How to get max damage for main character :)

[Ether]

i use 100 tarnado (106 STR) and use 2nd best gunblade in game but my damage is only just 900-1000 normal hit i am lv 24 any tips i seen some ppl on my level deal 2000 or more damage

[Marusame]

GF abilities, such as strength 25% and 50% as well as Ifrits strength bonus he can learn i think, thats +1 to strength every level if the ability is equipped. Easiest thing is to use the Auto junction ability for str mag or hp then manage it manually after you hit it.

its really easy to get 9999 damage, especially with darkside from Diablos on squall with STR bonus's.

Though the best character to give damage to is Zell or Irvine, with Zell being the best, getting him to 9999 damage, then knowing how to do his limit break means you can potentially do 1.2 or so million damage or more per limit break, its not random there is a clear pattern and you can abuse it to keep doing the same 3 or 4 inputs and you can press it immediatly when they come up losing only fractions of a second, so 10 seconds can actually be like 25 inputs or attacks, and at 10k per attack that adds up, now sometimes you can stretch it out even more with perfect timing and you get like 30 seconds or something on the timer... ya itll kill about anything.

Irvin is the same way with fast bullets at high damage but not as much, he is easier to manage at low health (you just keep a character at low health and Mash Circle button or its equivelent until the limit break pops up)

Selphie is the strongest character in the game though, her limit break THE END straight up insta kills. It works on every boss, including omega and ultima weapon, it doesnt quite work on the end boss as its health restarts from 0 to avoid you using that to easily beat her.

[Purplefairy22]

There is another way to increse your STR Permanently. Without magic

• GF Eden Devour ability. also available by
• refine pupu card into 1 hungry cookpot

Link for all Devour info http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/psx/ff8/devourlist.shtml

Adamantoise Lv.>30: Vitality +1
Behemoth Lv.>40: Magic +1
Malboro Lv.>30: Spirit +1
PuPu Lv.>30: Speed +1
Rinoa Lv.>30: Maximum HP +10 (Adel fight)
Ruby dragon Lv.>30: Maximum HP +10
T-Rexaur Lv.>20: Strength +1
(if only you could cast zombie on yourself and eat your party members, Zell would go first,maybe Irvine) ;-)

[Marusame]

OH YEAH! totally forgot about devour, i under utilized it often and never really messed with it.

[Purplefairy22]

Thought of another method of Increasing your stats permanently

using the Forbid Med-RF Aquired from GF Doomtrain

1. HP up
   • 1 Gaea's Ring > 1 HP up
2. VIT up
   • 5 Adamantines > 1 VIT up
   • 1 Knights code > 1 VIT up
3. SPD up
   • 2 Aegis Amulets > 1 SPD up
   • 50 Jet Engines > 1 SPD up
   • 1 Hundred Needles > 1 SPD up
4. STR up
   • 10 Hyperwrists > 1 STR up
   • 1 Monks Code > 1 STR up
5. SPR up
   • 10 Magic Armlets > 1 SPR up
6. MAG up
   • 10 Royal Crowns > 1 MAG up
7. LUCK up
   • 1 Luck-J scroll > 1 LUCK up

[Purplefairy22]

A 3rd Way of dealing more damage
Equip ST-ATK-J and junction Zombie

• Siren
• Carbuncle
• Cerberus
• Doomtrain

Equip ELEM-ATK-J and junction Holy

• Quetzacotl
• Shiva
• Ifrit
• Brothers
• Leviathan
• Pandemona
• Cerberus
• Alexander
• Doomtrain

Do NOT use against Adel it heals her. Not Everything can be 'zombied' but most things can. HOLY magic is the best to use for ELEM-ATK as nothing else absorbs it.

Equip your other 2 characters with Pain(blind,poison,silence,) and Break [instant kill](petrify) to ST-ATK-J (could also use death, not as effective as break IMO)
Increase success chance by raisng your HIT% and/or LUCK

I have now exausted my knowledge.