Darkness
Other
Staying at a lodging, such as a
hotel
Darkness is a status in Final Fantasy VIII . Darkness reduces a character's Hit Rate by 75%, making them miss their attacks frequently. Characters with base hit rate of 255% are unaffected, such as Squall and Seifer , although Darkness disables the gunblade's trigger, making them unable to deal additional damage. The sound effect of hitting the trigger will play, but the hit will lack the explosion around the enemy and damage will not be increased. The effect remains indefinitely until healed, even outside of battle. Spells and Limit Breaks never miss due to poor accuracy. The afflicted has a dark cloud over around head, shrouding their vision.
Abilities [ ]
Spell
Rating
Status Effects
Blind
100%
Darkness
Pain
100%
Poison, Darkness, Silence
Enemy abilities [ ]
Ability
Description
Enemy
Bad Breath
Inflicts Darkness, Confuse, Berserk, Poison, Sleep, Silence, Curse, Petrifying, and Slow on the entire party. Can be learned as a Blue Magic .
Malboro
Blind
Inflicts Blind to one target.
Abadon , Blood Soul , Blue Dragon , Cerberus , Forbidden , Fujin (2nd), Gesper , Imp , Lefty , Ochu , Propagator
"Brrawghh!"
Inflicts non-elemental magic damage as well as Slow, Curse, and Darkness to the party.
Gerogero
Dark Mist
Inflicts non-elemental magic damage as well as Darkness to the party. Only used at 50% or less HP.
Anacondaur
Oil Shot
Inflicts non-elemental physical damage and Darkness to one target.
Oilboyle
Pain
Inflicts Poison, Darkness, and Silence to one target.
Elnoyle , Fujin (2nd), Griever
Sand Storm
Inflicts non-elemental physical damage and Darkness to the party.
Adamantoise
Stare
Inflicts non-elemental magic damage as well as Poison, Confuse, Darkness, and Silence to one target.
Vysage
Protection [ ]
Support ability
Ribbon
Status
Invincible
Spell
Rating
Status Effects
Esuna
20%
Poison, Petrify, Petrifying, Darkness, Silence, Berserk, Sleep, Stop, Slow, Curse, Confuse
Reflect
25%
Poison, Petrify, Petrifying, Darkness, Silence, Berserk, Sleep, Stop, Slow, Confuse
Blind
100%
Darkness
Pain
100%
Poison, Darkness, Silence, Curse
Healing [ ]
Ability
Treatment
Item
Cottage , Elixir , Eye Drops , Megalixir , Remedy , Remedy+ , Tent
Limit Break
Full-cure
Mechanics
Death , Petrify , Sleeping at a lodging like a hotel
Spell
Esuna
Enemies [ ]
20%
Abyss Worm , Adamantoise , Armadodo , Base Leader , Base Soldier , Belhelmel , Bite Bug , Blitz , Blobra , Bomb , Buel , Cactuar , Caterchipillar , Chimera , Cockatrice , Death Claw , Esthar Soldier , Esthar Soldier (Terminator) , Elite Soldier , Fastitocalon , Fastitocalon-F , G-Soldier , Gayla , Geezard , Gesper , Glacial Eye , Grendel , Guard , Jelleye , Lefty , Mesmerize , Paratrooper , Righty , SAM08G , Slapper , Snow Lion , T-Rexaur , Biggs (D-District Prison), Thrustaevis , Turtapod , Vysage , Wendigo , Edea (2nd), Propagator , Red Giant , Rinoa , Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B) , Wedge (D-District Prison)
30%
Anacondaur , Behemoth , Blue Dragon
40%
GIM47N , Iron Giant , Raldo , Catoblepas , Elvoret , Fujin (1st), Raijin (1st/2nd)
50%
Bahamut , BGH251F2 , Diablos
60%
Tri-Face , Abadon , Fujin (2nd), Raijin (3rd)
80%
Elnoyle , Torama
99%
Seifer (2nd)
Immune
Blood Soul , Creeps , Elastoid , Forbidden , Funguar , Grand Mantis , Grat , Hexadragon , Imp , Malboro , Ochu , Oilboyle , PuPu , Red Bat , Ruby Dragon , Tonberry , UFO? , All bosses except Abadon , Bahamut , BGH251F2 , Biggs (D-District Prison), Catoblepas , Diablos , Edea (2nd), Elvoret , Fujin , Propagator , Raijin , Red Giant , Rinoa , Seifer (2nd), Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B) , Wedge (D-District Prison)