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FFXII Oil

Oil is a Green Magicks spell. It is the only spell that is classified as Green Magick in both the original and international versions.

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Green Magicks is a skillset in Final Fantasy XII. Only certain jobs can acquire Green Magicks licenses, and certain spells are obtained from treasures.

In the Zodiac versions, certain abilities were re-classified, and most Green Magicks were re-classified as White or Black Magicks. Green Magicks in return gained spells that were previously Arcane Magicks. Oil is the only spell that remained a Green Magick in both the original and Zodiac versions.

Mechanics[]

The success rate of negative status spells is unaffected by the target's magick evasion.

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If the target has Shell, the success rate is halved. Faith status, and Serenity/Spellbreaker licenses/accessories, as well as the Indigo Pendant, improve the success chance and stack multiplicatively. The accuracy underflow bug is a glitch in some versions of Final Fantasy XII where a low level character with extremely low Magick attempts to use a status move on a target with very high Vitality, and the accuracy of the spell becomes less than zero. In this case the accuracy will underflow to 100%, allowing certain status spells to always succeed.

List of Green Magicks[]

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"MP cost" is defined as default MP cost. Channeling augments lower MP cost of any spell.

In the Zodiac versions, many Green Magicks have been transferred into White Magicks, while some others being transferred to Black Magicks: the only remaining spell is Oil, the rest of the Green Magick space has been replaced with what was previously Arcane Magicks.

Green Magick spells are available to the White Mage, Red Battlemage, Time Battlemage and Black Mage jobs, while Machinists can only access Level 1 spells with the Esper Exodus.

Name MP Target Element Base Potency Faith Modifier Accuracy MP Recovery Required License
Initial Switch(With L1 or R1) Area Base Evasion(Magick Evasion) Safety(Nulled by Safety augment) Reflect(Can be Reflected)
Oil
Original stats
8 Enemy Partial Circle 8 None Accuracy 90% No No Yes No Green Magick 1
Increase fire damage dealt to all foes in range.

Effect: Inflicts Oil on all targets in range.
Cost: 800 gil
Location: Clan Provisioner (Rank: Hedge Knight)
Users: White Mage, Red Battlemage, Time Battlemage, Black Mage, Machinist (Requires Exodus)

Reverse 20 Enemy Partial Single None Accuracy 70% No No Yes No Green Magick 2
Cause healing and damage to have the opposite effect on one foe.

Effect: Inflicts Reverse on a single target. 70% base hit rate.
Cost: 7,000 gil
Location: Clan Provisioner (Rank: Knight of the Round)
Users: White Mage, Red Battlemage, Time Battlemage, Black Mage

Decoy 10 Ally No Single None Accuracy 60% No No No No Green Magick 1
Cause one ally to be the target of all foes.

Effect: Inflicts Lure on a party member. 60% base hit rate.
Cost: 2,000 gil
Location: Clan Provisioner (Rank: Moppet)
Users: White Mage, Red Battlemage, Time Battlemage, Black Mage, Machinist (Requires Exodus)

Drain 18 Enemy Partial Single None 62 Potency 100% No No No Warmage Green Magick 2
Transfer HP from one foe to the caster.

Effect: Drains HP from target, healing for the same amount.
Cost: 3,000 gil
Location: Clan Provisioner (Rank: Vanguard)
Users: White Mage, Red Battlemage, Time Battlemage, Black Mage

Bubble 32 Ally Partial Single None None Always No Yes Yes No Green Magick 3
Double max HP of one ally.

Effect: Bestows Bubble on a single target.
Cost: 5,000 gil
Location: Clan Provisioner (Rank: Riskbreaker)
Users: White Mage, Red Battlemage, Time Battlemage, Black Mage, Larsa

Syphon 2 Enemy Partial Single None 8 Accuracy 60% No Yes No No Green Magick 3
Transfer MP from one foe to the caster.

Effect: Drains MP from target, healing for the same amount.
Cost: 3,800 gil
Location: Clan Provisioner (Rank: Paragon of Justice)
Users: White Mage, Red Battlemage, Time Battlemage, Black Mage

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Etymology[]

Magick is an Early Modern English spelling for magic. Magick, in the context of Aleister Crowley's Thelema, is a term used to differentiate the occult from stage magic and is defined as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will", including both "mundane" acts of will as well as ritual magic.

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