Quistis

Learn all of Quistis's Blue Magic spells in final fantasy viii, including how to get items like Dark Matter and Malboro Tentacle.

Quistis's limit break is Blue Magic, which are a variety of attacks (usually mimicking enemy attacks) that she can learn by consuming various items. Whenever her limit pops up, you’ll be able to choose whichever Blue Magic you wish to use, provided you’ve learned it. The various Blue Magic spells Quistis can learn, their effects, and how to learn them are as follows:

• Laser Eye: Damages one enemy (base power 40-64). No item required.
• Ultra Waves: Damages all enemies (base power 27-33). Learnt from Spider Web.
• Electrocute: Thunder damage to all enemies (base power 30-50). Learnt from Coral Fragment.
• LV?Death: Casts Death on enemies whose level is divisible by 4, 3, 2 or 1 (varies). Learnt from Curse Spike.
• Degenerator: Kill one enemy. Works on most non-boss foes. Learnt from Black Hole.
• Aqua Breath: Water damage to all enemies (base power 50-100). Learnt from Water Crystal.
• Micro Missiles: Gravity attack that deals damage equal to 50%, 75%, 87.5% or 93.75% of target’s HP, up to 9,999 damage max. Learnt from Missile.
• Acid: Damages and inflict debuffs one an enemy, possibly including Blind, Meltdown, Petrify, Poison and Silence. Learnt from Mystery Fluid.
• Gatling Gun: Damages one enemy (base power 60-120). Learnt from Running Fire.
• Fire Breath: Fire damage to all enemies (base power 70-120). Learnt from Inferno Fang.
• Bad Breath: Inflicts a variety of status effects, possibly including Berserk, Blind, Confuse, Death, Doom, Meltdown, Petrify, Poison, Silence, Sleep, Slow, Slow-Petrify, Stop and Zombie. Learnt from Malboro Tentacle.
• White Wind: Restores HP to all party members. Healing amount is equal to the amount of HP Quistis is missing from her current maximum. Learnt from Whisper.
• Homing Laser: Damages one enemy (base power 100-250). Learnt from Laser Cannon.
• Mighty Guard: Bestows a variety of buffs, possibly including Aura, Float, Haste, Protect, Regen and Shell. Learnt from Barrier.
• Ray-Bomb: Damages all enemies (base power 80-110). Learnt from Power Generator.
• Shockwave Pulsar: Damages all enemies (base power 150-250), one of the few attacks that can break the damage limit of 9,999. Learnt from Dark Matter.

Here is where to find all the items that bestow Quistis with Blue Magic:

• Barrier: Dropped by Behemoth, Mugged from Behemoth, or refined from 10x Behemoth Card via Card Mod (a community-made modification that changes the game).
• Black Hole: Dropped by Gesper and Wendigo, Mugged from Gesper, or refined from 1x Gesper Card and 1x Diablos Card.
• Coral Fragment: Dropped by Blitz, Cockatrice, and Creeps, or Mugged from Creeps. Refined from 1x Creeps Card.
• Curse Spike: Dropped by Creeps, Forbidden, Grand Mantis, Imp, Malboro, and Tri-Face. Mugged from Tri-Face. Refined from 1x Tri-Face Card.
• Inferno Fang: Dropped by Hexadragon and Ruby Dragon, or Mugged from Ruby Dragon. Refined from 10x Ruby Dragon Card.
• Laser Cannon: Dropped by Belhelmel, Elastoid, and Mobile Type 8, or Mugged from Elastoid and Mobile Type 8.
• Malboro Tentacle: Dropped by Malboro, or Mugged from Malboro. Refined from 4x Malboro Card.
• Missile: Dropped by GIM52A and BGH251F2, or Mugged from Death Claw and GIM52A.
• Mystery Fluid: Dropped by Gayla, or Mugged from Gayla. Refined from 1x Gayla Card.
• Power Generator: Mugged from Blitz (Lv30+, rare).
• Running Fire: Dropped by Iron Giant, SAM08G, and BGH251F2, or Mugged from SAMO8G. Refined from 1x SAM08G Card.
• Spider Web: Dropped by Caterchipillar, or Mugged from Caterchipillar. Refined from 1x Caterchipillar Card.
• Water Crystal: Dropped by Chimera, Fastitocalon, Fastitocalon-F, and Grand Mantis, or Mugged from Fastitocalon. Refined from 1x Fastitocalon Card and 5x Fastitocalon-F Card.
• Whisper: Dropped by Adamantoise, or Mugged from Adamantoise.

Shockwave Pulsar requires Dark Matter. If you have Chocobo World, it is easier to find it there. If you only have final fantasy viii, you need 100x Curse Spikes. Curse Spikes can be obtained as drops from Creeps, Forbidden, Grand Mantis, Imp, Malboro and Tri-Face enemies, by mugging Tri-Face enemies, or by refining Tri-Face cards via Card Mod.

To acquire 100x Curse Spikes in a reasonable time frame within final fantasy viii, follow these steps in the Deep Sea Research Center after defeating Bahamut:

1. Descend through multiple floors, expending steam (RSP) units to get to the bottom. Your goal is to make it to a door separating the Deep Sea Research Center from an Excavation Site with Zell in your party and between 10-13 RSP units left.
2. Floor 1: Automatically expend 4 RSP to open the way to Floor 2.
3. Floor 2: Use the terminal to the right of the stairs and use 2 RSP to open the way to Floor 3.
4. Floor 3: Use a terminal under the stairs and expend 4 RSP to open a door to the left. Go through the door and use a terminal to recover 7 RSP. Return to the room to the right and use a terminal to the right of the stairs and expend 2 RSP to descend to Floor 4.
5. Floor 4: Use the terminal to the right of the stairs and expend 1 RSP to open the way to Floor 5.
6. Floor 5: Use the terminal to the right of the stairs and expend 1 RSP to open the way to Floor 6 - ride the elevator down.
7. Floor 6: Reach this floor with Zell in your party and between 10-13 RSP. Pick the dialogue option _Well… Zell’s pretty good with machinery_ and he will end up strong-arming the door to the left without expending any RSP.

This will rouse the monsters in the Excavation Site. On the first floor of the Excavation Site, you will find three static encounters with Tri-Face enemies. You can fight these Tri-Face foes, Mug them for Curse Spikes (the higher their level, the more you will get), exit the screen and return to do it all over again. There is even a Save Point here to make the grind easier. After acquiring 100x Curse Spikes, refine them into Dark Matter to learn Shockwave Pulsar.