Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift Cheats & Tips

1.tresure.
have you ever seen the tresure chest and pots around the battle field?
if you have youi probably opened one but got something lame like a potion or an antidote but not all of them have lame things.
if you are lucky then you canb get a ribbon from one or a madu, the weapon that teaches dual cast to the red mage, or even the luminous robe(it teaches the half mp ability).

2.obtaining the sequencer and the peytral.
the sequencer is the sword that can gain power as time goes on and the peytral also raises defence as time goes on.
the sword is obtained after you defeat the red king of cinquleur and the peytral is obtained after you defeat the blue king of cinquleur.

3.using cocobo knight.
after you get a chocobo knight you need a chocobo so he can ride so since he can use most weapons give him the strongest weapons and when you enter a battle with a chocobo as your enemy you weaken the chocobo without killing it and then get right next to it and chose "mount" and he will get on the chocobo.

4.using a illutionist the right way.
you need an illutionist with half mp and a cannoneer that knows ether shot and shoot the illutionist with ether shot to give him mp and cast any spell you want with that team.

5.the ultimate mooogle knight.
teach the moogle knight ultimate charge with the materia blade and get a cannoneer to shoot him with ether shot (learned with the brevis) and with that the moogle knight can hit three time the damage every turn.

6.getting frimelda.
frimelda is a zombie paladin that you have to help throught doing some quest.
the quest list starts with the quest "under the weather" then "chill in the night" then "show of strenght" then "hunted" then on "memories forged" you heal her and she joins youe clan.
she is a paladin with nurse, defend, cover, and dual wield mastered.

7.getting the class heritor.
the class heritor is a special class that only adelle can get.
she gets it after the quest "through another's eyes".
you have to go to lezaford's cottage and talk to him and after that you go to zedlei forest and go to the place that has the red square with the exclamation point.(the quest might need some more quest before you can get the class)

Classes: Summoner (Viera) + Red Mage secondary
Skills: Bloodprice (S), Doublecast (A)
Explanation: Bloodprice uses HP to cast magick instead of MP, so you get tons of available spells available in the beginning of battles. When she's low on HP, just cast Double Cure and she's back to full HP again. Really love her, she can kill 3-4 enemy on her first turn in a small map. As long as she can reach them, they're dead for sure.

Hume-

Soldier
Paladin
Fighter
Thief
Ninja
White Mage
Black Mage
Blue Mage
Illusionist
Archer
Hunter
Yojinbo
Devout

Bangaa-

Warrior
Dragoon
Defender
Gladiator
White Monk
Bishop
Templar
Master Monk
Cannoneer
Trickster

Nu Mou-

White Mage
Black Mage
Illusionist
Time Mage
Alchmist
Beastmaster
Morpher
Sage
Arcane Mage
Scholar

Viera-

White Mage
Archer
Fencer
Elementalist
Red Mage
Summoner
Assassin
Sniper
Magic Fencer
Green Mage

Moogle-

Thief
Juggler
Black Mage
Time Mage
Animist
Mog Knight
Gunner
Gadgeteer
Chocobo Knight
Magic Gunner

Seeq-

Bastard
Ranger
Lanistar
Viking

Gria-

Hunter
Bastard
Raptor
Geomancer

Do you ever get those annoying quests where you can't attack, or can't attack a certain species? There's an easy loophole around it. All you do is:

A: Can't attack: Use abilities. they won't count. also works for laws that ban weapons.

B: Can't attack hume, moogle, etc.: if you can't harm a group, don't. harming means anything that makes it lose hp. If there's only one or two of the enemies you can't attack, make sure you have a counter. it won't count as a violation. If there's a bunch of enemies in the catagory, I say screw it and attack anyway (unless you need training, and these guys are way high in level).

Hope it helped.

Classes: Ranger (Seeq)
Skills: Mirror Items (A), Camouflage (A), Item Lore (S)
Explanation: Mirror Items is basically the same as the Items skillset, but it reverses the items' effects. Potions will take away HP instead of heal HP. Antidote poisons instead of cures poison, etc. Item Lore doubles the effect of items on the user. Combined with Mirror Items, Item Lore doubles the effect of Mirror Items. This can be VERY dangerous if combined with the right items such as X-Potion or Phoenix Down. With Mirror Items X-Potion deals 200 damage. Item Lore makes it 400 damage. That's consistent 400 damage at 99% accuracy, folks! Camouflage is just an icing on the delicious cake. It makes the Ranger invisible. Turn your Seeq invisible in the first turn, move next to an enemy unnoticed, and BAM! hit them with 400 damage.

Classes: Defender/Gladiator
Skills: Aura(A), Meltdown(A),Strikeback(R)
Explanation: Its pretty cheap but it works quite well. Basically get your defender to master Aura and Meltdown-learnt from Lohengrin and Vajra respectively-then use Aura to gain regen and rerise(revive immediately upon KO. Go up to the opponent and use Meltdown-KO's you and inflicts damage equal to your current hp-this should hopefully kill the enemy and you will die at the same time, but, thanks to Aura you will revive. You can repeat this as many times as you want. Strikeback is used just to stop enemies dealing damage to you so you can maximise the damage done (although it only block normal direct attacks).

Classes: Dragoon/Gladiator
Skills: Jump(A),Fire breath(A) Bolt breath(A), Ice breath(A), Ulitma Sword(A), Double hand(S), Lancet(A), Dragonheart(R)
Explanation: pretty good for short, mid, and long distance enemies. Jump for those far away, the breaths for those just out of reach and elemental bonuses, ultima sword for those up close, lancet for when u start to get low on hp, dragon heart just on the off chance it does get KO'd , double hand for an added boost in power with 1-h wpns. i believe spears on considered one handed on here.

Classes: Parivir/Fighter
Skills: Wind Slash (A), Shimmering Blade (A), Skyfury Blade (A), Hoarfrost Blade (A), Lifethread Blade (A), Rush (A), Wild Swing (A), Aura Blast (A), Counter (R), Geomancy (P)
Explanation: This combination is very easy to use, just walk up to your opponent and use an elemental strike. The fighter abilities are just used to add some range. This combination is VERY deadly when fighting enemies one on one. It kills like crazy and has decent range. I find this combination to be very useful against bosses.

Before each battle, you'll get to choose with advantage you want to give your crew (so long as you don't break the judge's rules for that battle). You should always, always choose an experience boost over any other statistical advantage. You'll rarely (if ever) run into a battle where you should be challenged to the point that you'll need a mild speed or strength boost, for instance, but experience is always a hot commodity that should be gathered when and where you can. Giving yourself an experience boost during each battle will let your characters level up quicker, and ultimately this will lead to an even stronger party that will never need statistical advantages in battle. Continue to repeat this process and you'll be working with a really strong crew before long.

you only need to have half mp on a human and have gotten either the mp channeling or the mp efficiency clan privilege.
next you need to give your hume the half mp technique and in a battle that you know you can keep the law use either the mp channeling or the mp efficiency clan privilege so you can cast a spell that can cost up to 40 mp in one turn but it wont cost that much with this technique.

using this you can use ultima shot every turn and completely desinerate your foes in a few turns.

also if you use this on a seer that also has illutionist commands then you can use magic frenzy with the illutionist spells and you can magic hiot and melee hit all your enemies in one turn.

Green mage: Green dominion(Very easy)

Dragoon: Kyjara dragoon(Easy)

Magic fencer:To be a spell blade(Hard)

Fighter: To be a fighter(Normal)

Chocobo knight: Popochoco's chocobos(Normal,3 fights to it)

Yojimbo: The eastwatch(Normal)

Beast master: Knowing the beast(Very easy)

Gunner:The Goug Consortium(Hard)

Arcanist: The Nu Mou Nobles - Very Very Easy[Deliver two items]

Seer: The Cat's meow(Hard)

Master monk: Banbanga!(Normal)

Assasin: Vis,Assasin(Normal-hard)

Trickster:Sleight of the hand(Normal)

Scholar: Tresured tomes(Very easy)

Using this Tip you can traverse the entire map without letting an enemy move or attack.
1. you need a Nu Mou with a Quicken Skill and the Halve Mp skill and a juggler with the smile toss skill.
2.When it comes the juggler or Mages turn. Repeatedly use the Quickening Skill on the other unit with the Quickening Skill, moving each time.
You can use this to gain MP for the mage. Though it is a bit time consuming.

Classes: Paladin/Seer (Hume)
Skills: Cover (A), Saint Cross (A), Holy Blade (A), Sanctify (A), Reflex (R?)/ Magick Frenzy (A), Blizzara (A), Fira (A), Cura (A), Esuna (A), Ribbon Bearer (S?)
Explanation: The reason I listed so many abilitys is because all of them make this one of the top combinations probably out there. With this you become practically the Ultimate Mage Knight. Yes, Mage Knight. With this comination you not only have the abilitity to hold great powerful swords, but you can deal magick and fighting damage with magick frenzy. The reason I say Mage Knight is because the unit can now Heal with Magick, Damage with Magick, but can use fighting and holy powers to kill any enemy. You can attack from far with Magick, move in and attack with Holy Blade or Sanctify (if its undead), and then Cura yourself. Ultimatly you become possibly immortal. This isnt just a good combination for side units as well, it makes for an incredible main combination for Luso or Adelle. Its worth investing some time into.

I found this when I tried to turn my fencer into an asassin.
You just need to upgrade your fencer with some powerful skills, and at least you have to add Nighthawk skill too.
The next step is to turn your fencer into a sniper. Just add the fencing abilities to substitute the Item command.
There! With this trick, you should be able to hit a long distance enemies with fencing skills (except Piercing Blow, you see the description is about hitting two enemies in front, so you cannot add more distance).
And if your enemy has the Archer's Bane skill, just simply attack them with Nighthawk (it doesn't counted as arrow attack).

Just add the right skill, and the deadly fencing abilities are ready to blow from your greatbow <img src="http://i.neoseeker.com/d/icons/wink.gif" border=0 vspace=2 alt="" />

Classes: Hunter/Archer (Hume)
Skills: Cupid(A), Arm Shot(A), Aim Vitals(A), Ultima Shot(A)
Explanation:Pretty simple, just keep charming, disabling, dooming (with luck) everyone until you can do the Ultima Shot. I simply love to make the bad guys do the dirty work for me. Usually my Time Mage is aroud to Haste/Quicken the Archer. I don't really need to do much damage, since the enemies will be doing it for me.

Classes: Master Monk (Bangaa) + Gladiator secondary
Skills: Pummel (A), Unscarred (S), Strike Back (R), Ultima Sword (A)
Explanation: This is why Master Monk is considered one of the best melee classes in FFTA2. Unscarred is very, very potent. It increases the character's stats considerably as long as his HP is full. Combine that with Strike Back, your HP will always be full unless the enemy hits you using some action ability. Even then, you can always heal your HP back up to regain the advantage of Unscarred. Now here's where the fun is: Pummel. It basically lets your character attack twice, at full power. At full HP, a Master Monk can easily do 150-200 damage attacking from the back each time. That's 300-400 damage total. The same with Ultima Sword. From the back, it can do 400+ damage easily. The only drawback is that it requires 32 MP to use. Remember, for all of these high damages, Unscarred is required for the stat-increases which makes your Bangaa more powerful.

Race: Hume
Job Combo: Paladin/Parivir
Abilities: Hoarfrost Blade/Shimmering Blade/Skyfury Blade (Parivir A-Abilities), Reflex (Paladin R-Ability) Geomancy (Black Mage S-Ability)
Items: Leveled Sequencer or Fallen Angel (Greatsword)

This combo. is one of the most powerful in the game. The first reason is because as you level as a Parivir first you will have a large attack growth and then as a Paladin you will have a lot of defense growth, a great thing to have. But that isn't very important because if you did not know, the Black Mage ability "Geomancy" (which can be learned with the Sage Robe) weakens your opponents resistence to elemental damage. The Hoarfroat(ice), Shimmering(fire), and Skyfury(thunder) Blade attacks from the Parivir are one of the strongest attacks in the game. So, the extremely strong element attack combined with an opponent weakened element defense also combined with a paravirs high strength and finally combined with the massive strength of the Sequencer(leveled) or Fallen Angel equals extreme amounts of damage.

Classes: Assasin
Skills: Ultima Masher(A), Blood Price(P)
Explanation: Blood Price Doubles mp but it takes it out of HP. Therefore, you can have a pycho viera Assasin running around doing 300+ every turn at the cost of 68 HP, which is easily healed with cura.

To recruit the character Frimelda, complete the following chain of missions: Under the Weather, A Chill in the Night, Show of Strength, Hunted, and Memories Forged.

I DO NOT TAKE CREDIT FOR THESE, EXCEPT FOR THE LAST ONE!(OBTAINING THE CLAN ABILITY LIBRA ABILITY EARLY. I FOUND THIS ON MY OWN, AND I AM NOT SAYING SOMEONE ELSE DIDN'T FIND THIS BEFORE ME)


Clan Abilities-
During the prologue (Luso's summer journal), you can answer the three questions in the following orders to unlock different clan abilities from the beginning.

AP Up 1 - Answer B, C, C
Clan Up 1 - Answer B, B, C
Evade Up 1 - Answer B, A, A
EXP Up 1 - Answer B, C, B
Gil Up 1 - Answer B, A, C
Lucky 1 - Answer B, A, B
Power Up 1 - Answer B, B, B
Smash Up 1 - Answer B, B, A
Speed Up 1 - Answer B, C, A
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Unlockable Classes-
Arcanist - Complete The Nu Mou Nobles quest
Assassin - Complete quest,Veis Assassin
Beastmaster - Complete the quest Knowing the Beast
Cannoneer - Complete Quest: The Bangaa Brotherhood
Dragoon - Complete Kyrra, Dragoon
Fighter - Complete "To be a Fighter"
Flintlock - Complete "Of Kupos and Cannons"
Fusiler - Complete the Goug Consortium quest
Green Mage - Complete Green Dominion Quest
Gunner - Complete "The Goug Consortium"
Master Monk - Complete Banbanga!
Parivir - Complete "The Eastwatch" quest
Raptor - Complete "Instrument of Inspiration"
Seer - Complete the Cat's Meow quest
Spellblade - Complete "To Be a Spellblade" quest
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Unlocking clan ability Libra early-
You can aquire the clan ability 'Libra' at the start of the game by having a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance in the Slot-2 of your DS, and starting a new game or loading a game.

If, late in the game, you accept the mission to catch the Aerodome Prankster, you'll see Vaan from Final Fantasy XII fighting in that battle as well. If you're victorious, Penelo (also from Final Fantasy XII) will come out and talk to you.