Magic Scrolls - {Can I have it?}

[Icecylee]

FF titles where you purchased magic via Gil:
1/2/3/7/11

FF titles where you had to purchase them through something other than general experience gaining:
9/10/12/13

FF titles where you gained magic via exp:
4/5/6/8

This is a little misleading.

You got AP/CP in 10/13 the same way you got XP, you just had to spend it on abilities you wanted on your own. (Same with the non-spell abilities. And attributes!) It's still more or less through leveling.

You actually did need to buy spell in 12, on top of the LP bit (which again was earned the same way XP was. And you had to buy the technique scrolls and buy for them with LP as well.) - which is the exact same way 5 handled it.

9 and 7 handle abilities a little strangely, but they handle all abilities like that and not just magic. (Heck, you can find a ton of materia without ever buying a single one, and if you ground out AP long enough to master one, it'd spit a free new one out at you as well.)

6 has spelled learned in a manner similar to 9, so it's strange that you'd list those under different headers. Outside of three specific characters (one of which was a blue mage, though yes the other two did learn them via leveling if you were patient enough).

Aaaand the way 8 handled it had absolutely nothing to do with EXP at all - if anything I'd put the draw mechanics closer to purchasing them; it's nothing at all like the way spelled were learned in 4 or 10 or 13.

And on the topic of buying spells, I'm pretty sure that while FF1/2/11 had you buy spells per character, FF3/5/12 had you buy them for the party at large. And on a similar note, in 6/7/9 you could move around the things that let you learn/use the various spells/abilities between any character in the party that could equip it. So, there's that as well. (FF8's different because while I'm pretty sure you can't shuffle spells you've drawn between characters, you can resign GFs in order to learn more abilities. Hah - actually I checked and you can shuffles drawn spells between people. Oops.)

(Just for the sake of completeness: FFT is more or less set up the same way as FF10/13, while FFTA/2 is fairly close to the way FF9 handled things. FFCC is probably the oddest of the bunch since you don't even keep your spells after you finish a level, unless you did super well on specific stages and could take the magicite orb/magic ring things as treasure.)