I know very little about programming or the mechanics of this game, but something creep'd into my mind after reading your posts about the Archer issue: What about other skills instead of the Engineer, such as Oracles, Knight Swords or Beowulf's skill set?
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Just rumaging aroudn the forums and I came across this that might help: "The only thing taken the abilities are the effect and the ability Y. Since those status spells it would be doing damage WP * 0 and inflict no status. It could be hacked to shoot status spells but the vanilla coding would not allow such a thing to happen." -Pride (ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=9917.0)
What I understand from this is that the skills used by Archers are, I think, WA based; so, if what Pride says is correct, then I guess the skills will not proc and not allowing you to cause a status ailment.
:EDIT:
Just rumaging aroudn the forums and I came across this that might help: "The only thing taken the abilities are the effect and the ability Y. Since those status spells it would be doing damage WP * 0 and inflict no status. It could be hacked to shoot status spells but the vanilla coding would not allow such a thing to happen." -Pride (ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=9917.0)
What I understand from this is that the skills used by Archers are, I think, WA based; so, if what Pride says is correct, then I guess the skills will not proc and not allowing you to cause a status ailment.