HP - MP materia

[Light Mage]

I guess 13 or so attacks with KotR really dosn't need to be repeated four times. Not to mention it would take about half an hour to watch.

[BG-57]

I get around MP consumption issues by linking Master Summon to MP-Absorb.

I only use HP <-> MP for learning limit breaks.

[Big D]

Some characters (Cid, Nanaki) do more damage with their Ultimate Weapons when they've got more MP, so the HP<->MP materia allows you to accomplish this easily. Even a low-levelled Cid could deal a real bruisin' if you turned his 3000 HP into MP when he's carrying the Venus Gospel...

Other than that, I guess that gaining Limit Breaks is the best use for this particular materia - unless you want to customise your characters into specific 'job classes', in which case you can use it to make an old-style Mage, with plenty of magic power but limited HP.

[eestlinc]

it would work well for Aeris except well, you know.

The limit gauge trick is creative enough, and the MP-damage. I wonder, does materia that gives MP bonuses and HP penalties give them before the switch or after. I'm too lazy to investigate. Or for that matter, does it switch HP plus and MP plus materia?

[Carl the Llama]

[Light Mage]

I guess that would make sense. HP&hArr;MP swaps the base stat numbers, HP+ and MP+ just adds to the number recorded in your HP & MP gauges.

[Sephitachi7]

Would it boost Red's Limited Moon because there is more MP or is Red's Limited Moon only based on percentages?

[Light Mage]

I would expect both the MP based Ultimate weapons and the HP based ones (Like Cloud's Ultima Weapon) to work on the percentage values rather than total number values.