Parivir (Tactics A2)



Parivir is a Job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift available only to humes. Parivirs wield katanas and have the ability to inflict elemental damage and/or status effects with their sword techniques. 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 defense, they are best described as "glass cannons," focusing on Speed and Attack and able to deal massive amounts of damage in a quick and efficient manner, but "breaking" 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 in order to both defend them and thoroughly discipline offenders. Although Flair abilities will not work with two blades, they already do twice the damage with one. An alternative is the Geomancy support ability, making enemies weak to an element to which they would normally be neutral, therefore offering increased damage from elemental attacks. Being an antithesis to 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.

This class can be considered by some to be quite cheep due to the ability to inflict double damage with it's elemental blade abilities each turn with no MP cost with the added bonus of status effects with no drawback.

Notable Parivirs are the tutors of the job, Zengen and Ghi Yelgi.

Requirements

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

Flair
The arsenal of the Parivir beats down foes with blindingly fast swordstrikes of deadly precision.

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

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".

Parivir