Each playable character will have their own role to perform in battles as well as strengths and weaknesses for battles with different opponents. The idea being that the player can no longer have three (3) characters and stick with them throughout the game. Nodes are improvements for the character’s attributes (HP, MP, Strength, Defence, Magic, Magic Defence, Evasion, Agility, Accuracy, Luck, Stamina or Intimidation).Īnother crucial difference is not any character can max out all their attributes (strength, HP, accuracy etc.), For example Rikku’s strength is limited to 95 (not including weapon’s attributes) which is miles off Paine’s limit of 255 but in turn max out on agility and evasion unlike Paine who would be slower. As characters move around in their Sphere Grid players can use Power Spheres and other spheres to unlock nodes nearby and harness the increase of an attribute. After a move to a node the character’s Skill Level decreases by the size of the move. A Skill Level of three (3) allows players to move the character around or across three (3) nodes on the Sphere Grid. The value of a character’s skill level (say three (3) for example) determines how far the character can move around the Sphere Grid. To the right is the characters’ Skill Level (S.lv) In the status window (press triangle to access) CSD is displayed for every character active in the party. The higher the characters’ level the more AP is required to level up. After victory in battle the characters used in that battle will gain AP and eventually with enough AP characters will level up. Lenne and Shuyin do not use the Sphere Grid so any improvements in attributes or learning new abilities will come naturally.ĪP is used for characters to learn new abilities but it is also used for levelling up. When either level up, improvements in their attributes such as HP are predetermined (check 'Lenne's and Shuyin's Story' to find out more). When Lenne and Shuyin are playable the process is different. Also along with HP and MP increasing after each level up when a character does level up one of their attributes will increase by 1 at random.

HP and MP can also be improved on using the necessary spheres (although HP and MP will naturally increase as characters level up). So instead the Sphere Grid is used to improve a character’s attributes such as Strength and Magic.

Differences in sphere grids in ffx