uncommon

Chain Lightning

The bolt leaps from body to body wherever they stand in contact, weakening with every arc

magic (MA x Faith, mitigated by MDEF)

Falloff

Each hop lands at 75% of the one before — 100% · 75% · 56% from the aimed body outward. Every body at the same distance is struck at once.

Job

Arcanist

MP cost

18

Charge

2 CT — the caster is out of the turn order until it lands

Power

16

Range

4 tiles

Area

arcs between bodies within 2 tiles, up to 4 of them, 2 hops deep

Targets

anyone in the area

Accuracy

100%

JP to learn

220

Element

lightning

Rolling it

Nothing is guaranteed. At the start of each battle a unit's primary job rolls every ability it knows, one at a time.

As your primary job

50%

As a sub-job draw

30% of the bucket

Roughly one unit in 150 skips the roll entirely and fields its whole catalogue. If a unit rolls nothing at all, it is granted its cheapest ability rather than being sent out empty-handed.