I miss my old FF8 board...but they were great at advice:
The site's long down, which is why I was here, but the people there were amazing and smart. Aeris2001 and I used to go there, and I'm sure a few others jumped to this forum after. Anyway, onto the advice:
Beating Omega Weapon:
Yes this is done to death. EoFF even has a guide. But you can beat Omega (Nay, FF8) without junctions or(exclusive or) no limit breaks.
The secret is in pumping your silly characters with so much base stats that they don't even need GFs. This I won't go over, but the basics is either:
- devour enemies to boost stats, or
- Not level up until disc 4
The second one is my prefered one as it is easier to do and you don't devour as much. You also need Zell. Basically you avoid ALL battles. Your SeeD score will be pathetic and you'll be hindered, but you don't even have GF junctions anyway so who cares? Go about beating the bosses and doing whatever you want (Sidequests) until disc 4, then get Cactaur! Getting Cactaur allows you to get the vaunted stat+ ability.
Now kill two of your players. The more xp they get the less stat+ they can potentially get. Now level up with one person. As the person levels up, with HP+ Str+ spr+(I think) and mag+, by the time they get to level 99, they will have over 100 BASE stats. Now do the same for the other two, and you will have three rather tough people with no GF junctions. Now start devouring enemies, burping your way up to 255 base stats for most of your stats.
You are now ready to challenge Omega. But first:
Lower your HP levels to yellow. Trust me this is harder than it sounds. I couldn't damage each other even with Squall (90+%hit) sufficiently to injure them. The only way is to have them die (get enemies to cast death?) and given a pheonix down. And don't be level 100, because with no junctions, you lack the death status defence. Challenge Omega with Zell's punch rush/booya combo. With a low HP you will have lots of time to attack OW. With a joystick controller you can just flick the thing back and forth for a 0.2sec of break limit time between attacks. That's 5 shots per second here :D
Alternatively you can do Squall's Lionheart (or try to) -- 100 000 hp aprprox, Irvine's Speed shot, 90 000 hp one time, or Quistis' Shockwave Pulsar (200 000hp). But hurry the hell up. Your goal is to get Omega Weapon to die before Medigo Flame. All other attacks won't hurt you one bit (usually) because you should have 255 spr.
Alternatively, to beat Omega without limit breaks or GF, it is also possible:
- Cast meltdown
- Cast triple on each party member
- summon Meteor like a madman
I have been told lately that meteor doesn't count for 9999 unless it's Rinoa's limit break, but I have done this method nonetheless.
Try beating the entire game without junctions. Or magic. or limit breaks (exclusive ors) -- FF8 is one of the easiest FF's in my opinion, so we need to make it harder with challenges :D
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Originally Posted by Auronhart
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