praetarius5018

for just adding a field icon but doing nothing else you already have !item, just "use" any weapon and you achieve that already. single job is only intended for "normal" difficulty (3-4 with basic rules). without expert a higher diff is maybe possible if you allow yourself to level grind but expert is unlikely thanks to enemy level rubberbanding. I doubt that the double stat gains for job levels 6+ are even close to enough to compensate for just lacking critical abilities.

Currently, !scan is free to use, !skill/examine costs some MP and also needs level 6 to use. I wanted to replace the former but never got around to it/never got an idea that would work as a replacement. Hold L or R when entering the job menu, I could never figure out how to add scrolling to that screen.

That sounds rather likely, yes.

Did you check the xls files in the zip? The former should be in classes.xls.

As usual when this comes up, how big is the difference? Magic doesn't get crits but I try to compensate that by adjusting the damage by an theoretical average (crit rate x dmg%). Weapons are affected by their element, physical skills take the equipped weapon's element, do you match them to the target's weakness the same you choose fire/ice/bolt? On aoe skills, magic deals less per target, physical aoes have a fixed multiplier, against how many targets are you comparing? Vanilla steal chance was 40%, 80% with the thief gloves. Here it is. 40 base +(agl-24) if agl > 24 cap at 90 if above, then: +10 if thief job +10 if thief gloves equipped Not sure what else I should've done with Pillage, it was mostly meant for the "unique" things certain bosses carry. If it was only a 50% chance for 2x items that would just be a disgusting reset-fest for those items that are already rare steals... I intend the gold management to be similar to the limitation of job levels. You can't get all class level in one playthrough, in the same vein you should make an informed choice of how to use gold, does your current playthrough need bombs, can you get by without them? Bombs primarily are meant as a crutch to make the 6 bomb boss possible for every single party comb in single job mode, everything beyond that is a bonus. Admittedly, if you can get a lot of bombs early in W1 they are a minor game breaker. Same as bomb, it gives me a baseline of guaranteed abilities every party composition has (especially for single job mode). I know that you always have a heal spell, a magic attack, an accuracy buff, the option to see weaknesses/stats and a way to manipulate MP. That means I have to hold back less when designing bosses. For regular play, the specialized job skills should take center stage. We have 40+ bosses, randoms don't need to be impactful, I just see them as "resources" in this hack, be it gold, items, blue spells, beastmaster ammo, etc. That's why you can just switch them off. Focus is simply on bosses on multiple playthroughs. If random fights were actual show stoppers, most people would probably lose interest before even reaching W3. That reward was meant for NG+ but gg! My proudest memory of VD was when one player was stuck on Shiva difficulty 1 and we sat down with 2 or 3 other players and everyone found a unique way to beat her from that player's savefile. No grinding, just switching around a few items and skills. Do that but don't hold your breath for another mod update from my side anytime soon; life's been busy.

Whenever that character inflicts "yellow" damage (e.g. crits), they heal a few HP.

Unheard for me as well. Maybe try patching a different ROM?

No, there are no planned changes for that feature.

Items with the down arrow are considered "cursed" and cannot be unequipped because they provide very strong benefits.

correct, damage gets x1.25 for every single TP

at its core the damage formula is (atk-def) times all the multipliers. endgame mobs should have about 400-450 atk, you around 300 def depending on vit and armor class. so worst case the -15 is 10% less damage taken (450-300=150 => 435-300=135). pair it with evil shaman's weapon and it becomes a bigger share. but tbh VIT is kind of a main stat on everyone so it got a "lesser" bonus from me; I tried to give the off stats better capstones to make the trade offs more worth it. anti-magic, poison; the stuff you'd usually rarely use in vanilla SD3

Death roulette is exactly the same as death spell.

and make me cry immunity = 0 damage resistance = it deals damage like a normal spell instead of 999

Imagine that a monster would normally do 1000 damage to you and you 2000 to them with a given attack. If you cast Sap Mark on that monster it now does only 800 damage and takes 1600. Same if instead you had cast the mark on your character. If you have it active on both the damage becomes 640 and 1280. Each player has their own yin-yang balance which at the start of the battle is neutral (+0). For each target that a yin spell hits it gives a +1, each target of a yang spell is -1, at most +/-10. Yang/paradox multiplies it by -1. Yin spells get weaker the higher this value is; at +0 they have 100%, at -10 135%, at +10 15%. Opposite for yang. So yes, alternate them. You could also tank your score by doing an aoe yin spell first and then enjoy multiple turns of strengthened single target yang spells. No, it gives the same resistance as if the correct status resist relic was equipped, so it only lowers the stop status build-up. Normally M-Cannon "empties" a field icon per target on use, e.g. 5x fire becomes 4x fire + 1x empty. Or if all 5 are already empty 1 icon instead becomes a broken icon. However if the target is heavy instead of empty the icon becomes immediatly broken, so 5x fire would become 4x fire + 1x broken. Empty icons get just moved along like all other icons and can be refilled eventually. Broken icons are unmovable and stay until the end of battle. Both of those oppose all elements, same way a light icon reduces fire damage. However broken icons additionally hurt the power of your heal spells. Those broken icons can be good or bad depending on how active you manage the icons; e.g. if you rely on summons this is very bad since those get a much stronger effect from matching icons. If you tend to lose control of what goes on with the icons you can produce 2 broken icons and then not worry about bosses producing detrimental field combos.

To resist poison you can use either poison or fire relics. Sage stone can be unequipped; the penalty only triggers if you have an "illegal" state right now - if you unlock the job proper or just switch job back before you learn anything from it you are good to go.