About MP. The only way to gain MP is through leveling and unlocking Quickenings (to be more specific, if you have unlocked every quickening for a character, they will have triple the MP as opposed to only having one quickening and or none at all (every quickening past the first adds another bar onto your MP meter)
As far as quickenings go, you want to have 3 people with all three of their quickenings before you even want to use them. Once you get that, there's obviously the level 1, 2, and 3 quickening. 1 will drain one MP bar, 2 will drain 2, and 3 will drain all of it. Obviously, 3 is the strongest and 1 is the weakest. I don't know the specifics, but it's probably better to start with a level 1 or 2 quickening in case your roll gets messed up, otherwise you'll be doing a VERY small amount of damage and won't have any MP to heal or support yourself in case you haven't finished a strong enemy. They say Quickenings make the game WAY too easy, but believe me, even with them, there are some pretty difficult parts in the game.
At the bottom of your screen, during the first quickening you use, you will see a timer bar, and your three party members and their quickening names next to their name. It will either be lit up or darkened (hopefully lit up). Basically what you do it pick on of the lit up quickenings and wait for the quickening to start, when the next one starts, once again you see the names and quickening on the bottom of the screen and you can choose one. You will eventually be able to link these together (my highest is a 17 chain. Not that great, but it's powerful).
About the rolling I mentioned earlier. if you see that there are no whitened quickenings lit up, you will have to press R1/R2 (it's one of them, I just forget), and it will reroll. You may or may not get a whitened quickening this time. Just reroll until you get one (or run out of time).
As a side note, the time gets shorter and shorter the more you chain up. Eventuallly you'll get to the point where you don't have time to reroll, let alone even hesitate to push the designated button as soon as you possible can.
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