Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age Technicks and Magicks Locations Guide

In our Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age Technicks & Magicks Locations Guide, we’ve detailed everything you need to know about finding each and every Technick & Magick in the game.

FF 12: The Zodiac Age Technicks & Magicks Locations Guide will help you find all Technicks & Magicks in FFXII: The Zodiac Age.

Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age Technicks & Magicks Locations

Both Technicks & Magicks in the game are basically abilities that you can use in order to defeat your enemies. However, in order to use these abilities, you first must acquire the appropriate scroll and the license.

Technicks

Technicks are basically abilities that don’t need MP. However, in order to use a Technick, you must acquire the Technick Scroll & unlock the required license on a character’s License Board.

Actually, these are command abilities of the characters such as staunching swords of the enemies or stealing treasures of the foes. These abilities need to first be bought at the shop after which they become available to your team.

However, to be able to use the Technick ability by a certain character, you have to buy the license for that ability for the specified character using license points after having first bought the ability at the shop. In addition to that, the character must also have the correct job class to equip these abilities. Unlike magick abilities, the technick abilities do not consume the MP.

Steal

Location: N/A

Steal an item from an enemy once.

Libra

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Giza Plains
  • Nalbina
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades and Balfonheim

Reveals additional information about the target. And also hidden traps. Shows an enemy’s HP, statuses, level, and reveals traps.

Poach

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina
  • Bhujerba
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Eruyt Village
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades
  • Balfonheim

Knock out an enemy in Critical Status to acquire loot. Gets a hold of foes with critical HPs to obtain loot from them. This ability does on foes that have already been poached.

First Aid

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Giza Plains
  • Nalbina
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades
  • Balfonheim

Restores HP just as suggested by the name of this ability. Restores HP to an ally in Critical condition.

Telekinesis

Location: Cerobi Steppe-Old Elanise Road

This ability allows you to deal ranged damage with melee weapons by using telekinetic powers to make the weapons levitate and float. Attack flying enemies without a ranged weapon.

Numerology

Location: Lhusu Mines-Transitway 1

This attack deals damage in such a manner that the damage dealt increases with each successive hit. But once you miss a shot, the multiplier is reset. Deals damage to enemies that doubles with each successive hit.

Souleater

Location: Rabanastre, Nalbina, Bhujerba, Mt Bur-Omisace, Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast, Archades and Balfonheim

Unlike other abilities, this ability has an adverse effect on your character as well. It consumes 20% of your total HP to make a powerful attack that deals a large amount of damage. The attack is of the dark element and is especially useful when you command for the attack is sealed.

Sight Unseeing

Location: The Zertinan Caverns-Canopy of Clay

This attack is used as a backup. It only comes available when your character is blinded and unleashes a strong wave that deals immense damage.

Charm

Location: The Salikawood-Quietened Trace

Inflicts Confuse on one enemy causes them to attack their own team members. This attack causes the enemy to think of their friends as a foe and hence makes them deal damage to each other.

Stamp

Location: Mosphoran Highwaste-Rays of Ashen Light

Copies all of the user’s status ailments onto one enemy.

Charge

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades
  • Balfonheim

Restores some MP. When you have a low MP charge with this attack on the enemy and it will restore your MP. But if you miss, your MP will fall down to 0.

Infuse

Location: Dreadnought Leviathan-Sub-control Room, Ogir-Yensa Sandsea-Platform 1-East Tanks

Expands all remaining MP to set HP to 10x spent MP. This attack will set the enemies HP to a critical status. This attack boosts the effect of combos. It is advisable to use this attack with a decoy so you can inflict the combo safely.

Gil Toss

Location: Draklor Laboratory-68th Floor Room 6801 West, Pharos at Ridorana-Station of Ascension

Expends Gil to do damage at a 1:1 ratio. The damage dealt with this attack is related to the total HP of your tram divided by the number of enemies. This attack can deal a pretty decent damage at the start when the team’s HP is filled.

1, 000 Needles

Location: Sochen Cave Palace-Falls of Time

Deals 1000 damage to an enemy. It has a good chance of being missed but is a ranged attack that is useful against airborne foes.

Revive

Location: Paramina Rift-Spine of the Icewyrm

Fully restores HP of one knocked out character. It consumes all the HP of the user to restore one of the fallen ally’s HP in order to bring them back into battle. You can use this to bring your most suited character back to fight the battle in place of the least suited one.

Achilles

Location: Garamscythe Waterway-No. 4 Cloaca Spur

Causes an enemy to acquire vulnerability to a random element. This attack is useful if the enemy is not vulnerable to many of your strong elemental attacks. You can use this to make them more vulnerable so you stand a better chance at dealing more damage.

Shades of Black

Location: The Tomb of Raithwall-Cloister of Flame

Casts a Black Magick without consuming MP or License. The magick cast is completely random and might include any magick ability that you have not yet learned.

Traveler

Location: Rabanastre, Nalbina, Bhujerba, Jahara, Eruyt Village, Mt Bur-Omisace, Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast, Archades, and Balfonheim

Does area damage based on how many steps taken since the last use of Traveler. The damage ranges from 0-999, the number of steps and then resets. The attack also ignores defense.

Horology

Location: Rabanastre, Nalbina, Bhujerba, Dalmasca Westersand, Jahara, Eruyt Village, Mt Bur-Omisace, Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast, Archades, and Balfonheim

Deals damage based on the first digit of the minutes time passed in the game. The damage is low between 0-4 and high if it is 5-9. It deals immense damage that ignores defense and can miss as well. This attack is recommended to be used at the start of the game in accordance with the minutes part of the time.

Bonecrusher

Location: Henne Mines-Phase 1 Dig

Reduces one enemy’s HP to 0.

Shear

Location: Barheim Passage-The Zeviah Span

Lowers the Magick Resist stat of one enemy to 90% of current.

Addle

Location: Henne Mines-Special Charter Shaft

Lowers the Magick stat of one enemy to 50%.

Expose

Location: Lhusu Mines-Site 9

Lowers the Defense stat of one enemy to 90%.

Wither

Location: Pharos at Ridorana-Abyssal-North

Lowers the Strength stat of one enemy to 50%.

Magicks

Magicks are powerful abilities that require MP. However, in order to take advantage of them, you must learn to maintain your MP. Similar to Technicks, in order to cast Magick, you need to have the required Magick scroll and the License Board.

White Magicks

Cure

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Giza Plains
  • Nalbina Market
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Restore HP to target or deals damage if the target is undead.

Cura

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Bhujerba
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Archades

Restore HP to all targets in range or deals damage to undead targets.

Curaga

Location: Found in:

  • Mt Bur-Omisace,
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades

Restore HP to a target or deals damage if the target is undead.

Curaja

Location: Shop in Balfonheim Port

Restore HP to all targets in range or deals damage to undead targets.

Renew

Location: Henne Mines-Special Charter Shaft

Restores all HP to all targets in range.

Raise

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Archades

Restores 40% of max HP to a knocked out character. Will KO undead targets with a base accuracy of 70%.

Arise

Location: Shop in Balfonheim Port, after Draklor

Restores 100% of max HP to a knocked out character. Will KO undead targets with the base accuracy of 35%.

Esuna

Location: Found in:

  • Eruyt Village
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades

Removes negative status effects from an ally.

Esunaga

Location: Secret Baknamy merchant in Necrohol of Nabudis-Cloister of the Highborn

Removes negative status effects from all allies in range.

Blindna

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Giza Plains
  • Nalbina Market
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Removes Blind from one ally.

Vox

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina Market
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Removes Silence from one ally.

Poisona

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina Market
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Removes Poison from one ally.

Stona

Location: Found in:

  • Jahara
  • Eruyt Village
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phone Coast
  • Archades

Removes Stone or Petrify from one ally.

Cleanse

Location: Cerobi Steppe-The Terraced Bank

Removes Disease from one ally.

Dispel

Location: The Tomb of Raithwall-Royal Passage

Removes Slow, Stop, and any positive status effects from a target.

Dispelga

Location: The Feywood-White Magick’s Embrace

Removes Slow, Stop, and any positive status effects from all targets in range.

Protect

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina Market
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Archades

Applies Protect status to one target.

Protectga

Location: Necrohol of Nabudis-Cloister of Distant Song

Applies Protect status to all targets in range.

Shell

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina Market
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Archades

Applies Shell status to one target.

Shellga

Location: The Great Crystal-The Great Crystal-5

Applies Shell status to all targets in range.

Bravery

Location: Necrohol of Nabudis-Cloister of the Highborn

Applies Bravery to one target.

Faith

Location: Necrohol of Nabudis-Hall of the Ivory Covenant

Applies Faith to one target.

Regen

Location: Giza Plains-Rains-Nomad Village, Tchita Uplands-The Lost Way

Applies Regen to one target.

Confuse

Location: Phon Coast, Archades and Balfonheim Port

Applies Confuse to one target.

Holy

Location: Pharos at Ridorana-Wellspring Ravel-3rd Flight

Deals Holy elemental damage to one target.

Black Magicks

Fire

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Giza Plains
  • Nalbina
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Deals Fire damage to a target.

Fira

Location: Found in:

  • Jahara
  • Eruyt Village
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phone Coast
  • Archades

Deals Fire damage to targets in range.

Firaga

Location: Phon Coast, Archades and Balfonheim

Deals Fire damage to targets in range.

Thunder

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Levaithan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Deals Lightning damage to a target.

Thundara

Location: Found in:

  • Eruyt Village
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades

Deals Lightning damage to targets in range.

Thundaga

Location: Archades and Balfonheim

Deals Lightning damage to targets in range.

Blizzard

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina
  • Dalmasca Estersand
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Archades

Deals Ice damage to a target.

Blizzara

Location: Mt Bur-Omisace, Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast and Archades

Deals Ice damage to targets in range.

Blizzaga

Shop in Balfonheim, after Draklor

Deals Ice damage to targets in range.

Aero

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Bhujerba
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Archades

Deals Wind damage to targets in range.

Aeroga

Location: Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast and Archades

Deals Wind damage to targets in range.

Aqua

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Archades

Deals Water damage to a target.

Bio

Location: Mt Bur-Omisace, Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast and Archades

Deals damage and applies Sap to all targets in range. Sap continuously deals damage and removes Regen.

Shock

Location: Shop in Balfonheim, after defeating Shemhazai and acquireing the Treaty-Blade

Deals damage to one target.

Scourge

Location: Shop in Barheim Passage

Deals damage to all targets in range and applies Sap.

Flare

Location: Pharos at Ridorana-Spire Ravel-1st Flight

Deals damage to one target.

Scathe

Location: Lhusu Mines-Staging Area

Deals damage to all targets in range.

Blind

Location: Giza Plains-Dry-Toam Hills

Applies Blind to one target.

Blindga

Location: Tchita Uplands-Fields of Eternity

Applies Blind to all targets in range.

Silence

Location: Dalmasca Estersands-Yardang Labyrinth, Lhusu Mines-Shaft Entry

Applies Silence to one target.

Silencega

Location: Necrohol of Nabudis-Cloister of the Highborn | Hall of Effulgent Light, thanks to Olive Submarine

Applies Silence to all targets in range.

Sleep

Location: Dreadnought Leviathan-Starboard Section, Ogir-Yensa Sandsea-Platform 1-East Tanks

Applies Sleep to one target.

Sleepga

Location: Ancient City of Giruvegan-The Trimahla Water-Steps

Applies Sleep to all targets in range.

Poison

Location: Dalmasca Estersands-Sand-swept Naze

Applies Poison to one target.

Toxify

Location: Barheim Passage-East-West Bypass

Applies Poison to all targets in range.

Time Magicks

Haste

Location: Eruyt Village-Fane of the Path

Applies Haste to one target.

Hastega

Location: The Great Crystal-The Great Crystal-6

Applies Haste to all targets in range.

Slow

Location: Rabanastre, Giza Plains, Nalbina, Barheim Passage, Bhujerba, Dreadnought Leviathan, Dalmasca Westersand

Applies Slow to one target.

Slowga

Location: Shop in Balfonheim, after Draklor

Applies Slow to all targets in range.

Stop

Location: Rabanastre, Jahara and Archades

Applies Stop to one target.

Immobilize

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Nalbina
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Applies to Immobilize to all targets in range.

Disable

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Archades

Applies Disable to all targets within range.

Bleed

Location: Found in:

  • Jahara
  • Eruyt Village
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades

Applies Sap to one target.

Break

Location: Found in:

  • Eruyt Village
  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades
  • Applies Petrify to one target.

Countdown

Location: Stilshrine of Miriam-Ward of Velitation

Applies Doom to one target.

Berserk

Location: Found in:

  • Mt Bur-Omisace
  • Mosphoran Highwaste
  • Phon Coast
  • Archades

Applies Berserk to one target.

Float

Location: Tchita Uplands-Oliphzak Rise

Applies Float to all targets in range.

Vanish

Location: The Tomb of Raithwall-Royal Passage

Applies Invisible to one target.

Vanishga

Location: Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast and Archades

Applies Invisible to all targets in range.

Reflect

Location: Ogir-Yensa Sandsea-Primary Tank Complex

Applies Reflect to one target.

Reflectga

Location: The Feywood-The Edge of Reason

Applies Reflect all targets in range.

Balance

Location: Nam-Yensa Sandsea-Demesne of the Sandqueen

Deals damage to all targets in range.

Warp

Location: Nabreus Deadlands-Lifeless Strand

Knocks out all targets in range.

Gravity

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Bhujerba
  • Dalmasca Westersand
  • Jahara
  • Archades

Deals damage to all enemys in range.

Graviga

Location: Balfonheim

Deals damage to all enemys in range.

Green Magicks

Oil

Location: Clan Provision shop at Rank: Hedge Knight

Applies Oil to all targets in range. Oil causes Fire elemental damage received to be tripled. Requires Green Magick 1 License and costs 800.

Reverse

Location: Clan Provision shop at Rank: Knight of the Round

Applies Reverse to one target.

Decoy

Location: Clan Provision shop at Rank: Moppet

Applies Lure to one ally.

Drain

Location: Clan Provision shop at Rank: Vanguard

Deals damage to one target.

Syphon

Location: Clan Provision shop at Rank: Paragon of Justice

Deals MP damage to one target.

Bubble

Location: Clan Provision shop at Rank: Riskbreaker

Applies Bubble to one target.

Arcane Magicks

Dark

Location: Found in:

  • Rabanastre
  • Giza Plains
  • Nalbina
  • Barheim Passage
  • Bhujerba
  • Dreadnought Leviathan
  • Dalmasca Westersand

Deals Dark damage to all targets in range.

Darkra

Location: Mt Bu-Omisace, Mosphoran Highwaste, Phon Coast and Archades

Deals Dark damage to all targets in range.

Darkga

Location: Shop in Balfonheim, after Draklor

Deals Dark damage to all targets in range.

Death

Location: Paramina Rift-Karydine Glacier

Knocks out a target.

Ardor

Location: Pharos at Ridorana-Spire Ravel 2nd Flight

Deals Fire damage to all targets in range.

This is all we’ve in our Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age Technicks & Magicks Guide. If you’ve anything else to add to the guide, let us know in the comments section below!