Final Fantasy V: Void Divergence 1.658

v1.500

• added field combos, e.g. field with 2 fire + 2 light adds 4 sun icons
• field combos require the world balance to sufficiently shattered (2 crystals destroyed)
• reworked !mix to a 8 skill menu
• reworked !red to 8 unique skills around combining fight, white and black spells
• replaced !drink with !imbue, a skill menu for Mystic Knight
• turned !rose from low level white/black spells to its own 8 spells
• changed some abilities learned by jobs accordingly
• cover can now also catch certain single target damage spells
• status effect randomness threshold is increased unless a special moon icon is on the field, 25% with, 80% without
• void field icons now reduce effective def by 5 each
• added workaround to status resistance stacking exploit
• replaced "Row" (left in battle command selection) with "Brv." (!Brave)
• replaced !Brave ability that was available by default with !Skill, 8 skill menu to get better through the early game
• changed most damage amplifier effects - incl. weakness, exluding field - to stack additive instead of multiplicative
• changed most damage reduction effects to incur diminishing returns past 25% total reduction
• increased rare item drop chance by x2.5 (1/16 -> 5/32)
• battle auto-reset can be cancelled by holding B
• battle auto-reset is not available in expert mode
• Valor/WideShld and Mystic/VoidElem apply now only once per battle but cover all elements and absorb instead of reduce damage
• increased scaling of monster %maxHP damage skills
• reduced scaling of barehanded m.atk
• increased unlock requirements for !Drag-On skills (highest from 1984 to 4032)
• non-boss encounters now give half ABP relative to exp gain
• if exp gain is turned off, ABP gain is now also removed
• adjusted ABP requirements per job level
• increased max possible ABP gain per encounter from 200 to 250
• increased STR and MAG growth of monster again; less than previous reduction
• increased heal power of !Mantra from 30 to 55
• increased heal power of !Esemte/Recover from 52 to 90
• increased heal power of !Yin/Vivify from 70 to 93
• changed targetting of !Esemte/Recover from one/all to one
• changed !Recover from full status heal to 40 power cure with blind/poison cure
• changed formula for healing spells
• fixed outdated tutorial dialog noting about automatic replacing passive skills with active skills inbattle
• song buffs can at most give +50% to STR/MAG/AGL for damage calculation purposes
• decreased limit of black/temper and item/powerdrink from +50 to +30 attack; both grant +10 each use
• increased HP and damage of Sol Canon
• increased boss monster start-up delay from 30 to 50
• increased non-boss monster start-up delay from [10..70] to [10..90]
• potion heal soft caps at 25% user's maxHP, hi-potion at 50%
• !x-item hp heal reduced to 2/3
• !x-item can no longer be used with bombs, web, elixirs or feathers
• !item and !x-item can now use drinks as well
• giant drink now adds 200~1000 maxHP (based on stack size), can not stack with +50% maxHP buffs
• speed drink now adds +5 AGL to a max of +15 (shared with songs)
• might drink replaces protect drink and adds +5 STR&MAG to a max of +15 (shared with songs)
• replaced turtle shells with panacea, cures status damage and MP sickness
• replaced dragon fangs with wing, inflicts float
• replaced dark matter with decoy, creates 1x image
• replaced !SwdSlap with !DethBlw, 2x damage but subject to cooldown
• !x-fight, !x-magic and !twincut are now subject to cooldown
• !x-magic now is a free action that makes the next spell in the current turn act as a free action (=cast ANY 2 spells in one turn, no own restricted spell selection)
• !x-magic's free action can not be carried over to a future turn
• increased damage and accuracy of !x-fight and !twincut
• active !abilities that are subject to cooldown mechanics now show "cooldown" instead of "active" in the ability menu
• first !ability no longer adds to stats
• added softcap to base stats at 50
• reduced HP per job with "HP up" bonus from 50 to 20+total job levels, capped at 50
• fixed bug that made drain spells heal double the intended amount against targets that survive the spell
• increased CQC from 20% to 27%
• increased Y-Magic from 25% to 30%
• Y-Magic now does not work on the free action spell cast by X-Magic's effect instead of the complete turn
• increased global cooldown recovery a bit
• increased item cooldown for softs from 8~1 to 255~7
• reduced mightamp/rod element boost from 50% to 30% (physical 30% to 20%)
• increased power of Wind Slash from 90 to 115
• increased power of Black/Bio from 106 to 120, cost from 18 to 23
• increased power of Black/Psych from 30 to 70
• increased cost of Arcane/ChainBolt from 10 to 16
• increased cost of Bushido/Cleave from 10 to 15
• increased cost of Bushido/TeraBreak from 17 to 27
• increased power of Yin/Siphon from 28 to 63
• reduced power of Zombie Breath from 20 to 12
• increased power of Icestorm from 99 to 110
• increased power of Electric Shock from 118 to 132
• increased power of Mustard Bomb from 90 to 115
• increased MP drain from psych-like spells from 1/32 to 1/16
• fixed some issues in the calculation of psych damage
• on multi element attacks field attacks that oppose one element but boost another ignore the opposing part
• bosses get 50% damage reduction from armor/shell instead of 25%
• bosses get +25 power on ground type spells (quake, flood)
• def piercing spells when used by monster ignore 15/16 def instead of 1/2
• old status additionally reduces damage output by 20%
• blind status additionally reduces physical damage output by 20%
• fork tower (physical) reduces mag. accuracy to 0 and magic power to 25%
• bomb damage can now be absorbed as fire damage
• changed formulas for !released monster
• relic with "catch up" effect increases damage of released monster slightly
• buffed attack power of Galura, reduced speed a bit
• nerfed stats of Gilgamesh (dungeon, solo Galuf)
• fixed some sprite errors on tinker Bartz and tinker Galuf
• renamed Blue/???? to Minus Strike and made it display in top box when used
• Tinker/Overload now ignores endure
• level down spells like Blue/DarkSpark are now subject to status damage, treated as "old"
• defense down spells like Blue/Guard-Off are now subject to status damage, treated as "berserk"
• increased base accuracy of Blue/DarkSpark from 66% to 80%
• changed wounded status from poison to water
• changed mute status from holy to wind
• changed mini status from water to poison
• changed confuse status from wind to holy
• replaced !aero with !bless, next received cure spell gets +50% power, +2 def until used
• Bard learns !Bless instead of !Drink
• Berserker learns !Flirt instead of !Drink
• Chemist learns !Bless instead of !Drink
• Magus learns !Sleep instead of !Aero
• MysticKnight learns !Imbue instead of !Aim
• Tinker learns !BuildUp instead of !Drink
• WhiteMage learns !Bless instead of !Aero