"Draw" is the most time consuming thing you could ever do, it takes waaay too long, and i know this is FFVIII's biggest critisism, and i can understand why..it makes me angry lol.

i actually like the draw system. i got 100 of each magic. and i thought it was really easy

it is easy but its so time consuming, you could be there for hours on end trying to get magic, when you could just learn it once and poof you can use it all the time you want obv. untill your mp reaches 0 lol.

I hated the draw system too. My brain can't handle having limited numbers of things, so I end up hardly ever use magic in FF8. I much prefer the MP system, so I can restore it by sleeping. and yes, it took AGES to get 100 of each one.


Here's a tip to make it less painful:

Go to options and set the menu curser to 'memory'. In the first round of combat make everyone draw what they want. Then switch on autofire (or if you don't have autofire, put something heavy on the X button).

or you can just refine items into what magic you want. by the first hour into disc one i had curaga to 100

I happen to find it funny how the magic in this game does NOT require mana points (MP). Drawing is time consuming. I had my GFs learn their refining abilities so that I could get the spells I really needed.