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Like Cloud Strife and Squall Leonhart before him, it's about high time that Bartz Klauser and the Final Fantasy cast got their dues. I won't bother trying to upgrade their tiers (yet. It's coming.), but I WILL be giving them a hefty amount of abilities. I'd like to separate keys, but his tier needs to be upgraded first.
Innate Abilities
This is innate abilities for Bartz. Fair enough, right?
Superhuman Physical Characteristics: Self-explanatory. Dude's at least 5-A.
Weapons Mastery + Martial Arts: Again, self-explanatory. He was trained by a warrior of dawn and can use basically any weapon type even as a freelancer.
Regenerationn (Mid-Low): Same reason Link has it. Can regenerate from sword slashes and otherwise fatal wounds.
Accelerated Development: Once more should be self-explanatory. Bartz constantly gets new abilities and classes and can still master them in a very short time. Hell, in Dissidia, he can even master his abilities mid-battle.
Enhanced Senses (Or Resistance to Afterimage creation): Kelger's fight with him involved Kelger forming a bunch of afterimages (At 1:01). Bartz was able to beat him by accurately pinpointing the real Kelger among all the copies. It's shown as Bartz closing his eyes and sensing. Which... accidentally) ended up killing Kelger, IIRC... oops.
Stealth Mastery: Bartz eavesdrops on people several times throughout the game, and sneaks past some of Exdeath's guards.
Empowerment: A more recent ability, but the crystals enhance his power and are responsible for his equipment/job abilities, so...
Non-Physical Interaction: Bartz can literally fight souls and beings made of pure fire. 'Nuff said. Might also be Soul Manipulation, but I'm not sure if straight-up fighting souls technically counts. Also, Galuf slapped the soul back into him, so maybe.
Resistance to Soul Manipulation: This one's a bit wonky. Early on in the game, Siren was able to take his soul using an image of his mom. Galuf slaps him back to his senses, and she can't take his soul again, and is forced to fight them directly. Might be an illusion thing, but IDK.
Resistance to Void Manipulation: Fought Neo Exdeath and Enuo, and survived being in the void for an extended period of time. Should be simple enough.
Resistance to Time Manipulation and Spatial Manipulation: Entering the sealed temple causes Space and Time to be twisted around the four warriors, but they end up completely okay afterwards.
Resistance to Absolute Zero: Shiva has this now, I think? And Bartz can survive her ice.
Standard Equipment
Bartz has a lotta weapons. Let's talk about them.
Sealed Weapons: The 12 known weapons that Bartz canonically possesses. These 12 weapons were used thousands of years ago to seal the wizard Enuo into the void, and are the only things canonically capable of defeating Exdeath when he was wielding the power of the void. Discounting the items added in subsequent releases of the game, they are the most powerful weapons that Bartz can wield.
Abilities from the equipment above.
Sealing: The 12 sealed weapons sealed Enuo however long ago it was. Self-Explanatory.
Holy Manipulation: Excalibur and the Holy Lance are both holy-elemental.
Sound Manipulation: Gaia's Bell and Apollo's Harp both weaponize sound to inflict damage.
Death Manipulation: Every hit from the assassin's dagger has a 25% chance of instantly killing the target, and its flavor text states that it sometimes instantly ills enemies.
Extra damage against the Undead: Apollo's Harp and Sage's Staff.
Paralysis Inducement: The Fire Lash sometimes paralyzes enemies.
Fire Manipulation: Fire Lash... it's a fire whip. Come on. Also Fire Scrolls.
Electricity Manipulation: Thunder Scroll.
Water Manipulation: Water Scroll.
Earth Manipulation: Gaia's Bell causes earthquakes with its sound.
Resurrection: Sage's Staff casts Raise when used as an item.
Instinctive Reaction: Sasuke's Katana automatically blocks physical attacks.
Resistance to Elemental Manipulation (Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth, Water, Wind, Holy, Poison): The Force Shield nullifies elemental attacks, even from enemies leagues stronger than Bartz, causing him to take Zero damage.
Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Transmutation, Size Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement: The Genji Equipment renders Bartz immune to Confusion, Toad, Mini, and Paralysis.
Resistance to All Status Effects with the Ribbon. Pretty self explanatory. it protects him from Age Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Power Nullification (Silence), and Rage Inducement (Berserk), as well as the things that the Genji Armor protects him from.
Job Skill Abilities
And here's the BIG ones. There's a lot to cover here, so get ready.
Instinctive Reaction: Cover, Counter, and Shihradori all automatically react to things. Cover protects allies, Counter counterattacks, and Shihradori stops attacks (which is already counted on his page, so)
Accelerated Development: ABP up and EXP up both increase the rate at which crystal users master jobs and gains levels.
Attack Negation: A knight can completely nullify a physical attack, even from people with strength greater than his, using Guard.
Enhanced Senses: Vigilance stops ambushes, and Find Passages let the user see secret passages.
Statistics Amplification: Sprint and Focus can double the users' speed and strength respectively.
Healing: Chakra can heal the user and remove poison and darkness.
Information Analysis: Scan and Check analyze an enemy for their HP, Level, and Weaknesses, as well as their current conditions.
Reactive Evolution: Learning (blue magic) allows the user to learn abilities by being hit with them. This extends to non-damage spells like healing.
Magic: Uhh... has a fuckton of types of magic.
Summoning: Call can summon a random monster at no MP cost.
Rage Form: Berserk.
Forcefield Creation: Magic Shell automatically casts Shell when the user's HP is low.
Animal Manipulation: The Ranger's "Animals" ability summons animals to attack, and calm lets the user stop a monster from attacking.
Sealing: Can seal enemies within gourds using Capture.
Mind Manipulation/Possession: Control takes over an enemy, letting the user control their actions.
Smoke Manipulation: Smoke Bomb. Duh.
Afterimage Creation: Image forms a pair of afterimages to absorb attacks.
Sound Manipulation: Via sing. obviously.
Absorption: Lance absorbs HP and MP from the enemy with a phantom spear.
Empathic Manipulation: Flirt. Already on his profile.
Paralysis Inducement: Minenuchi inflicts Paralysis.
Durability Negation: Zeninage/Gil Toss inflicts damage that ignores defenses.
Death Manipulation: Iainuki inflicts instant death.
Resurrection: Revive can revive a fallen ally with no MP cost.
Power Mimicry: This is the big one. The mime's mimic ability lets the user copy any action that the user takes and take it for their own. This extends to even innate abilities like claws and fangs, weapon-based abilities, or pact-based abilities like Yuna's summoning, meaning that users should also gain limited Shapeshifting, Summoning (again lol), and Creation. Bartz has shown in dissidia that he retains the abilities he mimics, something which is counted on his profile, meaning that Bartz could POTENTIALLY have a far greater amount of abilities through mimicry that we don't see, but I can't in good faith put them on his profile. These, however, are abilities he possesses.
Air Manipulation: Bartz's finisher is air elemental. Lenna, Krile, and Faris would get Water, Earth, and Fire manipulation from this respectively.
Status Effect Inducement: Same stuff as with Mix, but with Open Fire.
Immortality Negation (Type 7): The instant death of Open Fire ignores Undead's natural immunity to instant death.
Resistance to Absorption and Death Manipulation: The undead status the necromancer gets prevents life absorption and instant death attacks.
Necromancy: Oath calls upon the undead.
Magical Abilities
And now for magic.
Healing: Cure, Cura, Curaga, and White Wind.
Information Analysis: Libra does the same thing as Scan.
Status Effect Removal: Esuna and Poisona
Silence Inducement/Power Nullification: Mute inflicts silence.
Forcefield Creation: Protect and Shell, as well as Big Guard which combines them.
Attack Reflection: Reflect, as well as Big Guard.
Size Manipulation: Mini and Liliputian Lyric.
Resurrection: Raise and Arise.
Mind Manipulation: Confuse, Dark Haze, and Mind Blast all inflict confuse. Lots of these through songs and dances.
Afterimage Creation: Blink forms afterimages that absorb attacks.
Rage Inducement: Berserk is self-explanatory.
Power Nullification: Dispel removes buffs or positive status effects from enemies.
Holy Manipulation: Holy and Level 3 Holy.
Fire Manipulation: How many fire spells does this guy have? Firaga, Flame Thrower, Hellfire...
Ice Manipulation: Blizzard line of spells and more.
Electricity Manipulation: Thunder line of spells and more.
Sleep Manipulation: Sleep. Self-Explanatory. Time Slip does this too.
Poison Manipulation: Poison. See above.
Transmutation: Toad turns the enemy into a toad, as does Pond's Chorus.
Absorption: Drain and Osmose steal HP and MP respectively. Vampire steals HP as well.
Petrification: Break turns the enemy to stone.
Explosion Manipulation and Matter Manipulation: Flare triggers a fission reaction inside the target. I believe that's how we decided Flare Works nowadays. Level 3 Flare does this too.
Death Manipulation: Death makes you dead. Also Level 5 Death, Condemn, Roulette.
Durability Negation + Attack Reflection: ???? (yes, that's the spell name) inflicts fixed damage according to Bartz's wounds, dealing damage equal to the amount of damage Bartz has received. Kinda like that one guy from Bleach.
Water Manipulation: Via Aqua Breath.
Air Manipulation: Aero line of spells.
Flight (Levitation): Via Float.
Statistics Reduction: Off-Guard halves an enemy's defense, and Dark Spark halves their level, decreasing all their stats.
Paralysis Inducement: Death Claw paralyzes enemies and instantly reduces them to their last legs.
Self-Destruction: Self-Destruct.... duh.
Fusionism: Sacrifices the user's life to completely heal someone else's life and MP.
Light Manipulation: Flash is basically the DBZ Solar Flare.
Energy Depletion: Magic Hammer halves the enemy's MP. Not sure what else to qualify this as.
Age Manipulation: Old, Level 2 Old, and Time Slip all inflict this.
Time Manipulation: Time Magic is all about that life.
Spatial Manipulation: Time Magic is stated to manipulate space and time.
Statistics Amplification: Speed, Haste, and Quick, as well as a lot of songs.
Statistics Reduction: Slow.
Gravity Manipulation: Demi/Graviga manipulate gravity to halve/quarter the enemy's HP.
Teleportation: Has this, via Exit.
Summoning: Lotsa summoning, mostly with Oath and, well... Summon. Can also summon meteors and comets.
BFR: Banish sends the enemy to the void.
Absolute Zero: Possesses the Shiva summon. This is actually the only summon ability that their magic doesn't already possess.
Sound Manipulation: You got any idea how many songs this class has?
Earth Manipulation: Rockslide from the Oracle's abilities.
Disease Manipulation: Oracle's pestilence does that.
Heat Manipulation: Meltdown is a wave of superheated air.
Curse Manipulation: Via Curse. I mean... yknow. Curse.
Energy Manipulation: Doomsday is a ******* orbital bombardment that bypasses magical defenses, Including reflect.
That's about all. If you want the full list (which repeats things, admittedly), it's:
Innate: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Has continually shown to be a master of various styles and jobs), Martial Arts, Regenerationn (At least Mid-Low, likely higher), Accelerated Development (Able to master the many jobs of the Crystals in a short time, even mastering them mid-battle as shown in Dissidia NT), Stealth Mastery (Showed the ability to eavesdrop on people without being detected, as well as sneak past Exdeath's Guards), Empowerment (Via the Crystal Shards), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm intangible beings such as Liquiflame and Ghosts), Soul Manipulation (Can damage and kill souls, such as Exdeath's Soul and Exdeath himself) Resistance to Soul Manipulation (Once his guard was up, the Siren was unable to take his soul), Void Manipulation (Survived being within the void for an extended period of time), Spatial Manipulation and Time Manipulation (Survived having space and time twisted around him when entering the Sealed Cave), Absolute Zero (Survived attacks from Shiva)
With Equipment: Sealing (The Sealed Weapons were able to seal Enuo in the Void), Holy Manipulation (Excalibur and Holy Lance), Death Manipulation (Assassin's Dagger), Enhanced damage against the Undead (Apollo's Harp), Paralysis Inducement (Fire Lash), Fire Manipulation (Fire Lash, Fire Scroll, and Magus Rod), Earth Manipulation (Gaia's Bell), Ice Manipulation (Magus Rod), Electricity Manipulation (Magus Rod and Thunder Scroll), Water Manipulation (Water Scroll), Resurrection (Sage's Staff and Mixed items), Instinctive Reaction (Sasuke's Katana), Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Transmutation, Size Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement (Via Genji Equipment), All Status Effects (Including Old, Death, Petrification, Poison, Darkness, Silence, and Berserk, with the Ribbon and various Mixes), Elemental Manipulation (Of the Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, Wind, Earth, Holy, and Poison varieties, with Force Shield)
Job Skills: Instinctive Reaction (Via Cover, Counter, and Shihradori), Accelerated Development (ABP Up and EXP Up increase the amount of Experience and Ability Points gained at a time), Attack Negation (Guard allows Bartz to negate one physical attack), Enhanced Senses (Via Vigilance and Find Passages), Statistics Amplification (Via Sprint, Focus, Etc.), Healing (Chakra uses healing energies to restore the user's HP and cure poison and darkness), Information Analysis (Scan analyzes an enemy for their HP, level, weaknesses, and current conditions), Reactive Evolution (Learning allows Bartz to learn enemy skills he is hit with), Magic (Various types of magic), Summoning (Call summons a random monster with no MP cost), Rage Form (Via Berserk), Forcefield Creation (Magic Shell casts Shell when Bartz's HP is low), Animal Manipulation (Calm allows Bartz to tame an animal and stop them from attacking, and Animals allows him to call woodland creatures to attack), Sealing (Capture seals enemies into gourds for later use), Mind Manipulation (Control takes over an enemy, allowing Bartz to control their actions), Smoke Manipulation (Smoke throws down a Smoke bomb to escape enemies), Afterimage Creation (Image creates illusions to absorb two direct attacks), Sound Manipulation (Sing allows the user to perform songs with various magical effects), Absorption (Lance attacks the foe with a phantasmal dragon that absorbs their HP and MP to restore Bartz's own stores), Empathic Manipulation (Flirt charms enemies to make them forget about attacking), Paralysis Inducement (Minenuchi is an attack that inflicts paralysis with the flat of one's blade), Death Manipulation (Iainuki is an attack that inflicts Instant Death), Resurrection (Revive resurrects a fallen ally with no MP cost), Power Mimicry (Mimic allow Bartz to perfectly copy an enemy ability, even those inherent to the original user), Light Manipulation and Homing Attack (Via Luminous Shard), Energy Manipulation (Via Ragnarok Blade), Gravity Manipulation (Via Soul Eater), Can mix ingredients and items to produce new ones that grant Healing, Statistics Amplification, Regenerationn, Forcefield Creation, Attack Reflection, Element Absorption, Flight (Levitation), Rage Power, Time Manipulation, Elimination of Status Ailments, Transmutation into a Toad, Mind Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, Status Effect Inducement, Magic and Life Absorption, Self-Destruction, Poison Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, and Durability Negation | Same as Before | Same as Before | Same as Before, plus Precognition (Read Ahead, Condemn, and Predict all allow the user to predict the future with high accuracy), Air Manipulation (Via Finisher), Can attack all foes at once with Bladeblitz, Status Effect Inducement (Open Fire can inflict Poison, Blindness, Confusion, and Instant Death), Immortality Negation (Type 7; Open Fire's Instant Death ignores the undead's normal immunity), Can mix and match different types of explosives for various Elemental attacks, Resistance to Absorption and Death Manipulation (Necromancer's undead status inverts damage absorption and instant death spells to heal the target), Necromancy (Oath calls upon the undead to perform attacks)
White Magic: Healing (Via Cure/Cura/Curaga, and White Wind), Information Analysis (Via Libra), Can cleanse status effects with Esuna and Poisona, Silence Inducement (Via Mute), Forcefield Creation (Via Protect and Shell), Attack Reflection (Via Reflect), Size Manipulation (Via Mini and Liliputian Lyric), Resurrection (Via Raise and Arise), Mind Manipulation (Via Confuse, Dark Haze, and Mind Blast), Afterimage Creation (Via Blink), Rage Inducement (Via Berserk), Power Nullification (Via Dispel), Holy Manipulation (Via Holy)
Black Magic: Elemental Manipulation (Of the Fire, Ice, and Lightning varieties via Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder), Sleep Manipulation (Via Sleep), Poison Manipulation (Via Poison and Bio), Transmutation (Into a Toad, Via Toad), Life and Magic Absorption (Via Drain and Osmose), Petrification (Via Break), Explosion Manipulation and Matter Manipulation (Via Flare), Death Manipulation (Via Death)
Blue Magic: Limited Durability Negation (Via ????, which inflicts fixed damage depending on Bartz' HP), Air Manipulation (Via Aero, Aera and Aeroga), Water Manipulation (Via Aqua Breath), Forcefield Creation, Attack Reflection, and Flight (Levitation, via Float and Big Guard), Absorption (Via Vampire), Fire Manipulation (Via Flamethrower), Statistics Reduction (Via Off-Guard and Dark Spark), Paralysis Inducement (Via Death Claw), Self-Destruction (Via Self-Destruct), Light Manipulation (Via Flash), Fusionism (Via Fusion), Transmutation and Size Manipulation (Via Pond's Chorus and Liliputian Lyric), Energy Depletio (Via Magic Hammer), Sleep Manipulation (Via Time Slip), Age Manipulation (Via Level 2 Old and Time Slip), Explosion Manipulation (Via Level 3 Flare), Holy Manipulation (Via Level 4 Holy), Gravity Manipulation (Via Level 4 Quarter), Time Manipulation (Via Haste, Slow, Stop, Quick, Return, and Time Slip), Death Manipulation (Via Condemn, Level 5 Death, and Roulette), Healing (Via White Wind)
Time Magic: Time Manipulation and Spatial Manipulation (Time Magic, also known as Dimension Magic, manipulates the flow of space and time and can stop it, speed it up, slow it down, or even reset it), Statistics Amplification (Via Speed, Haste, and Quick), Statistics Reduction (Via Slow), Silence Inducement (Via Silence), Flight (Levitation, via Float), Gravity Manipulation (Via Demi and Graviga), Summoning (Via Comet and Meteor), Teleportation (Via Exit), Age Manipulation (Via Old), BFR (Via Banish)
Summon Magic: Summoning (Capable of summoning monsters), Life Absorption and Healing (Via Sylph), Paralysis Inducement (Via Remora), Fire Manipulation (Via Ifrit and Phoenix), Ice Manipulation and Absolute Zero (Via Shiva), Electricity Manipulation (Via Ramuh), Earth Manipulation (Via Titan and Golem), Petrification (Via Catoblepas), Air Manipulation (Via Syldra), Attack Reflection (Via Carbuncle), Death Manipulation (Via Odin), Water Manipulation (Via Leviathan), Energy Manipulation (Via Bahamut), Resurrection (Via Phoenix)
Songs and Dances: Sound Manipulation, Statistics Amplification (Via Sinewy Etude, Swift Song, Mana's Paean, Hero's Rime), Regenerationn (At least Mid-Low, via Mighty March), Time Manipulation (Via Romeo's Ballad), Massive damage against undead, Mind Manipulation (Via Alluring Air), Life and Magic Absorption (Via Jitterbug and Mystery Waltz), Mind Manipulation (Via Tempting Tango)
Predict/Condemn: Healing and Status Effect Removal (Via Rejuvenation, Blessing, Healing Wind, and Recuperation), Regenerationn (Via Blessing), Fire Manipulation (Via Brimstone and Eruption), Ice Manipulation (Via Black Frost), Electricity Manipulation (Via Judgement and Cleansing), Water Manipulation (Via Deluge), Weather Manipulation (Via Hurricane), Earth Manipulation (Via Rockslide), Disease Manipulation (Via Pestilence), Transmutation (Via Salienta and Deluge), Time Manipulation (Via Still Wing), Death Manipulation (Via Starfall and Doom)
Dark Arts/Oath: Summoning (Oath can summon the undead to do battle), Life Absorption (Via Drain Touch, which bypasses Attack Reflection), Age Manipulation and Mind Manipulation (Via Dark Haze), Ice Manipulation (Via Deep Freeze), Poison Manipulation (Via Evil Mist), Heat Manipulation (Via Meltdown), Air Manipulation and Petrification (Via Hellwind), Electricity Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement (Via Chaos Drive), Curse Manipulation and Status Effect Inducement (Via Curse), Durability Negation and Darkness Manipulation (Via Dark Flare), Energy Manipulation (Via Doomsday, which bypasses Attack Reflection)
Summary
That's about everything, honestly. Discuss.
Innate Abilities
This is innate abilities for Bartz. Fair enough, right?
Superhuman Physical Characteristics: Self-explanatory. Dude's at least 5-A.
Weapons Mastery + Martial Arts: Again, self-explanatory. He was trained by a warrior of dawn and can use basically any weapon type even as a freelancer.
Regenerationn (Mid-Low): Same reason Link has it. Can regenerate from sword slashes and otherwise fatal wounds.
Accelerated Development: Once more should be self-explanatory. Bartz constantly gets new abilities and classes and can still master them in a very short time. Hell, in Dissidia, he can even master his abilities mid-battle.
Enhanced Senses (Or Resistance to Afterimage creation): Kelger's fight with him involved Kelger forming a bunch of afterimages (At 1:01). Bartz was able to beat him by accurately pinpointing the real Kelger among all the copies. It's shown as Bartz closing his eyes and sensing. Which... accidentally) ended up killing Kelger, IIRC... oops.
Stealth Mastery: Bartz eavesdrops on people several times throughout the game, and sneaks past some of Exdeath's guards.
Empowerment: A more recent ability, but the crystals enhance his power and are responsible for his equipment/job abilities, so...
Non-Physical Interaction: Bartz can literally fight souls and beings made of pure fire. 'Nuff said. Might also be Soul Manipulation, but I'm not sure if straight-up fighting souls technically counts. Also, Galuf slapped the soul back into him, so maybe.
Resistance to Soul Manipulation: This one's a bit wonky. Early on in the game, Siren was able to take his soul using an image of his mom. Galuf slaps him back to his senses, and she can't take his soul again, and is forced to fight them directly. Might be an illusion thing, but IDK.
Resistance to Void Manipulation: Fought Neo Exdeath and Enuo, and survived being in the void for an extended period of time. Should be simple enough.
Resistance to Time Manipulation and Spatial Manipulation: Entering the sealed temple causes Space and Time to be twisted around the four warriors, but they end up completely okay afterwards.
Resistance to Absolute Zero: Shiva has this now, I think? And Bartz can survive her ice.
Standard Equipment
Bartz has a lotta weapons. Let's talk about them.
Sealed Weapons: The 12 known weapons that Bartz canonically possesses. These 12 weapons were used thousands of years ago to seal the wizard Enuo into the void, and are the only things canonically capable of defeating Exdeath when he was wielding the power of the void. Discounting the items added in subsequent releases of the game, they are the most powerful weapons that Bartz can wield.
- Excalibur: The Sealed Sword, a holy-elemental blade which increases Bartz's strength when wielded.
- Masamune: The Sealed Katana, which causes Bartz to always get the first attack in battle. It has an increased chance to inflict critical hits, and casts Haste when used as an item.
- Rune Axe: The Sealed Axe, which raises Bartz's magic when wielded and can draw upon Bartz' MP to deal an automatic critical hit.
- Apollo's Harp: The Sealed Harp, which ignores the defenses of enemies and instead targets their magic defenses. It deals eight times the normal damage to undead and draconic beings.
- Yoichi's Bow: The Sealed Bow, which raises Bartz's strength and speed when wielded. It has an increased chance to inflict critical hits.
- Assassin's Dagger: The Sealed Dagger, which increases Bartz's speed when wielded and has a 25% chance to instantly kill the target when it strikes.
- Sasuke's Katana: The Sealed Short Sword, which increases Bartz's speed when wielded and has a 25% chance to automatically nullify physical attacks.
- Fire Lash: The Sealed Whip, a fire-elemental weapon which increases Bartz's strength and speed when wielded and has a 33% chance to cast Firaga every time it attacks.
- Gaia's Bell: The Sealed Bell, an earth-elemental weapon which increases the power of earth-elemental attacks and has a 25% chance to cast Quake every time it attacks.
- Holy Lance: The Sealed Lance, a holy-elemental weapon which increases Bartz's strength when wielded.
- Sage's Staff: The Sealed Staff, which increases the power of holy-elemental attacks, casts Raise when used as an item, and deals double damage to the undead.
- Magus Rod: The Sealed Rod, which is Fire, Ice, and Thunder-elemental. It increases the power of all elemental spells, except for holy-elemental ones.
- Brave Blade: A powerful sword that is his main weapon in the Dissidia Final Fantasy games. It boasts more damage than almost any other weapon, but its strength will permanently decrease by a small amount every time he runs from a fight.
- Fuma Shuriken: A large shuriken made for ninja, that can be used with the throw command. It inflicts more damage than his melee attacks tend to.
- Scrolls: Three different types of scrolls that can be used with the throw command. They summon elemental storms that inflict fire, thunder, and water damage respectively.
- Ultima Weapon: A powerful sword guarded by Neo Shinryu, said to hold the power of destruction. Though it boasts no special properties, it is by far Bartz's strongest weapon in terms of sheer damage.
- Genji Armor: The most powerful armor that Bartz can collect, made up of: The Genji Helmet, which protects the user from mini and confusion, the Genji Armor, which protects against toad and confusion, the Genji Shield, which protects against paralysis, and the Genji Gloves, which protect against paralysis and toad.
- Force Shield: A heavy cross-shaped shield that forms a forcefield of energy in front of it. It is Bartz's strongest shield by far and provides complete immunity to all the elements, including Fire, Ice, Water, Lightning, Earth, Wind, Holy, and Poison.
- Ribbon: A simple ribbon, that protects the user against all status effects, including Old, Death, Petrification, Toad, Berserk, Silence, Poison, and Blindness.
Abilities from the equipment above.
Sealing: The 12 sealed weapons sealed Enuo however long ago it was. Self-Explanatory.
Holy Manipulation: Excalibur and the Holy Lance are both holy-elemental.
Sound Manipulation: Gaia's Bell and Apollo's Harp both weaponize sound to inflict damage.
Death Manipulation: Every hit from the assassin's dagger has a 25% chance of instantly killing the target, and its flavor text states that it sometimes instantly ills enemies.
Extra damage against the Undead: Apollo's Harp and Sage's Staff.
Paralysis Inducement: The Fire Lash sometimes paralyzes enemies.
Fire Manipulation: Fire Lash... it's a fire whip. Come on. Also Fire Scrolls.
Electricity Manipulation: Thunder Scroll.
Water Manipulation: Water Scroll.
Earth Manipulation: Gaia's Bell causes earthquakes with its sound.
Resurrection: Sage's Staff casts Raise when used as an item.
Instinctive Reaction: Sasuke's Katana automatically blocks physical attacks.
Resistance to Elemental Manipulation (Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth, Water, Wind, Holy, Poison): The Force Shield nullifies elemental attacks, even from enemies leagues stronger than Bartz, causing him to take Zero damage.
Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Transmutation, Size Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement: The Genji Equipment renders Bartz immune to Confusion, Toad, Mini, and Paralysis.
Resistance to All Status Effects with the Ribbon. Pretty self explanatory. it protects him from Age Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Power Nullification (Silence), and Rage Inducement (Berserk), as well as the things that the Genji Armor protects him from.
Job Skill Abilities
And here's the BIG ones. There's a lot to cover here, so get ready.
Instinctive Reaction: Cover, Counter, and Shihradori all automatically react to things. Cover protects allies, Counter counterattacks, and Shihradori stops attacks (which is already counted on his page, so)
Accelerated Development: ABP up and EXP up both increase the rate at which crystal users master jobs and gains levels.
Attack Negation: A knight can completely nullify a physical attack, even from people with strength greater than his, using Guard.
Enhanced Senses: Vigilance stops ambushes, and Find Passages let the user see secret passages.
Statistics Amplification: Sprint and Focus can double the users' speed and strength respectively.
Healing: Chakra can heal the user and remove poison and darkness.
Information Analysis: Scan and Check analyze an enemy for their HP, Level, and Weaknesses, as well as their current conditions.
Reactive Evolution: Learning (blue magic) allows the user to learn abilities by being hit with them. This extends to non-damage spells like healing.
Magic: Uhh... has a fuckton of types of magic.
Summoning: Call can summon a random monster at no MP cost.
Rage Form: Berserk.
Forcefield Creation: Magic Shell automatically casts Shell when the user's HP is low.
Animal Manipulation: The Ranger's "Animals" ability summons animals to attack, and calm lets the user stop a monster from attacking.
Sealing: Can seal enemies within gourds using Capture.
Mind Manipulation/Possession: Control takes over an enemy, letting the user control their actions.
Smoke Manipulation: Smoke Bomb. Duh.
Afterimage Creation: Image forms a pair of afterimages to absorb attacks.
Sound Manipulation: Via sing. obviously.
Absorption: Lance absorbs HP and MP from the enemy with a phantom spear.
Empathic Manipulation: Flirt. Already on his profile.
Paralysis Inducement: Minenuchi inflicts Paralysis.
Durability Negation: Zeninage/Gil Toss inflicts damage that ignores defenses.
Death Manipulation: Iainuki inflicts instant death.
Resurrection: Revive can revive a fallen ally with no MP cost.
Power Mimicry: This is the big one. The mime's mimic ability lets the user copy any action that the user takes and take it for their own. This extends to even innate abilities like claws and fangs, weapon-based abilities, or pact-based abilities like Yuna's summoning, meaning that users should also gain limited Shapeshifting, Summoning (again lol), and Creation. Bartz has shown in dissidia that he retains the abilities he mimics, something which is counted on his profile, meaning that Bartz could POTENTIALLY have a far greater amount of abilities through mimicry that we don't see, but I can't in good faith put them on his profile. These, however, are abilities he possesses.
- Creation: Can recreate his allies' weapons.
- Gravity Manipulation: Cecil's Soul Eater.
- Energy Manipulation: Laguna's Ragnarok Blade.
- Light Manipualtio and Homing Attack: Warrior of Light's Luminous Shard.
- Attack Reflection: Some mixes give reflect.
- Absorption: Of elements.
- Flight: Some mixes give float.
- Time Manipulation: Some mixes give haste.
- Transmutation: Into a toad.
- Statistics Reduction: Various mixes can lower the enemies' stats.
- Status Effect Inducement: Various.
- Durability Negation: Shadow Flare ignores defenses.
- Elemental Manipulation: Various types.
Air Manipulation: Bartz's finisher is air elemental. Lenna, Krile, and Faris would get Water, Earth, and Fire manipulation from this respectively.
Status Effect Inducement: Same stuff as with Mix, but with Open Fire.
Immortality Negation (Type 7): The instant death of Open Fire ignores Undead's natural immunity to instant death.
Resistance to Absorption and Death Manipulation: The undead status the necromancer gets prevents life absorption and instant death attacks.
Necromancy: Oath calls upon the undead.
Magical Abilities
And now for magic.
Healing: Cure, Cura, Curaga, and White Wind.
Information Analysis: Libra does the same thing as Scan.
Status Effect Removal: Esuna and Poisona
Silence Inducement/Power Nullification: Mute inflicts silence.
Forcefield Creation: Protect and Shell, as well as Big Guard which combines them.
Attack Reflection: Reflect, as well as Big Guard.
Size Manipulation: Mini and Liliputian Lyric.
Resurrection: Raise and Arise.
Mind Manipulation: Confuse, Dark Haze, and Mind Blast all inflict confuse. Lots of these through songs and dances.
Afterimage Creation: Blink forms afterimages that absorb attacks.
Rage Inducement: Berserk is self-explanatory.
Power Nullification: Dispel removes buffs or positive status effects from enemies.
Holy Manipulation: Holy and Level 3 Holy.
Fire Manipulation: How many fire spells does this guy have? Firaga, Flame Thrower, Hellfire...
Ice Manipulation: Blizzard line of spells and more.
Electricity Manipulation: Thunder line of spells and more.
Sleep Manipulation: Sleep. Self-Explanatory. Time Slip does this too.
Poison Manipulation: Poison. See above.
Transmutation: Toad turns the enemy into a toad, as does Pond's Chorus.
Absorption: Drain and Osmose steal HP and MP respectively. Vampire steals HP as well.
Petrification: Break turns the enemy to stone.
Explosion Manipulation and Matter Manipulation: Flare triggers a fission reaction inside the target. I believe that's how we decided Flare Works nowadays. Level 3 Flare does this too.
Death Manipulation: Death makes you dead. Also Level 5 Death, Condemn, Roulette.
Durability Negation + Attack Reflection: ???? (yes, that's the spell name) inflicts fixed damage according to Bartz's wounds, dealing damage equal to the amount of damage Bartz has received. Kinda like that one guy from Bleach.
Water Manipulation: Via Aqua Breath.
Air Manipulation: Aero line of spells.
Flight (Levitation): Via Float.
Statistics Reduction: Off-Guard halves an enemy's defense, and Dark Spark halves their level, decreasing all their stats.
Paralysis Inducement: Death Claw paralyzes enemies and instantly reduces them to their last legs.
Self-Destruction: Self-Destruct.... duh.
Fusionism: Sacrifices the user's life to completely heal someone else's life and MP.
Light Manipulation: Flash is basically the DBZ Solar Flare.
Energy Depletion: Magic Hammer halves the enemy's MP. Not sure what else to qualify this as.
Age Manipulation: Old, Level 2 Old, and Time Slip all inflict this.
Time Manipulation: Time Magic is all about that life.
Spatial Manipulation: Time Magic is stated to manipulate space and time.
Statistics Amplification: Speed, Haste, and Quick, as well as a lot of songs.
Statistics Reduction: Slow.
Gravity Manipulation: Demi/Graviga manipulate gravity to halve/quarter the enemy's HP.
Teleportation: Has this, via Exit.
Summoning: Lotsa summoning, mostly with Oath and, well... Summon. Can also summon meteors and comets.
BFR: Banish sends the enemy to the void.
Absolute Zero: Possesses the Shiva summon. This is actually the only summon ability that their magic doesn't already possess.
Sound Manipulation: You got any idea how many songs this class has?
Earth Manipulation: Rockslide from the Oracle's abilities.
Disease Manipulation: Oracle's pestilence does that.
Heat Manipulation: Meltdown is a wave of superheated air.
Curse Manipulation: Via Curse. I mean... yknow. Curse.
Energy Manipulation: Doomsday is a ******* orbital bombardment that bypasses magical defenses, Including reflect.
That's about all. If you want the full list (which repeats things, admittedly), it's:
Innate: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Has continually shown to be a master of various styles and jobs), Martial Arts, Regenerationn (At least Mid-Low, likely higher), Accelerated Development (Able to master the many jobs of the Crystals in a short time, even mastering them mid-battle as shown in Dissidia NT), Stealth Mastery (Showed the ability to eavesdrop on people without being detected, as well as sneak past Exdeath's Guards), Empowerment (Via the Crystal Shards), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm intangible beings such as Liquiflame and Ghosts), Soul Manipulation (Can damage and kill souls, such as Exdeath's Soul and Exdeath himself) Resistance to Soul Manipulation (Once his guard was up, the Siren was unable to take his soul), Void Manipulation (Survived being within the void for an extended period of time), Spatial Manipulation and Time Manipulation (Survived having space and time twisted around him when entering the Sealed Cave), Absolute Zero (Survived attacks from Shiva)
With Equipment: Sealing (The Sealed Weapons were able to seal Enuo in the Void), Holy Manipulation (Excalibur and Holy Lance), Death Manipulation (Assassin's Dagger), Enhanced damage against the Undead (Apollo's Harp), Paralysis Inducement (Fire Lash), Fire Manipulation (Fire Lash, Fire Scroll, and Magus Rod), Earth Manipulation (Gaia's Bell), Ice Manipulation (Magus Rod), Electricity Manipulation (Magus Rod and Thunder Scroll), Water Manipulation (Water Scroll), Resurrection (Sage's Staff and Mixed items), Instinctive Reaction (Sasuke's Katana), Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Transmutation, Size Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement (Via Genji Equipment), All Status Effects (Including Old, Death, Petrification, Poison, Darkness, Silence, and Berserk, with the Ribbon and various Mixes), Elemental Manipulation (Of the Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, Wind, Earth, Holy, and Poison varieties, with Force Shield)
Job Skills: Instinctive Reaction (Via Cover, Counter, and Shihradori), Accelerated Development (ABP Up and EXP Up increase the amount of Experience and Ability Points gained at a time), Attack Negation (Guard allows Bartz to negate one physical attack), Enhanced Senses (Via Vigilance and Find Passages), Statistics Amplification (Via Sprint, Focus, Etc.), Healing (Chakra uses healing energies to restore the user's HP and cure poison and darkness), Information Analysis (Scan analyzes an enemy for their HP, level, weaknesses, and current conditions), Reactive Evolution (Learning allows Bartz to learn enemy skills he is hit with), Magic (Various types of magic), Summoning (Call summons a random monster with no MP cost), Rage Form (Via Berserk), Forcefield Creation (Magic Shell casts Shell when Bartz's HP is low), Animal Manipulation (Calm allows Bartz to tame an animal and stop them from attacking, and Animals allows him to call woodland creatures to attack), Sealing (Capture seals enemies into gourds for later use), Mind Manipulation (Control takes over an enemy, allowing Bartz to control their actions), Smoke Manipulation (Smoke throws down a Smoke bomb to escape enemies), Afterimage Creation (Image creates illusions to absorb two direct attacks), Sound Manipulation (Sing allows the user to perform songs with various magical effects), Absorption (Lance attacks the foe with a phantasmal dragon that absorbs their HP and MP to restore Bartz's own stores), Empathic Manipulation (Flirt charms enemies to make them forget about attacking), Paralysis Inducement (Minenuchi is an attack that inflicts paralysis with the flat of one's blade), Death Manipulation (Iainuki is an attack that inflicts Instant Death), Resurrection (Revive resurrects a fallen ally with no MP cost), Power Mimicry (Mimic allow Bartz to perfectly copy an enemy ability, even those inherent to the original user), Light Manipulation and Homing Attack (Via Luminous Shard), Energy Manipulation (Via Ragnarok Blade), Gravity Manipulation (Via Soul Eater), Can mix ingredients and items to produce new ones that grant Healing, Statistics Amplification, Regenerationn, Forcefield Creation, Attack Reflection, Element Absorption, Flight (Levitation), Rage Power, Time Manipulation, Elimination of Status Ailments, Transmutation into a Toad, Mind Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, Status Effect Inducement, Magic and Life Absorption, Self-Destruction, Poison Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, and Durability Negation | Same as Before | Same as Before | Same as Before, plus Precognition (Read Ahead, Condemn, and Predict all allow the user to predict the future with high accuracy), Air Manipulation (Via Finisher), Can attack all foes at once with Bladeblitz, Status Effect Inducement (Open Fire can inflict Poison, Blindness, Confusion, and Instant Death), Immortality Negation (Type 7; Open Fire's Instant Death ignores the undead's normal immunity), Can mix and match different types of explosives for various Elemental attacks, Resistance to Absorption and Death Manipulation (Necromancer's undead status inverts damage absorption and instant death spells to heal the target), Necromancy (Oath calls upon the undead to perform attacks)
White Magic: Healing (Via Cure/Cura/Curaga, and White Wind), Information Analysis (Via Libra), Can cleanse status effects with Esuna and Poisona, Silence Inducement (Via Mute), Forcefield Creation (Via Protect and Shell), Attack Reflection (Via Reflect), Size Manipulation (Via Mini and Liliputian Lyric), Resurrection (Via Raise and Arise), Mind Manipulation (Via Confuse, Dark Haze, and Mind Blast), Afterimage Creation (Via Blink), Rage Inducement (Via Berserk), Power Nullification (Via Dispel), Holy Manipulation (Via Holy)
Black Magic: Elemental Manipulation (Of the Fire, Ice, and Lightning varieties via Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder), Sleep Manipulation (Via Sleep), Poison Manipulation (Via Poison and Bio), Transmutation (Into a Toad, Via Toad), Life and Magic Absorption (Via Drain and Osmose), Petrification (Via Break), Explosion Manipulation and Matter Manipulation (Via Flare), Death Manipulation (Via Death)
Blue Magic: Limited Durability Negation (Via ????, which inflicts fixed damage depending on Bartz' HP), Air Manipulation (Via Aero, Aera and Aeroga), Water Manipulation (Via Aqua Breath), Forcefield Creation, Attack Reflection, and Flight (Levitation, via Float and Big Guard), Absorption (Via Vampire), Fire Manipulation (Via Flamethrower), Statistics Reduction (Via Off-Guard and Dark Spark), Paralysis Inducement (Via Death Claw), Self-Destruction (Via Self-Destruct), Light Manipulation (Via Flash), Fusionism (Via Fusion), Transmutation and Size Manipulation (Via Pond's Chorus and Liliputian Lyric), Energy Depletio (Via Magic Hammer), Sleep Manipulation (Via Time Slip), Age Manipulation (Via Level 2 Old and Time Slip), Explosion Manipulation (Via Level 3 Flare), Holy Manipulation (Via Level 4 Holy), Gravity Manipulation (Via Level 4 Quarter), Time Manipulation (Via Haste, Slow, Stop, Quick, Return, and Time Slip), Death Manipulation (Via Condemn, Level 5 Death, and Roulette), Healing (Via White Wind)
Time Magic: Time Manipulation and Spatial Manipulation (Time Magic, also known as Dimension Magic, manipulates the flow of space and time and can stop it, speed it up, slow it down, or even reset it), Statistics Amplification (Via Speed, Haste, and Quick), Statistics Reduction (Via Slow), Silence Inducement (Via Silence), Flight (Levitation, via Float), Gravity Manipulation (Via Demi and Graviga), Summoning (Via Comet and Meteor), Teleportation (Via Exit), Age Manipulation (Via Old), BFR (Via Banish)
Summon Magic: Summoning (Capable of summoning monsters), Life Absorption and Healing (Via Sylph), Paralysis Inducement (Via Remora), Fire Manipulation (Via Ifrit and Phoenix), Ice Manipulation and Absolute Zero (Via Shiva), Electricity Manipulation (Via Ramuh), Earth Manipulation (Via Titan and Golem), Petrification (Via Catoblepas), Air Manipulation (Via Syldra), Attack Reflection (Via Carbuncle), Death Manipulation (Via Odin), Water Manipulation (Via Leviathan), Energy Manipulation (Via Bahamut), Resurrection (Via Phoenix)
Songs and Dances: Sound Manipulation, Statistics Amplification (Via Sinewy Etude, Swift Song, Mana's Paean, Hero's Rime), Regenerationn (At least Mid-Low, via Mighty March), Time Manipulation (Via Romeo's Ballad), Massive damage against undead, Mind Manipulation (Via Alluring Air), Life and Magic Absorption (Via Jitterbug and Mystery Waltz), Mind Manipulation (Via Tempting Tango)
Predict/Condemn: Healing and Status Effect Removal (Via Rejuvenation, Blessing, Healing Wind, and Recuperation), Regenerationn (Via Blessing), Fire Manipulation (Via Brimstone and Eruption), Ice Manipulation (Via Black Frost), Electricity Manipulation (Via Judgement and Cleansing), Water Manipulation (Via Deluge), Weather Manipulation (Via Hurricane), Earth Manipulation (Via Rockslide), Disease Manipulation (Via Pestilence), Transmutation (Via Salienta and Deluge), Time Manipulation (Via Still Wing), Death Manipulation (Via Starfall and Doom)
Dark Arts/Oath: Summoning (Oath can summon the undead to do battle), Life Absorption (Via Drain Touch, which bypasses Attack Reflection), Age Manipulation and Mind Manipulation (Via Dark Haze), Ice Manipulation (Via Deep Freeze), Poison Manipulation (Via Evil Mist), Heat Manipulation (Via Meltdown), Air Manipulation and Petrification (Via Hellwind), Electricity Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement (Via Chaos Drive), Curse Manipulation and Status Effect Inducement (Via Curse), Durability Negation and Darkness Manipulation (Via Dark Flare), Energy Manipulation (Via Doomsday, which bypasses Attack Reflection)
Summary
That's about everything, honestly. Discuss.
