For whatever reason they obviously didn't keep the original uncompressed recordings and had to work with the low quality PS2 files
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Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age |OT| You Had One Job!
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For whatever reason they obviously didn't keep the original uncompressed recordings and had to work with the low quality PS2 files
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boss Cactuar in Trial 3 has Karkata, an immensely strong 1H Sword for early and mid game.
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AmethystEnd
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Fucking hell. What the fuck man.
MetalliCabombination
Member
Wtf is this endgame sword called karkata doing in my inventory just like that? Im still in the leviathan
Something along the lines of this keeps popping up in the Trials hahaha
I mean it's not like I've had any money problems anyway so far, but 30 minutes in the Trials and I'm literally set for the rest of the game
I love whoever it was that decided you could carry shit over from the Trials. This is almost FF8 levels of breakability.
I mean it's not like I've had any money problems anyway so far, but 30 minutes in the Trials and I'm literally set for the rest of the game
I love whoever it was that decided you could carry shit over from the Trials. This is almost FF8 levels of breakability.
This game has to have the most status ailments ever.
Has to be a direct response to the gambit system lol.
Thanks, just got it lol.
Has to be a direct response to the gambit system lol.
Thanks, just got it lol.
The Last Wizard
Member
So I've got Balthier as a archer and have his license for a bows 2 but I can't equip on of the bows from there. What gives?
Something along the lines of this keeps popping up in the Trials hahaha
I mean it's not like I've had any money problems anyway so far, but 30 minutes in the Trials and I'm literally set for the rest of the game
I love whoever it was that decided you could carry shit over from the Trials. This is almost FF8 levels of breakability.
You've successfully put me off ever going near these trials lol
Make sure you have arrows in your inventory
AmethystEnd
Member
You ran trials. Trials break the game.
<Edited for grammar what the fuck.>
The Last Wizard
Member
Thanks, that was driving me nuts.
These random chests are annoying there barely any armor or weapons in em.
Hahah can't blame you. Item-wise the Trials aren't bad since pretty much everything that could be considered a gamebreaker you have to steal, and they're all rare-ish steals.
But the amount of LP this mode gives you is just fucking ridiculous.
Pinko Marx
Banned
About when do you start seeing Ninja Swords?
Haha that's the thread I linked to in my first post in here, not really 100% happy with what they gave Ashe (Knight/Foebreaker). I'm playing around with the idea of going with these loadouts:
Vaan: Shikari/White Mage
Balthier: Machinist/Uhlan
Bash: Bushi/Foebreaker
Ashe: Knight/Time Mage
Penelo: Monk/Black Mage
Fran: Archer/Red Mage
My only requirements are that Vaan's a Shikari, Balthier's a Machinist, Bash is a Bushi, Penelo's a Monk, and Fran's an Archer, every job gets used, and I'd like to give everyone 3x Swiftness (so that means I should for sure give Penelo the esper Ultima I think). If anyone sees any problem with this build or wants to give me some esper recommendations, feel free to do just that.
Pinko Marx
Banned
Does Magick Lore increase damage with weapons that use MAG in damage calc? IE Katanas
Before beating him I suggest stealing High Arcanas from him.
One Magick Lore is 1 MAG point so yes. Battle Lore is 1 STR.
Hippopuncher12
Member
Thanks for showing me that trials are broken as fuck, and to avoid them until endgame. What a complete oversight lol.
The Last Wizard
Member
Would Ashe make a good white mage?
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Wow. I'm doing trials. Hahaha. I've beaten FFXII enough to not care about cheating a bit. 
You could consider
Vaan: Shikari / Foebreaker
Balthier: Machinist / White Mage
Basch: Bushi / Ulhan
my reasoning is that shikari, machinist and bushi all get 3x swiftness innately (iirc), but shikari/foebreaker 1) doesn't split Vaan's duties between healing and DPS 2) gives him access to genji gloves. Bushi / ulhan on Basch gives him a similar amount of battle lores as foebreaker, and bushi innately gets genji gear. Balthier should perform well as a machinist / white mage to buff the party. This way you should be in good shape for some end game content as well.
The part about the story is so damn true. The writing in this game is really, really good for video game standards in general. FFXII is some pacing issues away from being one of the best written games ever. I just came out of lhusu mines for the first time and the dialouge in that scene, while simple, is just on another level compared to the usual shounen shit we get in jrpgs. The pacing issues are real though so it is ufortunate how close they came to something amazing.
AlexFlame116
Member
Wow thanks for the help! I'm gonna beat King Bomb and keep the Diamond Armlet close by.
Then I'm gonna take a break from playing the game.
Cheezeman3000
Member
I doubt it was an oversight. They even warn you that you lose your trials progress before you reload a normal save. So it was definitely intentional for you to be able to break the game.
Probably partially because it's such an old game, they figured most fans of the original would go to the trials for fun, but most noobs wouldn't bother with the trials for a while. So why not let the fans of the original have some game breaking stuff to play with?
Can you clarify?
Does this mean that, say I start a new game...play a couple hours. Then, I want to give trials a try. Say I make it to stage 5. If I jump back into my main game save, I reset the trials to 1?
Edit: whoops, double post
Better have it unequipped 99% the time, btw. Unique chests still have the unique loot, but practically every single respawning chest has either a Knot of Rust or a Meteorite in it if you have the Armlet equipped. They have their uses, as you can see, but you'll want the regular loot most of the time.
I was thinking last night about how the 2x/4x speed options really highlighted for me what I've always loved about the game: it's like building a machine that you can test and revise. The part of me that loves SpaceChem is the part of me that loves FFXII best (and that's a real big part of me).
AlexFlame116
Member
Oh okay. I need to keep this in mind. I'll write it down in my notebook. When I get back to the game I'll make sure to follow it.
Thanks for the help!
AmethystEnd
Member
That's one way to look at it. But the way I look at it is, Penelo deserves whatever she wants.
Whatever that may be.
AlexFlame116
Member
I mean, she likes what she sees so Vaan and his abs are Mr. Right for her I guess.
As for Vaan:
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Sumio Mondo
Member
I was really shocked to learn who he voiced as well, couldn't even tell it was him but when I found out it was like "oh yeah, can definitely hear it now". Vossler was one of my favourite characters from FFXII.
make Ashe bushi
coredecepts
Member
Why is Ashe a bad Bushi?
AmethystEnd
Member
Well, she has great stats for it.
But she also has the slowest katana attack speed.
shiftplusone
Member
would the esper recommendations from the lore friendly guide still work for these?
Cheezeman3000
Member
If you load your main game save from your trials progress, it resets your trials progress, yes. The benefit is you carry over all the things you got in the trials. And it warns you first, so don't worry about accidentally losing your progress.
coredecepts
Member
Ah, ok that doesn't bother me much. It's a fraction of a second of difference, from what I've seen.