Quickenings

The equivalent of Overdrives/Limit Breaks in previous Final Fantasy games, Quickenings are FFXII's "Special Attacks". Quickenings aren't readily available from the beginning of the game, and most of you wont be using them much due to their downsides.... however before we talk about that, lets just talk about how to get them in the first place.

Getting Quickenings

Quickenings are spread all over the License Board, in total there are 18 of them on the board, however each character can only activate 3 of them. Which three they activate makes no difference, however once you activate it on the board for one character it will disappear from the other characters boards.

How they work

Gaining your first Quickening will bring one new change, you will notice that when your MP is full it will start to glow. Your second Quickening will double your MP as well as splitting your MP into two. The third will triple your [original] MP and will split your MP bar further into three parts.

The split in the MP's are called "Mist Cart"'s short for Mist Cartridges, and the Quickenings use certain amounts of Mist Carts to be used. The first Quickening, uses one Cart, second uses two, and the third uses three. Using Quickenings will drain the whole cartridge, meaning that a level 3 Quickening will leave you with 0 MP and so it should ONLY be used in extreme emergencies (preferably near the end of the battles).

How do I do Combo's

When you select a Quickening you will notice on the bottom right hand corner there will be the names of your three characters, and possibly a button (Triangle, Square, X) next to their names. Pressing the button will make that character carry out that particular Quickening themselves. If there's no buttons next to the names, press the R2 button to shuffle the list until the button symbol appears. To make matters worse, as the combo's go up, the time limit you have to choose the next combo goes down.

Fusion Techs

Completing a certain number of level 1/level 2/level 3 quickenings will get you different Fusion Techniques, here's a quick list:

Characters Quickenings

Ashe's Quickenings

Balthier's Quickenings

Basch's Quickenings

Fran's Quickenings

Penelo's Quickenings

Vaan's Quickenings

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