Question about / Odd behavior of the Hero's Talisman...?
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:20 am
And not the boss, the accessory.
So, the obvious effects of the Hero's Talisman aside, I always seem to encounter some "odd" behavior with this item that I can't explain. I've tried searching online for several years and I've never been able to find anyone else even mention this, so it either means that no one else caught it (unlikely) or no one else really cares, since it doesn't appear to actually affect anything.
I mainly noticed this because, with my preferred playstyle, I end up sticking the Hero's Talisman on Lemina and arming her with two Chiro Crests, letting her go first to buff the entire party for 1 MP (that way, Jean doesn't outspeed Hiro and it doesn't waste Hiro's offensive output). The odd behavior only appears to exist for a few, specific Magic spells and sometimes only after you've cast Burning Rage in a battle - if you go to cast, say, Cleansing Litany on the party (I believe this is one of the ones that triggers it), the other four party members will display the targetting/effectiveness overlay on them as normal, while the person with the Hero's Talisman will display in red with the X above them.
The effectiveness coloring doesn't seem to weaken the effects of the spell used (or at least that I've ever noticed), which would lead me to believe that it's just a bug in the coding for displaying the effectiveness on those spells with that accessory's ID attached to a character, but it's still something strange that I can't find any explanation for and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this / could replicate it on their own copies / or has read something about this and could provide any insight for me.
So, the obvious effects of the Hero's Talisman aside, I always seem to encounter some "odd" behavior with this item that I can't explain. I've tried searching online for several years and I've never been able to find anyone else even mention this, so it either means that no one else caught it (unlikely) or no one else really cares, since it doesn't appear to actually affect anything.
I mainly noticed this because, with my preferred playstyle, I end up sticking the Hero's Talisman on Lemina and arming her with two Chiro Crests, letting her go first to buff the entire party for 1 MP (that way, Jean doesn't outspeed Hiro and it doesn't waste Hiro's offensive output). The odd behavior only appears to exist for a few, specific Magic spells and sometimes only after you've cast Burning Rage in a battle - if you go to cast, say, Cleansing Litany on the party (I believe this is one of the ones that triggers it), the other four party members will display the targetting/effectiveness overlay on them as normal, while the person with the Hero's Talisman will display in red with the X above them.
The effectiveness coloring doesn't seem to weaken the effects of the spell used (or at least that I've ever noticed), which would lead me to believe that it's just a bug in the coding for displaying the effectiveness on those spells with that accessory's ID attached to a character, but it's still something strange that I can't find any explanation for and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this / could replicate it on their own copies / or has read something about this and could provide any insight for me.