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Long years of fighting in the arena have honed the skills of these swordsmen to perfection. They call their closely guarded techniques "Astutia".
Description
The Lanista is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift exclusive to the seeq. Lanista specializes in various skills, such as support, absorption, and dealing heavy damage at their own expense, the last similar to a Dark Knight.
Requirements
To unlock the job the player must complete "A Lanista's Pride" mission, which appears after the story mission "A Request". To use it, the player must master a Berserker A-Ability.
Stats
Weapons | Head | Body | Equip Shields? |
---|---|---|---|
Greatswords | Hats, Helmets | Light Armor, Heavy Armor | No |
Move | Jump | Evasion | Unarmed Attack Raise |
Resilience | HP | MP | Atk | Def | Mgk | Res | Spd |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 35 | C | G | C | C | E | F | 50% |
Abilities
Astutia
The LANISTA turn to these skills bought with blood and blade.
Skill | Equipment | Range | AP | MP |
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Souleater | Xankbras | Weapon Range | 150 | — |
Sacrifice the user's HP to deal dark damage to the target. | ||||
Sword of Darkness | Ancient Sword | Weapon Range | 350 | 12 |
Steal the target's life force. Restores HP to the unit. | ||||
Sword of Light | Ogrenix | Weapon Range | 300 | 8 |
Steal the target's magickal energy. Restores MP to the unit. | ||||
Haunting Vision | Dagriohm | 4 | 300 | 8 |
Show the target a vision from their darkest dreams. Deals damage and BLINDS the target. | ||||
Block! | Diamond Sword | 4 | 250 | 8 |
Conjure a magickal shield around units in a small area. Raises DEFENSE. | ||||
Strike! | Luabreaker | 4 | 250 | 8 |
Temporarily grants extensive anatomical knowledge that can be used to carefully target attacks. Raises the CRITICAL HIT rate of units in a small area.. | ||||
Charge! | Hardedge | 1 | 350 | 8 |
Magickally strengthen the unit for a single rush attack. Deals damage and knocks the target back. May also destroy the target's armor. | ||||
Razzle-Dazzle | Vigilante | All sides | 450 | 24 |
Absorb the life force of surrounding units. Restores HP. |
Reaction
Skill | Equipment | Effect | AP |
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Blink Counter | Bone Armlets | Counter attack and knock back the attacker after being the target of an offensive action. | 250 |
Dragonheart | Tournesol | Gain RERAISE after taking damage. Only works once per battle. | 500 |
Support
Skill | Equipment | Effect | AP |
---|---|---|---|
Monkey Grip | Oblige | Wield two-handed weapons with one hand. | 250 |
Tank | Platinum Armor | Enables the user to equip helms and heavy armor, regardless of their current job. | 200 |
Other appearances
Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
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Lanista appears with an Earth-elemental card.
Notes
- Lanista's Souleater ability is useful to deplete one's own HP to boost the power of Razzle-Dazzle. However, to make it work better, one may need to level up their seeq as a Berserker due to their excellent HP growth. Souleater and Sword of Darkness are preferable against the troublesome Sprites and Banshees.
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Etymology
The word lanista is a First Declension Latin noun, with a grammatical gender of masculine. The word means "one who manages and trains a team of Gladiators".
The Lanista's skillset, Astutia, means "the quality of being astute".
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