you don't need an "ally: status = KO" for phoenix downs. using "ally: any" will cause them to only be used on KO'd allies anyway. any status-removing item with "ally: any" is only used when it is needed.
basically the whole game u need like 6 gambits: Ally:any, -> for buffs (shell, protect, buble, float,regen,etc) , and status cures (Esuna,dispel), to revive. Ally:HP to cure people Self,: I dont use it, cause ally any does the self part to: Enemy:nearst,-> attack, Enemy:HP=100%,-> steal (or whatever hp u want, maybe >70%) Bonus: Enemy:flying -> to make them come down :) Enemy:undead. -> to cast a pheonix down on him
@@byakugan641 you could also accomplish that by having an Esuna gambit above your Remedy gambit. this will only use Remedies for ailments that esuna can't cure, or when you're out of MP
I waited till I had access and full control of every characters before giving them a job. Had to spent a lot on healing pots, antidotes, stuff like that but didn't need to spend at all on gear since no jobs were assigned. The part I had the most trouble is where these bots were sucking power from generators, forgot the name of the place. It's a long road down there and if the power meter somehow reached to zero percent things got uglier but still made it without too much trouble. Once I was done with that chapter I made a separate file for future plays in case I wanted to replay the game trying different jobs since it's at a very early stage of the game. This game is sooo good. I don't get why it got bad reviews compared to other ffs. It's new and refreshing yet it's using the same rules, spells, and lores from other games in the series. Truly a master piece. So far 12, 13 and tactics are my top favorites. Replay value is very high for a traditional rpg game. I give it 9.5 out of ten.
@Slumerican Mystik so im playing on the xbox one version and i have the option of respecing anytime i want. why not spec and then go back and respec once you have all your members. was respec not available in the ps4 version?
I played this game suuuuper long ago, too young to understand wtf was going on really. But my brother ingrained in my mind to never skip cutscenes. Glad I'm getting back into it.
Here's my tips #1: obtain Belias esper #2 go to Zertinan Caves #3 get thief cuffs #4 save game then quit to main menu #5 begin trial mode #6 get to stage 3 have someone equip thief cuffs and steal from flowering cactoid (may need to quit and retry a few times to get item) to get the Karkata Sword
Actually, you don't need to make Balthier a White Mage to have a healer early on. Fran always comes with the license for White Magic 1 (and Black Magic 1, too) and she has the exact same availability as Balthier, so she can play healer until you get your White Mage if you want someone who joins later to use it.
Yeah, I'm not really sure why I preferred Balthier over Fran at the time. There was something minor that swayed my decision at the time but ultimately in my playthrough Penelo became my healer and I went without one early game. I will say, making Penelo a healer + black mage was a bad decision lol.
I think the official guide recommends him as a White Mage, for some odd reason. Or maybe it's his high speed stat. Can't go wrong with fast spells! Unless speed doesn't affect that. Either way, he can White Mage just fine, but doesn't need to. As for putting White Mage and Black Mage on the sams person, I didn't even think about how it would affect their gambits! XD Some other guides pointed out that they jave redundant Licence Boards, so that's always been my excuse. Good job bringing it up!
All females come with the initial white magic license, but White Mage Balthier is a "best pick" for a few reasons: 1. He has more health than the ladies, making him, your best healer, less fragile. 2. As most Mages get to 99 Magic anyway, there is no real, big benefit to making for Example Ashe your White Mage over making Balthier your WM 3. Balthier wastes the least potential on the White Mage (depending on your point of view, he can be second to Fran). He can make use of the Sword-licenses, but you don't miss out on a lot of damage if you use Balthier completely for healing. Fran is a natural pick for Foebreaker, so, as Foebreaker isn't the best combination with a White Mage due to the lack of the third swiftness-license, she is not the best pick (but not a terrible one either, if you use other jobs to strenghen your healing capabilities) 4. Balthier can steal! White Mages don't always have something to do, so stealing is a good option to earn gil. Vaan (and Fran) has stealing as well, but Vaans extremely well-rounded stats are better used on natural hybrid-jobs like Samurai, Monk or Knight, where his Magic and Strenght both come to good use. A white Mage Vaan is a great healer, numerical even better than Balthier, but you compromise Vaans damage-potential with white magic as he just cannot do damage and healing at the same time and sometimes its just better to have only healing gambits active in harder fights to avoid the stun time attacks bring with them (0,2 seconds of stun time can be the deciding factor in a tough battle), which wastes his strenght completely
Exactly my thoughts too! Fran comes with some basic white magic spells, and before you get penelo in your party permanently you'll have some guests that can fit that role too!
Dude, you can quadruple the FF game speed!? I knew you could press L1 to speed things up but I had no clue you could hold L1 and use the D-pad to change the speed. This kind of tip is why I watch these videos. So awesome.
I'm concerned that you didn't explain how the concurrences are determined. for those who want to know: Concurrences are not based on how long your chain is, but what you managed to do in that chain. making it controllable(if you want to get the sky pirate den unlock for it). Here is a quick list Inferno: 3 1's Cataclysm: 6 1's Torrent: 2 1's, 2 2's Windburst: 4 2's Ark Blast: 2 of each tier Whiteout: 4 3's Luminescence: 3 of each tier Black hole: 4 of each tier And it checks starting at the bottom of that list and works up. So if you get 3 1's, 3 2's, and 4 3's, you'll get Luminescence instead of Whiteout, even if you were going for whiteout. Hope this helps
My apologies on the item selling, some misinformation. While you can sell the items I do, if you're planning on getting end game gear or 100% the game then these are the items you should consider not selling. Arcana , High Arcana ,Bat Wing, Damascus Steel, Dark Crystal, Demon's Sigh, Eye of the Hawk ,Feystone ,Grimoire Aidhed, Grimoire Togail, Hell-Gate's Flame, Rainbow Egg ,Scarletite, Serpent Eye, Snake Skin, Soul Powder, Soul of Thamasa, Wargod's Band, Gemsteel
I was hoping not to see this comment at all. I don't have this list available at all times and don't want to think about it when unlocking end game items. But thanks for this, i will take note.
I think a better steal gambit combo is: Foe: HP70% = Steal It usually gives you time to get one or two steals in before your party members damage it to below 70%. When it's down to 70% your thief will prioritise attacking it before moving on to steal from another enemy.
I should note that this works best if your thief is the party leader because otherwise there's no guarantee that your party leader's target and your thief's will be the same.
For the flying enemies, you can use these weapon types: Spears: Uhlan Poles: Monk Rods: White Mage Staves: Black Mage Bows: Archer Guns: Machinist Crossbows: Time Battlemage Hand Bombs: Foebreaker Also other jobs can use some of these but I wrote down the main job that can use each of the weapons Some Technicks can hit flying enemies (eg Telekinesis) along with Magick (aka Magic), Espers and Quickening
I appreciate all of you commenting and leaving your feedback on this video. Those of you that just got this game on Switch, I hope you thoroughly enjoy it.
One very important thing that he never talked about is a thing called Monographs. Monographs are very expensive key items in the bazaar that only appear after certain criteria are met. Monographs allow enemies of a certain type to begin to drop certain items that are generally more useful. Monographs are gotten mostly by talking to shop keepers or looking at The Hunting Boards where you accept hunts a certain number of times. Looking at the board 40 times will unlock 2 monographs. Any shop 100 times will get another. Weapon shops 35(?) times for another. Armor shop 30 times, Magick shop 15 times and so on. The numbers might be off so looking it up is better but you get the idea.
This game confuses the shit out of me. Litterally stoped playing rn because i'm scared to ruin something, like selling something i need later , missing a esper that i might never be able to get again, missing sidequests that are important for end game stuff or fucking up criterias for Ultima weapons. Why does everything needs to be so strict and complicated.
A good Gil farming trick would be to use six cat ear hoods from the clan provisioner shop and do a new trial mode till stage 20 or so (depending on level) and you’ll get at least 80-100k per attempt, the only downside is u won’t get any LP.
It seems like an innocuous change, but Gambits got a significant change in that if 2 characters have the same gambit set at the same priority the game will determine which will perform the action first and will only make that character use it. So if you have 1 KO'd character and 2 characters have Ally KO - Phoenix Down set as priority 1, the game will only make the character that can perform that action first do so, so that you don't have 2 trying to revive a single character wasting their actions.
I picked up zodiac age when it first came out for the ps4. Great game, i had ashe as my white mage as soon as she joined, penelo was my red battle mage, them two in battle saved me so many times with their healing capabilities lol. i did everything there was to do in the game besides the yiazmat battle. i kinda miss the game. i had 200 hours that first playthrough. i loved the world and all the places. some took hours to go thru, especially the mines lol. i need to play again.
Good tips for beginners, but do not sell all of the loot, except for some items that are realy easy to farm (like bone fragment in lushu mines), the ideal is always to have at least 10 of each and more to the front 20 of each, gensteel for example is very difficult to do, you just get one in the whole game and necessary to make the best no-elemental greatsword of the game and the best katana, the ideal would be to see a list with the items required to enable in the bazaar, you will not believe when to see the weapons that can be achieved at the beginning of the game making sales more intelligent than simply selling everything.
I have played the vanilla game to near 100% and I can say that I am enjoying the zodiac age just as much as my first playthrough. My jobs : Balthier: shikari/time mage He has the speed/ physical damage with combos/ good evasion/ can hastega team to keep them at the top/crossbows to fight flying ennemies and for status effects Vaan: Bushi/Monk bushi is great outside of bad armor and monk has access to white magic. Penelo: white mage/machinist she is my most important character she stays in the backlines to support team. Bash: Ulan/archer he has the strenght to make crazy bow damage and spears are very good overall Ashe : Black mage/Knight I wanted to test this combo out good tank and amazing elemental magic. Fran: worst stats so I gave her red magic jack of all trades
There are CERTAINLY things you shouldn't sell, especially if you plan on getting ultimate weapons in the end game. The Bazaar isn't smart enough to understand when you sell more components than required, so it's very easy to waste rare loot, forcing more farming (Tournesol nightmares coming back to me)
The Bazaar actually does track if you sell more than required, what happens is when you buy a Bazaar item, it sets the counter for the loot used back to zero. So if that item needed loot for something else, its more grinding for you!
That's what I did with my PS2 playthrough as well! I never worried much on my healing as far as I can remember. I always used Vaan, Basch, and Penelo in a party and Balthier, Fran, and Ashe in another. Ashe and Penelo were my healers back then. Hehe
That's what I did, had ashe be my white mage/knight and penelo as my white mage/time mage. Thanks to ashe in the main party I never needed to use penelo since I tore through enemies with no problem or needed to do much at all.
Yeah I just made my reserve party a sort of mirror to my main party whilst trying to use as many different jobs as possible. Both teams had a full support + two attackers. Mainly the reserve team was "setup" via breaks before bringing the main team in
Good thing is you can change License Boards at will on the Switch version that I have. You see Montblanc and he will change for you. Probably for the reasons in this video.
I feel you on Shades of Black... Basch used it on some bird and instantly killed it. I don't even know what spell it rolled, but it must have been pretty strong cuz the entire screen seemed to blow up.
yo, been enjoying this game for the past couple days, really helped out with the quickenings and white mage suggestions. Love the exposition in this game.
There's no reason to make anyone a White Mage out of the gate. Red Mage provides perfectly fine healing and Ashe gets base level White magick automatically. You won't really see any benefit to a dedicated WHM until after second license boards are available.
Thanks for the great video :D For steal, I simply have Foe:HP > 80% so that steal happens amx 2 times, then attack gambits. About the espers unlocking and that it matter who unlocks them, maybe you shouldve told WHY, the fact that you get bridges to isolated license slots.
I agree, I could have covered why it matters more regarding the Espers but hopefully people check the document in the description to see for themselves what to consider with each one.
Regarding your advice to make Balthier a White Mage: I like making Fran my White Mage. Her Magic Power is a bit higher than Balthier's, and you get her at the same time as Balthier (I've been using Balthier as a Shikari/Foebreaker or Bushi/Shikari). I might try Balthier as a Shikari/White Mage though. (By the way, these are the job assignments I use: Vaan: Knight/Time Battlemage; Balthier: Shikari/Foebreaker; Fran: Machinist/White Mage; Basch: Bushi/Monk; Ashe: Uhlan/Black Mage; Penelo: Archer/Red Battlemage). Regarding your advice on selling loot: I would also refrain from selling any loot required to unlock rare items or weapons in the Bazaar until you are ready (i.e. you have the required number of loot items to unlock), especially since many of these types of loot are rare or hard to come by. This includes (but not limited to): Hell-Gate's Flames, Scarletites, Gemsteels, Emypreal Souls, Soul Powders (definitely, since these are extremely rare until very late in the post-game), Emperor Scales (also definitely, since the enemy that drops this is very powerful), High Arcanas, Mallets, Orichalcums, and Corpse Flies. So if you want to unlock the Mithuna, for example, do not sell any Earth Crystals, Silver Liquids, or Emperor Scales until you have the required number. I recommend this because it's easier to keep track of how much you sold and so you don't have to acquire more loot than necessary.
This is the best starter guide! I played FF12 back in highschool when it first came out on ps2. I didn't get it back then. Just bought it for the switch glad I gave it another shot. Thanks for the guide!
Might have missed it, but did you explain the bunny lady near the bazaar? (Same race as Fran). She appears after certain points in the story and asks a question each time. The 4th time she rewards you based on how you answer her questions. If you choose the 'right' answers, she gives you a powerful weapon (cant remember if it's a bow or a sword).
Kenneth Quan Her name is Ktjn. (She is a Viera) she can be spoken to but you get different items based on your replies. You’ll need a guide to get what you want but if you do it to get the weapon (a sword) it is the Rune Blade which is the 4th(?) best sword in the game. Decent early but the Karkata is a much better sword that is even easier to get.
The first video I’ve seen where I’ve learned something. I know somethings can be straight foreword but the option to Steal. I am definitely using. I haven’t played the game since it first came out and I’m playing again now and I never thought to do this. Thank you!
I use my method of 'hoard everything till i can buy everything' The game tracks how much you have total in stock. Oncew you buy one the memory goes 'down' to zero (known bug, never fixed) If you dobt buy them, you keep unlocking stuff without them going out of 'stock'. If something on the list sounds attrective, check what it needs. Is it important, one of a kind, very hard to get, ungrindable? Double check if you needed it for something else! It not needed for something else or you can farm em plentiful(think elemental stones, or shards of magicite that drop per 100s)? Just farm more later down the line.
@@tylerhogan73 It does to an extent, u could sell 6 gemsteels, but if u buy something from the bazaar, and it uses 3, the total stock will drop to 0 regardless that u only used 3. Gemsteels are probably the most notorious loot item to get too.
1 possible correction - Make Fran your White Mage/Time. You get her at the same time as Balthier, but her stats are the worst making her a buff/debuff healer you can spam away on without losing damage making Balthier your White Mage when he has decent physical stats and Monks get access to Curaja anyway for late game, and Knights have Cure and Blind for early game both of which jobs are great for heavy hitters and tanks
I could see the issue with White Mage / Monk. If I were to restart I'd probably do Shikari / White Mage, but I certainly learned not to do WM / BM on the same character lol.
@@FrocketGaming White Mage/Monk is amazing, though I'm still not sure if Knight synergises better due to heavy armour. Haven't tried White/Shikari yet. Perhaps White/Bushi would work well? Bushi got a lot of magic augments, my fuckup was combining Bushi with mostly physicals like Foebreaker and Uhlan making it useful for slapping on ninja swords and fuckall else lol Edit- Katanas not ninja swords ^^
@@FrocketGaming Would be hilarious. Let me know how it goes, and I'll let everyone know what it's like to have a Bushi/White healing 4000-5000 with cure and cura ^^ Next level mp conservation if it works lol
Really good tips! Appreciate the steal gambit! I was trying to figure out how to do just that, and I’ve just been hitting select 4 times with new enemies
Two teams: (1) Vaan Bushi-Shikari Balthier Machinist-Red Mage Penelo Monk-Black Mage (2) Basch Knight-Foebreaker Fran Archer-Time Mage Ashe White Mage-Uhlan In my opinion this is the most balanced overpowered job setup using all 12 jobs that can be created. A very strong tank for each group, a Hastega caster for each group, and a powerful healer for each group that can also hold their own with physical attacks as well. This is very balanced as group one has a combo oriented tank with potent offensive magic users as well. While group two has the ultimate strength oriented tank as well as a White Mage capable of 15,000-20,000hp attacks depending on equipment. Feel free to try this setup out.
FF 12 is my favourite in the series... The one that I'm most likely to one day complete... But I'm dismayed by how much i miss out on... I only really spend LP on skills and just use simple gambits... We win fights but, all these techniques etc, I barely know how they work let alone use them... And gambits are so various, it's overwhelming.. especially as I'm playing it on the switch this time (also own on pc and ps, and heck probably xbox too) and the stupid clicky face buttons make me guilty about playing the game too much... I'll rewatch this to try and grind some info into my head
was playing ff8 remaster recently and can't believe I overlooked this one. I'm 3 hours in and it looks like this could be my fav one yet. what's your favourite FF and why?
It IS a great game! every since PS2 age! Best thing in the Zodiac age? the x4 speed!!!! man that was the only annoying thing is the PS2 I dunno what it is about it, its just relaxing to play ~ it doesn't get me as stressed as all the other games do I can chillaxingly waste time leveling up and collecting loot with some good gambits and I won't even feel the time pass then if I go into an area where I get my ass handed to me, then I know it's not my time in there yet, go do something else, hunts, grinding, anything and after a while come back and its alright to get through I never op too much though, I don't have the patience, and I've yet to feel desperate enough to resort to a AFK auto leveling techniques I've been playing for 35+ hr now and I'm not even half way through the story ! and did you notice how there are side quests to be done that can only be discovered if you talk to those NPC around the area? even if its not a side quest, the gossip man !hilarious!!! x'D some of those story are too good not to be made into a proper quest. I can easily spend hours going back and forth between those NPC and do nothing of the productive kind. and every time you enter the cities - during different phase of the story , you get different gossip that shines light to the lore of the game I swear to God, the amount of love and care put into this game by its creators, it's other worldly !
Hey, someone else that likes to use Fran too. She's so underused, but actually goes well with certain classes. Like for instance, she has the highest Vit stat out of every other character, which contributes to axe, hammer and hand-bomb damage, so I've actually had her be my Foebreaker from time to time. I usually end up making her my Black Mage though, because paired with Monk, she'll eventually start to nuke everything so I don't have to worry about stats. (It's also nice to add that she has the fastest attack / combo rate with poles)
That x2/x4 multiplier makes grinding for LP a breeze in lower level areas, just run through, stop occasionally for allies to wipe enemies and you get 1 LP everytime 2 LP with gold amulet, and half hour of this you get so much loot, especially if steal = 100hp is on Gambit while you sweep areas. Taking in anywhere from 30,000 gold and up after a half hours worth on 4x speed
I just picked up Zodiac Age, mostly playing a few minutes here and there (it's a good pre-bedtime game lol), but those damned Demon Walls drive me nuts. I know I'll get them both eventually, but they really grind my gears.
Fran makes a better white mage than Balthier; barely less speed and better magick/mp...in fact, i think balthier is the worst caster in the game stat-wise (Basch has fewer MP but more Magick stat). I know you recommend not to worry about min-maxing, but why not use Fran since Balthier has so much better physical stats and you get them both at the same time, ya know? Also, at least on ZA, you don't really need the "Ally Status =" ones. You can use "Ally: Any" with items or esuna or cleanse, etc., and they will only use them when applicable. Of course, for things that cure multiple statuses, those are still useful (e.g. Ally Status = Stop for Chronos Tear). There is one area that doesn't auto save when you enter...Zodiark's room. There may be a couple others, too...but that one's the biggest pain lol. Other than that, good stuff, good advice.
hello I have been streaming this game on my own new channel here lol but your guide is amazing I had not played the game since I was 11 yrs old im 26 now so I was a bit lost to say the least great guide!!
It IS a great game! every since PS2 age! Best thing in the Zodiac age? the x4 speed!!!! man that was the only annoying thing is the PS2 I dunno what it is about it, its just relaxing to play ~ it doesn't get me as stressed as all the other games do I can chillaxingly waste time leveling up and collecting loot with some good gambits and I won't even feel the time pass then if I go into an area where I get my ass handed to me, then I know it's not my time in there yet, go do something else, hunts, grinding, anything and after a while come back and its alright to get through I never op too much though, I don't have the patience, and I've yet to feel desperate enough to resort to a AFK auto leveling techniques I've been playing for 35+ hr now and I'm not even half way through the story ! and did you notice how there are side quests to be done that can only be discovered if you talk to those NPC around the area? even if its not a side quest, the gossip man !hilarious!!! x'D some of those story are too good not to be made into a proper quest. I can easily spend hours going back and forth between those NPC and do nothing of the productive kind. and every time you enter the cities - during different phase of the story , you get different gossip that shines light to the lore of the game I swear to God, the amount of love and care put into this game by its creators, it's other worldly !
FrocketGaming the Gambit system is GODLY!! I don’t understand why they never used it again in any ff title afterwards? Imagine if that was in an mmorpg ( ex, ffxiv) oh man, then the grinding wouldn’t be as painful!!
FrocketGaming since I’ve yet to play 7, by your comment and the footage was the battle system more similar to 15 then? I was still holding a. Little hope that it had some form of gambit system in it😢😢
@@anikixvi Yeah it's similar to 15 and the companion AI was a bit frustrating at times so having a way to control how they interact in various situations would have be fantastic.
Panelo / Fran - Both black/white mage, Ashe + Vaan = knight/bushi (excalibur + white robes = insane damage on dark mobs) Balthier = Uhlan/foebreaker - Expose/wither - Balthier = Shikari/bushi (Yagyu darkblade + black robes for yiazmat) Also, this is a different version to ps2 so YES you definitely can just use 3 players, license points + jobs literally carry you in this version xd :)
The Concurrence tip was slightly off. It's more about what combination you use. Something like 3x Rank 1 3x Rank 1 2 3 2x Rank 1 2 3 etc Before i found that out i was wasting my time getting 24+ chains and still missing the ultimate ( 4x Each )
when you say ester benificial to some jobs rather than that, you mean in matter of License board that are after the Esper on the board, right? isn't it the same for Quickening, I kind of low key regret being so quick to get those Quickenings as early as I could ^^ ; I don't remember what logic I was going after, but I had all my mages combined with non mage jobs, it's going decently well ~ I'm just a tiny bit sad some melee jobs have so little magic/technique abilities Vaan: Black Mage/ Shikari Balthier: Machinist / Time Mage Fran: Archer/ Uhlan Bash: Foebreaker/White mage - at least the white mage would have been better off as a ranged melee rather than a Foebreaker, as you said, the white mage is always so busy he barely get to hacking anyone with his hammer T^T Ash: Knight/Bushi Penelo: Monk / Red Battle Mage - I'm loving Penelo's abilities with these two , its almost like she has it all ! a great portion of White magic - a white mage right there !- , a decent amount of Black magic and Techniques , a couple of Time Magiks and Oh my the greens!!! she has the most full tabs out of everyone! don't know if that's all the RedBattle Mage pros, or if the combo with monk was that much of a Jackpot win and all in all she's dancing wither Brawler mode or with a pole !
Esters unlock abilities depending on the job they're assigned to. There is a document in the description to assist so you can give them to the people who will give you the most useful abilities. Ultimately, you can beat the game and end game content with any job setup but there certainly are optimizations to be made but don't stress it too much. :)
my white mage is penelo and healing is set to ally: curaja this is extremely good late game since she can pre-emptively start casting heals before i get TOO low and maybe even save the party from multi-hit combos
This is what most agree are the "ideal" roles for each character. Vaan - Bushi, Shikari, and Uhlan Ashe - Black Mage, White Mage, Red Battlemage, and Time Battlemage Penelo - White Mage, Black Mage, Red Battlemage, and Time Battlemage (also can be Uhlan or Monk too) Balthier - Shikari and Knight (also works with Red Battlemage and Foebreaker) Basch - Shikari, Knight, Bushi - Decent Foebreaker Fran - Foebreaker and Archer Biggest thing IMO, don't make the same person Black Mage and White Mage like I did lol.
Oh my soul watching that gemsteel be sold randomly. The bazaar does get items on specific sets of sold things. And can be a method for some fairly strong stuffs. Buf for a standard playthrough it's probably fine
@@FrocketGaming Ya a casual playthrough literally any method will work so long as you have some sustain (doesn't even need to be a healer, but helps). As for the early game healer before Ashe. Yu can just sell 1-2 diamond armlets from the first trial stage and buy a full stock of potions. That will get you through the part until you get ashe (alongside Larsa in the Lhusu mines). That said I still set fran as a healer every playthrough. I always have 2 healers specifically to keep my party levels relatively even. Though a redmage is more than enough with cura, until a kinght or something picks up curaja later. So it's not even needed for that. But I like having it since archers are horribly underpowered in zodiac age, paired with fran natively low stats. Though I only use her when leveling things up.
It matters alot against actually challenging enemies. Cutting attack speed in half can mean another 100 hits in the long run And were talking 1,000,000 more damage late game
Cipher Strife Yes huge difference. For example: Basch amd Balthier attacks twice as fast in Bushi and Shikari compared to everyone else, meaning they will do 100k in 1min while the other four does 50k in 1min
@@thriftypsgr Yes, it does. You may find that at times you'll have to turn it off to make some adjustments though if you get in over your head during certain fights.
I really like Final Fantasy XII's combat and gambit system, I wish there were other games that had the exact same thing. Other games have a similar system, but they sort of miss the "One-Player MMO" feel.
I agree, I think this combat system had a lot going for it. I think if you're going to be active combat while controlling 1 character then letting the player determine their party AI is really valuable. A system like this would have made FF15 more enjoyable to me. At the same time, it also runs the risk of trivializing the game and it then becomes up to the player to determine the scope of how challenging they want the content to be which some people don't like.
Heres my rundown for my character optimizations, these are my opinions over time and multiple playthroughs. May not be the most minmaxxed but they work well to me. Love her as a character, but Fran is a team rounder. A jack of all trades master of none. Better suited to keep her as a archer or ulahan and pick a mage class later, make her any kind of mage since her magic attack is lower than even vaan's, and mp is less than the other girls, Her battle strength is rather balanced despite all this, so toss her a good support or go red mage for magical versitility to make her the team rounder. She makes for a good party lead in this case. She has the highest base hp for females Vaan technically can function as a mage better than fran having a higher Magic attack but lower mp. I find the shikari/red mage combo his forte. (Team him with the party time mage and white mage and that's your power squad since he holds the line tremendously well.) Again, good party leader as he is another well rounder with higher stats than fran, but lower stats than the males mostly. His speed is second place, so casting and attacks are faster than most. He'll kinda main tank for the team Ashe is a good candidate for white mage. since her magic damage is naturally the highest. But i'd suggest black mage instead combined with knight or foebreaker since her higher strength than other ladies plus the higher magic damage make her a magic damage powerhouse with a strong defensive wall.
Penelo is a perfect white mage, her stats for mp are the highest of the party so that means more heals, magic strength second only to Ashe by 3 points, her speed ties with the other girls at 3rd place. Would suggest knight to make absolute sure she's protected. the abilities obtained via knight give far more defense than others. Balthier boasts the fastest speed... really thats kind of it. He's the middle road for males so his strength is there. So you want big damage numbers here since he's bound to land more hits. Would suggest any melee class with Time or red mage. but you cant really go too wrong with him. His attack speed and well rounded stats make him easy to work towards any combo. Oddly this makes him great for a party leader. I'd suggest making him a secondary tank, his faster speeds can help you revive your main team faster. Basch is a pure melee, but a low vitality makes him a pure dps. I'd suggest Bushi, with ulahan, or monk. the combos will be his killer and make him absolutely deadly
You don't need to make Balthier a white mage, just make Fran a Red Battlemage for the first part of the game. You don't even get higher white magicks like Cura until you rescue Penelo.
Do not sell the loot you can use to get ultimate weapons at the bazaar. You just sold Gemsteel, that can be use to make Tournessol and Khumba (best greatsword and best katana). Some of the loot you get during the game mainly from mark rewards can save you hours of farming. Also, some stuff is missable: like the canopic jar and the whyrmhero blade (maybe you can steal it in trial mode but I am not sure) in case you just sell the loot separately.
Use Fran as your white mage early game she's pretty much a throw away character. Still have penelo as your main healer tho. Give fan a good support sub class like uhlan
There are plenty of guides online, I would google and see what you can find. I haven't played the game in quite some time now so I don't remember much.
I'm glad Final Fantasy fans are so passionate but this wasn't intended to offend. I said it light heartedly thinking non - final fantasy veterans may be watching and that would make for a better identifier.
I would often times find myself turning Protect and Shell off until I knew I was coming up on a boss or putting myself in a particular situation that could kill me.
It's not good because they will keep on refreshing protect and shell whnever your character goes down to 80%, rather just put any-protect then put it under foe-nearest atk
Looots 13 They wont if you have heal gambits set to be prioritized over the protect/shell gambits. If enemies do enough damage to drop you down to the heal gambit threshold, any protect/shell gambits being executed will be canceled and the heal gambits will take over. But like I said, In those cases, I try to find a way to cast it manually. And they will only refresh the spells when they wear off. Any>Protect/Shell, will force your characters to always cast Protect/Shell whenever someone's status wears off. Unless you have it at a lower priority than attacking, in which case they'll wait until after fights to cast it, which kinda defeats the purpose.
what will happen is that the character role will solely be cure and protect/shell, because if it's 80% buff, then your cure above should be around 80+ since if it it's 70% what will happen is enemy does damage but not below 70% so they will buff protect and shell, then 70% curaja, then repeat. it's a bit un-optimized. I'd rather just ally party leader - protectaga/shellga. then just 60% main healer, then 40-50% 2nd healer backup., therefore the main healer can still attack or do something else.
I usually only have one healer in the main party at a time, especially once i get Decoy. And typically they do fine with healing despite the protect gambit. Like i said, if they dont get a chance to do it through gambits, i cast it manually. Gambits dont really have to be optimized unless you're fighting the harder bosses or something. But in those cases i always cast that stuff manually anyways. I can certainly understand if people want to optimize their gambits, and im not claiming my setup works all that well. I just dont like them repeatedly casting it when it wears off, typically if its not needed, like when exploring field areas. I prefer them to not use it until they actually get into fights. I set my gambit to say Curaja HP
You're probably the only person that hasn't completely raged at me for this comment when pointing it out, so I appreciate that. I knew he was a moogle, but yeah very bunny like features so I preferred bunny looking fellow. lol
I was away at school when this game was released for Switch. Just got back a week ago and now I'm 16 hrs deep into FFXII again. This game is SOO epic! I just wish that the dungeons and game in general wasn't so blocky-looking. That said, if the game looked as good as FFXIII, then it probably wouldn't have been able to ported to the Switch in the first place!
you don't need an "ally: status = KO" for phoenix downs. using "ally: any" will cause them to only be used on KO'd allies anyway. any status-removing item with "ally: any" is only used when it is needed.
basically the whole game u need like 6 gambits:
Ally:any, -> for buffs (shell, protect, buble, float,regen,etc) , and status cures (Esuna,dispel), to revive.
Ally:HP to cure people
Self,: I dont use it, cause ally any does the self part to:
Enemy:nearst,-> attack,
Enemy:HP=100%,-> steal (or whatever hp u want, maybe >70%)
Bonus:
Enemy:flying -> to make them come down :)
Enemy:undead. -> to cast a pheonix down on him
I bought every gambit for nothing
i used All: Status = Disease/Doom instead of Ally: any , bcs i dont wanna waste my Remedy with a debuff that can be dispeled by Esuna
@@byakugan641 you could also accomplish that by having an Esuna gambit above your Remedy gambit. this will only use Remedies for ailments that esuna can't cure, or when you're out of MP
Thank you!!
I waited till I had access and full control of every characters before giving them a job. Had to spent a lot on healing pots, antidotes, stuff like that but didn't need to spend at all on gear since no jobs were assigned. The part I had the most trouble is where these bots were sucking power from generators, forgot the name of the place. It's a long road down there and if the power meter somehow reached to zero percent things got uglier but still made it without too much trouble. Once I was done with that chapter I made a separate file for future plays in case I wanted to replay the game trying different jobs since it's at a very early stage of the game.
This game is sooo good. I don't get why it got bad reviews compared to other ffs. It's new and refreshing yet it's using the same rules, spells, and lores from other games in the series. Truly a master piece. So far 12, 13 and tactics are my top favorites. Replay value is very high for a traditional rpg game. I give it 9.5 out of ten.
@Slumerican Mystik so im playing on the xbox one version and i have the option of respecing anytime i want. why not spec and then go back and respec once you have all your members. was respec not available in the ps4 version?
Shawn Valentine it only got patched in the other week ahaha
I played this game suuuuper long ago, too young to understand wtf was going on really. But my brother ingrained in my mind to never skip cutscenes. Glad I'm getting back into it.
Are you my brother? I was like you wont know what to do then you will be stuck.
Here's my tips #1: obtain Belias esper #2 go to Zertinan Caves #3 get thief cuffs #4 save game then quit to main menu #5 begin trial mode #6 get to stage 3 have someone equip thief cuffs and steal from flowering cactoid (may need to quit and retry a few times to get item) to get the Karkata Sword
I got 3 of these quite easily without a thief's cuffs. Got my first one at lvl 10, hadn't even finished Giza plains
@@mistahkrazy805 i did the same. it made my knight extremely overpowered early and just one shot most monsters.
Thought that was stolen on trial stage 3?
Actually, you don't need to make Balthier a White Mage to have a healer early on. Fran always comes with the license for White Magic 1 (and Black Magic 1, too) and she has the exact same availability as Balthier, so she can play healer until you get your White Mage if you want someone who joins later to use it.
Yeah, I'm not really sure why I preferred Balthier over Fran at the time. There was something minor that swayed my decision at the time but ultimately in my playthrough Penelo became my healer and I went without one early game. I will say, making Penelo a healer + black mage was a bad decision lol.
I think the official guide recommends him as a White Mage, for some odd reason. Or maybe it's his high speed stat. Can't go wrong with fast spells! Unless speed doesn't affect that. Either way, he can White Mage just fine, but doesn't need to.
As for putting White Mage and Black Mage on the sams person, I didn't even think about how it would affect their gambits! XD Some other guides pointed out that they jave redundant Licence Boards, so that's always been my excuse. Good job bringing it up!
All females come with the initial white magic license, but White Mage Balthier is a "best pick" for a few reasons:
1. He has more health than the ladies, making him, your best healer, less fragile.
2. As most Mages get to 99 Magic anyway, there is no real, big benefit to making for Example Ashe your White Mage over making Balthier your WM
3. Balthier wastes the least potential on the White Mage (depending on your point of view, he can be second to Fran). He can make use of the Sword-licenses, but you don't miss out on a lot of damage if you use Balthier completely for healing. Fran is a natural pick for Foebreaker, so, as Foebreaker isn't the best combination with a White Mage due to the lack of the third swiftness-license, she is not the best pick (but not a terrible one either, if you use other jobs to strenghen your healing capabilities)
4. Balthier can steal! White Mages don't always have something to do, so stealing is a good option to earn gil. Vaan (and Fran) has stealing as well, but Vaans extremely well-rounded stats are better used on natural hybrid-jobs like Samurai, Monk or Knight, where his Magic and Strenght both come to good use. A white Mage Vaan is a great healer, numerical even better than Balthier, but you compromise Vaans damage-potential with white magic as he just cannot do damage and healing at the same time and sometimes its just better to have only healing gambits active in harder fights to avoid the stun time attacks bring with them (0,2 seconds of stun time can be the deciding factor in a tough battle), which wastes his strenght completely
Best combo for white/ black mages is to add red mage for more survivability.
Exactly my thoughts too! Fran comes with some basic white magic spells, and before you get penelo in your party permanently you'll have some guests that can fit that role too!
Dude, you can quadruple the FF game speed!? I knew you could press L1 to speed things up but I had no clue you could hold L1 and use the D-pad to change the speed. This kind of tip is why I watch these videos. So awesome.
It takes some time to get use to but I honestly cannot play the game without x4 speed anymore.
I'm concerned that you didn't explain how the concurrences are determined.
for those who want to know:
Concurrences are not based on how long your chain is, but what you managed to do in that chain. making it controllable(if you want to get the sky pirate den unlock for it). Here is a quick list
Inferno: 3 1's
Cataclysm: 6 1's
Torrent: 2 1's, 2 2's
Windburst: 4 2's
Ark Blast: 2 of each tier
Whiteout: 4 3's
Luminescence: 3 of each tier
Black hole: 4 of each tier
And it checks starting at the bottom of that list and works up. So if you get 3 1's, 3 2's, and 4 3's, you'll get Luminescence instead of Whiteout, even if you were going for whiteout.
Hope this helps
hey thanks for this appreciate it
Oh that's new, didn't know that, thought it was of how long the chain is ..
Thanx ^_^
My apologies on the item selling, some misinformation. While you can sell the items I do, if you're planning on getting end game gear or 100% the game then these are the items you should consider not selling.
Arcana
, High Arcana ,Bat Wing, Damascus Steel, Dark Crystal, Demon's Sigh, Eye of the Hawk ,Feystone ,Grimoire Aidhed, Grimoire Togail, Hell-Gate's Flame, Rainbow Egg ,Scarletite, Serpent Eye, Snake Skin, Soul Powder, Soul of Thamasa, Wargod's Band, Gemsteel
I was hoping not to see this comment at all. I don't have this list available at all times and don't want to think about it when unlocking end game items. But thanks for this, i will take note.
Gemsteel should be on that list..
@@pReaL77 updated, thank you.
thank you
I think a better steal gambit combo is:
Foe: HP70% = Steal
It usually gives you time to get one or two steals in before your party members damage it to below 70%.
When it's down to 70% your thief will prioritise attacking it before moving on to steal from another enemy.
I should note that this works best if your thief is the party leader because otherwise there's no guarantee that your party leader's target and your thief's will be the same.
For the flying enemies, you can use these weapon types:
Spears: Uhlan
Poles: Monk
Rods: White Mage
Staves: Black Mage
Bows: Archer
Guns: Machinist
Crossbows: Time Battlemage
Hand Bombs: Foebreaker
Also other jobs can use some of these but I wrote down the main job that can use each of the weapons
Some Technicks can hit flying enemies (eg Telekinesis) along with Magick (aka Magic), Espers and Quickening
I love White Mage Balthier! Mix with machinist synergizes well
“Bunny looking fella”
Travesty
gudebro2000 this actually hurt my feelings
Same
I appreciate all of you commenting and leaving your feedback on this video. Those of you that just got this game on Switch, I hope you thoroughly enjoy it.
Just about to play it for the first time on switch! I appreciate your video to help before I begin.
@@BunchaNothin I'm envious. I hope you have a blast!
One very important thing that he never talked about is a thing called Monographs. Monographs are very expensive key items in the bazaar that only appear after certain criteria are met. Monographs allow enemies of a certain type to begin to drop certain items that are generally more useful. Monographs are gotten mostly by talking to shop keepers or looking at The Hunting Boards where you accept hunts a certain number of times. Looking at the board 40 times will unlock 2 monographs. Any shop 100 times will get another. Weapon shops 35(?) times for another. Armor shop 30 times, Magick shop 15 times and so on. The numbers might be off so looking it up is better but you get the idea.
This game confuses the shit out of me. Litterally stoped playing rn because i'm scared to ruin something, like selling something i need later , missing a esper that i might never be able to get again, missing sidequests that are important for end game stuff or fucking up criterias for Ultima weapons. Why does everything needs to be so strict and complicated.
A good Gil farming trick would be to use six cat ear hoods from the clan provisioner shop and do a new trial mode till stage 20 or so (depending on level) and you’ll get at least 80-100k per attempt, the only downside is u won’t get any LP.
Today, they released 3 Gambits (to set like paradigm shifts) per character and the license change by Montblanc. Dream come true
Is this for all consoles (and PC)?
FrocketGaming yes. Ps4 and pc. And they retired the AndeVc or something like that. Some sort of protection against mods.
@@RalfMtr Nice, looks like there are hopes of doing a New Game + for PC and PS4 players as well.
It seems like an innocuous change, but Gambits got a significant change in that if 2 characters have the same gambit set at the same priority the game will determine which will perform the action first and will only make that character use it.
So if you have 1 KO'd character and 2 characters have Ally KO - Phoenix Down set as priority 1, the game will only make the character that can perform that action first do so, so that you don't have 2 trying to revive a single character wasting their actions.
Nice, when did they update this?
I picked up zodiac age when it first came out for the ps4. Great game, i had ashe as my white mage as soon as she joined, penelo was my red battle mage, them two in battle saved me so many times with their healing capabilities lol. i did everything there was to do in the game besides the yiazmat battle. i kinda miss the game. i had 200 hours that first playthrough. i loved the world and all the places. some took hours to go thru, especially the mines lol. i need to play again.
Good tips for beginners, but do not sell all of the loot, except for some items that are realy easy to farm (like bone fragment in lushu mines), the ideal is always to have at least 10 of each and more to the front 20 of each, gensteel for example is very difficult to do, you just get one in the whole game and necessary to make the best no-elemental greatsword of the game and the best katana, the ideal would be to see a list with the items required to enable in the bazaar, you will not believe when to see the weapons that can be achieved at the beginning of the game making sales more intelligent than simply selling everything.
I have played the vanilla game to near 100% and I can say that I am enjoying the zodiac age just as much as my first playthrough.
My jobs :
Balthier: shikari/time mage He has the speed/ physical damage with combos/ good evasion/ can hastega team to keep them at the top/crossbows to fight flying ennemies and for status effects
Vaan: Bushi/Monk bushi is great outside of bad armor and monk has access to white magic.
Penelo: white mage/machinist she is my most important character she stays in the backlines to support team.
Bash: Ulan/archer he has the strenght to make crazy bow damage and spears are very good overall
Ashe : Black mage/Knight I wanted to test this combo out good tank and amazing elemental magic.
Fran: worst stats so I gave her red magic jack of all trades
There are CERTAINLY things you shouldn't sell, especially if you plan on getting ultimate weapons in the end game. The Bazaar isn't smart enough to understand when you sell more components than required, so it's very easy to waste rare loot, forcing more farming (Tournesol nightmares coming back to me)
The Bazaar actually does track if you sell more than required, what happens is when you buy a Bazaar item, it sets the counter for the loot used back to zero. So if that item needed loot for something else, its more grinding for you!
RE steal. Game needs 2 more gambits:
Foe: Has Stuff
Foe: No Stuff
Preach. RLY need only one...
Foe: Has Item
This game definitely left a few things out that really irked me (and I'm assuming other players as well).
Someone mod this for PC
Best tip for party planning: Separate into two groups of 3 people each. Give each group a pure main healer. The rest make whatever you want
That's what I did with my PS2 playthrough as well! I never worried much on my healing as far as I can remember. I always used Vaan, Basch, and Penelo in a party and Balthier, Fran, and Ashe in another. Ashe and Penelo were my healers back then. Hehe
That's what I did, had ashe be my white mage/knight and penelo as my white mage/time mage. Thanks to ashe in the main party I never needed to use penelo since I tore through enemies with no problem or needed to do much at all.
Yeah I just made my reserve party a sort of mirror to my main party whilst trying to use as many different jobs as possible. Both teams had a full support + two attackers. Mainly the reserve team was "setup" via breaks before bringing the main team in
Good thing is you can change License Boards at will on the Switch version that I have. You see Montblanc and he will change for you. Probably for the reasons in this video.
Right on! Makes for pretty no pressure when choosing jobs/classes for your characters. I approve!!! 👍
I feel you on Shades of Black... Basch used it on some bird and instantly killed it. I don't even know what spell it rolled, but it must have been pretty strong cuz the entire screen seemed to blow up.
Must have been Flare..
Ardor or Flare
i just bought this on the switch yesterday
Hope you enjoy it ia akra!
Enjoy
Same here. Played on ps2 years ago too though
And did u liked it what is ur opinion did u buy more parts?
yo, been enjoying this game for the past couple days, really helped out with the quickenings and white mage suggestions. Love the exposition in this game.
Glad to hear you're enjoying it!
There's no reason to make anyone a White Mage out of the gate. Red Mage provides perfectly fine healing and Ashe gets base level White magick automatically. You won't really see any benefit to a dedicated WHM until after second license boards are available.
Good thought, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the great video :D For steal, I simply have Foe:HP > 80% so that steal happens amx 2 times, then attack gambits. About the espers unlocking and that it matter who unlocks them, maybe you shouldve told WHY, the fact that you get bridges to isolated license slots.
I agree, I could have covered why it matters more regarding the Espers but hopefully people check the document in the description to see for themselves what to consider with each one.
Regarding your advice to make Balthier a White Mage: I like making Fran my White Mage. Her Magic Power is a bit higher than Balthier's, and you get her at the same time as Balthier (I've been using Balthier as a Shikari/Foebreaker or Bushi/Shikari). I might try Balthier as a Shikari/White Mage though. (By the way, these are the job assignments I use: Vaan: Knight/Time Battlemage; Balthier: Shikari/Foebreaker; Fran: Machinist/White Mage; Basch: Bushi/Monk; Ashe: Uhlan/Black Mage; Penelo: Archer/Red Battlemage).
Regarding your advice on selling loot: I would also refrain from selling any loot required to unlock rare items or weapons in the Bazaar until you are ready (i.e. you have the required number of loot items to unlock), especially since many of these types of loot are rare or hard to come by. This includes (but not limited to): Hell-Gate's Flames, Scarletites, Gemsteels, Emypreal Souls, Soul Powders (definitely, since these are extremely rare until very late in the post-game), Emperor Scales (also definitely, since the enemy that drops this is very powerful), High Arcanas, Mallets, Orichalcums, and Corpse Flies. So if you want to unlock the Mithuna, for example, do not sell any Earth Crystals, Silver Liquids, or Emperor Scales until you have the required number. I recommend this because it's easier to keep track of how much you sold and so you don't have to acquire more loot than necessary.
My general rule for loot is to keep at least 10 of each piece. Sell anything above that.
This is the best starter guide! I played FF12 back in highschool when it first came out on ps2. I didn't get it back then. Just bought it for the switch glad I gave it another shot. Thanks for the guide!
Might have missed it, but did you explain the bunny lady near the bazaar? (Same race as Fran). She appears after certain points in the story and asks a question each time. The 4th time she rewards you based on how you answer her questions. If you choose the 'right' answers, she gives you a powerful weapon (cant remember if it's a bow or a sword).
Kenneth Quan Her name is Ktjn. (She is a Viera) she can be spoken to but you get different items based on your replies. You’ll need a guide to get what you want but if you do it to get the weapon (a sword) it is the Rune Blade which is the 4th(?) best sword in the game. Decent early but the Karkata is a much better sword that is even easier to get.
I never have used summons or quickenings, as long as you have good gambits you should be good without them!
The first video I’ve seen where I’ve learned something. I know somethings can be straight foreword but the option to Steal. I am definitely using. I haven’t played the game since it first came out and I’m playing again now and I never thought to do this. Thank you!
Glad I was able to provide something useful for you!
"You can sell anything" AND THERE HE GOES SELLING A GEMSTEEL
Ikr that irked me sooooo bad. You cant just sell anything, some of those need to be saved for end game equipment
I use my method of 'hoard everything till i can buy everything'
The game tracks how much you have total in stock. Oncew you buy one the memory goes 'down' to zero (known bug, never fixed)
If you dobt buy them, you keep unlocking stuff without them going out of 'stock'.
If something on the list sounds attrective, check what it needs. Is it important, one of a kind, very hard to get, ungrindable? Double check if you needed it for something else! It not needed for something else or you can farm em plentiful(think elemental stones, or shards of magicite that drop per 100s)? Just farm more later down the line.
it tracks everything you sell
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@@tylerhogan73 It does to an extent, u could sell 6 gemsteels, but if u buy something from the bazaar, and it uses 3, the total stock will drop to 0 regardless that u only used 3. Gemsteels are probably the most notorious loot item to get too.
The element vulnerable gambits are really handy if you're using an elemental weapon like Gladius.
1 possible correction - Make Fran your White Mage/Time. You get her at the same time as Balthier, but her stats are the worst making her a buff/debuff healer you can spam away on without losing damage making Balthier your White Mage when he has decent physical stats and Monks get access to Curaja anyway for late game, and Knights have Cure and Blind for early game both of which jobs are great for heavy hitters and tanks
I could see the issue with White Mage / Monk. If I were to restart I'd probably do Shikari / White Mage, but I certainly learned not to do WM / BM on the same character lol.
@@FrocketGaming White Mage/Monk is amazing, though I'm still not sure if Knight synergises better due to heavy armour.
Haven't tried White/Shikari yet. Perhaps White/Bushi would work well? Bushi got a lot of magic augments, my fuckup was combining Bushi with mostly physicals like Foebreaker and Uhlan making it useful for slapping on ninja swords and fuckall else lol
Edit- Katanas not ninja swords ^^
@@martynborthwick1845 Someday I'm going to go through the game with everyone being the same job just for the heck of it. haha
@@FrocketGaming Would be hilarious. Let me know how it goes, and I'll let everyone know what it's like to have a Bushi/White healing 4000-5000 with cure and cura ^^ Next level mp conservation if it works lol
Really good tips! Appreciate the steal gambit! I was trying to figure out how to do just that, and I’ve just been hitting select 4 times with new enemies
Two teams: (1) Vaan Bushi-Shikari
Balthier Machinist-Red Mage
Penelo Monk-Black Mage
(2) Basch Knight-Foebreaker
Fran Archer-Time Mage
Ashe White Mage-Uhlan
In my opinion this is the most balanced overpowered job setup using all 12 jobs that can be created. A very strong tank for each group, a Hastega caster for each group, and a powerful healer for each group that can also hold their own with physical attacks as well. This is very balanced as group one has a combo oriented tank with potent offensive magic users as well. While group two has the ultimate strength oriented tank as well as a White Mage capable of 15,000-20,000hp attacks depending on equipment. Feel free to try this setup out.
FF 12 is my favourite in the series... The one that I'm most likely to one day complete... But I'm dismayed by how much i miss out on... I only really spend LP on skills and just use simple gambits... We win fights but, all these techniques etc, I barely know how they work let alone use them... And gambits are so various, it's overwhelming.. especially as I'm playing it on the switch this time (also own on pc and ps, and heck probably xbox too) and the stupid clicky face buttons make me guilty about playing the game too much... I'll rewatch this to try and grind some info into my head
Great video I actually got Panello right away so she became the white mage
was playing ff8 remaster recently and can't believe I overlooked this one. I'm 3 hours in and it looks like this could be my fav one yet. what's your favourite FF and why?
FF12 is underrated. Such a good FF game.
It IS a great game! every since PS2 age!
Best thing in the Zodiac age? the x4 speed!!!! man that was the only annoying thing is the PS2
I dunno what it is about it, its just relaxing to play ~ it doesn't get me as stressed as all the other games do
I can chillaxingly waste time leveling up and collecting loot with some good gambits and I won't even feel the time pass
then if I go into an area where I get my ass handed to me, then I know it's not my time in there yet, go do something else, hunts, grinding, anything and after a while come back and its alright to get through
I never op too much though, I don't have the patience, and I've yet to feel desperate enough to resort to a AFK auto leveling techniques
I've been playing for 35+ hr now and I'm not even half way through the story !
and did you notice how there are side quests to be done that can only be discovered if you talk to those NPC around the area? even if its not a side quest, the gossip man !hilarious!!! x'D some of those story are too good not to be made into a proper quest. I can easily spend hours going back and forth between those NPC and do nothing of the productive kind.
and every time you enter the cities - during different phase of the story , you get different gossip that shines light to the lore of the game
I swear to God, the amount of love and care put into this game by its creators, it's other worldly !
Have you ever tried ffiv remastered.. ffx.. ffx2.. ff13..ff13+..ff13 dlc.. ffxiv mmo ffxiv.. or ffxiv pocket..
I just got the game for Switch. I'm not going to lie the gambit system looks overwhelming. I'm intrigued and hype to play though.
If you end up having any questions, just ask!
@Neocereus how do u play normally 😭😂😂
Take the chance to use ur guest party members as backup for the harder hunts
The clan merchant from muthru bazaar also sells ether.dunno if anyone else sells it.comes in handy
I always make Fran my shikari. Why? BUNNY WITH A KNIFE!
I dont know why I love this game so much. Just do.
Same, it's one of my favorites in the franchise.
Hey, someone else that likes to use Fran too. She's so underused, but actually goes well with certain classes. Like for instance, she has the highest Vit stat out of every other character, which contributes to axe, hammer and hand-bomb damage, so I've actually had her be my Foebreaker from time to time. I usually end up making her my Black Mage though, because paired with Monk, she'll eventually start to nuke everything so I don't have to worry about stats. (It's also nice to add that she has the fastest attack / combo rate with poles)
Business Cat Ya, it’s best to pair characters to classes that gives them the fastest attack combo speed. Like Basch with Bushi, Balthier with Shikari
That x2/x4 multiplier makes grinding for LP a breeze in lower level areas, just run through, stop occasionally for allies to wipe enemies and you get 1 LP everytime 2 LP with gold amulet, and half hour of this you get so much loot, especially if steal = 100hp is on Gambit while you sweep areas. Taking in anywhere from 30,000 gold and up after a half hours worth on 4x speed
Gil* not gold
I just picked up Zodiac Age, mostly playing a few minutes here and there (it's a good pre-bedtime game lol), but those damned Demon Walls drive me nuts. I know I'll get them both eventually, but they really grind my gears.
Protect, Haste, and Reflect go a long way with the first Demon Wall boss. Berserk could also be beneficial for Vossler.
Beastly combo.
Vaan-foe breaker/shakari
Penelo-Black mage/monk
Bash-knight/bushi
Ashe-white mage/uhlan
Balthier-machinist/green mage
Fran-archer/red mage
Easily defeated all secret bosses with this team.
whos a green mage?
Fran makes a better white mage than Balthier; barely less speed and better magick/mp...in fact, i think balthier is the worst caster in the game stat-wise (Basch has fewer MP but more Magick stat). I know you recommend not to worry about min-maxing, but why not use Fran since Balthier has so much better physical stats and you get them both at the same time, ya know?
Also, at least on ZA, you don't really need the "Ally Status =" ones. You can use "Ally: Any" with items or esuna or cleanse, etc., and they will only use them when applicable. Of course, for things that cure multiple statuses, those are still useful (e.g. Ally Status = Stop for Chronos Tear).
There is one area that doesn't auto save when you enter...Zodiark's room. There may be a couple others, too...but that one's the biggest pain lol.
Other than that, good stuff, good advice.
Thanks for the information!
hello I have been streaming this game on my own new channel here lol but your guide is amazing I had not played the game since I was 11 yrs old im 26 now so I was a bit lost to say the least great guide!!
Just started playing this again since before 2010. Thank you for the tips
Nice, hope you enjoy another play through.
Lol when I first clicked the video and saw "WHM/BLM" I shook my head... I'm glad you explained why that's so bad, in the video.
xthatwhiteguyx Ya, you’d wanna spread all the mages out
Bunny looking feller?
That's... Accurate.
Just bought this past weekend. Your video is fantastic. I'm subscribing!
Awesome! Thank you!
Great video! Just bought the game and this helped alot.
good vibes coming from this vid thx
It IS a great game! every since PS2 age!
Best thing in the Zodiac age? the x4 speed!!!! man that was the only annoying thing is the PS2
I dunno what it is about it, its just relaxing to play ~ it doesn't get me as stressed as all the other games do
I can chillaxingly waste time leveling up and collecting loot with some good gambits and I won't even feel the time pass
then if I go into an area where I get my ass handed to me, then I know it's not my time in there yet, go do something else, hunts, grinding, anything and after a while come back and its alright to get through
I never op too much though, I don't have the patience, and I've yet to feel desperate enough to resort to a AFK auto leveling techniques
I've been playing for 35+ hr now and I'm not even half way through the story !
and did you notice how there are side quests to be done that can only be discovered if you talk to those NPC around the area? even if its not a side quest, the gossip man !hilarious!!! x'D some of those story are too good not to be made into a proper quest. I can easily spend hours going back and forth between those NPC and do nothing of the productive kind.
and every time you enter the cities - during different phase of the story , you get different gossip that shines light to the lore of the game
I swear to God, the amount of love and care put into this game by its creators, it's other worldly !
Certainly one of my favorite FF games, I would love to see another FF game come out with a similar gambit type of system.
FrocketGaming the Gambit system is GODLY!!
I don’t understand why they never used it again in any ff title afterwards?
Imagine if that was in an mmorpg ( ex, ffxiv) oh man, then the grinding wouldn’t be as painful!!
@@anikixvi I think this gambit system would have served FF7 Remake pretty well.
FrocketGaming since I’ve yet to play 7, by your comment and the footage was the battle system more similar to 15 then?
I was still holding a. Little hope that it had some form of gambit system in it😢😢
@@anikixvi Yeah it's similar to 15 and the companion AI was a bit frustrating at times so having a way to control how they interact in various situations would have be fantastic.
Panelo / Fran - Both black/white mage, Ashe + Vaan = knight/bushi (excalibur + white robes = insane damage on dark mobs) Balthier = Uhlan/foebreaker - Expose/wither - Balthier = Shikari/bushi (Yagyu darkblade + black robes for yiazmat) Also, this is a different version to ps2 so YES you definitely can just use 3 players, license points + jobs literally carry you in this version xd :)
I didn’t know you could triple the speed 😑 on the dpad
I have this on the ps2 and XboxOneX
The Concurrence tip was slightly off. It's more about what combination you use. Something like
3x Rank 1
3x Rank 1 2 3
2x Rank 1 2 3
etc
Before i found that out i was wasting my time getting 24+ chains and still missing the ultimate ( 4x Each )
when you say ester benificial to some jobs rather than that, you mean in matter of License board that are after the Esper on the board, right?
isn't it the same for Quickening, I kind of low key regret being so quick to get those Quickenings as early as I could ^^ ;
I don't remember what logic I was going after, but I had all my mages combined with non mage jobs, it's going decently well ~
I'm just a tiny bit sad some melee jobs have so little magic/technique abilities
Vaan: Black Mage/ Shikari
Balthier: Machinist / Time Mage
Fran: Archer/ Uhlan
Bash: Foebreaker/White mage - at least the white mage would have been better off as a ranged melee rather than a Foebreaker, as you said, the white mage is always so busy he barely get to hacking anyone with his hammer T^T
Ash: Knight/Bushi
Penelo: Monk / Red Battle Mage - I'm loving Penelo's abilities with these two , its almost like she has it all ! a great portion of White magic - a white mage right there !- , a decent amount of Black magic and Techniques , a couple of Time Magiks and Oh my the greens!!! she has the most full tabs out of everyone! don't know if that's all the RedBattle Mage pros, or if the combo with monk was that much of a Jackpot win
and all in all she's dancing wither Brawler mode or with a pole !
Esters unlock abilities depending on the job they're assigned to. There is a document in the description to assist so you can give them to the people who will give you the most useful abilities. Ultimately, you can beat the game and end game content with any job setup but there certainly are optimizations to be made but don't stress it too much. :)
my white mage is penelo and healing is set to ally: curaja this is extremely good late game since she can pre-emptively start casting heals before i get TOO low and maybe even save the party from multi-hit combos
great video man it helped a lot with some tips im doing a run right now thank you
Doesnt need to rush jobs, anyone playing probably been farming dustia to the point that they can cheese early to late game storywise
My advice for you guys is separate haste/float casters, protectaga/shellga/bubble and bravery/bubble 2nd.
Looots 13 One of the best advice I’ve seen
I know you said each class is pretty balanced but i'd like to know what class for each character you think fits best?
This is what most agree are the "ideal" roles for each character.
Vaan - Bushi, Shikari, and Uhlan
Ashe - Black Mage, White Mage, Red Battlemage, and Time Battlemage
Penelo - White Mage, Black Mage, Red Battlemage, and Time Battlemage (also can be Uhlan or Monk too)
Balthier - Shikari and Knight (also works with Red Battlemage and Foebreaker)
Basch - Shikari, Knight, Bushi - Decent Foebreaker
Fran - Foebreaker and Archer
Biggest thing IMO, don't make the same person Black Mage and White Mage like I did lol.
great!!! thanks lots!
Fran worst archer in game atk animation. Best monk...
Oh my soul watching that gemsteel be sold randomly.
The bazaar does get items on specific sets of sold things. And can be a method for some fairly strong stuffs. Buf for a standard playthrough it's probably fine
I think for a casual play-through it doesn't matter, lol but probably should have been more clear about that in the video.
@@FrocketGaming Ya a casual playthrough literally any method will work so long as you have some sustain (doesn't even need to be a healer, but helps).
As for the early game healer before Ashe. Yu can just sell 1-2 diamond armlets from the first trial stage and buy a full stock of potions. That will get you through the part until you get ashe (alongside Larsa in the Lhusu mines). That said I still set fran as a healer every playthrough. I always have 2 healers specifically to keep my party levels relatively even. Though a redmage is more than enough with cura, until a kinght or something picks up curaja later. So it's not even needed for that. But I like having it since archers are horribly underpowered in zodiac age, paired with fran natively low stats. Though I only use her when leveling things up.
Is Balthier really the worste Mechanic?
Is Fran really the worste Archer?
Does their attack animation speed matter?
It matters alot against actually challenging enemies. Cutting attack speed in half can mean another 100 hits in the long run
And were talking 1,000,000 more damage late game
Cipher Strife Yes huge difference. For example: Basch amd Balthier attacks twice as fast in Bushi and Shikari compared to everyone else, meaning they will do 100k in 1min while the other four does 50k in 1min
The speed up thing just blew my mind!!!!!!
It takes a bit to get use to but after that it's painful to play without it.
@@FrocketGaming does the speed work in battles also
@@thriftypsgr Yes, it does. You may find that at times you'll have to turn it off to make some adjustments though if you get in over your head during certain fights.
I really like Final Fantasy XII's combat and gambit system, I wish there were other games that had the exact same thing. Other games have a similar system, but they sort of miss the "One-Player MMO" feel.
I agree, I think this combat system had a lot going for it. I think if you're going to be active combat while controlling 1 character then letting the player determine their party AI is really valuable. A system like this would have made FF15 more enjoyable to me. At the same time, it also runs the risk of trivializing the game and it then becomes up to the player to determine the scope of how challenging they want the content to be which some people don't like.
It lacks Gambits, but Xenoblade has a similar feel and gorgeous worlds.
Heres my rundown for my character optimizations, these are my opinions over time and multiple playthroughs. May not be the most minmaxxed but they work well to me.
Love her as a character, but Fran is a team rounder. A jack of all trades master of none. Better suited to keep her as a archer or ulahan and pick a mage class later, make her any kind of mage since her magic attack is lower than even vaan's, and mp is less than the other girls, Her battle strength is rather balanced despite all this, so toss her a good support or go red mage for magical versitility to make her the team rounder. She makes for a good party lead in this case. She has the highest base hp for females
Vaan technically can function as a mage better than fran having a higher Magic attack but lower mp. I find the shikari/red mage combo his forte. (Team him with the party time mage and white mage and that's your power squad since he holds the line tremendously well.) Again, good party leader as he is another well rounder with higher stats than fran, but lower stats than the males mostly. His speed is second place, so casting and attacks are faster than most. He'll kinda main tank for the team
Ashe is a good candidate for white mage. since her magic damage is naturally the highest. But i'd suggest black mage instead combined with knight or foebreaker since her higher strength than other ladies plus the higher magic damage make her a magic damage powerhouse with a strong defensive wall.
Penelo is a perfect white mage, her stats for mp are the highest of the party so that means more heals, magic strength second only to Ashe by 3 points, her speed ties with the other girls at 3rd place. Would suggest knight to make absolute sure she's protected. the abilities obtained via knight give far more defense than others.
Balthier boasts the fastest speed... really thats kind of it. He's the middle road for males so his strength is there. So you want big damage numbers here since he's bound to land more hits. Would suggest any melee class with Time or red mage. but you cant really go too wrong with him. His attack speed and well rounded stats make him easy to work towards any combo. Oddly this makes him great for a party leader. I'd suggest making him a secondary tank, his faster speeds can help you revive your main team faster.
Basch is a pure melee, but a low vitality makes him a pure dps. I'd suggest Bushi, with ulahan, or monk. the combos will be his killer and make him absolutely deadly
You don't need to make Balthier a white mage, just make Fran a Red Battlemage for the first part of the game. You don't even get higher white magicks like Cura until you rescue Penelo.
Do not sell the loot you can use to get ultimate weapons at the bazaar. You just sold Gemsteel, that can be use to make Tournessol and Khumba (best greatsword and best katana). Some of the loot you get during the game mainly from mark rewards can save you hours of farming. Also, some stuff is missable: like the canopic jar and the whyrmhero blade (maybe you can steal it in trial mode but I am not sure) in case you just sell the loot separately.
nice chill background music
it's Chicane
I keep 10 of everything in loot just in case with the exception of a few items. Played this on ps2 years ago and just started again on switch
That's generally the best way to go about things. Keep 10 of each loot item.
Soo helpful thanks a ton dude
wtf cat ear don't give anymore 20 in vigor and 50 in speed ? i hope they make a another item with this 50 speed stat ...
Use Fran as your white mage early game she's pretty much a throw away character. Still have penelo as your main healer tho. Give fan a good support sub class like uhlan
do u have tips on how to get the rare game enemies, how to beat them, how to find them, etc. etc.?
There are plenty of guides online, I would google and see what you can find. I haven't played the game in quite some time now so I don't remember much.
Bunny lookin fella? do you read and listen to the story as you progress? you do know, the party have names?
I just started the game today and I have no idea what you are talking about. It seems pretty intimidating.
Just take your time and enjoy the experience, the pieces will come together as you work through it.
“Bunny looking guy”
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BLASPHEME!!
That’s a moonless good sir!
I'm glad Final Fantasy fans are so passionate but this wasn't intended to offend. I said it light heartedly thinking non - final fantasy veterans may be watching and that would make for a better identifier.
good tips! have a lot of thing to check now xd thanks!
Happy to help!
Did you just call montblanc a bunny look fellow?
Sure did.
just throw Scatle (the lux spell) with penelo and gg wp ^^
the default job seeing in the sheet is the optimal jobs combination for each characters ?
"Hey guys here are some tips and tricks.
#1. do whatever you want lol it doesn't really matter"
cool video
Giza plains changes weather eery two hours of dry weather ad every hpur of rainy weather of in game time
nice video! thanks for the tips
What i typically do for spells like Protect and Shell, I set them to Ally HP
I would often times find myself turning Protect and Shell off until I knew I was coming up on a boss or putting myself in a particular situation that could kill me.
It's not good because they will keep on refreshing protect and shell whnever your character goes down to 80%, rather just put any-protect then put it under foe-nearest atk
Looots 13 They wont if you have heal gambits set to be prioritized over the protect/shell gambits. If enemies do enough damage to drop you down to the heal gambit threshold, any protect/shell gambits being executed will be canceled and the heal gambits will take over. But like I said, In those cases, I try to find a way to cast it manually. And they will only refresh the spells when they wear off. Any>Protect/Shell, will force your characters to always cast Protect/Shell whenever someone's status wears off. Unless you have it at a lower priority than attacking, in which case they'll wait until after fights to cast it, which kinda defeats the purpose.
what will happen is that the character role will solely be cure and protect/shell, because if it's 80% buff, then your cure above should be around 80+ since if it it's 70% what will happen is enemy does damage but not below 70% so they will buff protect and shell, then 70% curaja, then repeat. it's a bit un-optimized. I'd rather just ally party leader - protectaga/shellga. then just 60% main healer, then 40-50% 2nd healer backup., therefore the main healer can still attack or do something else.
I usually only have one healer in the main party at a time, especially once i get Decoy. And typically they do fine with healing despite the protect gambit. Like i said, if they dont get a chance to do it through gambits, i cast it manually. Gambits dont really have to be optimized unless you're fighting the harder bosses or something. But in those cases i always cast that stuff manually anyways. I can certainly understand if people want to optimize their gambits, and im not claiming my setup works all that well. I just dont like them repeatedly casting it when it wears off, typically if its not needed, like when exploring field areas. I prefer them to not use it until they actually get into fights. I set my gambit to say Curaja HP
This video deserves more views
"A bunny looking fellow." lol It's a moogle. But in your defense, they do look a bit like rabbits in this game.
You're probably the only person that hasn't completely raged at me for this comment when pointing it out, so I appreciate that. I knew he was a moogle, but yeah very bunny like features so I preferred bunny looking fellow. lol
I was away at school when this game was released for Switch. Just got back a week ago and now I'm 16 hrs deep into FFXII again. This game is SOO epic! I just wish that the dungeons and game in general wasn't so blocky-looking. That said, if the game looked as good as FFXIII, then it probably wouldn't have been able to ported to the Switch in the first place!
Helpful video bro thank you heaps
Love these tips mate 👌👌
Glad to hear!
9:58 I think I can hear your cat jumping in the background lol
Certainly possible!
Thanks for the video man left a sub+like