Final Fantasy 8

Status

Status 1st Window
This menu allows you to view the various abilities of your characters. Press the X button to open the Status Window. You can switch your characters with L1 or R1 buttons.

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|Help                              | Status |
|__________________________________|________|
| ______                        _________   |
||Photo |  Squall              |Command  |  |
|| of   |  Lv 7                | Attack  |  |
||Squall|  HP: 486 / 486       |         |  |
||______|                  ____|_________|  |
| Current EXP:   6500p    |   Revolver   |  |
| Next Level:     500p    |______________|  |
| Str   17    Spd    21                     |
| Vit   8     Luck   10                     |
| Mag   6     Eva     1%                    |
| Spr   5     Hit   255%                    |
|___________________________________________|

This allows you to get to know your character's basic abilities points like your character's name, level, current HP vs. its Maximum HP, the amount of EXP your character has gained, the experience points needed to reach the next level, attributes, the weapon that they are currently equipped with and the ability that they have acquired.

Status 2nd Window: Elemental/Status Chart
This allows you to view the character's resistance against elements such as Poison and Blizzard. It also allows you to view their resistance against magic that causes status disorder such as Sleep and Blind. Occasionally you will see a star at your character's Elemental Defense stats. That means that your character can nullifies that kind of elemental damage or protect from the status ailment 100%!

Elemental Chart Explanation
Fire: Fire magic is weak against Fire-based monsters, but is good against Cold/Ice/Water-based monsters.

Ice: Ice magic is weak against Cold/Ice/Water-based monsters, but is pretty good against Fire-based monsters.

Thunder: Thunder elemental is weak against Thunder-based monsters, but great against mechanical beasts. Well, common sense, you will get electric shock as metal conducts electricity.

Earth: Earth elemental is useless against flying creatures but great against standing opponents except for Earth-based monsters.

Poison: Poison elemental is useless against mechanical beasts but great against humans except for Poison-based monsters.

Wind: Wind elemental is great against flying creatures, but weak against wind-based monsters. Sometimes, Wind does not work well against flying creatures like Thrustaveis

Water: Water elemental is great against monsters located at desert and mechanical beasts. Water works well against Fire-based monster.

Holy: Holy elemental works well against the undead ["false HP"]. Cure is an example of Life/Holy Magic. If you junction this to your character's Elemental Attack. heee....

Status Disorder Resistance Explanation

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|                        |       Zombie          |
|        Death           |       Sleep           |
|        Poison          |       Slow            |
|        Petrify         |       Curse           |
|       Darkness         |       Stop            |
|        Silence         |       Confuse         |
|       Berserk          |       Drain           |
|________________________|_______________________|

Status Disorder Chart

Death: Your character will be killed instantly, HP drops to zero. Very damaging. Instant KO Status

Poison: A green cloud appears on head of your character. HP drops in chunks as the character reaches his turn. This status aliment also occur in the field and the battle.

Petrify:The character becomes a solid stone and ATB stops [which means that you can't used that character.] Gameover if all characters are petrified.

Darkness: A black cloud surrounds the forehead of your character. Your character will misses his/her attacks frequently. Hit rate decreases tremendously.

Silence: A tiny bubble speech that says "..." Your character can only use Attack Command and the GF's Abilities Command.

Berserk: Steam rushes out from the red-hot character. You will lose control of the effected character as the character just attacked with the ATTACK command.

Zombie: The affected character will turn greenish and becomes an undead and causes them to be weak against healing magic or life magic.

Sleep: The character's ATB will stop and "zzzz" appears from the character. The character will only awake when under attack or a Remedy or Esuna is used on him/her,

Curse: The color of the character darkens and thus ATB bar slows down. [There isn't any magic that you can junction to your Elementals attack, that's reason why this status is being left. Cast Aura to remove the status ailments. It also prevents your character from using his/her Limit Breaks.

Slow: The ATB guage [or known as the Time Bar] moves slower, changing purple in color. [about at 1/2 the time of the regular ATB..]

Stop: The ATB guage freezes as the effected character stopped moving [even the super hyperactive Zell stops shaking!]

Confuse: Your character turns around in circles and will attack your party even himself/herself!

Drain: Finally found the usage. This depends on character's defense against life drain attacks.

Status 3rd Window
Allows you to glance through the GF that the characters have currently being junctioned. Also allows you to view the GF's compatibility towards the equipped character. The GF affection ratings can be improved by using GF affection items such as Dynamo Rock, refer to Part II for more details. GF affection could also be improved by summoning a couple of times. Regular summoning of a particular GF will improves affection with the character. The higher the compatibility the faster the GF will be summoned.

Status 4th Window
This allows you to view the names of the character's Limit Breaks and set to auto-function. You can press Square to access it.

Limit Break
For the case of Squall, you have trigger into the box, you will receive the amount of hits from 0 to perfect. If Squall has more than one hit, he will then perform his Limit Breaks. For Zell, you have to input keys to inflict more damage to your enemy. If you want the input to be done automatically, move the cursor to ON, and decide with the X button. Refer to Part II for more details.

TIP: You could press Square to jump to this status window.

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