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* It should be noted that the "Damage To MP" game breaker from Final Fantasy tactics is even ''easier'' to pull off in this game, since units automatically regenerate MP without moving each round. This makes one of the hardest boss battles in the game trivial.
=== [[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]] ===
* The sequel to FFTA seriously toned-down, worked over and generally fixed its game breakers, but it introduced atons coupleof new ones including Mirror Items, which reverses the effect of items. Antidotes inflict Poison, Eyedrops inflict Blind... and [[Healing Potion|X-Potions]] do 200 points of damage. Guaranteed. With the accuracy of a standard attack. Your newly-recruited Seeq Ranger can now do more damage than your most seasoned units and can inflict nearly all the [[Standard Status Effects]] in the game. For real lulz, team up with a Green Mage that knows Tranq (which raises accuracy. Oh yes), then go to town with 70% accuracy instant-death Phoenix Downs, Toad-inflicting Maiden's Kisses, etc. Combine with the ability that doubles the effects of items for laughs.
* The Paladin/Parivir/Geomancy combo. You get access to the best weapons and armors in the game, and Geomancy makes your [[Elemental Powers]] do x11.55x damage against ''everything'' that isn't strong against all of them. You can also inflict status effects on top of it all.
** It gets better, the Paladin job allows you to wear one of five different types of elemental absorbing robes/armor, shields that can absorb either fire or ice attacks, and two swords that can negate or even absorb Holy-type damage. Combined with the broken setup for the magic users listed below, the equipment options makes the class damn near ''unkillable'' in later missions where elemental damage is more common. Add the fact that the [[Artificial Stupidity|enemy units will NEVER check to see if their elemental attacks will actually harm the target]], and...
* Make a pair of Hume Illusionists - which hit every enemy on screen with a magic spell, with Magic Frenzy - which pairs any magic used with a physical attack, and have them [[Dual Wield]] Heretic/Lilith Rods or Bomb Arms - the strongest rods the class can equip. It takes some preparation, but get those two set up and you essentially win forever.
* Another fun one is a crew of Nu Mou Scholars. Build your party right and they can damage the entire enemy party while constantly refilling your party's HP or MP. Stagger this properly and you become stupidly unkillable.
* Then there's Blood Price Summoners. This allows you to break the game's MP accumulation curve, throwing out devastatingly powerful summon[[Summon magicMagic]] from turn one, at the cost of the caster's HP equivalent to double of what it would cost in MP. These guys have healing spells that restore more than they cost. See if you can spot the exploit.
** Alternatively, equip a robe that allows you to absorb an element, and proceed to spam the summon of that same element every turn. As long as you hit yourself with it, you'll heal yourself for massive HP every turn, AND damage enemies. Needless to say, entire teams have been made that are based around elemental absorption.
** You can then take this even farther by having one ability be Summoning and the other Red Magic, which includes Doublecast. So you can then do all of that ''twice a turn''.
** For even more fun, add a Chocobo Knight with the Critical: Quicken and Smile Toss abilities, equipped with a Venus Blade. Have your doublecasting summonerSummoner hit the Chocobo Knight with Ramuh (since Chocobo Knights are weak to lightning, this should activate the Critical: Quicken ability and make the Chocobo Knight move immediately afterward) followed by Ifrit (which it absorbs thanks to Venus Blade). Then have your Chocobo Knight hit the summoner with Smile Toss, which allows them to move instantly. You now have an infinite loop, in which your enemies will never get a turn. By constantly moving your Chocobo Knight to where the enemies are, you can keep hitting them with the splash damage until they all die, with nothing they can do about it.
* The Bangaa Cannoneer happens to have an ability to assist in any MP-heavy skills, the Ether Shell -- an ability that allows the user to replenish 60 MP to another unit at no cost. Not much on its own, but add to one of the above... and even in this game, set one up with a Fusilier that's equipped Onslaught and mastered Ultima Charge, and every time that Moogle acts, someone is checking out.
** You can also Ether Shell another Cannoneer with the Gladiator skillset and has the ability Ultima Sword. You can even have them Ether Shell ''each other'' and have both be able to pump out Ultimas for their next two turns -- ''ten turns'' with the Halve MP passive skill equipped. ''Yikes''.
* For your Gria units, have your Ravager master the Sneak Attack ability, which doubles damage from back attacks, and the Unscarred ability, which gives a massive boost to your stats if your HP is full. Then give both abilities to a Hunter, whose huge attack range will generally keep her out of trouble. Add the Regenga clan ability to make sure your Gria's health stays full even if she does take a hit, and you've got a devastating long-range unit that can one-shot almost every regular enemy. As a bonus, Unscarred will also boost the Hunter's Sidewinder (double damage against monster-class enemies) and Ultima Shot (triple damage) attacks.
* Stopshot is ridiculous. Imagine a skill that inflicts the same amount of damage as a regular attack, while also having a high chance inflicting Stop, making the target completely defenseless for about 3/4 of the length of a normal fight, at which time it wears off. While stopped, all of a unit's turns are skipped, meaning it cannot generate MP, move, or act in any way. If the unit has an ability that would normally allow it to counterattack when struck, it does not trigger. A stopped unit has a 100% chance of being hit by any attack for which it is a valid target, including moves that sacrifice accuracy for power. Stopshot costs no MP to cast and, when fired from a gun (as is the point of the Fusilier class), can target almost any square on a normal battlefield. This is in a game where most fights are 6v6, so losing any unit to Stop is a significant disadvantage. Losing two or three to a single gun-toting Moogle is entirely possible, especially if said Moogle receives Haste, allowing it to act (and therefore fire Stopshot) much more frequently.
* Vaan has an ability called Life of Crime that deals damage based on the number of times he has used the Steal command. Use Steal enough and Life of Crime will deal a guaranteed [[Cap|999]] damage every time it's used. But why stop there? By making Vaan a ninja and having him [[Dual Wield]] shields (and giving him the right armor), you can get his Evasion to 80%. Combine this with his Razor's Edge ability, which increases Evasion by 20, and he becomes almost completely unhittable - status effects still work, but that's what the Debuff Resistance clan privilege is for. This allows Vaan to beat most maps entirely by himself.
 
 
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