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         💝         &nbs🀅p;     Final Fantasy III - Job Guide

         🍸                            By:

       ꧙    &꧙nbsp;        Penguin Knight, Seferaga and Egervari3

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&nbs♍p;                               Version:  1.40

               🧜             ℱ; Last Update: 3-13-08

                 &ꦺnbsp; Pen🐽guin Knight: doughnutpond@hotmail.com

    &🍨nbsp; &nb🐭sp;                 Seferaga: ff3_guide@yahoo.com

 &🉐nbsp;                 &nbs🦄p;  All rights reserved (C) 2007-2008

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   &nbs💞p;                       Introduction to the FAQ              &n🐲bsp;             

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This guide was translated and written by Penguin Kni💫ght, and has been combined

with S🌱eferaga's and Egervari3's Job Guide for a mor🍰e resourceful document. :)

Penguin Knight:

I have gathered, translated, interpreted, and typeset this writ🐟ten guide for

pla🥃yers who cannot understand Japanese, but are interested🐲 in understanding how

the statistics work for most aspects ꧙of Final Fantasy III DS.

Most of the statistics are taken from the ♋following Japanese s♔ources:

//www.f-navi.org/ff3/index.html

//gamedeep.jp/gamesoft/ff3ds/

//ff3-ds.com/

The descriptions and interpretations are mostly my creation, however, ಞsome of

them aꦯre taken from valuable discussions I had with the users at GameFAQs.&n🥀bsp;

Seferaga:

The MAIN purpose of this FAQ is to help🧔 all NEW players, in an organized and

user-friendly style, with any Job questions they may 💙have.  ꦺ;

It will inform them of which Jobs are effectꦆive in each area of the game,

useful strategies wheꦉ๊n using their favorite Jobs, details of Job Abilities,

what to use against those DIF💜FICULT bosses, and A LO🧔T more! ;) 

If you 🦩need to, check the "Credits" and "Copyright" sections at the bottom of

the document.

Learn something, and ALWAYS have fun!  :)

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                              Table of Contents                              &nꩲbsp; 

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Use C♏trl+F ꧙to find what you're looking for, and copy/paste the brackets {}.

I)  Job Introduction: {I} 

II) General Information: {G1}

   &nbs🍸p;  {G1-1} Job Level

      {G1-2} Ch෴aracter🀅 Level

  ౠ    {G1-♛3} JP Overflow

🃏      {G1-4} The Transition Phase

 &nꦉbsp;    {G1-5} Attainin🌳g 9999 HP

III) Mechanics and Formulae: {M1}

   ꦰ;   {M1-1} Attacking

&♉nbsp;   &nbs🎃p; {M1-2} Melee Proficiency

     &nbs📖p;{M1-3} Healing Magic

      {M1🍷-4} O๊ffensive Magic

   💟;   {M1-5} Status 𝓰Magic

    &﷽nbsp; {M1-6} Other Formulaꦍe

IV) Descriptions, Stats, and Abilities: {JOB}

    ꦉ  {JOB-FR} Freelancer

  &nಞbsp;  💯; {JOB-WA} Warrior

      {JOB-MO} Monk

  &nb𒉰sp;   {JOB-WM} Whi꧟te Mage

      {JOB-BM} 💟Black Mage

      {JඣOB-RM} Red Mage

   &🌼nbsp;  {JOB-TH} Thief

 &🏅nbsp;    {JOB-RA} Ranger

    &nജbsp; 𒐪;{JOB-KN} Knight

   &nbsꦦp;  {JOB-SC} Scholar

     &nb𒁃sp;{JOB-GE} Geoma🧸ncer

    &nbsꦗp; {JOB-VI} Viking

 ൲;🔯     {JOB-DR} Dragoon

    💯  {🐻JOB-DK} Dark Knight

&🎉nbsp;   ✃  {JOB-EV} Evoker

      {JOB-BA} Bard

 🌞;     {JOB-𒆙BB} Black Belt

&nb꧒sp;     {JOB-MA} Magus

     𓃲; {JOB-DE} Devout

      {JOB-SU} ൲Summoner

      {JOB-SA} Sage

&n💖bsp;     {JOB-NI} Ninja

&n💦bsp; &ꦐnbsp;   {JOB-OK} Onion Knight

V) The Effective Jobs: {E1}

      {E🐬1-1} Land Turtle

      {E1-2} Djinn

      💝{E1-3} Nepto Dragon

      🌠{E1♑-4} Giant Rat

      {E1-5} Medusa

      {E1-6} Gutsco

&nb🦩sp;     {E1ꦉ-7} Salamander

      {E1-8} Hein

      {E1-9} Kraken

   ⭕   {E1-10} Goldor 

      {E1-11} ♒Garuda

      {E1-12} Odin

 &꧑nbsp; &n📖bsp;  {E1-13} Leviathan

   &nbs🎃p;  {E♑1-14} Bahamut

 🍸     {E1-15} Hecatoncheir

 &nbs🙈p;    {E1-16} 𝔉Doga & Unei

      {E1-17} Titan

      {E1-18} Ninja

      {E1-19} Amon

  &♏꧅nbsp;   {E1-20} Kunoichi

&nbs🎃p;   &n🥂bsp; {E1-21} General

&nbs🎶p;     {E1-22} Guar💦dian

   &n💎bsp;  {E1-23} Scylla

      {E1-24} Xande

 𓆉     {E1-25} Cerberus

    𒉰;  {E1-26} Two-Headed Dragon

     &🃏nbꦑsp;{E1-27} Echidna

 &♉nbsp;    {E1-28} Ahriman

      {E1🐻-29} Clo☂ud of Darkness

 &🧜nbsp;    {E1ꦗ-30} Iron Giant

VI) Job Suggestions: {S1}

      {S1-1} How toꦬ Choose an Effective Party

  ꦕ    {S1-꧙2} Job Observations

      {S1-3} Quick Party 🐽Set-ups

   &n�𒁃�bsp;  {S1-4} Thematic Parties

VII)  Version History  

VIII) Credits

IX)   Copyright

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Jobs a💃re special classes that ca⛎n be assigned to each party member.  When you

assign a Job to someone, they will inherit all the differen�ꦰ�t traits and

abilities which that Job is based upon.  Al꧟l of FFIII revolves aroun𒆙d you

changing your Jobs and experiment꧋ing with your favorites;  All while attempting

to exploit the weaknesses of your foes, and all𝓡owing you to co🔜nquer the ever-

growing Darkness!  :)

                 &nbs🍬p;                The Jobs

                 &nbs♒p;     𝄹;           ~~~~~~~~

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             &𒀰nbsp;  |.----------------------------------------.|

   ♛             ||   &🅰nbsp;                                    ||

            &nbs🌞p;   |💮|    Wind Crystal        Fire Crystal    ||

                ||    ~~~~~~~~~~~~      🍒  ~~~~~~~~~~~~    |꧙|

  ღ;              ||    Warrior                   Ranger    ||

      &n💖bs🅰p;         ||    Monk                      Knight    ||

  &nb🎀sp;             ||    White Mage        &n🐓bsp;    Geomancer    ||

  .-------------'|    Black Mage              &꧙nbsp;Scholar    |'-------------.

  |.------------.|    Red Mage                          𝔍  |.-🌠-----------.|

  ||Initial Job:||    Thief           &n⛎bsp;                   ||Secret  Job:||

  ||~~~~~~~~~~~~||                            &nbs♕p;          &nಞbsp;||~~~~~~~~~~~~||

  || Freelancer ||   Water Crystal        Eart🐈h Crystal   ||Onion Knight||

&nbꦍsp; |'------------'|   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~       &nb🍨sp;~~~~~~~~~~~~~   |'------------'|

  '-------------.|   Viking &nꦿ🅘bsp;                Black Belt   |.-------------'

                ||   Dragoon       &😼nbsp;            &🐭nbsp; Magus   ||

&nb๊sp;               ||   Dark Knight                 Devout   ||

                ||   Evoker                    Summoner   |🐬|

                ||   Bard          🔥                Sage   ||

           &nbs🍎p;    ||                                Ninja   ༒;||

                ||    𝄹                                    ||

            &𝕴nbsp;   |'----------------------------------------'|

            &n🅰bsp;   '---------------------------------💧---------'

At 🉐the beginning of the game, thꦿe only Job you will have access to is the

Freelancer 🌺Job.  As you progress further into the game, you will come across

the Four Crystals. &🅰nbsp;Each Crysta🌃l will grant to you a certain amount of Jobs in

which you will then b🍷e able to use.  By the end of the game, you will have a

s𒊎atisfying selection of 23 unique and well-dressed Job♎s!  ^_^

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{G1-1} Job Level  |

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Q: What is Job Level?

A: Job Level (Job LV) is a renewed idea for the DS verജsion. Each character can

   have, at most, 🦹23 jobs, and every Job comes with a Job LV show🍸ing how

   proficient that specific c🌠haracter is at that 𒐪Job. Maximum Job LV is 99.

Q: What does Job LV do?

A: The more you train a🌱s that Job, the higher the level will♈ become, and the

   better your character will perform! Here is EVERYTHING that J🐷ob LV affects:

 ꧃  1. Number of🅰 hits when attacking.

   2ﷺ. Chance of exe🤪cuting a Critical Hit.

   3. Physical damage.

   4. Black Magic damage.

   5. White Magic recovery.

   6. Summon damage.

   7. Attack Power of bare-ha𒉰nded Monks and Black Belts.

   8. It also enhances the special abilities o꧂f certain Jobs.

   9. In one of the side quests, a Job Mastery Item wilꦉl be unlocked when a

 &n✱bsp;    character reaches Job LV 99.

Q: What is NOT affected by Job LV?

A: The characters' ove💞rall stats are not affected by Job LV. Strength, Agility,

   Vitality, Intellect, and Mind.

   Two characters with SAME Job𒁏 and꧟ Character LV, but different Job level, will

 &💙nbsp; have the same stats. &nb🤪sp;However, their performance may differ.

Q: Speaking of the Job Mastery Items,🐽 can I get more than one?

A: Th🔯ere is ONE item per Job, and you can only get each of them once.  In the

&🌃nbsp;  end you can only have 23 of them.

Q: How does the Job LV increase?

A: Every character has a🌜 hidden stat 🍌called Job Points (JP) that dictates their

   Job LV growth. Whe🌠n JP is accumulated to 99, Job level goes up by 1. Each

 &n🍷bsp; action (except: Front, Back👍, Escape, and Flee) will contribute a fixed amount

   of job points to the character.

   The amount of JP contributed follows the rules 𓆏ꦉbelow:

            .----------------💛--------.

            |         JP Gain:      🔯; |

------------|------------.-----------|

 Job:     &nbs𓆉p; | JobLv 1-14 ꦜ| JobLv 14+ |

------------|------------|-----------|

Freelancer  |     20     |     20 &nb🎃sp;  |

Warrior  &nಌbsp;  |     20     |     14    |

Monk        |     20     |     ꧒14    |

White 🌄Mage  |     20 &nbsꦫp;   |     10    |

Black Mage  |     20    &n📖bsp;|     10    |

Red Mage    |     20     |   &nb🍃sp🎐; 12    |

Thief       |     20     |    &nbs🍰p;18 &nb🌳sp;  |

Ranger      |     20    &🌱nbsp;|     14    |

Knight     &nbౠsp;|     20     |   &nbs෴p; 12    |

Scholar     |     24    🍸; |     24   &nb🐈sp;|

Geomancer   |   &nbs൲p; 20     |     14    |

Viking    &nbꦦsp; |     20     |     14    |

Dragoon  &n꧅bsp;  |     20     |     16    |

Dark Knight |     20   &n🎃bsp; |     1ꩲ4    |

Evoker    &nbsꦿp; |     20     |     10    |

Bard        |     20     |     18 &nbs꧒p;  |

Black Belt⛦  |     20     |     14    |

Magus       |     20     |    ඣ 10    |

Devout      |     🌼20     |     10    |

Sage       &nb𒉰sp;| &♋nbsp;   20     |     10    |

Summoner    |     20     |🐠     12    |

Ninja &𝔍nbsp;     |     20     |     12    |

Onion Kn💜ight|  &nb🦄sp;  20     |      8    |

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Thanks to evilynxis at GameFAQs for clarifying 🎃this. I have been speculating

about this system for a while, and finaꩲlly his comment made me re-read the

Japanese thread once more with extra care. And this𒐪 revision should be right.

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Q: What does EXP do?

A: EXP is experience pಌoints you collect after each battle. When you have gained

   enough EXP, your character🌟 wil🎉l gain one Character LV.

Q: What does Character LV affect?

A: When you go up one 𓃲Character LV, the fo🐎llowing things happen:

   - Your HP Increases;🔴 Your 𓆉HP gain depends on your Vitality and current

     Character LV.

   - Your stats will shift up to the next level within your🐎 Job class. For

&nbs꧅p;    all the Stat Profiles, see section III of the guide.

 ✅ &n🔥bsp;- If your character is a mage, MP Profile will also shift up one level. For

     allﷺ the MP Profileꦓs, see section III of the guide.

Important Notes:

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1. Strength, Agility, Vitality, Intellect, Mind, a♚nd M𒁃P, are predetermined

   stats.  This means th💙at each J💝ob has its own fixed stat "chart" that will

  &ဣnbsp;always be🏅 the same, no matter what you do.

2  MAX꧟ HP is the ONLY thing that is carried over between 🐬Job changes.

Experience Chart:

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This is a chart showing you how muc💞h experience is needed to level up at each

character level.

-------.---🐟------------------------------------------------------------😼------.

 Level |     1      2      3      4      5      6     &nbಞsp;7      8      9     10|

------ꦬ-|---------------------------------------------------------------------|

   0+  |    16     31  &ꦜnbsp;  58     99    159    239    343   &𝓀nbsp;473    631    821|

  10+  |  1044   1304   1601 &n൲bsp; 1940   2321   2748   3222   3745   4321   🌜4950|

  20+  |  5636   6380   7185   8051   8982   9980  11046  12183 &n𓆉bsp;13393  14676|

  30+ &nbs♚p;| 16037  17475  18995  20596  22282  24053  25913  27863  29904  32039|

  40+  | 34269  36597  39024  41552  44183𝓰  46918  49760  52710  55🔴769  58941|

 &⭕nbsp;50+  | 62226  65627  69144  72781  76538  80417  84420  88549  92805  9719♋1|

  60+  |101707 106356 111139 116058 121115 126311 131648 137128 1427ౠ💮52 148522|

  70+  |154439 160506 166724 173095 179619 186299 193137 200134 207💝292 2ꦦ14611|

  80+  |222095 229744 237561 245546 253701 262028 270529 279205 2෴88057 297087|

  90+  |306298 315689 325264 335023 34♓4968 355100 365422 375934 -----🔯-       |

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{G1-3} JP Overflow  |

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This was t🌟ested and proven, that, there is a 99 JP "Overflow" lim❀it.  Let me

explain how this works.

Let's say you have an Onion Knight, Job Lev༺el 50.  For every action you take,

you will get 8 JP.

 100 / 8 = 12.5

To level up you will have to take 13 actions.

  13 x 8 = 104

If you end the battle at this point, you will have a 4 JP "Overflow". &nꦆbsp;What

you co﷽uld do, how𒊎ever, is keep fighting the battle to get more JP!

In every battle🌸, you can get a total of 199 JP.  You will o🐬bviously level up

for reaching 1⛦00, but that extra 99 will carry-over to your next battle! 🌄 With

that much "Overflow" JP, you will only neeꦓd to take 1 action in the next

battle, to level up your Job!  Nice!

All "Overflow" will differ, depending on how many 🐲actions you take and how

much JP Gain you get for that specific Job. 𒁏 So keep track if you w🌌ant!

That's it! ^_^

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One of the worst pa𒀰rts about switching between Jobs is the horrib🍰le, horrible

"Transition Phase".  Ye🐽s, it needed two. :P   Here is an explanation of what

this phase is, and does.

Let's say you currently have Luneth as a Monk.  Then after a while, you dec🏅ide

to swap Jobs and make him a Warrior! &꧋nbsp;Because you changed your Job, this will

put you into the transition phase.

In this phase, certain defect🔯s will veil your character.

1. Stats will be lowered.

2. Performance hindered.

Just think of it as you "learning" this new Job.  That makes sense right🍷?  I

mean, you ha♔ve to use something for a while to become good at it!  :P

Fortunately, this phase doesn'ܫt last very long.  When you switch 🎃Jobs, the game

will let you know🐽 how many battles you will need to fight i෴n order to become

proficient at the new Job. (meaning normal stats and p♒erformance)

~𒊎~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

All Jobs in FFIII have two properties:

From chaotic to lawful;

From magical to physical.

෴Suppose X axis is from physical (negative) to magical 🀅(positive); and Y axis is

from chaotic (negative) 🌃to lawful (positive). Th🍬e coordinates should be:

Freelance (0,0)

Warrior   (-1,1)

Monk      (-1,-1)

B. Mage   (1,-1)

W. Mage   (1,1)

R. Mage   (0,2)

Ranger    (-1,3)

Knight    (0,4)

Thief     (-1,-4)

Scholar   (2,2)

Geomancer (3,-3)

Dragoon   (-3,3)

Viking    (-3,-3)

B. Belt   (-4,0)

Bard      (3,3)

D. Knight (0,-4)

Evoker    (-3,0)

Warlock   (4,-4)

Devout    (4,4)

Summoner  (-4,0)

Sage      (4,2)

Ninja     (-2,-4) 

The number of battles in the Trꦏansition Phase is then:

|vertical distancꦺe between points| + |horizontal dis🦹tance between points| - 

job level of the new job / 10

For those of you who are not very sure a🍒bout ꩲwhat is |x|, it means absolute

value. For example, |7| and |-7| bo🌱th would become 7.

For insta🎀nce, to change from a Freelancer to a new Monk, the formula will be:

|-1 - 0| + |-1 - 0| - 0/10 = 2 battles

If you level up the Monk up t꧅o job level 20, th𝔉en there should be no Transition

needed for freelancer-to-monk job change.

There are a few rules to this penalty:

- It accumulates, so multiple job ꩲchanges at one time will stalk up the

  adaptation period.

- It has a cap of 10, so eveꦬn changing from a Magus to🍌 a new Dragoon should

 &n🎃bsp;take 14, the requ🃏irement will still be only 10.

If you are having a hard time 🅷understandin🧸g this, check out the following

chart made by OneWittyBritty.

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{G1-5} Attaining 9999 HP  |

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HP is the only statistic that is carried over beওtween Job changes. 

If you have been a low HP Growth class, su🐠ch as mage, for🧜 a long time, your HP

w♈ill be relatively lower than your fighter cohort.

Why? Let's look at the formula of HP growth:

HP Gain =  Chღaracter's Level + Vitality + Bonu♔s

Bonus   =  (Random # between 0 and 🐽0.5) x Vitality

Takౠe note that the Vitality in this formula is the BASE Vitality; All penaltཧies

tow꧋ard stats, after Job Changes or during Mini stat𝕴us, as well as Stat boosts

obtai♈ned from equipment, DO NOT affect your HP growth.

Because stats💛 are fixed within each Job, choosing a low Vitality Jo🌳b will

result in a character with relatively low Max HP.

The lowest Character LV to beat the Final Boss, as 💞far as I have seen, is two

28's and two 29's;🐭 So getting Max HP to 9999 is not necessary. However,ౠ if

you aim at perfection, and MUST attain M▨ax HP, you might want to consid🔯er

leveling up with the highest HP class: Black Beltཧ.

NOTE:  Job Level has nothing to do with HP.

The following chart estimates how much HP you will gain, 🔯as a 👍Black Belt, from

your current Character LV to LV 99. 

For Example:

You have a Warrior with 23♉00 Max HP, at Character LV 49, and you change him

into a Black Belt.  What is the possible HP growth until Character ♔LV 99?

Go down the ch🥃art to Character LV 49.  You'll see:  49 | 7350 | 8269 | 9188.

This means, if your luck is bad, you can still have a 7350 HP🐻 gai🏅n. If you're

okay at being l🥂ucky (getting half of the bonus), you'll still have a 8269 gain.

And if your luck is good, you'll gain 9188, whi🧸ch means, you'll actually🐎 reach

9999 HP sooner than you'll reach Character LV 99.

I started the chart a𝔍t Character LV 21 because you normally won't get the

Black Belt Job sooner than that.

The chart shows numbers higher than 9999, but that's jus𒐪t ca𝓡lculation, Max HP

never goes beyond 9999.

&nꦬbsp;            .🌺----------------------------------------.

             |               HP Gain      &nb🅷sp;           |

-------------|-----------.-----�෴�---------.-------------|

Character LV |       &༺nbsp;   |              |             |

when changed | Low Bonus | Medium Bonus | Large Bo🐭nus |

to Black Bel꧑t|           |              |             |

-------------|-----------|--------------|---💞----------|

    ----     | ----      | -----   &n🐟bsp;    | -----       |

 &🔯nbsp; ܫ  21      | 9282      | 10442        | 11603       |

     22      | 9240      | 10395       &🎐nbsp;| 11550       |

     23      | 9196 &n꧂bsp;    | 10346    &ꦦnbsp;   | 11495       |

     24      | 9150      | 10294       &nb🙈sp;| 11438       |

     25      | 9102   &nbs🦋p;  | 10240        | 11378       |

     26  🐬;    | 9052      | 10184        | 11315       |

     27      |🐻 9000      | 10125        | 11250       |

     28    &🌸nbsp; | 8946  🌌    | 10064        | 11183       |

     29      | 8890      | 10001        | ꧑11113       |

     30     😼 | 8832      |  9936        | 11040       💞|

     31      | 8772      |  9869     🐈   | 10965  &n꧋bsp;    |

&💝nbsp;    32      | 8710      |  9799        | 10888       |

     33      | 8646   &nb🐓sp;  |  9727        | 10808       |

     34      🌄;| 8580      |  9653        | 10725     &ꦜnbsp; |

     35      | 8512      |  9576        | 10640  &🎃nbsp;    |

     36      | 8442      |  9497  &nbs🔜p;     | 10553       |

     37    &n𒐪bsp; | 8370      |  9416        | 10463       |

   ✨  38      | 8296   &nb൲sp;  |  9333        | 10370       |

     39      | 8220      |  9248        | 10275 🐻      |

     40      | 8142      |  9160        |🎃 10178       |

     41      | 8062      |  9070      &𒆙nbsp; | 10078       |

     42      | 7980      |  8978      &nbs🀅p; |  9975       |

     43      | 7896   &nbꦡsp;  |  8883        |  9870       |

   ﷺ;  44      | 7810     &n♕bsp;|  8786        |  9763       |

   &nb🐲sp; 45      | 7722      |  8687        |  9653       |

   &nb🍸sp; 46      | 7632      |  8586        |  9540       |

     47      | 7540      |  8483        |  9425      ꧂ ꦉ|

     48      | 7446  &🤡nbsp;   |  8377        |  9308       |

    🍃; 49      | 7350      |  8269   &nb𒅌sp;    |  9188       |

     50      | 7252      ꦑ;|  8159        |  9065  &nbs♊p;    |

𝓀     51      | 7152      |  8046        | &🅰nbsp;8940       |

     52 &꧙nbsp;    | 7050      |  7931        |  ꦜ;8813       |

     53      | 6946      |  7814        | &nbs🐬p;8683 𝓡      |

     54 &nbs𓆏p;    | 6840      |  7695        |  8550   &nbsꦗp;   |

   &﷽nbsp; 55      | 6732      |  7574        |  8415       |

     56      | 66👍22      | &nbs𓂃p;7450        |  8278       |

     57      | 6510      |  7324      &nb🧸sp; |  8138       |

     58 &🦩nbsp;    | 6396      | &n♏bsp;7196        |  7995       |

     59 ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ     | 6280      |  7065        |  7850       |

    &♏nbsp;60      | 6162    🎀  |  6932        |  7703       |

     61      | 6042    &n🅷bsp; |  6797        |  7553       |

     62꧅      | 5920      |  6660        |  7400       |

     63      | 5796      |  6521        |  7245 &n꧑bsp;     |

     64   &nbs♚p;  | 5670      |  6379        |  7088       |

     65      | 5542      |  6235    &꧋nbsp;   |  6928      &💞nbsp;|

     66      | 5412 &nb꧋sp;    |  6089        |  6765    &📖nbsp;  |

     67     &🌄nbsp;| 52๊80      |  5940        |  6600       |

  &n🦩bsp;  68      | 5146      |  5789        |  6433       |

     69     &♑nbsp;| 5010      |  5636        | &ꩵnbsp;6263       |

     70     &nbs𝔍p;| 4872      |  5481        |  6090       |

     71 ෴     | 4732      |  5324 &🌜nbsp;      |  5915       |

     72    &n♛bsp; | 4590      | &nไbsp;5164        |  5738       |

     73      | 4446     &nb🌠sp;|  5002      &💃nbsp; |  5558       |

    &nb❀sp;74      | 4300 &ﷺnbsp;    |  4838        |  5375       |

     75   ♚;   | 4152      |  4671        |  5190       |

   &nbs♏p; 76      | 4002    &nbsﷺp; |  4502        |  5003       |

     77      | 3850     &♔nbsp;| &nb🌸sp;4331        |  4813       |

   &nbs🐟p; 78      | 3696 &nಌbsp;    |  4158        |  4620       |

     79      | 3540      |  3983        |  442🦩5      &nb꧟sp;|

     80      | 3382     &ဣnbsp;|  3805        |  4228   ღ    |

     81      | 3222      |  3625   &n♛bsp;    |  4028       |

     82🎃      | 3060    &n🤡bsp; |  3443        |  3825       |

     83     🔯; | 2896      ܫ;|  3258        |  3620       |

     84      | 2730      |  🃏;3071        |  3413       |

     85      | 2562  &n🐬bsp;   |  2882        |  3203       |

     86      | 2392      |  2691        |  2990   &nbs🅠p;   |

     87      | 2220      |  2498     &nb༒sp;  |  2775       |

     88      | 2046      |  2302        |  2558      &n𒈔bsp;|

&nbওsp;    89      | 18💜70      |  2104        |  2338       |

     90      | 🐲1692      |  1904  &n𒁏bsp;     |  2115       |

     91      | 1512      |  1701      &nb൩sp; | &n൩bsp;1890       |

 &nbsꦑp;   92      | 1330      |  1496        |  1663       |

     93      |🎃 1146      |  1289      ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ  |  1433       |

     94      |  960      |  1080        |  1200💯       |

     95      |  772      |   869   🍰     |   965       |

     96   &nbs💙p;  |  582      |   655      ꦛ;  |   728       |

     97      |  390      |   439   &nb🌌sp;    |   488  &nbs𝓰p;    |

     98      |  196    &nꩲbsp; |   221        |   245       |

     99    &nb🔯sp; |    0      |  ꦗ;   0        |     0       |

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Worried th✤at you won't be able to make it?  Check the following chart to see if

you can still get Max HP.

If you have LESS then the Required🦂 HP for your current level, you will NEV⭕ER

be able to get 9999 HP.  Sorry. :P

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Character Level | Required HP |

----------------|-------------|

 &nb🍸sp;   ----       |    --ꦗ--     |

    &nbs🐻p; 42        |      24     |

  &nꦕbsp;   43        🧜|     129     |

 &nbs🍎p;    44        |     236     |

 &nb💎sp;    45        |     346     |

      46🍸        |  &n𒈔bsp;  459     |

      47    &nbs♓p;   |     574     |

   &✤nbsp;  48        |     691     |

      49        |ꦏ     811     |

     ꦍ; 50        |     934    &n𝓰bsp;|

      51    &n🦋bsp; &nbsꦡp; |    1059     |

    &nbs𓄧p; 52        |    1186 &nb🐟sp;   |

      53       &nbs🌳p;|    1316  &nbs𝓰p;  |

      54        | &nb🏅sp;  1449     |

      55        |    158𓄧4  🤪;   |

     ♑ 56        |    1721     |

      57        🌌;|    1861     |

    ✃;  58        |    2004     |

      59        |    2149    &nb🦂sp;|

      60        |  &n🥀bsp; 2296     |

    &𝓡nbsp; 61 ꦉ       |    2446     |

      62        |    2599 &nbไsp;   |

      63   𒈔     |    2754     |

      64      🔥;  |    2911     |

  &🍎nbsp;   65  🥀      |    3071     |

&nbs💙p;     66        |    3234     |

      67        |    3399 &nbs𝔉p;   |

      68        |    3566  &n꧂bsp;  |

      🥀69        |    3736     |

&n🦩bsp;     70  &nb🐓sp;     |    3909     |

&nbs🌺p;    ✃; 71        |    4084     |

      72 &nb𓂃sp;      |    4261    🌜; |

      73        |   🦹 4🐠441     |

      74     &nbs🧸p;  |    4624     |

      75      &n🔜bsp; | &nbs𒈔p;  4809     |

      76        𝕴|    4996     |

   &nb🦩sp; &nb𝓰sp;77        |    5186     |

      🥀7🌠8        |    5379     |

      79        |    5574  &nb꧃sp;  |

      80       &💟nbsp;|    5771     |

      81  💜;      |    5971  &nbs🥂p;  |

      82        |    6174  &nꦦbsp;  |

      83        ☂|    6379     |

      84        |    6586 🔯    |

   &nb💖sp;  85       &nbs🌠p;|    6796     |

      86        |    7009    &nb𝔉sp;|

      87 &nbs⛦p;      |   𓃲 7224     |

      88      📖;  |   🎃 7441     |

   &nbs🍬p;  89        |    7661     |

      90     &nb♉sp;&nb🙈sp; |    7884     |

      91        |   &nbs♍p🅷;8109     |

      92  &nbs꧟p;     |    8336   &nb💎sp; |

 &💫nbsp;    93        |    8566     |

      94  &🎀nbsp;     |    8799     |

      95    𝄹    |    9035 &n꧑bsp;   |

      96        | 🍌   9271     |

 🍌;    &n𝕴bsp;97        |    9511     |

෴   &ꦅnbsp;  98        |    9754     |

      99        |    9999ꩵ     |

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                 &ཧnbsp;      III) Mechanics and Formulae: {M1}                      

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{M1-1} Attacking  |

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This section delineates all the statis🔜tics about physical attꦏacks. These

formulae are share☂d among all Jobs. Notice that basically, all physical attacks

are simila🔯r, with the exception꧟s of Archery, Bare Hands, and Harps. (which will

all be separately discussed)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~🍎~~~~~~~~~~~

Number of Hits: |

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For attacks other than Archery and Harps, the calculation is as꧃ follows:

Number of 🌠Hits = 1 + Agility / 7 ꦅ+ JobLV / 14 + (Melee Proficiency. - 1) / 7 -

       &nꦫbsp;   &🍸nbsp;     Wt. of Equipment / 6

- This is calculated once per hand.

- Maximum hits is𒈔 16 per hand, but actually it works🤪 like damage; The number of

  hits can go beyond🧸 16 per hand. However, you will only see 16 (one hand) or

  32 (both hands) on screen.

For Archery attacks:

Number of hits = 1 + Agꦐility / 9 + JobLV / 14 + (Sum of both Melee Prof. - 2)

           &﷽nbsp;     / 14

For Harp attacks:

Number of hits = 1 + Agility / 6 + JobLV / 22 + (Su🦩m of both Melee Prof. - 2)

            &nbs♊p;    / 14

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~🌃~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~💮~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Basic Damage: | (exce🔯pt Archery, Bare Hands, and♐ Harps)

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Basic Damage = (Attack + Strength🏅 - Enemy's Vitality / 2 - En𓃲emy's Def. / 2 +

    &nbꦺsp;          JobLV / 11 + Melee Prof. / 9) x (Attack / Enemy's Def.) x

 ꦬ;              Weapon Property Adj𓄧ustment x Magical Property Adjustment

- This is calculalted once per hand.

- The 🔯(Attack / Enemy's def) term ඣhas a permitted maximum of 2.

- Property Adjustment is 2 if it is weak🉐ness, 0.5 if it🌌 is resistance.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~🅘~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hit Rate: | (except Archery, Bare Hands,ꦆ and Ha🐻rps)

----------'

Hit Rate = {𓂃[80 + Weapon Hit Rate + ♑Agility / 10 + JobLV / 10 - Enemy's

   &✤nbsp;       Agility / 20 - Wt. of the Weapon / 6]༺ / 2}%

- Maximum is 95%.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~▨~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Basic Damage: Bare Hands |

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Basic Damage = 𓃲(JobLV + S𒐪trength - Enemy's Vitality / 2 - Enemy's Def. / 2 +

          📖;    &🧸nbsp;CharacterLV / 9 + Melee Prof.) x (Attack / Enemy's Def.) x 

  &൲nbsp;           &n🎃bsp;Weapon Property Adjustment x Magical Property Adjustment

- This is calculalted once per hand.

- The (Atta𝔍ck / Enemy's def) term𓂃 has a permitted maximum of 2.

- Pro🔯perty Adjustment is 2 if it is weakness, 0.5 if it is resistance.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~﷽~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hit Rate: Bare Hands |

---------------------'

Hit Rate = {(165 + Agility / 10 + JobLV / 10 - Enemy's Agil꧑ity / 20) / 2}%

- Maximum is 95%.

~~~~~~~~~~ꩲ~~~🌳~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Basic Damage: Archery |

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Basic D🧔amage = (Sum of both hands' Attack +🎉 Strength - Enemy's Vitality / 2 - 

     &n🌺bsp;         Enemy's Def / 2 + Sum of both hands' Melee Prof. / 2) x (Attack

     &n💎bsp;         / Enemy's🌠 Def.) x Weapon Property Adjustment x Magical Property

       &nbౠsp;       Adjustment

- The (Attack / Enemy's def) term has a pꩲermitted maximum of 2.

- Property Adj൩ustment is 2 if it is weakness, 0.5 if it is resistance.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~👍~~~~~~~~~~꧋~~~

Hit Rate: Archery |

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🅷Hit Rate = {[80 + Weapon Hit Rate + Agility / 10 + JobLV / 10 - Enemy's

           Agility🃏 / 20] / 2}%

- Maximum is 95%.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~🐈~~~~~~~~~~~🧜~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Basic Damage: Harps |

--------------------'

Basic Damage = Attack of Weapon + Mind - Enemy's🏅 Mind - Enemy's Mag. Def.

~~~~~~~~~~♛~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~𝄹~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hit Rate: Harps |

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Hit Rate = (40 + Mind - Enemy's Mind)%

- Maximum is 95%.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~꧒~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ℱ~~

Final Damage: Everything |

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Damage Inflicted = Ba🙈sic Damage from both hands x Random No. x No. of

              &♍nbsp;    Successful Hits x Critical Adjustmen🐎t x Dual-hand Adjustment

Random No. &🅠nbsp;  = number ♌between 0.5 and 0.7

Critical Rate = (Agility - Enemy's Agility + 5)%, Maඣximum is 10%.

- If usiꦦng two weapons, the Dual-Hand Aܫdjustment will become 0.6.

- Archery, Barℱe Hands, and Harps DO NOT have dual-hand penalty.

- Harps do not have critical hits.

The 0.6 Dual-Hand Adjustment🅺 seems to be a penalty, but actually no𝓰t. When

two same weapons are ♛equipped, attack became the sum (doubled) in the damage

calculation. In the final damage calculation, instea🔴d of halfing the damage,

the formula only takes 40% away. So, you'll find your two-hand figꦍhting deals

even more damage than adding ꦍup each single-hand damage together. The

difference is then the 10% (60% instead of 50%) difference. Conclusi🌼on: It's

very effective to fight with two hands.

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{M1-2} Melee Proficiency  |

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Q: I saw "Melee Prof♏iciencyಌ" in the formula, what is that?

A: According to t꧒he Japanese Complete Guide, this Melee Proficienc💦y is a

&🍨nbsp;  hidden statistic. Each arm has its own proficiency, and the initial level

   is 1, maximum is 99.

Q: How do you increase Melee Proficiency?

A: By attac🍃king. For ꦺevery 33 attacks, you will gain one level in Melee

   Proficiency. Just keep hittౠing and it will naturally🦹 go up.

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{M1-3} Healing Magic  |

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(Outside Battle)

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Total Recovery = Root Recovery x MTA

Root Recovery  = Base ꦬx (Mind / 2 + JobLv / 4 + Recipient's Vitality / 8)

MTA        &꧑nbsp;   = 1, if 1 ally targeted.

 "    &🅘nbsp;&n♊bsp;       = 0.8, if 2 allies targeted.

 "         ꧃    = ꦡ0.75, if 3 allies targeted.

 "             = 0.7, if 4 allies🦩 targeted.

(Inside Battle)

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Total Recovery = Root Recovery x MꦰPA x Random No. x MTA

Root Reco𓂃very  = Base x (Mind / ♍2 + JobLv / 4 + Recipient's Vitality / 8)

MPA         &🥃nbsp;  = 1

     &nbs꧒p;         = 2, if used o꧑n undead.

Random No.    &nbs🅷p;= number between 0.9 and 1.0.

MTA     &n🍨bsp;      = 1, if 1 ally targeted.

 "             = 0.7, if 2 allies tar🐠geted.

&🔯nbsp;"             = 0.6, if 3 allies targeted.

 "    &♎nbsp;      &🅰nbsp; = 0.5, if 4 allies targeted.

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W. Magic:|   Base:    |

---------|------------|

Cure   &🥂nbsp; |    &nbs🔜p;10     |

Cura     |     30     ﷺ|

Curaga   |    &♑nbsp;80 🌱    |

Curaja   | &nbs𝕴p;  120 &n✱bsp;   |

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Summon:  |   Base: &nbs🌠p;  🔜|

---------|------------|

Heatra   |    120  ꧋;   | - Healing Light

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MPA = Magical Property Adjustment

MTA = Multiple Target Adjustment

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{M1-4} Offensive Magic  |

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Total Damage = Root Damage x MPA x Ra𝓡ndom No.ꦚ x MTA

Success Rate = (30 + Int - Enemy's Mind)%

R🌺oot Damage  = (Base + JobLv - Enemy's MDef - Enemy'🍨s Mind) x Int / 3

MPA      &nb𓂃sp;   = 2, if weak againsꦬt.

 "         &n⛄bsp; = 0.5, if resistant.

Random No.   ꦺ;= number between 0.9 and 1.1, if Success Rate IS passed.

 "           = number betwee📖n 0.5 and 0.6, if Succes𓆏s Rate ISN'T passed.

MTA          ꦦ;= 1💖, if 1 enemy targeted.

 " &nbs🐼p;      🅘   = 0.6, if 2 enemies targeted.

 "   ♒;  &n🌊bsp;     = 0.5, if 3 enemies targeted.

 "   &ꦑnbsp;       = 0.4, if 4 enemies targeted.

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W. Magic:|   Base:   |

---------|-----------|

Aero     |     40🌟    |

Aeroga   |    200 &nb🌜sp;  |

Holy     |    300 &nཧbsp; &n☂bsp;|

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B. Magic:|   Base:   |

---------|-----------|

Fire   🍰  |     40    |

Blizzard |  &n𝔉bsp;  43   &n🎐bsp;|

Thunder  | &n💖bsp;   46    |

Poison   |     35   &nbs𝔉p;|

Fira     |   &💧nbsp; 85    |

Bli🎀zzara | &n♛bsp;   88    |

Thundara |♔   🌊;  85    |

Break    |  🍃  110  &༺nbsp; |

Blizzaga |  &nb🤪sp; 180    |

Thundaga | 💮   183    |

Firaga   |   &🔥nbsp;190    |

Bio      |    170 &n🐼bsp;  |

Quake    |    140  &nbsꦏp; |

Drain    |  &nb﷽sp; 1🔯30    |

F﷽lare    |    320    |

Meteor   |    170 &𝔍nbsp;  |

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Summon:  |   Base:   |

---------|-----------|

Icen     | 🐎   190    | -🌠 Icy Stare

Icen  &nbs๊p;  |  🐬  220    | - Diamond Dust

Spark    |   ♊ 193    | - Thunderstor✅m

Spark    |    220 &n🦄b🍸sp;  | - Judgment Bolt

Heatra 🅺  |    200 &n🍬bsp;  | - Hellfire

Heatra &🔴nbsp; |   🌟; 220    | - Inferno

Hyper    |    170   &nbs🎃p;| - Clobber

Hyper    | 💜   175    | - Stomp

Hyper    |  &✅nbsp; 220    | -🐼 Earthen Fury

Catastro |    255𝄹    | - Slash

Leviath  |    300   🌠 | - Cyclone

Leviath  |    350  &nbsꦡp; | - Tidal Wave

Bahamur  |    400    | - Megafla🌊re

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MPA = Magical Property Adjustment

MTA = Multiple Target Adjustment

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{M1-5} Status Magic  |

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Infli꧟ct Rate = Chance + (JobLv / 7 🐲+ Int - Enemy's Mind)%

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W. Magic:|  Chance:  |

---------|-----------|

Toad     ♚| &𓂃nbsp;  10%    |

Mini     |    10%  &nbs🦹p; |

Confuse  |    25% &nbs📖p; &nbs💫p;|

S🐻ilence  |   &nbsꦡp;40%    |

Tornado  |   ꦛ; 40%    |

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B. Magic:|  Chance:  |

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Sleep    |    𝔉25%    |

Poison   |  &෴nbsp; 30% &🐎nbsp;  |

Blind  &n💃bsp; |   &✃nbsp;30%    |

Break    |    30% &nb🦹sp;  |

Shade    | &nbsꦕp;&nb𒆙sp; 20%    |

Warp  &nbs🀅p;  |    20%    |

🐈Breakga  |    10%   𒊎 |

Death    🧸;|    🍃10%    |

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Summon:  |  Chance:  |

---------|-----------|

Icen     |   💫; 25%    | - Mesmerize

Spark🐷    |    20%    | - Mind Blast

Catastr꧑o |    10%    | - Zantetsuken

Leviath  |  ꦯ;  10%    | - Demon Eye

Bahamur  | &▨nbsp;  10% &ꦿnbsp;  | - Rend

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{M1-6} Other Formulae  |

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Action Sequence:

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Actionℱ Score = Agility x 2 - All weight + Random N💖o.

R🌳andom No.   = number between 🃏0 and Agility.

- The higher the score, the earli💃er to take a turn; Calculated every ♚turn.

- All weight includes equipment weighꦆt and action weight. Both are not covered

  in this FAQ.

Defend:  (except Knights)

~~~~~~~

For one turn:

Damage received = Original damage x 0.5

Escape:

~~~~~~~

Escape Score = Lowest CharacterLV i🌊n party - Highest Monster LV in enemies

- If result > 1, escape is successful.

- If fail𒉰ed, multiple attempts will accumulate the chance.

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         &nb🥃sp;      ܫ;  IV) Descriptions, Stats, and Abilities: {JOB}                

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The purpose of this section is to provide y💃ou with detailed Job 🐭descriptions

that are meant to go above and beyond the manual - giving you top quali꧃ty and

in-depth information that you can't find anyw꧋here else.   

Also included into this section are Job Pro𒉰files; Which show JP Gain charts,

Stat progression, MP growth, and usable equipment for each Job.  There are als𝐆o

detailed breakdowns of all Job Abilities.  𒈔:)

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{JOB-FR} Freelancer  |

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Description:

~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Freelancer is the first Job you get t💦o use, even though you probably

don꧅'t know you're using a Job at this point if this is yo✤ur first time playing

the game.

There's not much t🌊o say about the Freelancer. They can use a wide variety of

low-level equipment - b🃏asically any weapon or armor you will acquire in the

first few hours of gam🌠eplay up unti🐭l you are blessed with the powers of the

Wind Crystal.

Freelancers can cast level 1 White and Black Magic, whi𝄹ch let you cast

low-level spells to cure your party, as well as cast offensive magic t🍌o exploit

enemy weaknesses (Fire will most likely be the spell you'll use a🔴gainst the

tougher Undead enemies at this point).

Once you acquire the jobs from the Wind crystal, you'll i𒀰mmediately want to

switch all of your characters over to another Job. I suggest you readꦡ all the

job descripti𓆉ons in this FAQ to help you m🐓ake your decision.

As for endℱgame, the Freelancer obviously doesn't factor in, even though there's

🎃some potential. It is possible to use some of the best equipment on the

Freelancer, like the Ultima Weapon and Ex༒calibur, which not only give you an

amazing attack power💛, but this will give you a +20 point boostꦿ to all your

stats. Furthe𓄧rmore, if you use the Wi-Fi connection to unlock their mastery

gear, theℱ Celestial Gloves, you will further get another +15 po🌱int boost to all

of your stats!

While this is pretty nifty ♎on paper, the Freelancer's base statistics aren't

that amazing to look 😼at. While they have no inherant weakness🐭es, they also have

no inherant stren🙈gths either. Even with the Celestial Gloves🤪, because other

Jobs have🐈 better stats all across theꦇ board (Dark Knight, Dragoon,

Red Mage, etc.), t🦋his one piece of ﷽armor still causes the Freelancer to come

up short.

For example, let's compa𒊎re the Freelancer to the Red Mage. The🗹 Red mage can

essentially use the same equipm♈ent and receive the same set of stat boosts

(minus Celestial Gloves, plus Crimson Vest). Red Mages can also cast level ⛦1-5

for both White and Black Ma൲gic, and they have better Vitality, Intelligence and

Mind stats to boot (a 33🍌 point different at level 99)!

That's not to say Red Mage is 🌠the best c🐲lass in the game, but it is superior to

Freelancer in every way (not to ment𒆙ion the character model🎉 is hugely

nostalgic!). Therefore, I suggest only using the Freeꦫlancer until you acquire

the ♍jobs from the Wind Crystal - as if you had a choice! :)

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Profile: |                     🍷  Freelancer                       | Initial Job

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-----------------------------------.

 JP Gain: | JobLv 1-14 | JobLv 14+ |

----------|------------|-----------| &💦nbsp;  "Freelancers can use low-level

&nbs🌠p;Attack   |     20     |    20     |     magic, but their base attributes

 Magic    |     20     |  &nb🅷sp; 2꧒0     |     are pretty low."

ꦍ Guard    |     20     |  &nbs꧂p; 20     |

 Item &nbs🐼p;   |     20     𝐆|    20     |

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Actions........ Total actions taken during battle, for one charact𝓀er.

JP Gain........ Amount of JP you gain 𓆏for each action.

Add............ Additional JP from previouꦓs battle.(Overflow)

T🍷otal JP Gain.. The amount of JP at the end of battle.

Overflow....... Extra JP that will carry over ღto the next battle.

---------﷽--.----------.----------.------.------------📖----. .-----------.

 Battle #  | 🦩Actions: | JP Gain: | Add: | Total JP Gain: | | Overflow: |

-----------|----------|----------|------|---🅰-------------| |-----------🌱|

     1     |    5     |    20    |  --  |      100       | |  &nb🐈sp; --     |

     2   &nꦆbsp; |    5     |    20    |  --  |      100       | |    --     |

     3     |    5     |    20  🎐  |  --  |      100       | |    --     |

     4     |    5     |    20    |  --  |      100 &nbsꦑp;     | |    --     |

&nb✤sp;    5     |    5     |    20    |  --  |      100       | |    --    &nb﷽sp;|

-----------'----------'----------'------'----------------' '---------💞--'

Etc, etc...

The Freelancer iꦛs one of the easiest Jobs to level up.  No matter what your

currඣent Job Level is, you will always gain 20 JP, making Overflow potentially

non-existant.

On averag🃏e, you must take 5 actions per battle to level up a Freelancer.

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      &𒉰nbsp;    MP Chart:          | |              Stats:              |

--𝄹----------------------------| |----------------------------------|

 LV | L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 | | LV | STR | AGI | VI🐬T | INT | MND |

----|-------------------------| |----|-----|----♊-|-----|-----|-----ﷺ|

 &🐼nbsp;1 |  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 | |  1 |   5 |   5 |   5 |   5 |   5🌳 |

----|-------------------------| |----|-----|-----|-----|--🧜---|-----|

 10 |  7  0  0 𒐪 0 &🍒nbsp;0  0  0  0 | | 10 |  10 |  10 |  10 |  10 |  10 |

----|-------------------------| |----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----ꦐ|

 ๊20 | 12  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 | | 20 |  15 |  15 |  15 |  15 |  15 |

----|-------------------------| |----|-----|-🎃----|-----|-----|-----|

 30 | 15  0  0  0 &nbs𝄹p;0  0  0  0 | | 30 |  20 | &n♏bsp;20 |  20 |  20 |  20 |

----|-------------------------| |----|-----|---♛--|-----|-----|🦋-----|

 40 | 17  0  0  0  0  0  0  𒐪;0 | | 40 |  24 |  24 |  24 |  24 |  2♍4 |

----|--------꧟-------𓄧----------| |----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 ඣ50 | 20  0  0  0  🅘0  0  0  0 | | 50 |  29 |  29 |  29 |  29 |  29 |

----|-------𒀰------------------| |-🌊---|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 60 | 20  0  0  0 &nbs💫p;0  0  0  0 | | 60 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |

----|---------------------♛----| |----|-----|-----|൩-----|-----|-----|

 70 |𒁃 20  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 | | 70 |  38 |  38 |  38 |  38 |  38 |

----|-------------------------| |----|-----|-ꦫ----|-----|-----|-----|

 80 | 20  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 | | 80 |  43 |  43 |  43 |꧙  ꦍ;43 |  43 |

----|-------------------------| |----♎|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 90 | 20  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 | | 90 |  48 |  48 |  48 | &n❀bsp;48 |  48 |

----|----------𓆉---------------| |----|-----|-----|--𒈔---|-----|-----|

 🀅99 | 50  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 | | 99 |  52 |  52 |  52 |  52 |  52 |

-----------⛦----------🐟---------' '----------------------------------'

♊NOTE: LV = Character Level &ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnbsp;     NOTE: LV = Character Level

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Battle Commands

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Attack: Attacks with equipped weapon.

Magic:  Can ca☂st Lv. 1 White Magic and Lv. 1 Black Magic.

Guard:ꩵ  Increases defense, reducing all damag🀅e by 50%.

Item:   Use an item from the item list.

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Weapons to Use

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Knives: Knife, Dagger, Mythril Knife, 🌊Spark Dagger, Main Gauche, P✅oison Dagger.

Swords:💎 Golden Sword, Longsword, Wightslayer, Myth🅘ril Sword, Tyrfing,

        Serpent Sword, Salamand Sword, Freezing Blade, Royal Sword, Excal෴ibur,

  ꧟   ⛦;   Ultima Weapon.

Bows:   Bow, Great Bow, Killer Bow.

Arrows: Wooden Arrow, Holy Arrow, Iron Arrow.

Claws:  Bronze Knuckles.

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Armor to Equip

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Head:   Leather Cap, Mythril Helm, S💖hell Helm, Headband, I⛎ce Helm, 

        Feathered Hat, Scholar Hat, Black Coℱwl, Chakra Band, Dragon Helm,

&nb🧸sp;  ꧙;     Diamond Helm, Ribbon, Genji Helm, Crystal Helm.

Body:   Vest, Rusty Mail, Leather Armor, Mythril Armor, Mage R꧒obe, Shel♚l Armor,

        Kenpo G🏅i, Ice Armor, Scholar Robe𓂃, Flame Mail, Knight Armor,

       &🔴nbsp;Black Garb, Reflect Mail, White Robe, Black Robe, Bard Vest,

        Black🌸 Belt Gi🍬, Dragon Mail, Gaia Vest, Demon Mail, Diamond Mail,

    🐟    Genji Armor, 💝Crystal Mail.

Arm:  &nbꩵsp; Bronze Bracers, Mythril Bracers, Mythril Gloves, Gaꦕuntlets,

        Thief Glo♍ves, Rune Bracers, ๊Power Bracers, Diamond Bracers,

        Diamond Gloves, P𝔍rotect Ring, Genji Gloves, Crystal Gloves,

&nb🐼sp;&nꦏbsp;      Celestial Gloves.

Shield: All (excluding Onion Shield)

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Mastery Item 

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Name:   Celestial Gloves

Def:    40

MDef:   18

Bonus:  +15 All Stats

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{JOB-WA} Warrior  |

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Description:

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The♕ Warriꦇor is a decent enough job to start with, mainly aimed at doing damage

while also 𒅌soaking up some hits for the party. Thဣe Warrior also gets an ability

called Advance thatꦅ let's him do more damage at the cost of l💫owering their

defense. 

In the beginning of the game, the Advance skill༺'s effects don't amount to much 

either way, and like any job ability, ♔it'l🌳l make a bigger difference later on, 

doဣing up to 2𝄹.4x the attack damage of a regular attack while being job

level 99. The problem with♍ the job, though, is that you pro🐷bably won't remain

a Warrior long enough to tell or care.

Outside of the Advance ability, ♕how does it stack up damage wise? Actually,

pretty ♉good. I mean, the whole point of Warriors is to deal damage, and the job

doesn't disappoint. The main problem is that whi🐻le the Warrior getꦉs the job

done, there are other jobs that can do it equally well..ไ. and "then some"

(in case you don't know, I'm pointing to the Red ܫMageꦡ). Red Mages can attack

for the same damage, use the same wea🐷pons, and wear theไ same armor until you

gꩵet to th🌠e Fire Crystal, making the Warrior an inferior pick.

This is very contradi👍cting to what you might think, especially after playing

many Final🍒 Fantasy games in the older generation. The old adage that you must

have a🅺 knight/warrior character in the front position is pretty much thrown out

the win🦂dow base🧜d on how FFIII defines its job's statistics and job archetypes.

This is especially true when the game forces y🧸our beginning party into a few

s🦋ituations where physical attacks are meaningless (due to the constant use of

the Mini spell).

To make matters worse, every other fighting job in the game outclassꦅes a

Warrior at some point, including the ♎Monk within the same tier ⛎of jobs. This is

mostly due to the fact that the Warrior 𝔍stat growt⭕hs are not nearly as high

compared to other jobs. This is most notable,ꦦ even by the time you🌜 get the

Fire Crystal. &🦹nbsp;Knights and Rangers may take a few j𒉰ob levels to reach the

number of hits and damage you'll be accustomed to, ⛦but eventu🧔ally the Warrior

won't measure up. 

Also, the weapons and armor that become avai💜lable won't be exclusive to the 

Warrior either. The Royal Sword is📖 the last Sword he can use for example, and 

that's meant for the Knight in all honesty. Basically, the Warrior does♛n't 

remain competitive for long. Wit🌱h the Monk and Red Mage available, why bother 

using the Warrior in the first place?

That pretty much sums up the Warrior. The job's nearly🎶 useless at the

beginning, and has no end-game potential whatsoever. The exception to th🍎is is

unlocking the job's ultimate equipment through job 💖maxing. This gives the

Warrior his mastery weapon: Theꦦ Gigan𝓀tic Axe, which boosts their strength stat

by💖 a whopping +20 and gives them an attack power of 155, free💦 to use another

weapon in their off-hand. 

Still, only the most determined to power level their Warrior to jo🍎b level 99 

will ever enjoy these benefits. I𒊎 also thi♋nk the Warrior's stat growths are on 

the low side compared to a Knight and other top💞 tier classes, making the whole 

affair to be quite moot. A Knight at jo𓃲b level 30-40 with Excalibur, Ragno﷽rak 

and/or Ultima Weapon is immediately 🅰useful. Why invest so much tim𝓀e into the 

W🐓arrior when you already have something better with no inve🎃stment? For the rest

of us who don't care about exploไiting trophy accomplishmen𒊎ts and

power-leveling, we can🐟 safely skip this one. I recommend that you never take

a Warrior through Final Fantasy 3, ever.

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Profile: |                       Warrior                         ꧒;| Wind Crystal

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 JP Gain: | JobLv 1-14 | JobLv 14+ |

--🎉--------|------------|-----------|    "Warriors are weapons experts.

 Attack   | &🧸nbsp;   20     |    14     |     The🔯ir Advance ability allows

 Advance  |     20     |    14     |⭕     them to deal even more      

 Guard    |     20     |  &𝓰nbsp; 14     |   🐲  damage than normal, but they

 Item     |     20    &nb🦩sp;|    14     |     also get hit a lot harder."

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Actions........ Total actions ༺taken during battle, for one charactꦍer.

JP Gain.......ꦦ. Amount of JP you gain for each action.

Add............ Additional JPꩲ from prev🍃ious battle.(Overflow)

Total JP Gain.. 🌞The amount of JP at the end of battle.

Overflow....... Extra JP that wil🉐l carry over to the next battle.

-----------.--------♕--.----------.------.----------------. .-----------.

 Battle #  ♑;| Actions: | JP Gain: | Add: | Total JP Gain: | | Overflow: |

-----------|--🌼--------|----------|------|----------------| |-----------|

     1     |    8     |    14    |  --  |      112    &ಌnbsp;  | |    12     |

     2 &n🦹bsp;   |    7     |    14    |  12  |      110       | |    10     |

     3     |    7     |    14    |  10  |      108      𝕴; | |     8     |

     4     |    7     |    14    |   8  |     &ౠnbsp;106       | |    &🐽nbsp;6     |

     5     |    7     |    14    |   6  |      104       | |     4 ꦍ    |

     6     |    7     |  &♛nbsp;&nbsꦅp;14    |   4  |      102       | |     2     |

   &ꩵnbsp; 7     |    7     |    14    |   2  |      100       | |    --     |

     8     |  ꧒; 𒁏 8     |    14    |  --  |      112       | |    12     |

     9     |    7     |    14    |  12  |      110    ಞ   | |    10     🔜;|

    10     |    7     |    14    |  10  |      108  ꦗ 🍷    | |     8     |

---⛎--------'----------'----------'------'--💧--------------' '-----------'

Etc, etc...

On average, you must ꦜt🍸ake 7-8 actions per battle to level up a Warrior.

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&nbs🅰p;             Stats:              |

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 LV | STR | AGI | VIT | INT | MND |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

  ▨;1 |   5 |   5 |  🔜; 5 |   5 |   5 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 10 |  10 |  10 |  10 |   ಞ9 |   9 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 20 |  17 | 🌼 17 |  16 |  14 |  14 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 30 |  24 |  24 |  22 |  18 |  18ꦏ |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 4ဣ0 |  31 |  31 |  28 |  22 |  22 🐼|

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

ꦰ 50 |  38 |  38 |  34 |  26 |  26 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 60 |  44 |  44 |  ♈;40 |  29 |  29 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 70 |  51 |  51 | &nbℱsp;4🅘6 |  33 |  33 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 80 |⛎  58 |  58 |  52 ꦅ|  37 |  37 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 90 |  65 |  65 |  58 |  41 🦩|  41 |

----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

 99 |  71 | &nb🍌🍃sp;71 |  63 |  45 |  45 |

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NOTE: LV = Character Level

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Battle Commands

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Attack:  Attacks with equipped weapon.

Advance: Increasesꦿ attack power, but decreases defense.

          Advance Damage  = Original Damage x (1.5 + JobLv / 11🦋0)

          Damage Received = Original D💦amage x (1.5 + JobLv / 110)

      ♛    If JobLv = 99, then both are multiplied by 2.4!

Gܫuard:   Increases defense, reducing all damage by 50%.

Item:    🍎;Use an item from the item lඣist.

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Weapons to Use

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Knives: Knife, Dꦍagger, Mythril🦄 Knife, Spark Dagger, Main Gauche, Poison Dagger.

Swords: Golden Sword, Longsword, Wightꦐslayer, Mဣythril Sword, Tyrfing,

        Serpent Sword, Salamand Sword, Freezing Blade, Royal Sword, Excꩵalibur,

      ꦫ;  Ultima Weapon.

Bows:   Bow, Great Bow, Killer Bow.

Arrows: Wooden Arrow, Holy Arrow, Iron Arrow.

Axes:   All

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Armor to Equip

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Head:   Leather ✅Cap, Mythril Helm, Shell Helm, Headband, Ice Helm, 

     &n𓆉bsp;  Feathered Hat, Scholar Hat, Bl𓃲ack Cowl, Chakra Band, Dragon Helm,

 ♓;       Diamond Helm, Ribbon, Genji Helm, Crystal Helm.

Body:   Vest, Rusty Mail, Leather Armor, Mythril Armor, Mage Robe, Shꦬell Armor,

        Kenpo Gi, Ice Aಌrmor, Schol🌠ar Robe, Flame Mail, Knight Armor,

   💛;     Black Garb, Reflect Mail, White Rob💃e, Black Robe, Bard Vest,

        Black Belt Gi, Dragon Mail, Gaia Vest, Demon Mai𝄹💝l, Diamond Mail,

&n🔜bsp;       Genji Armor, Crystal Mail.

Arm:    Bronze Bracers, Mythril Bracers, M𝕴ythril Gloves,ꦆ Gauntlets,

🔯        Thief Gloves, Rune Bracers, Power Br✱acers, Diamond Bracers,

        Diamond Gloves, Protect Rin🅰g, Genji Gloves, Crystal Gloves,

        Celestial Glovꦚes.

Shield: All (excluding Onion Shield)

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Mastery Item 

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Name:   Gigantic Axe

Atk:    155

Bonus:  +20 STR

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{JOB-MO} Monk   |

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Description:

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The Monk is a varia🐠nt on a typical fighting Job,ꦇ essentially giving you higher

damage output and more hits p♕er round🍎 at the cost of wearing lower-defense

armor. An interesting facet with tܫhe Monk is that the Job can deal damag🐎e with

his bare hands, meaning you don't have to find or buy weap𒆙ons to make the Monಌk

effective.

During the🌌 beginning of the game, Mon൩ks start off weak, but with some Job 

l♌evels, they really start to come into their own. Typically, before the Fire

Crystal, Monks do more damage than any other Job 🌠using standard att🌠acks.

The Monk also has the Retaliate ability,🗹 which aღllows them to dish out a

counter attack on the enemy to deal 2x the damage of a regulaღr attack,

provided they get hit. 

This abili෴ty is hit and miss, because if your Monk is not attackedﷺ, you miss

out on the opportunity to attack that roun♏d. If you only had a 2-me🎉mber party,

or had a way to coerce the enemy to attack the Monk, thi💦s ability would be

even or better. However, give🐟n that the chance of being hit is only 25%, and

that yo🦹u don't deal 4x+ damage, I'd say this ability is worth🎃less. I'd suggest

sticking to normal attacks.

The only exception to this rule💟 is when you aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚre attacked by 3 enemies (doesn't

happen until Nepto Temple to the best of my knowledge), or when the bꦍoss does

3 attacks per round (this is very rare). In those cases,♊ it's statistically

favorable for the enemy to hit your Monk, because there is a 75% chance t🥃hat

your Monk will do 2x the♉ damage. If you w♛ere to run this scenario 100 times,

you'll ཧend up dealing more damage on average than simply using regular

attacks.

Also, when fighting the Iron Giant, he will at🦂tac𒁏k 4 times per round. In this

caseꩵ, there is a 100% to do 2x the damage. Using the Retaliate ability in these

cases is actually beneficial.

Out൩side of using your bare hands to attack, the Monk can 🎶also equip Claw

weapons, just li𝄹ke Yang in Final Fantasy IV. However, the main prꦜoblem with

using these claw weapons ▨is t🔯hat they often lower your attack power,

especially at higher levels. Too often, having no weapons equipped will💮 deal

more damage than using two claws. 

Now, I find this rather odd, because tꦕhe game constantly feeds the pl🧸ayer with

new an♑d higher attack power claws in almost every dungeon, ending with Hellish

Claws in the Ancients🌺' Maze. In fact, I can't think of any other weapon type

that is consistently fed to the player throughout the entire ga🐓me! Itꦡ's as if

🔯the game is ❀toying with you, trying to get you to use them. Outside of

exploiting an el꧟emental weakness, I don't see the point. There's even a set of

claws called "Faerie Claws" that b🉐oost your Intellꦬect and Mind stats. The Monk

is supposed to take advantage of this... how?!

Theಌ Monk has some end-game potential - although it's a hit and miss... just

like the Re♕taliate ability :) The Black Belt Job is available a💙t tier 4, and is

the natural replacꦉement for the 🌺Monk. The Black Belt has higher stats in

Strength, Speed and Vitaliꦬty, making it highly seductive to switc🌄h over. If you

don't have the ability to use ﷽the Wi-Fi Co♓nnection AND if you don't mind

Job-le♑veling to get the max benefit, then you should do s🍰o. You may have to

build up your Jꦐob Levels a little, but the end result will be worth it.

However, if you have a Wi-Fi connection a🦩nd don't mind putting the🌼 effort into 

acquiring the Monk's ultimate equipment, there is some🧜 potential to be m🧔ore 

effective then the Blaꦇck Belt, but💫 in a different way than you might expect. 

This also has the added bonus that you won't ha💮ve to max out the Job Levels of 

the Black Belt from square one.

In addition to using the Fuma Garb (let's face it, the M🦄aster Dogi on the Black

B♉elt is not that⛦ big of an upgrade) and the Ribbon to help out with the Monk's 

glaring Mag🍸ic Defense problems, the Monk gets access ﷺto the Shura Gloves, which

gives 45 defense! That'🌳s 27 more defense than the Protect Ring! Also, the Magi⛎c

defense is +1 better tooꦉ! This gives the♑ Monk quite a bit of an edge over the 

Black Belt.

Since weapons don't matter, the amount of damꦅage you do is only limited by your

character'ꦆs level/Job level. The same can be said for💖 the Black Belt as well,

so the Black Belt has an advantag♋e there having higher stats. Still, using all

of this gear on🉐 your Monk will definitely make him end-game worthy. There's

also something to ♓be said about not having to Job-grind all the way back 🌱to

level 99 as well.

Overall, my recommendation is to possibly use this Job over a Red Mage 💙up until

yo🌌u get the Jobs from the Fire Cry𓆉stal. Then, make a choice if you want to keep

him or no🎉t. I🐟f you want to put the time into making the Monk qualify for

endgame, that's up to you. For ꦅthe re🎉st of us, we can safely upgrade to the

Black Belt.

Leon Hurley
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