Insane Difficulty: Brave New World 1.8.4 is now available! - Insane Difficulty

No boss flag meant it was possible to bypass their death script, which is what summons Rizopas.

http://www.synchysi..../BNW_v1.8.4.rar

Fixes the issue with Phantom granting an incorrect bonus (and unbreaks esper equip bonuses). Rizopas is also a winnable encounter again.

Also corrects the spelling of Trillium, assuming you got that updated ROM I sent.

And I'm assuming it doesn't have the Omega overflow fix?

Edit: Actually, it doesn't. I'll fix it for 1.8.5.

Hey guys,

Just wanna post a quick bug (?) I noticed.
I am currently in the beginning of the game, version 1.8, doing Sabin's scenario, and I just got Gau.
So, I was battling some monsters on the Veldt for rages, and I encountered the x formation.
Gau was blinded by the enemy attack, and before that I raged him with the Soldier aura.
Blinded, he cast Remedy on Sabin, who was 1 slot up (Gau was in the 3rd, and Sabin on the 2nd slot).
The spell worked, but the blind status glasses on Gau vanished. When I went to check it after battle, he was still with the status.
Unfortunately, I cured it ASAP. Couldn't test if the glasses came back in another battle.
PS edit: maybe the formation was those 2 black bluish cats and 2 other monsters (?). I'm still not sure...
PPS: Oh, and I'm happy to meet you guys! This mod/hack/wonderfulthing is awesome!

Weird.

Not fixing that shit, but interesting nonetheless.

xD I guess it was pretty minor anyways.
Well, if I see anything else I'll sure post it here. Thanks anyways! ^^

The Shops page of the unlocked PrintMe (and I assume the regular one too) still has "Mythril Gages" hanging around. There is also a targetting discrepancy between the PrintMe's Noiseblaster (foe group), and the ingame description (all foes).

On that topic (seeing as the other thread was a tad... misguided), I've been messing around with item descriptions, and found that replacing instances of "Randomly casts" by "May cast" on weapons saves something like 125 bytes total. Possibly more by changing all "Randomly Xs" into "May X", although some sound a lil' wonky (May counter/steal). If room ever becomes an issue again, I guess it'd be a pretty efficient and low-cost cutting measure.
_{There really are a lot of magic weapons in this game, yo.}

Analyzing Esper Relics. Done in reverse order, so my strongest analysis is for Strago & Relm.

Terra
Locke
Edgar
Sabin
Celes
Cyan
Shadow
Gau
Setzer
Mog
Strago
Relm

Crusader Celes is amazing support. Maybe the best support in the game. It doesn't have to come late, but she really wants 15-20 EL to be good at it.

Even if it's just for KT, she's absolutely excellent. I ran her Crusader build pretty much just in KT and she was a favorite.

Also wb Funnyman.

Miacis, on 24 January 2017 - 05:10 PM, said:

I'll get on this, thanks.

Mishrak, on 24 January 2017 - 10:33 PM, said:

Thanks.

Ehh...speed on Celes is great. Siren Celes' always been a favorite of mine. It's the stamina I'm not seeing. For a support character, she's sacrificing healing, consistent damage (Holy, elementals), and availability for lategame Shock and Omega. It doesn't appear to me that she's significantly bulkier than Siren Celes either, unless you're talking 5+ Alexander levels to go with Crusader.

I'm not saying she's worthless. Speed & support are too good for that. Rather, for an extreme late-bloomer, I don't see her as blooming into anything better than what's all ready available.

Having actually used her Crusader build extensively, I can speak with certainty when I say it's probably one of the best support builds in the game. She can utilize two relics that don't care about status protection because her stamina mitigates it almost entirely. Omega damage is average, and I found myself using her more for perma runic and spot healing / rerise/buffs than anything else. When paired with real damage classes, she was an absolutely monster anchor. Casting regen on her made her a lot more durable than one might expect.

Hnn...still seems iffy or borderline to me. It looks like its borderline scraping up enough defenses to make up for the lack of HP + Amulet. I imagine its speedier than most Siren Celes' (who want Seraph ELs), but at the cost of a much better heal (Cure 2). Not really impressed with perma Runic, since any Celes build can do that. I'm...not convinced, but I'll give it a shot. Whenever I get to KT again, I'll compare 15 Siren vs. 15 Crusader as a support build.

21 Crusader is only a 1/6 extra chance to dodge status. I'm presuming all Genji + Death Ward, maybe Red Cap. IIRC, that's ~64 stamina for mag Celes and ~84 for stam Celes. So, 3/6 chance to dodge status for mag Celes and 4/6 for stam Celes (1/2 and 2/3 respectively). Personally, that still seems too chancey. I'd want at least a 5/6 chance (100 stam; basically Sabin & Strago) to be fully comfortable replacing a status protection relic. I can understand others being fine with 4/6 though.

Not sure on the mg.def variance. IIRC, ~80 stamina is good magic reduction, and it synergizes with Genji. Not sure how significant it is, especially with that low HP. I'd have to test it out first.

Were you using Circlet or Soul Box, and how much Seraph were you using? At 20 Crusader ELs, sounds like Celes would have a tough time spamming Rerise.

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In my "Playtesting" topic, I'm fishing for responses to rating each build. Want to see if people are interested in a community rating of the various builds. MVP topic doesn't distinguish between builds, and many of the responses are old.

I ran 15/5 with 5 Alexandr levels. She has ~1500 HP at level 30 with 12.5%. Plenty.

5 Alexander makes sense. Low on MP, but yes, she's bulkier than mag Celes. I'd have to play it to decide if no MP ELs is enough for grey magic spamming.

Still hold Crusader's tardiness against both her and vig Celes.

So Seraph doesn't give immunity to Zombie.

This I believe is an oversight since Think wasn't aware that I combined death and zombie immunity when I sent him the list of changes (or it could be that I made that list explicitly wanting to exclude zombie... for some reason). In any case, that should be fixable for 1.8.5.

P.Def Distribution:

https://drive.google...UFBIYWxTdTZ0d2c

Notable:

* Owzer's Mansion is really the only low-defense dungeon. Ancient Castle and Mt. Esper have a surprising number of low defense enemies though.
* High Defense is common in the WoB, both for randoms and bosses.
* WoR is fairly neutral, until Kefka's Tower
* Kefka's Tower is WoB all over again. Both randoms & bosses are chalk full of high defense.

Balance-wise, biggest effect this has should be on vig Te/Ce, Dragoon/Mogoon, Flurry Cyan, Gau, and to some extent, Locke.

Mg.Def to come later.

What about the data for the areas there it's blank? Floating Continent and Phoenix Cave in particular are big ones.