What is the best set up for final fantasy 3?

Answer 1

It really depends on what you like best and what suits you best. You should experiment with different jobs or look up how different ones function. For me, I liked magic so in the beginning I chose:

Black Mage

White Mage

Warrior (I need at least one melee, right?)

the last one I used to change. I finally chose and kept him as a Geomancer after the event with Hein.

Now, the game really wants you to use Dragoons at the Garuda part, so I tested them out but, they only did 700 or so damage so I didn't like the Dragoons (except for the fact that they looked good) and they didn't do well so i turned all my characters back.

After I unlocked the Earth crystal jobs I immediately upgrades my magic-based jobs, but found out that my Magus was acting just like the Dragoons: useless, so I changed him to a Summoner and my melee dude into a Ninja so that I had something that could use shurikens (and get rid of useless weapons without wasting them) So at the end, here's what I had:

Summoner

Devout

Ninja

Geomancer

Before I beat the Cloud of Darkness I looked at various YouTube videos to see how other people beat it one person used:

Summoner

Devout

Ninja

Warrior

So to wrap it up, really, it is your choice and what you feel best with. I'd say you need AT LEAST one mage for either healing or damaging or both and by then end of the game you need AT LEAST one person who can deal 9999 damage about 80% of the time.

One more thing:

If you have the Onion Knight job class, here's what I recommend, AFTER you get your character levels to AT LEAST 91:

Onion Knight

Onion Knight / Devout

Onion Knight

Onion Knight