Techniques

Techniques, "Techs" for short, are seemingly magic skills that can only be used by Human and Newman characters.

Unlike normal attacks, Offensive Techniques have their effects based on your character's MST, and are reduced by the target's Resistances rather than their DFP. Offensive Techniques cannot miss (with the exception of Megid which has a trigger chance), but they also cannot deal Critical Hits.

Additionally there are a variety of Support Techniques that can, among other things, Heal or revive allies, raise/lower ATP/DFP and cure Status Ailments.

Techniques can learnt from Tech Disks that drop from enemies or boxes in the world, or can be bought from the Tool Shop. To learn a Technique from a disc your character must have sufficient base MST, the amount required depending on the type of technique and its level.

The maximum level for most Techniques is 30, however Non-Force classes are usually restricted to a maximum of 20 or 15 while CAST characters cannot learn any Techniques and instead get Traps.

As Techniques grow in level they improve in most aspects. The effect is most dramatic for offensive Techniques that benefit from faster cast times, longer range, greater area of effect, more impressive particle animations and, of course, higher damage.

However to use a Technique you must spend TP.

The amount of TP required depends on the type of tech and its level. You can increase the amount of TP you have by raising your MST or equipping TP Units. Spent TP can be restored by consuming Fluid items, using the Medical Centre or taking advantage of the natural TP regeneration effect Newman characters have while standing still.

List of Techniques

Offensive Techniques

The Offensive Techniques are all capable of killing enemies. Each one has a different Class which represents how advanced that technique is, from Simple > Normal > Hard.

Offensive Techniques are all affected by the enemies relevant Resistance, and not by the target's DFP. They also cannot Miss due to the target's EVP and cannot inflict critical hits regardless of the user's LCK.

However many Weapons and several pieces of Armour can boost the total damage of specific techniques. These items are often called Boosting Equipment.

Simple Techniques

These Techniques are the easiest to learn, cost the least amount of TP and generally deal the highest single-target damage. They are sometimes referred to as "Si"-level Techniques.

• Foie launches a single fireball towards the target.

• Zonde strikes a single enemy with a thunderbolt.

• Barta sends a trail of ice across the floor in a straight line, piercing through enemies.

Normal Techniques

Normal, or "Gi"-level, Techniques toe the line between single target and area of effect.

All Normal Techniques can hit multiple targets, but also boast high base power compared to Ra Techniques.

• Gifoie creates a ring of fireballs, that circle rapidly around the location of the user when it was cast for a set time.

• Gizonde fires a chaining bolt of lightning that jumps from enemy to enemy in front of the user.

• Gibarta launches an cone of icy projectiles in front of the user.

Hard Techniques

"Hard" or "Ra"-level, Techniques have the highest MST requirements and TP costs of all Techniques. These include the Ra-level elemental techniques, as well as Grants and Megid which are the only available light- and dark-type Techniques, respectively. The Ra-level techniques are characterized by their incredible area of effect and fast cast times, while Grants and Megid offer powerful situational single-target options.

• Rafoie creates a huge fiery explosion centered upon the target which hits both it and other nearby enemies.

• Razonde releases a powerful lightning bolt that travels a spiral around the user in an instant, damaging all nearby enemies.

• Rabarta Launches ice shards in a 360 degree nova, damaging all nearby enemies with a chance to freeze them solid.

• Grants charges a powerful explosion of light that deals devastating damage to a single enemy

• Megid fires a slow moving shadowy projectile that has a chance to instantly kill any enemy that touches it.

Healing Techniques

These Techniques heal the user or target, either recovering their HP, removing Status Ailments or even reviving fallen team-mates

• Resta heals the user, restoring lost HP.

• Anti cures the user of certain Status Ailments depending on it's level.

• Reverser revives a nearby dead player to full HP / TP.

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Support Techniques

The Support Techniques Include Shifta/Deband/Jellen/Zalure which together allow you to raise your team's ATP and DFP to incredible heights, while also crippling your enemies ATP and stripping their DFP.

• Shifta Improves the ATP of the user by a percentage that increases with tech level.

• Deband Improves the DFP of the user by a percentage that increases with tech level.

• Jellen Reduces the ATP of the target enemy, and other nearby enemies, by a percentage that increases with tech level.

• Zalure Reduces the DFP of the target enemy, and other nearby enemies, by a percentage that increases with tech level.

• Ryuker Creates a Telepipe that allows the user to teleport to Pioneer 2, and return back to the spot it was cast once.

Detailed Tech Base Values

Technique levels past 15 use a different set of base power and power scaling values.

Base Values Table

Tech	Base Power (1-15)	Base Power (16-30)	Power Growth (2-15)	Power Growth (16-30)	Maximum Targets
Foie	110	-85	50	65	1
Gifoie	260	30	26	42	10
Rafoie	350	370	22	21	10
Barta	50	-125	50	63	1
Gibarta	230	0	24	40	10
Rabarta	400	470	19	15	10
Zonde	80	5	50	55	1
Gizonde	200	-30	22	38	5
Razonde	450	550	16	9	10
Grants	1180	1400	75	60	1
Megid	27	42	3	2	1
Resta	50	-20	5	10	10

From these values we can derive the growth in Tech power per tech level using this formula:

• Tech Base Power + (Tech Growth * Tech Level-1)

Tech Scaling Table

Using the formula above we can represent Technique growth per level with this table

Tech Level	Foie	Gifoie	Rafoie	Barta	Gibarta	Rabarta	Zonde	Gizonde	Razonde	Grants	Megid	Resta
1	110	260	350	50	230	400	80	200	450	1180	27	50
2	160	286	372	100	254	419	130	222	466	1255	30	55
3	210	312	394	150	278	438	180	244	482	1330	33	60
4	260	338	416	200	302	457	230	266	498	1405	36	65
5	310	364	438	250	326	476	280	288	514	1480	39	70
6	360	390	460	300	350	495	330	310	530	1555	42	75
7	410	416	482	350	374	514	380	332	546	1630	45	80
8	460	442	504	400	398	533	430	354	562	1705	48	85
9	510	468	526	450	422	552	480	376	578	1780	51	90
10	560	494	548	500	446	571	530	398	594	1855	54	95
11	610	520	570	550	470	590	580	420	610	1930	57	100
12	660	546	592	600	494	609	630	442	626	2005	60	105
13	710	572	614	650	518	628	680	464	642	2080	63	110
14	760	598	636	700	542	647	730	486	658	2155	66	115
15	810	624	658	750	566	666	780	508	674	2230	69	120
16	890	660	685	820	600	695	830	540	685	2300	72	130
17	955	702	706	883	640	710	885	578	694	2360	74	140
18	1020	744	727	946	680	725	940	616	703	2420	76	150
19	1085	786	748	1009	720	740	995	654	712	2480	78	160
20	1150	828	769	1072	760	755	1050	692	721	2540	80	170
21	1215	870	790	1135	800	770	1105	730	730	2600	82	180
22	1280	912	811	1198	840	785	1160	768	739	2660	84	190
23	1345	954	832	1261	880	800	1215	806	748	2720	86	200
24	1410	996	853	1324	920	815	1270	844	757	2780	88	210
25	1475	1038	874	1387	960	830	1325	882	766	2840	90	220
26	1540	1080	895	1450	1000	845	1380	920	775	2900	92	230
27	1605	1122	916	1513	1040	860	1435	958	784	2960	94	240
28	1670	1164	937	1576	1080	875	1490	996	793	3020	96	250
29	1735	1206	958	1639	1120	890	1545	1034	802	3080	98	260
30	1800	1248	979	1702	1160	905	1600	1072	811	3140	100	270

Technique Boosting Equipment

These items when equipped will boost the power of certain techniques.

This usually takes the form of either a percentage value if the technique deals damage, or increasing its range by +100% if it's a Healing or Support technique.

When multiple pieces of boosting equipment are equipped, any boosts to the same technique are added together.

For example if two items gave a +30% bonus to Foie, its damage would be improved by +60% in total.

Weapons

Item Name	Technique(s)	Boost
Club of Laconium		+40%
Hildebear's Cane		+30%
Mace of Adaman		+40%
Hildeblue's Cane		+30%
Club of Zumiuran		+40%
The Sigh of a God		+30%
Siren Glass Hammer		+50%
Caduceus		+20%
Mercurius Rod		+30%
Demonic Fork		Pierces
Dark Bridge		+10%/Pierces
Fire Scepter: Agni		+20%
Ice Staff: Dagon		+20%
Storm Wand: Indra		+20%
Summit Moon		+30%
Twinkle Star		+30%
Nei's Claw		+20%
Magical Piece		+30%
Sorcerer's Cane		+20%
Rika's Claw		+20%
Psycho Wand		+30%
Prophets of Motav		+20%
Solferino		Range +100%
Marina's Bag		Range +100%
Madam's Parasol		Range +100%
Madam's Umbrella		Range +100%
Striker of Chao		Range +100%
Glide Divine		Range +100%
Tyrell's Parasol		Range +100%

Frames

Item Name	Technique(s)	Boost
Ignition Cloak		+10%
Tempest Cloak		+10%
Congeal Cloak		+10%
Mother Garb+		+50% (Random Trigger)
Mother Garb		+10% (Random Trigger)
Select Cloak		+10%
Cursed Cloak		Pierces
Dirty Lifejacket		Pierces

Barriers

Item Name	Technique(s)	Boost
Foie Merge		+30%
Gifoie Merge		+30%
Rafoie Merge		+30%
Zonde Merge		+30%
Gizonde Merge		+30%
Razonde Merge		+30%
Three Seals		+30%
Barta Merge		+30%
Gibarta Merge		+30%
Rabarta Merge		+30%
Black Gauntlets		Pierces
Red Merge		+20%
Yellow Merge		+20%
Blue Merge		+20%
Resta Merge		+100% Range
Anti Merge		+100% Range
Shifta Merge		+100% Range
Rupika		+100% Range
Deband Merge		+100% Range

Technical Data

Damage Formula

For Techniques that deal damage, you can find that damage using this formula

• Damage = round(((TechPower + MST) * 0.2 * (1 + Boosts) * (100 - Resistance) / 100), 1) = round(((TechPower + MST) * (100 - Resistance) * (1 + Boosts) * 0.002), 1)

Healing Formula

To find the amount Resta can heal, use this formula

• HP Restored = Tech Power + (MST/2)

Megid

Megid is unique in that while it has a base power and power scaling like other offensive techs it cannot deal damage.

Instead its power represents its percentage chance to instantly kill the target. This chance is reduced directly by an enemy's EDK (Dark) Resistance.

• For example, a level 30 Megid has a Tech Power of 100, which gives it a base 100% chance to kill its target instantly. If you were to hit an enemy with 80EDK this chance would be reduced to 20%.

Technique Boosting Equipment that boost Megid will not improve it's chance to instantly kill, but will instead allow Megid to pierce through and potentially hit multiple enemies.

Casting Animation

The Technique casting animation is made up of several parts:

1. Movement from Neutral to Charge
2. The actual Charge (instant for many)
3. The movement from Charge to Cast
4. The "Cooling" period after Casting (notably the least for Gizonde, and the most for Gifoie)
5. Moving back to neutral

V801 reduces the time taken by parts 2 and 3. Male bare-handed casting only shortens part 3, and by exactly four frames, regardless of technique level or type.