Game Hunter

Game Hunter
(モブハンター, Mobu Hantā?, lit. Mob Hunter)
Sprite(s)
Abilities
Stats	High base attack, magick, HP and MP See stats
Weapons	Knives, Swords, Knight Swords, Flails
Armor	Hats, Armor, Clothes, Robes
Command abilities	Huntcraft See Huntcraft
Support abilities	See reaction abilities, support abilities, movement abilities

A hunter who trails rare monsters, employing Huntcraft skills to overcome them.

Description

Game Hunter is a job class in Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions for Luso that focuses on hunting monsters. The Game Hunter specializes in poaching.

Game Hunter costs 2,520 JP to master. It is essentially a copy of the Squire job of Ramza, but with an innate Poach ability.

Stats

Prerequisite	Weapons	Helmet	Armor	Equip Shields?
None	Knives, Swords, Knight Swords, Flails	Hats, Armor	Clothes, Robes, Armor	Yes

Move Rate	Jump Rate	Speed	Physical Evasion Rate	Base Attack	Base Magic	Base HP	Base MP
4	3	7	10%	High	High	High	High

Abilities

Innate abilities

• Poach

Huntcraft

Game hunter job command. A selection of basic outdoor skills.

Description

The damage formula for Stone and Rush are as follows:

$Physical Attack \times (random number from 1 to PWR)$

The damage formula for Ultima is as follows:

$Magick Attack \times PWR \times (Faith/100) \times (Target Faith/100)$

Luso must be hit with Ultima while he is a Game Hunter to learn Ultima, either by Ramza, Celia, Lettie, or Ultima Demons. An easy way to do this is equipping items that prevent Assassins' disable/charm/death and keeping distance.

Name	Range	Effect	Speed	JP Needed
Focus	0	1	Now	300
	Increase physical attack power.
Rush	1	1	Now	80
	Attack by ramming into the enemy's body.
Stone	4	1	Now	90
	Lob a stone at a far-off foe.
Salve	1	1	Now	150
	Remove several status ailments. Removes: Poison, Blind, Silence.
Tailwind	3	1	Now	200
	Boost an ally's Speed.
Chant	1	1	Now	0
	Sacrifice HP to restore twice as much to an ally.
Steel	3	1	Now	200
	Encourage an ally, increasing their Bravery.
Shout	0	1	Now	500
	Increase Bravery, Speed, and physical and magickal attack power with a hearty battle cry.
Ultima	4	2	20	—
	Magick that inflicts damages with pure energy. MP Cost: 10

Reaction abilities

Name	Description	Trigger	JP Needed
Counter Tackle	Counterattack with a tackle.	Physical Attack	180

Support abilities

Name	Description	JP Needed
Equip Axes	Equip axes, regardless of job.	170
Beastmaster	Adds an ability to all monsters in neighboring tiles with an elevation difference of 3h or less.	200
Defend	Defend oneself against an attack. Adds the Defend command.	50
JP Boost	Increase the amount of JP earned in battle.	200

Movement abilities

Name	Description	JP Needed
Move +1	Increase Move by 1.	200

Overview

The Game Hunter is essentially a copy of Ramza's Squire job, down the stats and equipment options, but with an innate ability to poach monsters. It has all the same abilities, including being able to learn Ultima when hit by it; a key difference is that Game Hunter can learn Shout in Chapter 3, while Ramza's Squire at the start of Chapter 4.

Luso's Huntcraft has powerful buffs that can be bestowed upon other units, such as Tailwind and Steel, which increase Speed and Bravery, respectively. This solidifies the Game Hunter as a potent offensive support unit that can slowly strengthen his team and himself over the course of the battle, since those attribute buffs last until the fight is over. Shout is useful to quickly rack-up attributes while approaching enemies in large maps, and can also be used for JP and EXP grinding.

Similarly to Ramza, Luso can be made into a formidable Monk with Huntcraft as a secondary, and use with Shout to max out his Bravery to vastly increase his unarmed damage dealt (which includes Brawler and Counter Tackle), as well increasing the chance to trigger reaction abilities.

Reaction attacks like Counter Tackle or Counter will allow a Game Hunter to poach monsters (undead monsters lose their bodies and cannot automatically revive) if they are slain, but First Strike does not work on monsters.

Luso must be hit by Ultima while he is a Game Hunter to learn it, much like Ramza's Squire. The only characters who can cast Ultima are Celia, Lettie, Ultima Demons, and Ramza (after he learns from those enemies). To quickly learn Ultima, it is recommended to equip items that prevent Stop and Charm, and to keep distance from Celia and Lettie.

Etymology

A game hunter is someone who partakes of big-game hunting, the hunting of large game. The term is historically associated with the hunting of Africa's big five game (lion, African elephant, Cape Buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros), and with tigers and rhinos on the Indian subcontinent.