Final Fantasy IX - Synthesis and Weapon Basics

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Final Fantasy IX - Synthesis and Weapon Basics

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It may not always make sense for your party members to set out with daggers and cotton robes. Have each character equip the most useful items you can afford. Your party will be able to travel in safety if all members wear the best possible equipment. Use Synthesis Shops to commission the most powerful blades, gleaming suits of armour and amazing Add-ons ...

Equipping Items

Open the Equipment Menu and select the character whose items you want to adjust. You can now select Optimise and have the programme automatically pick the strongest items for this character. This may well be sufficient during the first hours you spend exploring the world of Final Fantasy IX, given that you have enough other things to attend to:. However, once you have made some progress - at the latest when the final fantasy ix items

end of CD 1 draws near - you might want to choose Equip instead, and adjust your characters' equipment manually. After all, learning new abilities of great importance, and your party members can only achieve this by equipping some weaker items. If you press the (SELECT) button, you can get additional information on items. Choose one of five basic categories (Weapon, Head, Wrist, Armour and Add-on) using your controller's directional buttons, and confirm your choice by pressing the X button.

This opens a window listing all items the character can equip in place of the one s/he is currently wearing. If the window remains empty, there are no suitable items currently available.

The left side of the Equip screen shows how an item affects your character's stats. Red figures indicate a change for the worse, while green figures indicate a stat improvement. White figures indicate that there is no change.

Synthesis Basics

Synthesis Shops are located in several places around the world, and allow you to commission new items final fantasy ix synthesis

for a fee. Each synthesised item is created from two "ingredients" or source items, and you'll find this a very convenient way of obtaining strong and sometimes rare new pieces of equipment. It may be faster to commission an item than to try and steal it from a particular monster. Use the synthesis chart pages for information on what items are needed, what can be made, and where to do it all. You will have an opportunity to visit your first Synthesis Shop in Lindblum, towards the end of CD 1.