The merchant job really was the "I'll pay you a hundred dollars to f&$@k off" meme lol

In the original PS1 FFT, it was Calculator that's actually broken, 0 mp magic on potentially everything on the map. I had Ramza and 4 knights equipping Excaliburs casting Holy on every calculation, defeated everything without moving a single step, losing any hp or using any mp. This was so OP they nerfed the Arithmetician to now use MP.

I think the Freelancer definitely deserves an honorable mention. It starts out as a placeholder until you unlock the job system. But like its cousin, the Onion Knight, it has the potential to become insanely powerful. Everytime you master a job, the Freelancer will gain all of its stats and abilities, meaning that once you master every job, the Freelancer becomes a Red Mage on steroids, able to take full advantage of every job's powers. In fact, I would argue that the only thing holding it back from being _the_ best job in the game is its sister, the Mime job, having the same ability to benefit from mastered jobs, though being geared slightly more towards caster builds than the Freelancer.

Orlandeau is a beast, but im disappointed we never gained his son as a party member, that Astrologist job was intriguing

Who came here for Orlandeau?

You could say the Onion knight had a lot of layers too it, with the deepest one being the most potent.

Not exactly related to the vid, but watching it inclined me to share that FFU has rekindled and enhanced my admiration and enjoyment of Final Fantasy. Glad to be an Onion Knight.

calculator + black mage build. FF tactics.

You should really shoutout J7Jase for Final Fantasy Tactics content. You use his videos and gameplay footage all the time lol

Got to agree with Onion Knight being on the list. That's by far the craziest class I've ever used. Had 4 level 99 ones with a full set of Onion equipment and the final boss was soooo easy.

The best job in the series is Opera Floozy! It's so powerful that only one character ever achieved it and she nailed it.

I always get a little giddy anytime 4 Heroes of Light gets mentioned. Love that game. Special shoutout to the Elementalist crown for trivializing damage from a bunch of bosses

FF X-2 mentioned I am happy ( but the best dressphere of this game was Mascot by far). cool video nonetheless, I remember grinding for hours trying to get the onion gear on the colored dragons it was really tough

Orlandu broke FF tactics! It was a challenging game and that’s why I loved it! And then you gain access to that ridiculous cheat code lmao

I feel I must say that while Assassin did indeed appear in FF6 first, the Assassin that appears in FFTA is based more on the one in the original FFT, an enemy only class that can inflict Stop, Death, Charm and Petrify at a 100% rate (unless you are immune) as while as cast Ultima.

I know you mentioned the Red Mage briefly but i've always felt the job deserves more attention than it gets. Red Mage has been my class of choice for both online Final Fantasy games as well as the few it appears in offline ones. With the ability to use White and Black magic as well as elemental melee attacks like Flame Sword Red Mage is perfect for people like myself who like a well round "jack of all trade" type class. In Final Fantasy XI people would even have the Red Mages pull mobs for the party over Tank classes. Red Mage really needs more love than it gets.

Sage from Final Fantasy: Origins was pretty nutbar.

I come here for every video, as early as I see them to tell you, you make my days better each time I open YT and see a video. Even if it's one I've seen before I never tire of hearing such incredible details about my favorite series, thank you for being who you are, thank your team for helping make the videos and most of all thank you for having such a pleasing relaxing calming voice ❤

I would've picked chemist for FF5 since so many of the mixes augment the characters so powerfully their is no team build that can't be improved or self-imposed challenge that can't be overcome with it. Increase your level for damage calculation purposes; make yourself immune to entire elements; add massive buffs to defense, HP, and elemental damage; the only real limiters to the skill are knowing what each mix does and how to farm dragon fangs and dark matters -- both easily overcome in the age of the wiki. A chemist can solo Omega and Shinryu. There are very few games, if any, that have a skill so potent in effect and so diverse in application.

Psychic from X-2 was super overpowered, but since I didn't have the international version until recently, I have to go with X-2's Alchemist. It takes a lot of AP, but eventually you get free Megalixers just for asking. Every turn. It's insane.

I always love to hear someone praising the absolutely goated Onion Knight. I wish you'd have touched on Dissidia Onion Knight though instead of just teasing him in the outer. That child is a one person apocalypse

IMHO White Wind was strong because it not only healed the whole party but also removed most if not all negative status effects(?).

The Ranger job from FF V was killer simply for rapid-fire. You could stack it for 8 hits with double weapons and just be unstoppable. Last time I played through I pretty much beat Exdeath with physical attacks lol.

FFT has so many good ones too available to the player. Sword Saint, Temple Knight, Calculator (well, its abilities are good the actual stats of the class are bad). A lot of insane power in that game.

Orlandeau my man!

Where's the worst jobs in final fantasy history video? 🤔

Crazy aray of classes. Loved knowing more about them, even learning some new ones.

Dragonkin from FF Tactics. Once Reis learns Holy Breath, it can connect up to like six times with a range of like 2 and can insta-kill even the last boss, iirc.

Love the list and I agree with 100% of all of the jobs! I would add that in FF Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, the Elementalist job is one of the most OP jobs for the same reason Sword Saint is in Tactics. The ability to deal status effects along with dealing damage is decent, but to combine it with Red Mage’s Dualcast allowed you to inflict both Immobilize and Disable/Silence in a single turn to most enemies was very strong

Nice to hear Auron's theme get some love. Most underrated Final Fantasy musical tracks, please?

I really think the strongest job I've played in Final Fantasy was Red Mage/Summoner in FFTA2. Summoner was basically a class which had massive AoE abilities but was balanced around having high mana costs. Notably it had access to every element of magic and also Phoenix, a spell that resurrected multiple allies in an AoE. Combining it with Red Mage completely broke it in half by changing the mana costs into HP with Blood Magic and allowing it to Double Cast 2 spells a turn. You could spend one spell doing whatever you wanted, then tag yourself in the AoE with the second cast while wearing an absorption robe for that element to heal back the entire HP cost. So basically you could run around spamming some of the most broken skills in the game for free. In particular the ability to just completely revive your party every turn with phoenix was really overpowered.

I’m so glad you opted to talk about the psychic job rather than the mascot. Mascot could take a hit and deal some serious damage; but I never used it unless I absolutely had to

I think FFT' s Calculator/Mathematician deserves a shoutout in a possible Part 2. The ability use magic for free and have the damage attached to Arithmetics seems weird at first, but they are fucking POWERHOUSES, so much that I often refuse to even complete the prerequisites for the job.

One of my favorites classes in FFT is dancer, I keep two in my party to bring down enemies HP and MP. They are highly effective units that don't get the love they deserve.

definitly Cid i needed in every tactics playthrough and he was a god! as for onion knight ill have to give this a shot ive never used it

I was expecting Freelancer in FF5, but after seeing Onion Knight...I get it. Still, FF5 Berserker is nuts. Yeah, you lose control, but don't sleep on it. It is amazing. I beat Atomos without anyone dying from Meteor even once. My roommate used it to slay Omega. It is truly a hidden gem.

Woah,, that's new for me, blue mage, merchant n psychic. Tysm for info man👍

2:41 that's freaking AWESOME looking! I played FF tactics on PS1... WOW

Love to see Assassins on here from FFTA - it was where my mind went immediately when I saw this video. Sunk more hours into that game than I care to admit and that was always a MUST on the team. Funny enough though that Blue Mages being listed as powerful in other games I found in FFTA they were much trickier to get them to be powerful (despite the beastmaster role being a thing.

FFTA2 i believe has the Viera's Red Mage that can use Double cast is amazing, especially when paired with a summoner secondary, and Blood Price passive. Just having this unit makes you one atep ahead vs any enemy

Blue Mage has always been a bit of a mixed bag. I didn't really use it in anything other than IX, and that was on account that Quina could actually learn all of them.

The Assassin in FFTA was great, but personally I considered the Hunter to be way more broken for the human classes. Sonic Boom could target an area for full weapon damage at range, even when used with a melee weapon, so you could give a Paladin Excalibur II, then use Sonic Boom to destroy everything at range. Paired with Ultima Shot, and you've got some of the strongest skills on one character. Plus, Sonic Boom didn't cost any MP and wasn't tied to an element, so it couldn't be resisted.

I'm surprised to not see Sage, being that it's the "ultimate mage"

Red Mage/ninja from FFXI was super op at one point. It was capable of soloing content that normally took a 18 person party to pull off.

I love job systems. Idk why, but it really does it for me, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance got A LOT of my childhood hours, until i got Advance 2, which im sure got even more. I STILL love that game

I feel like Cyclic Warrior should have been here from SOP, you're invincible with the right setup that's also easy to build into and can dish out hundreds of thousands of damage at a time, insta killing all regular enemies and nuking bosses. It's actually really fun lol

Blue Mage was absolutely the GOAT of FFV, but I feel like Chemist deserves an honorable mention. With Mix, they had access to a lot of crazy support options (so long as you knew the recipes). Some examples: They could grant a party member the heavy status, granting them immunity to instant death and most other status ailments. They could double an ally's max HP or increase their level (thus giving them a blanket stat boost for the fight). Some of these required some uncommon items, but the simplest and most effective was combining a potion and a phoenix down for a Life 2 that also fully restored MP. Such an underrated class.

Nice to see FFTA mentioned.

I'm surprised you didn't geve honorable mentions to the Astrologist in FF Tactics. Galaxy Stop was one of the most powerful moves I have ever seen. It was unique in that it always affected every enemy, reguardless of positioning.

When I saw this as a thumbnail, my first thought was Orlando from Tactics. Glad to see it was the first on the list.

Cid: Better drain 999 MP from this enemy so that I have enough MP to cast my free one-shot spells.

When I replay FFT I use cheats to make Ramza one of the hidden knight classes, and only bring 1-2 allies per battle to compensate. Super fun and I never get tired of those cool abilities like Stasis Sword.

You forgot mime in V, VI, and tactics. They just do it all except summon but who really uses summons unless your forced too or if you just want to watch the cool animation.

A good honorable mention would be the Dark Knight from the War of the Lions version of FFT. You had to work to get it, but it was an absolute beast once you did. High attack power, high defense, and a slew of abilities that were just broken. Getting a couple of DRKs on your team was almost just as game breaking as TG Cid himself. Oh, and DRK could equip all the same gear Cid could, so you could slap Excalibur on it and go to town!

In the Ps2 FFX-2 International version. If you equip gunner with catnip and have a yellow HP level. You can basically use trigger Happy and cause ridiculous (9999 per hit) of damage in a small amout of time

What game is that 3D clip of CID in the first entry from? I don’t recognize it.

Arithmetician or Calculator from Final Fantasy Tactics was pretty game breaking too, depending on how you used it.

Beastmaster is also fairly unique considering it turns the one with it as their active job into a mix of summoner, blue mage and pokemon trainer.

I love this channel

Uncanny coincidence: This is the first video I've watched on your channel, but when the buster sword logo popped up, I started humming Auron's theme to myself. Then, lo and behold, you started playing it. I don't *feel* like the song is that emblematic of Final Fantasy as a whole, but I suppose I could be wrong!

Some crrazy jobs. Makeme wonder what else they will come up for the series.

Part of me believes there is a reason Beatrix wasn’t a permanent party member in FFIX. She wrecked house during the two segments she was playable lol

Honestly, it's hard not to break FFTA. Ninja's Dual Wield massively increased AP gain while allowing a character to tear through enemies; Red Mage can dualcast any magic, including the frankly overtuned summons; Defenders could become essentially unkillable; Juggler had an infinite exp and movement loop along with damaging status inflictors; and Sage is a walking magic hammer with arguably the best healing spell in the game and a drain spell thrown in because why not?

When i first have orlandu on my team i realize that his job is totally broken, gave him excalibur and one shot every moster on the map (mostly) with lighting stab is just freaking ridiculous and since he can just break any enemy equipment every human encounter is practically a joke

Seymour 2 (I think) could instantly banish Aeon's after they've had their first turn. So, as you mentioned, I simply stacked up their overdrives before I went into battle with him

never knew about the psychic in X-2. was it in the base game for international or was it un an updated version? i had it when it first came out on ps2.

You know, I'd really like to know where you get all these nice piano renditions from.

When I played tactics for the first time. I held out to so much hope that Ramza would become a sword saint or something like Delita 😭

Surprised Ninja wasn't on this list. They've always been solid additions to the team throughout the franchise.

I think the Dark Knight should go on the honorable mentions. Because Black & Dark Bane along with Minus Strike can seriously mess up enemies. Plus, their ability to get stronger by taking damage is insane!

Auron only ever uses 1 arm. Until he gets serious and uses 2

There's a glitch you can do in the Famicom version of FF3 to get Onion gear pretty early in the game. The only really tedious part of it is the swords, as the other pieces only require you to do the glitch once for each piece of armor. Anyway... even without hitting high levels, onion knights with their best gear are invincible for pretty much the entire game.

what about illusionist + ninja (dual wield) with magic frenzy in FFTA2? BTW good video, got lot of memories back

Blue mage was my favorite job in ff games. Summoner being a close second

FFX2 is goated fr 🔥🔥

I've loved summoners in every FF game I played, but FFX was the only time when they _really_ got it right. In previous games, summoning was really no different than casting a similar black or blue magic spell. Yes, you get a cool animation and summoners often played a significant part of the story when it was locked to one or two characters, but from a gameplay perspective, why not just cast Firaga instead of summoning Ifrit? What's more, from a lore perspective, FFX's summoning mechanics made a lot more sense than previous games.

iirc Orlandu's Night Sword and Dark Sword has opposite effect if you use this on opponent who has dark affinity such as undead.

Mime is the most powerful job of all time and it aint even close. You just do a powerful move once and mimes mimic it indefinitely until everything dies.

If Dragoon or Blue Mage job exists, I always pick Dragoon and Blue Mage. Kain was so badass didnt care about any other job. Then FFV’s Blue Mage happened and it was so fun. Not the strongest, not the easiest to obtain all the skill, the the variety sold me on the Blue Mage job. And then Kimahri exists taking on the role of both job.

I'm shocked Dancer isn't on here. It hasn't consistently been broken but in particular during FFT and FFXI it was complete insanity. Especially when you consider it as an MMO class and had the rare distinction of being able to solo before almost any classes could in that game but also could do whatever role you needed in a party. Looking for a healer? Dancer can do it. Tank? Dancer got you covered. Dancer may not have been your first choice for any role but they could easily handle all three of the trinity with little issue for normal party scenarios.

T.G. Cid was bonkers and so was the Thief class with SPD equips and dual wield. God i love FFT

I know it's technicly not a Job but in FF16 if you call the Eidolons as Classes I think that Leviathan is kinda broken, since the game ist build around close combat, while with Leviathan you fight them from afar and have a wider dodge.

What about the Calculator from FFT?

for a while i would have said ninja from ffxi deserved to be here, since there was a time it was a borderline untouchable tank despite not being designed to be one. it got nerfed eventually, but the fact that it happened at all is amazing

With Orlandeau, every strike is a Northwain’s Strike 😅

FFT thumbnail, click instantly!

I having trouble understanding how the Onion Knight is powerful is it the character’s level that is giving the big stats boost or is it the job level that is doing that?

Some people take these games for granted and don't realize how great they are

I'd love to see a video about OP class combos, Like Paladin with Seer skills and the Ninjas dual wield support from FFTA2. That was a game breaker.

Considering the story and characters of FFX it always made me happy how they made Yuna a literal one girl army. Very fitting for her if you ask me.

I wish Onions were real

great vid bu cm'on no ninja/sage in ff3? They trivialize the endgame

FFT Honourable Mentions: Astrologist (Olan), Assassin (Celia and Lede), Sorceror (Kletian)

I feel like some of these are debatable based on the circumstances surrounding them. For example, the Onion Knight. That kind of potential is made rather moot when the grinding required to achieve it would inherently trivialize the rest of the game regardless of what jobs you're using anyway, making all that power rather pointless. Or the Blue Mage which, while certainly a powerful and fun job, is significantly inhibited without preexisting knowledge, or some sort of guide of where to acquire its spells. Factors which I personally believe should be accounted when judging the power of something like a job, because that power may be locked behind very specific conditions not accessible to all players for one reason or another. As opposed to a job that's powerful with no cryptic or extreme strings attached. I'm not saying that a cryptic job can't be considered the strongest. But I do believe that the conditions, and whether meeting those conditions are worthwhile, should absolutely be considered when judging a job's strength. Because without worthwhile value in the achievement of that strength, what good is that strength?

Great list and my boy Cid again claimed another title. Nice

It might be stretching it a bit, but in Bravely Default 2, the Bravebearer asterisk is easily the most powerful asterisk in the series. It's well suited for any role stats wise. Offensive starts have them plowing through the toughest fights as if they were made out of paper, and it's support abilities, combined with it's passives, makes it the best provider of BP in the game.

To bad we never got to see Balbanes job class. He achieved the highest rank of heavenly knight and that sounds badass in tactics. Hated how ramza stayed a special squire while Delita got holy knight class

It would be funny to see Warrior get an appearance in a follow-up. With specifically the FF XIV version. The meme being that they can do all 3 jobs (Tank, DPS, AND Healer) in one

The salve make from bravely default is the ultimate jack of all trades class

Mimic or Freelancer from FF5 definitely deserve to be on this list 👀