Enemy Skills!!!

[BG-57]

Manipulating Parasites is still worthwhile. They can teach Level 5 Death and Magic Breath.

[UltimaLimit]

My bad. I knew they taught something. I started a new file recently. I'm on Disc 3, but I haven't been to the crater yet.

[Raistlin]

Unless you want to master the Enemy Skill materia, the only good ones are:

White Wind
Big Guard
Magic Breath
Pandora's Box
Maybe Shadow Flare(I don't remember the MP cost)

All the rest are optional and you'll never use them. The first three are pretty easy to get.

I wish you could get Pandora's Box earlier then a few steps away from the last Jenova fight. ;_;

[BG-57]

I found Trine and Beta useful for the first two-thirds of the game. They eliminated the need to carry around Fire and Bolt magic materia (except for Elemental effects).

Also I found some interesting combinations of effects involving E-skills:

1) Level 4 Suicide and Morph: As long as the enemy is a level in a multiple of 4, the critical damage will make morphing or killing them a lot easier. It makes short work of Malboros.

2) Death Force and Roulette: If you cast Death Force on your party members, they are unaffected by Roulette. It may also work if they're equipping the Safety Bit (I'll have to test it out).

[UltimaLimit]

Maybe Shadow Flare(I don't remember the MP cost)

100MP

[Raistlin]

I found Trine and Beta useful for the first two-thirds of the game. They eliminated the need to carry around Fire and Bolt magic materia (except for Elemental effects).

TRINE. Oh yes, forgot about that. Can be learned really early in the game, costs almost no MP(10), and is decently strong. Definitely the best offensive Enemy Skill, and possibly the best offensive spell, in the first disc.

[Del Murder]

Magic hammer is useful too, but yeah, like most FF games the majority of E-skills are useless. Trine is awesome though.

[mr. anderson]

i found beta to be useful for a while because i never bothered to get any really good ones

[Flashback007]

Yeah, I finnally got Shadow Flare, but now. I cannot get hold of:

????? (But that is a piece of cake, will have it soon)
Aqualung ( Where, can I find it. I know those Serpent have it, but they don't use it and Manipulate doesn't work)
Chocobuckle (This one is hard, somone has a tip??)
Death Force (Where is this Admantaimai? Do you know how many beaches the West Continent has????)
Magic Hammer (Again the West Continent is big, where is Razor Weed?)

The rest I got. But I want them all, don't matter how crappy they are

[Del Murder]

Aqualung ( Where, can I find it. I know those Serpent have it, but they don't use it and Manipulate doesn't work) What sepent? I always got it in the desert outside Gold Saucer. Some three headed thing I think.

Chocobuckle (This one is hard, somone has a tip??) Use L4 Suicide on the Chocobos outside the farm or Mideel.

Death Force (Where is this Admantaimai? Do you know how many beaches the West Continent has????) Beach near Wutai.

Magic Hammer (Again the West Continent is big, where is Razor Weed?) Inside Wutai, the mountain part where you rescue Yuffie.

[Jolts]

Okay, my turn. I need to know where to get Trine, other than the Materia Keeper or Godo.

[Del Murder]

There is an enemy inside the frozen mountain that uses Trine. I don't remember what it is called. It's pretty big, though, and you only fight one alone in a battle. You can't go back there when you get the airship so this is your last chance to get it!

[Raistlin]

It's a big, red scorpion type thing. Up in the Gaia Cliffs(beginning of disc 2). They also cast Magic Breath - the best all-enemies attacking Enemy Skill until Pandora's Box.

*hits self on the forehead* I can't believe I can't think of the bloody name. Bah.

Materia Keeper and Godo were really your best bet, though. After disc 1, Trine just keeps on getting less and less useful. You'll be using Magic Breath, which, IMO, is better than Ultima.

[Del Murder]

Well, if you want to get three E-Skill materia with all of them on there, you have to get it from the guy in the cave for at least one of them, or wait to fight Godo until after you have the Highwind.

[Jolts]

Stilva is the scorpion thing. I found out that, since I already fought Godo, I won't be able to get Trine on the fourth E-Skill, but I'm not worried abou that, since there can only the three people in battle at one time (Bizzaro-Sephiroth doesn't count, 'cause I never switch over ).

Thanks though.