Speed stat = useless?

[Peter_20]

I recall writing this thread before, but it was magically deleted, along with numerous other threads. :rolleyes2

Anyway, does Speed actually affect anything in this game?
I seem to get exactly the same amount of attack chances; yeah, I do get to select commands much earlier, but the order in which myself and the enemies attack still seems pre-determined.

[Goldenboko]

NO! I got my Locke's speed very high and now...

A. He attacks immediately

-AND-

B. He attacks faster then bosses :)

[blackmage_nuke]

I also believe it increases the effectiveness of steal

[Flying Mullet]

Considering that my characters can take out most enemies in one turn at the end of the game, having a high Speed stat is tastey so I can attack before the enemies do anything.

[bipper]

Considering that my characters can take out most enemies in one turn at the end of the game, having a high Speed stat is tastey so I can attack before the enemies do anything.

that means that HPs = useless!

[Darius]

That, and include the fact that Locke (and in my case Shadow) can attack up to 3 times before a single monster can attack once is extremely nice. :)

[scrumpleberry]

that means that HPs = useless!


Only if you do enough on the speeds :)

[Paul]

I recall writing this thread before, but it was magically deleted, along with numerous other threads. :rolleyes2

Anyway, does Speed actually affect anything in this game?
I seem to get exactly the same amount of attack chances; yeah, I do get to select commands much earlier, but the order in which myself and the enemies attack still seems pre-determined.
how full your characters time bar is random at the beginning of a battle. this is why in any given fight, any character could be first turn.

but the speed stat does increase how fast the bar fills up, so if you have one character with very high speed, even if he starts the battle with an empty time bar, he could in theory fill it before anyone else does and have first turn.

[sockmonkey]

I just wish there was more than one esper with the speed bonus since once you turn Odin into Raiden it no longer gives it. I also wish that it went up more than on point at a a time. For every other stat at least one esper boosts it two points at a time.

[Flying Mullet]

In the GBA version Cactuar gives you a +2 Speed bonus.