borker223

Hello! I made an account because I just wanted to say that this is one of the most fun, creative, and overall impressive hacks I've ever played. I just got the Fire Crystal jobs, and I've been playing on difficulty 2 Normal mode, so here're my thoughts so far, mostly on some kf the classes. (I haven't tried every job I have yet, but I've planned things out so I get to use every job at least a little) Black Mage seems stupid good. It's dealing way more damage than basically anything else, partly thanks to the comparitively large amount of elements it has access to early game. The only other job I've seen come close is a Monk's Blitz moves, and some of those are only single target. Physical jobs just aren't keeping up and its fragility is mostly solved by 4th position + backrow, and will likely become less of an issue as I level classes with Vit/HP levels. It's been a while since I've played vanilla FF5, but was stealing always this hard? Even as a Thief it felt like my steal attempts failed more than half the time. Pillage is a bit busted though, it feels like I've gotten several thousand gold more in equipment than I 'should' have the last couple dungeons. Even with all that gold, I'm finding it hard to get Bombs for Tinker abilities. New equipment and magic still takes up most of my income and unloke most other items it seems like I've barely found any from chests/enemies. Tinker is still fine as a class because it has X-Item which has been a godsend but I'd like to play around with its abilities a bit more. Also, idk if it's what you intended but I've been using the basic Skills a lot even now just because of Aid. Essentially giving one character's turn to another is amazing in a lot of situations, if only to maximize the damage my main attacker(s) are putting out. Most random encounters so far seem pretty tame. I haven't had many 'oh ****' moments from them, and the way this gane works means that they're not draining my resources in any meaningful way. They mostly go down in a few aoe attacks, or occasionally a Masscast-boosted status spell. Boss fights have been great though. Siren especially was incredibly intense, since I was using a Sage Stone Vampire to learn the Oath attack so I couldn't use any of the aoe healing options I had at the moment. I basically had to cast Skeleton intermittantly to ensure that physical attacks didn't wreck me, and then blast away as quickly as possible before she overwhelmed me with damage. It was a really engaging fight that got my brain muscles really moving, although I have no idea how I'd have done it on difficulty 1 lmao. So yeah, this hack has been great so far, and I look forward to playing more of it. I'll probably post a more as I get further into the game. Thanks for taking the time to make this!