Help Sphere Grid Problem

[mynameisdish]

Ur... So I've googled this and found two instances of people asking about this same thing and neither were ever resolved, so I thought I'd try.


I'm still at the beginning of the game (Kilika Temple), but I'm having a problem with the sphere grid. I have plenty of red spheres to use, and I just keep collecting more, but I can't seem use them on the grid. I've been moving the characters and putting in the appropriate spheres in the appropriate places, then moving on, but I finally hit a point in which my red spheres aren't showing up. They're all grey'd out when I go the the use box. Purple spheres, however, are not (but I need a red sphere here).

Is there a solution to this? Am I just doing something horribly wrong??

 

[Mitsuki]

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[Daenerys]

I'll shift this over to the FFX Help Booth, please remember that every FF Game has it's own help section ^^

-Thread Moved-

You can only use red spheres when you're on, or next to, the relevant node. Like, you can't use a power sphere unless you're next to, or on, a HP, STR or Defence node. While you can use purple spheres anyway, as they transform an empty node into a + node.

 

[mynameisdish]

Sorry about the wrong category. Noted, though.

You can only use red spheres when you're on, or next to, the relevant node. Like, you can't use a power sphere unless you're next to, or on, a HP, STR or Defence node. While you can use purple spheres anyway, as they transform an empty node into a + node.

The only thing is, I'm trying to get an Accuracy +1, and I need to use a Speed Sphere.

 

[Sum1sgruj]

There's nothing wrong with it. It just sucks.

Anyways, everything about the sphere grid is pretty easy to handle after you get down the basic dynamics of it. One thing to note is that there are different spheres for different types of nodes. For example, an ability sphere will activate the 'steal' or 'power break' nodes while a speed sphere will turn a node into '+speed'.
Get that down and the rest just comes to you.

 

[mynameisdish]

But don't you use a speed sphere for accuracy??

 

[Sum1sgruj]

But don't you use a speed sphere for accuracy??

I haven't played 10 in a long time, but I do remember that the names of spheres are general. Speed spheres are for anything related to speed. Accuracy is an aspect of speed.
Trust me, it'll set in. Just don't think about it too hard. The sphere grid practically works itself until half-way through the game.

 

[Noize]

But don't you use a speed sphere for accuracy??

I'll list the basic types of spheres i remember.

Power: HP, Str, Def
Magic:Mag, Mag Def, MP
Speed:Accuracy, Speed

there's also Luck spheres but they're pretty rare from my experience.

Just so you know in case you don't already, different type of monsters drop different spheres i.e: lizards drop speed/power spheres while elementals drop magic spheres.

 

[DarkShadow]

I havent played X in a while.............but I think the weapon choice has something to do with it...........I'm sure you can upgrade a weapon or armour by adding something like accuracy 20% +

 

[Will Graham]

But don't you use a speed sphere for accuracy??

Yes you are correct, has your characters ring moved onto that node, or a node directly connected to it. If so you should have no problem activating the node. If your problem is you don't have speed spheres don't worry you'll pick them up pretty easily through battles. Perhaps there is an empty node between your character ring and Accuracy+1 node, that would also cause the problem.