Unit starts battle with some statuses on

[DrBreen]

Hello everyone,again.
Again i want to ask noobish question-is there a way to make unit start battle with some statuses on it but WITHOUT equipment causing this status?
For example,i need to add petrified super-boss in battle with easy opponents.
Is there a way to do this via FFTPatcher? Or i need to ASM this?

[Dome]

Edit his class and give him a starting status

[DrBreen]

Well,that was the first thing i thought.
But this is a problem-this unit shows not only in this battles. So,making him Start:petrified will affect whole game,and that=bad.
Is there a way to add status on him in only one battle?

[philsov]

sacrifice an item slot, make the item initial:petrify, and force it onto him for that fight.  I'd suggest stone gun but that may be way too much damage for when this battle occurs.

[RavenOfRazgriz]

Better yet, duplicate the class of your super-boss and make the duplicate have Initial:Petrify if that class is meant to appear without Initial:Petrify later on in the game.  There's plenty of Job space you can do that in.

[DrBreen]

Thanks very much! This methods was obvious,but i didn't wanted to waste an item. But solution with job is better. So,if i would change some Bi-Count or Draclau job,it wouldn't mess up the scenes with them?
Teta have innate:dead,but scenes with her are ok,same will be with innate:petrify bicount,i think?

[RavenOfRazgriz]

You can just change Draclau's Job in the ENTD if that worries you.  Set them all to use, say, Ramza's Chapter 1 Job.  If they don't appear in battle, their job is irrelevant, so technically all those cutscene-only Jobs are empty spaces for you to use.

[DrBreen]

No-no-no,you misunderstood me because of my HORRIBLE English.
I meant,if i'll add Innate:Petrify to cutscene-only job,that wouldn't end up in a glitch like petrified Draclau in a scene when he transformes to Queklain?

[RavenOfRazgriz]

No-no-no,you misunderstood me because of my HORRIBLE English.
I meant,if i'll add Innate:Petrify to cutscene-only job,that wouldn't end up in a glitch like petrified Draclau in a scene when he transformes to Queklain?

I don't know.  I don't think the game applies anything like Statuses until the start of battle regardless of whether they're Always: or Initial:.

What I'm saying though is to just change Draclau's Job.  He doesn't NEED a unique job if he only appears in a cutscene.  If you're worried that may glitch, change Draclau's Job to something else for the cutscene, like my recommendation of Chapter 1 Ramza.  Doing that has no effect on him because you can force his Sprite to be Draclau regardless of his job.  You can literally gut the Jobs of every cutscene-only character in the game for your own devices.

[DrBreen]

Hm,this makes sense.
Ok,i'll do it that way.
Summarizing everything-it's possible only via editing unit's job. Doing it via ENTD is impossible.
Thanks,Dome and thanks,Raven!