Return of the Dark Sorcerer (Rerun) #17 - Ronan's Final Push to Fraust
9Return of the Dark Sorcerer is a hack for Final Fantasy 6 by Gi Nattak. New characters, new portraits, rebalanced spells/moves, a new overworld map, new events, and multiple difficulty levels are just some of the features of this hack.
The latest version can always be found in one of the following two locations:
https://www.ff6hacking.com/patches/rotds/FFVI_ROTDS.zip
http://ngplus.net/index.php?/files/file/8-final-fantasy-vi-return-of-the-dark-sorcerer/
As usual, you'll need to find a proper ROM on your own to patch with.
Version being played: 2.0.5
Picked up everything I wanted from the relic shop off screen. Grabbed three sets of Speed Boots which grants auto haste along with a Ninja Sight which grants a higher chance of preemptive strikes as well as preventing back & pincer attacks (except for scripted fights of course).
In the armory, I pick up a Mystic Sword, Hawk Cleaver (weapon that Arc or Cloud can use), and a spare Wizard's Cap.
Once those purchases are made, it's time to go grab that underwater helmet. From Hamil, just go west all the way, then follow the mountainside south until you can go west again. You should be able to spot the cave entrance soon afterwards.
Inside the cave, the helmet is in the same spot as it was in vanilla, but you need to cross over it yourself and you need to have completed the hide & seek minigame in Hamil to be told its location. Just head straight south after getting off the bridge in the northeast and you'll barrel into it, pick it up, and go off to the Zolom Trench.
The Zolom Trench doesn't have giant snakes that want to eat you or roast your entire team alive, but it does have a couple new enemies in the Sahagin & Hydromage which you'll fight in the underwater sections. Sahagins have a pretty potent Splash spell and make it impossible to run until all on screen ones are killed.
The Hydromage though is the most dangerous enemy by far. Water Bolt inflicts stop, but the real danger is Giga Volt. If it casts this, you are basically losing a party member unless they've got at least 900+ hp. Even better when it uses this as a counter as Avalon found out from the second one encountered.
Best strategy for this area is to only fight when the game forces it upon you due to Sahagins. Due to how it's setup, you can't open the menu when you're in the underwater sections. Thankfully, if you go right at the two forks during the trip, you'll only get into a total of three battles. Two during the trip to the first cave and one heading to the second cave.
The cave sections are small, but both have a good treasure in them (5k gil in the first cave, Soma Drop which raises one target's max mp in the second cave). There's also two enemies in here not seen in the underwater sections, Vineshrooms & Golden Flans. While the latter is best run from due to low rewards and powerful AoE skills, the shrooms can be dropped fairly quickly with fire based moves. Just be careful if one's left because it likes to use Magnitude Eight for 300+ damage to the team. It's an earth attack though so the Angel Pendant relic's auto float can keep one team member safe.
Once you make it through in one piece (which for me was my third attempt to get through, damned Hydromages), you'll arrive in Port Kelna.
In this town, while you can take the ship to head back towards Fraust, you'll want to look around first. There's lots of hidden goodies to pick up and new shops to peruse. The weapon shop has buyable Titan Claws while the armor shop has, among other things, White Dresses (good armor for Aurora with a big boost to magic power) & Ashen Cowls (Fire resistance! Get three of these pronto).
The relic shop though? The main reason I farmed up so much extra gil because there's buyable Mystic Rings & Mithril Gloves. Didn't farm up enough gil because I couldn't get a full set of four for each, but even having at least two of each will make your life MUCH easier.
Also of interest is a curious NPC in the southwest by the name of Jerry. He's selling Machine Oil for 500 gil. Pick up one because clearly it's involved in some kind of sidequest later. Not quite sure where yet though.
One more scenario to blast through and it'll be much shorter than this one.
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