Have any of you tried assigning "classes" to your characters?

[robfinalfantasy]

For example:
All attack-magic materia to one character thus imitating a black mage
Summon-magic materia to create a summoner
Cover and HP+XX% materia to make a knight
etc.

If so, how did it go? Did you regret it and just make everyone a general character?

[DJZen]

I tried making Cloud a paladin, Tifa a monk and Red XIII a black mage. It's really not all that good. Basically Red XIII deals all the damage.

[Raistlin]

I do it every game. Cid's my Summoner, Cloud's my black mage, and Tifa's my healer, with some flip-flopping(i.e, Cid won't have all the summon materia). They all eventually get mastered Magic Plus materia, so magic ability is not a problem.

[UltimateSpamGrover]

Cloud = "Warrior/Fighter/Knight/Paladin"
Vincent = "White Mage"
Cid = "Dragoon"

[Erdrick Holmes]

Some of the characters already resemble traits of FF classes. Clouds a Knight, Barret's a Gunner, Tifa's a sexy monk/blackbelt, Aeris is a whitemage, Cait Sith is a Theif, Yuffie is a Ninja, Vincent is a Gunner, Cid is a cross between a machinist and a dragoon. I can't give one to Red XIII tho'.

[robfinalfantasy]

I tried making Cloud a paladin, Tifa a monk and Red XIII a black mage. It's really not all that good. Basically Red XIII deals all the damage.

Then what do Cloud and Tifa do during the battles?

[DJZen]

Cloud heals and Tifa gets tons of status ailments.

Also

Some of the characters already resemble traits of FF classes. Clouds a Knight, Barret's a Gunner

Gunner is a FF class?

Cait Sith is a Theif

He's a WHAT? Since when do theives get slot machines?

Cid is a cross between a machinist and a dragoon

Huh?

[Erdrick Holmes]

Ever played FF Tactics advance?

[UltimateSpamGrover]

Gunner is also in FFX-2, but I dont count that (mainly because it is too crappy to be a FF!)

[SeeDRankLou]

Gunner is also in FFX-2, but I dont count that (mainly because it is too crappy to be a FF!)

The Gunner has been in several FFs.

The only one I've ever done is made Aeris a White Mage because her Limit Breaks heal and she usually does crappy damage.

[SquallKicksAss]

The only gunners I know are in FFTA and FFX-2. They're quite recent.

But to answer the original question, I usually make Aeris a White Mage. (SPOILER)Then she dies. So I get angry and go "Screw you! She was my best character other than Cloud!" and start throwing random pieces of furniture at the TV. I also make Red XIII a Black Mage cuz his physical attacks are kinda crap. Barret is always full physical. No magic for him. I usually stick my summoning materia on Cloud (Cuz he's groovy). The others (That I use) have a bit of everything.

[Xander]

When I restarted FFVII I tried doing this,

Cloud was my fighter (no materia except the pink and yellows (I forget what they're called now, sooo long ago xD) I think they didn't decrease HP anyway, something like that.

Aeris as the Black Mage, with all attack materia equipped.

Red XIII as my White Mage/support - Healing, Stealing and stuff.

Although I never carried on replaying it for long so I can't remember how it worked out. I liked having something of a structure though, I decided to do it after playing FFIX because I liked how all the characters had particular jobs.

[robfinalfantasy]

I liked having something of a structure though, I decided to do it after playing FFIX because I liked how all the characters had particular jobs.

I'd like to do the same thing in FFVIII, but I know it will be a pain. It's kind of hard to get a white mage to have a high magic attack if you have no attack-magic to junction.

[Raistlin]

I liked having something of a structure though, I decided to do it after playing FFIX because I liked how all the characters had particular jobs.

Play FFT.

[Del Murder]

I have always kept everyone even, with Cloud getting the slightly better spells.