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*** He's a street kid, allright. A street kid that crosses the whole world on foot while fending off monsters and marks with his party. Even a novice can have a higher potential than a experienced soldier.

** But that makes character tiers unbalanced. Although this game gives you a lot of customization options in the end if you want to make the most out of someone you have to restrict your character to a certain job in battle. For example you would never make Basach a mage because he sucks as a mage. If you make him a mage it would take more time to finish the battle compared to Penola,Asche or Vaan. But Vaan could do anything. He's basically a [[Jack of All Stats]] on steriods. That destroys the balance the game has.

*** FFXII has "tiers"? News to me. Didn't know it was a competitive character battler like Smash Bros. But in a more serious response, yeah, so Vaan is good at everything. So? On the flipside, Fran is mediocre at everything. Whatever "imbalance" {{YMMV you perceive}} in Vaan is nullified by Fran. And even then, unless you specifically set out to solo Vaan (which only extremely hardcore players do) then he still needs a full party to get through the game. He may be the [[Jack of All Stats]], but he's not "on steroids" and he doesn't destroy the balance of the game (now THAT would be someone like [[Game Breaker|TG]] [[Final Fantasy Tactics|Cid]].) In truth, the vast majority of players won't notice any "imbalance" at all --only people who go into Status screens and compare baseline stats among the characters at the same level (the same sort of people who decide that Balthier and Fran [[Ruined FOREVER|suck at guns and bows]] because they have an absolutely negligible delay of a tenth of a second in their animation) will notice the difference, and, in combat, this only amounts to a few extra HP worth of damage/healing. When armor, weapons, and accessories mean a LOT more in FFXII than baseline stats, the difference between Vaan's numbers and anyone else's becomes negligible. It's not like he's going to have an easier time against, say, Yiazmat than Ashe, Basch, or even Penelo would.

*** FFXII has "tiers"? News to me. Didn't know it was a competitive character battler like Smash Bros. But in a more serious response, yeah, so Vaan is good at everything. So? On the flipside, Fran is mediocre at everything. Whatever "imbalance" [[YMMV|you perceive]] in Vaan is nullified by Fran. And even then, unless you specifically set out to solo Vaan (which only extremely hardcore players do) then he still needs a full party to get through the game. He may be the [[Jack of All Stats]], but he's not "on steroids" and he doesn't destroy the balance of the game (now THAT would be someone like [[Game Breaker|TG]] [[Final Fantasy Tactics|Cid]].) In truth, the vast majority of players won't notice any "imbalance" at all --only people who go into Status screens and compare baseline stats among the characters at the same level (the same sort of people who decide that Balthier and Fran [[Ruined FOREVER|suck at guns and bows]] because they have an absolutely negligible delay of a tenth of a second in their animation) will notice the difference, and, in combat, this only amounts to a few extra HP worth of damage/healing. When armor, weapons, and accessories mean a LOT more in FFXII than baseline stats, the difference between Vaan's numbers and anyone else's becomes negligible. It's not like he's going to have an easier time against, say, Yiazmat than Ashe, Basch, or even Penelo would.

* Why does Archadia honor Bhujerba's neutrality in any way? Why don't they just take it the fuck over like they do everywhere else?

** Probably because of the Marquis, since he's such an influential figure that he made everyone believe that both Ashe and Basch had died and he also managed to gather a huge fleet against the Empire near the end. On the other hand, it could be that they honor Bhujerba's neutrality the same way they'd honor Dalmasca as an independent nation with Ashe as queen. They may not be an oficial part of the empire but they're still pulling the strings (since they were the ones that told Ondore to report the deaths). However, I haven't played the game in a while so I may be getting a few details off.