Garnet or Eiko?

There's a couple of spells I lament not being able to use (albeit out of choice), but I go for Dagger over Eiko every single time. I much prefer her Eidolons over Eiko's, her MP is higher and she doesn't use farty ol' flutes.

I'm not sure any more whose magic stat is higher, but with Dagger whapping out party-wide Curagas all over the place, it doesn't even matter after you reach a certain point. She's a bit more aesthetically pleasing too; I don't really like kids (Vivi is the only exception what with him being the sole black mage).
 
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I always chose Garnet, mostly for Bahamut. I only ever used Curaga for white magics since I used Quina who is perfect for support magic. her trance was better too, plus better looking (very important because, like I said, I had Quina in my party)

Zidane, Freya, Quina and Garnet was my favourite party, probably ever in any FF.
 
I don't use any White Mages in my party, but it has been proved that Eiko is better than Garnet in the party.

Eiko has Holy and Full-Life, and keeping her in the party allows a chance of reviving your party if you get a Game Over. Holy can be double-casted in Trance which is awesome. Her stats can be raised by using the Eiko/Marcus bug (I'm not going to elaborate on this).

Garnet has more elemental coverage and more MP than Eiko but her summons need a lot of stones which are a pain to forge, and cost more MP than Holy, and her Trance is bad because she needs to neglect her white magic - unlike Eiko who can either do 19,000 damage, heal the party and do 9000 damage, or do other stuff like that.
 
I've always preferred Garnet as a character, but I'd rather use Eiko because she has better magic. I never use summons so Eiko is the better character for me seeing as she has Holy, Full-life etc.. when Garnet doesn't.
Even still, I still use Garnet.
 
I prefer Eiko in terms of usefulness. Her selection of White Magic is superior to Garnet's. Because Garnet is so crippled gameplay-wise, being out of comission after Alexandria's destruction, and lagging behind on levels due to the period she spends out of the party and the period she is there but yet is very unreliable to keep on using.
As far as summoning goes, Garnet seems and is supposed to excel over Eiko, yet doesn't. Garnet's summons are mainly geared towards dealing damage, which is something all other characters can do just fine. The purpose of her summons is dealing multi-target elemental damage, but it isn't useful most of the time because random enemies are generally outnumbered by the party and can be dealt with by the fighters more cost efficiently than summoning. Eiko's summons denerally have some other effects, such as Carbuncle being geared toward multi-target buffing (something only Quina can match efficiently, and even so isn't as good as Eiko), Phoenix reviving all fallen characters even saving you a game over even if the whole party has died (excelent in Ozma fights) , Fenrir and Maduin dealing damage of the rare elements wind, earth and holy.
Also, Eiko's best weapon Magic racket boosts Holy elemental damage, which garantees max damage for Holy castings ever since the point the spell becomes available.
Overall, Eiko is a better teamate, and garnet a better character.
 
Honestly I like them both equally. But if I really had to choose I'd say Eiko, cause she has Holy and some of the best white magic. And did I mention that she is incredibly adorable?
 
Eiko, because she's so friggin' adorable. And I love her positive attitude. And in half the Final Fantasies it's really rare for me to use summons, so yeah. :xP:
 
No offence, but I think that Garnet is the most useless character ever, especially for those who rarely use summons (like me, because of long animation time). Her white magic is so limited. I always use Eiko in battles. I stop using Garnet since like disc 3? Eiko's Cura is so helpful. Ironically, I don't use Eiko's summons either.

In terms of character, I am not really a fan of both, but I think that both are not annoying (Eiko is not annoying compared to Steiner).
 
In terms of game play, Eiko wins hands down - she's a far superior white mage. The fact she only has 4 summons doesn't bother me one dot either, and I never use them. I just wish she'd put a sock in it. As a character she drives me insane
 
Garnet because you can't enough of Bahamut's awesome cinematic... and because she can get Ark, his cinematic is like watching power ranger megazords!:ohshit:but it's too long for merely 9999 damage, if only Eternal Darkness was like Eden's Eternal Breath
 
~White magic wise id say Eiko, especially when she trances lol.~
~As for summons Garnet i would say has better attacking summons while eikos pheonix is good carbuncle is only helpfull sometimes lol.~
~And charcter wise although funny at times Garnet is way less annoying and can still be funny with other characters. Although that time Quina was gonna eat mog and Eiko wasnt gonna let him was funny or was it she/he was gonna eat Eiko?.....oh well.~:x3:~
 
Definitely Garnet. She has nice summons and her white magic eventually comes to par with Eiko's. Her trance ensures a massacre and when everyone gets auto-regen, Eiko becomes redundant anyway. Besides, it's cooler to have a princess on your team rather than a six year old girl.
 
i think eiko is the best ...there 2 reason ...she is fun ^_^ ...she can cast holy ...
i think garnet can‘t cast holy ...

but garnet can summon ..like bahmut ...odin ...and ark ...

but eiko still the best ^_^
 
I always went for Garnet over Eiko in battle. Her white magic is not far behind Eiko's, and either way, I never used whatever spells Eiko can but Garnet can't use anyway.
I used eidolons in big battles so Garnet was superior there as well. The only thing that I preferred about Eiko was Pheonix, that eidolon saved me so many times when a couple of my party were KO'd.

In terms of personality it's got to be Garnet as well. I couldn't bear Eiko, she's possibly my least favourite FF character in the whole series :dry: whereas Garnet is my favourite female character in the series.

So for me, Garnet wins hands down :mokken:
 
Who needs Holy when you could have Ark? I'll choose shadow over holy any day. Once you get auto-regen, auto-life, auto-haste, etc. you should probably trade your white mage for Amarant. Thats how I do it. Eiko, especially, can be a burden at times when it comes to an old-fashion, time friendly ass kicking.
 
Character-wise, I much prefer Garnet over Eiko. Eiko I found to be rather annoying. I really liked Garnet's personality. She was strong but also kind and caring. I enjoyed seeing her relationship with Zidane develop.

Battle-wise, I prefered Eiko. I rarely use summons in any game so having Holy was a big plus for me. I also much preferred Double White (Eiko's Trance) to Garnet's Trance ability.
 
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