At least with steal you are "eventually" guaranteed an item, drops are something else entirely. Again with the same play-through, I'm trying to collect some graviballs from Deenglows to use them against the Midgar Zolom to gain an early Beta, and the item drop rate seems laughably low as well.
Who gives a flying smurf? Seriously.
Well, it does get annoying when there's something you want, and you don't wanna kill the enemy so you have one person using Steal and the other two just defend. Sounds harmless enough, but after 10 minutes in the same battle, it gets annoying.Originally Posted by Bubbaforever
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That's not very nice, bucko.
Well, Cloud is an amateur thief...
Man, I'm sorry everyone. I was in a bad place on Sat night.
Any posts from that time period by me... can just be ignored.
Apology accepted!
Here is the equation for the success rate of Steal from the Battle Mechanics FAQ on GameFAQs for anyone who is curious:
Lvl Diff = 40 + Attacker's Level - Target's Level
StealMod = [512 * Lvl Diff / 100]
New Chance = [Item Chance * StealMod / 256]
If Rnd(0..63) <= Chance of Item, then Current Item is stolen!
It can only be improved by leveling up, essentially. That would make Yuffie a good candidate for stealing in a Low Level Game. That's all that really comes to mind. Level up more? Unfortunately, it makes the game even easier, doesn't it?
I believe in the power of humanity.
Roogle, this is why I don't read battle mechanics FAQ, because I can't make head nor tail of it until the "simplified" version. Shame about the drop rate though.
I can just imagine your high school math teacher cackling off in the distance.
>>Am willing to change opinions based on data<<
I scraped a "C" in maths for my GCSEs. Of course he's cackling in the distance! But come on, it does seem incredibly dense. What is Rnd meant to stand for anyway?
You can't be serious. Even a C student should be able to guess that means "random".
I never claimed to be "decent" at Maths. I'm surprised I even got a C to be honest.
I just did the mass stealing of ethers too. Its pointless to buy all this armour and crap when its so easy to get through Midgar and get better stuff at Kalm. But I just don't feel right if I'm not!
Doesn't luck stat make a difference? I gave Steal to Tifa for her high luck.
(Quite how Cloud doesn't have the highest luck stat after falling from a great height and finding Aeris I don't know)
stealing is for masochists on subsequent playthroughs in every final fantasy game.
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