Card Mods and Item Refinements Prior to Timber Mission - FF8 Guide
Just before the Timber Mission you're going to have some amazing refinement opportunities available to you. The Zell Card, Quistis Card and Diablos Card all make excellent Card Mods and they serve as a great introduction to new players of how powerful you can make your characters very early on by knowing exactly what to do.
Even if you hate the Triple Triad Card Game to no end and would prefer to completely avoid it - you need to take 10 minutes out of your time and get the Zell Card. Str+60% at this stage of the game is so insanely powerful it's not even funny - you'll cut through all enemies like butter until midway through Disc 2.
Item Refinement:
Zell Card: Hyper Wrist (Teaches Str +60% to a GF; Level 10 required)
Best GFs to use Hyper Wrist on:
Shiva, Ifrit and Quezacotl: These 3 GFs are commonly separated in each build, some people recommend pairing at least one of them though
Shiva, Carbuncle, Quezacotl: These 3 GFs have to remain separate at all times since they're the only 3 GFs with Vit-J. That makes these the safest choice for these sorts of items
Magic Refinement
(Time Mag-RF) Quistis Card: 3 Samantha Soul - 180 Triple
(Time Mag-RF) Diablos Card: 100 Black Hole - 3,000 Demi
(ST Mag-RF) Gayla Card: Mystery Fluid - 10 Meltdown
(ST Mag-RF) Tri-Face Card: Curse Spike - 10 Pain
(Time Mag-RF) Armadodo Card: Dino Bone: 20 Quake
(Time Mag-RF) 2 T-Rexaur Card: Dino Bone - 20 Quake
(L Mag-RF) Mesmerize Card: Mesmerize Blade - 20 Regen
(L Mag-RF) Tonberry Card: Chef's Knife - 30 Death
(L Mag-RF) Tonberry King Card: Chef's Knife - 30 Death
(L Mag-RF) Belhelmel Card: Saw Blade - 10 Death
(L Mag-RF) Tent: 10 Curaga
(ST Mag-RF) Cockatrice Card: Cockatrice Pinion - 20 Break
(ST Mag-RF) Blitz Card: Betrayal Sword - 20 Confuse
(ST Mag-RF) Anacondaur Card: Venom Fang - 20 Bio
(ST Mag-RF) 4 Malboro Card: Malboro Tentacle - 40 Bio
(Time Mag-RF) Gesper Card: Black Hole - 30 Demi
(Time Mag-RF) Wendigo Card: Steel Orb - 15 Demi
(L Mag-RF) Torama Card: Life Ring - 20 Life
(ST Mag-RF) Elastoid Card: Steel Pipe - 20 Berserk
(Time Mag-RF) Grendel Card: Dragon Fin - 20 Double
(L Mag-RF) Blood Soul Card: Zombie Powder - 20 Zombie
(Time Mag-RF) Imp Card: Wizard Stone - 5 Stop
(Time Mag-RF) Caterchipillar Card: Spider Web - 20 Slow
(Time Mag-RF) Grat Card: Magic Stone - 5 Haste
(Time Mag-RF) Buel Card: Magic Stone - 5 Haste
(Time Mag-RF) Jelleye Card: Magic Stone - 5 Haste
(Time Mag-RF) Ochu Card: Magic Stone - 5 Haste
(L Mag-RF) 10 Chimera Card: Regen Ring - 20 Full Life
Note: Don't just turn every item you have into Magic, you'll fill up on spells too quickly and you'll have to delete some. For more information on which Junctions are the best I recommend you check out my Final Fantasy 8 Junctions Guide.
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