This section is for discussion on skill changes as well as new skills that have been created.
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Changes to existing skills:
Silf now does wind damage with a chance to cause silence.
Leviathan - Removed
Salamander - Removed
Return 2 - Renamed Return, now auto targets all enemies.
Demi - Renamed Gravity, AoE 0, success rate 100%, Darkness elemental
Demi2 - Renamed Gravira, AoE 0, success rate 100%, Darkness elemental
Truth/Un-Truth skills removed
Bio - Damage value equal to lvl 1 black magic, only the green version exists now.
Bio2 - Renamed Biora, Damage value equal to lvl2 black magic, only green version exists now.
Bio3 - Renamed Bioga, Damage value equal to lvl3 black magic, AoE 1, only green version exists.
Toad2 - Removed, Toad 2 is now Bioja, AoE 2, damage equal to lvl4 black magic.
Blind2 - Removed, Now Shadow Flare, AoE 2 Blue Magic
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New Skills:
-Alternate Black Magic/offensive elemental magic-
Aero - Wind lvl1, AoE 1
Aera - Wind lvl2, AoE 1
Aeroga - Wind lvl3, AoE 1
Water - Water lvl1, AoE 1
Watera - Water lvl2, AoE 1
Waterga - Water lvl3, AoE 1
Quake - Earth lvl1, AoE 1
Quakera - Earth lvl2, AoE 1
Quakega - Earth lvl3, AoE 1
Quasar - Darkness, AoE 2
Griaviga - Darkness, AoE 1
Gravija - Darkness, AoE 2 AkA Gravi2
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Cross Sword skillset:
Venom Blade
Moon Scraper
Delta Petra
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Duelist Skill:
removed
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Barret Skillset:
Big Shot
Hammerblow
Satilite Beam
Angermax
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Aeris Skillset: removed
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Sword Spirit Skillset:
same as "Draw out" except the skills cost mp instead of risking a katana.
also, Bizen Boat does hp damage and the same amount of hp damage as Muramasa, only it also has a chance to case "death".
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Beatrix Skillset:
Thunder Slash - Looks like bolt3 with a sword slash (physical damage)
Stock Break
Climhazzard (red omnislash)
[Shock]
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Cure - alternate cure spell "tainted with darkness". slightly stronger than the normal cure and can also heal undead.
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Evercure - Water elemental, full cure can be cast on 1 target anywhere on the map.
Wrath of Land - Draw out radius, earth damage to all targets in area except caster.
Cyclonic - Draw out radius, wind damage to all targets in area except caster.
Incinerate - Draw out radius, fire damage to all targets in area except caster.
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New "Starry Heaven" skills:
Hasten - Hasten on all allys 50/50 chance success per target
Delay Order - Slowga on all enemies 50/50 chance success per target
Return - Set enemy CT to 0 50/50 chance success per target
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Enemy ONLY:
Fascination - Charm all enemies 50/50 chance success per target
Overcast - Blood Suck all enemies 50/50 chance success per target
Osmosis - regenerate a large amount of MP instantly. target self only
Roulette - 100% chance Death OR Quick global targetting
X-Zone - Using the "dark/evil looking" status in combination with Vanish and Wall. This will render the unit unusable for the rest of the fight. its almost like Petrify except you cannot be recovered from it and it has a death counter
Curious, is Ignis skill set MA or PA? Is it stronger than the original Draw Outs?
currently MA based like normal draw outs, they are slightly stronger which means Elmdor will be more dangerous as well.
Cool but requires MP.
yep, asura will be really cheap, from there they start going up.
but Im gonna post job setups for all characters, youll see that she's well equipped for having high mp
But I do admire that Bizen Boat animation. Its so pretty.
Now the monster skills are somewhat weird. Like that Quakega that the Sacred do. I was thinking it would be like the Titan animation but just no picture of Titan
the thing about that is, it looks so ultimate
thats why its not updated yet. a new effect file will have to be created for Quakega and Watera
I wonder, is it possible to make custom animation...
ive made a few, but i need a less, extreme quake effect file for lvl3, so ill work on it later.
How did you make that Bizen Boat animation. So lovely!
any skill that uses effect files can be assigned any other effect file with fft patcher. i could have made accumulate or throw stone look like it if i wanted to lol. Btw im thinking of making them use a different animation than raising their hands since no weapon is there being drawn out.
OK! What animation you had in mind? The Samurai Draw Out?
that is merely an arm raisng animation as well almost the same as spellcasting. Ill experiment with a few things, like the shadow stitch animation and such.
I found that the animation for Pitfall fits very well into the Demi/Gravi skills.
Just tossing that out there n' stuff.
thanks, i think it will look good as a lvl1 gravity spell, bumping demi's effect to lvl2
That's what I did. ^o^ Hehe.
A Quasar is the brightest object in the universe.
that doesn't make it good or evil
but since the effect file im using somewhat resembles one anyway plus it looks close enough to be used for this. that is what i have chosen
Edit:
Okay so this is what the "sword spirit" would look like if i gave them the same animation that "shadow stitch" uses, instead of the draw out animation.
the caster here is Ignis of course.
That looks pretty cool to me.
That's beautiful, Zoz.
thats Bizen Boat, the one that doesnt require a weapon to draw out.
using the crouch animation.
Bizen Boat is deadly. Damn deadt status
when you tested that battle did it actually inflict "Dead" sometimes? i havent tested it enough times to get the status infliction.
btw i fixed all the name text, and gave the Draw Out quotes to those versions of the skills.
btw check the newjobs, post for Ignis, i posted a screenshot of her new setup. Shell come with Salty Rage and Cachusa (which gives a better hp/mp bonus than originally
OK. Yea it inflicted Dead on Rad and Sever. I was shocked
good, glad to see it worked as i was starting to wonder if it was ignoring the status infliction.
also, im going to have to make something random use "muramasa" if Ignis is to get it blue mage style since u get her after the point where you have stormed limberry. I also converted the skills to a PA formula, however I'm not real content with using formula 2D. id prefer a special ASM hack for Damage = PA*Y, and Heal = PA*Y for murasame
Does it do more than Draw Outs?
Cant you make her like have her class mastered when you get her in the DD?
i can make her first class mastered with lvl8 job but she wont have anything else unlocked but like chemist and knight and archer.
or i can make her Class mastered with lvl1 (which would look tacky)
and have her set to lvl something samurai or whatever else unlocked.
Better yet, she has all the classes unlock.
hmm lets see the closest i can get to that... either what? dancer? or ninja or something like that i guess?
Dancer at best
also, ill probably allow more of those skills to inflict status. probably will exclude the strongest 2 attacks tho. so that leaves asura and koutetsu
more new skills:
New dance for enemy dancers
Mystery Tap - You'd think its the same thing as "last dance" however,
It's more like grand cross in terms of success.. watch out!
New Song for enemy bards
Lullaby - Actually an enemy targetting bard song. Sleep at all enemies.
Deis will have access to this skill as well.
Roulette [Harlequin/Joker] - Targetting all enemies, a 50/50 gamble, either Death or Quick
Fascination [Harlequin/Joker] - Charm single unit anywhere on the map (ignore's gender)
Evercure - Heal 100% hp to any one unit on the map! (which enemy only character gets this? not decided. [This could also be altered to be a weaker healing spell (like cure2 ish) that Cleric type jobs have]
Ragnarok - DEB's knight sword "draw out" [this skill might be taken out]
Overcast - Target all units, if dead, revive them as blood suck status
testing a "spear" skill for Monica
Hmm...that's nice ^^
Suitable for a spear skill ^^
i couldnt recolor "icewolf bite" so i copied the image from icewolf and pasted it into hellcry punch and the recolored it. icewolf looks like a spearhead in my opinion
Hey Zozma, just wondering...Can a skill effect like example, Cyclops, been edited to show only the glass effect and without the cyclops image?
yes they can, if you use a tyler program you can delete the image without removing the rest. vanya did it with leviathan and i did it with salamander
Oh...i see. Nice ^^
True...Icewolf bite effect looks exactly like a spearhead, which is suitable for your spear skill ^^
Oh...i see. Because i'm trying to use cyclops effect but without cyclops image.
And what is tyler program?
perhaps "tyle layer pro" the images are distorted, you have to be careful not to remove the data portion of the file
So, erm...how can i edit the effects? ^^
Can you tell me how, Zozma? ^^
Oh...i see.
So, to remove the image portion, just delete them or ...?
Omg....what is this???
Why all dots and black?
I thought it would show the image of the effect??
0.o
Also, if i change cyclops effect, that would affect summoner's skillset right, since cyclops is summoner's summoning spell
Hmm....Can you help me Zozma? ^^
you could remove it from the summoner skillset and change the animation so that it looks like a normal spell.. all of this requires using a hex editor tho.
Yes...but then summoner won't be having cyclops summoning spell right?
So by changing the animation effect for cyclops, summoner can't use cyclops effect for cyclops' spell as there will not be showing cyclops image.
And how to remove the image?
Using tyle layer pro?
well if u have a picture of the cyclops effect somewhere, then look in tyle layer pro and see the distorted shape of cyclops and remove only that
Sorry Zozma...But I still don't quite get what you mean.
What do you meant by "a picture of cyclops effect" ?
Meaning I should screenshot cyclops image?
Also, using tyle layer pro, what file should be open?
battle.bin?
Erm...here are some pictures...
The first picture is I opened battle.bin file
The second picture is I go to offset "2CEEE" which is cyclops hex animation.
Now, which is the tile for cyclops image?
I'm really sorry Zozma but i'm really confused.
Can you help me?
Really sorry to bug you like this...
k, well...
zoom it out as far as it will go, then stretch the window as far vertically as you can and scroll down, you should see images further down...
now you may have to adjust how wide it is horizontally to reveal a solid shape. thats different for every file. anyway, compare the picture of Clops here, you will see that the clops picture is at the bottom corner.
when you scroll down to the bottom in TLP you can see the distorted shapes of the images that are along the bottom. notice you can see clops, next to the same circles and energy effects as in the picture.
It is sometimes hard to tell where one image ends and the next one begins, of course its a bit trial and error but you can just replace all of his section with black squares and you wont see the clops picture anymore.
Oh....i see. Need to stretch to see the image....Ahaha ^^
Kk. Thanks alot Zozma. I'll try it.
By the way, not open battle.bin??
Open files from effect folder?
Just another out of the area idea, but maybe you could recolor Flare 2 to Grey/Black/White Tint and make that Shadow Flare instead of Blind 2.
Not a bad idea ^^
Shadow flare ^^
Sorry again Zozma but is E079.bin is clops?
And how do you get the image of clops effect like that?
0.o
That's great ^^
there is some program that displays the images as bmps but you cant edit them that way.
cant think of the name right now.
as for "shadowflare" that is easier said than done. for one thing we dont know how to change what color the screen tints to so it would remain red.
besides, i plan to use the more stunning "blind 2" effect file for shadowflare.
Oh...i see.
Then i should open effect files?
And do you know clops is which effect files?
Is it E079.bin? Or is that other spells effect?
yes 79
Oh...i see.
Ok...i've zoom out till the max and i 've pull it vertically and horizontally till the max.
This is what i get...
So...is that thing with horn is clops?
yes it is, but notice how you can see 2 clops there? make it the size horizontally so that you can only see 1 clops. and then you can remove it all at once.
Oh...okay okay ^^
Thanks alot Zozma ^^
Sorry for causing so much troubles to you because i'm really noob at this.
I've been editing some text, skills, and sprites so far.
Never before edit such.....err....much more complicated things.
I like clops effect...So planning on using it as skill but without the image of clops ^^
Really.....thank you so much for all your help Zozma ^^
Hope i able to do it correctly ^^
no problem. most ppl haven't tried to edit effect files.
Effect files are pretty much the most unexplored thing to hack in ffh...
Ah...i see ^^
Well, thanks again Zozma.
Hope i able to do it correctly ^^
Hey Zozma ^^
Just wanna thank you again for helping me out ^^
And sorry for all the troubles i've caused.
Here....I've done it correctly, thanks to you ^^
thats pretty interesting, does it look pretty good/ stand alone ish without the image?
Well, the truth is, it looks abit funny due to the camera focusing at the top which is suppose to be clops image.
Now that i've removed it, its empty there but the camera still focus at there...So, its abit funny though.
But anyway, still really appreciate all your help ^^
If not, the above image wouldn't be like that ^^
Thanks again Zozma.
I really like the glass breaking effect of clops. That's why i edited it ^^
yeah looks nice. (leviathan and salamander looks perfect)
Ahahaha. I wish clops camera focus like leviathan or salamander, which is the whole map ^^
Anyway, i will still use it cause really nice effect ^^
Btw, Vanya use leviathan effect for water spells and you used salamander effect for fire spells? ^^
Any glass spells? ahaha ^^
Clops....lol.
And, again, thanks alot for your help Zozma ^^
yep, turned leviathan into "flood" for the dimension magic skillset
and salamander is a "incinerate" one of Lavian's spells
testing some tainted "white" magic
damn, i used too dark of indigo for "cura" gotta lighten it...
watera test
Hydragon pit medium bubbles/palette, base effect bio2
waterga test
Hydragon Pit large and medium bubbles/palette, base effect file, bio3
those water spells look completely awesome!
thanks, so with these 2 and counting the flood spell, which is leviathan without the picture
i now have all 4 water spells and all 4 wind spells
all i have left of the elements is lvl2 and 3 earth spells, but that could prove to be a challenge
These look outstanding Zozma. It's things like this, little details and extra work, that will make a project like this really stand out when it is all ready to go. The attention to detail and the effort put into every aspect is awesome.
thanks ^^ hope you enjoy it when the time comes
experimenting, i think im going with the second one from the top
what spell is that?
whatever it is the top one looks the best,but without know ing what it is it's hard to judge...
actually the top one doesn't look as good becasuse it doesn't have any texture, the second one and on has that cloudy look which is what a tornado should have
this skill was originally "finish touch" but its been turned into "cyclonic"
Looks good.
in that case,the second one does look best
updated the first post on skills
Very cool effects Zozma. You are starting to get me interested in this stuff.
its pretty easy, snespal lets you find the address of the color then you can easily recognize the 200 bytes that is the color palette. ive copied one palette and pasted it into another, (still doesnt change the tinted screens but still)
cura try number 2?
The first looks best for the purpose, in my opinion. The red coloring makes me think of blood mages and the like some patches are using/plan to use.
yeah... something is off about this tho, still working on it
testing out X-Zone
you cant save them! mwahahahahaa
i dont know if im going to keep it as a skill or not since their counter's dont go down... so theres no way to make them crystalize with this status but you cant revive them for the rest of the fight either
Seriously tho, two new status altering skills
X-Zone, Banish, and Transmute
Banish - i think you guys have seen this spell on other patches, i plan to use it as well. a 50/50 chance of getting crystalized instantly.
Transmute - almost the same as banish, however, its a 50/50 chance of being turned into Treasure
X-Zone - Ideally i want the crystal/treasure counter to decrease, however, at this time the status causes the CT to freeze. The unit's status cannot be viewed and the unit cannot be revived. You do not lose the unit permenantly but you cant revive them during the battle. (i might instead use "wall" in combo with "dead" to make them unsaveable
I am also considering altering some spell names of the 4th tier
Firaja = Conflagration
Blizzaja = Absolute 0
Thundaja = Thunderstorm
Aeroja = (Already 'Tornado')
Quakeja(lol) = Earthquake
Flood = Torrent or Maelstorm
Catastrophe sounds cool, I ended up using that name for a new Black Mage magic using the Cherry Blossom animation and getting rid of Cherry Blossom.
Catastrophe doesn't sound very fiery to me. Inferno, maybe? Solar Flare? Banefire?
Instead of Thunderstorm, how about... Rolling Thunder? Just tossing out some ideas. I like Absolute 0 for Blizzaja though (and this patch, it's looking good).
hmmm CT you're right, i haven't used "inferno" anywhere
Melt is the alternate lvl4 fire spell but only Lavian has it (and hashmalum and generic desert sorcerers)
as for Thunderstorm vs Rolling Thunder, im not sure yet but it might work especially with the way the effect file works.
im sure ill find a place for "catastrophe" too somewhere...
thanks guys
Conflagration is better than Inferno, IMO. It is less cliche and overused at the very least.
but i think it makes more sense tho. I'm simply trying to make separate the 4th tier since they are the ultimate of the level
A vote for Conflagration.
well... ill consider it :O
I agree, Conflagration is a great word.
Why the post of the man shouting the alarm?
oh i put it there temporarily to show how many units were piled up in there
wow really cool spells bro I cant wait 2 play
I'll throw some ideas in whenever the hell I get some time to think of any lol :p
ill put out an alpha patch for ppl to test out as soon as i go thru each entd battle one by one. the story stuff will be fucked up, but it will mainly be for the battle testing
Sweet. Looks freaking awesome. Can't wait for it.
Edit : That's so sick...hey an alpha/beta is awesome and will really be awesome...testing it is always a good idea
its primarily changes to battles, skills, and available characters.
The story isn't completely altered, only so to the extent of working around the characters you were normally not supposed to get. (or those who weren't supposed to last as long in the game hehe)
Edit:
Moonscraper test AoE 1, damages like a sword skill + sleep
Great work, Zozma! I'll have to ask you one of these days for a few of those new files, that is a fantastic piece of work!
it's pretty much a recolor, in certain effect files such as this one, you can make it practically any color you want. the red mist,however, is using an unknown source for its color palette so i cant change that.
Sword skill effects are relatively large as well, but as i mentioned before, i converted all the oracle skills to use the effects of the magic sword versions since those are not in my game. This effect in the screenshot was inserted into the slot that normally held the large version of "pray faith", I also had space to insert barret's Satillite beam which is a red version of the normal ultima.
I like it
I got an idea but im not quite sure how it could work.
I was wondering if perhaps there was a way to make certain skills, some custom sword skills, get stronger when "bare hands" is equipped and still include weapon power in the formula
sounds odd im sure, but it would be to put a unique spin on those skills.
4 more skills probably enemy only
Vermilion Sand - Earth elemental tornado, sometimes causing petrify
AoE - All enemies
Overcast - Revive all of the caster's dead enemies as Vampire status.
AoE - All enemies
Enlighten - Bolmna's talk skill Faith + 40!
AoE - Single ally
Love Token/Fascination - Multi target Charm 50/50 chance
AoE - All enemies
Overcast is an awesome ability idea, I like it.
Oh st. ajora, I'm having Hell's Gates flashbacks from Last Remnant!
As nice as Overcast is... it's impossible, because you Cannot Revive and Apply, the game doesn't work that way. Since to revive you need to Cancel: Dead.
thx for that, i will find some way to work it in. perhaps itll have to be random chance
Since there's at least one formula that is specifically designed to target undead, couldn't you just alter it to target dead instead? Assuming of course that it looks for the status. I've never tried zombifying then petrifying enemies.
hmm but it would be so perfect if one of the revives could add status
Quote from: "SilvasRuin"Oh st. ajora, I'm having Hell's Gates flashbacks from Last Remnant!
the last remnant, where!?
Quoteit's pretty much a recolor, in certain effect files such as this one, you can make it practically any color you want. the red mist,however, is using an unknown source for its color palette so i cant change that.
You'd you did that Sir Zozma?
yeah, its pretty easy, just takes time
I see. You edited it using Tile Molester?
no, all i did to THIS one was change the color palette with 'snespal'
but ive used tile layer pro for moving images from one effect file to another
And Watera and Waterga are recolored bio2 and bio 3 spells however, i also used tile layer pro to paste in the bubbles from "hydragon pit" the recolor was to match the bubbles
I am also planning on pasting in the "allure" heart and the "steal heart" gfx into a bio2 spell to create the multi targetting Love Token/Fascination spell
Wow, that sounds interesting. Very nice ^^
Multi spell effects for a spell effect, sure is looking great.
"Gather Power"
Isn't there a better name for it than that? Raising PA+2
what about "Rage" or something? any ideas
Rage is good, in the effect the sacred turns red right? that would make sense.
How about Ire?
possible synonyms:
-Outburst
-Wrath
-Fury
-Uproar
-Frenzy
-Rampage
no, the effect looks kind of purple
I think "Bellow" is fitting for replacing Gather Power. It means "to roar in the manner of a bull."
hmm maybe Fury, Wrath or Rage
I like fury
Rage!!! FEEL MY WRATH OF DEADLY FIST!!!!
updated first post listing all of the new and changed skills
Sword Skills...
Okay soooo there are sooooo many of these sword required skills its crazy... Now that zodiac has designed an ability requirement hack I was considering making some of them work with more than just swords.
The following will all include Swords, Knight Swords, Katanas, and Ninja Blades:
Holy Sword (5 skills) + ???
Dark Sword (4 skills) + Axe
Mighty Sword (4 skills) + Spear
Cross Sword (3 Skills) + Dagger
---Spellblades---
Destroy Sword (5 skills) + Rod, Staff
Fearblade (4 Skills) + Rod, Staff
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---In additon to this, these skills will require specific weapons excluding swords---
Battle Skill - All short range weapons + Guns
Punch Art - Bare Hands
Nibleung (3 Skills) - Spear Only
Assassination (6 Skills) - Gun & Crossbow only
Gun Arm (4 Skills) - Bare Hands
---Single Skill- (these don't display a weapon strike)
Ground Hit [Gin] - Mace
Cyclonic [Zozma] - Axe
Incinerate [Lavian] - Ninja Blade
Evercure [Deis] - Harp
Gigaflare [Monica] - Spear
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So, will all the skills be the same or there'll be some alterations?
they are pretty much the same, however they allow the user more options as well as limit certain skills: for example, Mustadeo's "Blast" skill can only be used with guns
Wait, isn't that's what it has been all the while? Can blast be use by other weapons? Sorry because I don't know.
It's that various abilities can only be used by certain weapons. Blast would be Gun exclusive. Likewise, you could have something like "Vorpal Thrust", which would be Spear only.
It's about making abilities have more options of limited equipment than just swords. It's like how Meliadoul could equip spears and crossbows, but that disabled her sword skills. This is allowing units to be specialized, and gives the "Equip _______" a purpose.
QuoteNibleung (3 Skills) - Spear Only
I dunno if it is typo or not, but it should be Nibelung if you are aiming for VP reference. You want to use Lenneth?!
I also were thinking about Barret. Will he use guns, or will he have like two exclusive weapons only for him that will enable his skills?
I mispelled nibel yes, it is correct in the game however.
And I may use Lenneth as a DD random special if she is ever completed, however, I already have a story character with that job "Monica" who appears in 2 scenes in chapter 1 and then a battle in chapter 3 and chapter 4. I am very interested in that Sprite being completed, I do need a powerful DD miniboss random so she would be great since i already have a valk job in my game.
"Vorpal Thrust" i like that, i think i just got a name for my 3rd skill of hers
Nibelung Skillset:
Vorpal Thrust (ch3&4)
Thunder Thrust (ch3&4)
Triple Thrust (ch4)
Thunder Soul (ch3&4)
Thunder (ch3)
Thundara (ch3&4)
Thundaga (ch4)
Thunderstorm (Thundaja) (ch4)
Gigaflare (ch4)
(note: Rubber Boots are are rare item like most accessories and you are likely to have 1 at most by this point in the game. Don't think for a secont that your going to get off easy when you duel Wiggy either! )
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Secondary for chapter 3 battle: (+non-charge)
"Magic":
Cura
Curaga
Raise
Regen
Wall
Dispell
Confuse
Sleep
Osmosis
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Secondary for chapter 4 battle: (+non-charge)
"Magic":
Curaga
Curaja
Arise
Reraise
Regen
Wall
Dispell
Confusion (confuse2)
Slumber (sleep2)
Osmosis