Changes: Sky Pirate (Tactics A2)

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Swift and dexterous, sky pirates sail the skies in search of treasure and adventure.
Description

Sky Pirate is a job class exclusive to Vaan in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift. It is a variant of the Thief job, carrying many abilities that make it easier to steal higher level loot and gil.

Vaan's high Speed stat helps to complement these abilities, but they are marred by low growth rates for every other statistic. This doesn't hurt the overall purpose of the Sky Pirate, which is looting an enemy's valuables, though to promote growth in other areas the player may want to change to another job and keep the Piracy ability set. The unique Salvage ability is useful in "Destroy all the traps" missions, as normally the only way to destroy them is to set them off. In other missions, Salvage can be used with Libra or a Ranger's Awareness ability to acquire extra loot.

The Sky Pirate can be an offensive force with repeated use of Steal to build up the power of Life of Crime. The player can focus on building up Evasion to compensate for low defensive capabilities. Having Sky Pirate as a secondary class for a Ninja and equipping two Reverie Shields, the Azure Tear and Ninja Gear will bring Vaan's Evasion to 80, and Razors Edge will bring it up to 100, dodging all damaging attacks 99% of the time. Life of Crime's damage modifier helps to combat the low attack due to not wielding a weapon.

Salvage can be combined with Ranger's any kinds of trap to gain infinite loot.

Stats

Weapons	Head	Body	Equip Shields?
Swords, Sabers, Blades	Hats	Light Armor	No

Move	Jump	Evasion	Unarmed Attack Raise	HP	MP	Atk	Def	Mgk	Res	Spd
4	3	0	15	D	G	E	E	E	E	64%

Abilities

Piracy

SKY PIRATES know countless tricks to make the money of many into the wealth of one.

Skill	Source Equipment	Effect	Range	AP To Master
Trophy Hunt	Harpe	Weak physical attack. Gains Lv. 4 loot if enemy is killed with this strike.	Weapon range	300
Shadow Stalk	Mastered	Physical attack. Does not engage target's R-abilities.	Weapon range	—
Salvage	Mastered	Disarms traps to gain loot. Only works on visible traps.	1	—
Life Of Crime	Ebon Blade	Physical attack. Deals damage in proportion to number of successful steal attempts.	1	300
Steal	Mastered	Steals one of the following from the target: loot from Lv. 1-4, Items, or Gil. Hit rate is half of standard attacks.	1	—
Swipe	Manganese Saber	Steals target's gil. Doubles the amount of gil normally stolen. Hit rate is half of standard attacks.	1	300
Razor's Edge	Mastered	Increases own Evasion.	Self	—
Flee	Adamant Blade	Increases own Movement and Jump by one.	Self	300

Reaction

Skill	Source Equipment	Effect	AP To Master
Sticky Fingers	Mastered	Catches and acquires weapons thrown with Throw and Weapon Toss.	—

Support

Skill	Source Equipment	Effect	AP To Master
Vigilance	Mastered	Does not take extra damage from attacks from the side or back.	—

Gallery

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Etymology

[view · edit · purge]A pirate is a person who commits warlike acts at sea without the authorization of any nation.

Trivia

The fake Vaan has the additional description "Assuming this -is- a sky pirate..."

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 '''Sky Pirate''' is a job class exclusive to [[Vaan]] in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift]]''. It is a variant of the [[Thief (Tactics A2)|Thief]] job, carrying many abilities that make it easier to [[steal]] higher level [[Loot (Tactics A2)|loot]] and [[gil]].
-Vaan's high [[Speed (stat)|Speed]] stat helps to complement these abilities, but they are marred by low [[Stat Growth|growth rates]] for every other statistic. This doesn't hurt the overall purpose of the Sky Pirate, which is looting an enemy's valuables, though to promote growth in other areas the player may want to change to another job and keep the Piracy ability set. The unique [[#Salvage|Salvage]] ability is useful in "Destroy all the traps" missions, as normally the only way to destroy them is to set them off. In other missions, Salvage can be used with [[Libra (ability)|Libra]] or a [[Ranger (Tactics A2)|Ranger's]] [[Ranger (Tactics A2)#Awareness|Awareness]] ability to acquire extra loot.
+Vaan's high [[Speed (stat)|Speed]] stat helps to complement these abilities, but they are marred by low [[stat growth|growth rates]] for every other statistic. This doesn't hurt the overall purpose of the Sky Pirate, which is looting an enemy's valuables, though to promote growth in other areas the player may want to change to another job and keep the Piracy ability set. The unique [[#Salvage|Salvage]] ability is useful in "Destroy all the traps" missions, as normally the only way to destroy them is to set them off. In other missions, Salvage can be used with [[Libra (ability)|Libra]] or a [[Ranger (Tactics A2)|Ranger's]] [[Ranger (Tactics A2)#Awareness|Awareness]] ability to acquire extra loot.
 The Sky Pirate can be an offensive force with repeated use of Steal to build up the power of [[#Life of Crime|Life of Crime]]. The player can focus on building up [[Evasion]] to compensate for low defensive capabilities. Having Sky Pirate as a secondary class for a [[Ninja (Tactics A2)|Ninja]] and equipping two [[List of Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift armor#Reverie Shield|Reverie Shields]], the [[List of Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift accessories#Azure Tear|Azure Tear]] and [[List of Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift armor#Ninja Gear|Ninja Gear]] will bring Vaan's Evasion to 80, and Razors Edge will bring it up to 100, dodging all damaging attacks 99% of the time. Life of Crime's damage modifier helps to combat the low attack due to not wielding a weapon.