Learn how to junction status magic effectively and prepare for battles against Grats and T-Rexaurs in Final Fantasy VIII Remastered's Training Center.
Walkthrough
- 1Return to your dorm, change clothes, and save your game.
- 2Head to the training ward, the only accessible area due to curfew.
- 3Exit your dorm screen to the right and enter the first area to meet Quistis.
- 4Quistis will provide a tutorial on status junctions, explaining how to junction magic to Status Attack and Status Defense for offensive or defensive effects.
- 5After the tutorial, Quistis joins your party.
- 6Strip GFs from Selphie and Zell and reassign them to Squall and Quistis.
- 7Transfer magic from Selphie and Zell to Quistis, or refine more spells and junction them to her stats.
- 8Follow Quistis's advice and junction Sleep to her Status Attack.
- 9Proceed into the training center. You will find a fork in the path; both routes lead to the same area with a Save Point and a doorway to the north. The right path has a Blizzard Draw Point.
- 10In this area, you will encounter Grats, which can inflict status effects like Sleep and Poison. You can draw Sleep and Silence magic from them.
- 11You will also encounter T-Rexaurs, which are strong melee enemies. If you junctioned Sleep to Status Attack, you can keep them pacified. They have a lot of HP and can be defeated conventionally or Carded.
- 12Make your way to the Save Point and head through the doorway to the north.
- 13Quistis and Squall will have a conversation.
- 14As you leave the training area, you will hear a cry for help.
Tips
- Status-affecting spells like Blind, Death, Sleep, and Silence can be junctioned to Status Attack for a chance to inflict them on enemies, or to Status Defense to resist them. A full stack can provide a 100% chance.
- Esuna grants a bonus to all resistances.
- Junctioning Blind, Silence, Sleep, or Slow to a character can neutralize some enemies.
- Drain can provide life leech, but is detrimental if the user is afflicted with Zombie status.
- Death has a chance to kill an enemy outright.
- Antidotes can be obtained by using Card Mod on Anacondaur cards to create Venom Fangs, and ST Med-RF on Venom Fangs to produce Antidotes.
- Silence magic prevents enemies from using spells.
- T-Rexaurs have a lot of HP (13,000-18,000 at levels 10-20) and decent attack power.
- T-Rexaurs drop 10 AP upon defeat. Their spells are limited to Fire and Thunder unless above level twenty.
- Quistis joins your party.
- Access to the training center area with Grats and T-Rexaurs.
- Potential to draw Blizzard, Sleep, and Silence magic.
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