To be honest I'm not sure Curse is a good idea. It is a powerful status, I mean Really powerful, it's part of the reason in Combat Boost that utilizing the power of Curse also turns the user into a Zombie, that's how far I went to balance it. But... I do have an idea, that it should be unique to Dark Knight Cecil and should be his reward from defeating Odin because as it stands there is no reward for the Dark Knight (at least the last time I went through) just more encouragement from Odin to become a Paladin, this would balance it out, I feel.
Well, I made it through Eblan by the last time I posted. Cid is King there because of the Gaia Hammer dealing handily with the difficult Stonemen and Stalemen, and the Giant's Gloves you can pick up from Mythril help him and Cecil take these 600 damage attacks as glancing blows.
I do approve of many of the changes that I read about, turning Agart into a hint town was an awesome idea, that you have Hi-Potions there allow you to use Cid to his maximum potential before reaching Eblan's Hideout.
Drain being earlier works out very well, considering that yes the Blood Sword overtakes Drain for the Dark Knight.
So back to the game... 99 Hi-Potions and onto the Tower of Babil!
Drain at Level 24 works so well for Cecil, making him an actually viable force in the back row if need be, the only issue, as I'm learning with Edge, is that his MP pool is too low to make great use of it for casual battles.
The Tower of Zot/Babil wasn't too tricky. I did make sparing use of Dash, but unfortunately Edge's MP was too low to keep consistently using magic, but while it lasts, it works well enough. Dash showed its worth though in the Magus Sisters battle, I feel their HP was a little buffer and Sandy's Comet felt much more powerful. Other than that, not too much to worry about. I do like that Cindy starts to use Death and Bio though, can really throw off the player. So they feel more formidable.
I did notice that you still have Air elemental as "weak against Arrows" with Scan. You may want to change that to be more inclusive.
Barbariccia felt more punishing all in all, but several well timed Dash's, Sylphs, and Jumps won us the day and a thrown Shuriken here and there.
Were the power of Hi-Potions and X-Potions increased? I noticed that Hi Potions looked to be healing for more than 480 and an X-Potion I used on Cid healed him 1900!
Well so far in this no grinding run... I still feel that I'm roughly the same level I normally am. Lots of random encounters though. Cid 29, Cecil 28, Rosa 28, Edge 30 and I just made it to the Dwarf Castle.
One thing I have noticed though is that the Battle Axe sort of pales in comparison to what the Hammers have to offer, and for some reason in the Dwarf Castle there's a Throwing Axe there which is completely outclassed by the time you get any Axe wielder back into the party. Maybe you should keep the Battle Axe in Mist Cave and put the Throwing Axe in Mythril?
There are the two HP Apples! I'll want to save these for the final party... I have an interesting party setup in mind.
Ah, the way to the empty bar is now closed... interesting... Or was that what was used for the Mist Cave copy?
Was not expecting a third HP-Apple!
And a fourth! Looks like Tellah's going to have a bit of HP when he comes back!
Oh, I see the Angel Wings for 5000 GP a piece at the store, a very fair price for such an item I find.
Well, Palom and Porom are equipped so time to loot the towns and try to take on the Fiends in the opposite order (asking for trouble)
Making my way through the Feymarch and I obtained two AngelWings in total, enough to handle at least one of the floors. I find the Feymarch enemies now to be much more reasonable, or maybe that's due to not being at 1 HP for every fight? It's difficult to say, but I think this place is much better balanced now.
Geez, I just got done fighting 2 Warriors and 4 Fiends... that battle cannot be taken lightly, any attack that you do to the Fiends results in Charm and while I would normally complain about the expense taken you get a whopping 9600 Exp for winning this cruel encounter so I have no room to talk, haha!
Haha, I like the new line about the Rainbow Chocobo, that did admittedly catch me off guard when I saw it the first time. I'm not sure how long that line has been there though.
From the changes you've made to the Aegis Shield it is a really tempting purchase now... yeah, why not pick one up?
Well, I have to be headed out and will come back in 2 days to try and take on Ciriatto at fairly low levels, this should be interesting.
