A total noob asks a lot of questions.

[Jon]

I think Counter and Counter Magic works better. Counter Flood doesn't really make any sense to me, they are Mimes not Geomancers. Damage Split also is a fine choice, but Counter+Counter Magic just seems cooler. If you get rid of Monster Skill, just plug it as an innate on Squires or something like that.

@Philsov: Thanks for that table. It is really helpful, this will help us all in the long run!

[DaveSW]

More noobish questions:

I am in the process of turning Mediators into Assassins. Several Use Hand skills aren't appearing as usable in battle, but appear in the skill list as normal.  What am I doing wrong?

What is the easiest way to increase the amount of JP enemies have to spend on skills?

Thanks.

[VampragonLord]

do you want them to be FORCED to USE more money to acquire individual skills? or did you want them to have more jp available? more jp available, use the ENTD to bump up their "jobs available" and set it to mime/calc or something like that.
if you want their skills to COST more, use the fftpatcher to make ALL skills cost more.

[Melancthon]

I've always loved the idea of a Blue Mage in FFT.  Here are some suggestions for Monster Skills I'd like to see.  Listed MP costs are just estimates, obviously.

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Self Destruct (Bomb Family)
1 MP

Blaster (Coerl)
18 MP

Odd Soundwave (Squidlarkin)
12 MP

Throw Spirit (Ghost Family)
10 MP

Pooh- (Uribo)
6 MP

Leaf Dance (Dryad Family)
12 MP

Ice Bracelet (Blue Dragon)
15 MP

Mimic Titan (Sacred)
18 MP

Bad Bracelet (Great Morbol)
25 MP

Bio 3 (Queklain/Apanda)
30 MP

Hurricane (Monster Skill only)
30 MP

Dark Holy (Archaic Demon)
50 MP

I think this gives you a good variety of damage and status attacks as well as ease/difficulty to acquire.

[DaveSW]

Been a while, but I figure it is better to ask a new question in a an old thread then add more topics.

Spell guns.  Any way to change what 3 spells they each fire off?

[Eternal]

Through ASM, yes.

Or, a slightly different way is to change what spells are in Fire/2/3's, Ice/2/3's, or Bolt/2/3's slots.

[DaveSW]

So, a Russian roulette gun that randomly casts Cure 4, the uber buff spell that Alma has, and Death is entirely possible, just by switching the spells in those slots?  Awesome.  Oh, and congrats on winning the Admin position, I would have voted, but I am a noob here.

[Pride]

The death spell actually won't actually use the formula correctly (it'll do damage like 100*WP) and, further, magic funs cannot use status magic.

[DaveSW]

Oh.  Damn.  Will cure still work correctly?  100 *WP would still be instant death on anything it hits though...  I figured it wouldn't ever miss, so that is just as broken.

[Pride]

I'm not certain about cure... I've never tested it.

[DaveSW]

Ok... So, any way to raise a monster's Magic Evade?  Would forcing monsters to equip mantles work?

Also, I was thinking of creating a FAQ that would answer all of these basic questions.  Would that be a good idea, or just a waste of time?

[Pride]

Yeah the only way to increase the magic evade would be to force a mantle on them through the entd which they would lose at the end of the battle.

I think creating a faq is always a good thing to help out users that are looking for answer, though, a search on the forums would generally answer most of the basic questions.

[DaveSW]

Ok, so what determines which piece of equipment gets targeted with break skills?

[Pride]

The spots are hardcoded, you can only,correctly, use the ones that were originally the break skills. I believe (I haven't tested) if you use a slot outside of the original ones, it won't do anything and will display a 00% chance of doing something.

[DaveSW]

I did some testing, looks like all break skills can share both break formulas. Changing one to the other works just fine.