Current Events > What is the BEST Buff/Positive status effect in the FF series? Omitting:

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As I originally guessed... While it was not the most notorious translation of the bunch, it was certainly the most recognized. FF7's Translation takes the WORST cake.

Invincibility status effects omitted as those are easily and generally the best. No Holy Wars or Aeris/Aerith limit breaks.

"Why THAT status effect from THAT game?"

Regen - FF7: Regen worked a bit differently in this title as instead of getting random bits of HP every 5 seconds, it would just go up digit by digit...very fast. Add haste to this and it was broken. If you decided to cheat and open the disc tray, it would keep going up making it even more broken Shame on you if you did this
Aura - FF8: Limit breaks in FF8 triggered by having low or critical health (yellow digits). Aura was a status effect that triggered your limit break requirements, regardless of how much HP you had left. So you could spam your limit breaks at 9999 hp without regard. It's the ability that makes Omega Weapon (The super hard boss of FF8) trivial if used.
Reraise - FFTactics: Argue with me on this one, but reraise in FFT specifically was a game changer to the entire core mechanics of the title. Not only do they get back up after dying (albeit with 1 hp), but it IMMEDIATELY triggers their turn. The AI would obviously HAVE to focus on the low HP member who is in reach and has critical health, not logically understanding that this character will just get right back up. There is a whole item in FFTactics called Chantage that makes females unkillable in this game and makes the Genji gear the easiest thing to steal on Limberry 2 (all because of this ability).

Don't forget to post if you mark Other, giving us a nice (or single word) sentence explaining which one and hopefully why.

Best Minigame: Triple Triad via FF8
Worst Minigame: Dodging Lightning via FF10
Best Gameplay Mechanics: Set classes and (learnable) abilities via FF4/6/9
Worst Protagonist: Vaan via FF12
Best Cid: Cid Highwind via FF7
Worst Dungeon: The Great Crystal via FF12
Best Soundtrack: OST via FF7
Worst/Most Annoying/Difficult Optional Boss/Enemy: Absolute Virtue via FF11
Best Story: Yasumi Matsuno via FFTactics
Worst Story: Motomu Toriyama via FF13 series
Best Director: Yoshinori Kitase via FF6, FF7, FF8, and FF10.
Worst (playable) Character: Hope via FF13
Best Villain: Kefka via FF6
Worst Job: Berserker via FF5/6/TA
Best Opening Cutscene/Section: Liberi Fatali via FF8
Worst Plot Twist: Plot Twist via FF8
Best Limit Break/Trance/Overdrive: Omnislash/Cloud via FF7
Worst Translation: Words and Phrases via FF7

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Haste

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Haste.

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Regen and it's not even close. Small healing throughout helps far more anything else
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Reraise.

Aura is by far the most powerful, so if that is your definition of best, it has to be that.

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Aura breaks FF8 so completely.

Aura-Meltdown-Renzokuken/Beat Down (or whatever Zell's thing is called) = Dead enemy

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Aura breaks FF8 so completely.

Aura-Meltdown-Renzokuken/Beat Down (or whatever Zell's thing is called) = Dead enemy

I was always a fan of Doomtrain - Aura - Zell limit.

Doomtrain doing the exact same thing as Meltdown

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Aura is ridiculous

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Ving_Rhames posted...

Aura is ridiculous

this

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Haste was the best in FF-X2 because a lot of the idle animations was dancing lol

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I got to go with Haste

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Haste .
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Haste will win because it's omnipresent throughout the entire franchise and it's always super useful, whether as an auto ability or as a spell.

Aura in FFVIII however, is the strongest buff in maybe all of JRPGs, not counting invincibility of course. It's stupidly broken.

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Don't think I've ever seen a FF game, where haste was bad.

Closest is FF9, but when in tandem with Regen, it's borderline broken

What does Aura do again?

Auto-Life/ Reraise is nice but I feel usually you end up getting joe's as soon as your are back up.

PowerOats posted...

What does Aura do again?

It allows the characters in FF8 to spam their Limit Breaks without having to be at critical HP.

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Spikes from FF11 but not Refresh? People would literally charge money to join parties if they had Refresh.

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PowerOats posted...

What does Aura do again?

Aura boosts the chance of the affected character getting a Limit Break, and allows them to get Limit Breaks outside of being in HP Critical health


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haste fo sho

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Going with Haste because it's been one of the best spells in every game, but if it was just any spell from a game, Aura would be up there. The things you can pull off because of that while at basically full health are disgusting.

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Voted for Aura for enabling Armageddon Fist anytime and anywhere. Haste is nice and all, but I don't feel it compares.

Regen in FF9 is stupidly stronger than in FF7 thanks to the spirit stat.

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If haste isn't the first thing you cast in every battle that you're not finishing in the first attack, you're using an inferior strategy

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Aura sticks out immediately, but it's not much of a disadvantage to be at critical HP for the most part, if you have Curaga or Full Life junctioned to HP. Limit Breaks are so powerful that they don't give enemies time to respond anyway, aside from Omega Weapon..

Meltdown is the real broken spell in FFVIII (although it is of course a debuff), but again, only really Omega Weapon is powerful enough to warrant using it.

If you do it right with Aura, you basically have Squall and Zell doing around 150k damage a turn. Also it isn't a "chance" at Limit Break. Since you can just cycle through turns you will assure it proc's.

With Zell you get a confirmed at least like... 120k if you are hitting for 9999, while Squall if he has his best Limit it is like 180k?

All this while you don't need to level since you can just junction something awesome to ATK.

Haste is more useful across the series since this was so broken they only did it once, heh

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Its easily Aura. You only vote haste if you dont know what aura does.

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Aura isn't just about increasing the chances of getting a limit break. It raises your crisis level.

Higher crisis level makes Renzokuken do more hits, makes Invincible Moon and Wishing Star more likely, gives you dramatically more time for Armageddon Fist and Shot, improves the spell selection and chance of getting The End, and directly boosts the power of Blue Magic.

You can potentially kill Omega Weapon with a single use of Armageddon Fist.

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Wouldn't "Big Guard" be more applicable for FF7 than Regen? Doesn't it apply both Physical Barrier, Magical Barrier, AND Haste all at the same time....to ALL party members?

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xXfireglzXx posted...

Wouldn't "Big Guard" be more applicable for FF7 than Regen? Doesn't it apply both Physical Barrier, Magical Barrier, AND Haste all at the same time....to ALL party members?

Big Guard is just a bunch of different status effects. That's like saying the best debuff is "bad breath"

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Haste, simple for it being the best buff in a number of games

Also, just an FYI... in order to tag me properly, the system requires an underscore in my name like this:

@The_Popo

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The Popo posted...

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Fixed it. I was like "damn why everyone suspended lmao"

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@Hayame_Zero is another one I needed the underscore for

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Aura is one of the most broken things in a FF game. My first instinct was to pick haste, but Aura-Limit Break becomes essentially the only rational damage dealing strategy because you don't have to sit through turns or GF animations, it's just big damage at will, quickly.

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Haste is really good. Accumulate is f'n OP in FFT. So Haste is my choice

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legendary_zell posted...

Aura is one of the most broken things in a FF game. My first instinct was to pick haste, but Aura-Limit Break becomes essentially the only rational damage dealing strategy because you don't have to sit through turns or GF animations, it's just big damage at will, quickly.

To be fair I'd rather sit through turns of GF animations than Zells limit break

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HagenEx posted...

Haste will win because it's omnipresent throughout the entire franchise and it's always super useful, whether as an auto ability or as a spell.

Aura in FFVIII however, is the strongest buff in maybe all of JRPGs, not counting invincibility of course. It's stupidly broken.

This. Haste was gonna be my pick until I saw Aura further down the list.

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Haste is basically the best universal buff. Protect and Shell are also buff that are never useless, but there aren't many FF games where Protectga/Shellga is a thing. Aura is OP but only shows up in one game. I don't remember Spike so I have no opinion on that. However the most useless buff on this list is Vanish. It's barely in some games and doesn't always do it's job.

Tyranthraxus posted...

To be fair I'd rather sit through turns of GF animations than Zells limit break

Why is that? You only have to remember 2 of them.

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I chose Haste since it is a recurring buff throughout the series.

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

Its easily Aura. You only vote haste if you dont know what aura does.

This

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Bad_Mojo posted...

Why is that? You only have to remember 2 of them.

It's just not particularly fun and the damage sucks compared to Lionheart with the ultimate weapon.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

It's just not particularly fun and the damage sucks compared to Lionheart with the ultimate weapon.

Actually if you're fast and switch between UP/DOWN, and LEFT/RIGHT, and you get 6-7 seconds on his Limit, you can get more hits with Zell than you do with Lionheart.

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