Final Fantasy XII Appreciation and Strategy Thread

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Jpcc86 said:
Love it. Agreed, its in the top 3 for the series for me as well. Such and underrated gem.

Not loving so much the class combos you are recommending tho. Bushi/Black Mage for example has the huge problem that Katanas are too good (probably best weapon imo), and you are not using them so long as you are casting magic and viceversa - because you are gonna want to have your Black Mage spamming scathe, amongst other things, for the late game portions of the game. Both Bushi and Black Mages are lets say, "main classes" and should be paired up with classes that support their strenghts.
I'd pair Black Mage with Monk for the sake of giving it healing possibilites or Red Mage for Ardor (if you dont wanna use the Ardor/Burning Bow combination for the Archer) and Bushi Works better with a classes that compensates its lack of Battle Lore and in late game benefit from the Khumba/Masamune/Genji Equipment combinations.
Tho thats just my personal experience, I think most job combinations work well.

Being able to bust out Black Magic as well as being a monstrous melee Damage dealer has always been the trademark of Dark Knight.  Bushi feeds off of a class that gets "Magick Potency" effects for it's Melee Damage Dealing because of the Kantana quirk. While Red Mage doesn't get as many of these as BM or WM unfortunately.  One essential perk of Red Mage being combined with Bushi is the perk of using Shields. While not important early on for Bushi, once you unlock one of the top tier Kantana that is actually a One Handed weapon it becomes the most God Like Damage dealing experience. 

Ashe w/ Bushi/Red Mage, Kumha(1H) + Shield = A unstoppable melee damage dealer that rarely if ever gets hit due to shield evasion and Katana high parry rate.

Deck her out with Genji gear for added effect of parries and counter attacks which stacks with high quotient of Multi Hits, and Counter Attacks can be multi Hits. I have had Ashe decimate a boss alone with a 4Hit, Block, Counter with 7Hits. I wanted to cry in glee.

So in my actual current game I have my Ashe is Bushi/Red Mage. I didn't catch the error(if you can call it that) at that point. My Balthier is Black Mage/Machinist. I mostly regretted this combonation on the Merit of using every job once and not having Balthier able to effectively heal for that early part of the game. Yet Red Mage is no slouch in Magic DDing