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Barrier Change, used by the Kaiser Dragon, in Final Fantasy VI.
Barrier Shift (バリアチェンジ, Baria Chenji?, lit. Barrier Change), also known as Wall Change, Barrier Change, or Elemental Shift, is a recurring ability in the Final Fantasy series. Often used by bosses, it changes the user's elemental weakness while it absorbs all other elemental attacks, and it is often used after the player strikes the boss with its current elemental weakness.
Appearances
Final Fantasy III
Barrier Shift changes the user's elemental weakness and allows them to absorb all other elemental attacks. It is used only by Amon and Hein.
Final Fantasy IV
Barrier Shift is an attack exclusive to the 3D versions used by Golbez. It gives him a random elemental weakness and enables him to absorb all other elements.
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Barrier Change is used by the boss of Palom's Challenge Dungeon, the Blade Dragon. It gives the Blade Dragon a weakness to one element, resistance to another, and allows it to absorb the third (for the main three elements, fire, ice, and thunder).
Final Fantasy V
Barrier Change (called Wall Change in some translations) is used by Melusine, and Omega Mk.II, which allows them to change their elemental weakness at will.
Final Fantasy VI
Barrier Change (originally called Wall Change) is a special ability of several bosses, most notably Kaiser Dragon and Magic Master. It allows the user to be weak to one element, absorb another element, and nullify the damage of all other elements.
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Barrier Shift is an ability of the boss Hell House. It allows it to change its elemental affinity to 
Fire, 
Ice, 
Lightning, or 
Wind. The Hell House resists damage from its current element while being weak to the opposite element. In later stages of the battle, it also uses stronger versions of certain moves depending on its current element.
Final Fantasy X
Elemental Shift is used by Greater Sphere and Spherimorph. It allows the user to change their elemental weakness, as well as other elemental attributes to match the weakness, when they take damage.
Final Fantasy X-2
Barrier Shift is used by Amorphous Gel and Protean Gel and allows them to change their elemental weaknesses.
Final Fantasy XII
Shift is an enemy technick that grants the augment Shift. It is used by Phoenix, Zodiark, and Trickster.
Shift is an enemy augment that sets a single element as a weakness while absorbing all other elements and changes the elemental weakness when attacked with weak element. It is used by Phoenix, Zodiark, Trickster, Shemhazai, Omega Mark XII, and Bull Chocobo.
Final Fantasy XIV
Barrier Shift was an ability available to Number XXIV, second boss of the Castrum Abania dungeon. It allowed the boss to attune to an element between Fire, Thunder and Ice, and to reflect damage dealt by players not attuned to the same element as him.
The ability was removed with patch 6.4 after a complete rework of the dungeon.
Pictlogica Final Fantasy
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Barrier Shift is an ability learned by Black Mage Golbez at level 49 (5★). It is a passive ability that has a 20% chance to counter physical and magic attacks with Barrier Shift once per turn, which increases resistance to Fire, Ice, and Lightning by 50% for 2 turns to the caster, as well as increases the EVO gauge by 1.
Barrier Shift is also an ability learned by Dark Sorcerer Golbez. It costs 80 MP to use, and increases resistance to Fire, Ice, Water, Wind, and Light resistance by 70% for 3 turns to all allies.
Barrier Shift is also a Limit Burst for Hein. At max rarity and fully powered, it increases Fire, Ice, and Lightning resistance by 100% for 4 turns, reduces damage taken by 50% for 4 turns, and restore 150 MP to all allies.
Barrier Shift is also an enemy ability.
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Barrier Shift is the ability of Rubicante's card. Barrier Shift requires one Fire CP and the discard of another Rubicante card to activate, and allows the player to choose an element. For the rest of the turn, Rubicante cannot be targeted by the effects of cards of that element.
Number 024's card is able to use an ability that emulates Barrier Shift. For the cost of one Light CP, the player can choose an element to prevent Number 024 from being selected by cards of that element for the rest of the turn.
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