Idea shamelessly lifted from the SA forums (and probably a million other game forums too.) My contribution there: Status spells in RPGs, particularly the useless death spell in Skies of Arcadia and all status spells in any FF besides VIII (particularly in X, when nothing but poison worked on a regular basis against regular enemies-bosses were immune to everything-and even then the status effect had to be tied to Wakka's attacks to be useful)
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Useless spells/items/attacks in games
- Thread starter belgurdo
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All the spells/items in LOZ are there for a reason. 
It's hard to really beat the Mirror Shield in Minish Cap. I mean, here is a tool so completely devoid of ANY contextual value or purpose that it cannot even be obtained until the game is finished.
Poor Giant Goron was relegated to the task of giving you that worthless POS; Cmon Capcom!, the guy has range and presence more deserving than that!
Poor Giant Goron was relegated to the task of giving you that worthless POS; Cmon Capcom!, the guy has range and presence more deserving than that!
Yeah WTF is up with those? I mean you could just cast it once and then load up your save having the knowledge it gave you without the loss in MP. The cost is usually not significant enough to have to do that but you might as well have read a FAQ for the info. They might as well call the spells 'Hint' followed by 'Hinta' and 'Hintaga'
Go Go Ackman!
Banned
any status spell in any rpg
Spiritreaver
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Lies! Have you done Genkai... 2 I think? If somehow your alliance screws up, you're going to need some way of getting them all out of harm, assuming a black mage or white mage survives. I think there have been quite a few other situations where I've had to use it as well, such as when hunting for Artifact keys and whatnot, you often get stuck in rooms with tough mobs, so if most of your party is wiped out, it's Invis/Sneak+Tractor to bring them all to safety. Tractor is VERY useful, it's just not often used.Kandinsky said:Tractor Spell in FFXI
evil solrac v3.0
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Dujour said:
gotta disagree with you on that. casting cerberus would let you cast protect, shell, and regen, haste much quicker and with less turns. carbuncle wasnt as useful but you could use the spell to your advbantage against edea in disk two.
but poison is to be used more as a HP sucker rather than an offensive magic spell. you cast cast it once or until the enemy is poisoned and then let it drain the enemy away.
Die Squirrel Die
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evil solrac v3.0 said:
That's the theory. What people are getting at is that it rarely works in pratice. Any enemy weak enough that they get poisoned is so weak that they can be killed within a round or two. Any enemy (like bosses) where poisoning them, and thus having them drain away energy every turn, would be useful, they are immune to it, or at the very least it is incredibly unlikely that it'll take hold.
Do The Mario
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Infervisson in BaldurÂ’s Gate 1&2.
It makes people glow red
It makes people glow red
Die Squirrel Die
Member
I don't know if you'd call it useless but I hate scanning in rpgs where the data counts once, and doesn't carry over when you next fight the same type of enemy. It's just dumb to expect people to memorise the HP, MP, weaknesses, immunities etc. of 200-odd enemies.
RevenantKioku
PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
faust said:
Bambi was pretty useful, but I don't recall using the rest much.
Do The Mario
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ElyrionX said:
Yes itÂ’s true nobody in this thread can beat it.
Plus if you have a Elf, Dwarf or Half-Elf in your party you get it by default making the red glowing spell even more useless.
Bio was pretty useful to me in FFX.
I hate most status spells though for already mentioned reasons...the damn things don't work on anything above imps or other lowly enemies.
Same with "canes/rods" type of so-called weapons for spell casters...they're better off farting at the enemy if they do anything non spell based. Unless they come with stat enhancements or protection, why waste money?
I hate most status spells though for already mentioned reasons...the damn things don't work on anything above imps or other lowly enemies.
Same with "canes/rods" type of so-called weapons for spell casters...they're better off farting at the enemy if they do anything non spell based. Unless they come with stat enhancements or protection, why waste money?
BuckRobotron
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Just a game I've been playing now that comes to mind: Blood Will Tell.
Many useless swords thrown in for variety but most are very quickly permanently superceded by another. And since your standard "built-in" swords are the only ones that level up, they also make most other swords moot along the way. Sillier yet, many are random drops and may never have any good use at all when finally encountered.
Many useless swords thrown in for variety but most are very quickly permanently superceded by another. And since your standard "built-in" swords are the only ones that level up, they also make most other swords moot along the way. Sillier yet, many are random drops and may never have any good use at all when finally encountered.
Justin Bailey
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I think you could use them to gain more time after you beat big boss and the countdown starts.rareside said:
But my vote goes to the horn in wizards and warriors, can you actually use it? I never figured out how.
Justin Bailey said:
I can confirm that, but it's once the countdown starts when you plant the explosives on the supercomputer. Try stopping for a smoke once the computer's countdown starts, and the timer goes up to a ridiculous amount. Gives you plenty of time to fight big boss and get out of there.
Azure Dream
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Half of what you collected in Star Fox Adventures. More BafonDads than you'd ever need as extra lives (and why did they give extra lives anyway? Just what the hell were they?), more fuel cells than you'd ever need with no reason or reward to collect them all, a ball for Tricky that was a beta holdover from when you used to be able to "train" him, but now it just changes his color scheme...
But some gamers did find a use for the Hi-Def Display. *cough*
But some gamers did find a use for the Hi-Def Display. *cough*