simpsonsfreak

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Everything I tell you to do is between battles.

What you have to do to get new jobs has nothing to with buying more characters. Any character can do almost any job but only if he has the qualifications. For example, to become a knight, your character must be a level 2 squire (this is not the same as your general level rating but instead is specific only to the squire job. To see your level for a particular job, go into your formation, press circle twice and a list with your job possibilities for the moment will appear along with your level ranking for each job). To change to a new job, go into formation, click start, go into change job and select the one you want for that character (a mastered job will have a star over it. This happens when you learn all the abilities of a particular job). To purchase new abilities for any job, press start in formation, go into ability, go to learn, select a job and select what ability you want to purchase with JP (job points which are gained after every succesful maneuver in battle). All the new abilities you learn which have the lighting logo will be applied automatically if that job ability is set to your character and all the other abilities must be set if you want to use them (the bouncing arrow, the circle arrow and what looks like a foot). To set these abilities, you must press start in formation, go into abilities, go to set and for each category choose the ability you want. The first two are for special attacks (the first is set automatically and corresponds to your job choice for that character), the third is for what your character will do when attacked, the fourth is for between turns and the fifth is random (to get a description of any ability, press select on that ability). For the circular arrow, I suggest learning and setting the squire abilty gained JP up because it will greatly speed up your ability learning process.