Hints and Tips
Mmm, I just thought of this one O_O. Heh, yes...If you have a lancer in your team and you're fighting agains any enemy with a one panel range. Somehow one of your characters is being threatened by them (lets say a knight), if none of your other characters can get to them, all you really have to do is take the lancer, and use the 'Jump' command so that they're jumping in front/side/back (whichever the enemy will probably move to) of your character. That way, the computer won't be stupid enough to walk into your attack and your character will be safe^^. I found this to be most useful^_^.
Deep Dungeon with the Catch Counter Ability on could harness some
special prizes from Ninjas who decide to show up. They will chuck some
nice stuff every so often, such as a Scorpion Tail (Hammer... I might
think), a Javelin (Not the crappy beginner ones, but super ones that
have an attack of about 30!), and an assortment of Knight Swords which
also can include... gasp... The Chaos Blade!!
-Courtesy of Starpheonix-
Ride a chocobo! All yous need to do is move a character onto a chocobo on your team...this allows that character to move around farther^^...I only found this one out recently o_0 but I never use it 'cuz I neve use animals^_^.
Learn Summon Spells free! To get a free Summoner spell, like Ultima, have a Summoner cast a spell on a fellow Summoner, you should then have Ultima for the second Summoner (if he survives). The unfortunate thing is you cannot target your own team-mates.
Random battles, can sometimes get tedious right? Heh, this is for all you people who havn't set the goal of mastering all the jobs. I'm not sure if this actually works...but try "clicking" on the point you want to get to when it glows the brightest.
You can duplicate weapons by setting the Ninjas' Two Swords skill onto your character. Equip the weapon-to-be-duplicated in the left hand and any shield in the right. Visit a shop and select "Best Fit", buy it and go back to Fomation, unequip and you should have a duplicate! Heh, heh...I havn't tried this yet...but do you think this'll work with un-buyable swords...My goodness...think of it...six Chaos Blades.....^^
Here's a REAL easy way to master all those jobs AND gain Levels real fast. Choose the jobs you want to master and set the secondary job as Squire. Accumulate usually gives you about 54 JP (depending on your level) and 30 experience! Bring along a time Mage and have them cast Stop, Don't move or Don't act on one of the enemies. Kill all the other enemies and use Haste 2 on your characters. Now all you have to do is spend a few minutes walking around and using Accumulate! At the end of a ten minute battle you will probably have more than 2,000 JP...remember to equip Gained JP up!
For those special characters such as Agrias who don't have Accumulate...making them Monks, have them stand by the time mage and use Chackra.
If you go into a planned battle, and you find that most enemies are magic users, it may be a good idea to use lancers. Lancers have a nice amount of HP, are quite strong when used correctly and have a two panel weapon range. If you find that there is a spell targeting you (such as Gigas or Ultima), try jumping...often you will be able to dodge the spell!
Get Auto Potion!!!! Auto Potion is very useful during the later stages of the game. You won't want to use Magi anymore because of their HP shortage, CT (Charge Time) and their vulnerability to attacks when charging.
Obtain Zodiac Spell To get the zodiac spell, when at the last
floor of the Deep Dungeon, let Elidibs cast his spell, zodiac on a summoner. If the summoner survives, you'll get zodiac.
Change Ramza to a Squire before you enter Riovanes Castle to battle Weigraf. After this first "skirmish" with the Ultima Demons and Velius...Go into Formation, you will find that Ramza (even though he has mastered Squire) has yet, another ability that can be learned (thus, it does not say "Mastered" anymore).
You can then learn the Ultima spell by getting hit by it...The Apandas can do this in the second battle with Celia and Lede, as well as any other Ultima Demon.
A simple way to get items is by inviting an enemy (equiped with the wanted items) over to your side. Loot all their stuff and then dismiss them!
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