Parivir (Tactics A2)

The parivir are swift and skillful combatants who finish their foes with flair.

Description

Parivir is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift available to humes.

Profile[]

Parivirs wield katanas and can inflict elemental damage and/or status effects with their sword techniques at virtually no MP cost. Their defenses leave much to be desired, but they are considered top-notch front-line fighters.

Exploiting the right weakness (or using Geomancy), Parivir's 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 damage quickly but "breaking" upon impact, with a lackluster endurance for heavy attacks.

Many players give them the reaction ability Strike Back with Dual Wield as support 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, 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.

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

Abilities[]

Flair[]

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

Description

Skill	Equipment	Range	AP
Wind Slash	Murasame	4	200
Wind Slash	Engulf the target in a whirlwind. Deals wind damage.
Iai Blow	Osafune	1	300
Iai Blow	An attack with a swift and deadly swing. Has a small chance of striking a vital organ, killing the target. Requires: Bladed weapon
Blade Bash	Ashura	1	200
Blade Bash	Strike the target with the face of the blade, attempting to IMMOBILIZE them. Requires: Bladed weapon
Shimmering Blade	Nosada	1	400
Shimmering Blade	Strike repeatedly at the target with a flaming blade to CONFUSE them. Requires: Bladed weapon
Hoarfrost Blade	Ama-no-murakumo	1	400
Hoarfrost Blade	Strike repeatedly at the target with a frozen blade of ice. SLOWS the target. Requires: Bladed weapon
Skyfury Blade	Kotetsu	1	400
Skyfury Blade	Strike repeatedly at the target with a lightning-imbued blade. Drives the target into a Berserk. Requires: Bladed weapon
Lifethread Blade	Adazakura	1	400
Lifethread Blade	Strike repeatedly at the target with a dark-forged blade. Marks the target with DOOM. Requires: Bladed weapon
Unburden Soul	Sumihomura	All allies	400
Unburden Soul	Sacrifice the user, completely restoring all allies' HP and curing them of debuffs.

Reaction[]

Skill	Equipment	Effect	AP
Strike Back	Bone Plate	Avoid all basic attacks and launch counter attack in return.	250

Support[]

Skill	Equipment	Effect	AP
Death Strike	Bracers	Makes the user lucky. Increases chance to score a critical hit.	150

Other appearances[]

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game[]

Parivir appears in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game as Fire-elemental Backup cards.

Behind the scenes[]

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 Llednar Twem in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, but the moves are completely different. The same is true for Amarant Coral in Final Fantasy IX.

Despite being the only "samurai" class, 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".

Gallery[]

Etymology[]

[view · edit · purge]Parivir is Sanskrit for "bodyguard". The job is called "Yojimbo" in the Japanese and Spanish versions. [view · edit · purge]Yōjinbō (用心棒?) means "bodyguard" in Japanese.