Want high stats? Want REALLY high stats? Well keep on reading.... There is a
method of doing this but it takes awhile, this is only for the type of people
who in FF7 got all their characters up to really high stats with Sources. The
basic theory is to level DOWN as a BAD job and then level UP as a GOOD job.
Think of it as two steps forwards, and one step back. Keep on doing that and
you're getting somewhere. De-Leveling down can be done in 2 ways. Degenerator
traps(if you try to Teleport while on a trap and Teleport fails you will
REACTIVATE the trap, use it. A Degenerator can be found in the DD... look at
my DD maps above for the exact location) or the Monster Skill of a Mind Flare
monster called Level Blast. Leveling up can be done in anyway you see fit
however I have a tip or two
Give your character Gained Exp UP and the
Thief's Steal Exp Ability(and lots of Speed upping items and bonuses if
possible). With this you can now steal EXP from your teammates/enemies and
you SHOULD be going up 1 level every turn till you are at a moderate level.
Another okay level up trick is to use Bard or Dancer skills plus Gained EXP
Up(but this will take 2 castings, depending on how low your speed is this CAN
come out more often, but for me it's usually less often BUT you don't have to
worry about your teammates having enough EXP to steal). Another tip is once
you have decimated the enemy, turn the last one into a Frog, Chicken, and put
him to Sleep and then Petrify all members of the team that are not needed(so
you don't have to "Wait" them). Another little trick to getting the last bit
of EXP in one AT is to use Move-Gain EXP. And a final tip, who says you need
to go all the way up to level 99 then back down to level 1? That's unwise...
use my Steal EXP + Gained EXP Up trick and you should be able to get up to
around level 65 by doing 65 Steal EXPs, re-enter the battle then use the
degenerator/Level Blast, leave, then use Steal EXP again, repeat till you've
got a god =D
Well thanks to Aerostar's diligent work on his "Final Fantasy Tactics Battle
Mechanics Handbooks" (available at any respectable game file download
station) I finally have the information needed to make the following list
accurate. To use this list you look for the LOWEST numbers to level UP as,
and HIGHEST to level DOWN as. You don't need to understand why that is (seems
backwards, eh?), but if you want to know more check out Aerostar's guide for
the exact technical reasons. So, now, what you do with these numbers is to
try and raise levels as the ++! and lower as the -?.
Alterable | Non-Alterable
HP MP SP PA MA | MV JU CEV
SQ 11 15 100 60 50 | SQ 4 3 5%
CH 12 16 100 -75? 50 | CH 3 3 5%
KN 10 15 100 ++40! 50 | KN 3 3 10%
AR 11 16 100 45 50 | AR 3 3 10%
MO +++9! 13 100 48 50 | MO 3 4 20%
PR 10 10 100 50 50 | PR 3 3 5%
WI 12 +++9! 100 60 50 | WI 3 3 5%
TI 12 10 100 65 50 | TI 3 3 5%
SU 13 +++8! 100 70 50 | SU 3 3 5%
TH 11 16 ++90! 50 50 | TH 4 4 25%
ME 11 18 100 55 50 | ME 3 3 5%
OR 12 10 100 60 50 | OR 3 3 5%
GE 10 11 100 45 50 | GE 4 3 10%
LA 10 15 100 ++40! 50 | LA 3 4 15%
SA 12 14 100 45 50 | SA 3 3 20%
NI 12 13 ++80! 43 50 | NI 4 4 30%
CA -14? 10 100 70 50 | CA 3 3 5%
BA -20? -20? 100 -80? 50 | BA 3 3 5%
DA -20? -20? 100 50 50 | DA 3 3 5%
MI +++6! -30? 100 ++35!++40! | MI 4 4 5%
According to those numbers the most amazing job class to level UP as seems to
be Mime, except it stinks in MP and is plain ol' average in Speed. And the
BEST to go DOWN as is Bard or Dancer/Chemist, except those do have better
than Mime MP growth and equal Speed growth. So basically if you DEGENERATE as
a Dancer/Bard/Chemist and then level back up as a Mime you will get a very
good increase in all stats EXCEPT MP, which will plummet, and Speed will stay
the same (though technically, when growth numbers are equal, when level
up/downing, at the end of the day you will have lost a teeny tiny bit of
stat. Very small bits in the decimals. Level up/down enough and it will
become noticable). Other great jobs to increase as would be the swift of foot
Ninja. His Speed and PA is truly great. Speed being one of the harder & rarer
and mor important stats to raise (5p33D rUL3zzz D00Dzz!!!!). Another
important class is the Summoner. The reason for that is simply that neither
Ninja nor Mime are good MP growers, not only is Mime not good, it is actively
bad, being the absolute worst MP growth you can possibly get. If you don't
want your godly character to have nil psychic stamina you'll need some
buffing in the MP area with la Summoniers.
Summed Up (doesn't include special characters):
To Raise HP: UP Mime UP Monk DOWN Bard/Dancer DOWN Calculator
To Raise MP: UP Summoner UP Wizard DOWN Mime DOWN Bard/Dancer
To Raise SP: UP Ninja UP Thief DOWN NOT Ninja DOWN NOT Thief
To Raise PA: UP Mime UP Knight/Lancer DOWN Bard DOWN Chemist
To Raise MA: UP Mime DOWN NOT Mime
Originally Posted by Notti
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