Quickening licenses question

[EvilPie]

Okay i stumbled on the very first quickening licenses on the skill boards (wich i imagine to be actual skills of the choosen class for each character) before unlocking one the game warns you that you can only choose 3 in the entire board, should i pick them early in the game or wait till i unlock more stats in the board?

[FuzedBox]

Your characters have three quickenings that are specific to them, and no matter which license you buy, they always unlock in order. It's totally up to you when you want to purchase them or even use them at all.

For example Vaan's quickenings are 1) Red Spiral, 2) White Whorl, and 3) Pyroclasm. Those quickenings in that order will never change. Some boards have more than three quickenings on them, and it's advisable to buy the licenses that have other licenses trapped behind them if given the choice.

[raystevens73]

You can preview the boards before unlocking the one you want to chose and those slots are already on the boards so its a decision of choice. Later you get to unlock another board so decide which ones you want to use and view both to see what slots will be missed if any and pre-plan you paths.

[yoda8myhead]

Origineel geplaatst door raystevens73:

You can preview the boards before unlocking the one you want to chose and those slots are already on the boards so its a decision of choice. Later you get to unlock another board so decide which ones you want to use and view both to see what slots will be missed if any and pre-plan you paths.

This is the part I'm confused about. I found a google sheet people are using to plan out their characters, but it's not clear to me what the opportunity cost is of selecting specific quickening slots on my first license board.

For example, I have Vaan going through the bushi board, and plan to select knight as his second job. There's nothing locked behind his first quickening slot on the bushi board nor on the first three slots of the knight board. So does that mean I need to skip the first slot, so that the three I select will open all three locked licenses on bushi and also the fourth slot on knight?

I guess I'm just confused about how the two boards interract with one another in regard to quickenings once I get to select a second job, and I'd rather not wait until I have two boards before I start using quickenings.

[CloudNyan]

For example, you unlock a heavy armor 1 license on one board, that same license will be unlocked on the second board the character has...

So let’s say for vaan, you unlock a quickening 50 LP red spiral on your first board, that same quickening 50 LP on the second board also unlocks, so whatever behind that thing can be unlocked...

each board has 4 quickening slot, but can only unlock 3 per character. So there could be a case where it is impossible to get all of the license behind one of the quickening license

[Hinnyuu]

The only important case I can remember, really, is Shikari. All four Ninja Sword licenses are locked behind Quickenings on that job - but you can only get 3 Quickenings, meaning you can only ever unlock 3 Ninja Sword licenses. This can screw you over big time if you leave yourself unable to unlock the ultimate Ninja Swords.

[ThunderKnyf]

Do quickenings overlap on the characters 2nd license board? Let say I select all 3 quickenings in Vaans Shikari job, would these quickenings reflect on Vaan's Foebreaker job?

[Hinnyuu]

Origineel geplaatst door fumblebee3:

Do quickenings overlap on the characters 2nd license board? Let say I select all 3 quickenings in Vaans Shikari job, would these quickenings reflect on Vaan's Foebreaker job?

Yes. Quickening licenses are shared, and activating a Quickening license activates the same node on the other job's board.

You can distinguish the Quickenings by their LP cost. Same LP cost means same node.

[Casurin]

ALL abilities are shared on the boards.

If you know what type of character you want Vaan to be you can look at both License-boards and see what licenses are behind his QuickeningSkills there.
If the license for 50 AP does not have a license behind either boards then simply don't get it.

With quickenings and Espers you haev to choose which extra licenses you want to get.
Some expers give you virtually nothing, others are key to unlocking some good extra abilities on multiple chlasses.

[Peelsepuuppi]

You can also use this.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rBpOmegCizn3KOPwrKvC5yipu9Yfh0IZ6YE-mh_e59g/edit#gid=1059552339

Copy it to your google drive. Then you can select the jobs you have or intend to have for your characters. After that the list will show exactly which quicknenings unlock what lisences for both classes, helping you to decide what you should get.

[ThunderKnyf]

Thanks for your replies.

I was able to get a copy of the google spreadsheet and I find it very helpful when selecting what jobs I should assign to my party.