I’ve performed Remaining Fantasy Techniques twice previously couple of months. The primary runthrough was of the unique on PlayStation. The second was the excellent Ivalice Chronicles remaster, out at present. Regardless of having grinded by the basic technique RPG again within the day, I nonetheless discovered a factor or two from revisiting it once more all these years later. Right here’s a bunch of pleasant reminders, PSAs, and useful ideas, whether or not you’re taking part in Remaining Fantasy Techniques for the primary time or coming again to it after many years away.
Maintain each character a Squire till they study JP Up
Rule quantity one in all Remaining Fantasy Techniques is “ABJPU”: all the time be JP-ing up. JP stands for Job Factors and these are what you utilize to unlock abilities throughout the sport’s sprawling job system. As you rank up every job, you’ll gather extra factors per motion you are taking, however the JP Up ability will double that, letting you progress your characters twice as quick. The ability is on the third web page of the Squire ability checklist underneath the passive part. Maintain off on swapping your recent recruits to chemists, knights, or different beginning lessons till you might have this one unlocked.
Unlock Focus if you happen to actually wish to streamline grinding
Characters earn XP and Job Factors for profitable actions. This implies doing injury, therapeutic, or buffing/debuffing one thing. The quickest method to stage up characters is to replenish on potions, depart one enemy in a battle alive, and have everybody preserve taking turns whereas staying healed. Accumulate is a Squire ability that raises your assault. It by no means misses. And also you apply it to your self so that you don’t have to maneuver or fear about being in vary.
The quickest method to grind in Remaining Fantasy Techniques is to have everybody study the ability (it prices 300 factors) and stand round utilizing it on the finish of a random encounter. As a result of you should utilize it as a personality’s second ability, it’s useful it doesn’t matter what job they’re making an attempt to stage up, making it a sound technique over the course of your entire recreation.
All the time have a least one character with the Merchandise ability outfitted
The power to make use of Phoenix Down gadgets is without doubt one of the most helpful abilities in Remaining Fantasy Techniques. That’s as a result of when characters die, they solely have three turns earlier than they flip into crystals. As soon as that occurs, they’re lifeless for the entire recreation except you reset. If Ramza dies this fashion, the sport is over. Even the best-laid plans can go sideways, and there’s nothing worse than having a personality die early on in a struggle and realizing you don’t have any method to convey them again. Make sure that not less than one character has the Merchandise ability outfitted and Phoenix Down unlocked (it’s solely 90 JP factors) it doesn’t matter what job they’re. I normally have not less than two or three.
Job Level spillover is your buddy
Remaining Fantasy Techniques is stuffed with math that by no means will get overtly defined. One of the essential calculations known as JP spillover. Each time a personality earns Job Factors, the remainder of your characters in battle get 20 p.c of these factors to that very same job. Even when they don’t have the job unlocked but, the factors will nonetheless accrue within the background, displaying up as soon as it’s out there.
This has two essential makes use of. The primary is you’ll be able to have individuals double-up on jobs and unlock particular abilities a lot sooner. The opposite is that you could earn a small quantity of factors that permit characters unlock one or two lower-level abilities with out them ever having truly frolicked rating up in that job. If in case you have a Chemist in your occasion earn 2,000 factors, that can be sufficient for everybody else to study Auto-Potion, one of the crucial helpful counterattack abilities within the recreation.
Drag battles out when you’ll be able to so human enemies flip into crystals
When people fall in battle, they’ll flip into treasure chests or crystals. The treasure chests aren’t that helpful, however the crystals include all the Job abilities these troopers had once they died. It is a actually environment friendly method to unlock abilities with out spending any factors, particularly for lower-level stuff on jobs that character isn’t at the moment utilizing. For instance, your Chemist, Knight, or Archer may seize a crystal from a White Mage and study a bunch of helpful secondary abilities like Treatment, Increase, and Shield with out ever grinding as a White Mage. There’s only one caveat: they should have the job unlocked to have the ability to earn the talents from it this fashion.
Stats develop in a different way relying on the job you might have whenever you stage up
Right here’s some extra arcane math the sport doesn’t inform you about. Jobs have completely different base stats, so if you happen to go from being a Knight to a Thief, even if you happen to don’t change anything, that character can have much less well being however be sooner. Properly, these stats additionally change within the background as you stage up (with XP) specifically jobs. Gamers have spent many years making an attempt to get the tough math proper in charts like these, however there are some key issues even informal gamers ought to concentrate on.
- Monks, Knights, and Lancers have the best well being development multiplier.
- Monks and Ninjas have the best assault development multiplier.
- Ninjas, Thieves, and Monks have the best Velocity Multiplier.
- Wizards and Time Mages have the best magic assault development multiplier.
- Monks, Wizards, Time Mages, and Summoners have the best magic level development multiplier.
Mimes, the toughest job to unlock within the recreation, have the best throughout stat development potential, whereas Bards have the worst for male characters and Chemists have the worst for Feminine characters.
Ramza kicks ass as a Monk
Thematically, it looks like the primary character ought to be sporting armor and tanking hits out in entrance. It’s additionally unhealthy if he dies, so survivability additionally looks as if a precedence. However Monks, although they put on mild armor and fewer of it, could be exceptionally sturdy, and Ramza, due to his underlying stats, is without doubt one of the strongest. Along with hitting for plenty of injury and sustaining good pace, he’ll additionally unlock all the Martial Arts abilities which embrace ranged assaults, well being and MP therapeutic, standing ailment elimination, and a revive. Better of all, these abilities value no MP and occur immediately.
Take note of Bravery and Religion
Extra numbers! Every character in Remaining Fantasy Techniques has a Zodiac signal and two numbers close to their identify. The primary is Bravery and it measures their means to deal and take bodily injury. The second is Religion and it’s concerned in calculating the effectiveness of magic spells, each used and acquired. A excessive Religion character, for instance, can have the next chance of spells working and dealing extra injury, however may even be extra vulnerable to them in return. Pay attention to these stats within the Recruiter’s workplace whenever you’re on the lookout for new occasion members and whenever you’re deciding on their job trajectories.
If somebody’s pursuing magic, they’ll do greatest with a Religion stat over 60 (I prefer to intention for 70). Similar for Bravery with regards to bodily fighters. Bravery additionally results the chance of counterattacks activating. That is further essential for issues like Auto-Potion. A low Bravery character received’t react to being hit with their counterattack abilities as a lot.
You may out-level for story battles however not random encounters
When you’re caught on a narrative battle like, say, the Dorter Slums or Lionel Fortress Gate, you’ll be able to preserve grinding till your characters get highly effective sufficient to overwhelm the enemy with sheer pressure. Random encounters, nonetheless, will all the time elevate enemy ranges to round the place Ramza’s is, which is value realizing earlier than you strive to enter a struggle and grind with characters who’re all studying new jobs they haven’t unlocked abilities for but.
Don’t rush into fights!
It is a lesson Remaining Fantasy Techniques tries to show you itself in Ramza’s very first battle out of the academy when Delita warns him about taking issues gradual. Any time I’ve ever misplaced a battle, it’s as a result of I received method too aggressive method too early. It will depart your quickest, farthest-moving characters remoted and simple targets to be picked off whereas additionally spreading you out throughout the sphere an excessive amount of.
When you’re dealing with principally Archers and Knights, turtle up and make the most of therapeutic and help spells that hit a number of allies without delay. When you’re dealing with enemy spell casters, separate your occasion simply sufficient to not have a number of individuals focused without delay whereas nonetheless being shut sufficient collectively to burst down one enemy at a time.
All the time purchase one of the best armor you’ll be able to afford
Each couple of battles, new gear will develop into out there on the Clothing store’s workplace. Armor doesn’t enhance protection in Remaining Fantasy Techniques. As a substitute, it raises well being and magic level totals. Lighter armor can be a extra balanced combine, whereas heavy armor prioritizes HP. It’s okay to change issues up to fit your character’s abilities. A Knight that additionally casts White Magic will wish to put on mage robes as an alternative of a full swimsuit of armor to get extra magic factors.
Within the outdated days, touring again to city might imply getting caught in a random encounter, however the remaster provides you the choice to flee any battle on the map, so there’s no draw back to continuously monitoring again for provides and higher armor. Except you’re taking part in on straightforward, Remaining Fantasy Techniques would require you to grind for money and ranges each so many story battles. Staying on prime of the most recent gear out there will assist even the chances.
Don’t underneath estimate the ability of Transfer +1
One is the loneliest quantity. In a recreation full of huge numbers, it may well look particularly unimpressive. However the maps in Remaining Fantasy Techniques aren’t very large, and having the ability to transfer one further sq. in any route can repay in large methods. Mix an early pair of Battle Boots with the Squire’s +1 motion means and unexpectedly you might have a 50-percent transfer bonus. Particularly for characters who aren’t ranged, this may be the distinction between contributing one thing significant to the struggle throughout their flip and simply continuously getting outmaneuvered till they die.
