Final Fantasy V Job Tier List

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• PI

  @PixiePulse_ · 4 years ago

  I love that you put Knight up so high. It's the definition of "It just works". A lot of damage, a lot of defense, and the ability to support the entire party. There's no reality where it ISN'T a godlike class

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• UN

  @UnlockedANDunleashed · 3 years ago

  Berserker on SNES was broken, if you gave him thorn helm and Gaia hammer, his magic will go all the way back to 255 since snes can’t do negatives, you give him Gaia hammer and hope for the best, I suggest you try it it’s fun

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• GI

  @giovannitigalo7011 · 3 years ago

  What? Mimic is amazing. You can equip three abilities… it’s the best choice for an endgame mage.

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• ZA

  @zackwoods5077 · 3 years ago

  Maxing out Mystic Knight, Ranger, and Ninja gives you access to INSANE damage on a single target. I'd say those three should be A tier at a minimum as they are all still pretty good by themselves.

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• DU

  @DuckSuit35P · 4 years ago

  I think this is really well done. Here are my thoughts few of the classes to either add to what you said or mention an alternative take. I&apos;ll list them in alphabetical order as well.<br><br>Beastmaster - I think it should be higher since it can break the game with a spreadsheet but definitely belongs down there with berserker and geomancer in terms enjoyability.<br><br>Blue Mage - Feels a bit weird in terms of placing, I feel like it should be higher than Black Mage with all its amazing utility but at the same time I do agree that Black Mage&apos;s pure rod boosted damage is just better in some of the tougher fights. Personally I would rather have a Blue Mage over a Black Mage since it can act as a band-aid onto any team.<br><br>Dancer and Dragoon - I would probably just swap these two around. I have never found a good use for Dragoons in this game and none of their abilities are worth passing on. Jump is horrible in this game where you want to finish fights quickly and lancet is useless with its damage output. Dragoons also don&apos;t have access to swords, only Ricard and Kain can do that. Dancer on the other hand get access to a ribbon at Karnak and passing equip ribbon can often be the best ability to give to classes that are already great on their own. All that to say though, I think Dragoon should just really be dragged down to C tier with Dancer.<br><br>Freelancer - I tried the unemployment run after seeing some of your stream. The equip anything ability is absolutely broken even without abilities and stats. I didn&apos;t struggle in the run until I got to Exdeath.<br><br>Geomancer - There might need to be a tier between Beastmaster and Berserker. Geomancer is horrible, at least the Beastmaster can consistently paralyze with whips but Geomancer really doesn&apos;t have anything going for it.<br><br>Monk - The problem with trying to argue that Monks need lots of experience to start dealing more damage after world 1 is that levels matter in every damage formula in this game so a level 70 monk will still be lagging behind any other high leveled party. The high stamina might be the only thing going for it since you now have a meatier version of whatever other class you rolled.<br><br>Mystic Knight - Fun fact, these guys are tied for having the second highest agility along with Ninjas. You should be giving these guys knives for DPS not swords. Flare spellblade is also amazing against enemies with no elemental weakness as it ignores 75% of the target&apos;s defense stat. While the Black Mage is better off casting rod boosted -ga spells over flare, Mystic Knights should always go for Flare spellblade when dealing neutral damage.<br><br>Ninja - Should not even be considered for A tier, solid S tier. There is never any point in the game where Ninja is not beneficial and even low level ninjas should still be dealing 6k+ with fuma shurikens against Neo-Exdeath. <br><br>Ranger - The killer bow as an 8% chance of instantly killing an enemy and it can proc off rapid fire. It&apos;s also not considered the death spell so it will kill undead enemies and enemies immune to death. I think heavy enemies are the only ones that are immune to the killer bow. Also aim doesn&apos;t work when you are blinded, so it can&apos;t actually help you there. Rapid fire also halves the damage with each hit so you are effectively always dealing 2x the damage but it also ignores evasion and defense so it tends to do a bit more than that, can also be combined with spellblade and turns off the chicken knife&apos;s weakness.<br><br>Summoner - Yes you can dual cast summoning magic. <br><br>Thief - You can steal Twin Lances from Objet d&apos;Art. This is pretty good damage for most of world 2, should be swinging for around 1000 damage with your standard attack command.<br><br>White Mage - Easily could have moved up a tier if it could multicast protect and shell.

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• HO

  @houyo · 3 years ago

  One thing you forgot to mention that the berserker can do that admittedly has no use in a Four Job Fiesta is it&apos;s ability to hold up all the other classes in an upside down pyramid like that. That&apos;s like two dozen people. Berserkers would make incredible cheerleaders.

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• AS

  @AstrumKitten091 · 2 years ago (edited)

  You 100% can dualcast summons. My first neo exdeath was beaten with the Dualcast mimic bahamut combo. No MP Problems with that either 😺

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• MA

  @MADMACHlNE · 1 year ago

  Playing through this game now, I feel there are a few things the Mystic Knight has over Black Mage:<br>- What they lose in action economy, they make up for in MP efficiency. Once Spellblade is online, you&apos;re set for the rest of the fight. On top of that, the Spellblade version of a spell is usually cheaper than the regular version casting-per-casting!<br>- -aga level elemental blades will instakill monsters that are weak to that element. It doesn&apos;t even show damage numbers; the screen just flashes and they&apos;re dead.<br>- Status effect spellblades have a 100% proc rate—if you hit, the status effect is always inflicted, regardless of what the success rate of the corresponding spell would be if it were cast normally. In the case of Sleep and Poison and silence this is pretty situational, but it means that Break significantly better as a Spellblade than it is as an actual spell.

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• KO

  @Kody_C · 3 years ago

  You&apos;re misremembering on Red Mages, they cannot equip shields. I wish they could, and also remembered them as being able to, but I&apos;ve got a playthrough going now and relearnt that they cannot :(

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• KI

  @KIWIMAN47 · 2 years ago

  this is the only list I&apos;ve seen to recognize bard as a good class. Every other tier list I&apos;ve seen has it in D or F. C at the highest. But bard and dancer are two of my favorites in this game.

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• PR

  @PrincessGoth574 · 2 years ago

  This is a great video, I really love FF5. I&apos;ve wanted to try a fiesta sometime

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• LI

  @livingtoaster1358 · 3 years ago

  I really like the idea of berserker I just wish it&apos;s stats could make up for it&apos;s weaknesses

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