Useless Jobs

I think most of you are completely wrong about bards and scholars. First off Scholars aren't meant to attack with their books, use item spells like chocobos wrath, white musk etc etc. You can easily hit 9999 every round and out dpr any other caster job. For Bards, once again they're not meant to attack, they are for buffing. If you figures out higher end strats with job choice you would know that two Knights equipped with two shields and protect and shining curtain on them are GG for boss fights. All you do is let the bard buff Protect, then let your bard and other choice of class die being Ninja/dragoon/whatever high dmg melee class you choose and then rev them, keep casting shining curtain on everyone with bard and knights while you let your melee do all the dmg. If the boss casts a spell, curtain takes care of it, if they use melee, one of the knights will defend the attack, only certain spells like quake can hit your melee class with this strat, then you just revive him and start again. Pretty simple. If you get to the final boss as I did, unless your a high end job and high lvl will you beat her, I believe I won with all my character lvl's at 46, 46, 44, 45 pretty easily. Being Ninja, Knight, Bard, Knight. Ninja hits 9999 each round, bard buffs, knights just sit and rev, and heal themselves only when neeeded.
 
I don't think any class is useless, you just need to look at them in the right way. Bards' Requiem attack is very helpful when battling Iron Giant, as is their Paeon. Also, a Scholar's Intellect stat is bested only by a Magus or Onion Knight.
 
o_o bards are kinda helpful.
they can cast their songs BEFORE the party/monsters even do anything :holyshit:
xD. There is a lot of songs. like; healing, and buffing xP
 
None of the jobs seemed useless to me.

But if you forced me to pick someone, I'd say scholar. ^_^

I only used it once and that was to beat that boss. One in the flying zombie castle. D:
 
I don't care what anyone else says, Scholars are useless. I used them for the battle against that one boss that you're supposed to beat easily with them, got my ass handed to me. I tried again with the jobs I had been using and kicked his ass. But I guess it depends on how you play the game. I never use offensive items.

I found Black Mage to be pretty useless most of the time too. When I used one even his strongest spells weren't doing as much damage as the rest of my character's physical attacks, even against enemies with a weakness. He was the same level and job level as everyone else too.

Bards are useless in every FF game they're in.

I don't much like Evokers either. I found the random pattern of summoning (either white or black) to be too unreliable.

Vikings make pretty good tanks, but physical damage is nothing to write home about.
 
Scholas, Bards and Evokers, don;t like any of them

Meanwhile Monks are AMAZING! HUGE amounts of damage (Though low accuracy until about job level 10 to which they almost never miss a hit), the look awesome and you don't even have to equip them, they're by far the best melee class for the majority of the game, hell, I even still had one for Cloud Of Darkness (Job level 1 Black Belt < Job level 99 Monk)
 
Yea, id say that Scholars and Bards arent that useful. They are pretty good at some parts, but might as well use characters that can last you the whole game.
 
Put more effort in your post please, say WHY you find them useless ^^
 
in all honesty, i found the jobs pointless. they had no real effect on game play except for temporary job-related power boosts. i ended up with all of the jobs at level 99, base level 99 (just for one character), and i ended up using free lancer for the rest of the game.

the jobs, altough various, did not offer anything special for the game.
 
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