Final Fantasy VI Challenge

[Glitch]

Steadily progressing through WoR,
Doom Gaze is a beast. 1-hit kills the party straight off the bat.

[Lazortag]

Originally Posted by Glitch [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Steadily progressing through WoR,
Doom Gaze is a beast. 1-hit kills the party straight off the bat.

That's pretty badass for a random encounter.

[Lazortag]

Just curious, but is the thunder rod in the cave with the tunnel armor still there? And can you still click it from your inventory to bolt2 the boss and kill it in one hit? I liked that trick.

[aresprophet]

Originally Posted by Lazortag [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just curious, but is the thunder rod in the cave with the tunnel armor still there? And can you still click it from your inventory to bolt2 the boss and kill it in one hit? I liked that trick.

It's not there. He's not terribly difficult, you just have to be smart about when you use Runic.

I forgot to strip equipment from Terra and Edgar so I had basically nothing to put on Locke and Celes except a couple of MithrilBlades I stole in South Figaro. Taking out TunnlArmr 18 hp at a time was a long process. Only took 3 attempts, had bad luck on the second one (he kept using that damn drill attack instead of casting).

Most of the seemingly-hard boss fights so far seem to have a trick you can utilize to make it simpler, but then again I only just beat the Narshe war. Liberal use of Scan (Mithril Rods from ghosts in the phantom forest cast it) makes a big difference; once I saw that the Specter had 6000 hp I immediately knew how to beat it, and Rizopas having only 42 was similarly telling.

[aresprophet]

Oh and knowing how the battle timer works gives you a small edge that can make some impossible fights much more doable. Let Cyan's SwdTech charge up during the animation for Sabin's Fire Dance, and you'll keep enemies from using that time to charge up their own ATB gauge for more attacks. Also try not to use long-animation moves (like Fire Dance) first in any situation where your whole party has full gauges, such as pre-emptive fights.

[gruumsh]

@Mardur

I recently watched some of your youtube videos about a FF6 hack that you are playing that is hard mode. I then saw they are a year old. I just wanted to know, is the hack of this thread different than that one?

[Mardur]

Originally Posted by gruumsh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

@Mardur

I recently watched some of your youtube videos about a FF6 hack that you are playing that is hard mode. I then saw they are a year old. I just wanted to know, is the hack of this thread different than that one?

Most likely referring to Elite Fantasy 3 the ROM hack that I did but was lost to a hard drive failure. This is a different hack.

My hack wasn't quite as... in-depth as this one. I didn't touch stat progression, instead I just removed all level up bonuses and spells from Espers (essentially making them useful only for their summon). I put spells on equipment so that different characters had different sets of spells. And I think I did a bit of a better job with the actual monster/boss changes but that's obviously imo.

I like this hack, but what bothers me is that random monster encounters are more challenging than the bosses. Very few bosses are actually challenging, only Dadaluma and Number 028 (boss after Ifrit/Shiva). A lot of bosses like Flame Eater, Atma Weapon etc can't cause a whole lot of significant ruckus, but they just have tons of HP/defense. Kinda like if Vex Thal was patched into FF VI.

The World of Ruin bosses I've fought so far have been complete push overs. The rest of the game completely rapes my face, because apparently I'm supposed to be 20 levels higher or something (based on that thread that was posted where the dude recommends level 45 for Tritoch).

[Diggles]

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[Glitch]

fun fact: arena encounters can be seen in the veldt in this hack, aka I just got a Chupon and Seigfried lore

Chupon seems to chain-cast W-Wind and Curse Claw
Seigfried casts Quick and melees.

[Glitch]

lore = rage