A custom-made handbag designed for battle. The damage dealt varies greatly.
Description in The Ivalice Chronicles
The fallingstar bag, also known as FS Bag on the PlayStation, is the most powerful bag in Final Fantasy Tactics. Though the "ultimate" bag and also the most difficult bag to acquire, it gives no special effects to the wearer.
As all bags, the fallingstar bag's damage varies greatly when used with the Attack command, though other action abilities may allow the player to bypass this penalty. In versions prior to The Ivalice Chronicles enhanced mode, bags can only be worn by female characters regardless of job, as well as onion knights in The War of the Lions. In the enhanced mode of The Ivalice Chronicles, bags are exclusive weapons for the dragonkin, bard, and dancer jobs.
Obtained[]
The fallingstar bag is a rare (5% chance) poach from a wild boar (the common poach is a ribbon). Despite their name, wild boars never appear in the wild; they can only be offspring from a tamed pig or a swine.
In The War of the Lions, the fallingstar bag can also be obtain via Rendezvous.
Mechanics[]
The fallingstar bag deals damage based on the following formula when used with the Attack command:
The damage thus has high variance; their damage is randomized and could do much less than other weapons with similar attack stats.
Bags do not parry and cannot be thrown. The fallingstar bag can be wielded with the samurai's Doublehand but is incompatible with the ninja's Dual Wield.
In The Ivalice Chronicles version, the preview damage for bags is now more accurate; instead of previewing the maximum possible damage, the average damage will be shown.
Use[]
The fallingstar bag deals random damage like axes and flails, which the player could use instead for the same random damage "perk" (though in practice it is more of a penalty). Outside of The War of the Lions, the fallingstar bag is stronger than the strongest axe or flail (slasher and morning star have the power of 16 in comparison to the fallingstar bag's 16), however. Using Aim would raise the ceiling of the random damage, but not the floor.
In the older versions of Final Fantasy Tactics, bags can be equipped to any female unit, and so could have situational usefulness such as for Reis Duelar who cannot equip most weapons as a dragonkin without an equipment ability. In The Ivalice Chronicles enhanced mode, bags can be equipped to bards and dancers, who likely rarely use physical attacks.
As Jump uses the equipped weapon's power to calculate damage without the variability, it could be used to bypass the fallingstar bag's random damage penalty. Reis can wear the bag in any version, and in The Ivalice Chronicles, she offers to join Ramza's company with dragoon abilities already learned, and so could make good use of Jump as a secondary command to her dragonkin.
Etymology[]
The bag is simply known as "FS Bag" in Japanese, and translated literally for the original version on the PlayStation. In later versions it is known as fallingstar bag. [view · edit · purge]A meteor or "shooting star" is the visible streak of light from a meteoroid or micrometeoroid, heated and glowing from entering the Earth's atmosphere, as it sheds glowing material in its wake. Meteors rarely explode in the Earth's atmosphere. The term has become associated with quickness with the adjective "meteoric". In the context of myth and superstition, meteors and comets sighted in Ancient and Medieval Europe were once held as ill omen, said to be the message of the heavens' displeasure of man's affairs to herald grave catastrophes.
Pieces that withstand atmospheric ablation are known as meteorites, but the name of the spell in the series refers to the overall phenomenon.