In Final Fantasy XI, you need to choose a job when you are creating your character. You are able to choose 6 basic jobs initially. Different jobs has it's own "Job Ability". You are able to use more ability when your Job Level increase. At the same time, you are also able to choose another job as "Support Job". To be able to get your "Support Job". You will need to level up 2 jobs each time you play. After completing a specified Quest, you will be able to choose your "Support Job" in your Mog House.
Limitation of Support Job
:: You WILL NOT be able to make it as your "Main Job". :: Level will be HALF your "Main Job". :: There will be NO EXP. added to your support job.
Example:
in this example, I will use Warrior Job Lv. 20 and White Mage Lv. 10 as support job.
:: When your main Job is Warrior and White mage as support Job, you will only be able to use white magic that a White Mage job Lv. 10 has.
:: When your main Job is White Mage and Warrior as support Job, you will only be able to use Job ability that a Warrior Job Lv. 5 has.
The following are jobs you can choose at the beginning of the game:
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:: Warrior ::
Experts of close combat and also master of various armed combat.
:: Job Ability : | : Req. Level : | : Effect
Mighty Strike 1 All physical attack will be a critical hit in a given time.
Provocation 5 Let the monsters to concentrate in attacking you.
Berserker 15 Attack up, defense down.
Defensive 25 Defense up, attack down.
War Cry 35 Increase attacking power to all members in a certain area.
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:: Monk ::
Master of Martial Art and unarmed combat skills. They use their tough body as a weapon to attack the enemies.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Hundred Fist (?) 1 Increase attack, decrease attacking range in a given time.
Accumulation 5 Increases power in the next attack.
Evasion 15 Increase evading percentage.
Concentration 25 Increase hit ratio.
Chakra (?) 35 Increase some HP.
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:: White Mage ::
They are magicians skilled in "White Magic" which they mainly recover and heal ones wounds.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
God's Blessing 1 Heals high amount of HP of all members in a certain area.
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:: Black Mage ::
Magicians who's skilled in attacking and cursing skills called "Black Magic"
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Whirlpool of Magic 1 No MP loss for using magic in a certain time.
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:: Red Mage ::
They are able to use both White Magic and Black Magic but they take a longer time to learn a higher leveled Magic compared to the White Mage and Black Mage. These Magicians are also skilled in combat skills.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Continuous Magic 1 Shortens Magic casting time.
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:: Thief ::
Instead of fighting the enemies from the front, they use their quickness to evade away from enemy's attack and steals items from the them. Has more abilities to support the party members. ::
Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Complete Evasion 1 Evade away from all attacks for a certain time.
Steal 5 Steal item from target.
Surprise attack 15 Major damage to an enemy who's not targeting you.
Escape 25 Increase speed for a certain time.
Pick pocket 35 Steal money from target.
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:: Bard ::
They are able to choose "Song" in their Magic Command, choose a song from the list, set target enemy and uses the musical instrument to play the Songs. The songs causes various status effect and the sound will differ if you equip yourself with different Musical Instrument.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Song of Spirits - Increase power of the Song in a given time
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:: Beast Master ::
They have special ability called "Control" against monsters. If succeed, the monster will be yours after sometime. The monster that's controlled over by you will be called "Pets.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Battle - Pet will attack against target you have set
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:: Dark Knight ::
Existance of taboo that uses the power of Darkness.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Blood Weapon - Absorbs enemy's physical attack for a period of time.
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:: Paladin ::
Holy knight as opposed to Dark Knight. Able to use limited white magic.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect
Holy Guard of Circle - Increase defense against undead
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:: Hunter ::
They are snipers skilled in archery. High hit percentage and best at attacking from far distance.
:: Job Ability :: Req. Level :: Effect - - -
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*All job ability can't be used for 2 hours ( real life time ) once it's used.
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:: Advanced Job FAQ ::
Paladin
Location: South Sandoria
Key NPC:Balasiel(F7)
Procedure: you need to complete three different quests from him in order to get Knight as extra job.
For the 1st quest, you need to hand him over "Han Gon Jyu No Ne" (root of tree) which can be found from ghost or hound type monsters.
2nd one, you need to go to location G7 of Orbul Cave (you can get there from La Thine highlands), touch the ??? at the pool, then quickly touch the ??? at some sand place near the pool to get an item.
Last quest can only executable for Lv30 characters. talk to Balasiel, then talk to the grauds on 2nd fllor of the guard post of each west(J9 Cahaurme) and east(H9 Baurise) entrance. Then go to Davoi E10, examine the Disussed Well and get an item. Get back to SSandoria and talk to Balasiel and you an get a kite shield, and you can change to Paladin.
Advantages:Able to use White magic, high in defence, strong against undead monsters, able to equip all single handed swords.
Disadvantages:Attack damage is lower than Dark Knight.
Comment: Paladin is high defence. Best for protecting party members from being attacked. Since Paladins are unable to use taunt. It is said that having a support job as a warrior will help a lot when the enemies changed their targets to the mages.
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Dark Knight
Location: Bastok Mines Area
Key NPC:Gumbah(J7, 2nd floor)
Procdure: Talk to Gumbah, then go to 3rd floor of Palbrough Mines ( G8 ), get aboard the ship and receive a two handed sword. Equip the sword and kill 100 enemies, then goto Bedoh (South east exit of Swamp) and event movie will start, and you get Dark knight.
Advantages:Able to use Black magic, high in attack, strong against magical monsters, able to equip all kind of scythes.
Disadvantages:Low in defence.
Comment: A Lv30 Dark knight has a job characteristics: damage bonus +10% of Max HP. Meaning that you can do like 40(normal dmg)+50(bonus dmg)=90 dmg in one SINGLE NORMAL HIT with a two handed sword or scythe. Best support job is said to be Monk because countering with 90 dmg isn't funny
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Ranger
Location: Windurst Woods Area
Key NPC : Perih Vashai ( K7 )
Procdure: Talk to Perih Vashai, travel to L10 of Zoromugh Hills, and await for the Old Saberthooth to die naturely and examine the Tiger Bones, get an item and hand it over to Perih Vashai and you can become a Ranger.
Advantages:Good on any long range weapon, usefull skills and abilities for tracking.
Disadvantages: Need big amount of money on arrows.
Comment: No comment on this job coz not many ppl wanna be a ranger.
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Beast Master
Location: Lower Jeuno Area
Key NPC : Dietmund ( G11 : Merchant's door )
Procdure: Click on the door and Dietmund will come out and ask you to get him Night Flowers. Go to Location F8 of Qufim island, walk down the small passage at the cliff and click on Night Flowers (you can only get it at night when the flowers started to glow). Get back to Dietmund, when the cut scene is over, talk to the chocobo house owner Brutus on Upper Jeuno to obtain Beast Master.
Advantages:Able to use equip most warrior types armors, tame monsters to fight for you. main weapon: Axe.
Disadvantages:when the tame effect fades off, the pet will attack the owner so be very careful about the lasting period of tame effect.
Comment: Beast master isn't as strong as Warriors but he is capable to go solo hunting bacause of the ability to tame monsters. Also, when your party is linked, you can try to tame one of them to fight back against the enemies. Thus for, Beast tamer is "technically" awfully strong. Best spuuort job: White Mage.
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Bard
Location: Lower Jeuno
Key NPC: Mertaire ( INN, I8 )
Procdure: Talk to Mertaire and all NPCs in the INN, go to Mhaura and buy a paper (priced 500-600) from Pikini-Mikini at G9. Get out of Mhaura and head to location G9 (to get there you have to go throught a secret pessage from the beach at east) where you can find a Song Runes. Click for Cut Scene and Trade the paper to the Runes and give it to Mertaitre. Then, travel to the dunes where Selbina is, head for the most North West point and you can find a secret passage. Go throught it and and another Song Runes there. Click on it to get BARD.
Advantages: Able to sing different variaty og songs which do not require any MP to support your party members. HP and MP regenerate song does help a lot later on.
Disadvantages: bards are WEAK! Only a little bit stronger than White Mages. Songs are expensive, and really useful songs are only usable for Lv15 and up.
Comment: A funny job which needs a lot of technic play in order to really help out party members. Bards looks very weak from status but he is actually very strong support character when doing party play. Bard is said to be suit to almost any job as a support job to face difference situiations. Warrior as a support job helps taunting and do some damage during battle, thief as support job enable stealing and drop rate up, White mages help to heal, Black magics to support attacking, and the best, Beast master tames monsters to join the fight.
You can obtain the option to have a subjob by completing a quest AFTER REACHING LVL18!!!
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Originally posted by evererin:
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