Final Fantasy 8

Junction Menu

Diagram 2.2B: Junction Menu
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   |   Junction     Remove        Auto      Ability   |   Junction |
   |__________________________________________________|____________|
 _________                                               __________
| Photo   |     Squall                                  |  Command |  
|  of     |                                             |  Attack  |
| Squall  |     Lv 31 |^|                               |  Magic   |
|         |                                             |  GF      |
|_________|     HP 2415 / 2551                          |  Item    |
 _______________________________________________________|__________|
|     HP     Blizzaga      2551 [ST-Atk] [ST-Def]  [E-Atk] [E-Def] |
|    Str     -------------  78    Spd    ---------------   25      |
|    Vit     -------------  20    Eva    ---------------   2 %     |
|    Mag     -------------  45    Hit    ---------------   225     |
|    Spr     -------------  35    Luck   ---------------   17      |
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Click on one of the Junction Menu's commands to view more details

Meaning of Abbreviations

StrStrength HitHit %
VitVitality LuckLuck
MagMagic ST-AtkStatus Attack
SprSpirit ST-DefStatus Defense
SpdSpeed E-AtkElemental Attack
EvaEvasion E-DefElemental Defense


What is their purpose?

Strength
This factor affects the attacking power of your character. The higher the stats, the more damage your character will inflict with the Attack Command.

Vitality
This factor effects the defensive power of your character. The higher the defensive stats, the lesser the amount of damage inflicted by your opponent.

Magic
This factor effects the magic attacking power of your character. The higher the stats, the more damage your character will inflict when using magic.

Spirit
This factor effects the magic defensive power of your character. The higher the stats, the lesser the amount of damage inflicted by your opponent when it uses magic.

Speed
This factor effect the speed of your time bar or ATB [also known Active Time Bar]. The higher the stats, the faster the ATB is.

Evasion
This factor effect the rate whether your character will escape from an enemy's attack [causing a MISS in the opponent's attack]. The higher the stats, the more chance your character will dodge from an attack.

Hit
This factor effect the rate whether your character will hit your opponent with the Attack Command. The higher the stats, the lesser chance that your character will miss an attack. Gunblades have 255% hit rate.

Luck
This one I not quite sure. But I think that it will effect the rate whether the Odin will appear. It also effect the rate whether your character could escape from status ailments such as death. If you have the luck stats of 100+, you will be able to see the Gilmagesh in between battles! I guess it also affects the critical hit rates.

Status Attack
This is similar to FF7's Elemental combo on your character's weapon Your character will inflict damage and also causes status ailments on your opponent. For example if you want to cause Sleep with your character attack, junction Sleep to your Status Attack with ST-Atk-J. The above mentioned combo is the key to survival in this game.

Status Defense
I myself preferred this than status attack. This works like FF7's Elemental combo on your character's armor. Your character will receive protection against the status that you have junctioned. For example if you want your character to be protected against Confuse, junction Confuse to your status defense (ST-Def-J)

Elemental Attack
This is rather USELESS. If you want to do more damage against Fire-based monsters such as the Bomb, junction Blizzard to your junction as Blizzard works well against Fire. However, ice-based monsters will nullifies the attack, thus you are helping them to restore lost HP! The Elem-Atk is pretty helpful if you know about the BOSS beforehand.

Elemental Defense
This is much preferred against Elemental Attack. As you can received no damage from elementals or nullifies it and restore your HP. This ability could make your life easier. If you junction 100x Ultima to your Elemental defense, you will be able to nullify any kind of magic. For example if you want your character to protect well against Fire, junction Fire to the character's Elemental Defense. (Elem-Def-J)

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