Ranking EVERY Job in Final Fantasy Tactics

[@squadesforest]

Thunder God Cidofulous Orlandeau is completely broken, can solo the game as soon as you get him, and that's exactly the kind of legend he is.

[@FlamingBeefCat]

47:58 balthier with a holy lance with holy boosting accessories. Barrage can proc the holy cast from the lance too.

[@shaunblomquist7089]

Stumbled on your stuff a few days ago. Love it. Just ordered a new charger for my psp to give this game another run. Ive tried many times since i was a kid, but have still have never beat the game. Here we go!

[@TitaniumLegman]

@@shaunblomquist7089 you can do it, I believe! It's such a great game from start to finish.

[@shaunblomquist7089]

@@TitaniumLegman i last played 10 years ago. I made the mistake of saving before the Wiegraf/Belias fight and couldnt beat him with my party, but was locked in. Gonna start a new file and try again from the start.

[@stevepeririez]

Same here

[@beamstalk6475]

so many people have softlocked themselves at the Wiegraf fight, including myself once

[@tygerfisk7519]

In the 97 fft id put "i can hold a gun" into calc tier since it just be comes the fastest and most effective 400 dmg a turn with ez setup, id also put mediator in calc tier because any character whos faith you drop to 3 is magic immune, that means they beat calculators... and all other magic/status stuff. Thats inssssanely strong also ramza can beat cid if ramza can run away for 3 turns

[@dillonkarchnerNBCU]

Dance skill is great for leveling up JP for another class. Damage variation has such low CT, it can fully level up a calculator in no time, making up for the calculator's slow speed.

[@NoName-w4j3t]

I always put Squire ability as backup for Accumulate for lvling. Priest never hit so hard

[@SamuelGlory]

Just started another playthrough of FFT, it's been about 10 years. Thank you for having a helpful video about this in 2024 lol.

[@TitaniumLegman]

@@SamuelGlory any time chief! I have a bunch more stuff planned for the future, but for now, enjoy your new run!

[@noone3972]

Cloud has an insta death move btw, takes time to charge which is why I understand it not being higher. Olan - though technically unplayable unless using a gameshark was the most OP character class EVER. The squid has a nice confuse type move used at range which is OP and dangerous to fight against, the Marbol has a spores option which can FORCE any playable character that is NON-UNIQUE to turn into a Marbol and be lost forever as it is now a Marbol, it was cool - would have liked to see the HIDDEN monster moves always active in fights against them, how fun.

[@lichenshadow]

Now I wanna restart a run just to see how fast you can get dark knight jp up the whole way

[@AWeakPrinny]

I've only had a few opportunities to watch your videos, but I've been a FFT enjoyer since it's NA release on the PSX. The game is an absolute masterpiece, both in terms of storyline and the strategic development involved in the combat. If you haven't yet already done so, I'd like to see what you think the most overpowered skill and/or item combinations that are relatively easily attainable are. For example, the Manafont and Manashield combination - you need to get two fairly cheap skills on two mid-game classes. I'd say that's probably the best bang for your buck, but I'd be curious to see if you have anything in the noggin I haven't yet seen or used.

[@damianwarneke305]

I like Monks with the Jump skill, like they are a master of the flying kick. Archers with a chocobo who can fly them to a safe locale and assist in range makes them shine a little better. Slap time magic onto them and have them charge after they stop enemies. Or use oracle magic.

[@Sweis86]

My one change personally would be Dancer at A or S, Specifically Nameless dance. The debuffs and status effects ranging from Frog to Stop and sleep, blindness on a physical unit or even slow, can effectively remove enemies from the map for several turns, constantly barraging them. Most of the status debuffs will stack really nicely. the only time it slows its effectiveness is as you kill enemies on the map. I find their weakness specifically being during solo big bosses. But for any map that's got like 4+ enemy units, it always feels so worth it to have the dancer.

[@mattross7743]

Fully agree. Sit them down somewhere and watch the enemies become frogs in mass.

[@NoName-w4j3t]

Yeah - dancers are great.

[@penguinhero5533]

Mimics are definitely Caculator-tier. It mimics the calculator and then the entire rest of the team. It's effectively 4+ units in one.

[@dillonkarchnerNBCU]

It's really funny having 2 mimics and 3 dancers. Chip away at their health pretty quickly. No walking required.

[@atmosdwagon4656]

3:19 While I agree with that in my heart, my head knows it's dead wrong, sadly. Because the RTA Speedrun of Final Fantasy Tactics Any% rushes directly to Calculator and uses it to trivialize most of the game.

[@TitaniumLegman]

I don't follow your meaning.

[@atmosdwagon4656]

@@TitaniumLegman Calculator (or rather, its Math Skill) is so overpowred it is the primary job ability used to beat the game as fast as possible. This is done in spite of the intended grind-heavy access to get it rolling. I don't like it, because it makes the game rather boring after a point, just watching the same 3 spell animations melt everything on the map. But that is what gets the world records for FFT.

[@MrShanester117]

@@atmosdwagon4656 You have extremely poor comprehension

[@atmosdwagon4656]

@@MrShanester117 Your hollow projection means nothing without substance.

[@ValeVin]

Whenever I level up the mime class, I pair it with dancers, bards, or even calculators. Mincing Minuet does okay damage to the enemy team, but what if every time it went off, the mime also went off with the same dance? Speed down, attack down... except that it "echoes" from the mime on the board. Meanwhile, don't mimes hit like a monk? So the mime is off punching stuff but also echoing every dance, song, or calculator. That's my simple-and-easy mime levelling trick that makes them rock =] I do prefer the spymaster, Fell Seal's version of the mime, though it's a hidden class for Reiner. Basically, the last attack an enemy uses is available for the spymaster to also use. So if a dragon uses fire breath, the spymaster's mimicry slot changes to fire breath on his turn, and you can decide if you want to do that or do something else.

[@hitothelivingdrawing1035]

I feel like something that should be taken into account more is the cost for unlocking skills, and if the passive skills are worth using. for instance mystic is not only good for the reasons stated but also because the support skills are essential for any mage. Summoners go through their mp bar extremely quickly so being able to regain mp anytime they move or are attacked with magic is pretty useful even if it’s not that useful on mystic itself. (Also dancer unlocking all the dances is easy because they’re incredibly cheap)

[@denali1566]

Your pillow has white specks that draw the eye to the dark specks on the white chair cushion and it made my phone look dirty at a glance.

[@TitaniumLegman]

My applogies

[@denali1566]

@@TitaniumLegman it was just for the intro really nbd, I enjoyed the video tho.

[@josiahcasteel1564]

Have to say if chemist is S tier then Squire is at least B tier, Focus or Accumulate is absolutely necessary for proper power leveling.

[@wcdhockey02]

Level Agrias as a ninja... weaknesses overcome. She'll get much higher speed and attack. Switch her back to holy knight at lvl 99 and boom, you have someone almost as strong as TG Cid... especially in WotL, where she gets access to some of that OP female only equipment.

[@FKGafgarion]

They so need to do a ps5 remake also knight is op pure melee builds and monk is one of the best ways to get max level very early game just a + formation and constantly heal over and over again. Probably the best game ever made beside 3 world war sega cd lol.

[@nikkof5384]

For anyone curious about a DK SSCC, it took me about 2 days to grind DK using spill over JP and having Ramza as a Black Mage with Blizzard nuking himself and the enemy I was looking to kill. Edit: Originally I made a claim about what counts for the 20 kills. I have not tested it personally and near then end of my grind things got blurry so I will just say my Ramza killed ~24 enemies that’s corpses expired. And was the last kill 4 times(these bodies cannot crystalize). I defer to the standard crystal method to avoid misinformation. I suggest just cheating to unlock it but if you really want to here is my advice to do it prior to Dorter: Emulating because speed up and save states so you aren’t sitting grinding the same battle for hours. 2 squire+ 2 chemist intro. Kill delita and box in the chemist and grind him until all 5 characters have Black Mage, 4 generics can afford JP up. I wouldn’t bother with accumulate yet. Your 4 generics should have potion+ Phoenix down by the 2nd fight. Clear 2nd fight asap, I promise you have plenty of fights to focus crystals. Stock up on potions and phoenix downs, teach Ramza blizzard, and go grind your black mages in a random encounter. Have Ramza kill himself+any goblin with Blizzard reviving him with Phoenix downs. Put 3 Black Mages down the 3 elemental lines and one to focus on reactions/support with stragglers getting Frog/Death/Flare. Next random battle, crystallize all 4 Black Mages and eat them to master Black Mage. If killing the last monster with Ramza awards>30 Exp split this into 2 fights killing the last monster in a suicide attack to avoid leveling. Be aware crystal abilities are generated when you confirm moving on top of it so resets required(or save state if you aren’t a purist). Hire 4 new generics and restock your items. All squires and reset if they don’t all have points for potion+Phoenix down from hiring. Grind them while Ramza suicide bombs again(encounters should be level 1 again). This time accumulate+jp up. 4 generics become knight. Grind knight to at least level 4 on Ramza. You should have enough JP on your 4 generics to get mastered knight once we crystallize all 4 of them. If possible make it so you only need 3. All 4 generics become monk. Because your encounters will be level 20+ eventually accumulate and chakra+revive will be our primary grinding efforts. Grind monk until Ramza is level 5 monk. You will no longer need items. 4 archers, 3 with Martial arts secondary to grind more and accumulate on 1 as your designated map ender. Same thing Ramza to level 4 archer. Teaching all 4 characters adrenaline rush will allow you to go quasi-infinite. 4 thieves. Speed makes this easy, should be close to 20 kills on Ramza on this map. Same idea just may have to soften monsters or only kill goblins with Blizara. Grind until Ramza is thief 5. Short fight, get as little exp as possible. 2 Geos and 2 lancers to unlock Samurai and Ninja on Ramza. Last map. 1 of each Geo, Ninja, Samurai, and Dragoon. Get Ramza to level 8 on all classes with the ninja as your accumulating demon until 99 atk then have them kill one of the others and revive them. You will need 12000 JP to get to level 8 from spill over in each class. This will take a long time. After Ramza has 2 classes reach level 8, crystallize the one you don’t need and get all their Knight skills. Same as once 3/4 and 4/4. Should be Ramza and with mastered knight and all other reqs finished this map. If you aren’t emulating/save state scumming your crystals. Clear the map and enjoy trying to get those crystals on the next random encounter. Kick your last generic(the one you don’t crystallize to master Knight who should clear map) to bring your party level back to 1 and realize you should have just cheated in the class before Dorter. Yes I know the level down trap exists, but that’s after Dorter(SSCC start) and defeats the purpose of every level being done in DK without meticulously leveling down in each class I level up as. Yes leveling down as chemist is always a net improvement/neutral but nothing about grinding DK is optimal.

[@VcassCsoto]

This is the second time someone said on their videos the dancers weapon is scrolls…it’s a bolts of cloth. Think dancers having ribbons. Lol Also this was a pretty agreeable except I’d love bard and dancer up one. I’ve replaced healers with one powered up bard and had two 👯‍♀️ wreck the field like a tornado in a trailer park…IMO. But I’d agree with all of this as it’s really true everything u said about the jobs! Thanks!

[@ValeVin]

I still hear the Ribbon Dancer commercial jingle whenever I try to use dancers in FFT.

[@ShinMajin]

I never used samurai because I recall reading that their skills had a chance to break their weapon...is that not true?

[@TitaniumLegman]

It's true in the original release of the game. All the new ports of the game change it so that it will break weapons in your inventory instead. So you don't have to worry about losing your weapon mod combat

[@beamstalk6475]

oh and on Dragoon/Lancer you just need to unlock the highest end jumps, they give you everything to them as well

[@beamstalk6475]

I would like to see them lean into Luso's Big Game Hunter name, besides just Ramza's squire with poach, keep poach, but give him the ability to give all your monsters the extra monster abilities on the board without being next to them, and give him the ability to recruit monsters too

[@TitaniumLegman]

Yes, making Luso a proper monster master would be a phenomenal niche for him.

[@ValeVin]

I'd love to watch a video just on how you're using chemists. I wouldn't call them bad, more useful+good, but I'm not sure I'd put them in S tier and I'm not clear your thinking on putting them there, either. For me, they're a class that unlocks other classes, and someone will carry on Items and everyone will use autopotion, but I'm not deploying them past the early game, and I'm not fearing them after the middle game. I'm persuadable =] I'm just not persuaded yet that they'd go above A tier, and I'd like a video hearing your thoughts. If I see a tiamat and a chemist, I'm worried about the tiamat. I guess the flip side is that every one of my groups has at least one person using items and probably a bunch using autopotion.

[@MrShanester117]

They are absolutely s tier

[@keithperry4712]

What PSX emulator do you recommend getting and which version of the game?

[@TitaniumLegman]

@@keithperry4712 if I had to pick is use PPSSPP for emulation. To me, the War of the Lions version is the best, but you'll want a patch that fixes the slowdown issues from the original PSP version

[@beamstalk6475]

Also note: characters permanently gain or lose 1 brave/faith for each 10 point change in battle by the end of the fight, so Chicken wrecks bravery on a character

[@ThunderMage924]

Actually, it's 1 permanent per 4 points in battle (Which is why the maximum permanent brave is 97), so yeah, Chicken really does some serious damage!

[@beamstalk6475]

@ThunderMage924 ugh of course I got it wrong

[@BenjaminBlackhurst]

Rafa/Rapha doesn’t care about anyone’s faith; she cares only about her own MA, and since her damage calculation checks MA twice, her damage rises exponentially. You can defeat the final boss with a single casting of her weakest ability.

[@billymays81]

These tier lists never address the timed aspect of Aim. AI won't move onto a tile that has a powerful timed ability aimed at it

[@rabbyd542]

Last time I played I put aim on my Lancer. Aim +4 goes a long way actually.

[@briankenney9528]

I fee like an instant cast charm ability bumps thief up to at least a B

[@OiledLubedPhalanx]

Ah it is Leg day

[@TitaniumLegman]

@@OiledLubedPhalanx it was arm day for me, but we'll roll with it. 😁

[@michaelbosch9024]

chemist seem good if you wanna play on easy mode. I'm in the middle of my first play through no items, no duplicate classes, no grinding. without items chemist are useless. I'm bias though cuz I don't like using items in any FF, they'er just too broken.

[@ddrlear]

I hope they don't nerf Cid. As OP as he is, that's his charm. Players can simply not use him if they don't want to.

[@jaysondevine1474]

Knight Main Class >Chakra >Speed Save >Equip Gun >Any Movement skill you want ----> Teleport w/ good boots, Move +2, Move Hp-Up are my suggestions This guy has obscenely powerful board control, is extremely versatile, and is very hard to bring down. Can easily keep up until middle Deep Dungeon, maybe a tiny bit further (essentially the entire game). This build's only "weak" point is straight-up damage, but even that isn't terrible since Chakra will tap into the knight's naturally high attack stat

[@beamstalk6475]

I still disagree on Archer and Monk, Archer lower and Monk higher - lol

[@beamstalk6475]

Squire is better than Archer - fight me on this Tom

[@NoName-w4j3t]

I gotta disagree with a lot of these. I only played the original and haven't played it in forever. Lancer and Dancer are better than everything you have in A teir. But maybe I just liked being a Monk with Jump pretending I was Goku

[@rabbyd542]

Mime is A tier maybe higher fight me. The only thing is you want their level to be as low as possible when you change their class. It really depends how you set up the rest of the team. My Monk uses Haste on himself, Draw out Kiyomori, have Lancer use reraise on themself and my Mime is now extremely buffed up. The Mime turns dead turns into useful ones. Edit: In less time than it takes to get a Dark Knight I can train up a Mime with 999HP who does 999 damage. Completely blows the Monk out of the water. Also, Cid is literally stronger with an Excalibur than he is with a Chaos Blade; his raw damage is that high

[@sleepykitty4472]

I like mime to level in for that hp growth one thing I like to do is use one with a dancer,summoner,math skill black mage.

[@rabbyd542]

@@sleepykitty4472 Yeah I was running Dancer/Samurai and that status Dance was crazy good. Almost the whole team was getting frog or stopped.

[@yuuts2619]

Cool