Physical vs Magic attacks?
When it's come to playing any Final Fantasy game have you ever had a preference to use Magic attacks or physical attacks? Especially when it came to FFVI through FFVIII when desperation attacks and Limit breaks came into the equation. I honestly think depending on the characters Limit break or desperation attack they can be potentially stronger than some of the strongest magic attacks. Kinda like asking who'd win a fight a Black Mage or a Monk? But that aside, what is your preference?
Depends on the game. In FFVII I found magic attacks to be extremely helpful, and preferred them to physical attacks. VIII was the polar opposite of that.
FFVIII made magic attacks mostly useless (outside of junctions, of course), and later games also give magic rather dubious distinctions. FFX was pretty good though. Lulu could be your most powerful damage dealer, alongside Auron, with her ability to target elemental weaknesses, though of course, by endgame, Quick Hit is the best way to deal damage and items to heal.
In FFXII, magic was useful enough for support and damage, but due to the way magic queued up in the field, using more powerful spells resulted in lots of lag. Physical attacks were just way more efficient.
Really, in games where magic is useful, it's either mostly for a support role or loses usefulness towards the end where you get incredibly powerful weapons. I still love using magic though, and that won't stop me using it.
Generally prefer magic
Yeah especially in FFVII if you have Knights of the Round or Flare then it'd be no sweat to take down Sephiroth but I will say that usually enemies that are resistant against magic are not immune to physicals and vice versa. I think in more Final Fantasy games I found more enemies being immune to magic attacks since a lot deal elemental damage and physical attacks don't really deal elemental. But I quote one person saying magic in FFVI being overpowered.Originally Posted by ToriJ
Oh yeah. Off topic but the FFXII International zodiac job system was a bit inaccurate. I don't see Capricorn as a black mage. Seems like it'd be suited to a physical job. woop woop woop woop. Overall in the series I usually take physical attacks.
I only use attacking magic in games where it's useful. Most of the time it's only when an enemy has an elemental weakness, but FFX was cool because Lulu usually had just enough MP between save points to use magic every turn. Magic classes in FFXIV are pretty amazing too. Black Mage for life
Oh, may I ask which Final Fantasy games do you find Magic to be most useful in? From personal experience I would say FFV and FFVI.I only use attacking magic in games where it's useful. Most of the time it's only when an enemy has an elemental weakness, but FFX was cool because Lulu usually had just enough MP between save points to use magic every turn. Magic classes in FFXIV are pretty amazing too. Black Mage for life
im just going to say that in IX Physical attacks do massive compared to magical late game. but thats mostly since you dont get lvl 3 spells til like 3 quarters in disc 3
FFX probably had the least amount of useless attack spells, followed by FFVIII. FFVIII gets a special mention for actually having useful status ailment inflicting magic. Enough enemies were vulnerable to make it worthwhile and there were some pretty neat combinations you could do. Angel Wing is pretty awesome too. It doesn't actually consume Rinoa's stock so her stats are unaffected and her spell power is multiplied by five (even for Demi, so it can potentially be a 1-hit kill). Also, she's immune to confuse, silence, and berserk. Junction so her magic stat is 255, keep only the most powerful attack magic in her stock and she's unstoppable. The only thing is as cool as it all is, it's just as effective to have everyone just do regular attacks, junction to status-attack/element-attack or abuse Duel/Shot so you don't need to ever cast magic in battle.Oh, may I ask which Final Fantasy games do you find Magic to be most useful in? From personal experience I would say FFV and FFVI.I only use attacking magic in games where it's useful. Most of the time it's only when an enemy has an elemental weakness, but FFX was cool because Lulu usually had just enough MP between save points to use magic every turn. Magic classes in FFXIV are pretty amazing too. Black Mage for life
I just decided to play FFVIII again :v
Ahh I liked FFVIII. The only thing I couldn't really like about it was the story. It got confusing half in but I caught on, though that wasn't the reason why I didn't like that story. It was Rinoa and Squall's relationship feeling like it was the main thing of the entire FFVIII story. It just felt to lovey dovey (I couldn't find a better way to say it lol) and I'm not really into love stories unless it was really meant to be a love story. But other than that I liked FFVIII, Junctioning was complicated at first but I caught on. But along with Magic I think Guardians also get a good mention here since they rely on magic, but I don't like spamming em too much.FFX probably had the least amount of useless attack spells, followed by FFVIII. FFVIII gets a special mention for actually having useful status ailment inflicting magic. Enough enemies were vulnerable to make it worthwhile and there were some pretty neat combinations you could do. Angel Wing is pretty awesome too. It doesn't actually consume Rinoa's stock so her stats are unaffected and her spell power is multiplied by five (even for Demi, so it can potentially be a 1-hit kill). Also, she's immune to confuse, silence, and berserk. Junction so her magic stat is 255, keep only the most powerful attack magic in her stock and she's unstoppable. The only thing is as cool as it all is, it's just as effective to have everyone just do regular attacks, junction to status-attack/element-attack or abuse Duel/Shot so you don't need to ever cast magic in battle.Oh, may I ask which Final Fantasy games do you find Magic to be most useful in? From personal experience I would say FFV and FFVI.I only use attacking magic in games where it's useful. Most of the time it's only when an enemy has an elemental weakness, but FFX was cool because Lulu usually had just enough MP between save points to use magic every turn. Magic classes in FFXIV are pretty amazing too. Black Mage for life
I just decided to play FFVIII again :v
Given that:
a) I really like swords and to a lesser extent other weapons
b) I tend to favour a very conservative approach with resource management
it tends to gravitate towards physical rather strongly.
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The good thing about Magic is it can strike multiple opponents all at one time and possibly end the fight faster.
It depends of the characters because some are better with Magic and some are better with Physical attacks, but I usually prefer Magic.
Yeah. It might also depend on the game too. In some of the Final Fantasy games Magic can be overpowered or underpowered. But in the case of FFIII physical attacks had magic outclassed by the end of the game against Cloud of Darkness. Though it did have it's uses against one of her tentacles since one was vulnerable against magic attacks so at that point I threw a bunch of Black Magic and some offensive white magic against it. And afterwards I opened up a can if whoop ass on the body with shurikens and Luneth as ninja using dual wield and Arc as my Black Belt hitting it with boost enhanced physical attacks. In the case of FFIV I think Magic got a lot more power than physicals.
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