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Final Fantasy 8 Remastered is an updated version of the PlayStation classic. Today, we prepare for our adventure by farming for some very powerful magics and abilities available from the beginning of the game. None of these tips require the use of the enhanced features or cheats that are included in the Remastered edition of the game.
1. I strongly advise completing the Fire Cavern before starting this farming (this ensures Ifrit receives the AP benefits).
2. Use the Queen of Cards in Balamb to establish the 'All' Trade Rule for the Balamb region.
3. Learn the GF abilities, Card Mod, T Mag RF, I Mag RF, & F Mag RF.
4. Start battling card players around Balamb Garden.
5. Profit!
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To limit the amount of exp gain for your characters, try using the Card ability on the Fastitocalon. This prevents the earning of exp while allowing the AP for your GF's to build up.
I am not certain that Carding the enemies gives the same AP as simple killing them, more research will have to be done.
quick question, you mentioned to fight Fastitochalcon (Fish creatures) to get 6AP but escape??
@@thesarcasticfantasticman1488 they give the same amount of AP, even the items you will get.
I'm doing a No Level Run... That's how to be ridiculously OP haha. Level 7 9999 health 100+ on all stats!
Enemies have no health and do very little to no damage.
My wife has been playing the remastered version since it came out. It looks like if you let the the timer for the fire cavern run out during the name screen, you DO NOT get any points. I guess it was a glitch they decided to correct when they updated the system for the remaster. Also, she noticed that if you use the card ability you can keep your levels low as you gain exp for every monster you kill. However, if you card the monsters, you can still gain the AP for your GFs but not gain exp/level up which, as we've all gradually learned over time, is better than simply leveling up because it also keeps the monsters you fight weak. So that's another reason aside from the mod feature. The biggest con to this is for when people are looking for specific items dropped by certain monsters as their drop rates varies (ex Adamantoise at level 30+ can drop more of Adamantine, which you need for Lionheart, rather than a lower level one).
I highly recommend farming the Triface card once you've obtained Siren. One of them will refine into a Curse Spike, and with Siren's Status Magic refinement, turns into 10 Pains (A status effect that causes blind, silence and poison simultaneously). Use Siren's Status Attack Junction, and one of your characters can cause all three status ailments with every attack! :-)
Sean Foley Thank you so much for this mate.
thank you
Diablos* not siren
I missed siren likenan idiot
It’s awesome junctioned to stat def especially when facing malboros (bad breath)
Back when I was a kid I never even touched the card game. I’m now playing the remastered and the card game mixed with the card mod changes the whole style of gameplay. FF VIII and FF X were always my favorites
ur my best friend irl if u tell that to my face with 12.
I agree. I just downloaded ff8 on Xbox earlier, I lost my ifrit card on the first card game :(
FVIII and FF X-2 for me
FF9 is a masterpiece
I'm 32 and I remember getting this game when I was 12. Mu dad bought it for my birthday. I had no idea what final fantasy was. I just liked the CD case. I played it for months. I could never finish it but for that reason it was and still is my favourite final fantasy game. So many memories.
@Anthony R I love final fantasy x. It's the first final fantasy game I ever finished. Amazing game my friend.
I feel like a lot of people leave out Zell's mom in triple triad. She has tons of marlboro and ruby dragon cards on top of her Zell card
The gate keeper at the garden has tons of good starting cards too. Ruby dragon, Iron giant, etc.
This is so true cuz it makes you explore the world and talk to people which really flashes it out
miradude11 CID is the best person to play against at this point in time in the game
At first the gate keeper, then what helped me was the girl in the library.
My Ifrit didn't have str +60% and he has learned every thing, currently playing triple triad farming for cards like a crack addict 😂 but I don't remember if he gets it at a certain level or not. Started playing it Wednesday.
It's so great to play this classic again.
I've farmed the 100 flares junctioned to str (137) and have the punishment at level 8 before Dollet mission. Squall's hitting 2500+ with Ifrit's 20 and 40% str boost. Tornado is equipped to HP sitting over 3000 HP. Farmed for 10 energy crystals and strong magics via triple triad and feeling like Sephiroth.
Thank you for the advice!!!
where did you farm the ruby dragons?
@@poopsie343 The cafeteria, guy in the back. Number 1 Quistis troupe. I decided to farm 10 energy crystals and ended up with 100 ruby dragon's. Was pretty easy having x3 speed and some rng.
Having the all card rule set was very helpful. Was able to get 100+ Full-life Magic for HP junction. Squall has 5329 at level 8 just after Dollet mission. Refining Chimera card.
how do you get the twin blade?
6 iron giant cards make 2 star fragments. 3 admantoise cards make a turtle shell. 2 geezar cards make 8 screws and a tonberry card makes a chef knife and done. You can have it before Dollet.
Dude i think you meant Punishment as i had that before Dollet SeeD exam
I love the Junction system as a power up system and I love Triple Triad as both a mini game and a way of gathering magic for the Junction system! On my last playthrough I finished the game averaging level 15 amongst my main three, with stats like level 70+ characters in most RPGs. It's just a expansive and very unbalanced system and it's very fun to take advantage of that.
Nice! In any other game level 15 sounds underpowered... but in FF8 it can mean being very overpowered LOL!
Jacob Nelson only people that hate on the junction system either a) don’t get it b) suck at it and cards or c) lack the innovation to create unique runs
I never understood the card game. Still a great game
@@ryanoliver9131 its so simple
@@FuzzfingerGamingIm stock up 100pcs grendel card, to get 100% guaranteed rare tiamat card when successed moding.
If you fail moding, re mod until u successfull and get rare card guaranteed.
Sorry for bad English
Another thing you can do is have Seifer kill everyone else and have him get all the experience. As he levels up the draw spells from the enemy's get stronger. Allowing you to draw some good high level spells while still keeping the average party very low.
Use the method mentioned to grind ifrit to 10 and unlock ammo refine
I always remember farming up the cards needed to get the goods for Lionheart on disc 1, took forever but it was worth it.
you can actually get 5 out of the 6 top level weapons on disc 1 - the only one you can't get is Irvine's top level gun, you can only get second best for him
Better strategy when fighting the fastilicon fish is to use quezacolts Card command to turn them into cards. This gets you all the AP without experience. You could do this until the 3 GF have learned everything without gaining a single level. Ideally you get to the end of the game without any characters gaining a single level all game.
But how can you handle all the enemies' damage they inflict in you if you keep your level too low?
@@chrissantos1877 in this game the mobs are based off of your level so if you don't level up but use the junctions system to make yourself strong you will overpower everything in the game
But you need ifrit to reach level 10 to unlock ammo-rf, considering you want lionheart on disc1
So i killed squall and zell during the dollet assault, used seifer to level up.
@@gerryfaderes2618 The GFs level by AP, not by EXP.
I still remember how to get all status max for a character . Keep the characters u want to max out Low level by letting them stay dead. At dish 3 (arc3 of the story) get cactuar which give u multiple status up when level up. Then grind to level 99, after u equip the good magic to each status , all status would be 255.
I’ve managed to do all of it except the x50 ruby dragons 😂
A good tip for anyone just starting is is to get 3-4 T-rex cards before starting to play people around Balamb garden as it makes much easier to win from the outset.
Also buying a few tents to convert into x100 curaga is great to junction to your HP or vitality stat 👌🏻
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Good ao
Thanks fuz. Seriously. Sometimes life is confusing. As i play this old game side by side with you it takes me away from the struggles of the world. It makes me feel like I am home and doing the right thing. Even though its an old game. Much love. Ill watch every vid as I get to plat trophy 💕
I remember doing this as a child. I spend hours in the game stage before the big test. Squall was way over everyones head once we finally went over sea to fight.
I wanted to add something since you did not. Cards are also great ways to get items for weapons early on. He shows later one in particular but for em I always had a really tough time getting items to refine Selphies weapons and Zells to so you can use cards to get things like bomb cores, sharp spikes, dragon skin and even dragon fins needed for them. I can't remember which monster refines but it is also great for that.
There are 2 ways to play this game...1:Like a teenager lvl up to Max and thinking u are OP,not knowing monsters get stronger,or 2: keep low lvl be OP,keep calm, play T triad and enjoy a Great story.
LOL when I was a kid I did this exact method lvl up as much as possible thinking I was a beast only to get squashed
I'm 36 and I like leveling my characters up as I prefer them to be on somewhat of an equal footing. Please don't gatekeep leveling characters, everyone is entitled to play how they like.
NoNameJustWords seriously “gatekeeping” grow up.
@@SamuraiX6288 You are talking to a man who is 36 and still plays video games and you're telling him (me) to grow up... not very smart, are you.
Listen, you are free to play the game the way you wish, as am I, don't like it, not my problem.
I alwaya level to max a d play the game like that never had any problems with any monsters or bosses
Ah. Apparently I have been playing this game all wrong for years. Now I have to start all over again.
If you want a better starting hand, especially to get Quistis, Card the bugs outside garden, caterpillar, glacial eye over and over until they give you a rare card. IT could take a while but it makes getting higher level cards easier early on.
@@Bl4ckH4nd years later I find this.
The one you specifically want to card farm is the glacial eye monster. When carded during battle there is a small chance that you get jumbo cactuar instead of glacial eye. That card is a bottom row beast of a card.
Noone ever says on their videos about being able to change card rule so easy!! This video is nuts
Hoping hurricane Dorian goes away so I can play. supposed to hit Tuesday. It's my favorite in the series so I'm excited
Same! In the Daytona area. :-( Wanting to get up and download it ASAP on my Switch and play it if power goes out hopefully the storm stays off shore enough. :-(
take care! saw on the news its a pretty bad one. sta y safe
@@mrsgamer9218 thank you. Apparently as of the 8am update it hadn't turned north yet
Best of luck peeps stay alert man shit can go bad really fast
Same day as the release of the remastered version, hurricane will be here, lol. Great timing Square/PSN!
A great way to farm AP is when Seifer is in the party during the SeeD exam, down Squall and Zell and let Seifer do all the work. He gets the exp and the GFs get all the AP.
Best place to do this is on the bridge.
I haven't experimented with this part of the game much, will this count toward the enemies destroyed for the Attack score of your SeeD rank if Squall is KO?
The one that I have done is the spider tank X-ATMO92. You lose points for the Conduct and Spirit scores, but the AP you can get is incredible. I know a few ways to take it down to 0 HP multiple times within the 30 minute limit, but my favorite is to cast double on everyone, then 2x thundara. So you don't have to OP Squall to one-shot it with a limit break, or waste time with the Quetz animation.
I did this and feel that it was wasting time and I didn't like it.
@@kyril98741 to never gain exp you have to down squall and Zell during the dolled mission
Also before starting card farming go get jumbo cactuar, available right outside the school, card the glacial eyes by the mountains until it drops jumbo, also the catapilers can turn into trauma and the bombs can turn into a high powered card. I did that first and then put jumbo cactuar bottom left ifrit bottom right so they are extremely difficult for your opponent to flip, it makes card battles a lot more easier. Ps Great video I really appreciate it and the fact your teaching people how to ACTUALLY play FF8 properly.
Back in the day I watched a guy named HCBaily and his playthrough explains in detail what to do to get overpowered without any grinding
I still watch HCBaily. Love his rpg lets plays
I still love HCbailly FF playthroughs they are funny and really good.
wow i just remembered him! i may have to give his 8 playthrough yet another watch
i love hcbailly. I hope he does a remstarter version of ff6 sometime. His older videos are short and bad quality :(
I mean it’s still grinding just not level grinding
Card grats to get shumi tribe cards...get 4 of them and card mod so u can teach both squall and quistis the card ability. Carding enemies gives ap but no exp allowing u to keep ur levels low. With both characters using card u can turn most anything into a card even at full hp.
So you can card enemies at full hp? I always thought they had to be damaged slightly for card to succeed, which slowed me down since I had to find the right set up for say, Squall, to hit the enemy without killing them.
The nostalgia I'm feeling right now.
I've been doing these methods since the 90s :P If you farm Ruby Dragon cards 10-1 refine into Inferno Fang and with F-Mag Ref they become 20 Flares. Keep it going till 100 on each char and junction to Str. Blitz cards 1-1 refine into Dynamo Stones which give 20 Thundagas with T-Mar Ref. Give whoever has Ifrit Str +20-40-60% and 100 Thundagas on Elem Atk. That character will normal hit X-ATM for 5.5-6k one shotting him assuming your around lv20ish. Makes farming him MUCH faster without having to sit through limit break animations.
During the exam in Dollet, keep Squall and Zell KOed. Use only Seifer and junction all 3 Guardian Forces to him, level him up so he can draw 4 -ra spells when he's around level 30s. Make sure that all party members (including Quistis, who isn't currently in the party, and Seifer himself, whose stocked spells will be inherited by Selphie later) get all ra spells by having Seifer draw them from G-Soldiers then give it to each party member before stocking the spellls himself. Then keep leveling him up until he's around level 60s so he can draw -ga spells, as well as Dispel from Elite Soldiers and Bio from Anacondaur. Again, make sure each of the 4 characters have these spells before you proceed to the Communication Tower where Seifer will leave you permanently.
Also, make sure the GFs learn the prioritized abilities: the refine abilities, the J abilities, stat% abilities, etc; learn every GF abilities before bothering to learn GFHP and SumMag abilities (I very rarely, if ever, use summons; so these abilities aren't really important to me).
Bruh I'm glad I found this channel now that I got the remaster.
Best tip I have is to get Quezacolts Card ability learnt first, once you have beaten Ifrit and left the fire cavern, save your game and go back in and "Card" Bombs. I usually card about 3-4 of them and they are fairly powerful Cards to start with in Garden, alongside the Ifrit Card it will make the first few games really simple and before you know it you will have all the powerful cards you need to farm for Items :)
I think you can play Zell’s mom to get his card, and she plays T-rexaur cards which make Dino Bones and refine into Quake.
i don't think you can at this point in the game, maybe after the dollet mission.
rayano You might be able to get Dino Bones from the T-Rex in Balamb Gardens training center.
@@sternfan75 or close to the fire cavern
I played well right after running from the spider got zell
Before you do the Dollet mission, you can farm the Enoyle cards from the guy in the cafeteria that has the Quistis card, the guy by the docks in Balamb town and the girl with the dog in the same area.
After you get those 3 rare cards, go to training center and card t-rex, then go up to Floor 3 and get the seifer card off cid. You won't even have to save after that you'll wreck all.
until you encounter Marlboro while back attacked and he BAD BREATH tf out of you...
@@r.a.4632 Lol he means you'll be wrecking everything in the card game
I’ve been wanting to replay this game for so long. It really makes me happy that they’re doing this remaster. Also looking forward to the great content like this I expect you’ll make for it!!
A method I always used to use to get ap but not level up was using Card on the enemies at the beach...you get cards to mod into fish fins also...I would continue this method until Ifrit learned Str Bonus then I would begin to level up with it equipped the rest of the game until level 100...that way I got the absolute best possible amount of bonus strength points...93 if I remember correctly by level 100
Fuzzfinger’s guides are the best, and an absolute must for this particular FF game lol
Hell yeah good info. It has been 20 years since I played FFVIII, I only made it halfway through the first disc before I got stuck on something and move on to my back log! FFIX came out a year later and never got back in to it. I am pumped! :)
The two people you want to grind in Balamb Garden are the gate booth guy, and trepie #3 in the classroom (not the cafeteria) after you get minimog from the running kid. Trepie#3 drops Blitz and hexadragon, but also the elnoyle cards you need to make Lionheart, as well as quistis and rinoas ultimate weapons too (takes 80 to get everything, but just 20 for lionheart) and gate booth guy drops Abyss worms, snow lions, tonberries(death), and armadodos (quake)
Years ago, when I was but a child circa '99, my mother used my grandfather's pc to print the entire online walkthrough for this game for me. Over the years, pages went missing and eventually I threw it away, but I surely do appreciate channels like your own that show us trucks that not even they knew back then!
Meaning you were 2 years old or you had a game guide printed 2 years before the game came out in 99'?
@@frodofranz I honestly just wrote 97 because I was 7 and wrote my age instead lol, my bad.
Thanks for what you do man I got to relive ff7 after 20 years and pretty much 100%'d it with the help of several of your vids, in about 53 hours with x3 speed. Now onto the again really nostalgic and fun ff8. Referencing your vids to stay big time OP and just dominate having a blast. The card game in this game is way fun and this game will surely take much longer than ff7. So much more to do and work, thanks man
just found your channel man! I was searching for FF8 walthrough/tips &tricks in anticipation of the release of FF8 on sep 3rd
6:18 I really appreciate this visual! The amount of guides and explanations for this game I've watched, where I have no clue of what they are clicking is embarrassing. I'll definitely be using this guide. Well done and Thank you!!!
To get a good hand before ever playing cards, I would recommend carding bite bugs, glacial eye, caterchiplers and buels/bombs as there a chance you could get strong boss cards
I haven't played this game in over 22 years and I'm coming back to it that's nice to know I always wondered how to level up characters while keeping them low levels but upgrading their stats and just learned that and I play this game when it first came out a long time ago
I turn off encounters until I reach the wall of mountains when I first leave Balamb Garden. I want the blizzard, cure, and scan spells the glacial eyes give me. Later, I farm there for cards to get the Jumbo Cactuar boss card. It will really help during early card games. (If you are keeping your characters at a low level, don't junction any magic to strength. A a hit or two to anything in the grasslands and the character with card should be able to turn them without raising your level.)
On the second floor outside the classroom 2 girls can spawn at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes they walk away and sometimes its a guy and a girl. Keep walking in and out until it 2 girls standing there talking. U want to play the one with her back to the screen, with the short brown hair. She plays not only elnoyle, but also snow lion, abyss worm, ruby dragon, and iron giant. Got 100 tornado and blizzaga for 2 chars, the 10 ruby dragon for quistiss limit, and the 20 elnoyle about the same time.
Man I loved this game when I was a teenager, and I just recently picked up the remaster on Switch. There was a time when I thought I was getting pretty good at Triple Triad, but holy crap dude, I knew basically none of what you covered in this video! Much appreciated!
Thank you kindly Sir, I never played thru FF8 like this. October gonna be great this year :)
Enjoy 😊
My fave RPG of all time, played it when I was in senior school, I never knew about any of this 😂😂 the remastered switch version makes this so quick an easy to get going on, with the 3x speed ability, I did the dollet town mission while watching this vid :( am making up for it now on the beach on the way back after it, ❤️ the 3x game speed boost making it easy 😂😂
Something to note. You have a higher chance of a limit break once your current HP is less than a quarter of your max HP. If you junction curaga to your HP and then unjunction (or something along those lines), you will permanently be in that supposedly danger zone, except you're not really, as the enemies will do damage as per your actual level. So even in your unhealthy state, bosses will still need 10 hits to take you down, while you get limit breaks every round. With Zell in your party, you can take any boss down in a single round.
Also, once you have enc none, you need not fight any non-boss for the rest of the game. Top up your meltdowns with your many TT cards, and you are effectively capable of taking on Omega Weapon before you go to Timber for your first mission.
You mention keeping levels low, but potentially missed the best way to do that. Still play cards and get tons of them ready, but don't go to the beach for fasticalons. Instead, go to the dollet mission. Give Seifer all the GFs, then kill off Squall and Zell. You can then proceed to level up Seifer and the GFs as much as you want (learning all the best skills and eventually drawing higher level magic).
By letting Seifer do all the fighting, none of the main party members will gain exp. You'll still be just as overpowered before Elvoret, but even better off long term.
So just farm the enemies in Dollet before the boss? Do they give decent AP? I would think that would take quite awhile though
@@Ariastyr There is actually a battle with two Anacondaurs that gives 8 ap and around 800 exp, and it's all pretty easy since Seifer can constantly use his limit break (since the rest of the party are dead). It shouldn't take longer than the fasticalons on the beach anyway.
It won't take long with three times the speed in the remaster
EveryoneNeedsASmile lol I hate seifer I always kill him 🤣🤣🤣
But I get what you mean
Lol So Seifer telling you to let him hog all of the exp was the correct decision after all. Clever Square, very clever.
One thing that helped me from the PS1 version with carding monsters at the beginning of the game sometimes they turned into rare cards rather than what they actually were. If I can remember correctly some of them were jumbo cactaur, shumi tribe and I think tri face. Don't quote me on that last one though.
Ryan Olson yes you’re right. Some early monsters can give high level cards if carded.
I played this 20 years ago, and am playing today, remastered. I HAD NO IDEA you could trade in cards..i thought this game was tough 20 years ago and now I know why
When you first get to the bridge in dollet, equip all GFs to Seifer then kill off the other characters. You can then grind the troops on the bridge to max out the GFs levels and get a full stock of all the basic magic, including the -raga's for all characters. You can do this again later in the game when you get Edea to train the late game GFs.
But then you can't get perfect game because you can't let Seifer get a single kill to get perfect game... :(
Fantastic info on refining cards. I always knew the basics but this has made me insanely powerful! 😂 still at character level 11 and doing over 1500 damage in a basic attack with Squall. Liked and Subscribed 👍🏻
How???
I'm not sure if this was ever mentioned. But you can also get Chimera cards here. 10 Chimera Cards gets you 1 Regen King. If you learn the Life Refinement Ability from Siren, you can turn your Regen King to 10 Full Lifes. Which is one of the best magics to junction for you HP in the whole game.
If you want to maintain a low level run but get overpowered, kill Squall and Zell during the Dollet mission and grind Seifer only to a high level. The three GFs will max out abilities and levels, you can draw high level magic from enemies, who will also drop better items for creating weapons. You'll now easily defeat the giant robot 8 times with level 100 Quezacotl for more AP. Then when you're back to Garden, get Diablos easily and grind his abilities by fighting T-Rexaurs at Garden and defeating them using Card. Having Ifrit and T-Rexaur cards will easily allow you get all the rare cards in Balamb. Then get a bunch of the available cards to convert to items and magic.
I have never done that, but I feel like it's so much quicker to just Card the fish on the beach to earn Quezacotl and Shiva's junction abilities and use Card Mod to get the high level magics. Then just do some more carding to get to Enc-None and your golden. Can easily stay low the the whole game (but for all that is holy do NOT get Odin if you want to stay low!) that way.
@@cthomas025 When I play, I generally stay low level until I get the Ragnarok and get Jumbo Cactuar. Then I go get Bahamut/Eden and then do the Odin side quest before going to the island closest to hell along with level-up stat boosts until I hit level 100. Odin speeds that part up.
@@jamesgoss1860 Yep, I'm all about the stat bonus abilities. 80 extra points in every stat at base, thank you.
First time playing ff8, I followed the overpowered video by primalliquid but got ifrit first, this one helped me understand what I am doing instead of just mixing and hoping, thanks for your dedication to the game
Terrific video! Very well explained with attention to detail. It's great that you took your time to explain some of the different Magic and Blue Magic abilities you can farm with the on screen text. Keep up the great work :)
Unless I'm mistaken, the All rule will usually dissolve into the Direct rule..which is worse than One imo...go for the Diff rule people.
There are three people who may have the Quistis card. Trepe Groupie #1 (the one you battled), Trepe Groupie #2 (found in the classroom), and Trepe Groupie #3 (also found in the classroom)
Don't forget you can turn bombs/buels into Krysta cards which can be refined into holy. Also, you carn turn T-rex and grats into shumi tribe cards, 5 of which can be refined into gambler's spirit which can be given to a GF to learn the card ability. Though probably these are best done after the dollet mission after you gain the card ability.
Honestly this video alone is helping a great deal getting me a decent setup to dive deeper into the junction system and just this game as a whole! Amazing work!
Just downloaded FF8 Remastered. Haven't played it in like 20 yrs, but this is the first video I clicked on and it's exactly what I was looking for. Good show sir, you're awesome and gained a sub lol
You don't need to go to the cafeteria. Trepe Groupie #2, the girl with the ponytail in the classroom, has never failed to play the Quistis card within four hands of playing her and she plays Ruby Dragons and Elnoyle cards more than the guy in the cafeteria.
Triple is the strongest junction you can get. I had over 200 str on my squall on first disks. With str 40, 60% and auto haste. The strongest you can get. 1 hitting every boss on disk 1 and almost every boss on disk two. It's as strong as you can get without lionheart
To do this refine quistis card into samantha souls, zell card into hyper wrists. Use time magic refine to get triples from samantha souls. And hyper wrists to get str 60% use that on ifrit.
FuzzfingerGaming:-".... you really will be overpowered, so you may wanna think twice...."
Final Fantasy VIII Requiem mod:- Hello there.
Theres like 485 comments and its an old video so may have been mentioned, but during the seed test in dollet u can ko squall and zell and use seifer to grind for ap for the gfs so u can learn all the abilities and still keep all ur characters at the lowest level possible, also the enemies scale with his level so u can draw all the aga magics and give them to the main characters as a side bonus
If there were game stats after the credits I'm sure my most used command is gonna be Card. Also it was a great function for card kills not give xp, just perfect for low level runs.
Trepe groupie #1 dropped the Elnoyle card almost back to back for me before even leaving to go on the first mission to Dollet.
Just completed FF8, this time using guides (yours). Thanks so much for the content. I missed so much stuff (gfs, abilities, weapons) in my earlier playthroughs back in the day playing blind.
Loving your FF8 guides/content, I have been farming in Triple Triad to get all -aga and high magic, currently not gone to Dollet yet (will do that and use Seifer to level up GF/collect items for weapons) Have Squall with Punishment , Quistis with Save the Queen, will get rest of top weapons for all by Deling City (Lionheart, Ergheiz, Strange Vision, Bismark and top weapon for Rinoa)
Btw, I'm playing the remastered (Japanese version, not sure if that matters). You can't let the clock run down after killing Ifrit! The timing continues until you reaches the cave exit and talk to those guys blocking the way!
I do agree with Projared about how it's sad to need to break the game like this to have fun.... but I can't help enjoying the way the junction system works.
All you need to get overpowered early on in Final Fantasy VIII:
15 Armadodo Cards
15 Abyss Worm Cards
30 Gayla Cards
30 Tri-Face Cards
100 copies each of Firaga, Blizzaga, Thundaga, and Curaga -- Which you can draw from random Dollet encounters on high levels.
The above grant you 300 Quakes, Tornadoes, Meltdowns, and Pains, which, alongside Curaga, are the absolute best early-game spells to Junction to each character's HP, Strength, Vitality, Magic, and Spirit respectively. The Firaga, Blizzaga, and Thundaga cards are for Elemental Attack Junctioning.
All you need to do is solo grind Seiffer to level 100, and draw the "Aga spells from the Dollet random encounters. That's it.
Also worth getting:
11 Gesper Cards > 300 Demi's + Degenerator
15 Cockatrice Cards > 300 Breaks
15 Elastoid Cards > 300 Berserk's
15 Forbidden Cards > 300 Confuse's
10 Ochu Cards > 300 Blind's
300 Sleeps
You pretty much want access to both Demi and Break in order to avoid gaining experience points as much as possible. The other status's are more or less for defensive purposes.
Also, after you acquire Ifrit, all you really need to get started on Triple Triad are Mini-Mog and a couple decent Lv. 3 cards, and then Quistis, Marbloro, Elastoid, and Biggs and Wedge. Then you can grind for the above cards from the girl at the library tables for all of the above cards as well as a complete set of every card from level's 1-5 minus PuPu.
I did this before going to Dollet and getting perfect score of 600pts and Seed rank 10. I think i spent 50 hours getting 100 of every card possible, and filled out my card collection by more then 50%. FYI: - IF YOU HAVE 100 MONSTER CARDS, YOUR CARD COMMAND WILL FAIL, WHEN TRYING TO CARD THAT PARTICULAR MONSTER! I learned this the hard way, so remember to periodically Card Mod those cards and keep them under 100, otherwise your Card Command will fail during battle! I must have spend around 5 hours trying to figure out why my card command did not work, just thought I'd save you some PAIN!
Nostalgia peaked 😄
You have been linked from my brother as he is currently playing, we played ALOT back in the day and i even had a random alien battle! Even picked up a cow 👽🐄 and this is when there was no internet Truly amazing looking back at it all now and that's using 4disc's 😪 We were/are good but you my friend. have done so well i feel kinda noobsish lol all goods tho, Good work, we'll done and keep on winning
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FFVIII Could be a surprise for rookies. If you don’t Know what you are doing this game will bring a decent Challenge to the table.
Infact it is really hard game. Monster scale up and every boss are challenge!.
id go with the difference rule instead of the all rule for triple triad, the reason for this being the all rule eventually degrades down, when this happens there's a chance of it turning into the direct rule which is awful. Other than that, great guide!
I completely forgot about the level thing! I leveled Squall to lvl 20 before the Fire Cavern 😭😭😭 it's been 20 years since I played this game, I forgot how awesome the card game is. Thank you so much for this video, I'm gonna have to restart, but oh well -- worth it.
Yep, one of my favourite Final Fantasy mini games!
with the ALL rule and card mod you can really rack up some real stacks of cards. One thing I'm not sure of with the new remaster but happens on the original disks and the first remaster is that the rules will change after so many hands with the All rule, one by pass I found is to keep a count of how many times you played the same guy and when you are one to two hands from the switch if you hit another card player the All switch count will reset to one and last a few hands again. Another thing is try to farm for the Jumbo Cactuar card before going to farm cards, it really helps in the first stages of card farming before you can hunt for better cards (pre cc members quest) and you can get it as soon as you have Card (also going for this gets other cards, magics and other useful things that you miss just farming the beach plus it breaks up the monotony) and is easy to do before you go for the final test, but can even wait till you get back and have 3 guys in your party.
It's worth it to refine cards after you get ifrit in the fire cave so you can pick up the rare drop Krystal card from the bombs or buels. It's a really good card. Takes a little farming but if you pick one up it's really helpful
Found something interesting in my playthrough...disk 1 mechanics dont work from disk 2 forward...such as using zell limit break moves that you didn't find yet. Or save points disappearing.
Don’t forget to collect all the ruby dragons you can as they card refine into inferno fangs which fire refine into flare!
Just farmed for lionheart on disc 2, in the nursery before and after the battle with CC King. It is worth to say that it really took an hour!!! 20 elnoyle, and on top that dragon card that turns into flare…. You can spend less time,
Great. I played this as a kid but played it like other FF games. Needless to say I kept focusing on levelling up and was completely out of my depth on the the fourth disc. Never did complete it but looking forward to now.
You can be maxed level and still have no problems only used 3 characters after i leveled them all up squall,waifu rinia and fisting daddy zell lol. Never did have any problems
The boy you're looking for at 7:20 will always show up if you just wait in the area.
You sir are a ff god ,thank you and thats for all ff ,never stop what your doing ,just got ff8 remastered and the x3 is a plus
well you had me til 8:07 but then you just assumed I actually knew how to play cards!
Thanks for this guide mate. It really helped a lot. I’m going for the platinum and hoping to get there within a couple of weeks
Yup. Did lv 100 in the forest before ifrit and also did a rush run when I was a kid. Probably played through 8 a dozen times. Low lv and cards is the easiest way but lv 100 is more fun and challenging.
Also triple triad was great.
good guide, though i recommend to anyone playing this game for the first time to have at least one or two normal play throughs before breaking the game.
Hello, I'm new to your channel and I really appreciate your guides. I'm not sure if you have a guide for the card game, but it would be helpful if you could explain how to play the card game.
Didn't realise you could beat the Black Widow boss. Thanks for the video. Going to try it out now.
I got the remaster today on sale to give FF8 one more chance. I didn't much care for it when I first played the PS1 version back in the day but maybe with more years and a better understanding of its mechanics I'll have a better time.
Farming Mesmerize cards for Card modding will yield 20 Regens per item with Life Mag RF which busts your HP when junctioned into the endgame too
I look forward to more of this. I did not junction well in my original game 20 years ago and it was a huge pain defeating Omega!
Same here bro was like 12 years old didn't even complete the game. Now I have better chance lol.
Similar. I played FF8 like a traditional RPG and just leveled up. My final stats were fairly low and Omega remained undefeated in my original play through.
A suggestion for more powerful cards. You could draw a bunch of sleeps and use those to farm t rexaur cards. They have decent starter stats
good guide for starting off, i didnt have any trouble on my first run until i got to Ultimecia and she one shotted me with grievers death move =( my whole team was wiped and this might help me get there with better junctions on another low level game (do NOT overlevel or this really will be instant death when before she transforms the third time!) will use this to have a better shot at survivng that dang move and possibly sweeping her next time, i did not use these hints on my first run other than staying as low level as possible
I Always challenge the train driver just next to the Queen of cards, to spread the change or all rule in all Balamb area.
You could even go a step further and get the lionheart wep for squall in disc 1. You can get it right after the brothers side quest.