Holy Knight (Tactics)

Holy Knight is a special job in Final Fantasy Tactics. It is Agrias Oaks's default job, and focuses on swords and techniques that cause heavy damage from afar. Holy Knights are the game's equivalent of the Paladin, but lack the defensive qualities usually associated with the Paladin job, instead, focusing on the offense. It costs 3,350 JP to master this job.

Delita has the Holy Knight job from Chapter 2 onwards, with the addition of Chant. Wiegraf is a White Knight with the same abilities, excluding Divine Ruination.

The Holy Knight's Holy Sword contains powerful abilities that deal damage and inflict an ailment to the targets without the requisite of charging time or MP. Like all Swordplay abilities, the user must be equipped with a sword or a knight sword in order to use them.

Despite its name and the in-game help message, all Holy Sword abilities are not associated with the holy element (nor lightning element for Hallowed Bolt). Instead, the elemental attribute is dependent on the user's equipped weapon, primarily the one on the right hand. The game's AI still mistakenly regards them, including Hallowed Bolt, as holy-elemental, and will not use them if the target is immune against holy.

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Note: The Holy Sword abilities have the element of the weapon equipped.

Holy Sword
Note: Agrias, Delita, and Wiegraf must be equipped with a sword to use these abilities.

Damage inflicted with Holy Sword abilities is calculated by a unit's physical attack and its right-handed weapon's strength.

Damage caused by Holy Sword is: $$Damage = PA x (Weapon str + [Skill power])$$

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Some of the Holy Knight skills appear used by the characters who appeared as Holy Knights in Final Fantasy Tactics.

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Trivia

 * The concept of Northswain's Strike's additional instant death effect is a reference to the Chinese deity of . He is said to associate with death whose role is close to that of the Grim Reaper.
 * In the original Final Fantasy Tactics for the PS1, "Stasis Sword" is mistranslated as "Steady Sword" in the battle quote.