Early Game Items & LP

Simple guide to get early game items and LP.

Let the Trials begin!

Trial Mode

What is it?

For those of you who do not know or have never played Final Fantasy XII before, Trial Mode is a Game Mode where you fight your way up to 100 Floors of nearly all of the games Bosses + Hunts.
Upon completing trial mode you will be granted the option to start a NEW GAME on what is known as Low Level Mode or NG- ( New Game Minus) However now you may start NG- from the get go!

Starting Trial Mode

Trial Mode can be started from the main menu of the game after aquiring Vaan.
After every trial floor beaten your game will auto save.

LP Gain

In trial mode you do not gain EXP but you do gain License Points. ( LP )
LP Is far more superior to exp gaining in the fact that you can run the entire game at level 1, relying on just your JobBoard. As mentioned above after every floor beaten your game auto saves. This means you get to keep all of your LP.

Items

Trial mode can reward the player with various items. There are treasure chests scattered across the arena for the player to pick up. The enemies also have stealable items, which can net you some early game equipment that you otherwise would not be able to get til End Game. ( Granted if you can beat the floor!)

After every 10th floor beaten you will be rewarded with the chance to manually save + rewarded with various items. (mainly potions, pheonix downs and a lot of gil)
Again after every floor beaten your game will save, meaning you will get to keep all of the items you've aquired.

Leaving with your items and LP

To carry over your items to your main game you simply exit out of trial mode after a save, return to the load menu and load up the save file that was in the trial mode. Usually this will be your auto save unless you manually saved! You will end up back at where you originally left off - at whatever crystal you saved at but with new items and more LP.

TIPS

Trial Mode is done best when wearing a Diamond Armlet*, as almost all chests require it to get its rare loot.

Stealing from Enemies with Thief Cuffs*, will also allow you to gain a higher % chance of stealing said items + double loot.

Key Words

Diamond Armlet	Armlet worn to increase the odds of getting rare items out of chests. Can be aquired in Trial Mode Stage 1 from a chest.
Thief Cuffs	Cuffs Worn to increase the chances of stealing rare items and getting double loot. Can be aquired from a rare steal in trial mode stage 30 Gil Snapper. Chest in Mosphoron Waste Camp. Chest in Zertinan Caverns (Near Save Crystal)

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Good luck in the trials!

[Daedalus007]

I understand now, tyvm for the info 9W :)

[kwiedes]

Hey @Daedalus007, you do not need to go every 10 battles. All you need to do is complete the current floor as between every single floor your game will autosave.

Scenario: IF the item you want is only floor 34. Steal the item and kill everything on the floor to progress to 35. Before you enter floor 35 your game will autosave for you, which will allow you to simply exit or die. Thus you can load your save file up in the main game. Every 10 floors simply allow you to manually save.

[Daedalus007]

I appreciate the clarification for how the new Zodiac Age trial mode works now. I was unsure how it worked since the original IZJS version didn't allow for transfers between trial mode and normal mode.

So basically go into trial mode and do the things and then save after every 10 battles, then load that save up to carry it over to your main save.

Interesting method, though it can be too-easily-abused to get rare items much sooner than intended. I might do it near the end of the game if nothing else.

[☯⛥K☠X⛥☯]

thx bro it is way clearer for me now ;)

[kwiedes]

Yes spinal, trial mode does not save progress if you carry the items over.
If you load your trial mode save from the main menu "Load" then all items you found plus LP carry over to your main save and the trial mode progress is loss.
THIS IS OKAY because there will be no way you can 100% trial mode at your current stage of the game. Using it to get LP and items is helpful.

I fought aldrammech a few days ago on Weak Mode and used trial mode to get 3 diamond armlets to be immune to thunder. Very Helpful.

Or in the case of Weak Mode as well getting more than 1 turtle Choker for Magic-GIL casting which can be stolen from gil snapper on trial 30.
Its a very helpful way to farm LP and items so i recommend you use it as much as you can.

[☯⛥K☠X⛥☯]

so is it best to start a trial mode at the beginning of the main story ?

[kwiedes]

You can take the items back to any mode. Normal, New Game+ or New Game -

[Tidus Lionheart]

Does this mode not allow me to take the items into the normal game mode? Only New Game -?