Advanced Tactics Quiz Enhanced (Questions) For Final Fantasy 3 (US) Version 1.1 (august 2003) by Mnrogar -------------------- Contents 1. Introduction 2. Before you start 3. The questions 4. Renumbering 5. Recognition 6. Terminology 7. Credits 8. Links 9. Copyright -------------------- Version history ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Version 1.1 (August 19, 2003): Corrected some spelling and grammar. Version history added. Changes to questions 117, 133 and 150. - Version 1.0 (August 8, 2003): Original release. ############################################################################### # 1. INTRODUCTION # ############################################################################### Advanced Tactics Quiz (or ATQ as it has come to be known) started as a topic on the Final Fantasy 3 (SNES) message board of gamefaqs.com. It lasted from january 24th 2001 to april 6th 2002 and used 8 topics for a total of over 3500 posts. The goal of the topic was to challenge and inform players with in-depth game knowledge, the goal of this document is the same. The questions and answers found here are based on those of the ATQ but for the most part they have been heavily modified to be made harder and reflect new discoveries made over time. While the challenge was brought by the questions, the answers always were the most important to me since that's where the information lies and that's what I tried to preserve, while keeping the questions at least as challenging as they were, no matter how different they may be here. You may not find the questions exactly as they were in the threads but hopefully you'll find something new and challenging in its place. With that being said some sentences from the original threads may not have been modified and remain in the words of their original authors. The difficulty of the questions vary greatly, some are easy and mostly there to inform while others are hard and there to challenge, hopefully most will do both. There are some questions that were not included in this document for various reasons but whenever possible questions and especially their answers were integrated in this document in some fashion. Another goal of this document is to include as much of the gaming knowledge and discoveries that were brought to light with the ATQ as possible, to this end questions were merged, repositioned and modified while attempting to create a more pleasant reading experience than sorting through jumbled posts. Finally, the questions and their answers were renumbered to avoid the gaps and repetitions that come from numbering in a message board topic. Unknown fact but an easy guess; The name "Advanced Tactics Quiz" comes from the "Advanced Battle Tactics" room in the Narshe classroom, I removed "Battle" for it to be more inclusive. ############################################################################### # 2. BEFORE YOU START # ############################################################################### The questions were made, changed and rearranged to be answered in the order in which they are presented. This is so some questions won't be spoiled but also so you won't have to answer a simple question after having already answered it in a more complex one. Unless otherwise specified, every question and answer in this document assumes that only what can actually be done in the game is a valid answer, nothing that is only theoretically possible is. This means that, when applicable, only what is available in the time frame specified by the question can be used to answer that question, whether it be spells, items, location, statuses, enemy formations, Level, etc. For example, you can't have offering when fighting Dadaluma so the answer must not require you to have it, neither must the answer require you to be fighting a formation of 6 Intangirs since such a formation doesn't exist, nor can an answer require you to be at Level 1 since nobody starts at such a low level, etc. Also, as if not already obvious, answers will never require you to reset the game or the like. Everything in this quiz is accomplished without cheating devices or the sketch glitch, all other bugs/glitches can be used. The sketch glitch and any other non-reliable bug/glitch are the only bugs/glitches that are not acceptable for answers. Although most questions and answers can apply to most versions of the game, this document is meant for the north american release of FF3 (FF6 in Japan). A useful tip when it comes to casting spells and using abilities on a target they were not meant to be cast on is to cast Muddle on an ally and then having that ally select the command before Muddle hits, this will ensure the muddled ally will use the selected command while muddle when his/her turn comes. This can help you test a lot of things that can happen, but normally wouldn't, on a normal playthrough. Another thing, look through as many faqs, documents and programs as you want while going through the questions. Finally, the best tip I can give you is to try your answers for yourself, this might save you some time and confusion, and you just might discover something new along the way. ############################################################################### # 3. THE QUESTIONS # ############################################################################### ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The tags for the start and end of the ATQs are just to give you a general idea of the range of each one since some questions have been heavily modified and some others have been moved from one ATQ to another. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q1: How do you kill a Tyrannosaur in one round (time it takes for the character's bar to fill), and selecting only one command in the command prompt, with one character but without; special abilities (Rage, Dance, Morph, SwdTech, etc.), Dragon Horn, Genji Glove, Offering, Gem Box, Quick, instant death spells (anything that instantly kills without dealing damage), inflicting statuses and no weapons equipped? =============================================================================== Q2: How can you reflect a spell off a petrified character that has a wall ring equipped? =============================================================================== Q3: If you have a party of 4 characters and one of them has a Gem Box equipped, what's the maximum amount of esper summons you can use in 1 battle without using the Magicite item, Slots or Gogo? =============================================================================== Q4: I encounter an enemy party of 3 monsters. If I add the amount of GP they each give I get a total of 8000. Yet when I defeated them the battle message says "got 51 920 GP" and in the main menu I have 33 960 GP more than when the battle started, how is this possible? =============================================================================== Q5: In what situation would having a character know one or few spells be better than if that character knew a lot of spells? =============================================================================== Q6: Why would the Debilitator miss in any situation other than the enemy being vanished? =============================================================================== Q7: There are two Dance spells that can cure Condemned status. What are they? =============================================================================== Q8: How do you heal the undead in battle without using elemental properties, instant death spells and instant death weapons? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q9: What is the major difference that sets Quadra Slam and Quadra Slice apart, other than the time it takes to charge them? =============================================================================== Q10: How can you make sure only one of your party members is dead when Wrexsoul reappears after doing zinger? Wrexsoul could reappear only after all your characters are dead, how do you prevent that? =============================================================================== Q11: What will Umaro do when you get to the magitek-armor part in Cyan's dream, if you brought him? Will he fight, if so how? =============================================================================== Q12: If you bring any less than 4 chars, but including Cyan, to Doma in the WOR and sleep in the beds what happens to the dream sequence? =============================================================================== Q13: Suppose you bring Relm to the forest south of Maranda, you equip her with Cat Hood and the Phoenix esper. She has no spells and you have no money. You proceed to learn Life3 by defeating only Hoovers. You will then have how many times more money than if you learned Life3 by fighting only Cactrots without the Cat Hood equipped? =============================================================================== Q14: What will get your Bat.Pwr higher, being equipped with dice or being bare- handed and why? =============================================================================== Q15: How is it possible to deal 9999 damage in one hit with a character at Level 6? (5 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q16: Once you have the condemned status on you, how can you guarantee you'll stay alive, without winning the fight, running away or curing the status and while having 0 MBlock% all along? (2-3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q17: No matter how many steps I take, the MP cost of Strago's Step Mine never changes. How is this possible? (2 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q18: A physical attack from Sabin inflicts damage on another one of my characters and immediately the latter is poisoned because of said attack. If the attack didn't have a spell cast by a weapon following it or a replacement effect, how could this have happened? =============================================================================== Q19: An enemy that isn't visible on screen has just hit me. If this enemy wasn't vanished, what's going on? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q20: I'm fighting an Opinicus in the colosseum after betting a Tack Star. I'm using Gogo who has Mimic and 3 Steal commands in his command prompt. He is also equipped with Marvel Shoes, Wing Edge and Genji Shld, helmet and armor. Suppose the regen status from Marvel Shoes is enough to keep you alive indefinitely vs Opinicus' attacks. Since Opinicus is undead Wing Edge will always try to dispatch him and bring him back to full hp, so how can you end this battle? =============================================================================== Q21: Other than the possibility to hit more than one enemy and the modification of the fight command, what property do Offering and DragoonBoots have in common? =============================================================================== Q22: I'm outside of battle and every character in my party is dead (wounded), how did I make this happen? (4 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q23: There is an attack that targets only one enemy and that does twice as much damage when there is only one out of many enemies remaining. This attack does "regular" damage when the battle starts with only one enemy or when there are more than one enemy on screen but when you reduce the opposite party's numbers to one it does double damage to that enemy. This attack's aim can't be spread (manually or automatically) and it does only one hit on a single enemy, so only one damage value is displayed. Which attack is it? =============================================================================== Q24: Which esper summon is better, Atom Edge (Odin) or True Edge (Raiden), and why? =============================================================================== Q25: How do you kill 2 Tyrannosaurs in one round with your only offense consisting of one command, under these restrictions: - You can take only one of these characters, which are all at Level 99: Locke, Sabin, Gogo or Terra. - You can take only one of these weapons: Fixed dice, Pearl Lance, SwordBreaker or Soul Sabre. - You have no items, no spells, no relics and no espers. Who and what do you choose and how do you defeat those 2 Tyrannosaurs? =============================================================================== Q26: When is the first time you can hear the chocobo music? =============================================================================== Q27: An undead enemy has a Level of 60. What happens if I hit it with L.5 Doom? =============================================================================== Q28: I'm in a fight with only one character, this character kills the only remaining Baskervor who counters the deathblow with Sneeze. Who wins the fight? If the "victory music" plays it means I win otherwise I loose. =============================================================================== Q29: I'm fighting Chupon and Ultros (in the fight before Air Force) with only 2 characters. Character 1 jumps and character 2 delivers the final blow to Chupon while character 1 is still in the air, Chupon uses sneeze as his death counter. A. What happens then if Ultros is alive? B. What happens then if Ultros is dead? By what happens I mean does the fight continue or end? If it ends who wins? If I the "victory music" plays it means I win otherwise I loose. Explain the results for both cases. =============================================================================== Q30: How can I set-up a character so that I'll be absolutely sure to win the battle when I bet a Genji Shld in the colosseum? Which character is it, what's his/her equipment, etc? =============================================================================== Q31: How can you kill Phunbaba the first time you fight him (the battle when you only have Terra) and how does winning this battle affect the storyline? =============================================================================== Q32: How can you defeat a Brachosaur using only one command, without vanishing it and without damage being dealt to it? =============================================================================== Q33: How can you defeat Katana Soul without vanishing him and without anybody dealing damage to him? =============================================================================== Q34:Which of these monsters has the highest Bat.Pwr? a)Brachosaur b)Tyrannosaur c)Mantodea d)GtBehemoth =============================================================================== Q35: Ultima just did 16 damage, how is this possible? =============================================================================== Q36: If GrandTrain deals 2000 damage to each enemy of a group of 3 enemies, how much damage would it deal if there were only one enemy? What if it were Flare Star instead of GrandTrain and the enemies had no elemental protections or weaknesses? =============================================================================== Q37: I'm fighting a Suriander and decide to be creative. I target the following spells at it (I do nothing else) and in this order: Muddle Mute Break Reflect Dispel Sleep Celes is the only one in my party, she has no statuses coming in to battle And she is wearing a Peace Ring and an Economizer. Suppose the spells used have a perfect Hit Rate and that the Suriander does nothing for the whole battle, what status ailments will Celes and the Suriander have after I cast sleep? =============================================================================== Q38: I'm fighting Madam. Celes is the only person in my party, she is only equipped with a Wall Ring and so she comes in battle with reflect status but no others. In four consecutive turns I cast four status spells ("grey" effect spells). After these four turns Celes ends up with reflect and haste while Madam ends up stopped. All spells were aimed at Madam and suppose Madam did nothing at all. What four spells did Celes use and what order did she use them in? =============================================================================== Q39: How many Aegis Shlds are there in the game and how/where do you get them? =============================================================================== Q40: Outside of battle, what is the most status effects one character can have and what are they? This is only according to the little icons above a character's Level on the main menu. =============================================================================== Q41: A. You're in the Fanatic's Tower and the only character you brought was Gogo with only the Mimic command, at full MP and who is an imp. If you don't have any Green Cherry or Remedy and can't change his commands, how can you use up any MP without the enemies doing it for you (with Rasp for example)? (2 possibilities) B. What if the character you brought was anybody else, also an imp at full MP without Green Cherry or Remedy but also without the Imp spell, how do you loose MP in this case if you can't get into battle? Both of these assume that you can't leave the tower. =============================================================================== Q42: What are the 2 most powerful weapons (highest Bat.Pwr) you can throw if you took the Ragnarok esper? =============================================================================== Q43: If you were to remove the Magic and Item commands from the game as well as the existence of the Merit Award, which characters would never be able to use a spell normally in the Magic command spell list? =============================================================================== Q44: Which of these can you run from? a) Phase b) GtBehemoth c) Ninja d) Oustsider e) SrBehemoth f) Behemoth =============================================================================== Q45: How do you kill a Retainer and survive Tradeoff when it's used? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q46: What are the statuses inflicted by the Cursed Shld? =============================================================================== Q47: I am fighting 6 Psychots. I have Locke and Gogo in my party. Locke uses Metamorph and one Psychot was morphed successfully. How many times must Gogo mimic to Metamorph the remaining 5? Assume the success rate is 100% for this case. =============================================================================== * End ATQ1 * =============================================================================== Q48: I'm outside of battle and all the characters in my party are zombies. To achieve this I did not reduce the number of characters in my party or go to the colosseum. Also, my characters did absolutely nothing during the battle in which they became zombies. How did I get my characters zombified without getting a "game over"? =============================================================================== <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q49: One of my characters is equipped with a Safety Bit, yet he was hit by Doom and died. If that character was not vanished how is this possible? =============================================================================== Q50: How can you prove which element is a given spell if this spell hits an enemy that has no protection or weaknesses (absorb, 50%, weak, no effect) to it and the spell has only one element? (2 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q51: Celes runics the spell Fire and loses 4 MP. How is this possible? =============================================================================== Q52: How do you make Gau use a Fight command if he can't be bserked or in rage? (at least 6 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q53: What are the commands that won't be used in the colosseum without counting Leap? =============================================================================== Q54: What are the only 2 commands from your party members (the 14 regulars) that Gogo can't pick from the status menu (not counting relic-enhanced commands like GP Rain)? =============================================================================== Q55: What happens if you cast Break on an ally but he/she jumps before getting hit? =============================================================================== Q56: What happens to the MP gain if both Celes and Gogo runic Ultima? =============================================================================== Q57: Which element(s) won't be available to you through weapons before the WOR? =============================================================================== Q58: Who can use rages other than Gau and Gogo and how is it possible? =============================================================================== Q59: How can you increase Gau's base Bat.Pwr (bare-handed) of 109 without the Merit Award? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q60: How, when and from which shops can you buy at half price. =============================================================================== Q61: Gau has a Genji Glove. If he uses the Bogy rage, how many hits will he deal if he uses "Oogyboog"? =============================================================================== Q62: Gau is alone, has 255 Mag.Def and is not using a rage. An enemy uses Fire 3 and hits for 0 damage. It then uses Bio and hits for 1 damage. Why is Fire 3 hitting for 0 when it is obviously stronger than Bio? =============================================================================== Q63: Name 2 ways to have some control over the use of Ice 3 in the WOB. =============================================================================== Q64: I am fighting 2 identical enemies. Gogo casts Fire 3 only once, it deals 2000 damage to the first enemy and 6000 damage to the second. If neither enemy had any statuses how can you explain such a difference in the damage done? =============================================================================== Q65: I am fighting the Dirt Drgn with only Gogo in my party and without a FakeMustache. After a while, Dirt Drgn starts to attack itself and keeps doing so without attacking Gogo with anything for the rest of the battle. Explain. =============================================================================== Q66: Which commands and modified/enhanced commands is it impossible for Gogo to mimic (with the Mimic command) if he has no relics? (5-7 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q67: I'm fighting on the Veldt, Gau just used the Leap command but the fight didn't end, why? =============================================================================== Q68: How can I make it so that a morphed character will remain in esper form (morphed) for the rest of a battle, no matter how long the battle is? (2-3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q69: I am fighting 2 Retainers and 1 Dark Force. Before the enemy or my other characters have time to do anything one of my characters does one action that hits a single enemy, although this action doesn't kill anyone directly, it results immediately in one of my characters and the 2 Retainers dying without my party members doing anything other than that single action at the start of the battle. If the enemies have time to do no more than 2 actions each before the Retainers and my character die, what happened? =============================================================================== Q70: On the menu screen, Locke has 300 HP but he his dead (wound status). How can Locke have HP and still be wounded? =============================================================================== Q71: How can I hit (and not miss) a Cactrot with the spell Pearl? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q72: Which are the enemies, coming from forced non-random battles (in their original locations), that will be on the Veldt when Sabin arrives there the very first time? A forced battle is a battle that you must get into to further the storyline; "non-random" is added because each step taken increases the chances of an encounter, with a certain number of steps without encounters (no more than 680 steps) it comes to a point where a random battle will be inevitable. =============================================================================== Q73: I enter a fight with one unequipped character and face a Test Rider. The first thing my character does is input a Fight command but before I have time to perform the attack the test rider is dead. What happened? =============================================================================== Q74: Gau and Mog are the only people in my party. Both their Defense's are at 255. An enemy used a physical attack on Gau, it dealt more than 600 damage instantly and without inflicting instant death or any statuses. What was the enemy's attack? =============================================================================== Q75: When is the first time you can use a pearl elemental attack and what is it? =============================================================================== Q76: What is the first pearl elemental attack that an enemy can use against you? Who uses it, and where/when is this? =============================================================================== * End ATQ2 * <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q77: Whenever Gau uses a rage, the weapon his fight/battle animation displays varies from rage to rage to reflect the enemy he copies. How do I make it so that regardless of what rage he does the weapon used by the Battle (Fight) animation will always remain the same regardless of the rage? =============================================================================== Q78: Besides their targeting possibilities and the fact that they damage the undead, what do Meteo, Cure 3 and Merton have in common? =============================================================================== Q79: What is the most single target and impossible to spread spells and/or physical attacks a single enemy can use in one round without counting regular counters (only final counters are allowed), what are those attacks and who uses them? =============================================================================== Q80: I'm fighting Atma with Locke and 3 other characters. Locke has Gem Box and he uses it to cast Vanish as his first spell and Doom as his second, both are targeted at Atma. Vanish hit Atma properly but Doom didn't kill him, why? No characters had any statuses for the whole battle. =============================================================================== * End ATQ3 * =============================================================================== Q81: What are the only 4 things affected by Stamina and how do various amounts of Stamina affect them? =============================================================================== <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ4 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q82: Which of these situations has the possibility of the battle NOT going on forever and how so? That is if your character does nothing other than what is specified, if anything is done at all. One of these situations can be made infinite or not depending on something not specified that does not affect actions taken (or buttons pressed) in battle, it is only a matter of pre-battle set-up. These characters do not carry statuses over from previous battles and they do not change their equipment. A. Celes, alone, equipped with Enhancer, Paladin Shld, Mystery Veil, Force Armor, White Cape and Zephyr Cape facing 2 Sprinters and 2 Spek Tors. No actions taken and no buttons pressed once the battle starts. B. Mog, alone, equipped with Aura Lance, Force Shld, Titanium, Imp's Armor and 2 White Capes, facing 3 L.30 Magics. No actions taken and no buttons pressed once the battle starts. C. Gau, alone, equipped with Genji Shld, Genji Helmet, Snow Muffler, Ribbon and Safety Bit facing 1 Dark Wind and 2 Leafers. No actions taken and no buttons pressed once the battle starts. D. Terra, alone, with no equipment whatsoever facing Intangir. No actions taken and no buttons pressed once the battle starts. E. Relm, alone, with no equipment whatsoever facing a single Latimeria. On her first turn and before Latimeria can do anything, Relm uses Control and it's successful, after that Relm does nothing else, no actions taken through control and no more buttons pressed. =============================================================================== Q83: With the previous help of an esper, Sabin is now able to equip 2 pearl elemental weapons, that each have a Bat.Pwr above 130, and do so without a Merit Award. There are 4 espers that can help you do this, which ones are they and how do you use them? (4 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q84: Which characters can have immunity to all elements without using any equipment, and how? =============================================================================== Q85: When the Phoenix esper revives dead party members with Rebirth how much HP does it restore on a given character? =============================================================================== Q86: I enter the battle with Chadarnook with only one character and after a while my character died. Supposing that my character did no actions for the whole battle and that Chadarnook never did unprovoked attacks (no regular attacks like Battle or Bolt 3) what could have caused my character's death? Suppose also that I went directly to Owser's Basement (without doing any other side quests) after getting the airship and that I never used Metamorph. =============================================================================== Q87: What's the highest MBlock% you can get on any one character and how do you do it? =============================================================================== Q88: The last digit of my GP is 1 yet, when going into battle with Dullahan, it's first cast of L.? Pearl didn't damage one of my 4 unequipped and vanished characters. How did this character avoid any damage from L.? Pearl? =============================================================================== Q89: I enter a fight with Allo Ver with only Gau in my party. The first thing Gau does is cast Vanish. Then the very next thing he does is enter a physical rage, i.e. a rage that only uses physical attacks; Battle and Special, like Stray Cat for example. From this point on how can the battle last forever if Gau never gets out of his rage and has no equipment available other than a single shield? The answer has nothing to do with damage. =============================================================================== Q90: I just used Wind Slash on the enemy party but it missed. How is this possible? =============================================================================== Q91: Under what circumstances will Roulette be guaranteed to end up being targeted at the opposing party and never the ally party? =============================================================================== Q92: One of my party members is a zombie yet for the last 4 turns he's used the spell Imp, how? Be precise. =============================================================================== Q93: I have just killed an undead enemy thanks to Doom Darts. If the enemy didn't die from any damage done, what did it die from and how? =============================================================================== Q94: I enter a battle with only Gau and Strago in my party, they have no status ailments. Strago uses Blow Fish on an enemy then Gau goes into Stray Cat rage and uses Catscratch. Gau was not under the influence of charm, muddle, or any other status ailments except rage but he killed a party member with Catscratch. How? There are no actions taken by anybody (monster or ally) other than Blow Fish and Catscratch. =============================================================================== Q95: I am in the WOB and an esper summon used by one of my characters has just killed another one of my characters, yet it was not Crusader or Palidor. What happened if I didn't use the Magic or Item commands? Who used the summon, who died and what was the summon's name? (4 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q96: Gogo is in a battle. An enemy casts a specific effect (grey) Magic spell on Gogo and kills him with it. Which spell was it, and why did Gogo die? =============================================================================== Q97: There is no one visible on the battlefield yet no one is vanished. The command prompt for one of my character(s) has been up for two minutes. A: What happened to the enemy? B: What happened to my party member(s)? C: Who is my enemy? =============================================================================== Q98: I gained an elemental weakness in battle but not from switching shields or by going into a rage. How did it happen and how do I rid myself of this weakness (2 possibilities) without leaving the battle? =============================================================================== Q99: I used Quick then an esper. However, this esper caused me to lose my 2nd "free" turn (my second turn where only I can act). What was it if nobody died? =============================================================================== Q100: In battle, one of my characters is vanished yet when a magical attack was cast on this character he didn't loose his vanish status. How is this possible? (6 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q101: Which non-playing characters have 2 different dialogues if you speak to them repeatedly without leaving the room/location those characters are in? =============================================================================== Q102: I'm in the WOR but not on the Veldt. A specific spell has been used by each of my 4 characters on their very first turn of the fight on an enemy with more than 8501 HP. A property of this damage dealing spell that was cast is that it will never do less damage than it did earlier as time passes in the game, as long as its target is not petrified. What was the spell? Who are my 4 characters if Rippler wasn't used? Through what command was the spell cast and who could I be fighting (5 possibilities)? =============================================================================== * End ATQ4 * =============================================================================== BonusQ1: Gogo is alone in battle vs a single HadesGigas. Gogo uses the same non-magical attack repeatedly on HadesGigas but it misses practically every time. If Gogo didn't use anything magical for the whole battle, which would exclude the enemy ending up with vanish or image status, why is he missing? Note that HadesGigas has 0 MBlock%. =============================================================================== Q103: I just used a Near Fatal attack at full HP. How? =============================================================================== <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ5 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q104: How can you learn the dance Love Sonata if you can't fight in Zozo, South Figaro, Owser's Mansion, the streets of Narshe, Kefka's Tower, Doma (Cyan's dream), Vector and Tzen? (5 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q105: How can you transfer MP from one party member to another (one character gains MP and another looses MP at the same time and from same attack) without Osmose, Runic or Soul Sabre? =============================================================================== Q106: How can a character perform 2 consecutive actions without Quick, relics, counters (Black Belt, interceptor, Retort), special weapons (spell casting and the like) or Morph on the same turn? Note that Quadra Slice, for example, is only one action. =============================================================================== Q107: Celes is equipped with a Morning Star and she has just used Runic. She is not using a Genji Glove and she didn't change weapons after using Runic. How is this possible? =============================================================================== Q108: How can you kill Evil Oscar with Merton? =============================================================================== Q109: Tentacles' Seize spell (the spell not the special) will successfully grab a character under one circumstance only, what is it? =============================================================================== Q110: How many, out of the 14 regular playable characters in the game, can steal and how do you make them do so? =============================================================================== Q111: What weapon has these characteristics when used with the Fight command and with no relics equipped: - Has a perfect Hit Rate (255). - Ignores the target's Defense and Mag.Def to deal damage. - Ignores self-damage (damage being halved when the target is a character). - Ignores the target's row when dealing damage but not the user's row. - Relies on the user's Vigor to deal damage. =============================================================================== Q112: What weapon has these characteristics when used with the Fight command and with no relics equipped: -Is blockable. -Relies on the user's Vigor to deal damage but ignores the target's Defense. -Ignores the user's Mag.Pwr to deal damage but relies on the target's Mag.Def. =============================================================================== Q113: At what % or fraction of max HP does near fatal status happens? =============================================================================== Q114: I am in the WOR and my party members are all at a certain single digit Level. I fight against an Apokryphos, who uses three different spells. The first two miss, but the second wipes out my whole party. What 3 spells did he use, which one killed my party and what are my Levels? =============================================================================== Q115: What enemy will cast Meteor only if it has less than two other enemies with it? This enemy enters the battle with 2 or more other enemies and will cast Meteor only when it's alone or when only one of its allies remains. =============================================================================== Q116: There are 4 things that can't happen in this scenario, what are they and why are they impossible? I enter a fight with 1 Harpy and 1 Prussian with only Locke, Strago and Gau. Locke goes first and uses Fight on the Prussian, being equipped with Sniper Locke is lucky enough to Throw the weapon and do significant damage on the Prussian. Strago's turn is next, he uses Quick, for his first turn he vanishes the Prussian then for his second he uses Fight on the Prussian, his attack misses but Strago had a Pearl Rod and luckily it casts Pearl as it randomly does and hits the Prussian for decent damage. Gau is next, he uses the Magic Urn rage but since he had 0 MP when he entered the rage he dies immediately because magic urn is a monster that dies when it's MP reaches 0. The monsters go next and each uses Battle for little damage on my characters. Then comes Locke's turn again, he uses Fight once more but this time on the Harpy. This time I'm lucky enough that Sniper uses it's special property that allows it to do 1.5 more damage than a regular hit. The battle continues. My characters had no relics equipped and no other equipment other than the weapons I mentioned. Also, no characters or enemy did actions that were not mentioned. =============================================================================== Q117: I'm outside of battle and everyone in my party is a zombie (see Q48), yet the next battle I get into I do not get a "game over" (annihilated) eventhough my characters are still zombies in that battle. How is this possible? =============================================================================== Q118: I enter a fight with a group of 3 identical WOB enemies on the Veldt in WOR with Locke and Gogo. Gogo has no equipment and doesn't equip anything during battle but he has Throw, Sketch and Blitz as his commands (and obviously Mimic) while Locke is equipped with Thief Glove, Merit Award and Dice. To my surprise, when Locke uses Dice through Capture his attack hits, not only once but on his next 2 consecutive turns also. This is unusual because Dice has a Hit Rate of 2 (about a 2% chance of hitting something with 0 MBlock%) when used with Capture. If Locke did nothing other than Capture for the whole battle and the fact that Dice hit 3 times wasn't due to incredible luck, how can this be explained? What enemies could I be fighting (2 possibilities)? =============================================================================== * End ATQ5 * =============================================================================== Q119: Outside of battle Locke has poison status but as soon as he goes into a battle (he's alone), he loses the poison status. Also, once in the battle, he is hit multiple times by Feeler from a Crawler but he is never poisoned (not by Feeler nor anything else) eventhough Feeler doesn't miss and Locke has no relics equipped. How did I do this and how do you explain the results? =============================================================================== <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ6 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q120: In one turn and only one action, I managed to inflict bserk status to all 6 of my enemies. How did I manage this if I'm in the WOB? =============================================================================== Q121: I have a bserked character equipped with a Pearl Rod. In battle, he attacks with it and a "miss" message is displayed, yet Pearl is cast from this attack which also displays a "miss" message. How did I do this? How do you explain the fact that Pearl was cast at all? =============================================================================== Q122: Gau, alone, enters a battle vs a single enemy. After a few rounds he enters a rage which makes him cast a spell that lowers the enemy's HP. Then, later in the battle, he uses the same spell and lowers his own HP instead. How did this happen if Gau and his enemy had no statuses (including charm but excluding Gau's rage) for the whole battle? The spell used targeted and hit only the enemy the first time and only Gau the second. =============================================================================== Q123: When Doom's HP goes below 32 641 something happens; text is displayed and Doom applies 3 statuses on herself. What is that text and what are the 3 statuses? =============================================================================== Q124: I'm still in the WOB and I get into a fight with only one monster. I then cast a spell on that monster, and from that point on the monster's attacks are always critical hit (and no, it didn't just get really lucky). What spell did I cast? Give an example of a monster vs who this situation could happen. =============================================================================== Q125: I'm in Kefka's Tower, with only Relm and Strago in my party. I get into a fight with 2 and only 2 Dark Forces. During the battle only 3 actions are taken as follows and in this order: 1. The first Dark Force casts Roulette and kills himself with it. 2. The second Dark Force hits Strago and Relm with Aqua Rake, Strago dies but Relm survives. 3. Relm attacks the remaining Darkforce, dealing enough damage to kill it, and it dies. Since both Dark Force are now dead, the battle ends and Relm and Strago win. However, Strago does not learn Roulette, even though he didn't already know it. So the question is why didn't Strago learn Roulette? =============================================================================== Q126: I enter a battle with a single enemy. I have Terra, Gogo, Cyan, and Locke in my party. On it's first turn the enemy performs a certain action that does 915 damage to each party member, which kills Cyan. On the second turn the enemy performs the same action and does 1220 damage to the 3 remaining party members, this kills Terra. On the third turn the enemy does the same action again and does 200 damage to both Gogo and Locke. On the fourth turn the enemy does the action one more time, but this time it has no effect, and a message pops up explaining why. From the beginning of the battle until the monster has done the action 4 times, none of the characters do anything at all. After that, Gogo performs the same action that the monster did and deals 3000 damage to it, which kills it. So what action was the enemy doing? Note that such a monster doesn't exist given the scenario of the question but it doesn't affect the question itself since what prevents it from existing is minor (changing one "stat" from an existing monster would make it possible). Find exactly why if you can answer the question. =============================================================================== * End ATQ6 * =============================================================================== BonusQ2: One of my characters has countered every attack made on him for the past several turns. If my character doesn't have a Black Belt or interceptor status, what's going on? =============================================================================== Q127: What weapon can't inflict more than 999 damage? =============================================================================== Q128: I am fighting a Retainer and I give him a status, then I kill him with Ultima yet he did not counter with Tradeoff on anybody. What status did I give him? =============================================================================== <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ7 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q129: I raised the MP cost of a certain number of spells. Tell me what spells they are and what I did to raise their costs. =============================================================================== Q130: My party is as follows: -Celes- Ice Rod Force Shld Red Cap Cotton Robe Exp. Egg Exp. Egg -Terra- Chocobo Brsh Force Shld Cat Hood Czarina Gown Czarina Ring Merit Award -Shadow- Guardian Paladin Shld Red Cap Force Armor Crystal Orb Czarina Ring -Cyan- Dirk Force Shld Red Cap Gaia Gear Fairy Ring Goggles Why is this set up impossible to achieve? Name as many things as possible. (6 possibilities) Of course, this is assuming you've got all those items. =============================================================================== Q131: How can I cast a spell that will cost me a triple digit amount of MP before I meet Strago for the first time? =============================================================================== Q132: I have a character wearing a Relic Ring at 1 HP. I perform a non- elemental HP healing action on that character (an action designed to heal a normal character), the action hit the undead character (it didn't miss) but he/she is still alive. What action was this if it wasn't an action that exchanges HP (i.e. drain type)? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q133: I enter a random encounter battle in the Fanatic's Tower. I have no espers equipped and the only spells my party knows are the ones taught by Phantom. Here are some of the things that happened during the battle in chronological order starting with the earliest: - I dealt 9564 damage to the enemy. - The same enemy casts a spell on my party. Who am I fighting and what are the actions not mentioned that are essential in order for the ones mentioned above to happen? When must they be done? (2 enemy formations possibilities) =============================================================================== Q134: For each of these characters, what's the earliest point in the game (as far as the storyline go) at which you can equip them according to these set ups: A -Celes- Drainer Ice Shld Crystal Helm Gaia Gear Genji Glove B -Locke- Thief KnifeFlame Shld Bandana Kung Fu Suit Thief Glove C -Mog- Trident Crystal Shld Gold Helm Mithril Mail Zephyr Cape These 3 situations are to be taken individually, there's a different answer for each of them. Be precise. =============================================================================== Q135: Gogo enters a battle with a single enemy in Kefka's Tower. At one point in the battle, Gogo has no statuses when the enemy uses an attack that causes Gogo to get safe and reflect status. When it's Gogo's turn he uses Quick followed by 2 magical attacks which causes him to get muddle, blind, mute and slow status. Finally, on the enemy's turn, it attacks which causes Gogo to get shell status. Nothing else happens during these 2 turns other than the 4 spells/attacks mentioned (not counting quick). Who was Gogo fighting and what were the attacks used if none of them were Rippler? =============================================================================== Q136: How can a muddled character do damage to an enemy party with Bolt Fist, Ramuh's esper summon? The character is muddled but has not other statuses. =============================================================================== Q137: Atma just used a Jump command (like Reach Frogs do), how could this have happened? =============================================================================== Q138: How can using Float serve as a way to increase your damage capabilities? =============================================================================== Q139: I just did Life 3/X-Zone and Launcher/Jump on the one enemy remaining; Dark Force. If I don't run away and nobody dies (party and enemy) how else could I end the battle under normal circumstances and why is it impossible here? =============================================================================== Q140: How can one of your characters un-vanish an enemy without using the following: the Fight, Rage and Magic commands, relics, interceptor, Sabin, Mog, Setzer, Gogo, targeting the enemy manually, causing damage or using instant death attacks? =============================================================================== Q141: How is it possible to do 9999 damage to an enemy using a Drainer but without being a zombie? Specify the setup for the cases that require a certain amount of steps to be taken beforehand. (5 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q142: With a group of 4 non-undead characters against a group of 4 non-undead enemies, if Mantra is used by one of your characters will it heal more HP total if it hits the allies, the enemies or will it be the same amount for both? If it heals one group more than the other say why. This assumes the targets of the spell lack enough HP that they will recover all the HP delivered by the spell. =============================================================================== Q143: I have 200 items in my Item list but 220 total. I go in the airship and choose to unequip "all members" yet when I go back to my item menu I have less than 220 items. How is this possible if all my 14 characters are on the airship and I can use/select all of them? =============================================================================== Q144: One of my party members had Life 3 when he died (not zombified or petrified) yet he wasn't revived, why? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q145: Interceptor just blocked an attack on Relm and countered with Wild Fang. Relm was alone so how do you explain that interceptor appeared at all? =============================================================================== Q146: Name a spell that takes off 5/8 of its target's HP. =============================================================================== Q147: What could be the reasons that manually selecting Fight while having a Genji Glove/Offering/Ragnarok/Ogre Nix combo equipped would fail to cause any damage to a target if the action executes? (5-6 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q148: I have a lone character in battle with the Storm Drgn, my character attacks once with Wind Slash. Suppose that no action was taken by either me or the dragon, before or after my character's Wind Slash. The Storm Drgn then died, what happened? =============================================================================== Q149: When his turn came up "final" Kefka hit himself with one of his own attacks. How could this have happened if I didn't sketch him and if he didn't reflect one of his spells on my party? (2 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q150: I have Gogo alone facing a single Tyranosaur. First, Gogo vanishes the Tyranosaur then he uses Quick, which he follows up by using the same attack twice on those 2 "quick turns" on the Tyranosaur. The first time the attack missed but unvanished the Tyranosaur. The second time, the attack hit and executed it's intended effect. Suppose the Tyranosaur did nothing for the whole battle and that Gogo did only what's mentioned here. What attack did I use on those 2 "quick turns" if it didn't involve a weapon? (2 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q151: I am casting metamorph (Ragnarok summon) with the Mimic command multiple times and consistently. However, I don't have the Ragnarok Esper. Explain. =============================================================================== Q152: Gau is alone with no spells learned and he gets into a fight with a Ghost. Gau also gets a pre-emptive attack so he goes first, right away he Enters Beakor rage and uses Duster which kills the Ghost and wins the battle for Gau. Since Duster tries to inflict poison (the ghost absorbs poison) status on the target without dealing damage, why/how did the Ghost die? =============================================================================== Q153: I have taken Gau into the Fanatic's Tower with little MBlock% (18), no equipment, no Rflect spell, no espers equipped, no Wall Ring and no Life 3. I find a group of 2 L.20 Magic and 1 L.40 Magic. I petrify the L.40 Magic after it's first turn and then I let the L.20 Magics run out of MP on their own before using Fire 3 to kill them, thus winning the battle. Gau didn't loose a single HP during the whole battle. 1. What did the L.40 Magic do before I used Break? 2. How could I have waited for the L.20 Magics to run out of MP without getting killed? Getting lucky thanks Mblock% is not the answer. 3. How did I cast Fire 3 on the L.20 Magics without getting it reflected? =============================================================================== Q154: What is the most DragoonBoots you can have in your possession at the same time? =============================================================================== Q155: For the following questions (Q155A to Q155D) you can use as many rounds as you want to prepare but the characters' turns must be consecutive, a round consists of one turn from each of the characters. Multiple "turns" with quick are counted as one turn, meaning that quick is allowed. Morph and Revert are considered to end the character's turn eventhough they may not empty the character's ATB bar/morph bar. Basically, once a character's ATB bar has emptied you can't use him/her again. Also, suppose that the enemies do nothing for the duration of the battle or simply that all your characters act before them. Still, remember that the enemy formations must exist; if your answer requires you to be fighting a group 5 Intangirs with 60 000 HP each then the answer's not valid. Counter-attacks (including Black Belt and interceptor) and damage from regen, poison, phantasm and seizure do not count as hits. Also, Retort is not to be used. Q155A: What is the maximum damage you can deal in one round that will have you win the battle but with nobody being revived at all? In this case I'm asking for total damage dealt (i.e. the actual total amount of hp the targets loose) not total damage displayed. Q155B: What is the maximum number of hits you can score in one round? This is the number of times the target(s) is hit by attacks regardless of damage (or HP recovered) displayed (i.e. spread spells count as multiple hits). Q155C: What is the maximum number of hits you can score in one round on one enemy? This is the number of times the target is hit by attacks regardless of damage (or HP recovered) displayed. Spread spells count as multiple hits. This one ends up being the number of "animations" used on the enemy. Q155D: What is the maximum number of kills you can get in one round (you can use any number of rounds beforehand) which will have you winning the battle? Hitting undead targets with instant death attacks doesn't count. You can kill targets twice but you have to revive them to kill them a second time. =============================================================================== Q156: I successfully cast Life 3 on an undead enemy. When I hit it with a striker through the Fight command to initiate the "double death sequence" it didn't miss but the monster didn't die. Why? =============================================================================== * End ATQ7 * =============================================================================== BonusQ3: Eventhough he wasn't attacked, one of my characters just attacked an enemy even if I didn't input a command for him to do so. If that character's command prompt was up the whole time, how can you explain that he attacked? =============================================================================== Q157: Gau is alone in battle vs an enemy, whom we'll suppose does nothing for the whole battle for some reason, not even counters. On his first round Gau uses a spell. On the second round Gau enters a rage and does more damage with a battle command thanks to the spell he used in the first round compared to if he hadn't used the spell. For the comparison assume that both battle commands (with and without the first round spell) would hit and have the same target. On the third round he casts fire2. What was the first round spell Gau used and how do you explain the whole situation if Gau never died or lost rage status? (4 possibilities) =============================================================================== <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ATQ8 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== Q158: What do the statuses petrify, zombie, confuse, death, sleep, stop, hide, blind, rage and freeze have in common? (It's not that they're all bad) =============================================================================== Q159: I enter the battle with Number 024 with only Sabin alive, at Level 23, with no statuses, no equipment and no spells learned. The other characters are not revived at any point of the battle. I lost the battle when Sabin died because he used a Blitz. What happened? (2 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q160: How can you inflict damage to your party without anybody (enemy or ally) hitting your party and without inputting any commands? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q161: Under normal circumstances regen heals a max of 255 HP per interval. However, I'm getting more than 400 HP off of regen's intervals. Care to explain? Note that poison's intervals are not added to regen's, they're separate so there's a clear distinction between the 2 and this question refers only to regen's intervals. =============================================================================== Q162: If a zombified character hasn't had time to act yet, how can it die in one action without your party loosing the battle? =============================================================================== Q163: Gau just killed an enemy with Numblade (Primordite rage), how is this possible? =============================================================================== Q164: Celes has reflect status, yet she is killed by a Fire 3 spell. The spell was not reflected off an enemy and it was used by an enemy. How did this happen? =============================================================================== Q165: Sabin alone is facing a single Pug. Sabin, who has nothing equipped (no weapons, espers, relics, etc.), goes first and uses Aura Bolt on Pug which looses some HP but doesn't kill it. Pug counters with Cleaver followed by step mine which takes off some HP but Sabin lives. Some turns later Pug died without countering with Cleaver/Step Mine. How did Sabin kill Pug and why didn't it counter? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q166: I take Terra alone into battle and I want to heal her because she is missing some HP, which of these ways would be best and why? A. Terra getting hit by Lifeshaver from an undead enemy weak vs the earth element while equipped with nothing at all. B. Terra getting hit by drain from an undead enemy while equipped with nothing at all. C. Terra getting hit by Edgar using Drainer through the Fight command, while she is equipped with a Relic Ring but nothing else. D. Terra hitting an undead enemy with Drainer through the fight command while she is wearing a Relic Ring. =============================================================================== Q167: I've just restored 1/8th of the max HP of my character for the last 6 turns without said character dying at any time. It was not a coincidence that it was 1/8th of his max HP (like it would if I used a potion and my max hp is 2000, for example), the curing method is related to max HP the same way Fenix Down revives a character at 12.5% of his max HP. =============================================================================== Q168: What are the 4 statuses that will prevent you from doing a Near Fatal attack when in near fatal status (if you have the possibility to execute a Fight command, voluntarily or not)? =============================================================================== Q169: One of my characters uses the spell Warp thus ending the battle but when I go to the main menu right after the battle that character is dead (wounded status). That character didn't have poison, regen, seizure or "phantasm" status nor any kind of counter status. What happened? =============================================================================== Q170: How do you hit a vanished enemy with a single use of the Fight command through a character's command prompt? (2 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q171: Q171A: I have one of my characters alone in battle equipped with a Flame Shld, yet he/she is absorbing ice and water and nullifying fire. How is this possible? Q171B : I have a lone character enter a fight with a group of 4 enemies. After a while I realise that, although my armor (not shield or helmet) allows me to absorb ice elementals and take 50% less damage from fire elementals, I'm actually absorbing fire and ice, and nullifying bolt, the other elements are unaffected. How can you explain this if my character didn't use Force Field, never went into rage and had no shield or helmet equipped at any point what so ever? Q171C: I enter a battle with a single Buffalax with only one character in my party. For the whole battle this character is weak to water, he/she cuts damage from fire, ice, bolt, earth, pearl and wind by 50% and he/she nullifies poison damage, what's this character's equipment if Debilitator, rages and Force Field weren't used at all? Q171D : I enter a battle with a single Buffalax with only one character in my party. This character doesn't have the use of Debilitator but he/she absorbs fire, ice, poison, earth and water elementals, nullifies bolt and is weak to pearl and wind, all at a certain point in the battle. How are these elemental properties of my character achieved if there were no equipment changes during the battle? =============================================================================== Q172: My 2 characters, Locke and Terra, are equipped with no relics and they are fighting in a room in the Ancient Castle (the castle itself not the courtyard). Without inputting any commands I win the battle. How? (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== Q173: How can I make a magical attack, that doesn't rely on Mag.Def to deal it's damage, do one damage without having the damage reset? =============================================================================== Q174: There are only a few status providing relics whose statuses can be removed in battle by casting status recovery spells on the relic's wearer but without killing him/her. What are those relics and for each name 3 spells that can remove their respective statuses. "Status recovery spells" excludes spells that inflict statuses (like Break with petrify for example) to remove another status. =============================================================================== Q175: I have one character equipped with Flame Shld and nothing else that just got hit by Flash Rain, was the damage normal, double, 50% less than normal, nullified or did my character absorb it? =============================================================================== Q176: I'm in a regular battle (meaning not a side, back or pincer attack), I cast Muddle on an enemy, it succeeds (the enemy is now confused) but he's facing my party. Why? Note that this is not a matter of sprite design, the monster is muddled but it's in the position it starts a regular battle in. =============================================================================== Q177: My character, who is only equipped with a Dirk, just took a step forward and started attacking with a Fight command but he doesn't stop, he's attacked 30 times without stepping back. What's going on and how can he stop attacking before killing every enemy? =============================================================================== Q178: I have a floating character that just took damage from an earth elemental attack, what attack was it? (2 possibilities) =============================================================================== * End ATQ8 * <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Bonus Questions >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =============================================================================== BonusQ4: I enter a fight with a single Tyranosaur with only Terra in my group. The max damage Terra can do with one Poison spell is greater than the max damage she can do with one Bio spell and she can do so without changing equipment. How is this possible? Note: Max damage doesn't refer to the random variance just what ever you can think of to make the spell do the most damage, i.e. Bserk if they were physical attacks. =============================================================================== BonusQ5: I enter a fight with a single Harpy with only Terra in my group. The max damage Terra can do with one Fire 2 spell is greater than the max damage she can do with one Flare spell and that without changing equipment. How is this possible? Note: Max damage doesn't refer to the random variance just what ever you can think of to make the spell do the most damage, i.e. Bserk if they were physical attacks. =============================================================================== BonusQ6: I'm fighting Dullahan with Celes, Setzer, Locke and Edgar. All my characters are at Level 37 with their base speed and without Running or Marvel Shoes. What are my chances (with or without a Sneak Ring) of stealing Dullahan's Genji Glove? =============================================================================== BonusQ7: I'm in a regular battle, I cast Muddle on an enemy, it succeeds (the enemy is now confused) but he's attacking my party. Why? =============================================================================== BonusQ8: In what situation would it be useful for one of your characters to be hit by Love Token? =============================================================================== BonusQ9: How is it possible to deal damage to a petrified character? =============================================================================== BonusQ10: Locke just hit a Bloompire with Atma Weapon for 102 damage. Why did the hit do so little damage if Locke was at Level 99 with 128 Vigor and at 9999/9999 HP? =============================================================================== BonusQ11: I gave Gogo 3 Fight commands on top of his Mimic command through the status menu but when I go into battle only Mimic appears in his command prompt, why? =============================================================================== BonusQ12: I entered a fight with a Cactrot, I won and I learned Ultima. Only problem is I didn't have the Paladin Shld (equipped or not) and I didn't have my Ragnarok esper equipped, how did this happen? =============================================================================== BonusQ13: What are 2 advantages of the Cursed Ring? =============================================================================== BonusQ14: What are the 4 ways by which it's possible to not get killed by MagiMaster's Ultima? =============================================================================== BonusQ15: Other than on the Veldt, where is it possible to fight Leafers in WOR? =============================================================================== BonusQ16: Gogo is equipped with Hyper Wrist, Merit Award and Dragon Claw which gives him a Vigor of 40 while Shadow has a Vigor of 39. Both are the same Level and both hit the same enemy by throwing a Dirk with the Throw command but Shadow, who acted first, did significantly less damage, why? Neither of them were under the influence of a status and the difference in damage isn't due to the random variance nor did anything happen between my 2 character's turns. (3 possibilities) =============================================================================== BonusQ17: Strago just used Pep Up which removed him from battle but when I go look in the main menu, after the battle is over, I realise his MP is at its max. If I did nothing other than go into the main menu right after the battle ended how can you explain this? =============================================================================== BonusQ18: How is it possible to know Warlock's max MP by executing only one action but without using Scan or "drain" type attacks? =============================================================================== BonusQ19: I have Locke and Gogo at Level 99 facing a group of 2 Wizards and 3 Psychots. Locke has a speed of 70 and is equipped with Offering, Thief Glove, Rising Sun and nothing else. Gogo is equipped with Merit Award, Genji Glove, 2 Thief Knives and nothing else. If Locke has one use of the Capture command and Gogo one use of the Fight command, who has the potential to steal the most items? =============================================================================== ############################################################################### # 4. RENUMBERING # ############################################################################### The questions and answers were renumbered for the sake of clarity and continuity, here are the original numbers the questions were given by the posters: New : Old New : Old New : Old --------- --------- --------- Q1 : Q1 Q61 : Q125 Q121: Q295 Q2 : Q2 Q62 : Q130 Q122: Q299 Q3 : Q3 Q63 : Q131x Q123: Q301 Q4 : Q6 Q64 : Q131 Q124: Q304 Q5 : Q8 Q65 : Q132 Q125: Q309 Q6 : Q10 Q66 : Q137 Q126: Q311 Q7 : Q11 Q67 : Q138 Q127: Q263 Q8 : Q12, Q135 Q68 : Q142, Q217, Q218, Q354 Q128: Q300 Q9 : Q13 Q69 : Q143 Q129: Q317 Q10 : Q14 Q70 : Q148 Q130: Q318 Q11 : Q15 Q71 : Q151, Q172 Q131: Q319 Q12 : Q16 Q72 : Q156 Q132: Q320 Q13 : Q17 Q73 : Q157 Q133: Q322 Q14 : Q117 Q74 : Q158 Q134: Q115, Q324, Q388 Q15 : Q20 Q75 : Q160 Q135: Q326 Q16 : Q25 Q76 : Q161 Q136: Q327 Q17 : Q30 Q77 : Q164 Q137: Q328 Q18 : Q32 Q78 : Q168 Q138: Q332 Q19 : Q33, Q54 Q79 : Q169 Q139: Q333 Q20 : Q37 Q80 : Q171 Q140: Q333B Q21 : Q40 Q81 : Q383 Q141: Q23, Q335 Q22 : Q42, Q329 Q82 : Q175 Q142: Q340 Q23 : Q49 Q83 : Q175? Q176? Q143: Q341 Q24 : Q52 Q84 : Q177 Q144: Q342 Q25 : Q53 Q85 : Q180 Q145: Q343B Q26 : Q55 Q86 : Q181 Q146: Q344 Q27 : Q58 Q87 : Q182 (?) Q147: Q345 Q28 : Q59 Q88 : Q187 Q148: Q346 Q29 : Q60 Q89 : Q192 Q149: Q347 Q30 : Q61 Q90 : Q194 Q150: Q348 Q31 : Q64 Q91 : Q195 Q151: Q349 Q32 : Q70 Q92 : Q198, Q343 Q152: Q353 Q33 : Q65 Q93 : Q48, Q105, Q359 Q153: Q355 Q34 : Q71 Q94 : Q201 Q154: Q356 Q35 : Q72 Q95 : Q211 Q155: Q270,Q289, Q293, Q357 Q36 : Q73 Q96 : Q213 Q156: Q200 Q37 : Q75 Q97 : Q215 Q157: Q21 Q38 : Q78 Q98 : Q216 Q158: Q362 Q39 : Q80 Q99 : Q219 Q159: Q364 Q40 : Q81 Q100: Q221 Q160: Q365 Q41 : Q83 Q101: Q233 Q161: Q366 Q42 : Q85 Q102: Q237 Q162: Q368 Q43 : Q89 Q103: Q225 Q163: Q369 Q44 : Q91 Q104: Q240 Q164: Q370 Q45 : Q93 Q105: Q241 Q165: Q373 Q46 : Q96 Q106: Q242 Q166: Q374A Q47 : Q98 Q107: Q254 Q167: Q374B Q48 : Q19 Q108: Q255 Q168: Q375 Q49 : Q99 Q109: Q256 Q169: Q376 Q50 : Q101 Q110: Q140, Q257 Q170: Q378 Q51 : Q102 Q111: Q259 Q171: Q382 Q52 : Q106 Q112: Q260 Q172: Q385 Q53 : Q107, Q108 Q113: Q261 Q173: Q167, Q390 Q54 : Q109 Q114: Q262 Q174: Q395 Q55 : Q110 Q115: Q280 Q175: Q? Q56 : Q111 Q116: Q281 Q176: Q398 Q57 : Q114 Q117: Q282 Q177: Q404 Q58 : Q116 Q118: Q285 Q178: Q408 Q59 : Q18 Q119: Q232 Q60 : Q118 Q120: Q294 When more than an old number is associated with a new one it means that many old questions were merged to make the new one. ############################################################################### # 5. RECOGNITION # ############################################################################### These are the people who contributed questions (old numbers) that made it into this document in one form or another: AdlaiStevenson: Q309 assassin17: Q49 atmasabr: Q18, Q19, Q20, Q21, Q32, Q33, Q61 (Mike8787), Q89, Q114, Q156 bionic gecko: Q299 cb3: Q365 CCPMoogle: Q370 CRK: Q343B, Q378, Q390 dba1825114: Q364, Q369 DWanderer: Q182 (?), Q201 EternalSpirit: Q398 franken: Q329 Gestahl: Q359 Goku705: Q254 H Cuz: Q30 Maniaclegend: Q255 Master ZED: Q8, Q10, Q11, Q12, Q13, Q48, Q52, Q58, Q117, Q130, Q160, Q161, Q180, Q194, Q200, Q215, Q216, Q217, Q218, Q219, Q225, Q285, Q317, Q320, Q332, Q344, Q345, Q346, Q348, Q349, Q355, Q366, Q404 matthewcarter50: Q340, Q357, Q? Mecha White Wolf: Q137 mech gouki: Q65, Q71, Q73, Q80, Q85, Q91, Q93, Q98, Q125, Q131, Q132, q135, Q143, Q151, Q158, Q164, Q167, Q168, Q171, Q195, Q221, Q232, Q187, Q294, Q295, Q300, Q374 (Aldehyde) Mike14: Q257 mnrogar: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q6, Q14, Q15, Q16, Q17, Q23, Q25, Q37, Q42, Q53, Q81, Q83, Q99, Q101, Q116, Q172, Q198, Q233, Q240, Q241, Q259, Q260, Q261, Q281, Q327, Q328, Q333, Q333B, Q335, Q341, Q342, Q343, Q356, Q368, Q376, Q382, Q395 oneofakind151: Q354, Q373 Orc: Q131x rjpageuk: Q293 Roundhouse: Q289 rpgfan99: Q242 shadows jin : Q40, Q105, Q106, Q107, Q108, Q110 Shadowstorm: Q148 SharkESP: Q140, Q157, Q169, Q175, 175?(Q176), Q177, Q192, Q237, Q262, Q280, Q319, Q347, Q362 shins: Q256 Skate4Life: Q270, Q282 Smurvis: Q109 sqpat17: Q59, Q60, Q118 Stormlock: Q385 Tenshi Musha: Q213 Terii senshi: Q304, Q311, Q383 The Obfuscator: Q375 tommylov: Q70, Q75, Q78 tommyvandyke: Q138, Q142 Tracy Smith: Q211, Q263, Q301, Q322 Vegetaman: Q96 Wicked Souls: Q54, Q64, Q181, Q326, Q353 Wolfpac: Q318, Q324 yme: Q55, Q72, Q102, Q111 ############################################################################### # 6. TERMINOLOGY # ############################################################################### Here are a few terms you should be familiar with and the way they are used in this document: - Split damage: when hitting more than one target some spells will divide damage by 2 while the full amount is done when hitting only one target. - Spread spells: some spells can be made to target all enemies instead of the default one by pressing the L or R button. - Addition effect weapons: Weapons that will randomly cast a spell after a strike. Ex.: Fire Rod, Blizzard, Pearl Lance, Illumina, etc. - Replacement effect weapons: Weapons that will randomly use a special effect instead of a regular strike. Ex.: Tempest, Scimitar, Assassin, Wing Edge, Hawk Eye, etc. - Defense ignoring (ignores defense): when used as a general term means that the action ignores the Defense stat but also implies other "defensive" steps of the damage formula, like safe/shell and row, depending on the situation. Relies heavily on context. - Status: on top of the regular and better known statuses like muddle, sleep, poison, shell and freeze, the effects of Phantasm, Love Token, Charm, and others are also considered statuses. Note: Petrify status is stone status. - Command prompt: a character's in-battle menu of commands that pops up when his or her ATB bar is full. - ATB bar: a character's "Active Time Battle" gauge located in the bottom window besides a character's name in battle. The time it takes to fill after a character has acted usually defines a character's turn. - Morph bar: replaces the ATB bar when a character has morph status (usually). - Turn: usually the time it takes for a character's ATB bar to fill. Exceptions: Morph and Revert do not empty the bar but a character's turn is still considered over for the purposes of this document. Quick is another exception; in it's case it will be referred to as "Quick turns", where many "Quick turns" can happen in the span of one regular turn. - Round: consists of one turn taken in battle by each of the characters whose ATB bars can currently fill up and empty. This is an arbitrary measurement taken from one character's turn to the last. - Action: usually the input of one command, manually or automatically, and it's execution. An action can be a counter but not the damage from poison status and the like, basically anything that has a character take a step forward is an action. One action can produce many strikes as it does for a Fight command with Offering, Quadra Slam and spread spells like Ultima. In the case of 2 spells cast with Gem Box and/or Quick, it's considered 2 or more actions in one turn with obviously many strikes. An action can abort if it's intended target is no longer on screen or if it's specified in it's programming that it will abort vs allies. - Command: an action an ally or enemy executes, whether it is input manually (through a command prompt) or automatically, when it's turn has come in battle. Fight, Magic, Steal, Rage, Control and Item are some of the more obvious ones but so are Battle, Special and Umaro's various attacks done with his relics. A counter is not a command nor is damage from poison status and the like. Like an action, a command can produce more than one strike. - Strike: a magical or physical attack executed by an action and associated with an animation that displays either a damage/healing value (a hit), a miss message or nothing (a hit) depending on the attack's effect; can either be a hit or a miss. For multi-target actions, like AutoCrossbow or Ultima, one strike is done for each target although there is only one animation and for multi-target actions that hit random targets, like a Fight command with Offering or Quadra Slam, the number of strikes is predetermined but not their targets. Further notes: - When reading that something missed, always assume a miss message was displayed. - Someone defined as unequipped doesn't only include the 4 types of equipment found in the "Equip" menu but also espers and relics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that these definitions are given for the purposes of clarifying certain ambiguous situations and provide common ground between the writer and reader so as to avoid misunderstandings, nothing more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ############################################################################### # 7. CREDITS # ############################################################################### Many thanks to Master ZED for having saved the first 3 instalments of ATQ (which I had not), for having the idea to compile the ATQs in the first place and for starting the project on which I based this document. Thanks also for your patience in answering my numerous questions. Thanks to assassin and Terii senshi who also answered many of my questions. Thanks goes out to a number of other people who helped me by giving me feed- back and helping me test some things over the time it took me to write this document, so thanks to rking, SharkESP (aka Shiro Mesa), The Grand Lord of Chaos (GloC) and MeepleLard. And of course, thanks to everybody who posted in the ATQ threads for making it the success it was. ############################################################################### # 8. LINKS # ############################################################################### Useful and related links: ZED's compilation of the first ATQ can be found in the Final Fantasy 3 section of "ZED's Unoriginal White Sheet": http://masterzed.web1000.com/index.html GameFAQs' Final Fantasy 3 (SNES) message board: http://cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/gentopic.asp?board=8998 GameFAQs' Final Fantasy 3 (SNES) FAQs and Guides page: http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/game/8998.html Terii Senshi's Final Fantasy 6 (3us) page: http://www.teriisenshi.web1000.com/ff6/index.htm Lord J's FF3us/FF6j ROM utilities: http://www.angelfire.com/pq/jumparound/ff3rom.html ############################################################################### # 9. COPYRIGHT # ############################################################################### This document may not be used and/or reproduced, in part or in it's entirety, on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without the author's advance explicit written permission. This document is for personal use only. This document is Copyright 2003 Mnrogar (king_bahamut@hotmail.com) All rights reserved