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Final Fantasy Tactics is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It is the first game of the Final Fantasy Tactics series and was released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998. The game combines thematic elements of the Final Fantasy video game series with a game engine and battle system unlike those previously seen in the franchise.

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How increase success rate of spells in Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lions?

I was wondering how to increase the success rate for Black Mages or Mystics when casting spells.
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How can I max black mage efficiently

The black mage job requires alot of JPs. I tried maxing it but sending only Ramza, I thought i would kill all enemies but one and send him retreating with low HPs so i could use focus. However I am ...
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Why are Ramza and Agrias "Gilgamesh Vanquishers"?

The upcoming banner for Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (global) is "Gilgamesh Vanquishers". Included in this banner are Ramza (FF Tactics), Agrias (FF Tactics), Snow (FF XIII), Exdeath (FF V), and Bartz (...
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How are the human enemies generated in Final Fantasy Tactics?

What determines what abilities human enemy units have in Final Fantasy Tactics?
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Can you find an item more than once with Move-Find Item?

In Final Fantasy Tactics for the original PlayStation, you can use the "Move-Find Item" ability to find hidden items. If you find the common item on a particular tile, can you play through that map ...
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FFT:WoL, First battle is just me and Delita, no back up?

Since it is Cyber Week on Android, and FFT:WoL was at a just abordable price, and my PSP is almost dead, I brought it. The controls are... quirky, but the intro battle goes fine, first chapter begin, ...
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Can my characters age?

Can I level up my characters without the game time affecting their age? I'm asking that because before going into a new area, I level up my character skills. When they are strong enough, I go to a ...
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Do guest characters gain AP during battle?

I'm playing the mission in which Ritz makes her appearance. Her clan member died and I'm not sure whether I should bother reviving her or not in the case she may gain AP and join my roster.
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In Final Fantasy Tactics do I get Job Points for the job I currently have or the job I am currently practicing?

I'll illustrate with an example: I have a chemist lvl. 6 whose second ability is 'Black Magic'. When this chemist during battle uses black magic spells, are these job points earned for the chemist job ...
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Is there any way to recover an old iOS save file? [duplicate]

I played Final Fantasy Tactics on my old iphone and got 20+ hours into it. I then went to android and am now back to iphone (please, let's not start a flame war!) and I was wondering if there is any ...
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Most efficient Chapter One JP farming?

I just picked up FF Tactics for my iPhone and haven't played it in years. I seem to recall that it's highly beneficial to farm a fair amount of JP and develop 2nd or even 3rd tier classes some before ...
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Is there a way to boost Rise and Arise Hit Rates?

One of the problems I have with Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the lions is how Rise and Arise work, most of the time their hit rate is just over 50% and even when I had it over 75% it still kept ...
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What is the difference between "Final Fantasy Tactics" and "FFT: War of the Lions"?

First, see here: (PSN - Final Fantasy Tactics) ...and here: (PSN - Final Fantasy Tactics - War of the Lions) I don't have a Sony system, but I do own an iPhone. From the App Store, I have downloaded ...
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What determines the level of random encounters?

Playing FFT I've noticed that random encounters scale up with the level of the party -- meaning that trying to 'safely' train up a new soldier gets tricky when he's level 2 and everyone else on either ...
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What ways are there to accrue JP?

Aside from the obvious answer of "effectively use skills while in that particular job", but I also notice that when new jobs come available the characters that can change into them already have some ...
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Are the class requirements different in Final Fantasy Tactics for the iPhone?

I bought the iPhone version of Final Fantasy Tactics, and I just levelled my Thief to 3 and my Monk to 3. It was my understanding that at this point the Thief could upgrade to a Lancer and the Monk ...
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When unlocking the Onion Knight, do already-mastered jobs count towards its job level?

I understand that: The Onion Knight job is unlocked when you've raised both Squire and Chemist to job level 6. The Onion Knight doesn't raise its job level using JP. Rather, for every two jobs you ...
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Is there a correct list of job classes for Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions on iOS?

The lists for Final Fantasy Tactics I've found online are wrong or, at least, appear to be. I don't know if they changed the way some of the later classes are unlocked since the PSP version, but I've ...
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Why does my Final Fantasy Tactics Samurai do so little damage?

I'm playing the iPhone version of Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions and I've got a level 25 samurai as one of my characters. He's doing significantly less damage than I would expect a class of ...
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What influences the success rate for "errands" in Final Fantasy Tactics?

In FFT, you can send three-person parties off for a few days to fufill optional errands. Sometimes they come back with cool items, sometimes with lots of money, other times with not much to show for ...
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Does Final Fantasy Tactics have noticeable slowdowns even on the iPhone 4S?

Reviews of FFT for the iOS all seem to complain about erratic smoothness due to frequent graphical slowdowns. Here, for example, is a review of the game as played on an iPhone 4. Has anybody played ...
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How to permanently raise/lower Bravery/Faith stats in Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions?

I've recently started playing FFT: WotL on iOS, and learned from the wiki sites that the Bravery and Faith stats determine various important factors in combat (frequency of reaction commands, ...
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