How do I learn "limit breaks" or whatever?

How do some of the characters actually go about learning them? Selphie is level 70 but only has "wall", I don’t know what I am doing wrong 🙁

Selphie has all of her Limits available to her, you only have Wall in her status menu screen because that’s the only one of her four custom spells you’ve used before; she also has Full-Cure, Rapture and The End.

As for the other characters, Squall gains Limits from the weapons you have equipped him with. His original weapon, the Revolver, gives him the Rough Divide attack, Sheer Trigger has Fated Circle, any weapon out of Flame Sabre, Twin Lance and Punishment teaches Blasting Zone, and Lion Heart will give you the Lion Heart Limit Break. Don’t worry if you don’t get his weapons in that order, as you’ll get any of the Limits you missed on the new weapon (eg., going straight to the Lion Heart from Revolver will give you Fated Circle and Blasting Zone, as well as Lion Heart).

Zell learns new Duel attacks from reading Combat King magazines. I usually just wait until I have GF Tonberry with the Familiar ability to get these on Disc 3 from Karen’s Book Store in Esthar, but the most effective way to use Duel is to execute Booya and Punch Rush over and over.

Irvine’s Limits are simple to get, just buy/refine new bullets to get new Shots. His more powerful ones (Pulse Ammo, AP Ammo) are quite strong, but have a long recovery rate, so just stick with either Normal Ammo or Fast Ammo.

Rinoa’s Limits are taught by reading the Pet Pals magazines, then walking around on the field screen (with Rinoa in your party) to learn them. The fastest way to get enough steps to master them is by running up and down the big ramp in FH that joins the mayor’s house to the rest of the city. I use the same method to get all the Pet Pal magazines that I did with Zell’s Combat Kings.

And finally, Quistis uses various Items to learn Blue Magic. Her best offensive Magic, Shockwave Pulsar, is learnt from a Dark Matter; have a level 100 Siren use Tool RF ability to refine 100 Curse Spikes into a Dark Matter.

Hope it helps.

Thanks! It does.

Re: Selphie — if you wanna "learn" her other limits, get her both really low HP and Aura and then just start flipping through her menu, once she’s cast one, it’ll show up on her menu from then on.

Re: Selphie — if you wanna "learn" her other limits, get her both really low HP and Aura and then just start flipping through her menu, once she’s cast one, it’ll show up on her menu from then on.Yep, and adding on a few harmless status abnormalities, like blind (if her have her Strange Vision weapon, which has a 255% hit-rate, this won’t affect her attacking rate at all), silence (as her Slots spells won’t be affected by this), and possibly zombie (unless you’ll be using Full-Cure/other curative magic/items), will also help you find her better spells like The End and mutliple Ultima/Meteor/Flare.

This goes for every character; raising their ‘crisis level’ (ie., low HP, Aura, abnormal statuses, KOd allies) will make their Limits more useful; it’ll give you a better chance of Squall using a longer Renzokuken (up to 8 hits), or him using Lion Heart (or even both), you’ll get a longer time for Duel (up to 12 seconds; with 255 Str + a Booya and Punch Rush combo, you could be out-hitting Lion Heart), pro-longing the time for Irivine’s Shot, higher chance of Rinoa using Wishing Star/Invincible Moon Limits, and the damage for Quistis’ Shackwave Pulsar Blue Magic will increase, as well as getting better positive status changes with her Mighty Guard spell.

Hope this’ll help.

Wow, I never knew that. I really like Quistis’s limits, I just go into the hardest areas with Quistis in critical health and have her use degenerator.
But this does help, I shall almost kill Selphie for the good of the party 😉

I’m near the end of disk one and I still haven’t used Squall’s limit break. I usually keep his H.P. up in fights and I don’t really think I need his limits. (as of now) But is it normal to go through the game without using his limits? And is there a way of getting his limit without low H.P.?

I’m near the end of disk one and I still haven’t used Squall’s limit break. I usually keep his H.P. up in fights and I don’t really think I need his limits. (as of now) But is it normal to go through the game without using his limits?
I guess that’s doable, but I usually use them anyway. They’re helpful and easy enough to get.

And is there a way of getting his limit without low H.P.?
Cast Aura, but be aware that it probably won’t be as strong.

This question kinda goes in this category because it kinda invovles limit breaks.
I just got past timber town and I’m outside the new garden and I still haven’t upgraded Squalls weapon. I tried but I dont have enough parts. Am I behind? If I am please give me some advice. I looked at game faqs but they dont really say when to get each weapon.

Weapon upgrades don’t give very good Str boosts, Str is more dependable on good junctions; where you’re at right now, Tornado is the best one. For Tornado, just fight a bunch of Thrustaevis (big blue pteradactyl-like things), which are found on the grasslands around Trabia, they drop Windmills, which, using Quezacotl’s Lighting/Wind Magic Refine ability, will make 20 Tornado spells. (You’ll need 100 of this spell to get the best stat-boosts)

As for new weapons, just start playing cards, and mod the ones you need for the right items to make new weapons. You don’t have to have the certain Weapons Monthly magazine to be able to upgrade your weapons. Use a guide on GFAQs to find out which cards/items you need to get.

Oh so your saying the more magic I junction into a specific catergory the stronger it is. For example magic is 17 with 100 thunders and its only about 14 with 50 thunders.

Yes, the more magic you junction, the higher the stat is.
Also, Squall’s limit breaks can be immensely useful. "Lionheart" is amazing and renzokuken in general can really do a lot of damage.
I was training up characters recently and Squall’s limit breakers made it a LOT quicker.
I just has him in low HP, used initiative as an ability and cast silence, darkness and zombie on him. Battles were very short!

BlitzKing if you cast aura on squall then keep pressing O i think for ps either way press the switch charcter button and keep doing that till his limit appears, still will only work if hes critical or aura is cast.

I understand the limits now I just dont know what the hell aura is.

It’s magic. You wanna draw 100 for each character from Seifer when you fight him at the end of Disc 3. If you don’t do that, there are some items that refine it and you can also get some from the Draw Points on either Heaven / Hell, if not both. It’s a great junction also for Luck!

for squall.. upgrade weapons
for quistis… collect cetain items such as missle, black hole…. and click on them in the inventory menu
for zell… get fighter mags
for rinoa… just set what you want to learn in the status window and walk around with her
…. refer to www.gamefaqs.com (http://www.gamefaqs.com)

for squall.. upgrade weapons
for quistis… collect cetain items such as missle, black hole…. and click on them in the inventory menu
for zell… get fighter mags
for rinoa… just set what you want to learn in the status window and walk around with her
…. refer to www.gamefaqs.com (http://www.gamefaqs.com) Thanks, but we’ve pretty much already covered that.

hehe i always get here too late.. then i read half the posts and i reply.. well sowwy..

does anyone here actually use the FF8 limits…i got thru the game without them

Of course! The limits are brilliant! Invincible moon? The end? Homing laser?(very usefull earlier on)LIONHEART?

I just started using them. I use them mostly when I train and level up.

Good idea to use them then as they make the battles a LOT quicker esp with degenerator.

It is very hard to get far in late disc 3 and disc 4 without Renzokuken… I personally use it every chance I get, all throughout the game…