Final Fantasy Tactics Trophy Guide & Roadmap

This trophy is awarded when you complete the prologue. The prologue is the single fight at the start of the game where you only have control of Ramza, and the other friendly units will end up taking out most of the enemies without your input.

This trophy is awarded at the end of Chapter 1, which occurs after the 10th story related battle in Zeikdan Fortress.

For tips related to the following battles you should read the full info before entering the battle locations, as they include some recommendations on setups or things to do before the battle starts.

2 – Magick City of Gariland

• Watch out for the enemy Chemist healing the other units, don’t rush your own Chemist in and get them downed so you can’t use them for healing your own units.

3 – Mandalia Plain

• Depending on your response in the dialogue choice you either need to Protect Argath or just take out all enemies. If you choose the option to protect him watch for the other enemies rushing him.

4 – The Siedge Weald

• The first battle against all monsters, it can be helpful before this fight to start thinking about how you want to level some units, such as switching someone to an Archer. Keep a Chemist early on to heal your units if needed.

5 – Merchant City of Dorter

• Watch for the Archers on the upper platform, along with the two Mages. Delita and Argath will normally rush up the platform on their own to fight the Archers, but they typically aren’t very fast dealing with them. Getting your own Archer up there can be helpful, along with switching someone like Ramza to a Knight.

6 – Zeklaus Desert

• This is the first fight where you have split groups of units. Try not to only stick your strong units on one side, spread out one or two between, such as having one Knight in each group.
• All the enemies being stuck inside the building also makes a Black Mage very useful here if you’ve swapped a Chemist to one, as the enemies typically bunch up near the door to attack you.

7 – Brigand’s Den – Defeat Milleuda to win the battle

• Milleuda is the main target, and in battles like this just defeating the main target will cause the battle to end. Be careful trying to rush them early in the game though, unless you’ve purposely done some grinding, as you can run into a bad situation being surrounded by other enemies.
• Try to at least get rid of the White Mage first so that they don’t heal the other enemies.
• Argath leaves as a guest party member after this fight.

8 – Lenalian Plateau – Defeat Milleuda to win the battle

• Milleuda is back to fight you again, with the same objective to defeat her as before.
• Watch for the two Black Mages and the Time Mage, as they can give you a bad time if you rush in. Try to deal with them first.

9 – Fovoham Windflats – Defeat Wiegraf to win the battle.

• Be careful of rushing Wiegraf as he’s stronger than Milleuda was and can cast Holy Knight abilities that will deal a lot of damage.
• The enemy Chocobo can travel a large distance, so be careful of it rushes you from far away. Dealing with the other enemies before Wiegraf is recommended her unless you’ve leveled up quite a bit.

10 – Zeikdan Fortress – Defeat Argath to win the battle

• You have a split party again, so try to keep someone like a Knight in both groups.
• Argath is the main target, but just defeating him can be a problem as he has a crossbow and will try to run away from you. If you can get near him and have the Rend Weapon ability on a Knight you can make him totally useless if you can successfully break it.
• Watch for the two Mages behind as they will cast spells from on the hill.

This trophy is awarded at the end of Chapter 2, which occurs after the 21st story related battle in Lionell Castle (Castle Keep).

11 – Merchant City of Dorter

• Agrias and Gaffgarion are guest members during these next few fights, and they can do a ton of the work for you with their special Knight abilities.

12 – Araguay Woods

• Depending on your dialogue choice you have to the option to protect the Chocobo or not. If you choose to protect it then it will be able to join your party after the fight.

13 – Zeirchele Falls – Defeat all enemies whole protecting Ovelia

• Swap Gaffgarion to weaker gear before entering this fight, as he’ll turn traitor and attack your party.
• Ovelia will typically hide on the waterfall and cast buffs on herself, so she doesn’t need a lot of protecting.
• Try to focus Gaffgarion first to get him to run away, Delita will handle the Knights near him pretty well on his own.

14 – Castled City of Zaland – Defeat all enemies while protecting Mustadio

• Mustadio has a gun and will normally stay on the wall outside of enemy range, so he doesn’t need much direct protection.
• If you have magic or ranged units who can get up on the wall quickly this can be helpful to hit the enemies from above, otherwise you might get stuck trying to get everyone through the main doorway.

15 – Balius Tor

• Watch for the summoners on either side of the cliffs, as they can cast large area of effect mage spells on you or heal the enemies on top of the cliffs.
• The Knights can use items, so watch for them reviving other units.
• Agrias leaves as a guest party member after this fight.

16 – Tchigolith Fenlands

• Purchase Seal Evil on Mustadio before entering this fight to help out, as he will use it on the enemies.
• Be careful going in the water, as ending a move action in it will immediately poison you.

Beware when you progress to Goug Lowtown you will be locked into a lower area of the map until you progress the story back through Lionel Castle, so if you want to do some grinding do it before starting the next fight.

17 – Goug Lowtown

• Mustadio doesn’t have any equipment during this fight, so he doesn’t do much. He’s still a guest character currently so he can’t die, so you can mostly ignore him.
• Mustadio joins main party after this fight. Note that when guest members join your party like this they can now permanently die as they’re no longer required for story events, but if you have them in story battles they’ll sometimes have extra voice lines.

18 – Balias Swale

• Watch out for the water with Submerged 2 depth, as you will get stuck in it if you move a character there who doesn’t have specific Actions equipped you likely haven’t unlocked yet.
• Agrias joins main party after this fight.
• It is recommended to level Agrias a bit before each of the next story fights as her Holy Knight abilities are very strong.

19 – Gollgollada Gallows

• Focus Gaffgarion first if possible as he’s the most dangerous, he’ll run away once he is downed or hits critical health which makes cleaning up the other enemies much easier.

The next fights occur in sequence, you must beat them all in a row. You can back out in between if you are struggling, but you’ll need to do them again and you don’t keep any XP or rewards if you back out. Recommend having Agrias set up and a character with the White Mage spell Holy to make battle 21 much easier.

20 – Lionel Castle (Castle Gate)

• Ramza starts on top of the wall, you need to run him down to spot where the gate switch is to open it for the rest of your party if you want to have them help with Gaffgarion, or fight him with just Ramza.
• It is also possible to hit Gaffgarion through the wall with magic abilities if he’s standing close enough.

21 – Lionel Castle (Castle Keep)

• This is a boss fight against Cuchulainn, the first Lucavi you encounter. Try to not bunch up your units as they’ll cast Nightmare to inflict status effects on all of them, and if they stack up you are done for.
• They are very weak to Holy, which is why it’s good to bring a unit in that can cast it on him. Agrias’ ranged abilities are very good too as they count as Holy damage.

This trophy is awarded at the end of Chapter 3, which occurs after the 32nd story related battle in Riovanes Castle (Roof).

22 – Mining Town of Gollund – Defeat all enemies while protecting Orran.

• Orran is pretty strong and it’s mostly the Rogue that attacks him, you can get away with mostly focusing on the enemies unless they start ganging up on him. Be aware that the enemy Thieves are likely to use Charm on your units.

23 – Lesalia Castle Postern – Defeat Zalmour to win the battle.

• He’ll move to the back of the area and generally try to stay away from you, which makes it harder to reach him through the other enemies. Alma is low level, but will help you out with some healing spells.
• If you have any characters using Battle Boots to increase movement you can now purchase Germinas Boots which also increase jump.

The next section in Orbonne Monastary is three battles in a row like the section at the end of Chapter 2, so if you want you can do some grinding now to level up.

24 – Orbonne Monastary (Vaults – Second Level)

• Watch out for the Dragoons using jump, as it will deal a ton of damage. Try to take them out first to remove most of the damage dealing ability of this enemy group, along with the Chemist so that they aren’t revived.

25 – Orbonne Monastary (Vaults – Third Level) – Defeat Isilud to win the battle.

• He’s quite strong and has a lot of backup, so you may be better picking off the other enemies first before focusing on him. If you have high movement characters you can run then across the top of the shelves pretty effectively, but this leaves them open to the ranged enemies. Isuld is a unique class, but can use the Dragoon ability jump to attack almost anywhere in the area. He typically targets Ramza, so try to keep his health as full as possible to tank the Jump hits.

26 – Orbonne Monastary (Vaults – First Level) – Defeat Wiegraf to win the battle.

• Wiegraf is back for a second fight, this time as a White Knight who uses the same abilities that Agrias has on her Holy Knight class. Try not to bunch up your units as he’ll deal a ton of damage to them with the attacks that hits in a 3×3 cross.
• All the enemies start on the other side of the wall which makes the start of this fight annoying, but Wiegraf will typically run through to your side immediately to attack your group, so if you can put a ton of damage into on the first turn of all your units you can end the battle before any of the enemy units can reach you.
• After the battle there are now some new Errands available around the world map in previous locations.

27 – Grogh Heights

• The two Chemists have firearms so can hit you from effectively any distance, otherwise nothing special about this basic fight.

28 – Walled City of Yardrow – Defeat all the enemies while protecting Rapha

• Rapha is tough and can handle herself, so you can mostly focus on the enemies.
• Watch out for the Summoners as they can deal a lot of damage in a large area.
• The toughest part of this battle is getting in where the enemies are unless you have units with very high jump stat.
• Rapha joins as a guest party member after this fight.

29 – The Yuguewood

• All of the enemies in this fight are Undead, so when downed will revive at the end of their heart counter instead of disappearing.
• If you have units who can use Throw from the Chemist job you can immediately kill the enemies by using Phoenix Down on them.

The next section is two fights in a row (with the second being in two parts), so you can use this opportunity to grind some jobs before progressing if you wish. Check the tips for fight 31 because you will need to be set up on Ramza to have a one on one fight.

30 – Riovanes Castle (Castle Gate)

• Ranged units are helpful here, as you are fighting from the bottom of the wall.
• Marach will run away once he hits critical health, and so will Rapha is she hits critical or when Marach flees.

31 – Riovanes Castle (Castle Keep)

• This starts as a one on one fight with Wiegraf, where you only have Ramza to fight him, even though the game allows you to place 5 units like a normal battle.
• Try to have Ramza as high of speed as possible, using something like the Ninja class. If you’ve grinded level Ninja is especially effective, as you can go behind Weigraf and attack him for a ton of damage with dual wield weapons.
• The classic option if you’re not set up for this is having Ramza equipped with Auto-Potion from the Chemist job and throw away low level potions so that you automatically heal with the higher level ones when attacked, which should allow you to tank through the fight even if you don’t have Ramza set up with higher level job abilities.
• After defeating Weigraf, he’ll transform into Belias and your other units enter. Like the fight against Cuchulainn he’s weak to Holy, so if you have someone with this White Mage skill you can defeat him quickly. If you can do this, you can ignore the other enemies.
• Note you start this fight in the same state as the prior one, so you keep the same health on Ramza, but also any buffs if you went that route for defeating Weigraf.
• Belias will cast Confusion on your party members which can make this fight quite annoying. If this happens it is likely better to deal with the other enemies with any non Confused party members if you don’t have the ability to remove the status.

32 – Riovanes Castle (Roof) – Drop one of the three enemies into critical health to finish this fight while protecting Rapha.

• High speed units such as Ninja are useful again here to be able to quickly attack the three enemies. Put whoever it is on the back of the placement area (opposite where Ramza starts) because it will make it easier to deal with the enemies.
• Celie and Lettie will typically cast Stop on your party members, so if you have any equipment to counter this it can be helpful.
• Rapha and Marak join your party as normal units after this battle.

This trophy is awarded at the end of Chapter 4, which occurs after the final 54th story related battle in Necrohol (Airship Graveyard).

At the start of this Chapter Ramza’s base class changes to Gallant Knight, and can also learn the new action Shout on it. This functions as a combined version of Focus, Tailwind, and Steel and is extremely powerful in combat for boosting Ramza’s skills, as it applies for the duration of the current battle.

33 – Dugeura Pass

• Try to focus the Dragoons first as they are the deadliest damage wise.

34 – Free City of Bervenia – Defeat Meliadoul to win the battle

• All other units with Meliadoul are ranged which can make this annoying if you can’t get up the hill quickly, but if you have high movement units like Ninja you can rush her and take her out while ignoring the others.
• Be careful of her attacks, as she will actively destroy your unit’s armor while dealing damage, which will reduce the health of your units significantly. After the fight make sure to reequip armor if she destroyed any.

35 – Finnath Creek

• Don’t accidentally send your units in the deep water and get them stuck.
• Watch the Red Chocobo as they can use Chocobo Meteor, so have a very high range attack they can keep hitting you with, deal with them first if possible.

36 – Zeltennia Castle – Defeat Zalmour to win the battle

• If you have characters leveled on Dragoon the Ignore Elevation movement ability is very useful here due to the extreme slope of the area. You can use this to rush Zalmour and take him out first.
• Delita is a guest character during this fight and will clean up enemies on his own. There are no ranged enemies outside of the Mystics, so if you don’t have this setup you can also rush through the enemies up the slope.
• Zalmour will cast Arise on enemy units to revive them at full health, so if you are making your way up the main path watch for any that get revived behind you.

37 – Beddha Sandwaste – Defeat Barich to win the battle

• All your units are immediately poisoned from the start of the fight. You can try to heal this on everyone immediately, or just ignore it and rush Barich.

The following is a series of two more sequential battles, so make sure you’re prepared before starting. You can pick between either going to the North Wall or South Wall. Neither battle should be overly difficult, but South Wall is traditionally considered slightly easier.

38 – Fort Besselat (North Wall)

• Watch for the Monk that is on ground level to the right of where you start.
• Be careful of bunching your characters up outside the wall as they can be hit by the Summoner standing inside on the second level.

38 – Fort Besselat (South Wall)

• Stick to one side of the area first, working your way around. Most enemies are up high on the walls, so having units with high movement ability is helpful here to rush them down.

39 – Fort Besselat (Sluice) – Open the sluice to win the battle

• There are two ways to wins this battle, either taking out all the enemies, or dealing with the two knights on the wooden platforms on either side of the wall and stepping your units on there. The knights won’t do anything if you don’t go near them, so it’s easier to just deal with the other enemies then take out the knights last instead of either moving the knights off the platforms or waiting for them to disappear after being downed.
• Orlandeua joins as a party member after this battle. If you don’t plan to immediately use him, you can take his weapon off him and give it to someone else, though he is extremely strong and can use the same Holy Knight actions that Agrias can use along with some others, so is generally worth replacing another party member with him going forward depending on your setup.

40 – Mount Germinas

• Try to deal with the Ninja first, as he has some high damage throw attacks he can hit you with from quite a distance.
• The one archer can also use Samurai actions to heal the enemy units, so watch out for them regaining health if they’re grouped up.

41 – Lake Poescas

• This battle is against Undead enemies like the one in Chapter 3, so you can instantly defeat any of the enemy units by throwing Phoenix Down at them. Agrias and Orlandeau are also very good with their Holy Knight actions.

The following is another series of three battles, and are the remaining two opportunities for Ramza to learn Ultima if you want to have him learn all job abilities. It is highly recommended to do it in the first battle.

42 – Limberry Castle (Castle Gate)

• If you are trying to learn Ultima, equip Ramza with Black Garb and a Nu Khai Armband. Doing this should effectively guarantee Celia cast Ultima on him on her first turn as long as she goes before him. The only problem that can occur with this is if one of the Reavers manages to inflict Stone or Toad on Ramza, then he won’t learn the ability. Reload one of the middle battle saves if this occurs and try again.
• Once you successfully have Ramza learn Ultima, you can then focus on either Celia or Lettie and they will run away along with all other enemies once either of them hits critical health.

43 – Limberry Castle (Castle Keep) – Defeat Elmdore to win the battle

• Give all your units Japa Mala before this fight to prevent the enemies from using some of the more nasty debuffs on them.
• You only need to defeat Elmdore to finish this fight, but if you are wanting to learn Ultima on Ramza and didn’t do it in the prior battle you want to focus Celia and Lettie first. When they die they will transform into Ultima Demons, where they can still use the Ultima attack. This is much more annoying to do this battle instead of the previous one, so isn’t recommended.
• If you are just trying to finish the battle, you can rush Elmdore and the battle will end when he is defeated.

44 – Limberry Castle (Undercroft) – Defeat Zalera to win the battle

• Another fight against a Lucavi, so bring along someone who can use Holy and your characters who can use the Holy Knight abilities.
• Meliadoul is a guest character during this fight, but you can leave her on her own and just focus Zalera as quickly as possible.
• You can also instantly take out the Undead enemies with Phoenix Down if needed like prior fights.
• Meliadoul joins the main party after this battle.

After this point all errands are available to be completed, with the exception of Eagros Castle where the next fight is which you’ll need to complete before you can complete the errand.

45 – Eagrose Castle – Defeat Dycedarg to win the battle

• This is another two part fight, so be aware of that going in. Having someone with Holy is helpful for the second part of the fight.
• If you’re using Orlandeau and/or Meliadioul you can learn Crush Weapon on them beforehand to destroy Dycedarg’s weapon and make dealing with him much easier, as otherwise he’ll use the Holy Knight attacks to hit you from above.
• Zalbaag is a guest character for this fight and will distract the other enemies, so you can hit Dycedarg with ranged attacks or magic.
• After defeating Dycedarg, the expected happens and he turns into a Lucavi, which is why someone with Holy is helpful. He disappears all the other enemies along with Zalbaag, so it’s just your party versus him.
• Keep hitting him with this and the Holy Knight attacks like prior enemies.
• Be aware he’ll turn your units to Stone, so having someone with the item command who can heal this will make your life easier.

Next up is another sequence of three battles, so you can work on some job leveling before if you want.

46 – Mullonde (Front Gate)

• If you have any units with Ignore Elevation it is very helpful here to rush down the enemies on the rooftop.
• The White Mage will use magic to revive the enemy units, so try to take them out quickly before they can start doing this.

47 – Mullonde (Nave) – Defeat any of the three enemies to win the fight

• The objective specifies Folmarv, but you can target any of the three enemies and get them to critical health to cause them to run away.
• Clietienne has the lowest health, so if you’re using Orlandeau and the other newer characters you can just rush him with the Holy Knight attacks and end the battle quickly.
• Be aware of your turn order if you don’t take them out immediately, as all the enemies with use the Crush attacks to break your unit’s equipped items.

48 – Mullonde (Sanctuary) – Defeat Zalbaag to win the battle

• Remember to reequip armor if it was broken on any of your units, then equip everyone with Japa Mala.
• Keep someone equipped with Holy, and the units with the Holy Knight abilities and just attack Zalbaag to end the fight quickly.

At this point you have access to all the world map activities, including all Errands and the full side quest chain. You’ll now be able to trigger the start of Midlight’s Deep if you want to start the dungeon now, or complete the story and come back to it after. The next set of battles all occur in a row, so only start them if you’re wanting to progress to the end of the story with no returns to the world map in between.

49 – Orbonne Monastery (Vaults – Fourth Level)

• If you didn’t before, make sure to swap back to your normal gear from the Japa Mala you equipped in the prior battle.
• This is pretty standard fight against normal human enemies, so you can rush them and take them out quickly with your high damage units.

50 – Orbonne Monastery (Vaults – Fifth Level) – Defeat Loffrey to win the battle

• Loffrey can break your equipment, so either try to break his weapon first with your units or take him out very fast. You want to try and take him out before the rest of the enemy units can cast spells, or deal with them after breaking his weapon if you don’t think you can kill him fast enough.
• Be aware of the holes in the map that you can’t always walk past, you may need to go around the left side of the map to physically reach the enemies.

Note that if you return to the world map right now you’ll need to redo the two Orbonne Monastery fights, even though this is a separate fight sequence map.

51 – Necrohol of Mullonde (The Capitoline) – Defeat Cletienne to win the battle

• Like the previous fight, you can just focus Cletienne to win the fight. Hit him with your Holy Knight attacks and high damage spells.
• Most of the enemy units will probably be faster than your own, but if you focus on Cletienne then you should be able to end this fight quickly.

52 – Necrohol of Mullonde (Lost Halidom) – Defeat Barich to win the battle

• The same as before, focus on Barich to end the battle quickly. He uses a gun and can uses the same actions that Mustadio has, so he’ll immobilize your units from quite a distance which will make the fight much more difficult if the unit he uses it on isn’t close to him after their first turn.
• If you can’t take him out quickly, watch for the Chemist who will heal other units.
• The enemy dragons can fly across the gap in the area, so they’ll quickly reach you if you take too long.

53 – Necrohol of Mullonde (Airship Graveyard)

• You do have a party refresh in between these next battles, so you can set up again if needed or change unit setups.
• As it is another Lucavi fight, try to have someone with Holy and your unique characters with the Holy Knight abilities.
• Before this sequence if you’ve been using Agrias swap Meliadoul’s weapon and shield to her, as Meliadoul’s abilities aren’t useful here.
• In the first part of this battle Alma is technically a guest character, but don’t try to revive her as she’s stuck on the ground.
• Hashmal is the only enemy, so deal with him in the same way you’ve dealt with prior Lucavi.

54 – Necrohol (Airship Graveyard) – Defeat Ultima to win the battle

• Like before, have your Holy Knight ability characters, along with someone who can cast Holy.
• Alma is now a proper guest character and will cast buffs on your party if you keep her alive.
• Unlike prior Lucavia fights, you do want to get rid of the extra enemies as soon as possible. They’ll keep shredding your party if you leave them alive, so dealing with them quickly is beneficial here.
• At this point having Auto-Potion on all units will let you tank a lot of damage if they are all set up to automatically use X-Potions, which will make your life way easier.
• Once you deal enough damage to Ultima, they’ll move to the second phase of the fight where it is just Ultima by themself. Keep hitting them while keeping your party up. Try to keep all of your party up even if it is just reviving characters. If you keep characters up as bait Ultima will typically go after the weaker characters, so you can keep hitting them with characters like Orlandeau.

Leveling in this game functions somewhat differently from other typical RPG level systems. Each level always requires 100 XP, and whenever a unit earns 100 XP they level up, with their current XP being reset to 0 and no extra XP earned above 100 is carried over. XP gain is determined by the level difference between your unit and who you are performing an action on. If you are attacking a unit of the same level (or performing a self-action) you earn 10 XP. If they are attacking a unit higher than their level they gain slightly more XP, but if you are attacking a unit lower level they gain less. Downing an enemy unit gives a flat 10 XP bonus.

Enemies at the end of the story are around level 40, so if you are just doing the story battles and not doing extra grinding for job levels you may not hit 50 on Ramza by the end, but you will reach this while working through Midlight’s Deep and then grinding for all Job Abilities on one character. Just make sure to keep Ramza in your party while doing this if he isn’t the character you are learning all abilities on.

Errands become available in groups and as you progress through Chapter 2 and 3 they will become available in new settlements. Following story battle #26 at Orbonne Monastary in Chapter 3 more will become available at already visited locations. Finally more will be available at the start of Chapter 4, then again after story battle #44 at Limberry Castle where all errands will now be available. Once you have completed all errands at a location the  Locations menu will show “All errands complete” on the right side in the Errands info box.

There are 4 specific errands that are only available in certain months of the year. You gain access to the final location in Chapter 3 when you reach the Walled City of Yardow, then can complete these errands at any time after as long as you are in the correct month of the year.

• Magick City of Gariland – The Gariland Magick Melee – Month of Virgo
• Castled City of Zaland – The Zaland Melee – Month of Aries
• Clockwork City of Goug – Goug Artificers’ Contest – Month of Sagittarius
• Walled City of Yardrow – The Yardrow Melee – Month of Cancer

Months of the in-game calendar in order:

• Aries
• Taurus
• Gemini
• Cancer
• Leo
• Virgo
• Libra
• Scorpio
• Sagittarius
• Capricon
• Aquarius
• Pisces

While working on poaching items the best way to make sure you are able to gain carcasses is by recruiting monsters from random battles, then allowing them to create more monsters from eggs in your party. Monsters in your party will lay eggs over time as you progress days by moving around the world map, then turn into more monsters. You can then take these monsters into random battles and poach them yourself to gain their carcasses. This will remove them permanently from your party, but is much more consistent than hoping for monsters to show up in random battles multiple times. If you start a turn beside one of your units, you can attack the unit to kill and Poach it, and if you didn’t get the carcass you wanted then reload the most recent auto save, as the game creates an autosave at the start of each of your unit’s turns.

To easily recruit monsters to your party have a unit equipped with the Orator support ability Tame, which will force a critically wounded monster to join as an ally when they are hit with a normal attack from that unit. This can be melee or ranged attacks, but must be from the base Attack action, not from any abilities.

When in your party monsters will eventually create monsters of other types with the same family, so you can recruit the lower level versions of monster and wait for them to spawn the higher level version. For example, a normal Chocobo will eventually spawn the Black and Red Chocobo. You can cause this to occur by moving back and forth between two locations on the world map to pass time. While searching for specific monsters you can also choose to back out to the world map if you don’t find a monster you need in a random battle if you don’t want to finish out the fight.

Monsters with unique poacher only items and locations you can find the same type of monster for breeding:

Behemoth type monster – Balius Tor

• Behemoth King
  • Normal – Cherche
  • Rare – Artemis Bow
• Dark Behemoth
  • Rare – Stoneshooter

Dragon type monster – Grogh Heights

• Blue Dragon
  • Rare – Dragon Rod
• Red Dragon
  • Normal – Sortilege
  • Rare – Dragon Whisker

Dryad type monster (walking tree) – The Siedge Weald

• Dryad
  • Rare – Healing Staff
• Treant
  • Rare – Faerie Harp
• Elder Treant
  • Rare – Defender

Flying Eye type monster – Grogh Heights

• Plague
  • Rare – Zwill Straightblade

Greater Malboro – Grogh Heights

• Normal – Elixer
• Rare – Omnilex

Hydra trype monster – Balius Tor

• Hydra
  • Normal – Blood Sword
  • Rare – Scorpion Tail
• Greater Hydra
  • Normal – Septieme
  • Rare – Rubber Suit
• Tiamat
  • Normal – Wyrmweave Silk
  • Rare – Whale Whisker

Pig type monster – Dorvauldar Marsh

• Pig
  • Rare – Cachusha
• Swine
  • Normal – Chantage
  • Rare – Nagnarok
• Wild Boar –
  • Normal – Ribbon
  • Rare – Fallingstar Bag

Red Choboco – Mandalia Plain

• Rare – Barrette

Sekhret (minotaur) – Mandalia Plain

• Normal – Holy Lance
• Rare – Ivory Pole

This trophy is marked as GLITCHED as it does not seem to unlock correctly if Zodiark is the last ability a unit learns. If you are grinding for abilities before learning Zodiark save one ability purchasable with JP and learn it after the unit you are earning the trophy with has learned Zodiark. If you accidentally learn Zodiark last you can still earn the trophy on your current playthrough by transferring Zodiark to another unit by having the first unit die and turn into a crystal, then another unit pick it up and learn Zodiark that way. 

This trophy is awarded for learning every ability on every job with one party member. This can be done on a normal unit or Ramza if you prefer, as you will likely spend the most time playing as Ramza and have the most JP on him.

The majority of abilities are learned by purchasing them with JP, which is earned by performing successful action with a unit. There are two exceptions to this, the Ultima ability that can be learned on Ramza’s Gallant Knight job, and Zodiark which is the final Summon available on the Summoner job.  Ultima can only be learned from certain enemies during story fights and if you miss it during the fights you can’t learn it elsewhere and wouldn’t be able to earn the trophy on Ramza. Zodiark is only used by the final boss in Midlight’s Deep or by randomly appearing Summoners when replaying the floor.

To learn Ultima, Ramza must be on his Gallant Knight job and be hit with the spell and survive while not under the effects of other debuffs (toad, stone). It is used by the enemies Celia and Lettie who appear in the final battle in Chapter 3, along with a handful in Chapter 4. The easiest place to learn it is in story battle #42 – Limberry Castle (Castle Gate). Equip Ramza with Black Garb and a Nu Khai Armband. Doing this should effectively guarantee Celia cast Ultima on him on her first turn as long as she goes before him. The only problem that can occur with this is if one of the Reavers manages to inflict Stone or Toad on Ramza, then he won’t learn the ability. Reload one of the middle battle saves if this occurs and try again.

To learn Zodiark on Ramza or another Summoner, you must currently be on the Summoner job while fighting the final boss Serpentarius in Midlight’s Deep. The boss will cast Zodiark to attack your units, and the Summoner must be hit with it and survive to have a 90% chance to learn it. If you are hit with it and don’t learn it, reload a prior save during the battle and try again. You can see the explanation for the floor End under Ruler of the Abyss for more tips on this fight and learning the ability.

If you don’t learn Zodiark from the boss you can replay the level where it will now give a random enemy layout each time, with the potential for Summoners to appear in one of the groups. These Summoners can use Zodiark so the ability isn’t completely missable, but it’s easier to learn from the boss with the setup specified under Ruler of the Abyss.

All other abilities they can be purchased with JP, which is gained by performing successful actions. Units gain more JP per action the higher their Job Level, which can be boosted further by equipping the JP Boost support ability from the Squire class (or first class in the list on special units or Ramza). You can equip the Fundamentals action or equivalent action on a unit, then go into a random battle and continually use a self-buff like Focus on normal units, or Tailwind then Shout on Ramza once he can learn it in Chapter 4. This is a self-buff that always succeeds, so means you can continually gain JP every turn, and at an extremely fast rate on Ramza as Tailwind and Shout increases his speed on each use for the rest of the battle. The only characters you can’t do this on are special units like Agrias, as their unique class doesn’t include an ability like Focus. If you are using them during fights while grinding and want to keep leveling them you can have them attack your other units then heal them with the Item command.

Another way to quickly learn abilities on a character is by picking up crystals from human units who disappear during battle. If a unit disappears and turns into a crystal you can move a unit over to it, and there is a chance that you will be allowed to learn the abilities that the unit had learned. This can be from enemy units, or your own if you were trying to optimize learning them quickly from specific classes by letting your own units die during battle. A crystal is more likely to appear if the unit doesn’t have any equipment on them, so if you are trying to pull skills from your own friendly units don’t have them equipped with anything during the battle.

Jump has a very long cast time, so only try to use it on enemies who have went immediately before the Dragoon, or who are immobilized by status effects. You aren’t able to see the action in the turn order until after choosing the target, which makes it hard to use for this reason. Wearing gear that increases the speed of the unit can help as this decreases the turn duration of the Jump action.

You can purchase 5 different katana starting in Chapter 3 when you are meant to go to Orbonne Monastary.

If you miss the chocobo in the above fight, you’ll need to recruit monsters using the Entice or Tame abilities on the Orator job. Entice is an action ability that allows you to compel enemies to join your side in a fight, which allows them to be recruited at the end of a battle. Tame is a support ability to automatically forces enemy creatures to join your side if they are dropped into critical health range (where the monster slumps on the ground but is still alive) which makes it a better option for recruiting monsters effectively. Find a chocobo in a random fight and recruit it to your party, then take it into another fight and have another of your human units ride it.

Seekers of the Stone is an extra scene viewable in the Events section of the Chronicle. It becomes available after progressing past Lionel Castle in Chapter 2 of the story  as long as you have Mustadio in your party. If you don’t, either due to declining to let him join or from him dying in battle, you cannot view the scene this playthrough. View the scene once to earn this trophy.

The Metallic Sphere is an optional story scene that can be viewed starting in Chapter 4. To see it, go to Clockwork City of Goug for a scene related to Mustadio and his father. This starts a chain of side quests that allow you to recruit some unique party members, though progression of it isn’t required for any trophies past viewing this initial scene.

This is missable as you are required to have Mustadio in your party to trigger the scene. If you don’t, either due to declining to let him join or from him dying in battle, you cannot view the scene this playthrough.

The first 9 floors of the dungeon have a set layout, but will spawn random enemies similar to the random fights on the world map. To finish a floor you must defeat all enemies after finding the exit for that floor. Each floor has 5 possible exit spots which you must have a unit end a turn on, after which you will receive a message saying “Found a passage leading deeper”. If you defeat all enemies before finding one of the exits then the floor won’t be completed and you will have to do it again. Which of the five spots you need to go to is random each time you enter, so you’ll need to have units land on each spot until you receive the message. During your turn if you can hit multiple spots with the same unit you can reset the move to try again, but when you find the correct spot it will bind the movement for that turn.

While progressing through the first 9 floors the area on the ground will be completely black so you can’t see what the map looks like. When enemies die and turn into crystals it will light up the map, making it easier to see. If there are two crystals present on the map then you will be able to see the entire thing like a normal battle.

Midlight’s Deep Floors and Exits

Start positioning is different for each floor, so numbering will be given relative to one of the starting places with the grid in the direction your units start facing. It can be helpful to have a character such as a Bard, Dancer, or Arithmetician who can affect units on the entire field standing in the anchor spot to orient yourself. Use Tactical View with to view the field from above and more easily location the exit tiles.

1 – NOISSIM – From bottom right of the starting grid

• Left 3 – Height 18
• Left 9 – Height 2
• Up 1, Left 6 – Height 7
• Up 6, Left 8 – Height 1
• Up 8, Left 8 – Height 1

2 – TERMINATION – From back middle of the starting grid

• Up 2, Right 5 – Height 8
• Up 7, Right 4 – Height 5
• Up 10, Left 1 – Height 1
• Up 11, Left 3 – Height 2
• Up 11, Right 5 – Height 1

3 – DELTA – From back middle of the starting grid, this area has holes in the floor you will have to deal with.

• Up 4, Right 2 – Height 1
• Up 7, Left 2 – Height 2.5
• Up 7, Left 3 – Height 6
• Up 13,  Left 3 – Height 0
• Up 14, Right 4 – Height 0

4 – VALKYRIES – From back right of the starting grid

• Left 8 – Height 3
• Left 11, Up 7 – Height 3
• Left 13, Up 8 – Height 2
• Left 14, Up 6 – Height 1
• Left 15, Up 4 – Height 1

5 – YROTCIV – From back middle of the starting grid. Note you don’t start on the edge in this area so try not to get turned around, all possible exits are in front of the starting grid, but you need to move around the back to reach the lower area unless you have Ignore Elevation on your units.

• Up 4 – Height 10
• Up 4, Left 3 – Height 0
• Up 6, Left 1 – Height 0
• Up 6, Right 2 – Height 0
• Up 8, Left 3 – Height 1

6 – TIGER – From back left of the starting grid. The area is shaped like a W so you need to make your way around from left to right.

• Right 5, Up 2 – Height 2
• Right 8, Up 8 – Height 0
• Right 9, Up 3 – Height 1
• Right 10 – Height 0
• Right 10, Up 9 – Height 0

7 – BRIDGE – From back left of the starting grid. The area is shaped like an arch so you need to go to the far wall to reach the spot on the right.

• Right 8 – Height 0
• Up 1, Right 6 – Height 0
• Up 6, Right 6 – Height 2
• Up 8, Right 3 – Height 7
• Up 12, Right 4 – Height 5

8 – VOYAGE – From back right of the starting grid. Ignore Elevation is very helpful here because of the large height differences on the right where the possible exits are.

• Right 1 – Height 3
• Right 2 – Height 3
• Up 3, Right 1 – Height 3
• Up 3, Left 8 – Height 9
• Up 8, Left 6 – Height 3

9 – HORROR – From back right of the starting grid. Ignore Elevation also very helpful here.

• Back 1, Right 3 – Height 1
• Up 2, Right 1 – Height 2
• Up 4, Right 3 – Height 2
• Up 6, Right 1 – Height 4
• Left 7 – Height 2

10 – END

This final area is the boss fight against the super boss Serpentarius. This is the ONLY location where you can learn the final Summoner ability Zodiark. It is used by Serpentarius, or Summoners that can appear in the random enemy groups if you replay the floor, but it’s easier to learn off Sepentarius with the setup below.

Ramza or the character you want to learn Zodiark on need to be set to the Summoner job, as to learn Zodiark they need to be hit with the summon while on the Summoner job and survive. Have that character (or all members in the party if you want to be safe) equip the Time Mage reaction ability Mana Shield. This causes you to take damage to MP before HP, increasing the chance of surviving the attack. Only one character has the possibility of learning the spell per cast from the boss, so you can’t set all characters to Summoner to learn it on 5 at once.

Equip all your party members with Japa Mala to prevent status effects from Serpentarius and make them more likely to cast Zodiark. Bring Orlandeau and Agrias into the fight to help take out the enemies quickly. Have a couple characters equipped with the Item commands and able to use the items to cure Stone and Toad as the Reavers will cast Biora to try and inflict it.

During the battle there is an ally monster Byblos who will help you, and can be recruited as a party member if you keep them alive to the end of the fight. They will rush the Reavers so if you want to keep them alive try to take them out before Bylbos can reach them.

Make your way up the slope taking out the enemy Reavers first, don’t try to run past them to get to the boss. When all the enemies are defeated, move your unit who you want to learn Zodiark close to where the boss is and hope that they cast it on them. After the cast occurs there is a 90% chance to learn it if you take damage while not under the effect of any debuffs like Stone or Toad. If the learn action occurs then make sure to accept it, if not reload a prior auto save during the fight before the action occurs. After you successfully learn it you can rush the boss with Orlandeau and Agrias and take them out like the other Lucavi bosses.