I didn't Like Trances - Page 2

May 29, 2007, 10:00 AM

Did you find it odd how Vivi and Steiner were the only Character who could use each other in Battle?
I wanted More combos!
Zidane and Quina
Freya and Amarant
Garnet and Eiko
The Parties from the Temples to get to Terra, I forgot their names

My Character Profiles · May 29, 2007, 10:16 AM

LOL i was gonna say that before i even noticed your spoiler tag.
Although, Garnet and Eiko wouldn't make a good team imo, since they're both white mages, it kind of ruins the whole power mixture.
It would have been sweet to have Garnet and Zidane as a team. But I actually think Zidane would work best with Quina. lol.

I can see Freya and Eiko together too. XD

May 29, 2007, 10:18 AM

That would leave Garnet and Amarant who don't really have anything to do for eachother.

May 29, 2007, 10:32 AM

Trances had the potential to be good, but it was wasted by the fact that if you finished the battle in a Trance, the bar was empty for the next one. There were far too many times when I took a hit at the end of a fight, went into Trance and then killed the enemy straight after it. It's annoying to say the least. If that fault were rectified then Trances would probably be better than the Limit Break system from FFVII.

May 29, 2007, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Pooley

Trances had the potential to be good, but it was wasted by the fact that if you finished the battle in a Trance, the bar was empty for the next one. There were far too many times when I took a hit at the end of a fight, went into Trance and then killed the enemy straight after it. It's annoying to say the least. If that fault were rectified then Trances would probably be better than the Limit Break system from FFVII.

That's my main Problem with them.
I hated them because of that fact, I even thought FF8's system was better.

May 29, 2007, 10:45 AM

Oh god no. I hated how it was done in FFVIII. On paper it sounds good having to get to 30% of your health, but I found it a bit tempremental. At times you could be at about 20% and still wouldn't be able to get it. Too many times I just used Aura to get it at pretty much full health =\.

May 29, 2007, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Pooley

Oh god no. I hated how it was done in FFVIII. On paper it sounds good having to get to 30% of your health, but I found it a bit tempremental. At times you could be at about 20% and still wouldn't be able to get it. Too many times I just used Aura to get it at pretty much full health =\.

Just press triangle a few time and it should come up randomly at 30%.
I'm not saying FF8's was good just better than ff9's.

May 29, 2007, 10:57 AM

I didnt mind Trance, not my favourite battle sytem but not my worst.

May 29, 2007, 12:29 PM

I get what you mean about Trance. Twas annoying when you like have one enemy left and it's about to die then it attacks you then you go into trance and DON:T use it.

they could've atleast left the gauge half full but it was emty.

May 29, 2007, 2:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Booger

Yeah. I always want to use Quina, but I like having stiener as my strong guy...but steiner is useless without vivi...so I always end up with either:

Zidane, Steiner, Vivi, and Garnet

or

Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, and Amarant

o.0
I hardly use the second line up though...

Beleive me, Steiner isnt useless with Vivi ! His Sword Arts are much better than those magic sword attacks I actually neve ruse the sword magic ones except early game a bit where they're automatically in the party together.

Lategame you'll see that Steiner is your man for dealing some major damage (shock!) altho he doesnt have a lot of MP but that can be easily solved with freya in your party, his normal attack is the best of all and ever tried combining Darkside with minus strike? Use darkside over and over until you get to see that minus strike will deal more damage than darkside, also no MP cost here xD, be sure that your enemy doesnt absorb shadow damage and that steiner wont be killed :p.

@topic: Yep I hated trances, limits were a lot better and I missed them =(