Man, I really, really want an FFV remake with the way to switch around skills that this game has. It'd deceptively simple.
You have four slots, you can switch around anything. Want to remove the "Attack" command? You can do that. For some reason you can't take off Item though. I'd hope that the FFV thing would allow that (since Mime doesn't have Item by default) Five slots to put in whatever would increase customization so much.
Cloud's no longer crazy, all the grindable Limit Breaks have been gotten and I'm pretty sure I've made good headway on mastering every single Magic Materia except for Mystify, which I should probably get to work on.
Whoever said Cid's only decent magic-user weapon was the Dragoon Lance screwed themselves hard. The Javelin gives you 5 slots at double AP gain. That means whenever I want a Materia to start getting mastered I just chuck it over to Cid and spend a little time in the Mideel jungles.
I guess the quickest way to master Materia would be with Cloud's Apocalypse weapon and grinding Magic Pots, but those little bastards demand Elixirs and they can be a pain to steal.
Cloud's no longer crazy, all the grindable Limit Breaks have been gotten and I'm pretty sure I've made good headway on mastering every single Magic Materia except for Mystify, which I should probably get to work on.
Whoever said Cid's only decent magic-user weapon was the Dragoon Lance screwed themselves hard. The Javelin gives you 5 slots at double AP gain. That means whenever I want a Materia to start getting mastered I just chuck it over to Cid and spend a little time in the Mideel jungles.
I guess the quickest way to master Materia would be with Cloud's Apocalypse weapon and grinding Magic Pots, but those little bastards demand Elixirs and they can be a pain to steal.
I've got no moral qualms with duping, money's easy enough to get anyway and it's not like infinite Megalixers or something would help me against the WEAPONs.
As far as stuff like that goes I usually beat the game once through before I let myself cheat.
After that, fuck it. If there's some sort of exploitable bug in the game I can use to speed up the tedium I don't see what's wrong with doing it as long as the game still stays fun.
Whoever said Cid's only decent magic-user weapon was the Dragoon Lance screwed themselves hard. The Javelin gives you 5 slots at double AP gain. That means whenever I want a Materia to start getting mastered I just chuck it over to Cid and spend a little time in the Mideel jungles.
I said that. 5 slots isn't 8 slots. I didn't give a shit about master materia as I was only going for game completion, not any master materia or weapon fighting.
Whoever said Cid's only decent magic-user weapon was the Dragoon Lance screwed themselves hard. The Javelin gives you 5 slots at double AP gain. That means whenever I want a Materia to start getting mastered I just chuck it over to Cid and spend a little time in the Mideel jungles.
I said that. 5 slots isn't 8 slots. I didn't give a shit about master materia as I was only going for game completion, not any master materia or weapon fighting.
The ability to quickly level an HP-Plus is well worth the loss of a piddly 8 slots and you know it.
I was starting to feel the squeeze from Chocobo breeding, but suddenly I don't think that'll be such an issue.
It's not like you even need All Materia towards the end of the game if you've been keeping up with your Enemy Skills. Restore-All is really the only important one.
I was starting to feel the squeeze from Chocobo breeding, but suddenly I don't think that'll be such an issue.
It's not like you even need All Materia towards the end of the game if you've been keeping up with your Enemy Skills. Restore-All is really the only important one.
For the same reason you want Aerith's Great Gospel: so you could say you have it (or them).
Seriously, if you were able to get Great Gospel before Aerith was turned into an Aerith-kabob, you could already tear through every single boss and enemy leading up to Jenova-Life. It's totally unnecessary, but being able to pair it where you want is just self-approval.
'Course, pairing one with the Master Magic materia is the way to go.
Hell, with this new development I think I'll make it my next goal to get Knights of the Round before Diamond Weapon attacks, just so I can tear the Proud Clod and the evil little people who pilot it wide open.
Hell, with this new development I think I'll make it my next goal to get Knights of the Round before Diamond Weapon attacks, just so I can tear the Proud Clod and the evil little people who pilot it wide open.
Not that it isn't easy enough without it.
But I agree, KOTR will make them suffer a much cooler looking death than basic attacks and spells.
I'm already level 63, with my Materia arsenal I could probably beat Sephiroth without too much trouble.
Everything's going to put up about as much resistance as a Wet-Nap from here on out, except for maybe the Unknown trifecta. They still do around 2500 damage a hit.
So I'm playing through FF8 again. I just graduated from Balamb and realised you can buy a bunch of stat-J scrolls (teaches any GF that stat-J ability for 10,000 gil each) from pet shops. Does this mean I've basically wasted AP teaching Shiva Str-J? At this point, I'm tempted to restart so I don't waste the AP.
Additionally if I do restart, I might have a crack at defeating X-ATM02. Is there anything required for it beyond having Boosted GF attacks maybe with SumMag+ and some Thunder spells?
X-ATM02 isn't very hard really if you spend some time drawing prior to leaving for the mission and upgrading the spells with your GF's. You can get pretty stupid stats pretty early. I guess there's ways to get like max stats or some nonsense but that's just silly.
AP isn't terribly hard to get so I honestly wouldn't restart the game for just that unless you're really anal about having everything as fast as possible. You'd spend more time restarting than it'd take you to just earn that amount of AP again.
And iirc (been awhile since I played VIII) money is a bit tough to come by early on unless you abuse the tests, 10k is a lot of money then.
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edited July 2009
I remember on my second play through of FF8 I had bought the very useful strategy guide and used it to figure out what I needed to get the second best sword for Squall before leaving Balamb. It took a long ass time, but man it was so rewarding.
The strategy guide for FF9 sucked donkey balls though. IIRC it was basically "want to know what items X boss has? Check out PlayOnline.com!" I was like, "WTF? I bought the fucking strategy guide so I wouldn't have to go online! I could have already gotten all the information I could ever want on this game from GameFAQS! I don't need your stupid PlayOnline!".
Ugh. Complete garbage compared to FF8's.
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I remember on my second play through of FF8 I had bought the very useful strategy guide and used it to figure out what I needed to get the second best sword for Squall before leaving Balamb. It took a long ass time, but man it was so rewarding.
The strategy guide for FF9 sucked donkey balls though. IIRC it was basically "want to know what items X boss has? Check out PlayOnline.com!" I was like, "WTF? I bought the fucking strategy guide so I wouldn't have to go online! I could have already gotten all the information I could ever want on this game from GameFAQS! I don't need your stupid PlayOnline!".
Ugh. Complete garbage compared to FF8's.
I was really disappointed. It was one of the first strategy guides I bought so I didn't know what I should expect. It had great art, sure, but the playonline thing was ridiculous. You can't even get to it through Square Enix anymore, you have to find a mirror or have printed it all out like I did.
So I'm playing through FF8 again. I just graduated from Balamb and realised you can buy a bunch of stat-J scrolls (teaches any GF that stat-J ability for 10,000 gil each) from pet shops. Does this mean I've basically wasted AP teaching Shiva Str-J? At this point, I'm tempted to restart so I don't waste the AP.
Additionally if I do restart, I might have a crack at defeating X-ATM02. Is there anything required for it beyond having Boosted GF attacks maybe with SumMag+ and some Thunder spells?
By the end of the game you'll have so much AP that it won't matter.
You're much better off spending your gil on items to refine into magic, so that you don't go crazy from drawing 300 of each spell.
What I used the Stat junction scrolls for was to set it up so that each of my 3 main characters had each stat between their 3 GFs. I then setup the remaining 3 GFs on my secondary characters and made sure each GF had each of the core stat junctions, so that they'd be useful if they got swapped in against the final boss.
Did Prima or another company ever make a real strategy guide for FFIX?
Yes, but it was horribly bad -
It had the standard Prima guide printing errors/typos/incorrect info, additionally they decided that they wanted to branch out to online guides at this time, so parts of the guide basically tell you to go to Prima's website, sign in, and try to find the bits of info they didn't put in the guide to make you go to the website.
I think this was the last game I ever bought a strat guide to that wasn't by doublejump (<3 doublejump)
YamiNoSenshiA point called ZIn the complex planeRegistered Userregular
edited July 2009
I remember hating the FF9 guide for two reasons: You could use the online part pretty much as a guide without the book, so buying it was useless. And I didn't have a PC near my PS, so it was a pain in the ass trying to do both at once.
Did Prima or another company ever make a real strategy guide for FFIX?
Yes, but it was horribly bad -
It had the standard Prima guide printing errors/typos/incorrect info, additionally they decided that they wanted to branch out to online guides at this time, so parts of the guide basically tell you to go to Prima's website, sign in, and try to find the bits of info they didn't put in the guide to make you go to the website.
I think this was the last game I ever bought a strat guide to that wasn't by doublejump (<3 doublejump)
That guide (and indeed, most FF guides) was not by Prima, it was by Bradygames.
It was a weird (and stupid) experiment, and they've never done anything like that again. The awesome thing is, I think the website is gone now, so you can't even look up the stuff in the guide anymore.
I was starting to feel the squeeze from Chocobo breeding, but suddenly I don't think that'll be such an issue.
It's not like you even need All Materia towards the end of the game if you've been keeping up with your Enemy Skills. Restore-All is really the only important one.
For the same reason you want Aerith's Great Gospel: so you could say you have it (or them).
Seriously, if you were able to get Great Gospel before
Aerith was turned into an Aerith-kabob
, you could already tear through every single boss and enemy leading up to Jenova-Life. It's totally unnecessary, but being able to pair it where you want is just self-approval.
'Course, pairing one with the Master Magic materia is the way to go.
ZOMG!! Spoiler alert! Actually I remember that being a running joke long before Snape killed Dumbledoor.
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Man, I really, really want an FFV remake with the way to switch around skills that this game has. It'd deceptively simple.
You have four slots, you can switch around anything. Want to remove the "Attack" command? You can do that. For some reason you can't take off Item though.
Whoever said Cid's only decent magic-user weapon was the Dragoon Lance screwed themselves hard. The Javelin gives you 5 slots at double AP gain. That means whenever I want a Materia to start getting mastered I just chuck it over to Cid and spend a little time in the Mideel jungles.
I guess the quickest way to master Materia would be with Cloud's Apocalypse weapon and grinding Magic Pots, but those little bastards demand Elixirs and they can be a pain to steal.
Not if you have my little friend W-Item glitch.
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Forget it...
I've got no moral qualms with duping, money's easy enough to get anyway and it's not like infinite Megalixers or something would help me against the WEAPONs.
After that, fuck it. If there's some sort of exploitable bug in the game I can use to speed up the tedium I don't see what's wrong with doing it as long as the game still stays fun.
I like using Mime as a skill, personally. :P
Mime Rapidfire Flare Blade, then Doublecast Bahamut, just do whatever.
For sheer invincibility, wouldn't you be better off miming Doublecast Bahamut/Phoenix?
I said that. 5 slots isn't 8 slots. I didn't give a shit about master materia as I was only going for game completion, not any master materia or weapon fighting.
The ability to quickly level an HP-Plus is well worth the loss of a piddly 8 slots and you know it.
Why do mastered All Materia fetch 1.4 million gil? That's a lot of fucking gil!
Yeah...Farming All materia was one of the better ways to get money in the game.
It's not like you even need All Materia towards the end of the game if you've been keeping up with your Enemy Skills. Restore-All is really the only important one.
For the same reason you want Aerith's Great Gospel: so you could say you have it (or them).
Seriously, if you were able to get Great Gospel before Aerith was turned into an Aerith-kabob, you could already tear through every single boss and enemy leading up to Jenova-Life. It's totally unnecessary, but being able to pair it where you want is just self-approval.
'Course, pairing one with the Master Magic materia is the way to go.
Not that it isn't easy enough without it.
But I agree, KOTR will make them suffer a much cooler looking death than basic attacks and spells.
Everything's going to put up about as much resistance as a Wet-Nap from here on out, except for maybe the Unknown trifecta. They still do around 2500 damage a hit.
Additionally if I do restart, I might have a crack at defeating X-ATM02. Is there anything required for it beyond having Boosted GF attacks maybe with SumMag+ and some Thunder spells?
AP isn't terribly hard to get so I honestly wouldn't restart the game for just that unless you're really anal about having everything as fast as possible. You'd spend more time restarting than it'd take you to just earn that amount of AP again.
And iirc (been awhile since I played VIII) money is a bit tough to come by early on unless you abuse the tests, 10k is a lot of money then.
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The strategy guide for FF9 sucked donkey balls though. IIRC it was basically "want to know what items X boss has? Check out PlayOnline.com!" I was like, "WTF? I bought the fucking strategy guide so I wouldn't have to go online! I could have already gotten all the information I could ever want on this game from GameFAQS! I don't need your stupid PlayOnline!".
Ugh. Complete garbage compared to FF8's.
I was really disappointed. It was one of the first strategy guides I bought so I didn't know what I should expect. It had great art, sure, but the playonline thing was ridiculous. You can't even get to it through Square Enix anymore, you have to find a mirror or have printed it all out like I did.
That soured me so I only use GFAQs anymore.
It has pretty ascii art!
By the end of the game you'll have so much AP that it won't matter.
You're much better off spending your gil on items to refine into magic, so that you don't go crazy from drawing 300 of each spell.
What I used the Stat junction scrolls for was to set it up so that each of my 3 main characters had each stat between their 3 GFs. I then setup the remaining 3 GFs on my secondary characters and made sure each GF had each of the core stat junctions, so that they'd be useful if they got swapped in against the final boss.
Yes, but it was horribly bad -
It had the standard Prima guide printing errors/typos/incorrect info, additionally they decided that they wanted to branch out to online guides at this time, so parts of the guide basically tell you to go to Prima's website, sign in, and try to find the bits of info they didn't put in the guide to make you go to the website.
I think this was the last game I ever bought a strat guide to that wasn't by doublejump (<3 doublejump)
I am a freaking nerd.
That guide (and indeed, most FF guides) was not by Prima, it was by Bradygames.
It was a weird (and stupid) experiment, and they've never done anything like that again. The awesome thing is, I think the website is gone now, so you can't even look up the stuff in the guide anymore.
ZOMG!! Spoiler alert! Actually I remember that being a running joke long before Snape killed Dumbledoor.
I lol'd.
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