Confused

[BillyBologna]

I'm alittle confused how the job leveling up seems to work can anyone help me out. It seems like it just randomly levels up. My Group is Currently Thief, Black mage, White mage, Warrior and they are all around level 58ish except the Thief is well into the 80's, couldnt figure out why it levels up alot more then the others. Sometimes someone will get 2 job levels before another person gets even 1. I couldnt find this answer reading alot of these posts. Also my main characters level are all 27 right now would it be stupid to just change people to other jobs at this point? The last thing is, i ran back to the starting area of the game just to talk to the Elder and the Orphan mom Nina just to see if they say anyhting different and when fighting some of the Small things on the way there my characters were still getting job levels even though those fights only give 1-6 EXP. I couldnt find in the Status section or anything how much to next job level.

EDIT: I forgot to mention i'm playing the remake on DS and i've never played the original.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Jobs have associated with them a set of linear experience points. These go up depending on the type of command selected in battle. Each time you select a certain command your job will gain experience towards levelling it up. As a general rule of thumb, the classes specialised command will usually result in the biggest increase (e.g. Black Wizards get the most from using Magic, Thieves from using Steal/Flee, Knights from using Cover etc.). Unlike "base" levels these levels take the same amount of experience to level up for each level. Meaning, you would need to select the same amount of commands to go from a Level 1 White Wizard to a Level 2 White Wizard to a Level 98 White Wizard to a Level 99 one.

[Peter_20]

Jobs have associated with them a set of linear experience points. These go up depending on the type of command selected in battle. Each time you select a certain command your job will gain experience towards levelling it up. As a general rule of thumb, the classes specialised command will usually result in the biggest increase (e.g. Black Wizards get the most from using Magic, Thieves from using Steal/Flee, Knights from using Cover etc.). Unlike "base" levels these levels take the same amount of experience to level up for each level. Meaning, you would need to select the same amount of commands to go from a Level 1 White Wizard to a Level 2 White Wizard to a Level 98 White Wizard to a Level 99 one.This sounds a lot like the system in FF2. :p

[Lunadis]

Classes that need more job experience to level up get a far greater bonus as well. A job 50 Black Belt barehanded should be doing a lot more than a job 99 Knight. =P

This can be another reason why you see low experience in jobs like Monk/Black Belt, Devout or Viking.

[Zeromus_X]

In the DS remake however, all Jobs have a predefined number of Job Points (the invisible experience points Maxx mentioned) given to them per action they take in battle. So whether you Guard or use an attack, you'll still get the same number of Job Points from that action, until you get 99 and gain a Job Level.

Also, you can only gain one Job Level a battle.

[BillyBologna]

Ah i get it, so it doesnt matter how many exp you get from fight for the job leveling. The one part of this i dont really get is, my thief is the highest job i have out of the four by far, and i never really use any abilitys with it except normal attack, where on the other 3 classes i spam magics and advance.

Right now im at the part in the game where it wants you to have someone be a Dragoon to do something, so i've been trying to level it up a bit now that i know how it works it should be a bit easier.

[Zeromus_X]

Here's the list of what jobs gain how many 'job points':


Chapter 3 Job Level

- Whenever you act (except change front/back line and escape), you got a "proficiency point" or "job point". When it hits 99, you'll gain one job level.

- No job point is earned if you escaped, or the character is killed

- Before every 14, each action will always grant 20 JP, regardless your job (except scholar, who gets 24). After 14, each action will lead to different JP growth depends on what job you're using:

Freelancer: 20
Warrior: 14
Monk: 14
W mage: 10
B mage: 10
R mage 12
Rnager: 14
Knight: 12
Thief: 18
Scholar: 24
Geomancer: 14
Dragoon: 16
Viking: 14
Dark Knight: 14
Evoker: 10
Bard: 18
Black Belt: 14
Devout: 10
Magus: 10
Summoner 12
Sage: 10
Ninja: 12
Onion Knight: 8

So, you can expect Onion Knight to be the slowest in job leveling up; taking up to about 10 action to advance one job level, while scholar tend to level up for every 5 actions.