With the next iOs update, Apple is going to kill off any old non updated app, including the best app there is, the iOs version of Final fantasy tactics.
The game is working on this iphone 6 I am holding right now, and it soon won’t work anymore.
When the new digital area was ushered, oracles warned us against companies who were going to take away our games from us, but we never listened.
In rememberance I am going through this version of FFT one last time, and will play with a full team of only oracles / mystics armed only with a very basic knowledge of FFT mechanics and poor skill.
Oracle is that negative status oriented class you never really bothered with because killing enemies is more efficient. Oracles don’t have the best reputation. They are ultimately completely supplemented by Beowulf, who does literally everything they do and is better at it. But Beowulf is also dead on arrival, for joining after Orlandu.
Nevertheless, oracles are fantastic. They can blind, confuse, silence, turn into zombies, stone statues or chickens, convince someone of God’s wrath or make them a non-believer, steal HP or MP. They kill the final boss in 4 hits.
The first thing to do after the two initial battles is to fire everybody, then recruit four girls with 70 faith. On a new recruit, faith is a random number between 40 and 70, almost never changes through the game, and is involved as a basic multiplier for all oracle spells success rate.
I could care about zodiac compatibility but life is too short
The 5 members of the team have to level in the chemist class up till level 2, then in the white mage class up till level 3, to unlock oracle.
Piece of shit merchant is trying to sell rods but it’s a scam: Oracles do 6 damage with rods and 15 with staves. The former runs on physical power and the later on magical power.
This asshole is the same guy who tries to outfit your 5 warriors with useless expensive luxury Louis Vuitton bags later on
Look at all these cool spells oracles can play with.
Right now I need to aim for low MP / JP cost spells because I literally can’t afford anything else.
Of note:
- Umbra inflicts Blind, which lowers accuracy. It’s allright. Oracles don’t really have the evade to take too much advantage from it, but it’s really inexpensive.
- Quiescence inflicts Silence, basically removing any mage from any fight
- Hesitation inflicts Disable, which prevents an enemy from acting. Usually they’ll run away in terror until the status runs out (which happens very quickly). Useful to take out one guy for a little while but not groundbreaking.
I go with one character with silence, one with blind, three with disable.
Reaction/ passive/movement skills:
The only reaction skill I get is Absorb MP, it restores MP when a guy casts a spell on an oracle, and is not going to see much use because oracles have 3 ways to shut down enemy mages
Defense boost is good, it reduces physical damage by… 1/3?
We have a choice between Ignore Weather ( I didn’t even know FFT had weather effects) and the classic Restore-Mp-while-walking
The full team is ready, the first real battle is Dorter City.
Enemies are two mages, one knight, and three archers including one who forgot to take a bow into battle.
Team is 4 oracles, Delita, Algus. Delita and Algus are chemists for eventual auto potion use. Chemists are good, but AI control is bad.
4 resets later: i’m terrible at this game
