Final Fantasy VIII - Perfect SEED Exam (600 points) - Part 1

Описание: Welcome to my FFVIII Perfect SEED Exam (600 points) Guide!!!

This is the first part of this guide, enjoy :]

1. Leave the classroom than meet Selphie and get your first TT-Cards in the next screen

2. You will need the "Occult Fan I" for extra Money, take it and read it!

3. Leave Balamb-Garden and get your first G.F.'s Quezacotl & Shiva

4. MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE GAME: Choose Ability "Card" to learn from Quezacotl before you fight Ifrit to gain the 20 AP from him! [Shiva's 1st Ability doesn't matter that much, but "I Mag-RF" is a solid choice to refine good magic from cards]

5. Setting Up your first junctions for drawing magic

6. Draw "Cure" Magic from "Caterchipillar" [you encounter this foe in the forest only], heal with "Cure" if you got low on HP, but keep in mind to never attack and escape from battle

7. Draw "Blizzard" Magic from "Glaciel Eye" [you can encounter this foe a lot on the mountain part of the map], heal with "Cure" if you got low on HP, but keep in mind to never attack and escape from battle

8. You Should have any Blizzard and Cure spells at MAX 100, and some "Scan" Magic from the Bugs you can encounter on the grass [this is important as well, to check Ifrit's HP, because you want to hit him with last Blizzard spell if the clock is at 30 seconds time remaining]

9. Junction "Cure" to "Spirit [SPR]" and "Blizzard" to "Magic [MAG]" for most efficiency

10. Fire cavern mission, choose timelimit of 10 minutes, it's far more than enough...

11. Follow the path and espace from all the battles [business as usual ^_^]

12. First boss in the game Ifrit, pretty easy fight, heal your characters if needed and just cast Blizzard on him, make sure he that Ifrit's HP is so low that he wouldn't survive next Blizzard spell and wait for the timer to hit 30 seconds

13. Exactly at 30 seconds remaining cast your last Blizzard spell with Quistis (Killing Blow!) and he will forfeit, make sure to smash the "X" button through the Victory screen and push "START" followed by the "X" button to confirm his name, only then the hidden timer will stop and you will get 100 points for your SEED-Exam later [this is a bug in the PC-Version of the game]

14. Make sure to start learning Ifrit "STR+20%"

15. Save outside the cave, junction all G.F.'s to Quistis and get back into fire cavern

16. We need 20 more AP to learn the "Card" Ability from Quezacotl, so we need to gather some EXP with Quistis. Make sure to encounter only 1x Buel, kill off Squall and defeat Buel with any of you G.F. as you wish [dont attack or cast with your character on the enemy, cause this will grant you more EXP and we want to avoid EXP at all]. We need to kill a 2nd Buel as well with one of our G.F.'s. After all that leave the fire cavern and head to the beach

17. We will encounter a pack of 2x Foca-Double on the beach and have to kill off 3 packs total with Quezacotl to reach the 20 AP for the "Card" Ability

18. 3rd Pack fight and finally learning the "Card" Ability

19. Time to choose the "Card Mod" Ability to learn next with Quezacotl [best ability in the game for sure!] and junction time, make sure "Card" is junctioned and useable

20. Let AP farming begin! First Method - Attack with Squall physically until the fishes get low on HP then Card them [unfortunately scan isnt working and only shows "??????"] here you need some prediction ;]

21. AP farming Method 2 - safer way to get these fishes low on HP is to attack with Quezacotl [but only if they are both still in the ground, if not your G.F. will One-Shot the fish] you can attack once more physically and the Card them

22. Finally after a long time grinding, most important ability in the game is learned! Congrats :]


Part 2 will follow as a guide for refining early very strong magic from cards and should contain a perfect Dollet Mission finish!

STAY TUNED :]