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What are
Guardian Forces or GF?
Guardian Forces, or GF in short, are actually the returning
monsters from the legends since the start of Final Fantasy.
They can be summoned in the battle via the GF command and
launch their devastating maneuver against all enemies. In
Final Fantasy VIII, characters do not require Mind Points
anymore. GFs also carries their own set of statistics and
also gain EXP in battles.
In Final Fantasy VIII, they do not contribute only a huge
boost for offense but they helps to make your characters even
stronger via the Junction System. Using the character's magical
talent, GFs can enfuse magic onto the character's offense,
defense, speed and other statistics. GFs are simply everything
in Final Fantasy VIII.
There are a total of 16 ability GFs and 7 non-ability GFs.
Since GF performs the basis of Junction System, it is highly
recommendable that you place them evenly on all battle-participating
characters.
What are
Abilities?
Abilities are additional skills, allows enfusion of magic
via Junction, boost stats for GFs and refinement of items.
Abilities can be classified into 6 major categories, as they
are listed below:
.
Junction
- allows you to enfuse magic on the character's attributes
.
Command
- allows you to equip commands on the characters
.
Character
- allows you to equip additional abilities that affect the
character.
.
Guardian
Force - allows you to boost GF's attacking ability and statistics
.
Menu
- allows you to refine items into useful items or magic.
.
Party
- allows you to equip additional abilities that affect the
entire party.
For details on these abilities, please refer to our guide
on the
Junction
System. Each GF is entitled to have 22 abilities
at most. The character can only equipped abilities from the
junction GF. GFs learn new abilities by gaining Ability Points
or AP, which can be won from defeating bosses/random battles.
Some of the abilities are hidden or "locked" at
the beginning. These abilities can only be unlocked if you
mastered its perquisite ability. For example, in order have
Med LV Up acquired for GF Alexander, you must have Med Data
mastered. Once an ability is mastered, its status will replaced
with "Completed!". GF and Junction does not need
to be equipped. They will took effect upon equipping the GF.
Menu abilities are only accessible via the Ability Menu. Character
and Party are equipped the Character's Ability Slots found
under the Junction menu. Command Abilities can be equipped
on the command list under Ability of the Junction menu.
Summoning
GFs
A GF can be summoned by using [GF] command. For details on
equipping commands, please refer to the
Junction
System. To summon a GF, just simply wait for the
character's turn and select [GF]. Choose the GF to summon.
There is a bit special about summoning as compared to previous
FF series. Once you have selected the GF, you will find the
name of the GF covering the name of the summoning character
with a blue ATB indicator moving in an opposition direction
of the character's ATB. Once the ATB reaches zero or emptied,
the GF will be summon. During this period of time, GFs will
be receiving damage from the enemy. Once the GF's HP is depleted
to zero or KO'd/ or character inflicted with status ailment
- Sleep, Berserk or Silence, the summon process will stop.
The speed of the GF's ATB is affected by the character's compatibility
level with the GF itself.
Compatibility
Level
Compatibility level measures only much affection does the
GF have for the character. The higher the compatibility, the
faster GF will be summon and less crosses on the Boost indicator
(See Boost for more details). Compatibility Level can be improved
by summoning GF more regularly or use GF compatibility items.
As a further enhancement of our guide, we have added ways
in getting compatibility items and the monster's location.
Boost
Certain GFs have this powerful compatibility GF ability. They
are GF Quezacotl, Shiva, Ifrit, Brothers, Leviathan, Pandemona,
Alexander, Doomtrain, Bahamut, Tonberry and Eden. Boost works
in battles only. During the summoning animation of the GF,
you can hide the gauge indicators of ATB and character's name
by holding down the
button. If the GF is one of the GFs listed above, you will
find a
at the lower right corner of screen. There is a numeric digit
found next to it. The numbers indicate the strength of the
Boost. To build up the number, you need to tap
button during the summon sequence. However, watch for negative
affection which is indicated by a red cross over the
symbol. These GF starts off with 75 and the highest that you
can reached is 255. The longer the summoning sequence is,
the higher chances of your GF reaching 255 boost! If a GF
does around 2500+ HP without boost, it can does around 5000+
HP with 150! Boost are extremely useful and used in conjunction
with SumMag +10% ~ 40% GF abilities. GF Eden can does around
600,000+ HP damage with 255 Boost when it is at LV 100! There
are attacks in Final Fantasy VIII that have broken the 9999
HP barrier!
Tip: You can make use of a Turbo controller to make use of
this feature.
GF Recovery/Ability Items
These items can obtained mainly via Choco World or refinement.
A few of them can be obtained via defeating normal enemies
or defeating bosses.
GF Recovery Items can be bought mainly from Pet Shops - Timber
or Esthar or you can refine them via Leviathan's GF Recov
Med-RF. G-Returners are the equivalent of Phoenix Downs for
your characters. Pet Houses are the equivalent of Tents.
GF Ability items allows you to replace new abilities on an
empty slot. GF ability slots can be freed up by using an Amnesia
Greens on the ability to remove. Please note once an ability
is removed, it
cannot be recovered.
Getting
GFs
GFs can be obtained mainly via defeating the GF itself, questing
and even using Draw on bosses! The individual GFs includes
the methods in getting the GF. Please note that you need to
get a perquisite GF before you can get the other. It actually
applies to last three GFs in list:
. To get GF Cactuar - you must get GF Leviathan first.
. To get GF Tonberry - you must get GF Odin first.
. To get GF Eden - you must get all previous 15 ability GFs
first.
Non-Ability
GFs
These GFs are obtained in a special method compared to normal
16 GFs. With the exception of Odin and Gilgamesh, the remaining
GFs are summon via a command or using an item that carries
a
icon. Friendship and Mog's Amulet can only be obtained via
the Choco World mini-game, which is only playable if you own
the Playstation's Pocketstation peripheral.
To view the entire list of non-ability GFs, please click
here.
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