FFVI: Divergent Paths

Turns out it was a false alarm, and I got it back when Shadow rejoined the team at Thamasa! I must’ve put it on him during the Locke scenario and then the game didn’t remove his equipment when he left the party. Normally the game always removes your equipment in cases like that, but I guess I got confused because in your version of that scenario, it doesn’t look like it actually removes it. 

Anyway, mystery solved! Thank you!

PS- While I’m thinking about it, did you remove the Bracers as steal able items on the floating continent? I didn’t find Bracers in the sealed cave like I think is in vanilla, and the Dragons aren’t coughing up any…

Huh. Guess I misremembered the re-initialization of the profile. Glad that the me of 4 years ago thought of that!

Bracers have been moved from Dragons to Ninjas. In keeping with other Final Fantasy games, dual-wielding is associated with Ninjas, and two-handed grip is associated with Samurai. Now, the Ninjas have a rare steal/morph of Bracers, and Samurai a rare steal/morph of Gauntlets.

I will note though that Gauntlets have been buffed, and Bracers have been nerfed, so that they are now at roughly equal power. This is considered more of a bugfix than a design change. The Bracers are good for items that give status effects, and the Gauntlets are good for more rare equipment.