Leveling Bonuses

Every job class has a set amount of stat gains for every level up. For example, a Monk will gain a lot of HP per level up and a wizard will gaina lot of MP per level up. However, a Monk will gain near no MP per level up and a Wizard will gain almost no HP per level up.

So the quest begins for a perfectly leveled up character based on what you want their primary job set to be. So you want a magic based character? Just level them down a few levels in a job set that has level-ups opposing what you want the character to gain. You want more MP? Level down as a Bard and re-level up as a Summoner or Wizard. There is more information in the table below, which is ordered so that the '1st' column is the best gain for the stat appropriate for that row, and the higher the number in the listing, the worse the gain for that stat, etc.

You can level your characters down by:
- Degenerator traps - Favoham Plains is the best place to do this.
- Use Monster Skill on a friendly/invited Mindflare. This will allow it to use "Level Blast".. guess what it does.
If you want it to go really fast, use speed bonuses on the person who is on the degenerator trap or on the Mindflare. These would include Haste and Ramza's Yell.


And to clear up any confusion on "Speed" gains:
- Even though Ninjas and Thieves gain a Speed bonus more often, doesn't mean that there is a max on how high you can (level up/down your characters to make) get their speed up. I would assume the highest Speed can be is "99", since it can obviously be double digits based off of equipment bonuses, etc. And, yes, I actually spent several hours to confirm this information, only to find that leveling down as a Bard and back up as a Ninja made my speed infact go up 3 points. Pretty cool. Do this with Ramza, Beowulf, Orlandu, Reis, and Cloud for a few hundred hours and you'll have yourself one hell of an army.