Final Fantasy Tactics Job Classes

Lancer Warrior 'Jump' high and attack enemies despite heavy arms and weapons. An expert with spears.

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Lancers are your reward for surviving through the Thief class. They have high HP, can equip heavy armor, use Polearms with their two-panel range, and still have room for shields. Their Jump attacks take a long time to acquire and sometimes take too long to execute, but provide even more range. Overall, this class takes the tanking qualities of the Knight and gives it a helpful twist to make the tanking even more durable.

Jump is a great ability against enemies with mid-tier or lower Speed, and the best way to learn it is to skip all the lower level abilities and go straight for Level Jump8 and Vertical Jump8. Naturally, this takes a while, but once you have them, you don't need to learn the lesser ones. The downside to any Jump is that if the target moves before you land, you will miss and waste the turn as well as all the time spent in the air, and there's no way to check exactly in the turn list when a jump will land - you just have to learn how to feel it out with experience and generally plan to jump only when the target is not super-fast and has low CT. Ignore Height is also a great movement ability, allowing a character to move from and to any height. Some battles become completely broken with this ability, so while it might not be useful in every battle, it's a great movement ability to have in your back pocket on several of your favorite units for the times where it is.