This is probably known but if you give party members the exploit weakness gambit they will always know a foes weakness even if they can't be libra'd. Pennelo started doing aero nukes on the giant rocktoise mark with no prompting.

Sounds like a nice Weekend Raiziel

You can't really fuck it for the whole game. You can under optimise it, for sure, but just focus on enjoying it. It's not a job.

GameFAQs probably has a ton of in-depth license board FAQs

pc71 wrote:

Tempy wrote:

GameFAQs probably has a ton of in-depth license board FAQs

Cheers!

Aye, gamefaq guides are useful but I sometimes find them a bit impenetrable. This is a good guide to just go over the basics:

https://www.gameskinny.com/pnlmk/final-fantasy-xii-the-zodiac-age-job-classes-guide

Pay attention to the weapons, armours and skills they get access too. There's heavy armours, light armours and mystic armours. They all scale well, but they tend to have their own benefits - heavy favours raw defense, light favours HP and mystic strengthens magic power.

Also, dedicated magic classes aren't super useful early on - you won't have access to that many spells early on and MP pools are low.

So, utility magic classes are useful for the early game - Monk, Red Battlemage etc.

When you buy a weapon or armour from the shop, the character icon should light up if the character can use it. Remember that and you'll never buy a thing you can't use.

Certain classes mix really well, but that'll come later. Just try to get to grips with the basics for now and feel free to ask if you have any more questions.

Killed my first ever FF boss. It's taking time to get used to systems etc but I'm really enjoying my zodiac age.

pc71 wrote:

Killed my first ever FF boss. It's taking time to get used to systems etc but I'm really enjoying my zodiac age.

You starting to get to grips with it?

Christ if took me ages to get how to access and use magic during battles but done that. Got some gambits up and running. and second boss was done for at first attempt. Not exactly a hand holder this game but I'm loving it....

You're flying Cinty.

https://youtu.be/lTCNcIo8VwM
This helped me a lot

Interesting - the official Final Fantasy twitter posted a video asking the TZA dev team if there were any plans to make any new Ivalice games. They gave a pretty generic response but it's interesting that Square Enix is willing to publicly entertain the thought.

Second hunt went off without a hitch. Bought loads of gambits.potions restocked. Think I'll try for 2 more hunts before moving on with story. Are there side quests given by any of the multitudes around?

I'll take second

pc71 wrote:

Second hunt went off without a hitch. Bought loads of gambits.potions restocked. Think I'll try for 2 more hunts before moving on with story. Are there side quests given by any of the multitudes around?

Yes, there are various quests dotted around a number of locations - no "!" style quest markers and no quest log, though, so you'll have to keep an eye out for something that might hint at a quest. Often there are item or mission requirements that need to me met before a sidequest becomes available.

Unfortunately, they can be a little obscure - the worst thing about ffxii was how it hid content behind things that players rarely had any way of discovering in-game.

Raiziel wrote:

I wonder how much I'm missing?

If you're anything like me, a fair amount probably. It's such a generous game, content-wise, though, that it's hard to begrudge it its moments of idiosyncrasy. Still, some of the hidden stuff is pure RNG bullshit and not worth the hassle.

A case in point: