Status Ailments

[Andrew Scaves]

Just having a couple of different status ailments can make a FF game quite difficult. They are always nasty things to deal with. Some of them might stay after a battle and some might dissapear with its caster.
What are your views on Status Ailments in the series?

I can't stand Virus, or any that turns me into a creature.

 

[Gumdrop]

I find them annoying but the challenge is good. Trying to think which one is the most annoying..I guess for me it would be blind. I guess none of them are that bad on their own though.

 

[Leon]

ailments lasting after a fight are annoying, get KO'd before I consider buyin a cure for it, other ailments that makes u lose controls of commands are what pisses me off the most, Curse all Malboros and their bad breath!

 

[Gumdrop]

Especially FFVIII Malboro.
Now that you mention i think I may have lost characters from bad stats out of combat too ><

 

[Leon]

Especially FFVIII Malboro.

hehe those ones would make u wish u were dead by giving u every ailment u could imagine then slowly take you apart, and you could never attack more than once or twice before they hit you with it..

once hit, u really laugh at your own death, u lose all control to berserk, start attacking urself because of confuse.. that is if you didnt fall asleep, lose HP in each attack because of poison, and even if u attack urself u'll probably miss because of blind T.T and what makes u boil is that the creature almost stops attacking and just watches the comedy!

 

[Andrew Scaves]

XII's Malboros were a pushover and I wonder how XIII's going to be and also what status ailments will we see in that?

 

[darkshadow2247]

When you're in the lower levels, ailments can really be your best friend. Depending on the battles, I'd usually wait until it was over to take care of it.

 

[Leon]

i strongly doubt the US EPA is concerned with this matter botface "

 

[clief101_]

everybody knows how to get rid of status ailments. we're just discussing what the worst one's are. i think probably blind, becoz i usualy just attack everything. but as said before, not many status ailments are bothersome on their own

 

[Phoenix Flame]

What the hell?! There's actually people (and bots) here? =O

 

[Leon]

it's YOU! O.O!


*clubz on teh head*

what took u so long?
now go kick that bot

 

[Phoenix Flame]

*Casts bad breath on Leon*

*Squishes the frog w/hiz footz and burnz the partz* o_o

 

[Leon]

*cough*

that's the problem with ailments.. early at the start u'd have to buy remedies n antidotes since u haven't learnned an ability or a magic that can cure u yet, so u have to waste lotz of money on itemz

*wobblez off to the clinic..* @.@

 

[Phoenix Flame]

And some can only be cured by itemz. XD

 

[dappa]

on final fantasy 9 I found it irritating when in a important boss fight your characters would have zombie status inflicted on them and then they would die in battle and you had to waste several turns as the life spell wouldn't revive them until you had first used the holy water on the ko'd character and then used life or phoenix down

 

[clief101_]

i hate curse also....u dont get ur limit breaks up from it, u cant heal urself...its a pain!!

 

[rissole25]

I hate silence. It's a real pain when you can't use spells in battle.

 

[clief101_]

i only use magic in boss's, so it dusnt bother me too much. i never really buy the cures for status ailments, waste of money coz i never use them realy??

 

[jedi geoff]

i think using them urself is a bit of a waste, most bosses are immune to em and normal monsters usually arent worth it. however i do remember fighting that boss in ff6 on top of that magic tower, where u can berserk him xD handy since he's a badass magic user. that coupled with having vanish on yourself and its an easy win

 

[clief101_]

i havnt played 6....but most bosses u cant use and good stat ailments on