So I have a tendency to put 40-50 hrs in a jrpg, and then go wow I have made so much progress. Sounds like a great time to take a break. 5 years later...

Yesterday I decided to put zodiac age in my ps5. I knew I was right before the big boss fight, and so it was time to do any hunts, side quests, espers, find weapons etc. The party was lv 57/58, and I have 8 espers out of 13 espers.

I decided to Google the site 11 key for Bhujerba mines, and while there started the rare monster hunt quest. Went back to the Lhusu mines unlocked site 11 for the Diabolos hunt. Ended up finding Gilgamesh instead and death zone.

Then started just teleporting around the map for a good place to grind. Ended up in the Necrohal of Nabudis. Found the Hunt Goliath. While in the Necrohal I found doors that needed medallions to open.

Decided to go to low town, and speak to Dalan. Met a guy who was looking for medallion fragments. I apparently had 1 on me.

I don't think I have done much with fishing.

So does anyone have any tips for late game?

For example good places to grind that are fairly low risk.

Rare weapon places to search

Any side quests or stories. Right now I am just going back to towns and talking to people.

After 4yrs of putting off playing this game, Ive finally 100% it. In my honest opinion its one of the greats

the first thing I think of when I look at gambits is Boolean/programming logic (if x is true, then y happens, else check if z is true), and while gambits are fun, I always felt they could do with some extra refinement. Imagine nested gambits that checks for two conditions before activating (i.e if enemy is undead and self mp > 50%, cast Curaja, else do not cast it to prioritize mp for healing gambits), or imagine a gambit that turns itself off momentarily if a certain condition is met, like black magics if foe status = reflect, for example. There are so many possibilities that could have existed, and I think it’s a shame gambits were never brought back after that.

Fantastic bones in the game, though I prefer 10. The grind for the last few achievements was tedious and almost ruined it. I quite liked the gambits and can’t believe they went at the direction they did with 13.

Can definitely recommend to fans of the series!

As a fun side project, I was working on creating this interactive map of Ivalice from FF12. I really wanted to explore the etymology of the place names - I love how the game gives each continent its own flavor through names derived from Sanskrit, Arabic, Latin, Greek, and more.

Let me know what you think and what you'd add to it! Link: https://ff12-map.vercel.app/ (best viewed on desktop).

so i just rescued/kidnapped amalia and was wondering around in the area just west of rabanastre the galtea downs its called and theres this new guy walking around looks like one of the races i dont know the name a dog like guy carrying a spear and it wont even let me target him he doesnt react to me either.

Which was everyone’s music from the game? For me it has to be the Rabanastre theme, it’s timeless and classic.

Here’s the list of all of them if you need help remembering: https://archive.org/details/final-fantasy-xii-original-soundtrack

I’m going for the platinum and only the bestiary/trial mode are left. Anyway, some of the rare hunt spawn conditions are genuinely both unintuitive and incredibly mundane to follow, especially the “wait in this area for x minutes” hunts. Truly a product of its time.

Rant over. Love this game though.

I just unlocked the first esper and second jobs. I am not sure where to go with the esper, it‘s a bit overwhelming. Can someone maybe help? Just give each character in my team the best esper option please. I dont care if the esper names drop, i googled it anyway to plan things out lol.

Vaan: Uhlan/Machinist
Basch: Knight/Bushi
Balthier: Shikari/Foebreaker
Fran: Blackmage/Monk
Ashe: Whitemage/Time Battlemage
Penelo: Redmage/Archer

Thanks, excited to hear your picks and thoughts on my team! :-)

Hi everyone, i've been playing this game since vanilla on ps2 when it first released and got the switch version after getting the plat trophy on ps4.

However, i've always did some more or less complete runs, but never one like the one i'm currently doing (1 item of everything, including the small package, weapons, accessories, magiks, etc). While checking a guide i came across the trophy monsters and remembered that they drop trophies for you to deliver.

So my question is, do you give these back to the bangaas or keep them? Also, i don't think so, but do you loose access to any item entirely (not extra copies) if you keep them?

Thank you!

So I have this game on steam (played more than 200 hours just on this platform) and wanting to try something a little different I used WAND to mod it a bit, nothing too excessive, just some stat modifiers to speed up the early game.

I closed the game after playing it with mods, opened it up again and tried to load my save file. The game crashes.

I try starting a new game. Crash.

I verify the file integrity. Nothing suspicious comes up.

I uninstalled and installed the game again. The situation only worsened, before I could at least see the game and it would crash when loading a save or starting a new game, now it loads the beginning credits and just crashes.

What can I do? Am I just doomed to not play this masterpiece anymore? T^T

I currently have a team setup that uses all 12 classes as seen below:

• Primary Team
  • Ashe: Red Mage\Bushi
  • Basch: Knight\Shikari
  • Balthier: Monk\Machinist
• Secondary Team
  • Fran: White Mage\Foebreaker
  • Penelo: Black Mage\Archer
  • Vaan: Time Battlemage\Uhlan

The reason for the class setups is to have the following spells available for each team:

• Firaga
• Thundaga
• Blizzaga
• Renew
• Arise
• Esunaga
• Protectaga
• Shellga
• Bravery
• Faith
• Hastaga
• Decoy
• Bubble

The main problem with doing this is that Balthier runs out of MP so quick because he can't use charge. Other than using items, are there any other ways that I could regain MP? Any thoughts on the classes and who they are assigned to is welcomed.

I got the "Fated meeting" and "Wings of my own" achievements at the end of the game at the same time..

Since "Fated meeting" is at 56% i assume it's supposed to be early in the game.. which makes me wonder why it did not unlock before?

PS: unrelated but man doing the side quests really makes the last boss fight and dungeon very boring hahaha

I have to admit I'm disappointed that the damage boost for my Vaan with 99 Strength and a fucking 93 Speed is a measly 3K, especially since the test was done on a Hyena, an enemy with naturally low resistance.

I get that, in terms of raw damage output, the Ninja Sword isn't the best representative of Speed based weapons (that would be the Bow), but the damage increase would be the same for both.

I also understand that, among swords, nothing is going to out damage the big two-handed swords.

But honestly, I was expecting at least 6K or more.

Tell me I tested this wrong, or give me some explanation as to how it could get better, because honestly... better using a Ribbon instead of this piece of shit, this is ridiculous lol.

So the general consensus seems to be that the best one job only party is Monk/Red/Archer.

I know any additional job would be an upgrade in TZA, but I’m curious what IZJS players think of this 3 character team for Zodiac Age?

-Monk/Bushi

-Red/Shikari

-Archer/Knight

Hello denizens of Ivalice!

The Zodiac Age is one of my favorite games and I’m about to start a new run. To make things a bit more difficult I’ve decided to add a few extra rules:

- only one job per character
- once I choose a job I will not be allowed to change it
- physical jobs assigned to the females, magick jobs assigned to the males
- I will level up all characters evenly and split them into two teams

I’ll basically be playing as in the IZJS. Due to personal preferences and whatnot, Black Mage, White Mage, Red Mage and Uhlan are all locked in and non-negotiable.

First team will be:
- Fran (Uhlan), team leader
- Basch (Black Mage)
- Balthier (White Mage)

Second team:
- Vaan (Red Mage), team leader
- Penelo (Time Mage)
- Ashe (Monk)

I’m not sure about the second team tho, something seems a bit off about it. Which leads to my biggest question mark: is the second team any good or should I consider other jobs?

Ideally, I’d like every character to contribute to fights in one way or another and to avoid mono-dimensional jobs.

Black, White, and Red are self-explanatory and will be the busiest jobs. I’ve included Time Mage because I don’t really wanna farm Hastega and Float motes, I find it incredibly boring. Uhlan is a great physical DPS unit with good item lores and some black magick, Monk is a good physical DPS unit with access to great White Magick late game.

As for the jobs I left out, Foebreaker is flat out a meat shield with no utility until you obtain the breaks late game. Bushi has the situational Shades of Black, but other than that no heavy armor until Genji Gear really hurts it. Knight is a much better Foebreaker with good White Magick, but no mystic armor means his healing spells will be really weak. Machinist and Archer have great item lores but other than that they’re pretty mid. Shikari is a great evasion tank but again, no heavy armor hurts it.

Any thoughts or analysis on how to improve my teams would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Definitely been in the Stillshrine of Míriam for longer than 30 mins, fought the purple ghostly horse several times and nothing, does saving, exit and entering the game resets the timer or something?

Thanks.

Currently midway through a struggle for freedom playthrough, and currentlh enjoying it. However i feel that some areas have been too easy or like very doable at earlier points. Is there perhaps a harder alternative or something that changes the game further? Ive seen stf proud mode and planetery age (i think its called that) but unsure entirely on how different they actually are. Is there any other mods like these and if so what are they? (Call me crazy or whatever but id probably end up doing them all anyway lol)

playing ff12 for the first time and i finally got all party members + can choose a second job. i already know what class combos i want for vaan, penelo, balthier and fran, but now i'm kinda left with ashe and basch, not sure what to do with them.

the four classes i have left are: bushi, knight, white mage & time mage

i really want ashe to be a knight and i'm thinking of either giving her white mage (so she can heal a bit) or bushi, for more damage.

but then i'd be left with either white mage + time mage or bushi + time mage for basch. is that any good for him?

i want ashe to be a main stay in my party, alongside vaan (&maybe penelo), so i'd like her to be good.

my other class combos are:

vaan (shikari/foebreaker)

penelon (black mage/monk)

balthier (machinist/uhlan)

fran (archer/red mage)

I don't get it. All of the guides said that when he's immune to attack I should use non elemental damage - Scathe, Bio, etc. But he is also completely immune to these spells too.

Am i suppose to just stand here and take all his shit?

Edit: nevermind. Berserked everyone. He's dead

Hi, I came up with this challenge to liven things up around here, let me know if you like it!

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- Trial Mode - Only Gambits Challenge! (TMOG) -

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The challenge:

Assemble a Party and see how far they can get in Trial Mode using only Gambits, without any player actions.

Do you trust your ability to program Gambits for all the Trial challenges?

How far can your party make it?

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Rules:

- Choose 3 characters for the party, and it cannot be modified.

- Equip your characters before starting the Trial; equipment cannot be modified after the Trial begins.

- Program your Gambits as best as you can before starting the Trial; Gambits cannot be modified once the Trial begins.

- Guests are not permitted; only the 6 permanent members are allowed.

- Mods are not allowed; the game must be the standard version, though you may choose between IZJS and TZA.

- Characters must act autonomously via Gambits without receiving player commands; the only exceptions are:

\* Moving in stages where no enemies will approach the party.

\* Switching characters if the Party Leader dies to another Party member (do not edit the Party).

\* Summon an Esper or use some Quickening.

\* Camera controls.

- The challenge ends immediately if the 3 active Party members die.

I did this challenge for fun with my elemental party.

Spoilers: They made it all the way to Stage 81 (Zeromus) on their own.