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| Final Fantasy IX The last installment ever to be released originally for the Playstation, FF9 returned to the roots of Final Fantasy in terms of characters and jobs, yet introduced interesting twists to abilities and other such features. |
January 26, 2008, 2:38 AM
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Garnet/Dagger's Absence
Has anyone else noticed that Dagger or Garnet leaves the party quite often? Is it not hard to train her? I mean that was one of the reasons that I had not used her. It would be different if she auto-leveled a bit while she was out. =/.
So, what do you think? Do you think she was always gone? Did you even use her?
Discuss.
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January 26, 2008, 3:13 AM
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Well let's see...
1. Her absences are story related, so it's not as if they're uncalled for.
2. IX was an easy game, it didn't need an auto-leveling thing.
3. The entire game hops around from one set of characters to the next, much like a book. I don't see you complaining about Zidane's absences.
4. You can train her enough to balance out her absences. Remember when she runs off to Treno? Level her up there, in the gargan tunnel. It's a perfect opportunity.
5. I used her in two of my files, she's not hard to lvl. Maybe you just need practice. I don't know why you're complaining about this if you didn't even use her.
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January 26, 2008, 3:27 AM
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You're suppose to level up Garnet with Steiner. Garent does leave but the beginning/middle of the game it balances out between Garent and Steiner (party) and Zidane, Freya and Vivi (party).
Spoilers below!
- On disk 1 she leaves with Steiner Then it cuts to Zidane, Freya, Vivi, and Quina until disk 2.
- Start of disk 2 you start off with Garnet and Steiner. Around the Treno area you have can level there. (There is a quest friendly monster there and a cave where you can get a Zodiac coin.) Also with Garnet, Steiner and Marcus you fight about two bosses. (I think) After the second boss and a few scenes it cuts back to Zidane, Freya, Vivi and Quina.
- You don't get Garnet back until you escape from the Alexandria castle. Once you escape you use her until the end of Disk 2.
- Disk 3 Garnet leaves but it does not start off with much fighting anyways. Garnet joins your party once Alexandria is destroyed by Bahamut. From then on Garnet does not leave the party at all. Garnet is silenced for a while so sometimes her spells don't work.
Garent leaves a few times but it's a part of the story, she takes the lead for a while. You do have quite a few chances to level her up when you're not with Zidane.
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January 26, 2008, 7:54 AM
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I actually found it harder to level up Freya after she leaves the party for the first time. Whenever I get her back she's around level 19 and everyone else is in the 30s. It takes me over an hour just to get her on par with the other characters. I do it because her final abilities are totally worth it.
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January 26, 2008, 10:59 PM
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Agreed with Rydia about Freya, her absence was far greater than Garnets.
The times Gernet left the part didn't really phase me much, as you get the chance to train her anyway with Steiner.
Her losing her voice was more annoying than her leaving the party =/
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January 27, 2008, 3:22 AM
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She was gone a few times, yes, but that wasn't surprising, considering that they have this trend where females leave the party often enough to consider the whole thing a hindrance to most.
I didn't bother me though. Gone or not, I have this mind-set that before I fight the final boss, all my characters shall be leveled up to the MAX, no matter what. IX was no exception, so I really have no complains about her leaving the party. In a way, it made the storyline more interesting for me as it deepened the plot and structure of the whole game.
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January 27, 2008, 3:33 AM
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It Didn't bother me.
I leveled up Garnet when it switched over to her stories and such.
She only loses her voice for a short time and Eiko is a good replacment.
She still was in my final party.
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January 27, 2008, 5:15 AM
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I agree on the Freya thing, but I liked her way more than Garnet, but I used Garnet because of the healing stuff.
She was fairly easy to level too, so her absences weren't that bad, no matter how common they were.
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February 6, 2008, 9:14 AM
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both freya and garnet are very good characters, but i always leveled garnet when she got back in the party. I mean come on she is a character with the strongest magics. i say this probably because of the summoning, shiva, bahamut, leviathan...
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February 6, 2008, 9:24 AM
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x__o It bothered me when she left in Disc 1, because I loff her so much. ;___; Uhg. It really did. But at least Freya was there, and she's kind of made of win. Like a lot. Soo.. yeah.
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