Final Fantasy Tactics Trivia!

10, I think.

Ramza, Agrias, Mustadio, Orlandu, Rafa, Malak, Meliadoul, Beowulf, Reis, and Cloud.

My definition of story characters (or, specifically, non-generics) is slightly broader than that. You're close, though.

Add Rad, Alicia, and Lavian then. 13.

Good call. You're up.

What are the components necessary for the "Calculator Holy Spam" technique, in which you constantly calculate Holy.

I'm looking for equipment and abilities.

I'm not quite sure I understand the question, but I'll take a stab at it.

Skills

Calculator
CT
Level
Exp
Height
Prime Number
5
4
3

Priest
Holy

Knight
No skills per se, but most characters will need to be in this class.

Equipment

Excalibur

Method

Have all the characters as Knights, or professions that allow the use of knight swords (like Holy Swordsman). Equip the party with as many Excaliburs as you can. Equip Math Skills as secondary skills. You can have each character cast Holy indescriminately and hit both friends and foes. Since Excalibur absorbs Holy, your characters that get hit will be healed.

Alternative Method

Have one character set up with Math Skills as secondary ability, the rest of the party as Mimes. Knights will not be necessary, nor will Excaliburs. When that one character casts Holy, everyone else will Mime that character's calculations of Holy.

Yep, your go BG-57.

Chameleon Robes also work in this setup, but you got at least one of the methods, so you're up.

The game says that Balbanes attains the highest rank of 'Heavenly Knight'. We never are told what skills it encompasses, but it's likely that it includes sword based attack skills (like Holy Knight or Dark Knight). It's also likely he has more sword skills than even Orlandu.

Question: What sword skills could Balbanes have that aren't already included in Holy Swordsman skills?

Since Orlandu already has the sword skills of Dark Sword, Holy Sword, and Mighty Sword as a Holy Swordsman, I imagine the Heavenly Knight would have these plus the Magic Sword skills of a Temple Knight (i.e. Beowulf) Drain, Aspel, Chicken, Break, Shock, Blind, Zombie, Innocent, Faith, Silence, Berserk, Don't Act, Confuse, Despair, and Sleep.

There are also the Draw Out Samurai sword skills to consider... but as they are not "sword" skills I doubt it.

And in my personal point of view, I imagine Balbanes might have the Beoulve family abilities that Ramza has exclusively: Scream, Yell, Wish and Cheer Up. :)

Well, as Despotus said, he'd have Beowulf's Magic Sword skill set to accompany Orlandu's abilities. It's also possible that he could have:

Destroy Sword abilities (Arc Knight Zalbag): Speed Ruin, Power Ruin, Magic Ruin, Mind Ruin.

-I like this idea, since Zalbag was Balbanes' son.

Limit abilities (Soldier Cloud): Braver, Cross-slash, Blade Beam, Climhazzard, Meteorain, Finish Touch, Omnislash, Cherry Blossom

-I find this unlikely because Cloud is not from Ivalice, but the Limits are unlocked by the Materia Blade, a sword.

Draw Out abilities (Samurai/Arc Knight Elmdor): Aura, Koutetsu, Bizen Boat, Murasame, Heaven's Cloud, Kiyomori, Muramasa, Kikuichimonji, Masamune, Chirijiraden

-Maybe.

I also like the idea of Balbanes having Ramza's specialized Squire abilities, although you should probably include Ultima. Recall that Alma can learn it in the final battles as well.

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Originally Posted by masamune1600

It's also possible that he could have:

Destroy Sword abilities (Arc Knight Zalbag): Speed Ruin, Power Ruin, Magic Ruin, Mind Ruin.

-I like this idea, since Zalbag was Balbanes' son.

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Man, can't believe I forgot about those. Definitely a good possibility Balbanes knew 'Destroy Sword' :mad:

But, I don't think the Soldier Abilities are very likely, either, just because you have to have the Materia Blade to use them. The other Sword Skills mentioned can be released through any Knight sword or standard sword. ;)

yeah, leave clouds stuff out of it... it's not from ivalice at all..

I was just asking for 'sword skills': skills that requite a sword to excute. That would exclude Draw Out (which uses katanas) and Battle Skills (which can be used with any weapon) and Ultima and Yell, etc....

I was thinking of Temple Knight. But Destroy Sword? It sounds like a variation on Knight's Battle Skills, which are not sword-dependent.

I'll give this one to Despotus.

I'm inclined to think that Destroy Sword is like the Mighty Sword only affecting stats, but reliant upon a sword. But I've never been able to get Zalbag to use the attacks, and I'm not even sure if an animation exists for them, so I suppose we can't know for sure.

I dunno, I think I should have included the Arc Knight skills... so I'll just put a relatively easy one up for grabs. ;)

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