some fight help?

ok I need some help with 2 battles, first being ruby dragon/bahamut the other malboro.

ruby dragon:

I have 100 sleep junctions to quistis st-a/j, but the thing still wont go to sleep. I junction 100 firaga to all el. def and blizzaga to all el at. I aura squall and use his limit. THe thing still kills me with breath.

bahamut:
havent gotten there yet....

malboros:
I just get my @ss kicked.


I've read the walkthrough, but I'm still gettin beat. Can someone help me with this?

Malboros attack with status changes, so you need to junction things like sleep, confuse, blind etc to status defence. If you have the 'Ribbon' item (I got it through the Chocobo world with the PC version), teach a GF that ability and select the command to the character, causing that character to not be affected by any status changes.

I can't remember much about the Ruby Dragons, sorry, but Shiva should be a good GF to use. I'm not sure, but I think 'breath' also creates status changes. If so, the same tactic for the malboro fight will help there too.

Hope that helps,
Jade.

thanks for the advice, I haven't been to the chocobo world yet...I'll have to look into that

Not a problem, I just hope it helps!
Do you have the PC version? Because if not I'm fairly sure you need a pocket station to play Chocoboworld.

Jade.

:( no I'm on playstation

Also use Alexander because Ruby Dragon's are susceptible to Holy.

I never had any trouble with Ruby Dragons to be honest. But before I even tried to get Bahumet and then Eden I made sure that I had max weapon upgrades for my main party and also junctioned magic like 100 tornados and meteor etc to health and strength.

hmm, maybe I'll max out on some magic, where can I get the stuff I need to max weapons? I dunno what monsters to mug, ext.

What is your main party?

squall, quistis, rinoa

http://www.nightsolo.net/ff8/part8.html
This site should help.

Jade

whats the best way to fight on island closest to heaven/hell. so I can get the items I need

Ok so you have Quistis in your party so things will be pretty easy from here:

For the Malboros; make sure Quistis is with yellow life and that she as the initiative abiltiy then use degenerator and Malboro will be defeated withought having time to use Bad Breath.

The same rule can be used for the Ruby Dragons but the Ruby Dargons that you fight before facing Bahamut cannot be degenerated (at least i think they can´t) so make sure someone as the initiative abilitie and call a GF so if the Ruby Dragon uses his Dragon Breath atack the GF will die for you and you can then revive the other two characters, now i always have Zell in my party so he can use Armageddon Fist to get rid of the Ruby Dragon or use Irvines Shot limit break, you could also use Squall but since Lion Heart is random i wouldn´t recomend it.

And that´s the bottom line;)

id max out health or get at least 8,000 health before taking on the ruby dragons. if you are at level 100 they do over 7,000 damage with their ruby breath attack. these are the hardest enemies on the game for me. just keep HP high so you dont get wiped out by the ruby breath attack and kill it as fast as you can. what sort of magic do you have junctioned because i know how to get most high level spells. on the island closest to hell im pretty sure there are some enemies that drop items that refine into flare magic which got my attack up to 255 with help from strength +20% and 40% abilities. it would be handy to know how powerful you are and the basics of what you have junctioned.

thanks jimmy and dwarf.

is initiative an gf ability?

and dwarf. I change my junction depending on what I fight. for the ruby dragon, I make sure my el. def. has fire and my attack has blizzard. my hp is curaga. my str. is ultima. and I forgot what else. I need to max out my magic more though. whats the best place to draw high spells (ultima, flare, holy, etc.). I have enc. none so I can go to heaven/hell and draw, but that takes a while.

Yes it is a GF abilatie i think Cactuar as it and Bahamut and Pandemona too.