Final Fantasy Hacktics

You forgot to factor in faith.

Using your numbers, starting at 170 (just as an example, dunno what real values are). 70 faith to 40 faith -> 47%.
Again, using your numbers, 170-25+11 (from the MA*2) -> 156, 70 faith to 40 faith -> 43%.

That's 4% reduction in success rate. Not even close to 25%

From what I've heard, if the values weren't lowered, 70 faith to 70 faith was around 90% with paralyze. I think it's ok.

Removing Ultima 2 would be best. Far less likely to catch and massacre a whole team this way. Ultima should keep its current AoE. Then redirects are still possible (and deadly).

It's Zodiac in Japanese (English pronunciation).

Question 1
Should we have 3 move monsters(Chocobos, Goblins, etc in vanilla) or seperate moveset monsters(Ultima Demons, Apandas, Worker 8 )? Seperate moveset monsters will mean the removal of Monster Skill and Monster Talk.
[X] - 3 move monsters
[] - seperate moveset

Question 2
Should monsters be able to equip Weapons/Armor/Accessories?
[] - Yes, to all equipment
[] - Yes, Armor and Accessories only
[] - Yes, Weapons and Armor only
[] - Yes, Weapons and Accessories only
[] - Yes, Weapons only
[] - Yes, Armor only
[] - Yes, Accessories only
[X] - No

Question 3
Should monsters be able to equip a different secondary?
[] - Yes, using the human generic abilities
[] - Yes, using a special list of secondaries for monsters
[X] - No

Question 4
Should monsters be able to equip different reactions?
[] - Yes
[X] - No, reactions are set like 1.3
[] - No, only reaction they get is Counter


Question 5
Should monsters be able to equip different supports?
[] - Yes
[] - Yes, but only Attack Up/Defense Up/Magic Attack Up/Magic Defense Up
[X] - No

Question 6
Should monsters be able to equip different movements?
[] - Yes
[X] - No

Question 7
Should monsters be limited to 2 monster classes per team?
[] - Yes
[X] - No

We already have our base in 1.3 monsters. From there, remove elemental weaknesses (except for the undead ones - I don't think you can do anything about that anyway?) and give all monsters at least ~300 HP. Now, instead of having 3 tiers of each monster type, we only have 1 tier. These monsters would have 5 abilities total - 4 that are spread through the three tiers in 1.3, and one monster skill. Each monster's monster skill will likely put the monsters relatively even with generics in terms of power. We can tweak from there.

I'm surprised my Scholar in critical didn't Murasame herself back to health. Healing is normally the first thing they do...

New team.

Warn was a mistake. If it could be removed? >_> Doesn't matter, really.
Also, why did my Bard move into the Ninja's range to get redirected by the Ultima? *sigh*

I'll toss in a new team as well.

Draw Out damage is really bad. 18 MA Wiz with MAUP and Ele boosting (30 effective MA) is doing... 39 damage. Neutral compat, target is neutral to the element in question. What happened?

Team updated.

Give it to Thief? They'd be "stealing" their strength/whatever, kinda like Thieves in Disgaea 2 (and maybe D3?). They'd 'steal' someone's health (inflict Poison), sanity (inflict confuse), etc.
But then Thief becomes the old Knight skillset-wise.

Mediator? They're convincing the target that they're becoming weaker/slower/stupider/etc.

Er, I meant the cross AoE, like the lower tier black magics. I guess single target could work.

Not really, unfortunately. Well, what if we reduced the AoE to that of the other black magic spells? (AoE 1 instead of 2) It'll be much harder to catch (and promptly blow up) 3-4 members of a team.

I'm with Logus on this one. Even if we make a new skillset, at least keep Jump around, cause it works and is useful. Something like Level 4 Jump and Vertical 4/5 Jump.

Hmm. I'm leaning on Fire/Ice/Bolt 4 as being a bit too powerful. Right now, more damage, more range (summons still only at 3 range?), same AoE as Bahamut, the strongest damaging summon. Being evadable isn't a huge factor - ~0-20% evade (averageish), depending on shield and/or mantle. Max M.Ev setup with Abandon gives 84% M. Ev, 51% evade without Abandon, but that means very low P.Ev/lower stats/no status or elemental immunities. Low faith units still take a decent chunk (the first Fire 4 would've done ~140 to my 40 Faith Knight without Venetian Shield). Low HP moderate-high faith units will get one-shotted/close to it (Monk in critical, I think Sage died? definitely in critical at least), two or three in a row on a clumped team = death. Unless Venetian Shield/White Robe/lucky elemental absorb gear. I suppose that's the main deterrent, especially since Venetian Shield will be rather common.
18 MA Wizard with MAUP and ele boosting (30 effective MA) and 70 Faith will do 268 to a 40 Faith unit (neutral to element).

I'll just throw this out there. It's not as good as I thought it was.

Doesn't really matter, item users will either buy both potions now, or stick with just buying X-Potion. On most units, X-Potion will heal more than Hi-Potion anyway.

Calcs seem fine - JP costs will really kill them, and I guess they'd be more like Bards/Dancers in this environment (heavily specialized role).

Mimes: Counter Flood is a nice blanket reaction that takes advantage of their stats.
Last Song should also be 33% - even if LS hit on the Singer, what good does that do? They're not going to change actions. It's one unit sacrificing his turns to give his teammates more.
X-Potion is fine. If people really want it nerfed, I think 120 would be good.

Hmm, Lore might be ok now that we're back to 3/4 move. I wouldn't mind if it was taken out though. We'll see...

I agree with everything else though.

Another thing to keep in mind (although you all are likely aware of this) is that any given ability, particularly R/S/M, has an extra 250 JP attached to it. So tweak JP costs with this in mind.

Oh, Protect 2 and Shell 2 need their JP costs slashed. In my opinion, Wall outclasses it by far.

Knightswords are fine. Yes, Always: Protect/Shell is quite powerful, but they don't get shields. Shields are very interesting and useful in Arena and can be just as powerful.

Congratulations Kaz! I didn't expect to see so much damage off of your archers. Well done.