Final Fantasy VIII Guides and Walkthroughs

This page contains all of the Card Mods and Item Refinements available around the time you visit Trabia Garden on Disc 2. Out of everything on this page the most useful by far is the Elem-Guard items that you get from Card Moding Selphie's Card.

Only two GFs learn Elem-Defx4 naturally and you won't get either of them until later on during Disc 2 and probably won't even have the time to AP grind them until midway through Disc 3.

 

Item Refinement:

Selphie Card: 3 Elem-Guard (Teaches Elem-Defx4 to a GF)
Siren, Brothers, Leviathan are all good choices for this item. More info on Selphie's Card page.

Rinoa Card: 3 Magic Armlets (Teaches Spr+60% to a GF)

Gilgamesh Card: 10 Holy War

Ifrit Card: 3 Elem Atk (Don't Card Mod until you get Rinoa Card)

 

 

Magic Refinement:

Key: (GF Ability) Name of Card: Item from Card Mod - Magic from Item Refinement

(F Mag-RF) Tiamat Card: 10 Flare Stone - 10 Flare

(Supt Mag-RF) Carbuncle Card: 3 Glow Curtains - 100 Reflect

(Forbid Mag-RF) Red Giant Card: 5 Meteor Stone - 5 Meteor

(T Mag-RF) Quezacotl Card: 100 Dynamo Stone - 2000 Thundaga

 

Note: Don't turn any items into magic unless you're sure you're going to Junction it or use it. For more information on the best magic to Junction follow the link provided. Also, if you're getting an error message that you can't stock any more spells you may have to delete a few to make room; here's some information about how to delete spells in FF8.

 

 

 

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