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- See also: Samurai.
- "The parivir are swift and skillful combatants who finish their foes with flair."
- —Description
Parivir is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, available only to Humes. Parivirs wield katanas with which can inflict elemental damage and/or status effects. Their defenses leave much to be desired, but they are considered top-notch front-line fighters. Exploiting the right weakness (or using Geomancy), their elemental attacks can become devastatingly powerful. Parivir are set apart from other melee units, with frail defenses they are best described as a 'glass cannon'; focusing on Speed and Attack, able to deal massive amounts of damage in a quick and efficient manner, but they 'break' upon impact, with a lackluster endurance for heavy attacks. For this reason, many give them the Reaction ability Strike Back with Dual Wield as Support, to both defend them and thoroughly punish the attacker. Another option is giving them Geomancy, doubling the damage of most of their skills. As an antithesis to the the traditional tank (slow, yet impenitrable), it its best to combine levels of Paladin (Final Fantasy Tactics A2) and Parivir, making a unit, on terms of stats: one part defensive, one part fast,and two parts deadly.
Zengen and Ghi are important Parivirs in the game.
[edit] Requirements
- To Unlock: Complete "The Eastwatch"
- To Use: Master 3 Fighter A-Abilities
| Weapons
| Head
| Body
| Equip Shields?
|
| Katanas
| Hats
| Light Armor
| No
|
| Move
| Jump
| Evasion
| Unarmed
Attack Raise
| Resilience
|
| 4
| 2
| 5
| 15
| 40
|
[edit] Abilities
| Skill
| Weapon Learned From
| Effect
| Range
| AP To Master
|
| Wind Slash
| Murasame
| Wind damage to a single target.
| 4
| 200
|
| Iai Blow
| Osafune
| Half damage; May KO. Requires a bladed weapon.
| 1
| 300
|
| Blade Bash
| Ashura
| Weak damage and Immobilize. Requires a bladed weapon.
| 1
| 200
|
| Shimmering Blade
| Nosada
| Inflicts Fire damage and causes Confuse. Requires a bladed weapon.
| 1
| 400
|
| Hoarfrost Blade
| Ama-no-murakumo
| Inflicts Ice damage and causes Slow. Requires a bladed weapon.
| 1
| 400
|
| Skyfury Blade
| Kotetsu
| Inflicts Thunder damage and causes Berserk. Requires a bladed weapon.
| 1
| 400
|
| Lifethread Blade
| Adazakura
| Inflicts Dark damage and causes Doom. Requires a bladed weapon.
| 1
| 400
|
| Unburden Soul
| Sumihomura
| Restores HP and heals status of party; Kills user. The Self-KO effect can be neutralized by equipping an Angel Ring (grants Auto-Life), or a Wygar (gives immunity to Instant KO).
| All allies
| 400
|
[edit] Reaction
| Skill
| Equipment Learned From
| Effect
| AP To Master
|
| Strike Back
| Bone Plate
| Avoids any standard attacks then counters
| 250
|
[edit] Support
| Skill
| Equipment Learned From
| Effect
| AP To Master
|
| Death Strike
| Bracers
| Increases critical hit percentage
| 150
|
[edit] Trivia
- In Final Fantasy XII, the Seeq Aekom who works in Bhujerba's Lhusu Mines mentioned a guild of bodyguards called the Parivir. Several of them can be met around this city, and their job is to guard the miners at Lhusu from the monsters who also inhabit it.
- The Flair command originally belonged to the powerful Llednar Twem in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, but the moves were completely different. The same is true for Amarant Coral in Final Fantasy IX.
- Despite being the only Samurai class in the game, the Parivir cannot equip the samurai-styled Genji gear. Zengen, a Parivir member of "The Eastwatch", who appears in various missions such as "A Lanista's Pride" and Ghi Yelgi both wear such armor, thanks to an illegal possession of the passive ability "Tank".
[edit] Etymology
Parivir is Sanskrit for Bodyguard, which closely resembles the original Japanese. The Japanese and Spanish name for this class is Yojimbo, which denotes a Ronin or Samurai hired as a bodyguard. Their itinerant status is probably the reason that the Parivir cannot equip the Genji Armor.
