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T E M S B E S T I A R Y
Items are generally used as a support in most RPGs and it
is no exception for Final Fantasy VIII. Items can be classified
itno 7 major groups - ammo, attack, magazines, group, junk,
medicine and GFs. All of these items can be used via the Item
Menu.
General
Purpose of Items
Generally, Items carries a recovery function and is used to
aid or supplement your characters in attacking. In Final Fantasy
VIII, there is no items that restore Mind Points (or MP) as
the combat system does not requires the characters use MP.
Thus items can be used to supplement attacking, restore hit
points, restore status ailments and giving support status.
Obtaining
Items
You can obtain items via the following methods:
Defeat enemies/bosses
encountered in battles
Steal from enemies/boss
encountered in battles (Equip the character with
Mug
ability)
Search it from
towns or via questing.
Purchase from
shops.
Refine items to
another form of items.
Refinement
In this instalment of Final Fantasy, you can refine items
into better items by using item refinement menu abilities.
Refinement abilities are only available for certain Guardian
Forces. Guardian Forces requires AP in order to gain the abilities.
Some of GF abilities are necessary for getting other GFs.
Below is the list of abilities:
| Menu
Ability |
GF |
What
it does? |
| Recov Med-RF |
|
It allows you to refine items into medicine
or HP restoring items |
| Status Med-RF |
|
It allows you to refine items into status
restoring items |
| Ammo-RF |
|
It allows you to refine items into ammo. |
| Tool-RF |
|
It allows you to refine items into group
items or attack items |
| Forbid Med-RF |
|
It allows you to refine items into rare
HP restoring items and sources [or "Ups"] |
| GF Recov Med-RF |
|
It allows you to refine items into restoring
GF's HP items |
| Med LV Up |
|
It allows you to upgrade items |
| GF Abil Med-RF |
|
It allows you to refine items into GF
ability items |
| Card Mod-RF |
|
It allows you to refine your
cards into various types of items. |
Refinement
Abilities
The refinement abilities are classified as magic RF or item
RF. RF is a short form used in the game and it stands for
"refinement".
Refinement abilities requires you to refine items into another
form of item that is better. There are several types of important
refinement abilities.
Some of the abilities, such as Ammo-RF and Card Mod-RF, will
not be able for learning unless you obtained its respective
perquisites.
For example to learn Ammo-RF, GF Ifrit needs to master F Mag-RF
so that Ammo-RF appears for learning.
Hence, it is not advisible to use Amnesia Greens on a GF before
its has fully mastered its 22 abilities.
We strongly recommend that you should start using this item
only after the GF has gotten all abilities.
Refer to the chart on the left for more details.
Below is the list of links concerning the Item Bestiary:
| Items |
Function |
| Medicine |
These helps to restore character's HP
and curing status ailements. |
| GF |
These helps to restore GF's HP and allows
GF to learn new abilities. |
| Junk |
These can be classified into 2 types of
items such as affection items and items used weapon
upgrading. |
| Attack |
These can be used through the Item Command.
It works like magic spells, summons special GFs and
allow Quistis to learn new Limit Breaks. |
| Group |
These are only usable while at the Save
Points and World Map |
| Ammo |
These items are used in Irvine's
Limit Breaks. |
| Magazine |
These items allows you to view
information on weapon upgrading, Zell's Limit Breaks,
Rinoa's Limit Break, etc. |
For more information regarding cards, please click
here.
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