♥♥♥♥ "Steal" [Spoilers]

[Pearl of Glory-Ents]

need to vent some anger here.

sometimes the steal mechanic can go ♥♥♥♥ itself.

I feel like some stealable items were included in the game as a joke.

the fairy flute from hilgigars is impossible.
i even tried turning on the built in auto full-hp/always ATE+trance cheat just to see how many attempts it would actually take to get that thing.
200 steal attemps later, no flute in sight.

as much as I am a completionist and want the haste/esuna spells early on i'm gonna have to pass on this one. it's just an unreasonably low success rate.

if you're playing this game take my advice, try stealing 10 times and if by then you didn't get that thing ♥♥♥♥ it.

i'd rather go and try digging for 8 chocobo items in a single hot&cold run than put up with this RNG ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[veeshadow]

Fairy Flute is hardest item to steal and easily skippable, so move on

Haste and Esuna are even never used because of Remedy and Auto-Haste

[chaloopah]

Haste actually can be taken before eiko even appears when you get the emerald anyway. Esuna is the one that's more late game but as shadow stated, you usually just use remedy instead, or quina's aoe remedy skill angel snack.

[kadashsouba]

I got every steal from every boss in whole game, no idea what u are so crying about. Mayby u just hope to steal every item at first attemp? If u are so impatient just use F1 in game and save battle cursor position than steal and others use defend. Easy

Only had to twice reset game in burmecia to get all steals from Beatrix.

[Pearl of Glory-Ents]

Originally posted by kadashsouba:

Mayby u just hope to steal every item at first attemp? If u are so impatient just use F1 in game and save battle cursor position than steal and others use defend. Easy

Originally posted by duckzyx:

i even tried turning on the built in auto full-hp/always ATE+trance cheat just to see how many attempts it would actually take to get that thing.
200 steal attemps later, no flute in sight.

i suggest reading before posting....or in your case not posting at all since it makes you look like a tard every time

[kadashsouba]

Originally posted by duckzyx:

Originally posted by kadashsouba:

Mayby u just hope to steal every item at first attemp? If u are so impatient just use F1 in game and save battle cursor position than steal and others use defend. Easy

Originally posted by duckzyx:

i even tried turning on the built in auto full-hp/always ATE+trance cheat just to see how many attempts it would actually take to get that thing.
200 steal attemps later, no flute in sight.

i suggest reading before posting....or in your case not posting at all since it makes you look like a tard every time

Mayby ur just the person who has serious problem with reading and understanding, it wouldnt be first time for u. And 200 attemps and no steal - u sure didnt mistaken 20 with 200? Anyway Yeach like I belive. Mayby make video and post that ur "200 failed steals". I will gladly see it

Whenever I played FFIX on my PSX console, ePSXE emulator, or here on steam I never needed more than 100 attemps for steal every single drop from bosses, and I replayed FFIX more times than I can recall even. So or ur lieing, or have really big imagination or ur the most unlucky person in whole galaxy

[WavePath]

There is a trick with the Steal mechanism, if you search all monsters wikia on google, you will find that each monster can be stealed at a amount of % hp , for example at garland 1st item elixir you can steal it at 100% hp with 100% chance, the ninja gear can only be stolen when he is 65% hp , the steal works like the Eat mechanism on Quinna but you can steal up to 3 items from 100% hp , 60-40% hp , 10-5% hp only 1 boss i saw has 1 item super hard to steal that has 0.65% hp left for steal to work on 3th item it was kuja i think. In short you have to weaken them to steal the harder items, all monsters/bosses can hold only 3 items max 1st item are always the ezyest 100-80% hp potions ; gear at 60-40% hp mostly ; and below that its super rare items cards and hard drops ^^

[WavePath]

Also bosses cannot be scanned by dagger scan skill to see they`re current/max hp so its best to use wikia google monsters and see they`re max hp before fight starts i always do that with pause so i can calculate aprox how much dmg i do from skills & summs :)

[Pearl of Glory-Ents]

Originally posted by LadyCaetuna:

There is a trick with the Steal mechanism, if you search all monsters wikia on google, you will find that each monster can be stealed at a amount of % hp

I think you misread something bud. The % on the wiki refers to the chance of the item being succesfully stolen, not the amount of hp needed to actually steal the thing.

It would surprise me if the latter was suddenly the case as I was able to steal every item so far without needing to reduce the bosses health to a certain percentage.

In some cases that would be borderline impossible anyways. Take Hilgigars for example:

He has a max HP of 8106. His fairy flute has a steal chance of 0.39%. (Or 1 in 256, specifying this since some people *cough*kada*cough* are mentally challenged and don't understand probability).
Therefore, if what you said was correct, one would need to reduce him to exactly 31 HP or less to succesfully steal the item. I highly doubt that this is how it works.

Originally posted by Sharon Da'Silva:

Get hades workshops, go to Enemy panel, to Hiligars, change the fairy flute slot to the first slot:

I assume that's a mod/cheat of some sort? I wan't to complete the game without cheats (not counting fast forward), but thanks for the advice nonetheless.
It doesn't matter now since most of the rare steals are currently negligible, but when I don't feel like rolling the dice 256 times over and over again I'll consider it.