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Wind God Gau is the demon child of a simple overlook from Square. I can
honestly call this an overlook because, while it isn't a bug by itself, it was
partly removed by Square Enix in the Anthology release (take a look at the
previous section for more info). I'm talking about the Merit Award on Gau,
allowing him to equip weapons. Obviously it means only *more* weapons for Gogo
as well. Equipping weapons on Gau has effects that are quite nice and will be
discussed later in this document. For now, there is only one combination which
is important when talking about the Wind God as it is what created the Wind
God itself. The Tempest Knife. As you all should know, this knife has a 50%
chance of nullifying the effects of the physical attack and replacing it with
a Wind Slash attack. This can happen even when the strike itself misses. Under
a normal Battle command this will simply produce a 48 Base Power Wind Slash,
but when used in combination with a Special, the power is increased. The
strongest Special Gau can use under normal circumstances is !Catscratch, which
quadruples the power of the attack, making Wind Slash a 192 Base Power attack.
The second-strongest attack in the game when talking pure power. When teamed
up with the Offering, this will produce four attacks of that 192 Base Power
Wind Slash 50 % of the time. That's pretty close to four times Crusader at the
enemy party only at NO MP cost whatsoever. Hailed as the ultimate deployment
of Gau by many, although these are often morons who are in bad need of a FAQ
not unlike this one
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The only downside of the Wind God is that it is, in fact, a Wind God.
Monsters who are immune to Wind are Flan, Ifrit, Io, Muus, Naughty, Nerapa,
Shiva, Tritoch and Zone Eater; monsters who absorbs this element include Atma,
Evil Oscar, Girl (The angel head from Tier 3), Hidonite (Bottom left),
Intangir, L.90 Magic, Larry, Magic Urn, Poltrgeist, Storm Drgn and Woolly.
Final note: During a Wind God Wind Slash with the Offering, don't be surprised
if the all-targets hitting Wind Slash suddenly skips some targets. After the
physical strike has been rendered ineffective, the Wind Slash will only target
those monsters that haven't been defeated yet. The monsters won't go until you
completed all four hits, so should you use the Wind Slash against a group of
four monsters, and the first hit kills one already, the next Wind Slash will
only target the other three. When all monsters are dead the Wind Slash
animation won't show up at all, only the ineffective physical strike.