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[Sephitachi7]

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excellent guide.

but does luck affect anything aside from critical hits?

If youre doing max damage already...

I'm not sure if it affects anything other than critical hits, but you CAN go a step further than 9999 with certain characters if you use hero drinks and berserk but it also needs to be a critical hit.

Haven't really tried this myself so don't take this as fact but my friend told me it's possible and I've seen some videos.

[Captain Maxx Power]

excellent guide.

but does luck affect anything aside from critical hits?

If youre doing max damage already...

As far as I'm aware that's the case. Drop rates on monsters are static, and stealing rates are again determined by other means. Luck may or may not affect other stats. According to the Battle Mechanics guide at Gamefaqs.com Luck affects the outcome of a lot of stuff, but it annoyingly doesn't give details, so I'm going to assume that they mean literal Luck and not stat Luck. I have no idea what the chances are to critical with Luck, but my most educated guess would be it's probably a straight percentage chance (e.g. 20 Luck = 20% chance), given that Luck is naturally low for all characters and that from my own experience once I started levelling Luck the amount of critical hits increases noticeably after only a few Sources. However I've never done tests on this so don't take this as read.

Also for the most part characters cannot exceed 9999 damage against any target for a single hit. The only instance I'm aware of is Vincent using the Death Penalty. In this case an overflow error occurs if Vincent has defeated enough enemies, meaning the output damage gets past the sanity check and usually automatically kills any target. Barret also has the same thing with his Missing Score, though this requires lots of high AP containing Materia.