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[Jhei]

Final Fantasy XII will indeed be using a system called License Board. Many things in this game require license, even the abilites. Abilities, weapons, magic, skills, (I think even summons) all need license to be used. Even if you have learned an ability or gained a weapon already, you can't use/equip them without a license. To earn a license, you need to gain enough license points (LP), which will be acquired along with EXP by defeating enemies.

Also, as SrBehemoth said, everyone could use a summon, but only one can be equipped at a time. Also, to gain a summon, you must beat them first. Then, the summon creature must sign a pact with the character who will equip them. My guess is that you can also change your equipped summon if you are tired with the one you currently have, and there might be more than six summons. (because it's not great if there are only six, the more the better)

[YTDN]

what class wud use green magic?:mog:

A Green Mage, duh.

[lady yunalesca]

Final Fantasy XII will indeed be using a system called License Board. Many things in this game require license, even the abilites. Abilities, weapons, magic, skills, (I think even summons) all need license to be used. Even if you have learned an ability or gained a weapon already, you can't use/equip them without a license. To earn a license, you need to gain enough license points (LP), which will be acquired along with EXP by defeating enemies.

Also, as SrBehemoth said, everyone could use a summon, but only one can be equipped at a time. Also, to gain a summon, you must beat them first. Then, the summon creature must sign a pact with the character who will equip them. My guess is that you can also change your equipped summon if you are tired with the one you currently have, and there might be more than six summons. (because it's not great if there are only six, the more the better)

sounds very............ interesting!! will i need a lawyer to complete the game?????

[Hiraku]

I don't think having one summon per person is that bad... in fact, I'd like to specialize characters with skills only THEY can use. It makes them more irreplaceable, even the ones who are terrible stats. I guess it's like a drive for me to make all of them equally uber-strong.
Since the game allows customization, then the specialization would be up to me, which is somewhat more fun. That's just me, anyway.
As far as I know, for summons, there are Hashmal, Madeus, and Ultima. Who are the other 3?

[PramTheOracle]

A Green Mage, duh.

Silly, Green Mages use Wind Magic!

[Jhei]

From what I've gathered, there's no jobs in Final Fantasy XII so there are no Green Mages. But if there would be Green Mages, then they would probably use Green Magic (which are not Wind Magic) which contains Shell, Protect, and all the other "buff" spells. (Haste is not included because it's Time Magic, another category of magic in FF XII.)

Also, regarding the summons, the summons that I have seen so far are: Hashmarim, Belias, Altima, Mateus, and Queklain.

[boys from the dwarf]

:mog: For those expecting this game to have character based abilities i dont think you shud hold you breath.there are several reasons for this.
1. In the demo everyone cud use magic and summon(7 or 8 like system)
2. Even in games with unique characters abilities, each character can still be lumped into one one the main classes.(ff9:zidane+amarant= theif, dagger=whitemage/summoner, vivi=too obvious, eiko=summoner, quina=Bluemage, freya=dragoon, steiner=warrior.) what class wud use green magic?:mog:

first, that was a demo so you cant use that as much evidence because demos are always different to how the actual game is played.sqare have made up a lot of different job classes before so i dont see why they cant make up a new class for green magic.

[Hikoshi]

I'd say that green magic would be split across white mages, black mages and red mages, seeing as green magic is a bunch of buff's and debuff's. As for the licence board, it still confuses me, but it does look like a good system.

[Vivisteiner]

From what I've gathered, there's
Also, regarding the summons, the summons that I have seen so far are: Hashmarim, Belias, Altima, Mateus, and Queklain.

And Adramalech.
That makes 6, but I hope there are more

[Hikoshi]

So do I. 6 Summons is just never enough.

[Crossblades]

So do I. 6 Summons is just never enough.

Well, it would make sense to have only 6 Summons in the game since the playable characters can only have one summon

[Jhei]

^Well, it didn't say they couldn't change the summon they made a pact with. Maybe the character can break the pact they made, and that they could change to other summons. What I'm saying is that there could be spare summons. (for example, six are in use, and the other 6 summons doesn't have a pact with anyone)

[Hikoshi]

I suppose, but seeing as each Totema is suppose to be linked to each species, and so far the characters only seem to be hume and viera... = 2 totema. So yea.