FFT JOB FOCUS - ARITHMETICIAN - Guide to Abilities, Equipment & Stats

[Music] always thirsty in their quest for knowledge the arithmetician studies the intricacies of the magic arts across all disciplines this scholarly master of mages comes armed to battle with nothing more than a book one look at this super slow wimpy awkward job class and you'll wonder what is in it for me if you manage to learn all the arithmetician's primary abilities through the painful slog of the grind for every job point you can earn well you can turn any caster into a nuke from orbit death star capable of eliminating the entire enemy line before they have a chance to act hi i'm mikey from final fantasy tactics live tournament and today i have another episode in the job focus series the goal of these videos is to crack open the hood on each class present technical information in a simplified way and help you make better choices when raising your squad in today's job focus we're going to do a deep dive into the arithmetician class looking at their equipment choices how their abilities work and touch on how to manage their stats if you're looking to make the ultimate instant death magic monster and steamroll opponents in both story and pvp battles bust out your calculators turn on your math brain and let's get into an arithmetician job focus session [Music] as someone who clearly wants to spend more time in the library than on the battlefield the arithmetician is a job built for the patient player they have paltry class and growth stats and using books is particularly strange the good news is you don't have to stay in arithmetician to benefit from the ridiculous magical potential of their primary ability set in fact equipping arithmetics as a secondary ability is exactly what you're supposed to do getting an arithmetician unlocked is roughly half the battle so get ready to devote yourself to learning as much magic as you can to unlock the arithmetician you will need a level 2 chemist a level 5 black mage level 5 white mage level 4 time mage and a level 4 mystic did i mention you'll be learning a lot of magic [Music] if you've ever sat at a desk for a long time reading you'll know you'll want to wear something comfortable arithmeticians like other mages have access to robes and hats interestingly they also have access to clothes so if you want that little hp boost you have that option arithmeticians can equip two types of weapons books and polls we will be focusing on books and leaving polls for a later episode the strength of your book attacks combine your physical and magic attacks taking the average of the two and multiplying that by your weapon power books have a strict three range attack radius meaning your target has to be exactly three spaces away additionally you will need a line of sight to the target i guess they have to watch you read to take damage books don't do anything special like bestowing status effects on your targets so lacking in range utility and power books can be considered to be one of the worst weapons in the game [Music] at first glance arithmetician's abilities don't seem to make any sense multiples of three prime c t level height don't worry all will be revealed the way arithmetics works is by using math go figure you'll need to learn a value and a number to determine who your targets will be then you take a spell that you've already learned from those four jobs we mentioned earlier and apply that to your target if you're ever curious about whether a spell can be cast with arithmetics simply open up the help menu when hovering over a spell and you'll see a little arithmetic sign that lets you know you can cast it now the most amazing thing about arithmetics is you can instantly cast your spell that you've come to with this mathematically derived target completely free yes you heard that right instant cast free magic now let's actually go through the learning process so we know what we're dealing with here so we're going to learn a value c t and then we're going to learn a number multiples of five now what this means is the arithmetician will target all units with a count time divisible by 5 at that moment so any units with count time of 5 10 15 you get it we'll get hit by the spell now let's head into battle and see how it actually works all right it's finally arithmetician's turn and we want to select arithmetics then count time then multiples of five now we'll go through the list of spells that we learned with our character and pick what our unfortunate targets will be hit with remember this attack hits all units in your formula so you'll have to check your calculations if you aren't hitting who you want to now that we have chosen to bombard everyone with account time divisible by five with a blizzaka spell let's see who we will actually be hitting by confirming and moving the camera around the battlefield looking for highlighted squares showing the units that the spell will hit if you're satisfied with your outcome go ahead confirm the attack sit back watch the devastation play out in front of you and your helpless opponents the rest of the properties and multipliers work in the same way so using a height and multiple of 3 that would mean every unit standing on a tile with a height divisible by 3 will be hit with your chosen spell these primary skills should be the main focus of your jaw point spending all other arithmetician abilities are interesting enough to warrant a look at but keep in mind how slowly you accumulate jaw points as an arithmetician and decide for yourself if they are worth the grind to learn let's start with the reaction abilities first we have a healing based reaction cup of life if ever you are overhealed you share the excess healing with the rest of your squat i haven't seen a lot of circumstances where this would be useful with your arithmetician acting as a sort of healing conduit to provide small heels over a wide range sounds cool in theory but i would suggest using your heels for those that really need it moving on to soul bind which splits incoming damage with a character who dealt it i actually like this ability conceptually and it may work well when paired with the regenerate spell or life font movement skill caveat is your character has to survive the attack for it to be useful for support abilities we have experience boost similar to the squire's essential job point boost which you should have equipped on your arithmetician so i don't see experience boost being as useful as this except for maybe a character you want to power level faster lastly for moving abilities we have a crew xp and accrued job points which gives you a small amount of each with every step they seem interesting in concept you can probably imagine a hasted ninja with a pair of boots on running around the battlefield gaining free xp and free job points but seeing as how they don't have a lot of battlefield use probably best cap for a character you're trying to grind [Music] we've covered the good with abilities we've covered the bad with equipment now it's time to get into the ugly the arithmetician stats you get your standard three move three jump a measly five percent class evasion rate which i guess is better than nothing for class stats it's penalties all around 65 hp 80 mp 50 physical attack 70 magic attack and a nasty 50 speed i suppose it's nice you retain some of your mp that you don't need and lose some magic attack that you definitely do need oh well on the growth stats side we are looking at bad hp growth actually good mp growth pretty bad physical attack and your standard for magic attack growth luckily speed growth isn't penalized but let's try not to gain too many levels as an arithmetician okay [Music] a job that takes dedication to reach and unlock then another slog of slowly gaining job points make useful the arithmetician ends up providing dedicated casters with the most devastating secondary skill set in the game their primary skill set requires learning a value and the number to combine into formulating targets to hit with a single spell this cast comes at no cost to your mp and is instant but remember you can hit friend and foe arithmeticians can equip both robes and clothes allowing you to slightly diversify your build all attempts should be made to find items that increase your speed and magic attack you should be casting haste on your arithmetician to increase how many times they act per battle and also have job point boost as their passive skill reaction support and movement abilities for the arithmetician can be safely skipped to focus on their primary abilities so you can switch back to a good job much faster books are terrible weapons and i recommend using poles instead though using arithmetician in close combat is generally a bad idea arithmeticians have some of the worst stats in the game so be prepared to babysit this character while they develop into devastating little nightmares this concludes this episode of the job focus series with the arithmetician i would like to take this opportunity to once again thank everyone in the community for your kind words and support in the comments and the suggestions for future job focus episodes your appreciation is what drives me to keep creating content and i appreciate you all for keeping me engaged as well thanks everyone if you thought the content today was enjoyable please throw out a like if you're interested in the next in the series be sure to subscribe and hit that bell icon so you get a heads up when the next video is released these little gestures of liking and subscribing are huge in getting these videos out to more people which means more active players among us that will play with or against us who we can discuss our favorite builds with encourage those who might want to get into the game for the first time to go ahead and jump in and enjoy the amazing story and rewarding battle system right along with us and who knows one day this could actually be the start of a real esports event that was built around you the community who never gave up on the unique title that still has so much to offer and appreciate if you think this game is amazing remember you are not alone i'm mikey from final fantasy tactics live tournament signing off i will see you in the next video and until then be well everyone [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Tactics Live Tournament

Views: 6,587

Keywords: final fantasy tactics, war of the lions, psp, fft pvp, fft live, job focus, arithmetician

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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 15 2022