stumbling blind

[bearded]

am i mistaken, or wasn't there a version of the blindness state that made the character stumble every now and again?  was it ffx?  how to activate it again?

[Lunarman]

Vertigo is a state in FFX that makes you fall over every so often. Not blindness though, if it had KDs too it would just be too uber :)

[Urthman]

More uber than hypnosis or blanking?  I'd much rather be blind and clumsy than hypnotised

If you want blind+vertigo, you can have an attack that also stuns and swap stun for one or the other (maybe?  can you have more than one of those states at the same time?)

[Lunarman]

Oh yes Urthman! Blind is the best :)

A totally ranged char like Solar Flare or Fortissimmo when blinded is useless. Thye can't used ranged moves + it lasts for ages+ it's cheap (prestige wise)+ it can't be cured by Mentor's state healing thing.

IMO hypnosis and mental blank cost far too much and seem to ware off very fast.

Each to their own :)

[Urthman]

Ah.  I wasn't thinking about the cost-benefit aspect.   Good point.  And I'd never noticed that there was such a big difference in duration.  Interesting.

[stumpy]

Are you playing FFvT3R now? Blind is a much more effective power now than it was in the first game. I think before it added some sort of penalty to ranged attacks, but now it totally disables them. Meanwhile, I think the costs of hypnosis was upped, so it's less attractive now than it used to be.

I agree that, in the first game, blind was pretty wimpy.

[Lunarman]

Yes, in the first game blind was useless (I think it reduced accuracy on melee and ranged moves, but not enough IMO). Sry I should have made it clear I was talking about FFVTTR.

[Epimethee]

am i mistaken, or wasn't there a version of the blindness state that made the character stumble every now and again?  was it ffx?  how to activate it again?

BTW, In FFX 1.x, Blind was completely replaced by Vertigo, so that's probably where you got that impression.