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[Megalosaro]

Final Fantasy Tactics is a game I've always enjoyed, but I've never managed to beat. The story, the music, the characters are all fantastic. But I just don't have the mind to play an SRPG correctly.

I recently procured the PSP remake and I want to beat the game. I hear there are ways to obliterate Tactics' balance (not counting just spamming TG Cid. I almost beat the game with him, but couldn't finish the final dungeons). So how do I do it? I feel like my life is going to be incomplete until I beat this game.

 

[Team Filler]

Calculator absolutely destroys the game. You should be able to find several strats using only Ramza to beat FFT.

 

[BocoDragon]

1. Get T.G. Cid (a.k.a. Orlandu)

2. Win.



Edit: missed that.. Can't win with Cid??

 

[Megalosaro]

This is something I've heard before, but whenever I've tried using calculators, they kind of fell flat on their faces.

I have a love-hate relationship with SRPGs. I love the gameplay, but I'm absolutely no good at them. I end up getting discouraged and then dropping them.

 

[Big-E]

This is something I've heard before, but whenever I've tried using calculators, they kind of fell flat on their faces.

I have a love-hate relationship with SRPGs. I love the gameplay, but I'm absolutely no good at them. I end up getting discouraged and then dropping them.

Have a few calculators that know holy. Equip them with holy absorb gear. Calculate level even or odd or something like that and watch everything die.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Calculator spam. Blade Grasp. etc.

 

[Mikey Jr.]

If you kinda want to actually play the game, go ninja. They always fuck shit up. I mean, like, EVERYONE ninja.

Do they have the double hit attack, or was that monk?

 

[djplaeskool]

Calculators and Time Mages

 

[crazy_about_denise]

5. Ninjas with Thief secondary (Steal Heart) or Monk secondary (Gaia Gear?) pretty much obliterate everything. And it's fast.

But to be honest there are tons of combos to destroy anything. It'd be best if you told with what you have the most trouble.

If you kinda want to actually play the game, go ninja. They always fuck shit up. I mean, like, EVERYONE ninja.

Do they have the double hit attack, or was that monk?

Double hit. Monks are bare hand.

 

[flawfuls]

Get a calculator plus at least one super strong attack spell like holy or flare, set it to AI and just watch it win every fight in two turns. Also don't ever actually keep the calculator on the calculator job once you have all of the needed skills. It's an awful awful class stat wise.

 

[Servizio]

Break the game you say?

And yes, it involves ninjas.

 

[WeaponKnight]

One thing you can do is putting auto-potion on ramza to cover his defenses, and then running away using Tailwind to raise his speed. After a while you'll get 10 turns each time.

 

[Jubern]

Break the game you say?

And yes, it involves ninjas.

Okay this is actually pretty funny (the whole read, not just the gif)

 

[thomasmahler]

Yeah, I always mastered Ninja for the TwoSwords skill (which lets you attack twice), then go back to Knight or Monk for full attack power and just equip the TwoSwords skill - boom, you're dealing massive damage with every hit now, since every since attack is doubled.

Also, to level up, you can just beat all the enemies in a level until only one is left and instead of attacking it heal it all the time and attack your team mates - that still gives you full XP and AP for each round. You can easily get like 3k XP in one battle that way and quickly master any job.

Oh, and: Don't play the PSP or iOS version, they're just insanely shitty across the bank.

 

[urfe]

Auto potioning X potions was always good.

 

[Drek]

If you don't want to use Cid and you don't deal with Calcs well the best way to break the game is some extra grinding early on.

Basically, as soon as you get the freedom to move around the world map more than a location or two at once just start moving from random map to town and back. Grind up levels. Focus a couple of your people on the following level up tree:
Chemist Lv2 > Priest Lv2 > Oracle Lv2 > Mediator.

Then you'll have the Invite ability. About the time you do this you should also start seeing humans pop up in the random battles you're fighting. At this point you start actively inviting every human opponent you can. The maps will be a bit of a slog early on but once you recruit a couple people off the map you'll get:
1. some powerful new characters already leveled up.
2. all the scaled up equipment they had, without having to pay for it.

I've done this to a net levels of about 30 for Ramza or so and then rolled over the rest of the game without much effort. Whole lot of one hit kills.

 

[chogidogs]

My solution was ninjas and samurais.

 

[Manmademan]

Everyone telling you to use calculators are half right. They can obliterate the entire board in one turn if they choose, however they're slow as all hell. The battle could be over before you get the chance to use them, and they take forever to level in combat.

Take a mage unit (black, white, time), turn them into a calculator and send them out on "jobs" when in town to earn jp that way. They'll max out in no time. switch them back to a mage, then add the calculate skill. they'll be able to cast any spell with no wait time and basically infinite range. just don't blow yourself up and you can cruise through the game with nothing to stop you.

edit: holy absorb gear combined with spamming holy makes it impossible for even blowing yourself up to happen, so yeah- calculate plus holy=win button

 

[TheShampion]

Getting a ninja as soon as you can (maybe in the first chapter?) always made the game really easy for me. I could have been all the grinding for me to get there in the first chapter though.

 

[zoukka]

Why do you need to "break" it? It's not a hard game outside one certain boss battle.

 

[flowsnake]

I remember barehanded ninja with the skill that makes fists stronger and maximum brave being broken.

 

[BassForever]

Tailwind ramza can solo the entire story campaign easily

 

[Masaki_]

Two words: Blade Grasp.

 

[Shinjica]

1) Have Ramza learn Heavy armor from knight job
2) Transform him in Monk or ninja
3) equip heavy armor perk
4) ???
5) Profit

 

[batbeg]

I just want to know when the fuck this hits Android. I've been waiting forever!

 

[Boss Doggie]

tbqh monks with double weapon is more dangerous than ninjas with bare fist.

Other notable broken stuff include auto potion -> X Potion, Holy calculation + holy absorb garb, all dancer with invisibility + ramza mime with vanish reaction

 

[Karsticles]

Calculators, baby. Calculators.

 

[Skunkers]

Monk
Squire as secondary skill
Two Swords as passive skill
Hamedo as reaction skill (Or Blade Grasp for random battles)
Teleport/Move+X/whatever as move skill

-Use Accumulate/Focus every turn you have nothing to do, even going as far as to stay in place at the beginning of the battle; doing it while you wait for the enemies to come to you.

-Use Wave Fist on single enemies you can't reach for melee, or Earth Slash where two or more are lined up.

-Use normal attacks on anyone you can reach; the bonus from repeatedly raising your attack power with Focus/Accumulate, combined with the innate high physical damage monks do, combined with the fact you hit everything twice with Two Swords, means you will basically one shot everything.

-If your physical attack is high enough, even your Wave Fists will one shot enemies.

-Because you have Hamedo, any enemy that tries to physically attack you will get murdered before they even get a chance to attack, because Two Swords applies to Hamedo as well. I said use Blade Grasp for random battles, because Hamedo doen't work against monsters; most of the story battle have mainly human opponents.

-Chakra lets you self-heal

This build positively wrecks shit through the entire game, with a bit of grinding you can easily have it in Act 1.

 

[zoukka]

This build positively wrecks shit through the entire game, with a bit of grinding you can easily have it in Act 1.

And then fall asleep as you proceed in the game.

 

[Riposte]

This is like asking "How do I breathe?"

 

[badcrumble]

It's hard NOT to break FFT (which is a big part of why I love it so much).

But yeah, just give Ramza Blade Grasp, 97 Brave, Two Swords, and Move+3/Teleport and give him two knight swords (absolutely give him the Excalibur as soon as you get Orlandu in your party - sorry, Orlandu!) and he becomes nearly immune to physical attacks and can run around one-hit killing practically everything you encounter.

Also, abuse Yell/Accumulate if you're having a hard time early on. Ramza with both of those skills (and good movement) can pretty much wipe the floor with entire encounters singlehandedly even early in the game once you take a couple of turns to beef him up.

 

[Skunkers]

And then fall asleep as you proceed in the game.

He asked how to utterly unbalance the game, so I have no idea what your point is.

 

[Arukado]

Ninja+Monk job. 2 fist attacks. Everyone dead.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Replace Hamedo with Blade Grasp.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Calculator. Game over.

 

[SniperHunter]

Break the game you say?

And yes, it involves ninjas.

yup ninja is the best class. this game is amazing.

 

[suikodan]

Break the game you say?

And yes, it involves ninjas.

Wow, subscribed for a later read as I'm currently stuck at THIS ^^ exact point in my game.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

Calculator absolutely destroys the game. You should be able to find several strats using only Ramza to beat FFT.

First post. Also pretty early on you can box an enemy in with your party and have do a heal, hit, heal, hit, rinse repeat to your heart's content to level up.

 

[FlashbladeGAF]

I leave one enemy alive and weak while I have my party stand in a square hitting each other gaining EXP with every action

 

[Alias Greed]

Just leave 1 enemy alive per battle, heal yourself as required and spam accumulate skill from the squire I think it was. You'll max out all your Job Points in an instant.

 

[Druz]

Break the game you say?

And yes, it involves ninjas.

TO be fair, when I fought him on my first playthrough our signs were fine.

Second playthrough I had to manipulate how the AI would attempt to subtly get closer but not too close... so I'd move around in a loop to chip away at his health. I had to do it this way because my astrological sign was weak to his, his strong to mine. Bad luck.

 

[antitrop]

Just want to say fuck Wiegraf, that's all.

He breaks the game's balance pretty well...

 

[kirblar]

The named chars obliterate balance all by themselves

 

[RobotHaus]

Wow, subscribed for a later read as I'm currently stuck at THIS ^^ exact point in my game.

Uh-oh... you might need to restart if you saved a little too late...

 

[Vamphuntr]

That fight is so easy if you have squire's skills and high movement. Spam squire skills that increase your stat and kill him in one hit.

 

[robovanburen]

 

[Boss Doggie]

Just want to say fuck Wiegraf, that's all.

He breaks the game's balance pretty well...

Wiegraf is very easy to exploit.

Have Ramza be a chemist (so he wields a gun) with auto-pot X pots and equip armor and Squire skills. Spam Accumulate and Yell as you run around.

 

[Tizoc]

Break the game you say?

And yes, it involves ninjas.

That boss fight was a PAIn to win when I fought him, and this is just hilarious lol.

 

[Palette Swap]

If memory serves, ninja x yell x accumulate fucks everything up.

 

[shark sandwich]

2 Black/White/Time/Summoner mages with calculate ability
1 Ninja (or other melee-type character) with dance ability
2 Mimes

Every calculated spell gets repeated 3 times. Every dance gets repeated 3 times. Use your Ninja to go in and mop up whatever's left of your enemies by the time you reach them.

Notes:
- Holy is the most powerful calculate-able spell
- The only two dances I ever use are slow dance (permanently reduces an enemy's speed by 1 every time it hits), and nameless dance (does a random status effect every time it hits)
- Calculator is the worst class in the game. You should not be playing as a calculator. Just learn all the calculate abilities and put them on a different mage-type class.
- Actually, you can put calculate on whatever class you want. Pretty much nothing can withstand getting nailed by Holy 3 times in a row, regardless of your magic attack power.
- Holy-absorbing gear is great. Then you can indiscriminately fire off Holy and heal your characters at the same time as a bonus.