GFAbl Med-RF

GFAbl Med-RF (GF ability medicine refiner) is a menu ability in Final Fantasy VIII that allows the player to create items that teach abilities to Guardian Forces; both command (such as Card and Devour) and support abilities (such as junction abilities, stat-boosting abilities, and passive abilities) can be taught from items. GFAbl Med-RF is one of the best refiner abilities in the game, but obtained very late into the game and often requiring rare items.
==Obtained==
The Guardian Force Eden learns GFAbl Med-RF for 30 AP. Eden is drawn from the boss in the bottom of the hidden island on the corner of the world map, or from Tiamat in the final dungeon. If the player removes GFAbl Med-RF with Amnesia Greens, there is no way to get it back.
==Mechanics==
Using GFAbl Med-RF in the Ability menu enables the player to make ability teaching items to the cap of 100 of a single item type.
Item 	Refine Into
Adamantine 	20 = 1 Steel Curtain
Aegis Amulet 	10 = 1 Giant's Ring
Barrier 	50 = 1 Aegis Amulet
Bomb Fragment 	100 = 1 Bomb Spirit
Cactus Thorn 	100 = 1 Hundred Needles
Dark Matter 	1 = 1 Luck-J Scroll
Diamond Armor 	5 = 1 Elem Guard
Dragon Fang 	100 = 1 Med Kit
Dragon Skin 	100 = 1 Glow Curtain
Elixir 	10 = 1 Doc's Code
Energy Crystal 	50 = 1 Samantha Soul
Force Armlet 	10 = 1 Magic Armlet
Giant's Ring 	10 = 1 Gaea's Ring
Glow Curtain 	2 = 1 Monk's Code
Gold Armor 	5 = 1 Diamond Armor
Holy War 	5 = 1 Knight's Code
HP-J Scroll 	10 = 1 Giant's Ring
HP Up 	2 = 1 HP-J Scroll
Hypno Crown 	10 = 1 Royal Crown
Jet Engine 	10 = 1 Rocket Engine
Lightweight 	100 = 1 Accelerator
Luck-J Scroll 	2 = 1 Luck Up
Luck Up 	2 = 1 Luck-J Scroll
Mag-J Scroll 	10 = 1 Force Armlet
Mag Up 	2 = 1 Mag-J Scroll
Magic Armlet 	20 = 1 Moon Curtain
Malboro Tentacle	100 = 1 Moon Curtain
Orihalcon 	10 = 1 Adamantine
Phoenix Pinion 	20 = 1 Phoenix Spirit
Power Wrist 	10 = 1 Hyper Wrist
Ribbon 	1 = 1 Status Guard
Rosetta Stone 	1 = 1 Shaman Stone
Royal Crown 	20 = 1 Status Atk
Samantha Soul 	20 = 1 Elem Atk
Shaman Stone 	1 = 1 Rosetta Stone
Silver Mail 	10 = 1 Gold Armor
Spd-J Scroll 	10 = 1 Jet Engine
Spd Up 	2 = 1 Spd-J Scroll
Spr-J Scroll 	10 = 1 Hypno Crown
Spr Up 	2 = 1 Spr-J Scroll
Str-J Scroll 	10 = 1 Power Wrist
Str Up 	2 = 1 Str-J Scroll
Vit-J Scroll 	10 = 1 Orihalcon
Vit Up 	2 = 1 Vit-J Scroll
Whisper 	100 = 1 Healing Ring
==Use==
GFAbl Med-RF is used to make some of the most rare and useful items in the game. For example, no GF learns Return Damage natively, and the only way to get a Hundred Needles without Chocobo World is to refine it with GFAbl Med-RF from 100 Cactus Thorns (from Cactuars). With GFAbl Med-RF, the player can have more than one party member with Recover by refining 100 Whispers (from Adamantoises) into a Healing Ring.
Ability x4 is a great ability to have on every party member, learned from a rare Rosetta Stone that the player can manufacture from a Shaman Stone, itself made with Siren's Tool-RF from a Dark Matter.
If the player did not farm Luck-J Scrolls from Odin with a trick, the ways to get it are few and rare, but the player can make them with GFAbl Med-RF from Luck Ups or Dark Matters.
Accelerator teaches Auto-Haste to a GF, an excellent ability to have equipped at all times. Though the player gets three from Kiros's card, the player can also make them from Lightweights (from Vysage) with GFAbl Med-RF.
If the player has the patience, Adamantoises are good enemies to farm items for GFAbl Med-RF, as there are multiple items the player can make from their offerings. Adamantoise is the only encounter on Long Horn Peninsula beaches, north from Dollet.
For the final battle, it is worthwhile to equip all six party members rather than three of them as for any other battle and have as many good abilities and junction abilities available as possible among all six members. Call Shop and Familiar for visiting the Esthar City pet shop from the menu helps with this, as well as Eden's GFAbl Med-RF to make any good ability items from the items the player has available in their inventory.
GFAbl Med-RF is also needed for stat grinding when making stat-booster items with Doomtrain's Forbid Med-RF, as some the items made with GFAbl Med-RF become stat boosters with Forbid Med-RF.
Category:Support abilities in Final Fantasy VIII