Quick Analysis: Mage changes and Final Fantasy Tradition.

I think FF13 was the first FF game where debuffs were worth their use in many scenarios.

Spells like Slep, Rub, Qake, Bane, Zap!, and XXXX.
Or Poison... It seemed like encounters weren't built around the party using these to stop the enemy. Versus a twofold spell like Virus that deals damage and quickly depletes life.

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

I think FF13 was the first FF game where debuffs were worth their use in many scenarios.

Spells like Slep, Rub, Qake, Bane, Zap!, and XXXX.
Or Poison... It seemed like encounters weren't built around the party using these to stop the enemy. Versus a twofold spell like Virus that deals damage and quickly depletes life.

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Yeah i can honestly say FF 13 is the only I remember casting any debuff's, oh and Slow on Seymore's(think that's right) pets in FF 10, besides those 2in other FF games they were pretty much useless.

Um...X, XI, XII, XIII. I used debuffs like crazy in those games and they all worked wonders an were worth it. Actually now that i think about it...any game with Slow/Slowga in it, I used debuffs, because you can't beat those lol.

In no offline FF did I ever use any debuffs.

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

-MythBusted.

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Can I please hire you for the XIV Myth Busters? Lol +1

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Originally Posted by Answa

In no offline FF did I ever use any debuffs.

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Basically had to in order to 5-star certain fights in XIII, I think. Out of IX, X, Tactics, and some of XII, though, I very rarely ever used debuffs. If I did, it was almost always Slow or Stop, and that's it.

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

Basically had to in order to 5-star certain fights in XIII, I think. Out of IX, X, Tactics, and some of XII, though, I very rarely ever used debuffs. If I did, it was almost always Slow or Stop, and that's it.

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I have no PS3 and I skipped XII and XIII. D:

well even on some of the boss fights in XIII you could A) debuff and finish the fight in about 10 minutes or less or B) not debuff and take twice as long or longer to kill it.

Anywho, besides the debuffs, what about buffs? Did we lose Shell or did I just misread the information? I remember reading about a spell like Stoneskin and a spell like Protect (or is it going to be flat out "Wall" spell and combine the two, if so that's lame :/ )

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Originally Posted by OMEGA_HACK

well even on some of the boss fights in XIII you could A) debuff and finish the fight in about 10 minutes or less or B) not debuff and take twice as long or longer to kill it.

Anywho, besides the debuffs, what about buffs? Did we lose Shell or did I just misread the information? I remember reading about a spell like Stoneskin and a spell like Protect (or is it going to be flat out "Wall" spell and combine the two, if so that's lame :/ )

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yerp! i agree.

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