Stocking Magic

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Did Anyone else like the junctioning system used in final fantasy 8, like using magic to increase all your stats?
personally i really liked this way of increasing charactors stats, especially maybe, if you don't have the patience to level up.
I also really liked the draw command, where you could draw gf's and magic from enimies, it could be frustrating if you kept getting "draw failed" especially on the more powerful magic, i also prefered using up your stock of magic rather than using up mp imo, becuase i found ethers to be expensive and rare in other final fantasy games :)
what do you guys prefere?
 
I loved the Draw system, but didn't overly care for the Junction part. After I explored it fully, and started to understand it more, it was okay, but at first, I wanted desperately to just push it away as being too complex. It gave me a headache. Then again, I was about nine or ten. Now when I play FF8, I love it.
 
hehe thankyou someone finally commented on this thread i thought i had completly written it wrong! yeah when i first started playing i was about 11 or 12 and it actualli took me a whole year to realise you could junction magic to your stats, and embarrasingly it wasn't even me who discovered this, a guy at school told me i was like oooooo!
i guess a downside is that until your abit further into the game, where you can draw more powerful magic or use certain gf's "refine magic! ability your status is never very hott :)
 
Agreed that it's fun, but not all that useful early in the game. Setting Cure to HP is kind of entertaining, but things don't get good until later on when you're setting 100 Hastes to Speed.
 
Well... I didn't mind it, if anything. It certainly made the game different, in the sense that you could complete it at absolutely any level. Plus I got the hang of it pretty fast (albeit not without getting stuck on the mission in Dollet, cause I had no idea that you could junction or use GFs or anything, and couldn't even beat Elvoret).
 
Its 50/50 with me. Its a good idea and its different. But me, I always have to draw alot so every character has the same amount of magic. Pretty anal of me I know, but thats what Im like. Doing that after awhile it can piss me off, but everytime I play FF8 I have to do it!
 
I liked the junctioning system more then the stocking of magic but then without one compomnent the other wouldn't work. After a while stocking magic was quite ok but I never looked into Junctioning. As my mates put it, it looked very complex and a mess as some above have mentioned. But that was because they didn't know how to use it, if you used that system effectively. Your characters could be quite powerful very early into the game.

It was amazing to find out that the junction system was so simple to use after a while normally it was just down to placing a better version of a magic i.e. Blizzaga instead of Blizzara on whatever stat to boost it up etc. I rather like it and it was something different to that of other Final Fantasies.
 
It's as easy as hitting the Auto button, then checking to make sure you're fine with the elemental and status attack/defense... Nothing difficult about that.
 
SapphireStar said:
But me, I always have to draw alot so every character has the same amount of magic. Pretty anal of me I know, but thats what Im like. Doing that after awhile it can piss me off, but everytime I play FF8 I have to do it!
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Everyone always says that's the best way to do it, but I never had the patience. I only had 100 of each magic and just switched them around according to who needed it the most (like giving Haste to whoever had Speed Junction available).
 
Eh, I only ever had a maximum of 300 magics per type, for whatever party I was using at the time. No need to have the characters that you're not currently using all stocked up. Only exception I had for that is extra Aura spells, cause I actually used them in combat, unlike everything else.
 
Could of sworn I posted in here, I came back for another rant, but alas , seems it's my first rant

Anyway

Stocking magic I HATE, I can't learn the refine abilities soon enough to get my magic that way, it's so fucking tedious. Drae.stock.draw.stock for abuot an HOUR

I like the junctioning side, although that also pecked head at times, when you'd comeout of a dream sequence and all your junctione dmagic has been removed....

I guess I like the idea of it, it just didn't turn out all that well

Also, one thing that REALLY pisses me off more than stocking magic, is spending about an HOUR stocking only to DIE on the fucking battle :rage:

It totally just happened to me 5 minutes ago. Well not amused
 
I do like the junctioning system, it's different and a good way to set up your characters to take on any challenge.
Also the draw system is a little annoying when trying to stock a LOT of magic but most of the time it didn't bother that much and again was a new and interesting way of having to use characters.
 
The Draw system was a good system, it was enjoyable socking up on magics, and being able to share magic between your characters. Being able to Draw GF's off of opponents was always fun, but there were a couple of GF's that i missed during my first playthrough as i didn't realise that you could draw them from certain bosses (carbuncle and Siren being two of them)

also being able to either stock up on spells or cast them from the enemy was a good idea as well, and was a great way to conserve your spells later in the game. Especially the way i stocked up on magics, i would always stop using certain spells when i got the next level of that element, like when i found a monster i could draw fira off, i stopped using Fire and stocked up loads of Fira spells, and so on and so forth.
 
With me, I didn't majorly dislike it. It was something new and exciting with FF. It was just really annoying in the beginning of the game to draw so much magic from enemies. It took up so much time. And if you use too much of your equipped item you could lose some of your attributes and then you have to draw them again. =/. That's kina annoying. Luckily I didn't use magic too much in this game. By the end of the game you could make your own magic through your GF's which made that part more simpler. Other than that it was a pretty decent idea.

I liked having the ability to switch my elemental attack and defense without switching my weapon. That was neat. All in all it was a very cool and innovative idea.
 
I quite liked the Junctioning system, wasn't crazy about Draw though, but with Junctioning magic you could make yourself quite resistant to many status effects, and easily be able to inflict a status effect with an attack, like Sleep (this is actually advised early on in the game against a T-Rexaur. =P).
 
at the start of the game i drew 100 of each magic so my characters were super strong and for the rest of the game i actuelly didnt use magic!!
a replacement for that was only 1 character using magic, 1 with high attack
and of course, squall in critical hp(constantly) and my personal favourite: LIONHEART
(i got this on the 1st disk so all it took was 1 lionheart to kill most of them)
duz any1 hav an idea on how much hp the tonberry king has?? it took countless lionhearts of 9999 per hit to kill him, and my magic did very little damage even though i had 100 quakes and meltdowns junctioned on magic so my stats were QUITE high......
 
"I like the junctioning side, although that also pecked head at times, when you'd
comeout of a dream sequence and all your junctione dmagic has been removed...."
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HAHA! i remember being so pissed off when that happened, id always asign certain magics abilities and gf's to certain charactors and when you came back from lagunas dream land you'd have to start it all again GAH!
 
UGH! I hated the junctioning system, but then again, i think that was because i hated having to stock it and then not use it as it was connected to a STAT.

I much prefer leveling up and learning new magic as you progress.
 
Nothing is easy, if it's not difficult, it may took time to finish it. Ofcourse drawing, stocking in 2 hours is bored :D. But it is the easiest way.
With me, i like that drawing stock. You can attack the enemy with their own magic, that's interesting.
But in the beginning, i didn't use draw to get magic. I learned the abilty card, then card-mod by train with the fish in the Ballamb sea. Also, i learned the abilty refine magic from item, then play card, refine into item, then refine item into magic. Of course it took time, but it was more interesting :D
 
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