ReCast FF3: War of the Magitek

You can also give her two paintbrushes instead of brush and palette, which makes her an absolute beast for physical attacks, but also makes her as fragile as glass.  When I used that strategy in testing, I tried to mitigate her defense deficit with cloaks or gauntlets.  Sabin faces a similar defense deficit when claw-wielding; the strategy works for him too.

Due to the way that defenses and evade work, I'm not convinced this is an effective way to deal with low defenses since the defense increases get more important as defense is higher.  Using two Gauntlets to bump Relm's defense from 90 to 130 only decreases damage by 24% while eating up both Relic slots.  Using two Gauntlets to bump somebody from 200 to 240 will cut out 72% of damage, by contrast.  For frailer characters, I find that Safe/Shell are a better band-aid if I've got a way to use them effectively, especially since they always cut damage by 50% in this hack.

Realistically though, I'll probably stack Cloaks and Palettes with Relm since her evades can get so high.

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EDIT: Which reminds me... I should probably set palettes to break when used as items.  Right now everybody can finger-paint, and that's not fair to the expensive Fire rods.

Yes, I agree.  I didn't even realize that you could use Palettes multiple times until you said so, but I won't do that since it's unfair and you're planning on removing that mechanic.

I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like Locke and Biggs aren't level-averaged after Thamasa when the others are.