Final Fantasy Hacktics

Most things seem as they should be here.

SKILL SETS
SQUIRE: For some reason, Masamune is listed after Ultima despite the fact that Squire shouldn't have Masamune at all and that Samurai already, appropriately, has Masamune. (Also, someone said that they saw Squire having MP Switch, but it doesn't show up for me when I look in FFTPatcher.)

TIME MAGE: Assuming that Sunken State is what was made into "Chrono Trigger", Time Mage actually does have it in its RSMs. As such, I'm not sure why it doesn't show up to some people, unless people are just saying it doesn't show up in the Master Guide, which is currently true.

NINJA: This however does still have Sunken State in its RSMs, so I'm not really sure if this is "Chrono Trigger".

Most things are as they should be here given that most of them were left to their redundant vanilla states.

That said, there is one important thing missing here: ISC 9 IS STILL ALL BLIND RATHER THAN ALL DON'T ACT & HASTE; ALL DON'T ACT & HASTE OTHERWISE DOESN'T EXIST.

Geez, you really don't have any space left here. Originally I thought you had maybe up to 5 or even 6 spaces left, but that was due to my forgetting about the items associated with them. Then I thought you had maybe 1 left, but that's because I completely forgot Initial: Haste belonged to Masamune (despite being the one to suggest the current 138 Katana alongside Raven).

Anyway, nothing is "wrong" here per se. As such, I'll mostly just be pointing interesting things or things I was uncertain about (at one point):


ITEM ATTRIBUTES
05. Initial: Haste. [WHAT HAS THIS STILL IN ARENA?] [Masamune]

11. Always: Reraise & Slow; Immune: Dead, Undead, Haste & Death Sentence; Initial: Regen. [WAIT; WHY DOES THIS HAVE INITIAL REGEN? AND WHY IS THAT NOT SHOWN ON THE FORUMS WHEN PHOENIX BLADE IS ALREADY SUSPECT.] [Phoenix Blade]

25. Absorb, Half & Weak: Holy; Immune: Dead & Death Sentence. [MUST BE CHAMELEON ROBE; DOOMED IMMUNITY ISN'T SHOWN ON FORUMS.] [Chameleon Robe]

2A. MA +1; Immune: Silence. [WHAT STILL HAS THIS?][Aegis Shield]

36. Absorb: Water; Immune: Dead, Silence, Berserk, Sleep & Death Sentence. [THIS SHOULD HAVE HALF & WEAK WATER AS WELL MOST LIKELY.] [Defense Ring]

39. Immune: Dead, Blind & Death Sentence; Initial: Reraise. [DEATH SENTENCE IMMUNITY NOT ON FORUMS.] [Angel Ring]

3A. PA +1, MA +1; Absorb: Earth; Immune: Oil & Slow. [GREAT. I ALMOST SKIPPED THIS. LIKE THE NEW DEFENSE RING, THIS IS ALSO LIKELY MISSING HALF & WEAK EARTH.] [Diamond Armlet]

3F. Always: Protect. [WHAT IS THIS USED ON?] [Cherche]

40. Speed +2. [WHAT IS THIS USED ON?] [Javelin]

42. Move +2. [WHAT IS THIS USED ON?] [Germinas Boots]

43. Always: Shell. [WHAT IS THIS USED ON?] [Setiemson]

45. Strengthen: Water. [CURRENTLY NOT USED ON ANYTHING DUE TO AN ERROR WITH CORAL SWORD.]

46. Immune: Dead, Confusion, Silence, Chicken, Poison, Slow, Don't Move & Death Sentence. [THIS REALLY "ONLY" BLOCKS DEAD, SILENCE, POISON, SLOW & DON'T MOVE.] [Barette]

I actually did these last given I figured they'd take the longest, even moreso than Abilities. Having did equipment backward and Abilities only slightly beforehand, I was proven correct.

I also figured that these would have the most errors, which I was also proven correct on. Given all you had to change over, though, there are still only a moderate number at best. So good job.

Some of these are related to things that are only errors in the Master Guide as well. Also keep in mind that, as I said, I couldn't see the modified "proc" rates of any of these, someone else needs to check those at least:


KNIVES [IN FFTPATCHER]
02 Dual Cutters: [PROBLEM: P-EV IS 5% INSTEAD OF 15%.]

03 Repel Knife: [PROBLEMS: P-EV IS 5% INSTEAD OF 15%; ISC for All Don't Act & Haste doesn't exist.]

04 Mage Masher: [PROBLEM: P-EV IS 5% INSTEAD OF 15%.]


NINJA SWORDS [IN FFTPATCHER]
0B Hidden Knife: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

0C Ninja Knife: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

0D Short Edge: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

0E Ninja Edge: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

11 Iga Knife: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

12 Koga Knife: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]


SWORDS [IN FFTPATCHER FOR ALL BUT RUNE BLADE; IN MASTER GUIDE FOR PHOENIX BLADE AND LAST TWO.]
13 Phoenix Blade: [PROBLEMS: SHOWS UP AS ON FORUM AS 10% EVADE INSTEAD OF 25%; HAS INITIAL REGEN UNDER IA #11; IMMUNITY TO DEATH SENTENCE ALSO NOT SHOW UNDER IA #11.]

18 Coral Sword: [PROBLEM: HAS IA #00 INSTEAD OF IA #45.]

1C Shieldrender: [PROBLEM: HAS 10% P-EV INSTEAD OF 5%.]

1D Ice Brand: [PROBLEMS: STILL HAS ONLY 13 WP, NOT 14; STILL CASTS ICE 2 (NOW WATER) INSTEAD OF ICE (ICE 2).]

1E Rune Blade: [PROBLEM: TWO HANDS SHOULD BE YES AND TWO SWORDS SHOULD BE NO ON FORUMS.]

1F Lionheart: [PROBLEMS: TWO HANDS SHOULD BE YES AND TWO SWORDS SHOULD BE NO ON FORUMS; STILL USING ISC 10 TO INFLICT FROG WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE ISC 00.]


KNIGHT SWORDS [IN MASTER GUIDE]
25 Chaos Blade: ["PROBLEM": RERAISE IS SLIGHTLY MISPELLED HERE AS "RERIASE" ON THE FORUMS; THAT'S ALL.]


KATANA
ALL CLEAR.


AXES
ALL CLEAR.


RODS [IN FFTPATCHER]
35 Flame Rod: [PROBLEM: STILL CASTS FIRE 2 (NOW NETHER FIRE), INSTEAD OF FIRE 3 (NOW FIRE 2).]

36 Ice Rod: [PROBLEM: LIKE ICE BRAND, STILL CASTS ICE 2 (NOW WATER) INSTEAD OF ICE (NOW ICE 2).]


STAVES [IN MASTER GUIDE]
3E Rainbow Staff: [PROBLEM: SHOULD BE NON-ELEMENTAL ON FORUMS SINCE IT'S NO LONGER ALL ELEMENTS.]


FLAILS [IN FFTPATCHER]
43 Sadist's Whip: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

44 Spiked Futon: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

45 Aspergillum: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]

46 Scorpion Tail: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH 2 HANDS.]


GUNS
ALL CLEAR.


CROSSBOWS
ALL CLEAR.


LONGBOWS [IN MASTER GUIDE]
57 Windslash Bow: ["PROBLEM": PLEASE STATE HURRICANE IS WIND ELEMENT EVEN IF IT SEEMS UTTERLY OBVIOUS.]


HARPS
ALL CLEAR.


BOOKS [IN FFTPATCHER]
5F Necronomicon: [PROBLEM: HAS ONLY 5% W-EV INSTEAD OF 10%.]

60 Monster Dict: [PROBLEM: HAS ONLY 5% W-EV INSTEAD OF 10%.]

61 Papyrus Plate: [PROBLEM: HAS ONLY 5% W-EV INSTEAD OF 10%.]

62 Madlemgen: [PROBLEM: HAS ONLY 5% W-EV INSTEAD OF 10%.]


SPEARS [IN FFTPATCHER FOR TWO HANDS EXCEPT HOLY LANCE; IN MASTER GUIDE FOR BRACELETS]
64 Spear: [PROBLEMS: PLEASE SHOW BRACELETS USE MA*Y WITH Y = 8; STILL USABLE WITH TWO HANDS.]

65 Mythril Spear: [PROBLEMS: PLEASE SHOW BRACELETS USE MA*Y WITH Y = 8; STILL USABLE WITH TWO HANDS.]

66 Partisan: [PROBLEMS: PLEASE SHOW BRACELETS USE MA*Y WITH Y = 8; STILL USABLE WITH TWO HANDS.]

67 Obelisk: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH TWO HANDS.]

68 Holy Lance: ["PROBLEM": PLEASE SHOW HOLY BRACELET'S FORMULAS AS WITH THE OTHERS.]

69 Dragon Whisker: [PROBLEM: STILL USABLE WITH TWO HANDS.]


STICKS
ALL CLEAR.


BAGS
ALL CLEAR.


CLOTHS
ALL CLEAR.

These are all as they're supposed to be from my checking. I could have missed something, but they all seem fine.

These all also seem entirely fine. Only things to talk about here would Hair Adornments, which I'm going to leave alone until 139 as I said, and Chameleon Robe. Please note that Chameleon Robe is immune to Death Sentence via IA #25 in the Master Guide.

These are similarly all also seemingly fine aside from a few Item Attribute things that were pointed out earlier, at least when it comes to things I want to discuss right now:


RINGS [IN FFTPATCHER FOR DEFENSE RING; IN MASTER GUIDE FOR ANGEL RING]
DC Defense Ring: Absorb: Water; Immune: Dead, Silence, Berserk, Sleep & Death Sentence. [PROBLEM: IA #36 DOESN'T HAVE NEUTRALITY TO WATER ON ITS ABSORPTION, THOUGH THIS CAN'T REALLY BE ABUSED ANYWAY SINCE NOTHING IS WEAK TO WATER.]

DF Angel Ring: Immune: Dead, Blind & Death Sentence; Initial: Reraise. ["PROBLEM": NOT NOTED AS BEING IMMUNE TO DEATH SENTENCE ON THE FORUMS]


ARMLETS [IN FFTPATCHER]
E0 Diamond Armlet: PA +1, MA +1; Absorb: Earth; Immune: Oil & Slow. [PROBLEM: IA #3A IS SIMILARLY NOT NEUTRAL TO EARTH, WHICH IS A GOOD DEAL MORE POTENTIALLY ABUSIVE DUE TO GOLD SHIELDS BEING WEAK TO EARTH. PLEASE FIX.]

I almost forgot to note these since I did them first of all the equipment. Everything as it should be here, including that neat Potion "trick".

I did these second to last because I figured they would take a while, which they did. I'll still be doing this by class/job of course rather than just listing individual skills by their lonesome. Again, these don't count RSMs' JP cost even though I looked over the JP costs of all active abilities:


SQUIRE [IN MASTER GUIDE?]
1. THROW STONE HAS VERT 2 INSTEAD OF "0" IN FFTPATCHER.


CHEMIST
ALL CLEAR.


PALADIN [IN FFTPATCHER]
1. RERAISE ONLY HAS RANGE 3 INSTEAD OF RANGE 4 AND CT 0.


ARCHER [IN FFTPATCHER?]
1. GIL TAKING (COVER FIRE) USES FORMULA 32, WHICH MAY BE SLIGHTLY STRONGER THAN INTENDED IF THE 3 WASN'T EDITED OUT OR ELSE Y SHOULD REALLY BE 67, NOT 70.


MONK [IN ????]
(1. MONK has very little changed and I'm not even sure if it's still supposed to be quadratic or go (doubly?) by Fury, so I "skipped" it.)


PRIEST [IN FFTPATCHER]
1. IS REGEN STILL SUPPOSED TO HAVE JP COST EQUAL TO 50 NOW THAT IT'S AOE 2?

2. THE AI'S BEHAVIOR IS STILL CHECKED OFF TO MAKE IT THINK THAT WALL IS AFFECTED BY FAITH.

3. DIA STILL IGNORES SILENCE DESPITE BEING IN WHITE MAGIC(K) NOW.

4. HOLY HAS CT 4 INSTEAD OF CT 5.

WIZARD [IN FFTPATCHER FOR NETHER SPELLS, BOLT, POISON'S JP COST AND FROG'S AI BEHAVIOR; IN MASTER GUIDE FOR ALL ELSE]
1. APPARENTLY ALL NETHER SPELLS ARE STILL CHECKED OFF AS BEING "AFFECTED BY FAITH" IN THE AI'S BEHAVIOR, WHICH KINDA DEFEATS THE POINT.

2. FIRE 4 (Now BOLT) USES UP ONLY 8 MP INSTEAD OF 17 MP.

3. BOTH FIRE 4 (Now BOLT) AND BOLT (Now NETHER BOLT) ARE STILL EVADEABLE AS THEY SHOULD BE DESPITE WHAT THE MASTER GUIDE SAYS (OR DOESN'T).

4. SIMILARLY, POISON IS STILL SAID TO BE EVADEABLE IN THE MASTER GUIDE WHEN IT (UNFORTUNATELY) NO LONGER IS.

5. MEANWHILE, FROG IS STILL EVADEABLE DESPITE WHAT THE MASTER GUIDE SAID.

6. FROG'S AI BEHAVIOR HAS ITS CANCEL STATUS UNCHECKED FOR SOME REASON, WHICH MEANS THAT AI WILL (PROBABLY) NO LONGER USE FROG TO "UN-FROG" ITSELF IF FROGGED. GRANTED THAT IT'S RARE, BUT IT SEE NO POINT IN HAVING CHANGED THIS.

7. POISON'S JP COST STILL SHOWN AS 50 JP ON FORUMS DESPITE BEING MOVED BACK UP TO 150 JP IN FFTPATCHER? OR IS IT REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE 50 JP LIKE THE IMPROVED REGEN WITH ITS 50 JP COST DESPITE AOE 2?


TIME MAGE [IN FFTPATCHER FOR ALL BUT BALANCE; IN MASTER GUIDE FOR BALANCE]
1. HASTE STILL HAS NO VERTICAL INSTEAD OF THE VERT 1 IT HAS DISPLAYED AND SHOULD NOW HAVE.

2. SLOW SIMILARLY STILL HAS NO VERTICAL INSTEAD OF THE VERT 1 IT HAS DISPLAYED AND SHOULD NOW HAVE.

3. REFLECT (SINKHOLE) ONLY DOES 20% DMG, NOT 25%.

4. BALANCE'S MP COST IS INDEED ALREADY CHANGED TO 15 (FROM 24); IT JUST IS ACCIDENTALLY IN THE ELEMENT COLUMN ON THE FORUM.

5. DEMI 2'S CT IS STILL 6 INSTEAD OF ITS NEW 4 CT.


SUMMONER [IN MASTER GUIDE?]
1. MOOGLE'S MP SHOWN AS 3 MP IN MASTER GUIDE WHEN IT IS 9 MP IN FFTPATCHER.

2. ODIN IS INDEED INCORRECTLY LISTED AS NOT BEING DARK ELEMENT NOW.


THIEF [IN FFTPATCHER]
1. HOLY EXPLOSION (HERETIC) DOES NOT HAVE "TARGET MAP" IN ITS AI BEHAVIOR AS ACCUMULATE AND ALACRITY DO AND ITS AI BEHAVIOR SAYS THAT AFFECTS HP AS WELL.

2. (Gaignun pointed this out) STEAL ACCESSORY IS STILL BEING AFFECTED BY PHYSICAL EVASION DESPITE THE MASTER GUIDE SAYING OTHERWISE.

(3. IS BAD LUCK'S ISC 78 SUPPOSED TO SEPARATE, WHICH IT CURRENTLY IS, OR RANDOM?)


MEDIATOR
ALL CLEAR.


ORACLE [IN MASTER GUIDE?]
1. BLIND STILL SAYS THAT ITS MA IS MULTIPLIED BY TWO IN THE MASTER GUIDE.

(2. SPELL ABSORB...NEVER ORIGINALLY CHECKED FOR UNDEAD REVERSE? HUNH.)


GEOMANCER
ALL CLEAR.


LANCER
ALL CLEAR.


SAMURAI
ALL CLEAR.


NINJA [IN FFTPATCHER?]
1. ITS RANGE IS 6 IN FFTPATCHER WHEREAS IT SHOULD ONLY BE RANGE 5 NOW ACCORDING TO THE MASTER GUIDE.


SCHOLAR [IN MASTER GUIDE]
1. MAELSTROM IS INDEED WATER ELEMENTAL, JUST NOT LIST AS SUCH IN THE MASTER GUIDE.

(2. IS BIO 3 SUPPOSED TO USE ISC 59: SEPARATE UNDEAD?)


BARD [IN MASTER GUIDE?]
1. LAST SONG'S PERCENTAGE IS 34%, NOT THE ADVERTISED 50% (THANKFULLY).


DANCER
ALL CLEAR. (ASIDE FROM FFMASTER NOTICING THAT MAYBE HE DIDN'T LET THE MODIFICATION TO 1D ADD STATUS.)

As aforementioned, I'll inevitably be repeating some things here that I've said over the past week (or more). This is not because I like to nag you, though that's a perk, and more because I'm too lazy to want to look up things right now given how long its taken to type things up as it is, including this.

That said, I'll first state what I'm not going to talk about here: Headbands/Hair Adornment balancing, Hidden Knife vs. Sasuke Knife, Harp balancing, Stick balancing, Sprint Shoes and Quickening. All of that stuff can wait until 139 or at least a later version of 138:


1. First and foremost, please uniformly change all instances of "Darkness" to "Blind" (or vice versa). As I've said before, I prefer "Blind" to "DarknesS", but ultimately I just think it would nice to have consistency.

2. Related to that, given the pattern I noticed, please both note that all equipment that blocks Dead (currently) also blocks Death Sentence. That seems more a lot more efficient than just stating offhand that you're not (?) using the "Death Sentence ignores Black: Dead" hack.

3. This is extremely nitpicky, but when it comes to status, please change Necromonicon's instance of "Add: Zombie" to "Add: Undead" given that Undead is the name of the status and Zombie the name of the spell. There's enough potential confusion with the various "Add: Petrify/Sleep/Stop" instances without that being part of it.

4. If Oil does indeed get around absorption, please note that somewhere visible.

5. Similarly, please note the formulas for the Bracelet/Breath procs on Spears and, even if it's obvious, that Hurricane is Wind elemental (if you meant it to be). You did it for most things after I nagged you for months (and interestingly did it for Magic Ruin, despite that being a usable ability people can clearly see the formula of), so I think it's "fair" to ask you to do for everything that isn't readily useable by the player/AI.

6. I'm not sure what Regen and Poison are actually supposed to cost after noticing the differences between them in FFTPatcher and in the Master Guide. However, I think I may have a compromise: Please make them both cost 100 JP since there's really no reason something with AoE 2 should be 50 JP. If you want to make them both 150 JP, though, please feel more than free to do so.

7. Somewhat related to that, I take back what I said about Kiyomori possibly needing a "nerf" after remembering it was AoE 1 and no longer AoE 2; I'm now ambivalent as to whether it is affected by magic(k)al evade or not. That said, as discussed, please make Bizen Boat subject to magic(k)al evasion.

8. Please change Alacrity's name to "Focus". People seemed to agree that "Focus" seemed better than "Alacrity", at least given what "Alacrity" does. If you really must use "Alacrity" for something (and really is a nice word), then you could use it for Critical Quick or even Speed Save, which would make more sense really.

9. Please, please, "nerf" Dia a bit. It really needs at least a CT or something now that it's part of White Magic(k), especially if Holy itself is evadeable. It certainly at least needs to be subject to Silence now that it's part of White Magick; personally I think that Reraise should still be subject to Silence even if it's part of Paladin now, but that might just be me.

10. And we'll end an extremely nitpicky note: Please change Ramia Harp to Lamia Harp. I've nagged you about that probably the longest of anything, but you only got around to changing Oberisk to Obelisk. It's terribly unimportant, but it just seems quite...inconsistent to fix one of them and not the others. (That said, I can understand not fixing the other Book names or the Bracelet names.)