![]() Like a bird attracted to shiny objects, I bought the guide with the cooler looking cover. I had some friends who were fiercely loyal to one or the other, not me. Part of the game buying experience was getting the new Prima or the Brady guide. You needed that guide to give you a taste of what was to come and of course to help you out of the trouble you were bound to meet. Sometimes you bought a game because the cover art looked neat. If you were lucky, you watched a friend play a game and went to Toys-R-Us and spent that allowance. You weren’t watching game trailers or an E3 demo is what I’m saying. If you had internet access it came on a CD-Rom in the mail from AOL and you suffered through a dial-up tone. This was before the time of YouTube or Twitch. By equipping it with high evasion shields, cloaks, and the Shirahadori reaction ability from Samurai, the Sky Pirate becomes very hard to hit.There was nothing like cracking open a fresh guide on the car ride home from EB Games or Gamestop and flipping through the pages to get a glimpse of the adventure that awaited. The Sky Pirate also has second highest physical evasion of all classes, after Ninja, and tied with Agrias's Holy Knight. This means the player can invest in other attributes, such as raw attack power. However, the Sky Pirate naturally has the highest speed growth in the game, vastly superior to any other job. The Archer's Adrenaline Rush is great in long fights, allowing the Sky Pirate to increase its own speed by +1 whenever taking damage. To get the most of the Machinist and Thief abilities from the Sky Pirate, improving its speed is key, since all its abilities' success rate depend on Balthier's Speed stat. The Sky Pirate is the only non- Knight job other than Ramza's Squire and Luso's Game Hunter capable of equipping Knight Swords the Sky Pirate can deal the most damage in the game by equipping the Chaos Blade and using its Barrage ability, easily dealing over 2000 damage. Thanks to its versatility, the Sky Pirate can be played as virtually any kind of physical attacker, melee or ranged, as it can equip guns, swords, knives, polearms, bows, and crossbows. Balthier is the only playable Sky Pirate (should the player recruit him in The War of the Lions). Its Leg Shot and Arm Shot can easily change the tide of battle, and enable other jobs deal more damage Dragoons, in particular, can easily hit foes affected by Leg Shot. Its high stats and equipment options makes it a force to be reckoned with. The Sky Pirate is a powerful and versatile special job that combines traits from Machinist and Thief, focused on dealing physical damage with a wide variety of weapons, being able to steal from opponents, and capable to crippling the movement and actions of its foes. Increase the amount of JP earned in battle. Each strike inflicts half the usual damage.Ĭapture the target's heart, enthralling them.Īdds an ability to all monsters in neighboring tiles with an elevation difference of 3h or less.ĭefend oneself against an attack. Unleash 4 attacks with the emphasis on speed. Petrify the cursed beings known as the undead. Inflict damage to the arms, preventing weapon use and spell casting. Inflict damage to the legs, preventing movement. The success rate for all other abilities is as follows:Īmount stolen for Plunder Gil is equal to Speed * Level.Īmount of EXP stolen for Plunder EXP is equal to Speed + 15. The success rate for Plunder Heart is as follows: Plunder abilities generally have a 10% greater chance of success than normal Steal abilities. ![]()
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