Final Fantasy VIII Remastered: Ace the SeeD Field Exam

Q: How to get a good SeeD rank in final fantasy viii?

The SeeD Field Exam is a comprehensive test determining your starting SeeD rank and salary. While the Fire Cavern exam was simple, this one factors in enemy kills, fleeing, and following orders. Avoid talking to NPCs until instructed. Your starting rank influences your payday, ranging from 500G (Rank 1) to 8,000G (Rank 10). High ranks can be achieved through combat prowess and strategic preparation, including stocking powerful magic like Thundaga or grinding Guardian Force abilities.

Q: What is the salary for each SeeD rank in final fantasy viii?

The SeeD Field Exam is a comprehensive test determining your starting SeeD rank and salary. While the Fire Cavern exam was simple, this one factors in enemy kills, fleeing, and following orders. Avoid talking to NPCs until instructed. Your starting rank influences your payday, ranging from 500G (Rank 1) to 8,000G (Rank 10). High ranks can be achieved through combat prowess and strategic preparation, including stocking powerful magic like Thundaga or grinding Guardian Force abilities.

Q: How many points are earned from the Fire Cavern exam in final fantasy viii?

The SeeD Field Exam is a comprehensive test determining your starting SeeD rank and salary. While the Fire Cavern exam was simple, this one factors in enemy kills, fleeing, and following orders. Avoid talking to NPCs until instructed. Your starting rank influences your payday, ranging from 500G (Rank 1) to 8,000G (Rank 10). High ranks can be achieved through combat prowess and strategic preparation, including stocking powerful magic like Thundaga or grinding Guardian Force abilities.

Q: How to prepare for the final fantasy viii SeeD Field Exam?

The SeeD Field Exam is a comprehensive test determining your starting SeeD rank and salary. While the Fire Cavern exam was simple, this one factors in enemy kills, fleeing, and following orders. Avoid talking to NPCs until instructed. Your starting rank influences your payday, ranging from 500G (Rank 1) to 8,000G (Rank 10). High ranks can be achieved through combat prowess and strategic preparation, including stocking powerful magic like Thundaga or grinding Guardian Force abilities.

Q: Can you fail the final fantasy viii SeeD Field Exam?

The SeeD Field Exam is a comprehensive test determining your starting SeeD rank and salary. While the Fire Cavern exam was simple, this one factors in enemy kills, fleeing, and following orders. Avoid talking to NPCs until instructed. Your starting rank influences your payday, ranging from 500G (Rank 1) to 8,000G (Rank 10). High ranks can be achieved through combat prowess and strategic preparation, including stocking powerful magic like Thundaga or grinding Guardian Force abilities.

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Walkthrough

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Make your way to the dormitory.
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Enter the dorm, use the Save Point if desired.
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Head into the right-most room and interact with the bed to change into your uniform.
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Warning: Once in uniform, you are under greater scrutiny. Actions reflecting poorly on SeeD/Balamb Garden will count against you. While outright failure is only possible via game over (death), your grade and starting rank can be affected.
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The Field Exam is comprehensive and largely determines your starting SeeD rank. Factors include enemy kills, times fled, and adherence to orders. Avoid talking to anyone until told to do so, as this will likely result in deductions.
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Your starting SeeD rank directly impacts your salary:
- Rank 1: 500G
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Rank 2: 1,000G
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Rank 3: 1,500G
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Rank 4: 2,000G
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Rank 5: 3,000G
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Rank 6: 4,000G
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Rank 7: 5,000G
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Rank 8: 6,000G
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Rank 9: 7,000G
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Rank 10: 8,000G
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Consider that achieving a high kill count for rank might grant more experience than desired. A strategy to augment your grade through combat prowess without excessive leveling involves preparation:
- Option 1 (Magic Focus): If you have harvested magics like Tornado and Thundaga via Triple Triad, ensure you have resources for three stacks of Thundaga. Start the exam with 100 Thundagas on Squall and 10 Dynamo Stones (refined from Blitz card via Card Mod).
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Option 2 (GF Focus): Junction Tornado to HP (not Strength) on Squall. Draw Cure from a Caterchipillar to heal yourself, allowing you to solo enemies in the Balamb region. Farm Fastitocalon-Fs, summoning Quezacotl at the start of each fight for damage.
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GF Ability Grinding:
- Summon Quezacotl regularly to boost its compatibility with Squall and learn abilities like SumMag +10%, SumMag +20%, and SumMag +30% (costs 260 AP total).
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Have Ifrit learn Strength +20%, Strength +40%, and Str Bonus (permanently increases Strength on level up).
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This GF grinding strategy is ideal for low-level runs, allowing stat boosts upon leveling without excessive experience gain.
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Once prepared with abilities or magic, return to your dormitory, save your game (consider a backup save), and prepare for the exam.

Tips

The gap between the lowest and highest salary is considerable (500G - 8,000G), but Gil is not a long-term concern, especially since selling an X-Potion (refined from a Wedge, Biggs card) yields 2,500G.
Min-maxing stats via low-level runs and GF abilities is ideal but not essential; there are other, more tedious methods to boost stats.
Consider making two saves before the exam to have a backup if the results are not satisfactory.

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