Final Fantasy 8 Magic List
In Final Fantasy 7, Magic is learnt by obtaining Materia and mastering them
by gaining AP. In Final Fantasy 8, all Magic is drawn from enemies or draw points,
as soon as you obtain a Guardian Force (GF). Certain enemies hold different magic spells,
and draw points recharge the same spell at their locations at various times.
Some recharge instantly, while others don't recharge for God knows how long.
Furthermore, FF7 uses magic by consumption of MP. FF8 has a magic count. The
more you draw, the more times you can use the spell you got. No MP. However,
the disadvantage is that you can only hold 100, and certain spells
you may require exist in rare monsters or one-time bosses (such as GFs). Luckily,
most spells are recycled from FF7, so you'll find many spells familiar. The new ones
such as Aura, Levitate, Holy, Water, and Tornado adds more variety to the battlefield
gameplay of FF8.
And oh, by the way, for those playing the Japanese version,
you may want to refer to these to know what the hell each spell stands for =):
| Category | Name | Effect/Target |
| Life | Cure | Restores small amount of HP/one ally |
| Life | Cura | Restores some HP/one ally |
| Life | Curaga | Restores a lot of HP/one ally |
| Life | Death | Randomly causes immediate death/one enemy |
| Life | Holy | Inflcits Holy magic damage/one enemy |
| Life | Life | Restores some HP and revives dead/one ally |
| Life | Full-Life | Fully restores HP and revives dead/one ally |
| Life | Regen | Restores small amounts of HP at regular intervals/one ally |
| Life | Zombie | Causes Zombie status(undead)/one enemy |
| Fire | Fire | Causes minor elemental Fire damage/one enemy |
| Fire | Fira | Causes elemental Fire damage/one enemy |
| Fire | Firaga | Causes major elemental Fire damage/one enemy |
| Fire | Flare | Causes major non-elemental damage/one enemy |
| Ice | Blizzard | Causes minor elemental Ice damage/one enemy |
| Ice | Blizzara | Causes elemental Ice damage/one enemy |
| Ice | Blizzaraga | Causes major Ice elemental damage/one enemy |
| Ice | Water | Causes elemental Water damage/one enemy |
| Thunder | Thunder | Causes minor elemental Thunder damage/one enemy |
| Thunder | Thundara | Causes elemental Thunder damage/one enemy |
| Thunder | Thundaga | Causes major Thunder elemental damage/one enemy |
| Thunder | Aero | Causes elemental Wind damage/one enemy |
| Thunder | Tornado | Causes elemental Wind damage/all enemies |
| Time/Space | Haste | Speed up target's ATB Gague/one ally |
| Time/Space | Slow | Slow's down target's ATB Gague/one enemy |
| Time/Space | Stop | Stop's target's ATB Gague/one enemy |
| Time/Space | Quake | Causes elemental Earth damage/all enemies |
| Time/Space | Demi | Reduces target's HP by a fourth/one enemy |
| Time/Space | Double | Allows target to cast 2 of the same spell consecutively/one ally |
| Time/Space | Triple | Allows target to cast 3 of the same spell consecutively/one ally |
| Support | Esuna | Removes abnormal status effects/one ally |
| Support | Dispel | Removes Haste, Regen, Protect, Shell, Aura, Reflect, Float, Double, and Triple/one enemy |
| Support | Protect | Reduces physical attack damage by a half/one ally |
| Support | Shell | Reduces magic attack damage by a half/one ally |
| Support | Reflect | Reflects magic back at opposite party that received it/one ally |
| Support | Drain | Remove HP from target and give to caster/one ally |
| Support | Aura | Limit Break can be used more often/one ally |
| Forbidden | Meteor | Bombards enemies with meteors causing random non-elemental damage/random enemies |
| Forbidden | Ultima | Causes a large amount of non-elemental damage/all enemies |
| ST | Bio | Causes elemental Poison damage and adds Poison status to target/one enemy |
| ST | Break | Causes non-elemental damage and adds Petrify status to target/one enemy |
| ST | Blind | Causes Blind status, impairing accuracy of physical attacks/one enemy |
| ST | Silence | Causes Silence status, disabling target fom using Magic, Draw, and GF commands/one enemy |
| ST | Berserk | Causes Berserk status, forcing character to automatically initiate physical attacks each turn/one enemy |
| ST | Sleep | Causes Sleep status, disabling target temporarily/one enemy |
| ST | Confuse | Causes Confuse status, forcing target to use random commandsd and targeting decisions/one enemy |
| ST | Pain | Causes Poison, Silence, and Blind statuses |
| ST | Meltdown | Causes non-elementak danage and Vit 0 status, lowering target's defenses/one enemy |
| Other | Float | Lifts target off ground, avoiding elemental Earth magic |
| Other | Scan | Analyzes target's vital information |