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can someone explain why these job classes are so good or not...

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Your right about the dancer, no attack power or defense. Her dance skills could be a lot better considering the conditions you needed to get the class in the first place. The calculator is good mainly if you have strong magic . This being he could hit multiple enemies with holy for example.

This post has been edited by Vicks on 28th October 2003 01:13

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yeah but what kind of skills do they have or anything, why are they dubbed so powerful. I dont understand... I had a calculator and thought it was the biggest waste of time ever.... he was horrible. Apparantly because I didnt know how to work them, someone explain in detail please.

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|\Bob/|

Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end...

Dancers are like Bards in reverse. Bard abilities help your allies in various ways, and Dancer abilities do the same amount of harm against enemies.

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ahhh! ok man, thanks alot. that helps in alot of ways actually seein that i use bards all the time.

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|\Bob/|

Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end...

Calculators work welll because they allow free and instant magi use to an unlimited amount of characters, both friendly and enemy.

It's more practical to learn Math skill and make them another class, though.

You work them by looking over the enemy's level, CT, and such, and picking out the biggest group you can holy to hell without going suicidal.

This post has been edited by SharkESP on 28th October 2003 02:01

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so wait..... are calculators like the "mime" materia from FF7... or no comparison what-so-ever.

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|\Bob/|

Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end...

No, that'd be the Mime class, from what I can tell. Calculators can instantly cast free magic of various types, like SharkESP said. You can check out the Calculator's different skills at its section in the jobs area of the FFT section.

A calculator's turn has you choose one of the four number sets (3, 4, 5, prime), one of the four calculatable sets (height, CT, exp, level), and a spell that the calculator can cast. The important thing to remember is that only certain spells are usable with the Calculator, but a lot of good ones can be, like Holy. You have to learn the abilities with the other jobs before the calculator can activate them, though.

So for example, if you chose Holy, 3, and CT, it would cast Holy on everyone in the battle (even your own people) that have a CT that is divisible by 3.

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oh my god.... you just blew my mind. I could never figure out how to do anything... It would always cast spells on my own people and I guess now I know why. :-P Thanks alot.

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|\Bob/|

Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end...

You can do Neal's example and equip something that absorbs Holy (Chameleon Robe?) and hope for the best, if you just don't want to try and figure it out.

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-Brad Meltzer

Like SharkESP said, it would be better to learn the math skill and then change to a different class. I always changed mine back to a Wizard, since they can have an insanely high magic attack.

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Calculator is by far the worse class, it is slow and useless. However the math skill is a God sent. The only character I had from the beginning of the game (rest of group was Ramza, Agraias, Orlando, and Beowulf) in the last battle was a Black Mage with math skill equipped. I was able to blast that SOB with Flare like crazy.

As for dancers (and bards), I never even used them cause they are pathetic. The only game I ever used a bard was in FFV when you have to climb that mountain with all the dead dragons.

This post has been edited by BGrugby on 31st October 2003 04:25

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The Dancer and also the bard are awesome when you get the fly ability and there moves or abilities come in real handy when you have one or two mimes but the calculator isnt too great i had one for a little while and then i just changed it

The calculators skill is the best one in the game. If you make someone have the calculator skill you can cast big spells, such as holy, on all the enemys. Calculators skills can sometimes be the thing that helps you win the game.

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yes but you uaslly hurt your own people or heal the enemy thats what i found to be very annoying

the dancers ive never used nor calculators but supposively theyre skills r good as a secondary skill support skills etc whe use a mage

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