Yup, Kyra's Hewn and Tandle are a bit more powerful than Rune's (48 points for Hewn and 32 for Tandle). Her Hewn is great for combos, and in Kyra's hands, Tandle is fairly competitive with all of the "ultimate attacks". Technically Kyra's Tandle can outdamage Posibolt and Legeon, since there are enemies with a double weakness against electric attacks.
There are two versions of every skill used by more than one PC, actually. Eliminat, Barrier, Spark, Recover, Flaeli. Oddly, in most cases they are completely identical anyway. Hahn is a little better at Eliminat than Rika (except she has higher Dex) and Wren is a bit better at Spark than Demi. I don't even know if these differences are even observable.
Scootaloo wrote:-Two Hewns existing isn't the only instance of two types of the same spell existing. There are also two versions of Corrosion (I always thought it was spelled Corrision). One is the version an enemy uses, and the other is the one Seth uses (Source: Me)
That's right: all enemy abilities are completely separate from player abilities. So this includes: Flare/Shot, Barrier, Spark, DblSlash, Phonon/masr, Shift, Saner, Doran, Seals, Rimit, Airslash, Deban, Giwat, Vol, Gra, Gigra, Gizan, Gires, Wat, Foi, Res, Sar, Zan, Gifoi, Gisar, Corrsion, Dthspell, Hewn, Tandle, Legeon, Gelun, Flaeli, Bindwa, and Megid. You can see in some cases the spelling is different but the idea is the same.
I guess that means there are
three copies of Barrier, Spark, Flaeli, Hewn and Tandle.
The stats around enemy abilities are very strange. Technically, the enemy version of Sar and Gisar are statistically identical. Gisar just seems stronger because the enemies that use it (just Dark Witch, I think?) have much higher mental. A lot of them just generally work differently than the player version, too. Flare/Flare Shot is a good example of this.
Isn't that interesting. I made those pages and never realized that this enemy ability was never used. We'll have to hack it in sometime and see what it looks like - it'll make another good article for tcrf.net or something.
Try googling "destrocray". There's only a few results and they are definitely all Phantasy Star IV-related. One result is an unfinished, unpublished FAQ I was writing. I really don't want that out there, frankly...