Knight (Tactics)

A brave and chivalrous warrior of unmatched skill. Uses a knight's sword to unleash the Arts of War.
Description

Knight is a job from Final Fantasy Tactics. They are the first real physical job acquired, with abilities that focus mainly on disabling hume characters by lowering their stats or destroying their equipment. The Rend equipment abilities will fail against a target who has equipped the support ability Safeguard and will do damage equal to a normal attack if the target does not have the corresponding equipment. It costs 3,750 JP to master.

Leveling Knight to level 3 unlocks the Monk, leveling it to level 4 with Dragoon and Monk unlocks Samurai. Mastering the job as well as getting the jobs Samurai, Ninja, Geomancer, Black Mage, and Dragoon to level 8, and having 20 kills with the character (meaning the enemy is crystallized or dropped a treasure chest) is needed to unlock the Dark Knight job.

While the sprites of knights from the Order of the Northern Sky and the Order of the Southern Sky use almost the same color scheme, they can be distinguished by examining the emblem color on the cape. Blue emblem represents the Northern Sky, and red emblem is of the Southern Sky.

Stats[]

Prerequisite	Weapons	Helmet	Armor	Equip Shields?
Lv. 2 Squire	Swords, Knight Swords	Helmets	Armor, Robes	Yes

Move Rate	Jump Rate	Speed	Physical Evasion Rate	Base Attack	Base Magic	Base HP	Base MP
3	3	8	10%	High	Average	High	Average

Abilities[]

Arts of War[]

Knight job command. Enables the use of "Rend" skills that destroy equipment or reduce attributes.
Description

The Dual Wield ability (acquired using the Ninja job) allows the player to take two chances at "rending" equipment and statistics. For example, players can rend an enemy's speed twice in one turn.

In the PlayStation version, the first four abilities are useless against enemies that cannot equip armor or weapons (i.e. "monsters").

Name	Range	Effect	Speed	JP Needed
Rend Helm (Head Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	300
Rend Helm (Head Break)	A technique that destroys the item equipped on the target's head. Effect: Destroy Headgear Success Rate: 45 + Physical Attack + Weapon Strength
Rend Armor (Armor Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	400
Rend Armor (Armor Break)	A technique that destroys the item equipped on the target's body. Effect: Destroy Armor Success Rate: 40 + Physical Attack + Weapon Strength
Rend Shield (Shield Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	300
Rend Shield (Shield Break)	A technique that destroys the target's equipped shield. Effect: Destroy Shield Success Rate: 55 + Physical Attack + Weapon Strength
Rend Weapon (Weapon Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	400
Rend Weapon (Weapon Break)	A technique that destroys the target's equipped weapon. Effect: Destroy Weapon Success Rate: 30 + Physical Attack + Weapon Strength
Rend MP (Magic Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	250
Rend MP (Magic Break)	A technique that reduces the target's MP. Amount: 50% of Target's Max MP Success Rate: 50 + Physical Attack
Rend Speed (Speed Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	250
Rend Speed (Speed Break)	A technique that reduces the target's Speed. Amount: -2 Speed Success Rate: 50 + Physical Attack
Rend Power (Power Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	250
Rend Power (Power Break)	A technique that reduces the target's physical attack power. Amount: -3 Physical Attack Success Rate: 50 + Physical Attack
Rend Magick (Mind Break)	Depends on equipped weapon	0	Now	250
Rend Magick (Mind Break)	A technique that reduces the target's magickal attack power. Amount: -3 Magic Attack Success Rate: 50 + Physical Attack

Reaction abilities[]

Name	Description	Trigger	JP Needed
Parry (Weapon Guard)	Block physical attacks with the equipped weapon.	Physical Attack	200

Support abilities[]

Name	Description	JP Needed
Equip Heavy Armor (Equip Armor)	Equip helms and armor, regardless of job.	500
Equip Shields (Equip Shield)	Equip shields, regardless of job.	250
Equip Swords (Equip Sword)	Equip swords, regardless of job.	400