Samurai (Tactics)

The Samurai is a Job class from Final Fantasy Tactics. A balanced Job in the physical classes, similar to Geomancer. The Samurai has decent stats all round, making it a solid Job. Its Job command, Iaido, has the ability to draw spirits out of the Katanas to make effect around the user. Not only the Iaido abilities can deal damage to foes but also recover allies' HP or bestow various positive status effects. Indeed, the Iaido abilities are able to differentiate friend and foe like Summon abilities. But there is one eighth chance that using the Iaido skill will break the drawn Katana. It should be noted that you only need the Katana in your inventory, not equipped, to use the ability. All Iaido abilities are Katana specific as well. And surprisingly, since their power is determined by the user's Magick power rather than physical power, equipping the Support ability Arcane Strength learned from Black Mage can boost their power too. It costs 7,100 JP to master. In War of the Lions, the Samurai requires 8,000 JP to master.

Leveling this job to level 8, along with Knight, Black Mage, Dragoon, Ninja, and Geomancer, along with having 20 kills with the unit (the defeated units must turn into crystals or chests to count as a kill) will unlock the Dark Knight.

Stats
Following a warrior ethic from a foreign land, the samurai uses Iaido techniques to attack with his or her katana.



Draw Out/Iaido
''Samurai job command. Unleashes the mystical powers contained within katana.''

The damage/healing formula for Iaido skills are as follows:


 * $$Magick Attack x PWR$$

Reaction Abilities
Shirahadori, despite in-game description. It does work against bows/crossbows, guns, and monster attacks.