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7C55C-7C5BF: FuSoYa Level Data (51-70)
00 14 20 43 41I liked the hack, but there are just various imbalances that drove me up a wall...
1) There are simply too many undead early, and too few late. This led to my decision to choose Holy over Lif2 for that very reason alone. I like were Life was slotted, but not where Lif2 was slotted. Hrm3/4 has effectively the same impact that it does in this game... almost none late game.
2) Time Magic is too support-ish and not good enough to stand by itself... having the Time Mage be right next to the Sage in total strength is ridculous. Not even a magic power boost is worth such a compensation... I'll have to elaborate on this more..
3) The core problem with Time Magic is that the characters that can use them are grossly pathetic physically to benefit from them. Fast2 (or Fast) does not help the Ninja, let alone Black or Time Mage to be remotely proficient in attacking. This class completely needs a Saber/Temper magic available to even remotely rebalance these individual classes. There's something wrong with the balance when the Red Mage is stronger than the Ninja (that was never true in the original), and gets better spells overall.
4) There are certain enemies that pose a challenge, and that's awesome too. Most that annoyed me the most is the monsters that have few hits, but insane attack power and accuracy. The problem is that Invis does not have the same impact in this hack, relative to the original game. I found Fog significantly more beneficial. It's an interesting point of note, given that Invis tends to get a lot of attention in the original game. I'd say Invis needs a boost...
5) I'm convinced the Paladin is underpowered. Given what I know now, the Harm spells are nifty early on, but he then becomes useless magicwise. Another spell level cannot hurt, given that Fog3 will revitalize this character's overall potential.
6) I don't have a fucking clue where the 4th Ribbon is... AAAARRRGGGHHHHH
7) The Red/Time magic comments make absolutely no sense late game. Just say the upper half is Red Magic, and the bottom half is Time Magic. That would make a ton more sense.
Well, Cur4 isn't joined at the hip with Hel4, which is why disabling this outside of battle doesn't really impact it that much IMO.
If you add it to a monster's battle script, it would be a lot more interesting...
Yea.. but the fasincination with the spell since FF:DOS is to neuter high evasion monsters.. although I don't remember a lot in the original to begin with... so meh.
Let me put it this way. What actually distinguishes the physical power of the Time Mage and the Sage? Absolutely nothing as far as I can tell (I could be wrong, I don't know what the Sage's starting stats are). However, the Sage has uber heal+attack magic at its disposal. The Time Mage is not intended to be that I presume, but White/Black Mage is impacted more by Fast than the Time Mage... that makes no sense (The Time Mage should be on par with the White+Black Mages in terms of physical strength+weapon options). In addition, if you use a dual Dark Knight/Ninja combo (or one of each), the impact of the Time Mage is lessened a tad... not that it's a detriment, but Fst2 isn't that sexy an option...
I'll see, maybe I'm seeing this wrong. I just know that the original Knight (the upgraded Fighter) had enough irrelevent magic to be useless in that department. Completing the Anti-elemental set plus Pure would've been perfect (in the original game I mean).. I kinda see the same for the Paladin, but I'll have to see that in playing this.
Hmm.. the balance is off..
[spoiler]QuoteWhat would compel anyone to use Life2 instead of Harm4? It seems to be a "fill in spell" and doesn't exactly compete that well with Holy either...
Wow, good point, I can't believe I didn't notice that one... not sure what I can do about it though, the max spell base is only 255 and hrm4 already does 240... I could up it to 255 but I'm not sure that would make much of a difference... any suggestions?
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You haven't responded to my other balancing points yet.. mostly regarding the Time Mage vs the other mages...
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[spoiler]QuoteI'm kinda disappointed that the Defender doesn't have a spell attached to it... and I don't quite get why the Flame Sword has no spell, even though the counterpart the Ice Sword has a spell...
The Venom Axe can't get a spell going either.. say Bio or something?...
Except for staffs, the only weapons that cast spells are the highest level weapon (the "ultimate" weapon) of each type. The Ice Sword is more of a "counterpart" to the Rune Axe than it is to the Flame Sword... sorry if that disappoints you but I don't really have any intention of changing it. And if I did, they would be casting junkier spells than Bio.QuoteAlso, I have absolutely no idea what the 108Gems "shield" is supposed to protect me from... a hint would've been nice.
Yeah, not a very descriptive name is it? I suppose the same is true for the ProCape and ProRing. Not really sure what to do about that though... I can't exactly name it the "Protection from Dark, Holy, and Earth Necklace"... I could have a character in the game talk about it or something, would that help?
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It's more broken in battle than outside of battle because of use and repetition (then again, I would've normally whined about it.. I did think about it for a bit though). For monsters to use it though, that would be annoying but at least that's counterable...
I thought a lot of the original spells were defined moreso on hit rate.. like Slow vs Slo2 and Slep vs Slp2, etc.
Fst2 is built to a non-fighting character... the Black Mage benefits a little more, and the Staff weapon for mages seems to be the crap of the weapons (I haven't gotten far enough, but that's my observation). Even the White Mage gets da' hammer and doesn't even get this spell. Maybe it's just me, but even the easily solo targetable Fast is worth more than Fst2. The only way of balancing this aka neutering Fast is by making it self targeted so that the Time Mage is a little more important.. although I think you need to give the Time Mage an alternate weapon to play with as a bonus. Also.. you could make 3 versions of this spell... a level 6 version that is targetable.
Also, I think the Dark Knight is a bit superior to the Paladin. The Paladin's Holy weapons are probably going to benefit more towards the end, but the spell set will never beat the Dark Knight simply due to the existance of Fast. Perhaps upping one more White level could balance that out...
I remember contacting the guy once to complementing his hack and I got a response. The e-mail addy is in his readme for his hacks IIRC.. and he does have a website too...
Well, you did make one elemental based, so it's not out of the question... well, making them do something than do nothing is always a preferable thing (heck, making either deal some damage wouldn't be out of the question either...
Hel4 could possibly be the most overpowered thing ever...
Also, I don't see how much different that a higher level Inv4 does than a slightly lower leveled Inv3... it would endorse the Ninja a bit more than the Time Mage. Lok3 and Lok4 doesn't have the same issue that I can see...
The same could be said for Fst2 (shouldn't you be using Haste or "Hst" instead of the old FF1 spelling?.. then again name nostalgia is creeping up on me)... the Time Mage seems to be let down further (unless the Masamune is left intact).. much more than the Black Mage to an extent...
IIRC, I believe Grond uses those spells in his hack. I guess you could ask him.
Hmm.. if Warp/Exit were used as alternative Death spells, that would've been interesting.
Also, making the Soft spell inflict Break/Stone status would've been a nice touch. (Then again, those are the kind of spells I would change, in addition to Fear....)
Maybe it's just me, but I feel a little underwhelmed by the L7/L8 magic... I could be wrong.
