Ack wrote:Final Fantasy V
I played a bit more last night, but most of my efforts went into grinding jobs. I did manage to get the steamship up and running again and then sail off and get Ramuh and the Toad spell. But I'm not quite sure where to go, so I spent most of my time in the skull cave grinding for job points or in the Chimera's desert grinding and trying to learn that Blue Magic spell he casts, Aqua Slam or whatever.
Since pretty much everyone here has admitted that the story is second tier to the job system, I said to hell with it and began researching the various jobs in the game. The three best jobs to master for stats are Monk, Thief, and Summoner in both the Super Famicom and PS1 releases, while the Oracle trumps the Summoner for magic power in the GBA release. Thankfully I've had a Thief in my party for nearly the whole game so far, and I would often use at least one Monk as well. So I've changed my breakdown a bit: Bartz and Faris are now training their Monk jobs, Lenna is training Thief, and Galuf is training Summoner. Lenna has already spent a fair chunk of time as a Monk, and Galuf has spent a fair chunk as both a Monk and a Thief, so I'm doing ok. I intend to keep a Thief in my party most of the time just so I can run anyway, so eventually everyone will have a turn. But Monks will get phased out soon enough, so I'm taking care of them now. Not sure when I'll invest in Summoner with the others.
And that's just the stat side. When I start thinking about abilities, things start getting complicated.
Unless you go nuts grinding, I'd not try to max everything on all party members. You also don't absolutely need the best stats for sure. Mastering ninja may be more useful than thief for example because dual-wield is great, and the ninjas other abilities are also very useful, whilst it still gives you a good speed stat. Bard is an equally decent choice for speed, and is surprisingly quick to master.
I'd focus more on job combos that sound good and target which stats to go for around that, instead of targeting max stats and trying to fit job abilities in as an afterthought.
