I didn't come reply before as I was a nOOb and unable to make fully infromed statments about the game. Now I am a vet and ready to debate!
First to the guy who syas 5 knight would ebat the crap out fo 5 meds where did you get 20%? I used my mediator bridgette a lot thoguh the game and the average chance ws abotu 35%. She took most of her levels as a white mage but still its makes a large diffrence. Also ebar in mind one or more of the knight turing on his fellows oculd seriouslley upset there chance of winning. Going down to 4 men and having one of there fighter go agisnt them is pretty tough.
But I admit it would be hard to determine the winner. Maybe when I get a gs3000 i will test this. Anyone know where I can get one is England?
Anyway on to the topic. Knights are pretty good having good lv growth,being able to equip many kinds of armor and having the fantastic equip armour abilty. But there ar emany jobs better than knight
Monk: in pure melee a monk will beat a knight becuse of there fantastic strengh (in most cases). However there abiltes put them out of the knights league. Hp restore means killing a monk is very hard for a knight and more than cancels out a monks armor limit, earth slash can strike multiple knights far away (with 100% accuracy). Oh and revive is incrediable and free! Also don't forget charka! The knight has only 3 things over a monk:
1) the abilty to wear armor (hp restore mor ethan makes up for this
2) Equip armor (agian hp restore more than makes for this)
3) better stat growth. Even with this a lv 99 monk raised a monk form lv 1 will obliterate a knight raised from lv 1
Lancer: Able to equip all the armor a Knight can. Also Dragon spirit is a great abilty. Spears can do a heck of a lot of damage and can atatck from 2 squares away/ Jump getrs thm out of the way of aknights atatck and aguments there damage even more. tehy do everything a knight does (minus the useless breaks) except better
Priest: There are many combat classes and a good few better than the knight but other than the chemist how many healing classes? 1 if you include the monk. White mages are far mor e likely to turnt he tide of war than a knight. Cure is great and raise rocks. Protect can be great as well.
Chemist only 3 reason here:
1) phoeniex down)
2) guns
3) Auto potion! yay!
Mediator turning the enmy gisnt itself, getting tons of free and cool equipment and never having to worry about the soldier office all add up to a brilliant class. Plus its got guns and can shoot brave up to 97. YAY!
Ninja Agian only a few reasons:
1) its has the best stat growths int he game
2) the speed is VERY useful
3) throwing stuff can be good
4) 2 swords is fantastic
Summoner
Hp is sucky but offensivley NO ONE (except holy swordsmen *cough* munchkins) equal these guys.
Tere slwo and fragile but summons do immense damage and hit many enmies. Plus Golem and fairey ar evry useful indee
I still ddint ge tthe samuri (meh to hard) but I think I made my point