ffV master training

[ShivaBlizzard8]

Certain jobs improve certain stats while you're learning them, and once mastered, those stats can carry over to your "bare" character. Meaning, if you master monk, for example, and then go bare, your HP will be higher than it was before you mastered monk, because HP increases go along with a monk's abilities.

However, to my knowledge, jobs don't just randomly improve stats when you have them equipped, and jobs aren't leveled - jobs learned at the beginning of the game aren't "weaker" than those learned later. For instance, some of the most important jobs are learned first - "Theif" improves speed, ect. The mimic job only teaches you mimic - it doesn't improve your HP or speed or anything that I know of.

Long story short, certain jobs temporarily improve a stat while they're equipped (e.g. Monk=better HP). When you unquip that job, the stat bonus goes away until you master it AND go to bare.

These stat bonuses have NOTHING to do with leveling up - that happens completely seperately. Equipping a job is like equipping the "hp+10%" ability to a character - it adds to the character's total HP while equipped, but doesn't increase the HP boost at level up time.

And monsters don't level up with you, so the higher the level the better.