One note on Squire: they also get Accumulate, which makes learning Job Skills in a reasonable time possible. All my units get this along with the JP Up you mentioned. =3
@@vicentesantiago2681 well it sure is useful but not a must. since you can unlock black mages very easily and they can pretty much kill anything (at the start no mob or enemy have big change to dodge magic) But yea as far as i remember i always learned move +1 too , so as i said, VERY useful but not a must.
@@si-level well.. think what you want, its not like we need to argue about this. Move +1 get replaced as soon as you can unlock the thief class which is like lvl 3 archer, pretty early in the game, if you didn't do it, there is not much i can say..
Calculate Holy while wielding excalibur, and the rest of your team wearing chameleon robes. Hits you? Big heals. Hits them... they're dead or wish they were.
@@gcasag I did this too when i noticed chameleon robes/holy calculator combo was so op. But i never finished the game doing that because the fights were so easy I felt like I was cheating and got bored. Next playthrough I just gotta avoid using the calculator altogether, it is too strong, ruins the challenge lol...
David, you are the perfect combination of casual and hardcore jrpg player. Way more understanding of these games than career youtubers that feel like they know jrpgs because they played chrono trigger or final fantasy 7 once...but not as hardcore as those that spend hundreds of hours grinding to levelcap on disc one. Some of the best videos on RU-vid for real fans of jrpgs.
Thank you! I'm not one for min maxing stats or grinding for an eternity either, I just like to get in, play the game, and get out. So when I create these ranking videos I keep in mind the way that I like to play the game, which is pretty casually. A game shouldn't feel like a job, it should be fun.
@@davidvinc well that translates into the experience of watching your videos too. I'm not and never have been a huge fan, but you're the right mix of informative and entertaining that I feel like I'm really learning from you. Thanks for making the channel.
Yet we put grindy calculators at god tier, don't like White mages, don't like the all around best equip and fluid magic or physical base class Geomancer, think ignore height is worth mentioning over Teleport of Fly, don't even delve into the percentage hits that are Time Magic or Yin Yang, and basically fail at making this a tier list that will appeal to either newbies or vets by being mediocre at all angles that aren't calcs=gods.
@@stuflames4769 Calcs are grindy, but once you're done learning all the math skills, you can practically fly through the rest of the game. The Geomancer's terrain abilities suck, but the base stats are pretty solid. It is one class Malak can make himself into without embarrassing himself.
@@stevenmorton2059 The Geomancer skillset is okay. Geomancy is one of the longest range AoE attacks in the game. It comes out instantly, hits with 100% accuracy, and carries a chance of nasty status effects. What it lacks in versatility and raw power, it makes up for in consistency. And, since Geomancer is easily one of the top physical classes for carrying an MA skillset, you almost surely have that power and/or versatility built into your secondary class - leaving a nice gap for the consistency of Geomancy to slot into.
Honestly, I feel like the Monk was the best melee in the game because he got such a huge boost to damage from raising his brave stat. It was always a bit crazy to double hit for 999 damage when you equip the Ninja's Two Sword ability.
you should do the other way around, give ninja martial arts no weapon, and they will wipe the whole map alone. Because "speed" monk is slow and has short range movement. Ninja is fast move lot more
White mage/priest is always underestimated in FFT. This class has the same speed as thieves, making it a surprisingly good late game caster. Slap time magic or yin-yang magic on for extra utility, or black magic/summons for more mp efficient damage. With endgame equipment, it’s not uncommon for the priest to be able to cast golem before some enemy units can even move.
MATH is broke, not Calculators. They're hot garbage when they're actually Calculators. Way too slow and terrible MA. I think a lot of you simply don't understand that. I mean this guy thinks Samurais have the speed on Ninjas, when they have some of the slowest speed growth in the game.
I meant to ask: would you ever be willing to continue this series with the future Tactics games (if you've played them)? I've loved your job rankings thus far and am super curious about your opinions on the rest of this series.
What's funny about your #1 and #20 is that once you're using calculators, the mime really shines. They let the calculators spawn chain reactions and hammer much harder than they would be able to otherwise.
I have so many save files of Final Fantasy Tactics, and in my later playthroughs, I would go for mastery in every job class with my favorite characters (mostly Ramza, Mustadio and Agrias). I remember absolutely loving the Mediator, probably because I loved the idea of recruiting monsters, or having a unit that came from a story battle being a permanent member of the team. I also found it hilarious to give Beowulf Oracle as a secondary skill set. Also, every time I play now, I put Ramza in Chemist early on so I can get Auto Potion. That carried me through the Weigraf battle xD
This game was the first I ever tried a challenge run. Solo Ramza. It was hard at moments but once he became a calculator he wrecked the rest of the game and it easy at that point. Great game, great story, diverse jobs.... so good.
samurai is shit, but their skill are very good. Meaning.. the class samurai its horrible because of stats survivability, but if you put their skill on a mage, you wipe the game.
@@WastedTalent83 Yeah but if we're talking about the classes themselves then Calc has no business being anywhere near the top 10. After all, without skills from other classes they're absolute trash.
@@barrygeistwhite3474 exactly lol but in theory you cant be calc without having done.the other classes so it's impossible to make a calculator which doesn't have skill already. also yea his skill set is strong like samurai but the class itself is garbage
While they are very basic I think Squire should be a few slots higher. Gained JP Up and basic skills are good for exploiting the game by cheering throw rock/dash and accumulate for easy exp/JP gains.
basic skills synergizes _extremely_ well with monk. Nothing like a team of monks just spamming accumulate for a few turns and decimating anyone stupid enough to walk up to them with the first attack counter.
I would love to see you rank Job Classes from other games that have them such as Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, and Dragon Quest III, VI, VII, and IX
one time, i ask my friend whats is more powerfull in this game, and he say orlandu (no surprise there), them in my house i enter in the deep dungeon, only with orlando and my black mage with calc..... orlando with the best itens in the game.... well..... long story short..... my black mage have item to absorve holy..... than i cast holy, and i hit ALL chars in the map, killing everone orlando included with 999 damage to all.... and healing my mage....... my friend got really angry, and o was lol
This is still my favorite game of all time, I just wish when Square made the game they would have added more variety to the classes of enemies you’d fight instead of just wizards, knights, and archers the entire game. They use a few others here and there but unfortunately you don’t get to fight many of them
I have 2 mimes in my party, a bard, a dancer, and a summoner with math skill. Bard sings a song that increases either speed for more turns or magic attack. Tripled by the two mimes. Dancer does the nameless dance that plagues the enemy party with all the status ailments. Tripled by the two mimes. The summoner nukes the enemy party with a barage of magic, for free without cast time. Tripled by the two mimes. I had a lot of fun with this setup!
Mediator/Orator one the best class. When put him TELEPORT , his is just IMBA. His use gun (to best gun stone) and have so match high % to use his skills, sleep or invite. Play this game around 1000 h , make all master job normal character 5 tims. in playstaion 1 x2, ps vita x2 and androind x1. Mediator always is me main team.
I legitimately think the Bard and Dancer are top 5 classes. As someone who has held FFT as his favorite game since the year it was released, I have never played a playthrough where I didn't have a Bard or Dancer on my team or at least have Sing or Dance as a secondary ability.
I think the Mediator deserves a bit more love. I think it's good to bring one if you're grinding. bravery down is great, I loved turning enemies into chickens! Haven't played for a while so I don't remember the exact move name. If you mix that move with a speed down, and Razma's speed up, you can master several jobs in one battle with every char... you could skip the brave down, but then you get attacked every so often, and depending on the enemy, that can get annoying. All that said, I'm a collector type, so I really like having all jobs unlocked and mastered with every char, even if I don't use a particular job/ability.
Bard, dancer, calculator, mime, mime. That's fun, speed up your team, slow down the enemy, turn everyone into frogs, kill everyone, you know whatever you wanna do. I like how didn't mention calculators can hit you as well.
@@renegadezero0 If one or two in your own party get hit then it's totally fine. Especially if the entirety of the enemy part gets hit. If you really don't want to sacrifice a party member then just choose a different calculation or have party equipped with items that negate the effect.
David.. we need to talk, if you keep getting buffed we will need a wider screen, please stop... As for FF I loved the dark knight, first play trough on ps1 I was sad mastering all classes and seeing that we weret able to access that class (at least we had Orlandu :p) PSP FF tactics made a good calla dding both Holy and Dark knight classes :).
As far as I'm concerned, one of the most beautiful things about this game is how you can take some of the less stellar classes, tweak them _just_ a bit, and end up with something completely unfair. Just two examples are: Raise your Archer as a Ninja for better speed growth, then give them the Knight's unique Break abilities and safely shatter your enemy's equipment and stats from afar. Increase your Chemist's Faith to the the highest allotted level (without them leaving your party), give them the Swiftness skill, then give them the Mystic's skillset. Now you've got a guy with a gun running around throwing healing items and inflicting enemies with every status ailment under the sun. The Tactics Advanced games are fun and all, great games on their own, but the sheer amount of options that this one just threw at you is crazy. You can basically do whatever you want. The game even gives you a character that's almost invincible, our ol' buddy Cid, but by the time you get him the rest of your dudes are probably unstoppable powerhouses too. Such a great game. Even once you've become too crazy powerful for any enemy to threaten you it's still just fun to customize and see what you can do with some weird Class mash-ups.
@@MortimerZabi he did mention build around mime thing. With mime and dancer, enemies losing speed madly, but there are not many case that we need to use this strategy. The game is too easy once you get to know the game.
I severely doubt you have been playing this since you were 15 there's quite a few issues with this list. Like talking about ignore height but not the easier to get and superior movement wise teleport I don't even know where to begin with these rankings Samurai ultimate melee class? Magic maybe but melee? And they most certainly arnt as fast as a ninja. I'm pretty sure your the guy who made the other click bait videos like top 10 non square enix rpgs....that was half enix games or the top most difficult dungeons in FF1 that didn't actually list the hardest dungeon and definitely not from the perspective of someone who played the original or had first hand knowledge.
I was planning on starting a new playthrough of War of The Lions at some point, and thanks to your video I now have some great ideas for party make ups! Thumbs up! It was a big help!
I knew the Calculator would be #1 lol My Monk just missed the Bronze, but that's okay, I'm just happy he's that high on the list. Besides, I agree with the top 3 myself
Monk damage abilities use pa twice, so boosting it helps more than boosting it with other classes and monk comes with martial arts to boost 1 of them 50% which you can learn for other jobs as well as counter and hamedo, while one of the magic jobs teaches magic counter and another teaches critical quick. Monk also teaches critical hp restore and archer teaches speed save and a bunch of other stuff i forgot to mention
Love this video David! Happy you did this video on one of my favorite games of all time!! Love this game since a child, played the heck out of it back then and still do now. The Dark Knight is my fav class from the PSP version. :)
I'm going to advertise a bit and plug my mod, Final Fantasy Tactics: Emergence for the War of the Lions version. I kept all of the vanilla classes, but re-arranged skills to make each class feel more unique. I also re-arranged the job tree to make more sense (example - you get Lancers from training up Knights, not Thieves). One of the changes that ended up working beautifully was moving the Charge skillset to the Knights. It made so much more sense to give it to someone who could take a hit. If you're a fan of Tactics, check it out.
I remember playing mods of FFT (that added Blue Mage, Red Mage, Viking etc), the game has so much replayability it's crazy! But yeah unlocking the Dark Knight job in FFT-WotL (without using guides) can be a knightmare...
@@louisdellalucca8969 Having done one of the most popular PSP Hacks out there (Final Fantasy Tactics: Emergence), Blue Mage actually DOESN'T work as a class. The stats for monsters grow much differently than the stats for human characters, so giving monster abilities to humans makes them way too weak. You can affect the job's base stats to adjust for that, but that makes all of your subclass abilities totally broken. I was able to give Reis some shades of Blue Mage, because as a character she is built for that, but I had to be very picky about the abilities I let her learn.
i always keep a monk or 2 in my party. i rush to get the monk because the wave fist for attacks and chakra for healing is just so OP. not to mention if your not in range of any enemies or need healing, i use accumalate to raise my attack from the squire class as my secoundary
Great video. I’ve played the mess out of this game never using the Mathematician and it makes me want to play again. Hoping they do a port soon to the switch or pc
@@WastedTalent83 lancer is the same way and you can use charge 20 if you incapacitate the enemies and sleep and a few other status add a physical damage bonus but I like to put charge on knight to use with chaos blade for 40 extra damage per point of charge. It makes already extremely damaging weapon even more damaging
Mimes + dancers = absolutely destroying the enemy from the other side of the map. Their speed, their power, their MP. Add a bard in and you're keeping everyone healed as well. And please, it's SUPER easy to utilize a mime to their fullest. Have you ever used a knight effectively in chess? Just imagine you have a second knight that duplicates the first one's actions. It's not hard. You just want to put in minimal effort.
The Monk's Chakra ability also allows for infinite JP grinding since it heals both HP and MP for no cost. Grinding with two monks (or 1 and a healing caster) makes it really easy to increase job levels very quickly, and it isn't even an expensive ability.
aww i love Geomancers and the Dancer's "nameless dance" has reeeeeally pulled me through some hellish battles (like when i once faced THIRTEEN MONKS on Goug Hill...ugh)
I think you severely underestimate the mystics ability to make chickens, berserk dangerous caster mobs, sleep high defense enemies, amplify/nullify casters with faith/atheist, disable, and attack from 2 tiles away.
@@WastedTalent83 I rarely bother using him actually. By the time I get him, my original 5 are rocking mastered Tier 4 and combination classes LOL I decide after the second battle which will be my male squire, female squire, male chemist, and female chemist and build the fuck out of them. By the time I murder Algus and open that last space for my full team, I have 2 ninjas with ignore height, a mastered monk with elemental, a healer with chakra, and Deleta is usually knight or monk. Always fun seeing how the party ends up by chapter 3. Funny thing, I bought this game before I even owned a Playstation... or a memory card. Was pretty intense seeing Goug Machine City opened up for the first time. Finding a scrap of paper and something to write with to record what is needed to open ninja and samurai the first time a character has that opened up. Over the past decades since then, I've built a master save with far too many hours, and still find myself starting over again from time to time... just to relive that feeling of opening the map and unlocking the classes and unfolding each character toward it's end shape of this secondary (mastered), this reaction, this support, and this movement... FF Tactics is one of the handful of games that I will always come back to, and always will. Original 20 class, slow as molasses in January text at the beginning of Chapter One... The Meager. . .and just typing it out I can hear the background music as the messenger comes in, the 'thuk' of the door, Fall in, we have a mission. Ah, good times. :{)
@@kainshannarra2451 yea, science should make a technology that is able to erase only "certain" memories , so that you can experience your "first time" again. those first time , never come back, and its such a sad thing XD FFT FF7 Castlevania. King of fighters 96 and many others for me. About orlandu.. i only used him my first play through, after that, all the times i started a new game, never used him again, he is too op and break the game basically. And i enjoy a some difficulty while i play
Can we all admit that after hearing dave demonstrate his extensive knowledge on rpgs for so many years it is shocking to see he looks like a barbarian instead of a mage? Lol
@@ernestwest6861 yeah and it's nerfed in wotl like a lot of abilities other than draw out. Mel and the twins were improved though. Meteor in wotl is 20 points weaker and takes even longer to cast. There's always swift charge to help
Ignore hieght is the most limited option to get around hieght issues, fly and teleport allow you to get around enemy units and attack from behind while teleport lets you go past your move range. Lancer is good at single target damage with polearm from short range like sticks and also long range with jump. You can just get the 8 ones to save jp
Kinda agree with your list, from an efficiency standpoint and if it's just the job itself. I still go for basic jobs by the end of the game if it's required in battle, like using a Knight with Equip Gun + Ignore Height. He can use a gun and a shield, can break stuff or stat and second active skill usually Item for support.
This was my favorite game from my childhood. All the other final fantasy games are got a remaster I’m just sitting here wishing for a rerelease on ps4.
Hey, the Orator might suck as a class, but it does have some pretty effective utility. Monsters might be inflexible, but some are stupidly powerful (like the Red Chocobo and the freaking Tiamat). However, there's another use for taking them on your team; keep them on your roster, then breed them to produce a neverending supply of POACHING fodder! You can get a whole bunch of rare and expensive items not available anywhere else through this method. The Wild Boar in particular can ONLY be obtained this way, and its subspecies are themselves so incredibly rare that you're better off inviting them into your party rather than poaching them when you find them and hoping for the best. Also, Orators can be used to recruit enemy humans. This can be useful for a number of reasons. One, you can get new human units that are actually at your your level, rather than get stuck training a level 1 squire from the ground up. Two, you can potentially get a class you haven't unlocked yet, or don't have in high numbers, saving you from more grinding. And three, you can take their stuff after the battle and then just get rid of them. Or kill them and have one of your existing units take an ability from them, heh, heh, heh.
I adore using mimes with dancers and bards. Dancer, Dancer, Mime, Mime, Bard melts enemies surprisingly fast since the mimes mimic every dance or song and the downfall of mime is negated since the dances/songs autotarget!
Man, I feel like the bard is not getting nearly enough love.Just did a playthrough last week making my own challenge of the following: 1.) Completing the game ONLY fighting in story battles (i.e. no random battles). 2.) Complete in shortest number of days possible (ie no job propositions) 3.) No healing/reviving of enemies to extend leveling/grinding 4.) Steal all exclusive equips in story battles (i.e. blood sword, full genji gear, chantage, etc.) And I have to say, having the sing effect in play restoring HP 2-3 times every round was absolutely vital in keeping super under-leveled characters just barely alive long enough to get to their next turn and either move, heal, or kill off the enemies doing 120-150 damage in chapter 3
You don't need to build your entire party around the mime, you just need to build a functional one and properly position the mime on the field. The rest is story. It just takes a little bit of thinking. Orators too are pretty much mandatory to improve your party's otherwise unchangable Faith values (and if Ramza can't do it yet, Bravery too). Different from Oracles, the change Orators make is permanent.
Ranking for custom / npc class 1. Orlandu - no explanation needed 2. Beowulf - huge range and utility, can break to instakill shock for huge damage or do other things like shock or chicken 3. Worker - huge damage at range and close solid overall character 4. Agrias - basically a poor man's orlandu much more limited attacks and worse overall stats 5. Mustadio - overall poor damage until you get elemental guns but inflicting don't move / don't act at long range is extremely strong no matter what 6. Reis - Amazing hp growth but gimmicky abilities overall. Love her but it's better to just have her learn other skills 7. Meliadoul - worse than other divine knight type chars with most limited skills but still pretty good overall 8. Cloud - long charge times for generally underwhelming abilities 9. Rafa / malak- just bad rng attacks. Rafa is good user of use find item due to super low brave though
Nice list! My take on it, adding in the two NPCs from PsP... 0. Orlandu - So OP I haven't used him in ages. 1-4 (my (latest) Final Five). * Balthier (PsP) - Sky Pirate / Jump Skill. He is Mustadio, but with more ranged abilities and an upgraded version of Steal. For thematics I gave him the OP Javelin as with Barrage he will kill just about anything. * Beowulf - Templar / Calc Skill. My Omni-Mage, can cast just about anything and has the best in utility skills. With Low Brave I give him Parry and Move-Find Item. * Cloud - Soldier / Summons. With Quickcast to benefit both. * Reis - Dragoner / Martial Arts. The party's token female to use special gear. And she hits like a truck, as she has two-weapon fighting naturally (iirc). ** Ramza - Dark Knight / Mettle (or Martial Arts? I forget) - can solo most fights if he wants. 5. Mustadio - Pre-PsP, he always made my Final Five. His ability to shut down foes at range is godly. On PsP, he pairs nicely with Balthier if you want to double-down on that schtick. 6. Agrias - As much as I love her early on, she quickly rotates out of my group. She has been in my final five for several play-throughs though. 7. Luso (PsP) - I don't have a need for a second Ramza. Iirc, he has Poach for free. 8. Meliadoul - Trash. The worst of the "Magic Knights". 9. Malak/Rafa: as you said, the RNG is horrible and as Beowulf can benefit from low brave, Rafa is still just useless. 10. Worker - More of a Monster, I don't really use those much.
Agrias: gives reliable and powerful AOE damage in late act 2, act 3 and first half of act 4. Can be boosted with Knight level ups + Tynar Rouge (as early as act 4) and made a Geomancer to stack PA The others except Mustadio: don't exist before the latter half of act 4. The actual ranking is 1) Agrias cuz avaiability 2) Cid cause is Agrias but stronger and with worse avaiability 3) Mustadio And the other guys that do not exist
My top 10 1. Calculator 2. Samurai 3. Monk 4. Knight 5. Ninja 6. Time Mage 7. Black Mage 8. Chemist 9. Thief 10. Summoner Summoners can easily get killed before they cast their summons. Knights are OP with their ability to equip Knight Swords combined with Dual Wield (Excalibur + Chaos Blade) and some end game High HP gears. Thieves are awesome and Secret Hunt and Catch are useful skills for finding rare items. Samurai's usefulness is when Draw Out skill +/Blade Grasp is equipped by mages.
I never liked playing around with Calculators. They just take so much work to bring online and until they are, they're nearly useless. Classes like Samurai or Summoners are useful right out of the gate.
i agree, once at full power they tottally deserve the #1 spot on the l ist but not only do u have to spend forever learning every calc skill to make it versatile enough to be usefull but you have to go thru every magic class and get every best spell your going to spam with it like holy and flare. there is no way your going to have a calc online and ready to wreck thruout the vast majority of the game unless your grinding.
I think the dancer could be a spot or 2 higher. You are correct, they stack. Though the second to last dance that inflicts random status ailments if done on the first turn and you just protect her until she pulls it off, can change the tide if the battle instantly. I remember getting into the battle with velius, and was able to pull off her move and the ultimate demons, all were either frogged or stoned. Velius got inflicted with something I forgot what it was, but by that point it was 5 vs 1.
Me: Ooo, David finally made this video. I want to hear his thoughts on all of the classes! David: #20, the Mime. Me: Yeah.... so we're gonna disagree on this one. :D
I don't care for the mime all that much either. They can be good situationally teamed up with calculators, or dancers etc., but for how much trouble they are to unlock I'd rather spend that amount of time/grinding powering up different classes like summoner, time mage, black mage, ninja, or samurai.
@@shadowtheimpure A team of dancers and mime can be effective as well since dancer skills hit all enemies, then it will be copied by the mime thereby spamming attacks that hit all enemies.
I had a playthrough once where I made 3 Dancers and 2 Mimes. It was hilarious. Every dance was tripled, so they pretty much could just lay waste to the entire battlefield in a couple turns. Certainly not practical, but I was on my 3rd time through the game and wanted to make use of the "worst" jobs.
I shamefully didn't know the power of calculators until university. My friend showed me what they could do, and I never looked back after using them, And I'm glad monks were so high on your list. Sometimes I'd give my monk (usually my right hand man Rad/Ladd) the two swords ability for that fun double punch action.
I have to say that if you want to grind early (like, on Mandalia Plains early), the Mediator/Orator is VERY helpful. The main benefit is Chickening your opponents by dropping their Bravery through the floor. If you are grinding, then the level of the opponents matches your level, not where you are, and monsters do damage based on their Bravery. This means that an Orator can really help keep the enemies off of you.
Mediator can permanently raise your characters faith/brave too (it takes a while). I also prefer them for stealing items too. Thief is better for specific fights (can't invite characters from story battles) but usually random encounters will have humans that have gear from a later part of the act.
Even if I go into a play with the intention of trying something different, I always end up doing the same thing with Ramza: Knight for Equip Armor, then Monk for those active ablities, then zip through Archer & Thief to get to Ninja, Ninja for Dual Wield, then back to Squire. Any recommendations for something interesting to try instead?
I think the Geomancer class is underrated. It's one of the few classes that Agrias can use and still have her Holy Sword ability, and it's also useful to get extra Xp each battle by having a few ranged options to help with leveling up :)
geo is kinda weird as its magic benefits from both physical and magic+ as well as the job traits that raise physical and magical dmg. geo magic also dosent factor faith (dont think drawout factors faith as well tho) makeing there magic effective aginst low faith targets. Geos real weakness is there bad/odd stat growth@@Greatermaxim
I m not sure I agree with your assessment but it might be based on your play style. For me its not just the classes its the skills that are important. For example mediator can raise your brave level which raises your action skills. Used in turn with Blade Grasp from the Samurai makes a character practically immune to physical hits. Also while time mage might only have so so spells you can learn teleport which is super useful.
@@Confusednael i do have that and have tactics downloaded, but it's like getting a bootleg dvd. So you can definitely enjoy it, I just prefer to own the Blu-ray/DVD/digital copy.
Summoner with Math skill and all Calculatable spell, dual wielding from ninja. wizard rod and faith rod, 80 faith, other +magic gear, and you can solo a random encounter with a dozen enemies. It's hilarious. (you can do wizard too, but I like to do summoner, just so I have even MORE options)
tag it with the Squire JP up Support skill and throw all your equipments that increases speed on it. Otherwise, you'll be turned off by its super slow speed. Grind JP the hell out of it and switch out to a different Mage class once you've mastered all the calculation skills. The Calculator class itself isn't one you want to have your units stay in due to its low stat growth
@xheralt that's actually a much better plan then speed items. In fact, if the enemy team has range, throw the ninja reaction that turns them invisible. Dance doesn't breaks invisibility. So long as you just have them wait, you're garenteed to have the calculator mastered in no time!
You have to grind like crazy to even access it, and then there's filling out its spell set. If you don't know about it already, you'll probably never see it, except maybe as an enemy in VOYAGE. No shame in not having used one. 🙂
Besides the JP Up ability, I feel like the Squires shout ability is pretty underrated. Makes it super easy when kiting out the Weigraf 1v1, as well as being free xp and JP when you're not in range of anything. it's like throwing rocks at your teammates for free JP without a chance of missing or doing damage
I know im late for the video just started up another game of tactics after years lol S Tier- Calculator, Ninja, Monk, A Tier-Wizard, Summoner, Chemist, Squire, Samurai B-Tier- Knight, Time Mage, Lancer, Oracle C Tier- Thief, Priest, Geomancer D Tier- Bard, Dancer, Mediator F Tier- Archer, Mime
Mimes are really just good if they're copying Summoners. Archers are only good if they're on high ground. But yeah the game is more heavily on offense which makes healers bad
I always loved the Black Mage with Draw Out, all that Magic Power behind a Draw Out meant anything around him died. You neglected to mention that Blade Grasp on the Samurai made anyone with it unable to be hit, making your Brave your evasion.
@@aerinlockeadon827 Mayhaps, but there's one Boss that's capable of using Draw Out effectively (though because he has Blade grasp he's hard to deal with).
@@ZenKrio you can either lower his brave or bring things that go through it. Hamedo ostops all the physical attacks those 3 are capable of while you'll still take a hit against the demon twins 2 swords ability with blade grasp
This is a tough game to rank on with the secondary skills. For my play style, a magic user (summoner, priest, or black mage) with the Calculator skill is the most dominant character in any RPG i have ever played. I have obliterated armies in one move before. Tough grind for them, but if you just send them on missions at the bar, piece of cake. Total game breaker
I would say the Seer in FFTA2 is even more powerful than Calculator. Like the Calculator, it also needs to master other jobs to make the best use of its Magick Frenzy ability. It basically allows you to cast any damaging spell you have equipped, and follow it up with a regular attack on every enemy that was hit. Illusion magick hits all enemies on the map, so you can see how Magick Frenzy makes it even better. It's great for basically any stat build since the damage evens out regardless of if you go full magick, full attack or a hybrid. The downside is that you can only use rods which have a very low attack stat. One alternative use for Frenzy is to use the Seer's innate -Ara spells with stronger weapons on a damage based class, allowing you to do much greater damage to just a few enemies. Ninjutsu magic is kind of useless on its own since it deals next to no damage (I think about half of a base Fire spell) but it costs very little MP and, of course, can also be Frenzied to make the Ninjas amazing at sniping single targets with Dual Wield attacks..
If you ever play disgaea 5, there is a class called "Sage" which is female only. Disgaea 5 Sage girl is the calculator of FF tactics. She has the unique skill "Land decimate" which you can perform 6 times in one turn, and it hits all enemies, (don't forget to equip "softening aura" on allies to make them immune to ally attacks!!). Also, more enemies you target with Land decimate, more damage you get! Believe me, I've been able to solo many maps in disgaea 5 with sage girl. The only downside to land decimate is the 50% accuracy, but even then 6 attacks in the same turn will almost always finish the map. I just built a team around sage girl and got other characters to tank hits for her, just so I can use land decimate even more! XD
I'm with you on this. In my experience katanas were weak as a phys weapon compared to regular swords and I found and the katana arts was lackluster too. Just a tanky lack luster mage. I would rather have a tanky hard hitting knight.
Calculator job description : Easy solo Ramza challenge by using Holy with Excalibur equiped and nuking everyone in the process except for you who is being healed.
