Parivir (Tactics A2)



Parivir is a Job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, available only to Humes. Parivirs wield katanas with which elemental damage and/or status effects can be inflicted. Their defenses leave much to be desired, but they are considered top-notch front-line fighters. Exploiting the right weakness (or using Geomancy), their elemental attacks can become devastatingly powerful. Parivir are set apart from other melee units. With frail defenses, they are best described as a "glass cannon"; focusing on Speed and Attack, able to deal massive amounts of damage in a quick and efficient manner, but that "break" upon impact, with a lackluster endurance for heavy attacks. For this reason, many give them the Reaction ability Strike Back with Dual Wield as Support, to both defend them and thoroughly punish the attacker. Another option is giving them Geomancy, doubling the damage of most of their skills. As an antithesis to the the traditional tank (slow, yet impenetrable), it is best to combine levels of the Paladin and Parivir, making a unit that is one part defensive, one part fast, and two parts deadly.

Zengen and Ghi are important Parivirs in the game.

Requirements

 * To Unlock: Complete "The Eastwatch"
 * To Use: Master 3 Fighter A-Abilities

Trivia

 * In Final Fantasy XII, the Seeq Aekom who works in Bhujerba's Lhusu Mines mentioned a guild of bodyguards called the Parivir. Several of them can be met around this city, and their job is to guard the miners at Lhusu from the monsters who also inhabit it.
 * The Flair command originally belonged to the powerful Llednar Twem in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, but the moves were completely different. The same is true for Amarant Coral in Final Fantasy IX.
 * Despite being the only Samurai class in the game, the Parivir cannot equip the samurai-styled Genji gear. Zengen, a Parivir member of "The Eastwatch", who appears in various missions such as "A Lanista's Pride" and Ghi Yelgi both wear such armor, thanks to illegal possession of the passive ability "Tank".

Etymology
Parivir is Sanskrit for "Bodyguard," which closely resembles the original Japanese. The Japanese and Spanish name for this class is Yojimbo, which denotes a Ronin or Samurai hired as a bodyguard. Their itinerant status is probably the reason why the Parivir cannot equip the Genji Armor.