Question about Mastering Jobs

[boys from the dwarf]

and as you all know. the final stages of the game are designed to let you master all of the classes pretty easily. and of course the magic urns.

unless your a perfectionist, you should only want to be on a high level or just have people who are good in a couple of job classes.

to beat the final boss i used,

one person with high health and summon.
another with summon and time magic.
and two with summon and white magic. magic is my best friend!

neo-X-death went down pretty easily after that. i'd lost a lot of times before on about level 43 or 42 and i was able to win by simply changing my job classes around so its really not neccasary to master them all unless going for harder bosses. in that case you may just want to master a few and go to bare job class so that everyone has high stats and good skills.

[Sefie1999AD]

When I have 4 monks, their damage and counterattacks are unstoppable, and if all 4 of us kick, its almost as good as a nuke...Plus, I stopped buying weapons and just equip barefist when using other jobs...The "monk" job seems to be running circles around all my other jobs, and I just got the geomancer, ninja and trainer jobs.

Is the "monk' the best job in the game?

It depends a lot on the battle. On normal dungeons, it's best to have a balanced party. The special themed parties are good against some bosses. Sometimes 4 Monks is great against a boss, but there are also fights where using 4 Summoners and having them all cast Titan, Leviathan, Bahamut etc (or whover your strongest summon is) will do the best damage.

[Mako_Infused]

When the "character" mentioned above leaves my party, what will happen to all the abilities and job levels i got him? Do those leave my party too?

[aquatius]

When the "character" mentioned above leaves my party, what will happen to all the abilities and job levels i got him? Do those leave my party too?

No (SPOILER)the character's spirit will appear and give the person who replaces him all his abilities, levels and stats.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

Correct. So nothing is "lost" per se.

Also, the dancer is the best job in the game. Seriously.

[rubah]

No kidding. Spend a while stealing Prism Dresses, Red Shoes, and ribbons, and you are totally set. Add dragon lances (the ones you steal from crysdrgns in the last bit of the game) and !Sshot and you are totally setter

[ShivaBlizzard8]

Pair that with the two-handed ability and Mime! sword dance every turn=devestation.

[CaptRory]

I abused White Magic and Time Magic so badly in FFV its not funny. Let's see, for the first three rounds of combat we apply buffs. And then proceed to beat the snot out of whatever is in front of us in one round lol.

[Shin Gouken]

When I have 4 monks, their damage and counterattacks are unstoppable, and if all 4 of us kick, its almost as good as a nuke...Plus, I stopped buying weapons and just equip barefist when using other jobs...The "monk" job seems to be running circles around all my other jobs, and I just got the geomancer, ninja and trainer jobs.

Is the "monk' the best job in the game?

No. As you progress in the game you will find weapons which GREATLY increase your attack power which you can double with 2-handed or hold two incredabley powerful swords with the 2-swords ability. A monks power is limited and eventually you'll see them doing less and less damage as future enemies defences rise.

[Mako_Infused]

I just got to Val Castle, and I've mastered a few jobs in the basement here. If I leave the castle I can't get back in. Would it be a bad idea to try and master all of my other jobs here as well?

[rubah]

It would be a great idea. If you don't want to buy a bunch of softs, use lvl 5 doom, and hten if you run out of mp, use dancer's !Dance to do tango of temptation hopefully, or dragoons to use !drgnswrd (or those with other classes, particularly thief/ninja who are fast) to drain 25 mp apiece from the soldiers you kill. Then they can't cast break on you

[nik0tine]

I don't think it's worth the time to master all of those jobs. That would take quite some time.

[Sefie1999AD]

You'll be fine in the game even if you don't master all the jobs. Seriously, mastering all the jobs on World 2 is quite an overkill.

[rubah]

Well, you can't master *all* the jobs on disk 2 xD

[eestlinc]

all of them besides mime.