you're already planning on that.

MVP World of Balance: Gau. His Stamina was obscene thanks to Stray, so I gave him the Life Bell and he was effectively immortal. I was able to use his Rages in a supporting role (Flan, Rhinox, Defender) or an MT damage dealer (Albatross, Sand Ray, Ninja) depending on the situation, and they weren't redundant. Dragon and Io were useful for a lot of the WOR, but once my spellcasters started hitting the damage cap, he fell by the wayside.

MVP World of Ruin: Strago. Neglected the guy in the WOB, but once he got access to Black Omen, he was tearing through random encounters AND bosses with no trouble. He and Terra were able to kill off all four Kefka tiers simply by alternating Black Omen and Ultima while the rest of the party healed them. Raid meant he was never short of MP.

LVP: Shadow. Less "he sucked" and more "he's very situational". Smoke Bombs saved me during the battle against Kaiser (I wasn't expecting Kaiser to be there and had to wing it, though; I wouldn't have taken him had I known). I think the big issue is that he's a supporting character with a few very powerful support abilities (Fenrir, Regen, Haste, Smoke Bombs) but once he's fired them off... what does he do then? Setzer can at least use curative magic, but Shadow's reduced to throwing shurikens and scrolls, which aren't as useful as the other characters' physical and magic attacks. Maybe if you gave him a bunch of knives with stronger elemental / status effects and kinda made him a version of Sabin that relies on dodging rather than tanking? I know I could farm non-shuriken throwable weapons from the monsters in the Zone Eater, but that seems like a waste of time when the other characters are able to do comparable-if-not-higher damage without wasting rare consumables.

Glitches: In the Fanatic's Tower, the chest containing Crusader opened normally, then defaulted back to its "closed" graphic after I'd entered the menu. It stayed "closed" for the remainder of the game.

Miscellany: I take it Gogo's ability to equip Daryl's Soul is because you're going with Gogo = Daryl?

Also, have Edgar's Air Anchor and Debilitator been removed entirely, or did I miss them?