Beatrix Without Gameshark possible?

[Heath]

I think if given the choice to use Beatrix permanently, I probably would have taken it. She was an excellent character to use in battle and found her to be one of my favourite characters in the whole game.

[TheSpoonyBard]

It reminds me of the way you can temproarily get (SPOILER)Edea in the party in FFVIII. In both cases it would be nice to get them into the party permenantly. But not enough to resort to Gameshark and the like.

The difference between them is Beatrix actually has decent stats. For those of you interested, this is what they'd be, maxed, at Lv99.

Ranking is out of 12.
HP: 7,509 (joint 2nd with Zidane and Blank)
MP: 577 (2nd)
Spd: 50 (joint 1st with Zidane and Blank)
Str: 83 (joint 2nd with Zidane and Blank)
Mag: 90 (2nd)
Spr: 50 (all characters can have 50 Spr)
Magic Stones: 64 (10th, but doesn't matter as you equip her abilities via codes anyway)

For (SPOILER)Edea, it's a different matter. These are the natural stats at Lv100.

Ranking is out of 11.
HP: 3,777 (9th)
Str: 61 (4th)
Vit: 20 (11th)
Mag: 55 (2nd)
Spr: 45 (1st)
Spd: 31 (10th)
Eva: 3 (10th)
Luck: 15 (10th)

[ReloadPsi]

So why is it I can KO Steiner? ;]

You don't pick up on humour and sarcasm too quickly do you?

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The difference between them is Beatrix actually has decent stats.

That's really interesting, thanks for taking the time to do that. Makes me wonder if you did the same for flashback Sephiroth.

That being said, I rarely noticed stat differences in FFVIII, except I recall Zell being very poor at drawing magic. Junctioning and the myriad ways to permenantly boost stats allowed the player to easily smooth over such differences.

I was much more aware of the differences between character abilities in FFIX, parly due to the rigid class distinctions. For example I could reasonably guess Steiner and Vivi are at opposite extremes of physical and magical stats.

[Suvious]

@ Reload it's over the internet, text doesn't exaggerate sarcasm too well :/

[TheSpoonyBard]

That's really interesting, thanks for taking the time to do that. Makes me wonder if you did the same for flashback Sephiroth.

I did. Sephiroth is 1st for everything except for HP (only Aerith and Vincent have lower) and MP (4th out of 10).

That being said, I rarely noticed stat differences in FFVIII, except I recall Zell being very poor at drawing magic. Junctioning and the myriad ways to permenantly boost stats allowed the player to easily smooth over such differences.

Zell is joint 7th with Quistis and Irvine for Magic. Only Ward's is lower.

I was much more aware of the differences between character abilities in FFIX, parly due to the rigid class distinctions. For example I could reasonably guess Steiner and Vivi are at opposite extremes of physical and magical stats.

Steiner has 120 HP, 24 MP, 24 Str and 12 Mag.
Vivi has 60 HP, 48 MP, 12 Str and 24 Mag.
They're exact mirror images at Lv1. But the relationship disappears as they level up.

[Jessweeee♪]

Too bad.

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@ Reload it's over the internet, text doesn't exaggerate sarcasm too well :/

There's an emoticon for sarcastic remarks. -> :rolleyes2 <-

I did. Sephiroth is 1st for everything except for HP (only Aerith and Yuffie have lower) and MP (4th out of 10).

Not suprising since he's supposed to be the best soldier in the world.

Steiner has 120 HP, 24 MP, 24 Str and 12 Mag.
Vivi has 60 HP, 48 MP, 12 Str and 24 Mag.
They're exact mirror images at Lv1. But the relationship disappears as they level up.

That makes sense since they can share a magical sword combo attack.

[Serapy]

Steiner is God. Beatrix is God' wife.

I see no reason to have God's wife when you already have God himself.

Steiner looks like a dwarf, or isn't he?