Woe betide you if you’re at a critical level and Velius or one of his minions goes first! Immediately, as in you don’t get a chance to recover Ramza, so you go into this fight with the same buffed stats (if you went with the Squire Tailwind strategy), but also with the same health as you finished Wiegraf with. Once you get Wiegraf to 20% health, it’s immediately followed by fight #3, against Velius/Belias. Indeed, many people have memories of having to start the whole game again, simply because the way they levelled Ramza made the battle completely unwinnable. An underlevelled Ramza is a sitting duck against Wiegraf. Though he is present in damn near every story battle, maybe you’ve levelled other characters more in random ones. Perhaps you’ve not even levelled Ramza at all. You have to get his health to 20% or below, so you can’t run away forever, you have to eventually stand and fight. Squishier classes may well fall in one go. Wiegraf could easily kill you in one or two hits! His White Knight abilities hit like a TRUCK, even on Knights wearing heavy armor. Maybe you decided to level Ramza as your White Mage, Orator, or other low-damage, low defense class. Maybe you are the aforementioned classes, without the aforementioned abilities. Trouble is, if you don’t know this fight is coming, you may well have levelled Ramza in a non-optimal way.

Leap makes you untargetable by Wiegraf, and then you crash down onto him for MASSIVE DAMAGE.Įach of these strategies are improved with the Chemist ability Auto Potion, which makes you quaff a potion when you get hurt, increasing your survivability without spending an action on it. This reduces his attack, defense and health! You can be a Knight, and break his weapons and armor, or be a Thief and steal them. You can have Ramza as a Squire, spam Tailwind to increase your speed until you get 2 turns for every 1 turn of Wiegraf, then wail on him one turn, and then outrange him the next. There are ways of making this fight easy. Here’s where you learn whether your decision to level Ramza as particular classes was wise.

Wiegraf Folles, the White Knight! This is a duel boss, meaning your main character, Ramza, must fight him ALONE.Īlone, in a relatively small arena, where he has height advantage over you.

He loses, he runs away, you go through Riovanes Castle Gate, and run into… KO a load of generic enemies, and one rather weak non-generic guy called Marach. I’m lumping a series of 4 battles into 1 post purely because once you’ve gone into Riovanes Castle and completed the first fight, you’re unable to leave unless you load from an earlier save, or complete the series of battles. This next game, and their series of bosses, serve to teach you this in the most brutal manner possible: Final Fantasy Tactics Riovanes Castle Fights Save in slot 1, then save in slot 2 next time. Some games teach you to have alternating save games.

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