Confused on Steal As Well

[Valis]

I havent touched this game in about 8 years and forgot more than I thought despite beating the game numerous times since it was first released.

So I been just mastering materia and combined this with steal but unsure if it's working as intended since it does one animation. I figured it would be something like say D-Blow + Added Cut where you execute the D-Blow then you go an extra round and do a normal attack.

Figured it would do the Mugging then proceed to do another round for steal but that isn't the case. I looked it up to make sure it was a compatible combination and it states it is so I suppose it's supposed to look as if one action had been taken unlike added cut which shows an extra action?

I never really used it before in my past playthroughs and at this point in the game it's pointless really anyway I suppose just curious really. I normally just would get the Earth Harp to turn in and carry on but figured since I'll probably not touch the game for another 8 years after this I might as well get the most out of it and do everything.

Just happy enough after playing it once-twice yearly for up to 12 years then not touching it for another 8 or so I finally felt like I wasnt burnt out on it. On top of that all the links I've searched through don't really specify if it's one or two animations so it bugs me, that or I didn't dig deep enough so any incite is appreciated, thanks :).

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so you pared steal as well with steal?


why?

the way steal as well works is that when you use a magic or command pared with it, it will simultaneously use steal. so for example, if you use comet1 with it being pared with steal as well, comet will attempt to steal an item from whatever the target is. no other animation aside from the command/magic is used afterwards, so it does not work like added cut. I would assume steal does absolutely nothing when pared with steal as well, or maybe it gives you twice the chance for a steal to be affective, although not really worth it.

[Valis]

Well I was just seeing what it worked with and what it didn't mainly since some combinations of other materia override others or just dont work, mostly was out of curiosity since I never used it before in past playthroughs so I wasn't sure if it was working as intended with steal compared to others is all.

I agree it was pointless though at this time, was testing it mostly on Master Tonberries to see if I could nab elixirs quicker for Magic Pots while fighting Movers for AP but just became too tedious and didn't really make much of a difference that I noticed to worry about in my case anyway.

Was mostly doing it to see if I could make my AP grind more efficient since I was running into them,Allemagne and Christopher + Gighee more often than the pots and movers.

Thanks anyway, I just went ahead and finished the side stuff to get the extra goodies and said screw it.