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No, there was a boss (and I found it to be a very good fight) but no random encounters.
Also, in the Gelnika... is it just me, or are the Unknowns back to front? I remember Unknown 3 always being the hardest and Unknown 1 the easiest. On this, it's the other way around.
EDIT: Still can't beat the f*cking Mime boss. The HP<-->MP one was a very nice fight though, and in fact, I might actually see potential use for HP<-->MP against the Mime one.
... That f*cking Silver Dance attack is also %-based? Dude... I honestly can't see any way of beating these guys, short of powerlevelling and brute forcing them down... and I don't even know how well THAT would work. The one at a time are fine, but when there's four of them at once, potentially capable of taking out two characters and leaving the last one at 1 HP within one "round", with all their attacks being %-based meaning that no amount of raising your HP works (indeed, I dropped the HP Pluses for this fight to make healing more economical)... What am I missing? I did click to Susano'o being Wind-elemental, but that's still only a minor help...
The KOTR boss is also somewhat overkill, but at least in this case it's somewhat justified by what its guarding. Was a bit surprised to see Gravity absorbed after the other materia cave enemies being vunerable... but my biggest annoyance is how he can heal far quicker than you can dish it out. I'm guessing Shadow Flare is a must for this one? (I didn't bother to get it from the Quadra Magic boss... guess I'm waiting for Ultimate Weapon now.)
Level doesn't factor into Item Drops. In fact, item drops are not considered until after the battle is over. Once the battle ends it loops through each defeated enemy and totals the exp, ap, and gil won from each enemy and items are dropped in the process. They're calculated like stealing items, but without initial level considerations.
Basically, if (random number AND 63) <= [drop chance] then the item will drop. The random number is determined completely by the RNGLUT in the KERNEL.BIN. The set is never incremented so it just cruises in a straight line down the numbers checking if they meet the criteria for dropping an item. Take a look at the RNGLUT in WM. I just copied that whole thing and did a MOD 64 on each entry in Excel. It looks like there isn't a place that will let you get six items from six different enemies unless those enemies have a high drop chance. It doesn't look like it's possible to get more than three from a Battery Cap x6 battle.
In order to be able to win six items from six enemies, the drop chances needs to be pretty high for an item.Code: [Select]Drop rate: RNGLUT pointer:
27+ 31, 32, 33, 120
26+ 32, 33, 120
25+ 120
As you can see, there has to be freakishly high rates of dropping for this to occur. A drop rate of 8 is typical for "common" items. Some go as high as 32, but that's Vlakorados and King Behemoth which are singular enemies.
Since most drop rates are 8, then it's impossible to win more than three from any number of enemies in a given battle. There's a 10/256 chance that that will occur.
