Best classes?

[taxi83]

Hi, I just got to the point where I can start changing my classes, but I really dont know where to go with that. I put Kasuga as main DPS with the katana, the girl has the mic to support or heal and the police guy a big shield to tank, the other one is a guitarist. Is that ok or should I chose another classes? Just want to make sure before investing on new gear on them for these classes
thx

[Fast Pooper]

Kasuga should be a hero. Nanba is good as a hobo for magic damage. Idol and enforcer are pretty good.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Having one female character in the party to be an idol seems extremely valuable (Lovedrunk Typhoon plus the healing abilities), and it's harder to justify multiclassing since the good character skills (e.g. elemental attacks) are higher level (Night Queen 16 provides a fire attack, Hostess 22 provides an ice attack).

You'll eventually want a mix of attack types, and for the men, it might be useful to briefly multiclass to pick up a couple of relevant class skills. For instance, if you level a guy up to rank 10 in Host, you get Ice Spreader -- an AoE cold attack -- and that's a character skill so you keep it when you switch to another job. A male character can rank up to 4 in Musician to get the character skill Endless Desire song, which will help in longer attrition battles providing some regen. Enforcer 4 provides Shield Blast, an AoE attack character skill; useful if you want to switch out of Hero and thus lose the *swing skills.

Also, you should have Kasuga switch to Foreman just long enough to pick up a single rank, then switch back. You keep the ability to demolish certain walls in certain places where e.g. black marketeers have walled themselves up and somehow not suffocated or closed shop due to lack of customers.


I've started Chapter 12. I've got Kasuga as a Fortune Teller (high enough that he's gotten the character skill which provides an AoE lightning attack) with some levels in Muscian (enough for Endless Desire as well as "Be My Shelter" to drain some MP), and will probably have him switch for a bit to Host to get the aforementioned cold attack, at which point I'll probably decide to go back either to Hero or Fortune Teller. Character 2 is a male with some heavy fire attacks and the cold from Host. Character 3 is Saeko, with Idol, functioning as charmer/healer; I might spend some time grinding Night Queen and/or Hostess for her, but it'll take a while. Character 4 is a second female character who's presently a Dealer; I could swap her to Idol for a while to cover leveling up Saeko, but maybe not -- Saeko would lose the party-heal, but she'd still retain a cheap single-target heal. All this grinding and multi-jobbing is basically just ensuring a good mix of character skills to make it likely that I always have something suitable tot murder whatever enemy and that each character should not often find themselves noot particularly useful.

[marsHm311oW]

Full heal like the Idol is pretty nonseless. Just learn one/two heal spells and change her job.

[birch]

Hey there!

Theres no "wrong" options, but if you're looking to optimize your class, the optimal classes are as follows

Ichi: Hero/Breaker
Nanba: Homeless Guy/Muscian (For the additional heal/buffs)
Adachi: Enforcer/Foreman
Saeko: Idol/Dealer
J(Name redacted for Spoilers): Hitman/Bodyguard
Z(Name redacted for Spoilers): Gangster/Chef
E(Name redacted for Spoilers): Nightqueen/Clerk

Enjoy the game!

[taxi83]

hi all, thanks for the answers! they were really helpful

[Genuine Prodigy]

What I did and pretty much what every guide states:

Ichi: Hero
Nanba: Homeless Guy or Muscian
Adachi: Enforcer
Saeko: Idol or Dealer
Eri: Clerk (starting class)
Joon-gi Han: Hitman (starting class)
Zhao: Gangster (starting class)

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by GIRTHQUAKE:

Hey there!

Theres no "wrong" options, but if you're looking to optimize your class, the optimal classes are as follows

Ichi: Hero/Breaker
Nanba: Homeless Guy/Muscian (For the additional heal/buffs)
Adachi: Enforcer/Foreman
Saeko: Idol/Dealer
J(Name redacted for Spoilers): Hitman/Bodyguard
Z(Name redacted for Spoilers): Gangster/Chef
E(Name redacted for Spoilers): Nightqueen/Clerk

Enjoy the game!

Nothing about musician Nanba and Dealer Saeko is optimal. Nanba is a mage and therefore optimal in mage jobs. Musician is a support job that doesn't profit from anything really. It's best to give it to someone that isn't great at dealing magical or physical damage and that's where Adachi comes in. Since tank jobs do pretty much nothing and he is really slow, musician is a strong pick.

Saeko has really bad physical stats so I don't understand the dealer either. Eri is far better in that job.

Bodyguard only has one type of damage which makes it one of the worst jobs.

I agree that there's no wrong options since you can beat the game with whatever, but if we are talking optimization, your proposals are far off. Whoever put in a guide that Saeko is a great dealer should stop making job guides.

[Prometheus]

The "permanent" stat boosts that are listed with the skills will follow you cross class. So while Freelancer isn't a great job overall all those atk and spd boosts translate very well to any other class its worth using Ichi in.

This does not mean its worth leveling every class super high. However most classes offer big fat stat boosts in the 28-30 range as a kind of capstone before going into 5 of a stat every 5 class levels. I feel its worth picking up 30 levels in classes with stats you value.

[Vicious]

Saeko actually works really well as a Dealer as well if you want to move away from healing with her. Not because she has the stats for it, but because baseline dealer is already really good. The Darts AoE attack for example does Gun damage and hits ALL enemies.

Does anyone have experience with the DLC jobs? I've tried out Matriarch and it seems kind of... underwhelming.

[Klinex]

Kasuga : Hero
Nanba : Host
Saeko : Idol
Adachi : Devil Rocker or Enforcer
Eri : Matriarch or Night Queen
Character 6 : Hitman
Character 7 : Chef

That's pretty much what i go with, and i find it to be the most interesting options.

[Sharkon]

so here is what I did so far (lvl 99 for a while):

my Route (first Jobs only leveld for the crossover Skills and the starting team "base" Jobs a little further for NG+ purposes)

Eri : Clerk -> Dealer -> Matriarch (Final Job, maxed)
Saeko : Barmaid -> Hostess -> Idol (Final Job, maxed)
Ichiban: Freelancer (35) -> Breaker -> Hero (Final Job, maxed)
Han: Fortune Teller (up to lvl 18 for Fulminating Forecast) -> Hitman (Final Job, maxed)
Zhao: Fortune Teller (up to lvl 18 for Fulminating Forecast) -> Chef (Final Job, maxed)
Nanba : Homeless Guy (35) -> Host -> Fortune Teller (Final Job, maxed)
Adachi: Detective (35) -> Musician (Final Job, Max)

my "to-go" team (without thinking about "tag-out" is Zhao, Han, Eri. just mowing trough the final dungeons.

good thing about this game is that many different Job combinations work so it's easy to build something for my own playstyle. it's also fun testing all the Jobs for their hillarous "Essence" moves.

[Vleystation]

Originally posted by Vicious:

Saeko actually works really well as a Dealer as well if you want to move away from healing with her. Not because she has the stats for it, but because baseline dealer is already really good. The Darts AoE attack for example does Gun damage and hits ALL enemies.

Does anyone have experience with the DLC jobs? I've tried out Matriarch and it seems kind of... underwhelming.

I put Eri as a Matriarch and with the AOE gun attack I cleaned battle encounters in 1 hit at the final "dungeon". She always attacks first as well, and I only leveled her clerk job then switched to matriarch so no extra bonus from other jobs.

[Oseas]

Do whatever you want. Game isn't hard enough (until 12) such that minmaxing and focusing on specific classes is necessary. Heck, even after chapter 12 when the difficulty spike occurs, you only need a high base level(45+ from c12), and a decent job level (25+) to pull through.

Only thing that's mandatory is crafting since weapon strengthening is where you get the best weapons.

[Sekru]

Originally posted by parent child bowl:

Han should just stay hitman because it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing.

But making him a bodyguard lets him cosplay Vergil which I think It's an entirely worthwhile trade-off.