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Spellblades use their blade arts to damage and afflict foes with assorted maladies.
Description
The Spellblade is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, exclusive to viera. They can use swords to strike enemies and their abilities consist on inflicting status effects while damaging.
Spellblades use status-imbued swords such as Oil Blade, which coats the enemy with Oil, at which point an ally can attack with Fire-based attack for extra damage. Spellblades also have access to the potent Blood Price ability, which can easily be abused by a Red Mage, who can overcome the HP cost by double casting an attacking spell that includes herself in its range and wearing the appropriate elemental robe to absorb the damage as health.
Unlike the Fencer's ability like the most common one, Swarmstrike which can inflicts Poison with no MP cost, but half damage. The Spellblade compensates the both offensive and secondary effects into the attack with MP cost, but since Spellblade job is a type of advance job, the overall damage and MP cost is averaged.
A popular setup is to set Green Magick as the Spellblade's secondary, with the Spellbound Passive ability and Ribbon headgear equipped. This allows the Spellblade to Protect, Shell, Leap, and Tranq herself for long periods of time and cast many area of effect debuffs on enemies, even when she's in the spell's range. This combo is commonly called the Battlemage.
Despite the name "Blade arts", the A-abilities of the Spellblade can be used with a bow, and this leads to Snipers having Blade arts for their secondary ability. When used in conjunction with Turbo MP, the Sniper can alternate between a Mana-free Sniper attack and then a ranged Spellblade attack on the following turn.
Also worth noting is the havoc that can be wrought when combining the Spellblade's magicks with Doublecast from a Red Mage secondary—Double the chance of a single debuff working, a chance of two debuffs in one fell swoop, as well as the advantage of the damage done by two strikes. The Spellblade's stat growth boasts the highest defense of the viera race, the only other noteworthy stats are her excellent Speed and average Attack stat but her abilities will benefit any bow wielder to cause both damage and a chance to inflict a debuff from a distance.
A notable Spellblade, Valentyne is a member of Prima Donna.
Requirements
- To Unlock: Complete To Be a Spellblade
- To Use: Master 2 Red Mage A-Abilities
Stats
Weapons | Head | Body | Equip Shields? |
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Swords | Hats | Light Armor | No |
Move | Jump | Evasion | Unarmed Attack Raise |
Resilience | HP | MP | Atk | Def | Mgk | Res | Spd |
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4 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 60 | E | G | C | E | E | E | 64% |
Abilities
Blade Arts
These skills imbue the weapons of the SPELLBLADE with magicks that weaken those they strike.
Skill | Source Equipment | Effect | Range | AP To Master | MP Use |
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Poison Blade | Blood Sword | Damage and may inflict Poison. | Weapon range | 200 | 8 |
Oil Blade | Broadsword | Damage and may inflict Oil. | Weapon range | 300 | 8 |
Sleep Blade | Gale Sword | Damage and may inflict Sleep. | Weapon range | 250 | 8 |
Slow Blade | Silver Sword | Damage and may inflict Slow. | Weapon range | 300 | 8 |
Confusion Blade | Onion Sword | Damage and may inflict Confuse. | Weapon range | 300 | 8 |
Stun Blade | Burglar Sword | Damage and may inflict Immobilize. | Weapon range | 200 | 8 |
Maim Blade | Restorer | Damage and may inflict Disable. | Weapon range | 350 | 8 |
Doom Blade | Vitanova | Damage and may inflict Doom. | Weapon range | 400 | 8 |
Reaction
Skill | Source Equipment | Effect | AP To Master |
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Critical: Evasion↑ | Cachusha | Evade UP when HP critical. | 200 |
Support
Skill | Source Equipment | Effect | AP To Master |
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Blood Price | Buster Sword | Use HP instead of MP for casting. HP cost is twice the usual MP cost. | 150 |
Other appearances
Final Fantasy Tactics S
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Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
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Spellblade appears with an Ice-elemental card.
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Trivia
- Despite being physical attacks, Blade Arts can be Doublecast and powered up by Turbo MP.
- Though being named blade arts, the abilities of a Spellblade can be fired through a bow or greatbow.
- Since Protect, Shell and Silence are on the Green Mage skill list, and Cure is on the White Mage skill list, one does not need to become a Red Mage to enter the Spellblade class.
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