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Yagyu Darkblade in Final Fantasy XII.

The Yagyu Darkblade (柳生の漆黒, Yagyū no Shikkoku?, lit. Yagyū's Jet Black), also known as Yagyu Darkrood, is a recurring weapon in the series. It is usually the strongest Katana or Shuriken in the games it appears, or one of the strongest.

Appearances

Final Fantasy XII

Template:Sideicon Yagyu Darkblade is the strongest Ninja Sword available. Its license can be found in the top-left section of the weapon area of the License Board, along with other Ninja Swords costing 80 LP. The weapon has an Attack power of 80 and a Combo rate of 22%. Similar to other Ninja Swords, Yagyu Darkblade is Dark-elemental, and grants the user +20 to Evasion. Ninja Swords are among the fastest weapons with 1.97s charge and 1.2s action time; only daggers are faster.

Like the other most powerful weapons of each class, players can only acquire the Darkblade via one source: in this case, the Rare Game enemy Bombshell.

Players can only fight Bombshells in Lhusu Mines-Lasche Span. To stack up the odds upon players, the Bombshell has a spawning rate of 20% only, therefore players should zone between Lasche Span's entry and exit or either Site 5 and Site 11 a few times. There are also two Aeronites, both yielding up to Level 60 in the area, and can be very tough to defeat.

A popular tactic of chaining Bombshell is to lure it to one of the end of Lasche Span to the other, since the Aeronites will stop pursuing the party after a fixed point of the bridge. Set gambits to "Foe: Water-weak→Attack" as this will encourage the party members to attack Bombshell only. Once this is done, head towards either Site 5 or Site 11, whichever is closer. Alternately, Aeronites can be killed by poison (which does not break the chain). If using this method, one can speed it up greatly with additional gambits such as "Foe: HP≧2000: 1000 Needles" or "Foe:HP≧5000:Attack".

Players need to zone twice to reset the area and re-spawn Bombshell, therefore, the most efficient way is to ride the mine cart in either area, which will count as two zones. Players are, however, encouraged to turn off Gambits so the party will not attack the stray Vampyr bats.

Once reaching the other side, head back into Lasche Span, and remember to one zone a few times. An alternate way instead of using the mine cart is to zone back from Site 11 to Site 9, however, there is not a viable way to do this from Site 5. The Yagyu Darkblade is a 3/6/8/12% drop, so it may take a while, but the chances of multiple drops increases with each jump in chain level.

One can use to their advantage the Zone Out Glitch to make chaining Bombshell and acquiring the Yagyu Darkblade faster.

In the International version, the Yagyu Darkblade can be found in a chest at the Great Crystal at Giruvegan.

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Etymology

Yagyū Munetoshi was a famous Japanese swordsman. He was a student of Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami Nobutsuna and later became known as a master of the Shinkage Ryu school of swordsmanship. He developed and expanded upon the school's teachings, where it would be known as Yagyu Shinkage Ryu. Maxims and school focus turned to a greater emphasis on speed, reservation, free flowing movement, smaller scale duels, and the concepts of Satsujinken (lit. "Swords that Kill") and Katsujinken (lit. "Swords that Give Life"). Yagyu introduced the style to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and urban legends revolve around him teaching the style to the ninja of Iga and Koga.

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