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Kasz216 on 22 February 2009
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Gnizmo said:
forevercloud3000 said: 

You could swap jobs right in the middle of battle anytime you wanted too

And its a little unfair for you to judge X-2 for not having lasting benefits for the job classes when I dont remember none of the other FFs with JC having lasting effects either.

Certain Jobs are more useful in different situations against different enemies. I would find myself swapping alot through secret dungeons etc.

and in case you didnt know........

X-2 also had items/equipment that would allow you to access other job class's abilities without changing. Thats not even counting the fact that the ultimate gamerments(Jobs) in FFX-2 were combinations of all the jobs combined, including their own seperate party members(sort of).

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And you gotta admit. The Beserker, Samarai, Dark Knight, Beast Master and Gunner were some badass job classes.

 I am now 99% convinced you never actually played 5 and just assumed X-2 must be better. In FFV you had 1 free slot for an extra skill. Skills were gained by mastering classes. The default class had 2 slots, and Mime had 3. In addition to that both of the classes would gain the stat advantage of any job you had mastered, That is, master Monk and you have Monk level HPs as either Mime or the default. Tactics took this concept and made it even better. The level of custimization gained by mastering classes was phenomenol. Same with the FFTA line. Only FF3 had a job system without lasting benefits other than X-2 so far as I can remember.

 In X-2 I never bothered swapping. Just have an Alchemist spam mega-potion and the game becomes a walk in the park. I think one of the secret bosses posed some trouble, but I disliked the game so never bothered working through it. The fact that you had to have specific items to get access to certain classes was more annoying than anything else. You can't get the combinations you would really want without goign way out of the way. The Ultimate jobs were a specific combination and I didn't like a single one of them that much.

 Samurai, Berserker, and Beast Master were done better in 5 imo (supposing I am remembering the Beast Master class correctly). Dark Knight was pretty cool over all. Gunner I hated. The classes were well done over all though. I have no specific complaints about them, but the system they are attached to sucks.

Yeah... Tactics was my favorite.... when facing humans... create a Gun Knight to shoot out there equipment before they got to you.

Or just dance them ot death.