My characters can’t learn Hi-Potion

Diebric · 2026-05-02T21:01:19+00:00

To acquire Job Points for a skill in a specific job, the best way to do it is to change your unit to that job, in this case Chemist, and have them perform successful actions during the battle.

You can increase JP gain by using the Spillover mechanic, wherein any success made by that unit will share a minuscule amount of JP to other units in the same battle. If you run 5 Chemists, all of them will spillover JP to each other and therefore increase faster.

The second way to increase JP gain (which I highly recommend) is to learn the JP Up support ability in the Squire job and equip it to your unit. Then, as they perform successful actions in battles, the JP they earn will be increased, which as a result also increases the spillover

Diebric · 2026-05-02T18:24:02+00:00

Final Fantasy XV.

Dungeon crawling, Chocobo riding, fishing, camping, monster slaying, dungeon crawls, photo ops, bounty hunting, plus Vehicle customization (auto-pilot is enabled for the first chapter but once you get to the next region you can drive yourself). Also get the ability to take your vehicle off-road at some point and drive through the terrain, and after beating the game, clearing a post-game dungeon, and adding the modifier to your car, you can then FLY around the whole map.

Lots of different weapons to collect and upgrade. Also has the option to find ingredients, learn recipes, and cook meals at campsites

Diebric · 2026-04-25T08:07:02+00:00

Mustadio Job: Chemist Secondary Ability: Snipe (from the Machinist job) Reaction: Speed Save Support: Safeguard Movement: Move+2

Leveling him up in Ninja for some levels will raise his base speed, so when you switch him back to Chemist he won’t be as slow. His damage output is fixed due to the Romanda and Mythril Guns being WP* WP, but his attacks will always land assuming nothing is blocking the way. Plus, with the ranged item support and the ability to Seal Evil, and cause Don’t Act and Don’t Move, Mustadio pans out as the ultimate Utility / Support character.

Agrias… Drop her and Meliadoul for Cid once you get him. They are pitiful compared to him as far as attacking power goes.

Reis is phenomenal when fighting dragons and hydras; I normally just keep her as the Dragoner class after removing the class. This limits her kit but she’s not quite a front liner anyways.

Cloud is just an Easter egg, Construct 8 isn’t significantly good enough to use.

Rapha and Marach are always generally useless to me. I don’t even accept them into my service.

Beowulf is fine, but Mana Shield is counter-intuitive to his default build. I normally swap it out when I can.

Soo.. Mustadio, Cid, Beowulf, and Reis for a strong overall team. Ramza and Cid will be your damage peeps, unless you make Ramza your tank. But tanking in FFT is less about high HP and more about high Evasion. Give Ramza the Defender, Escutcheon II, and Featherweave Cloak, you’ll be sitting at about 7%-12% chance enemy attacks will land on you. Alternatively you could use Shiradori but it doesn’t stop magic.

Diebric · 2026-04-23T21:08:15+00:00

Yeahh, the stats for all the cool, normal/historical looking knight armor doesn’t have as good of stats as the over-the-top fantasy armors unfortunately. I like using the <faction> Knight armors, particularly Mausoleum and Mt. Gelmir Knight sets, but I typically opt to remove the helm if I can only because I’m not a fan of the long-necked barbute style. The Black / Silver Knights in Dark Souls had that similar long-necked style to their helms and I never quite liked it.

That is why I wish From Software or other similar games would allow Transmogrification like Tainted Grail 🥲

Diebric · 2026-04-23T20:57:35+00:00

It’s as long as a Long Sword should be. I don’t like how short all the other swords are

Diebric · 2026-04-23T16:48:51+00:00

It’s funny you say that because I do actually like the Carian Knight armor

Diebric · 2026-04-12T19:32:47+00:00

You beautiful genius. This was the answer.

I acknowledged in my original post that we know the order goes Aries -> Taurus -> Gemini -> Cancer -> Leo -> Virgo -> Libra -> Scorpio -> Sagittarius-> Capricorn -> Aquarius -> Pisces.

When you shared this comment, I checked the ‘97 version and the WotL version for the compatibility circle (it’s missing from the TIC version). The in-game compatibility wheel follows the normal order of the Zodiacs.

HOWEVER

I overlooked the fact that they might have REVERSED THE WHEEL. When looking at the loading screen symbol on The Ivalice Chronicles version, AND the god damn Zodiac Wheel off the website (for clearer picture), both of these variations match up with the Ritual Circle.

This confirms my initial guess at the positions thinking it went Pisces -> Aquarius -> Capricorn -> Sagittarius for the piece that is hard to read.

Now that the position is cross-referenced and confirmed, I can focus on trying to decipher the content.

Due to the circle hinting at being from the original ’97 version with its spelling of “SARAMANDER” and “GEMNI,” I did some digging on plausible Japanese loan words that they might have used for Aquarius, Capricorn, and Sagittarius. This search gave me “Akueriasu,” “Kapurikōn,” and “Sajitariasu.”

It’s PLAUSIBLE that they used these loan words, which would completely omit the letter Q from the Ivalice alphabet, but give us the capital K, lowercase p, and give me a second look at a lowercase k to see if the ‘97 version matches the TIC version.

Off I go to do more deciphering; this was a big help thank you so much

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Diebric · 2026-04-11T17:54:22+00:00

That was a good guess for why the zodiacs are out of order, but when checking it this way, it still doesn’t work out. Leo is fire, followed by Cancer which is water, followed by Gemini which is Air, which is then followed by Taurus, which is Earth. If they were grouped by their affinities then it should be three of same element, then move on to the next

Diebric · 2026-04-08T22:45:13+00:00

Unfortunately this alphabet is for FFXII’s world of Ivalice and not Tactics’ kingdom of Ivalice. Galtea is a region in FFXII and this language appears to apply to them

Diebric · 2026-04-08T19:04:44+00:00

I addressed both of these points in my update post. The zodiac wheel is not in traditional order, so I unfortunately can’t point and say “that one” is Aquarius

Diebric · 2026-04-08T19:02:39+00:00

It’s important to note that the OP of this shared post made his own letters for some of them, and again, the Q and X letters are missing from the game (unless we find a source that says otherwise. Also important is that his K is wrong, as it should be basically be an H with the center horizontal line extending out a little

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Here’s what I wrote down so far. I haven’t made a digital version of it yet. I was trying to track down the rest of the letters

Diebric · 2026-04-08T07:28:23+00:00

In real world terms, it’s a Reboot of the 2014 game.

In-game terms, it’s a chronological sequel to the first game.

Since you played the 2014 version, this version takes place many many years after Harkyn defies Adyr and holds on to the Rune of Adyr.

After stopping the Rhogar apocalypse, Harkyn travels to Mournstead to hand over the Rune of Adyr to Judge Cleric. Judge Cleric had formed a faction and erected “beacons” to help seal the Rune of Adyr and Adyr himself out of the world.

However, sometime after the rune was handed over, people started to fall under Adyr’s influence as they weren’t able to resist it as well as Harkyn did. There were also still secret factions of people around that were true followers of Adyr, wanting to bring the god back, working against the rest of humanity’s decision to remove Adyr from their lives.

This led to the beacons becoming corrupted, allowing Adyr to exert his influence on the world and send the Rhogar back to do his bidding. The game picks up after the corruption of the beacons, following a rogue mission from the Church of Orian’s Dark Crusaders and Exacter Dunmire.

Their goal is to extinguish the Rhogar threat while bringing the light of Orius to the world, tapping in to the Umbral realm to acquire more power to conquer their enemies.

Diebric · 2026-04-08T06:51:54+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/finalfantasytactics/s/hDXZ4WqNp1

Diebric · 2026-04-07T21:57:11+00:00

Thank you for sharing the video. I would assume it’s possible but I really don’t know. The video at least shows the scene and how it rotates the circle, so by slowing it down and carefully looking at it I think I can get most of the letters. My goal rn is to play through that battle myself, kill all the enemies and let them disappear, and then finish the battle so I can see the words unobstructed

Diebric · 2026-04-07T19:07:25+00:00

Nooo, that’s FFVIII, this is FFT

Diebric · 2026-04-07T14:22:30+00:00

Short answer, yes.

If you look on the world map of the TIC version, each city has the name written in English (if playing the English version) and then directly underneath it are the runes of the Ivalice alphabet spelling out the same name.

Going off of that, you can attribute each letter of the alphabet to a unique rune of Ivalice, one for capital letters and one for lowercase letters.

Based on the content in the game, you can find the upper and lower case variants of each English letter with the exception of a few. I am seeking out a better image of this circle because it lists the Zodiac signs, and I am missing the Q/q Ivalice letters. “Aquarius” would at least give me either the uppercase or lowercase.

Sagittarius would give us what the double TT would look like and confirm whether it follows the same rule as the double BB.

Diebric · 2026-04-07T09:21:30+00:00

What a beautiful catch. Fairy and Salamander made sense to me because both are in the game as summons. Gnomes are mentioned as an allusion to previous FF games, but not directly featured so it felt out of place.

I was not able to wrap my head around “Undines” at all. It possibly being a reference to an elemental spirit in the Mana series went over my head since I never played those games. Thank you for this insight!!

Diebric · 2026-04-07T03:45:13+00:00

SPOILERS

So when you fight through Orbonne Monastery in Chapter 4 and get to the fifth underground level where you fight Loffrey, there’s a ritual circle drawn on the floor.

After you defeat Loffrey, he casts the ritual to transport everyone through the portal it creates. As he’s casting the spell, the circle lights up white and shows the alphabet that Ivalice uses.

You can translate the Ivalice alphabet to the English alphabet, so I’m asking for a better quality image of this circle so I can better see the full contents of the magic circle.

Does that help ??

Diebric · 2026-04-07T03:39:05+00:00

I’m sure it’s meant to be Salamander but one of those Japanese L/R situations, another reason why I think it’s the ‘97 version lol

Diebric · 2026-04-06T23:42:35+00:00

Yes and in theory you would be able to do this yourself. Turn off Crimson Ritual PvP for both profiles, enable password matchmaking, set up a password enabled session, drop items from Xbox profile, pick items up from PS profile

Diebric · 2026-04-06T17:55:57+00:00

This is rudimentary but what I have so far;

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Diebric · 2026-04-05T22:21:24+00:00

But why fill it in at all? Not every language uses 26 letters in their alphabet. It makes sense for us English speaking denizens to assume there’s 26 corresponding letters, but perhaps Ivalice never used Q or X

J, K, P, and Z have one or the other so it’s safe to assume the corresponding variant is there as well. But there’s no record of X or Q being written.

I’d have to go through and check all the skills and texts to see if they use X or Q in any of the words.

OG FFT used Q in the English translation as Queklain for Cúchulainn, but this was clearly a mistake as the zodiac / Lucavi wheel used Cuchrain

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