Started playing yesterday and ended after finishing Vossler.
I thought I'd make this more of a 'happy go lucky' extremely casual playthrough, not setting up for finishing all of the Trials and doing all the post game and stuff. So I started it out making Vaan a black mage because I like black mages, plus magic is extremely useful early to mid game. Vaan is also pretty much good at anything, and I think staves look good on him, so, whatevs. He's not the optimal mage, he's probably better as a tank, but yeah.
Next I made Fran a Monk because I've read Monks can learn some white magic, but that part was a waste because the Monk don't get access to higher level curing spells until late game/ post game, and Fran already starts up with Cure, so. Meh. Otherwise she does really well in that job. I'm gonna get Brawler for her and Berserker Bracers (which are so cheat) and see what happens. For my Platinum run I randomly picked Foebreaker for her, which turned out to be a good match for her, so. She's best off in random damage and supportive roles.
For Balthier I was contemplating Shirari or Bushi. Shikari is probably the absolutely best job for him as it's the one with Daggers (which get stronger for characters with high speed) so I thought I'd do something different because when playing vanilla I *always* give him daggers because the overall damage output when giving him daggers is really high. I was tempted to make him and Uhlan but for my random run I had two Uhlans (which is a great job) so I wanted to do something different. So I ended up making him a Bushi. Now, I know they say the best weapon for Ashe is katanas because they feed off magick, but I had no idea they'd set Mystic armour up with Bushi, I thought it'd be Light armour. But it makes sense because of the whole magic thing. Balthier's magic is really bad, so I'm gonna have to feed him all the Magick lores I can find, plus always make sure his equipment is good. He *might* be successful still.
Basch - haven't picked a job yet. Never know what to do with him. For my random job he was a Red Mage, which turned out to be excellent, but I think that was mostly due to the fact that the Red Mage is totally OP
(I guess another reason it worked was I could have Basch tank and supply while Foebreaker and damage role 2 could concentrate on dealing damage. But yeah.) I have no idea what to do for this round, maybe make him a Time mage, it's a role I haven't used before, so. idk.
Thinking of picking Red Mage for Penelo. Making her anything other than a mage does feel like a waste, although I guess she could do decently as a Bushi.
Ashe... haven't decided yet. Maybe another Black Mage. Although my heart really wants to make her Bushi.
Bluh. Sometimes this job fiddling really makes me miss the old version x)
