Final Fantasy XII Tips

Here's a tip for you, go out and buy the damn strategy guide. It helps a bunch.

No, but seriously, Here's a few tips for those of you that are getting stuck earlier on. After playing a bit, you'll notice that your party size gets dropped from 3 to 2 after you become L'Cie.

1. Libra: This will become one of your best friends in the game. It only costs 1 Tech Point. While not having to control your entire party may have it's benefits, one of the best benefits is Libra. This lets them know what your enemy's weakness and strength's are.

2. Chaining: You'll notice that once you can stagger your opponent, the battle becomes so much easier. In order to stagger the opponent you'll need to chain-attack a single enemy. Having a Paradigm of RAV-RAV, you'll notice that it gets the Stagger meter up pretty fast but most of the time, it drops down just as fast. So in order to fix this, use a paradigm of COM-RAV. The commando's physical attacks won't boost the bar too much but it will prevent it from slowing down. Once you get the bar to about 50% depending on what their stagger point is, change to RAV-RAV, to get it the rest of the way.

3. Forgot to equip something, or use your CP to get the latest ability? No problem, just hit start, then select retry. This will bring you to the party menu so you can rearrange things before you try the fight once more. Very helpful if you're fighting against a certain element and you have an accessory that will help you take less damage from that element.

Just a few things here, but that should help those of you who are just getting into the good parts of the game and have a little bit of a hard time defeating some of the tougher enemies.