White Mage (Tactics A2)

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Viera White Mage.

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White mages use curing magicks to mend allies' wounds and restore them to health.

Description

A master of curative magic, the White Mage is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift available to humes, nu mou and viera right from the beginning.

White Mages have abilities such as Cure to heal party members and damage the undead; and Raise, which revives a KO'd unit and damages undead. They have low HP, but a good way to combat this is to acquire their skills while alternating with another job, such as Beastmaster, though this would lower their Magick stat. A better idea may be changing their job class to another and using the White Magick skillset as a secondary A-Ability, since the White Mage's magick growth is only average, meaning one may wish to change jobs to one better suited for growth in that area.

The White Mage's reviving spells, Raise and Arise, may be used to move a KO'd unit to a tile that is otherwise unreachable. This is useful in maps where treasure is on a ledge and none of the units have a sufficient Jump stat to reach it. Refresh is one of the few ways of getting rid of Doom and some status reducing effects.

The White Mage's Turbo MP ability is less useful than in the first game, because now all units start with zero MP; Turbo MP effectively doubles the amount of time a unit has to wait before they can cast their spells, unless one uses an Ether, the Seer's Recharge ability (for humes) or the Cannoneer's Ether Shot ability. Since this will double the cost for Esuna, Refresh and Reraise, its counterpart, Halve MP, is more beneficial.

Some notable White Mages are Cyda, Mack Ocktor, White King Blanc of Clan Cinquleur, and the hume to whom the player donates gil, who is a member of Carm Mercantile (secretly known as Khamja's front). They represent the three races the White Mage belongs to.

Stats

Weapons	Head	Body	Equip Shields?
Staves	Hats	Robes, Light Armor	No

Race	Move	Jump	Evasion	Unarmed Attack Raise	HP	MP	Atk	Def	Mgk	Res	Spd
Hume	3	2	0	10	D	E	F	E	D	D	52%
Nu Mou	3	2	0	10	E	C	F	E	D	C	52%
Viera	3	2	0	10	D	D	F	E	D	D	58%

Abilities

White Magick

WHITE MAGES work these magicks to heal and restore their allies.

Skill	Equipment	Effect	Range	AP	MP Use
Cure	White Staff	Recovers a decent amount of HP in an area. Deals damage to the undead.	4	100	8
Cura	Healing Staff	Recovers a great amount of HP in an area. Deals damage to the undead.	4	200	14
Curaga	Spring Staff	Recovers a very large amount of HP in an area. Deals damage to the undead.	4	300	18
Esuna	Cleansing Staff	Cure physical status ailments such as Blind and Poison in an area.	4	200	12
Raise	Staff of Blessings	Revive a KO'd ally with minimal health. Deals damage to the undead.	4	200	10
Arise	Nirvana	Revive a KO'd ally with all of their HP. Deals damage to the undead.	4	400	20
Reraise	Cheer Staff	Bestows Auto-Life.	4	400	28
Refresh	Staff of the Magi	Cures all status ailments on a target.	4	400	14

Support

Skill	Equipment	Effect	AP
Turbo MP	White Robe	Double MP use to increase damage and accuracy of skills requiring it.	250

Note

• The viera White Mage has better overall MP and Speed growth than a hume White Mage.
• Both nu mou and hume White Mage have sparring stats of HP and MP difference, similar Speed growth. Yet, nu mou White Mages are better as magickal supporters since they have better Resistance than hume White Mages.

Gallery

Hume White Mage.

nu mou White Mage.

Viera White Mage portrait.

Cure.

Cura.

Curaga.

Esuna.

Raise.

Arise.

Reraise.

Refresh.

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