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Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Joey on 2002-03-30 06:52:00: Can anyone here post FF8-related tatics here?

Here's mine:
For Boko in Chocobo world to get the most items, let him wander freely in the map. that way, he automatically encounters more cactuars, moombas and monsters he can handle.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Aaron on 2002-03-30 15:04:00: THE ULTIMATE LEVEL-GAINING and MALBORO TENTACLE GETTING strategy!! ...Maybe.

I bet many other people have figured this out.

You need to Junction Pandemona to Quistis and give her the ability "Initiative." She also needs to know the Degenerator limit break (learn from the item "Black Hole"). Make sure she has VERY low hit points (mine was at 200/4500 when I tried this first). Also, it is helpful to set the battle speed to its lowest speed in the config.

Go to the Island Closest to Hell or the Island Closest to Heaven, encounter an enemy, cast Degenerator, and there's six levels. Malboros are very easy to defeat like this and that makes getting the Malboro Tentacles a snap.
[edited] 44 2002-03-31 04:43
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-03-31 02:53:00: I don't know if this's been posted before, but here's one for beating Diablos in relative safety, at almost any level:

First, make sure your characters have the draw command. When you use the magic lamp to initiate the fight, have your characters draw demi from Diablos, and cast it on him. It's important that you do not do a "Draw-Cast" with it, you must draw on one turn, then cast demi on a different turn. In other words, it won't work if you draw AND cast at the same time.

Now, when he's hit with it, he'll counter it with Curaga......But, He'll target Curaga on you instead of him! This tatic works on both the PC and the PSX versions.

Now, the only catch is that if your level is very low, there's a good chance you'll fail your draw.

-edit-
Fixed wording.
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Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Jedimark on 2002-03-31 18:28:00: Download Greiver and give everyone everything... what? You didnt say anything about cheating! :oops:
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Joey on 2002-04-01 07:23:00: The joys of a game can only be enjoyed fully without cheating :x
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Jedimark on 2002-04-01 08:21:00: True.... I've only ever used Greiver to get Seifer and Edea in my party for a laugh.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Darkness on 2002-04-01 22:00:00: Quote

On 2002-04-01 03:23, Joey wrote:
The joys of a game can only be enjoyed fully without cheating :x

i kinda disagree. to an extent, the full joy of gaming can only be experienced with cheating.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-04-02 02:02:00: I've got another, less strategic tactic.

Don't use GF's unless you absolutely have to. For one thing, it'll prevent (ok, most likely it'll delay) you from getting bored of the GF animations, and second, it's good practice for the end of the game (where the final bosses automatically perform a one-hit-kill on your GF the instant its summon bar is up).
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: eerrrr on 2002-04-02 09:22:00: That's a good idea Goku7, plus
Spoiler: show
They'll have no excuse for any memory loss!
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: atzn on 2002-04-02 18:09:00: Oh. I have some nice tricks to do in ff8.....
To start off!
(Bear in mind though, most of my tactics consume a lot of TIME, but it pays to build the ultimate charaacters... I've managed to draw 300 Ultimas from Ultima Weapon before.. fun!)

Tactic 1:
Getting LV100 Shiva,Ifrit and Quazecotl (whatever it is!) when chars are at their lowest Level.

Go to Dollet Tower. Use Seifer and kill off Squall and Zell at the beginning of mission, then LVL up Seifer (GFs will also LVL up,don't de-equip them from dead chars, they will still LVL up even Zell and Squall are dead) .... haha Elvoret will die in one round!
Approx time needed: 5 hours minimum I think...

Tactic 2:
Beating the hell outta Diablos.
Yeah goku7 I've heard of your strat b4.... but I have an alternative strategy.......
OK now that my GFs are at LV100 after beating the Dollet Tower and my party is at their lowest LVL, Diablos' LVL is pretty low as well. And since I've stocked up Thundagas, Blizzagas, etc on Seifer and passed them on to all my chars, my Magic is decent enough. So, equip Mag+40% and Mag+20% to Selphie (since she has the highest magic amongst the three people that time).
Cast Blind on Diablos. Make sure that Diablos is BLINDED. Have fun! That time, Diablos won't be able to KILL you, as Diablos' attack are gravity-based, so the most it can hurt you is till your HP goes down to 1. And also, Diablos' physical attack will miss all the time as he is blinded.

Tactic 3:
Getting plenty of dark matters... ^_^ Neat stuff.
Only works in Disc 3 + Ragnarok. Go down the Research Sea Center. When you reach the floors where encounters are fixed (i.e. you cannot use Enc-None to avoid encounters), you'll see a save point at the first level. At the first level you will encounter Tri-Faces..... mug them for Curse Spikes!! There are 3 encounters... so deliberately encounter them and mug them for 6x curse spikes (or if you're lucky it'll be 8x). Get out from the screen after encountering them, re-enter... repeat the same trick... save if you want... till you collect 100x of them and convert them to dark matter using Siren's Tool-RF. I got around 7 dark matters after a few hours of mugging.. ^_^.

Lastly... I hate cheating. I feel that the game can only be enjoyed fully without cheating... as Joey mentioned.....

Anyway.... have fun..... :D
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-04-02 19:56:00: *Finishes reading FFTactic_Boy's Tactic #3*

Heeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Why didn't I think of that?! Let's see.....I have enought Aura so Squall can do Renzokuken when needed.....I should be able to get all of the Curse Spikes needed for Dark Matter in, oh, 2 hours or so. The only problem is whether or not I have the patience.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: atzn on 2002-04-03 19:26:00: Quote

On 2002-04-02 15:56, Goku7 wrote:
*Finishes reading FFTactic_Boy's Tactic #3*

Heeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Why didn't I think of that?! Let's see.....I have enought Aura so Squall can do Renzokuken when needed.....I should be able to get all of the Curse Spikes needed for Dark Matter in, oh, 2 hours or so. The only problem is whether or not I have the patience.

Another tip in killing Tri-Faces easily (after mugging them)
Junction 100x Death to ST-ATK. If you're lucky should be able to kill them in one hit.....

Yeah and it takes hell lot of time to get 7 dark matters... but they're worth it.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-04-04 20:59:00: If you don't want to gain levels while doing "Tactic's Insane Ideas", then just card the tri-faces when you have muged them.

Kendrilian
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-04-05 00:26:00: One more important detail regarding tri-faces. Their deadliest attack, I think its called "Poison Gas", does a wide variety of Status attacks to all characters in one hit. I haven't counted them all, but its alot.

So, what's the best ST-DEF junction to use? 'Cause the above tactics won't work if you're unable to control your characters.

And, one other thing. Which character stat affects the "mug" success rate? I'm guessing its "luck", but I could be wrong.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Aaron on 2002-04-05 00:56:00: I think it's "Luck."

Junctioning Esuna to ST-DEF gives 20% to all stats, but that may not be enough. I would junction, in addition to that, magic to prevent the *worst* status effects (that make you completely lose control of your character), like Berserk, Confuse, and maybe Sleep?
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-04-05 01:09:00: I just noticed that after you card them, you can use the card mod ability to squeeze an extra curse spike out of 'em. Hehehe.....I already got about 67 curse spikes.

Now, to make a dark matter, I know that one of my GFs have to be a level 100....is it supposed to be shiva, or siren?
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Aaron on 2002-04-05 03:44:00: Siren.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-04-05 14:33:00: Junction Ultima to something, and the only thing that Poison Gas will do is poison you...

Kendrilian
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: atzn on 2002-04-05 17:02:00: Another method to keep Tri-Faces from attacking is to use 100x Sleep on ST-ATK.. works 90% of the time.
I don't think that Luck can affect mugging rate.. as I have quite high Luck rate (I junctioned 100x Ultima to it).. and mugging still occurs randomly. Luck affects on critical strike mainly.

OK, poison is a headache. Use 100x Pain into ST-Def...
I don't recall any problems with poison while mugging them... and physical damage was useless against my chars... as I have 200++ Vit on all my chars (without any +xx% bonuses).

Anyway.... have fun.

P.S.
Siren's Tool-RF ability..... now I doubt something about it.
When I have finished collected my curse spikes (my Siren was only at LVL 12 at that stage LOL) I can access to the Tool-RF ability....
weird.
I wonder if it is because of PC version??.......

*** Dark matters....... hmmm ***
1x Dark Matter -> 100 Ultima (Bahamut: Forbid mag-RF)
Don't want to draw Ultima from Ultima Weapon? (I did draw 300 of them from U.Weapon)... this is the alternative... though I feel it is a waste.....
1x Dark Matter -> Shaman Stone (Siren: Tool-RF)
Improves compatibility with bahamut.... hmm not worth it IMO
1x Shaman Stone -> LuvLuvG (Siren: Tool-RF)
+ 20 compatibility with all GFs.... still not too good after wasting so much time gathering dark matters and changing them to shaman stones...
1x Shaman Stone -> Rosetta Stone (Eden: GFAbl Med-RF)
Now... this is something awesome.... ability 4x is crucial.. well this is something really worth it!
1x Dark Matter -> Luck-J Scroll (Eden: GF Abl Med-RF)
Another nice one.... since Cactuar only has Luck-J...... and you can only find 2 Luck-J scrolls in the whole game.......

If you don't cheat, you will have to be patient........ :D
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-04-05 19:16:00: You forgot the most important one.

1 Dark Matter--> Use on Quistis --> She can now do Griever's Signature attack! Yippie!
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: atzn on 2002-04-05 20:46:00: Quote

On 2002-04-05 15:16, Goku7 wrote:
You forgot the most important one.

1 Dark Matter--> Use on Quistis --> She can now do Griever's Signature attack! Yippie!

Oh drat, yeah I have forgotten the most important one.....
:D
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: sfx1999 on 2002-04-11 02:23:00: Juction both Ultima and Apocalypse to elemental-defense and you will absorb all types of elemental magic.
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Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: atzn on 2002-04-11 17:31:00: Quote

On 2002-04-10 22:23, sfx1999 wrote:
Juction both Ultima and Apocalypse to elemental-defense and you will absorb all types of elemental magic.

I thought Apocalypse can only be obtained by cheating? (or drawn from the Final Ultimecia)

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Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Aaron on 2002-04-11 22:41:00: You can only get it by cheating (or drawing at the end? Never actually tried that...), so you have no chance to junction it to anything! Too bad...

[Edit] However, you could junction Ultima and Shell to Elem-Def and then you would absorb 120% of all elements.
[edited] 44 2002-04-11 23:42
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Caddberry on 2002-04-12 05:54:00: Games espically role playing games are like well.. or can be like movies.. Sometimes i think its fun to just go through the game cheating all the way and beat the crap out of it..

Picture FF8 with like all your GFz and apocalypse.. now.. it does kinda suck if you get all that.. but all items is real cool.. I love Qhimms Program..

*note
I dont cheat a game until i beat it.. or become so frustrated with it i am about to break it.. i like to get through a game on my own first.. then go cheat and see new things and all taht..
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-04-12 12:35:00: Quote

I dont cheat a game until i beat it.. or become so frustrated with it i am about to break it.. i like to get through a game on my own first.. then go cheat and see new things and all taht..

That is the way to go CaddBerry. Beat it regularly first, then have fun...

Kendrilian
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Post by: atzn on 2002-04-12 22:01:00: Umm yeah. Agreed. Cheat after you've finished the game. I really LOVE Qhimm's program. They rock! :D

The SaveGame Editor is really robust, and the best .... no doubts.

But cheating can really make it boring (like all stats become 255 :D )

I cheat for the items like caddberry mentioned... they're really cool stuff!
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: Joey on 2002-04-15 06:38:00: Chocobo stuff.

Did you know that Chocobocle(spelt as "buckle" im many walkthroughs) does the same amout of dmg as Quitsis's shockwave pulsar?

If you wanna see a chubby chocobo crashing on all your FF8 enemies, email me for the Chocobo world savegame.
Title: FF8 Tatics...
Post by: eerrrr on 2002-04-15 17:21:00: That chocobo thing was so stupid, well, in the UK version anyway. Sony didn't even release Pocketstations over here! Why keep it in the UK version? :roll: