Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions Cheats & Tips

1. When you reach Chapter 4, head over to The Mining Town of Gollund.
2. Check the "Rash of Thefts" rumor from the tavern.
3. Drop by The Merchant City of Dorter's tavern and read the "A Call for Guards" rumor.
4. Leave town, and you'll automatically enter a battle.
5. Win with the help of Balthier, and he'll join the party.

When we get some cool characters joining our party that become permanent like Luso for example, we notice their skills are not entirely what we want. Because Luso has a skill that lets him raise his bravery, magic, speed etc. we know he would be a good summoner or we want him to do some magic like Flare. But it takes time to get his job levels to the level we want them to be at just to change to the next job. There is now a simple solution for this. Go to the Guild and make a new character. Train him in all the jobs you want Luso to be in and then when you're finished, remove all his equipment, enter a battle and kill him. Why? Because when you kill a human character, they turn into an Ability Crystal. What's an ability Crystal? It gives you 2 options instead of 1. It can restore your hp/mp to full or give you a list of their abilities. You may think "You can only get one ability from an ability crystal so all this work wasn't worth it." WRONG! If you select the ability on the bottom, you get ALL the abilities. Basically what you've done is created a disposable character used for farming skills and you kept Luso on his Game Hunter class the entire time. Hopefully this was a useful tip for you guys. Enjoy.

when u get into a battle in chapter 2 the fell knight betrays u (i forgot his darn name), reset the game, and before the battle, go to the party roster, and change his job, and take all of his equipment and equip urself with it!

1.Ramza has an ability called Tailwind.It boosts the
speed by 1 each time used.After about 5 uses he takes 2 turns while others take one.This applies to all skills which rise speed.This way I gained 99lvl and mastered all jobs easily.

I suggest that you start this before getting additional characters e.g Argias,Balthier
The higher level of Ramza the higher level of new characters.

2.Getting new warriors might be difficult when purchasing in Warriors Guild(they are lvl 1)
It is better to have Orator in a party and persuade to join.I suggest to battle at ''Mandalia Plain'' and ''The Siedge Weald''
you can encouter Knights in the first one and monks in the other.

3.When gaining new characters requip them with stuff from a shop.This way you gain valuable items.When rescuing the princess on the bridge remove all equipment from the black knight he wont be able to use skills without a sword.

First of all, this optional quest not only gets you Cloud, but some other great characters. It is available in chapter 4 once Adramelk is vanquished. ( Mustadio must be alive, or you can forget about getting Cloud. )

1. Buy a flower from the flower girl in Zarghidas Trade City. ( Looks awefully familiar ^^ )

2. Go to Goug Machine City, a scene will occur between Besrodio, Mustadio and Ramza.

3. Go to Goland Coal City, go into the bar and listen to the " Ghost of Colliery " rumor.

4. Go to Lesalia Capital City, you'll meet Beowulf here, say " yes " so he joins you.

5. Go back to Goland Coal City and complete the 4 consecutive battles.

6. Once you succeed in saving Reis from Sinogue and Co., you'll get a new stone, and Beowulf and Reis ( Dragon ) will join. You must accept them, or you cannot get Cloud.

7. Return to Goug Machine City , you'll get Worker-8 after a funny scene.

8. Now you must go to Zeltennia Castle, go into the bar and listen to "Cursed Island" rumor.

9. Go to the Nelveska Temple, north of Zeltennia Castle, defeat Worker 7 New to get another stone plus Reis will be reverted to human form here. She re-joins as a Dragonner, accept her or no Cloud for you. ^^

10. Return once more to Goug Machine City, the latest stone will activate a machine which summons Cloud. He runs off. Follow him, to where ????

11. Go back to Zarghidas Trade City, here you'll have to save Cloud from a bunch of theives. Win it and Cloud joins. Yay !

12. Go to Bervenia Volcano and get into a fight, the Materia Blade is hidden of the highest point on the map, a ninja with germinas boots can easily reach it, don't forget to give him/her Move-Find Item first.

i). Go to the Zekalus Desert after the Orbonne Monastary battles in Chapter 3.

ii). Once there, watch the FMV and complete the following battle.

iii). Congratulations, Luso is yours!

There is an easy way to kill most enemies (wild and human) with 1 hit or 2 from very early in the game.

What you need:

+ Focus (a Squire technique)
+ Monk (prequisite is a lv.2 Knight)
+ Aurablast/Shockwave or both (both are Monk techniques)

At the start of each battle, use Focus once or twice to get your attack up a little, and then when you're able use Aurablast or Shockwave.

You'll kill most enemies, including main characters (A.K.A bosses) with 1 or 2 hits.

Dragoon: Level 4 Thief

Geomancer:Level 4 Monk

Knight: Level 2 Squire

Black Mage:Level 2 Chemist

Dancer: Level 5 Dragoon and level 5 Geomancer: (Female only)

Archer: Level 2 Squire

Bard: Level 5 Summoner and level 5 Orator (Male only)

Dark Knight: Completely Master Knight and Black Mage, kill (crystallize) 20 units, and reach level 8 with Dragoon, Ninja, Goemancer and Samurai

Arithmetician: Level 5 White Mage, level 5 Black Mage, level 4 Mystic and level 4 Time Mage.

Time Mage: Level 3 Black Mage

White Mage:Level 2 Chemist

Thief: Level 3 Archer

Summoner:Level 3 Time Mage

Orator: Level 3 Mystic

Samurai: Level 5 Monk, level 4 Knight, level 2 Dragoon

Onion Knight: Level 6 Squire and level 6 Chemist

Ninja: Level 5 Thief, level 4 Archer, level 2 Geomancer

Mystic:Level 3 White Mage

Monk: Level 3 Knight

Mime: Level 8 Squire and Chemist, level 4 Geomancer, Dragoon, Orator, and Summoner.

the one being leveled up must know fundaments (or mettle), you need ramza with his mettle ability, enough strong characters to defend yourself (but if you can do it with just 1 defender, ramza, and 1 person leveling up that would be best) and have the defender know arts of war, time magic, mystic arts, or some other skill that will allow you to make the enemy helpless.
as soon as the battle starts have ramza keep using tailwind on the one you want to gain JP. have the one you're leveling up keep using focus (a fundaments ability) focus is one of the quickest things you can do and still gain JP so its very useful here. have your defender(s) take out all the monsters except one, then use your skills to turn that monster into a toad, art of war him into nothingness, keep casting stop on him, or in some other way incapacitate him without ending the battle. after the trainee gets his speed up, courtesy of ramza's tailwind technique, he'll start taking 2-3 turns for everyone else's 1. then you can use focus rapid fire, while just having your guys wait, and the helpless enemy doing nothing. before you know it you'll have thousands of JP for that one character. or if you want, use the same strategy and train multiple guys at once. hope it helps =D

Ok this is to me the best way to gain Job levels and abilities.

Step 1: Have everyone learn Focus.

Step 2:Get into a battle in mandalia plains. There must be low amount of Chocobo adn panthers and at least 1 goblin.

Step 3:Have everyone use focus unitl the enemy begins to attack your people. You should have a decent atk boost by now from using focus.

Step 3:Kill all enemies EXEPT the Goblin.

Step 4:Wound the goblin so that he begins to run and huid ein the corner.

Step 5:Keep using Focus and lvl up to your hearts content.

Required:

Squire (JP Boost)
Arithmetic (JP Accrue)
Knight (Rend Power, Rend Speed) and/or (Rend Magick & Rend MP)

First, equip all the above. Then, get in to a battle (non-story battles suggested). With JP Accrue, you will earn JP as you move, and when you Act, you will also gain JP, and with JP Boost, you will receive 50% more JP! You should get 60-70 JP a turn!

You should kill all but one enemy and use Rend Power/Speed/Magick/MP to weaken it so that it do very little harm while using this technique.

This is the main way I got my characters to level 99 and mastered most of jobs early in game.

Simply just kill off all enemies in battle except one and turn him into a Toad, along with 4 allies.
Have those 4 allies in Toad status surround the enemy and take turns attacking him for low damage. With JP bonus skill they will gain a lot of JP each time they attack and can max out job and level up quickly.
You could speed it up with berserk and have them attack automaticly, or by using Rend Speed on enemy or any speed boost on allies. (Bard's Rousing Melody, Ramza's Tailwind)
If you have trouble landing Toad and other spells on someone, casting Mystic's skill "Belief" on the caster or one being casted on uasually makes it land 100%.

Careful tho. Too much training could make you level 50-99 very early in game making monster enemies higher level and extremely difficult...

Beat the Adrammalech battle in chapter four and go to Warjilis trade city.

The dungeon is pitch black, and to progress you simply need to land a character on a certain tile. Use crystals to light the area.

To load the Sound Test, on the title screen, select New Game, and when you get to naming Ramza, enter in PolkaPolka exactly like you see it, and the Sound Test will load.