You may very well trek through the requirements for Bard on a character or two just for that but… it’s gonna hurt, and you’re going to leave the Bard class and never touch it again as soon as you have it. The only good thing about Bard is Move +3. Then, as a reward, you get a very, very weak support class that has to take itself out of the fight in order to provide buffs and other support spells that other classes can do much more easily. It requires you to have a male character gain tons of job levels in a variety of magic classes, which is a pretty bad idea - males have weaker magic than females in FFT. Worst: Bardīard is kind of a wacky class idea to begin with. If you have high Bravery and you’re running around using the Accumulate/Focus skill from the Squire class, you’re going to find you punch things to death in one hit. Fists scale incredibly well with PA and Bravery. Counter, especially, is useful on every character as the general bread and butter for the counter attack skill slot. They have Counter and First Strike, both great counter skills. They have a very useful moveset that includes a few ranged attacks and a revive, which is surprisingly useful in a pinch. They do a ton of damage (with just Dual Wield/Two Swords, they become little kung fu wrecking balls). Archers are not good for anything except as a stepping stone to Thieves. Bows and Crossbows are inferior to guns in every way. The prevailing theory is that because they were so good, verging on gamebreaking, in Tactics Ogre (which FFT is the spiritual sequel to), the creators over-nerfed them. Worst: ArcherĪrchers suckkkkkk in Final Fantasy Tactics. However, because of this one skill, you’re going to be using the Squire skillset as your secondary skillset on almost every character. Other than that, yeah, Squire is mostly garbage.

You can cast this skill every single round, so you’re maximizing your JP gains.

This skill is one of very few skills in the game that requires no target, and it gives you +1 PA (physical attack) for free. However, Squire learns one of the best skills in the game and it’s a must-have on almost every single character: Accumulate (Focus in the WotL retranslation). Squire must suck, right? It’s the first class in the game.

I’m not going to cover every class in the game here, but let’s highlight 5 of the best classes and 5 of the worst. Some are definitely more worth your time than others. Luckily, I’ve played a ton of Final Fantasy Tactics (FFT) in my day, and I have a pretty good idea of which classes are the best and which are the worst. With all these classes, skills and abilities it can get a little overwhelming. Final Fantasy Tactics (FFT) has a ton of different classes to choose from.

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