On the topic of RNG, I already knew that an item giving +100% resistance to a stance change didn't guarantee it, so I tried a few times wearing 2, and even then, I saw my character forced to change stances too many times.
What happens there, perhaps, is that on Nightmare, you typically get hit with the "advanced" version of the bad status (Horror vs. Terror, Fury vs. Berserk, etc), and that the armors give less protection against those. Still since they're typically supposed to give half the base level of protection, two with 100% should work...unless it's something like 50%*50%, which means you can still get hit with a 1/4 chance? As mentioned before, I don't really know how the RPGMaker engine processes stuff like that.
And as I already said, Regret was completely useless for me. As an aside, I think your memories of dying to each of the 5, doesn't give you the life bonus when going against them together, which is odd...
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly how those work, but they don't protect you during the boss rush. Interestingly, don't know if you caught it, but they
do cause Life-spending magics to also have a half-cost in repeat encounters though (although IIRC, they're still coded to require the minimum amount of Life they'd normally cost...so like, Analyze only costs 1.5% Life, but you can't use it unless you have 3% or greater).
Btw, can anyone tell me how to get the guy with the purple jacket, on the top-right corner, to show up during dream stage 6?
In the Clubhouse Village? He's
supposed to spawn if you "make peace" with the delivery truck. I went back and checked and for some reason, the code to spawn his sprite and put him there on repeated visits afterwards got overwritten at some point (I don't take the blame for this one, he's gone in the Japanese code as well!). But if you were playing before on an earlier version and then did your Nightmare run in the up to date game, that would explain why he's gone.
And good going on finishing. Now you're ready for the expansion. (It should be soon. It really should.)