The Sphere Grid vs. The License Board.

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#1 XboxOWns1
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The Sphere grid drove me insane . because you could only get your experience from there. but the license board was much better.
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#2 Ragnarok1051
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I kinda like the sphere grid better. I mean when you got that +4 in strength you could immediately tell that you got stronger.
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#3 peeviness
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Sphere grid was way better.
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#4 CJL13
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Sphere grid, it's a pain figuring out what you can and can't equip and use.
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#5 shaggygrosser
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I found that it was way too easy for me to uncover the License Board in FFXII. With no effort, I could get my characters pretty much maxed out. The Sphere Grid took more effort in planning. I got a better sense of accomplishment with the Grid.
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#6 EvilDrifter
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Sphere Grid.

With the Licence board, I got everything I need just by grinding Dustias. And all my characters are basically fail because they're a mix of everything. :( Except Penelo though...She is my black mage.

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#7 MikeE21286
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i say sphere grid....licenses were ok to me....bring back materia! lol
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#9 deactivated-5f89ab8e63049
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I prefered the sphere grid. With the License Board all my characters ended up pretty similar pretty quickly. It took much longer with the sphere grid.

I still prefer character classes and individality between the characters though...

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#10 ZanuffC
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Sphere Grid.

With the Licence board, I got everything I need just by grinding Dustias. And all my characters are basically fail because they're a mix of everything. :( Except Penelo though...She is my black mage.

FinalEvil

You can max out sphere grids really easily as well, I liked Licence Board more, Sphere Grid was too random.

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#11 enduin
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Both suck, I prefer specialized characters or a detailed job system. But if I had to choose between just those two I would go with the Licence Board.
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#12 mistervengeance
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The Sphere grid drove me insane . because you could only get your experience from there. but the license board was much better.XboxOWns1

the liscence board was darn stupid. what, i need to spend some "imaginary points" to teach my character HOW TO SWING A SWORD???

for buying magic, it makes sense, but they should go back to the old requrements of using stats to determine which weapons and armor i can use.

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#13 deactivated-5dd711115e664
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I thought they were both fine. My issue is more that FF12 makes all your characters the exact same, so it's pretty much pointless to care about more than three of them. I would have liked to see a little more specialty between them. Or, like the sphere grid, start them all with different skills and on a different spot on the license board.

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#14 ace52387
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[QUOTE="FinalEvil"]

Sphere Grid.

With the Licence board, I got everything I need just by grinding Dustias. And all my characters are basically fail because they're a mix of everything. :( Except Penelo though...She is my black mage.

ZanuffC

You can max out sphere grids really easily as well, I liked Licence Board more, Sphere Grid was too random.

wa? You can look at the sphere grid and see exactly what's going on. The license board is a huge crapshoot, unless you have some sort of guide or whatever in front of you.

I personally prefer the sphere grid because it felt more customized. There isn't much incentive to diversify your characters with all the augments being in the same sector. You may as well get pretty much the same augments with every character. Maybe if there's a designated gun user, you may decide to skip str augments but that's about the extent of it. You have to make more decisions that will really change the way your character plays with the spehre grid, by designating a path. Granted, all the characters pretty much have set paths for maybe half the game, but the secondary path is all on you.

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#15 pro-nathan-07
Member since 2007 • 1591 Posts

whats the licence board? :?

i liked the sphere grid alot btw

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Materia :)
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#17 Runningflame570
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Both of them are junk, Grandia 1 & 2 beat them in every respect. Still given the choice, sphere grid..at least you didn't have to earn a liscense to equip armor. :|
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#18 fuzzysquash
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Sphere grid, it's a pain figuring out what you can and can't equip and use.CJL13

exactly.

And why do I need a license to put on a hat?

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#19 kryloc
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[QUOTE="CJL13"]Sphere grid, it's a pain figuring out what you can and can't equip and use.fuzzysquash

exactly.

And why do I need a license to put on a hat?

It's no ordinary hat, It's a level 10 hat...

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#20 Bren128
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I prefered the sphere grid. With the License Board all my characters ended up pretty similar pretty quickly. It took much longer with the sphere grid.

I still prefer character classes and individality between the characters though...

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#21 Tiefster
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Sphere Grid...you actually had to plan things out in order to use certain weapons, spells, etc and just because you could use one thing didn't mean you could use the other.
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#22 Runningflame570
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And why do I need a license to put on a hat?

fuzzysquash

Only state-sanctioned hats are allowed in Ivalice, you don't like it? Go move to Spira or something.