Forgive me if I am noobish, but I've never looked at a guide online for this game much. I haven't beaten it yet also.

I was wondering how you get such advanced classes, particularly stuff like Ninja and Dragoon. All I can get (for fighters) is like squire, knight, monk, and thief. I haven't ever used a thief, but I've mastered squire and knight in my main character (Ramza, is it? Mine's named Russ ). I'm also working on a monk, but it takes soooo many JP. 1200 for Hamedo???

I have a lot of magic classes, I think:
Chemist, Wizard (black), Priest (white), Yin Yang (w/e, forgot the name), Oracle (blue is it? I think.), Summoner (duh.), Time (duh again.), mediator (talk? Does it have a color?).

They also take an assload of JP to master. Esecially ones like Wizard, 1-4 of all three types, ugh.... @_@

So where/how do I get these classes? I'm probably gonna have to start my game over, as I think I'm stuck just before Weigraf in chapter 3 (Rionnes or something castle), so this would be good to know.

Also, what kind of basic party do you recommend? What classes should I get for my main char? Currently,
1) my main is a squire/knight (guts/battle skill) (and not getting any real JP cept for a few in monk b/c he is still squire class, but I don't want to sacrifice his equipment for any other type of class ).
2) I also have a wizard w/ summoning (black/summoning),
3) a priest w/ not much (white/item) (currently it's set to item, but she's got some oracle/mediator/yin yang, mostly yin yang. I use all the MP for white magic though, so she's gonna master that first),
4) a monk w/ mastered knight (punch thingy/battle skill),
5) and that holy knight b/c her stuff is sweet.

What I really want is like a ninja or something (I saw them coming to rionnes castle, MAN do I want two attacks!) instead of the monk, and something else for my main dude. A holy knight class or similar (at least SOMETHING so that he has a ranged spell type thing) would be awesome, b/c I wouldn't have to sacrifice my armor and sword or a skill (like gained JP up, that thing is awesome! So's weapon guard) and he would get stuff like that chick, A-something (Aries? Lol I suck at names).

So, what're some tips from you pros? It's really wierd having to ask for help like this b/c usually I can figure out everything about a Final Fantasy game (I've played a lot, especially the old ones) and be pretty good at it (or at least beat it). But this game is so big and confusing (so many damn names and countries right from the start! It's like history class all over again) that I know I'm missing at least half of it.

O, and my general battle guide is to avoid random encounters as much as possible. Enemies seem to level up with you, so I just go straight from story battle to story battle (except for propositions, I do all of those).

And I don't think I need much help with equipment, it's really easy to get the best of everything just about all the time.