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The Final Fantasy
series by Square Enix features a variety of classes (or jobs) that are assigned or assignable to each character in your active party. While many early games in the series have featured individual character classes, they did not appear, as such, in Final Fantasy VII through Final Fantasy X. Recent Final Fantasy titles, however, such as Final Fantasy X-2 and Final Fantasy XI, have seen a return of specialized classes. The following list summarizes the most common character classes: many games in the series have featured unique classes that have not reappeared in subsequent games. For information on those classes, please see the article regarding the specific game in which the class appeared.

The classes that appear in Final Fantasy XI, the first online-only title, have certain unique implementations that more closely follow MMORPG convention. For information specific to this title, please see Final Fantasy XI character classes.

Physical classes

Physical classes fight using a variety of weapons, including their bare hands. Many of them specialize in specific techniques, although generally these attacks are not based in magic.

Fighter/Knight/Warrior

The Fighter is portrayed as a skilled swordsman who can make use of some of the most powerful heavy armors and weaponry in the game. As such, it is a well-rounded physical combatant with both high attack and defense statistics. Initially, the Knight was treated as an upgraded form of the Fighter class, but later games in the series began to use the two terms interchangeably. The Fighter/Knight can be reasonably described as one of the most basic character archetypes in the Final Fantasy series. The Fighter has appeared in Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy III while the Knight has appeared in Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. The classes Warrior (Final Fantasy X-2) and Squire (Final Fantasy Tactics) bear some similarity to the Fighter class, as well, but are not explicitly referred to as such. As many of the main characters from the Final Fantasy series are sword fighters, many of them can be said to be roughly analogous to the Fighter or Knight class, including Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV), Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII), Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII), Adelbert Steiner (Final Fantasy IX) and Tidus (Final Fantasy X) Tidus is more like a hybrid of a Thief and a Warrior, since he doesn't take as much damage as some other characters(a common and usually needed trait for the average Final Fantasy Fighter character). Many games in the series also feature a variety of specialized sword-wielding classes, such as Dark Knight, Paladin, or Holy Knight. While these classes use the same basic type of equipment as the Fighter/Knight, they usually feature unique specialized skills and attacks. In Final Fantasy XI, this job class is called Warrior.

Monk

The Monk is a master of martial arts (especially karate) who shuns heavy weapons or armor in favor of barehanded fighting. In the later games, it has also shown a proclivity towards certain meditative techniques which can improve its attack power, or heal its battle wounds. Frequently it has the ability to immediately counterattack against physical attacks directed at its person. In early English localizations of the series, the Monk was known as the Black Belt. The Monk has appeared as a class in Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. The characters Yang Fang Leiden (Final Fantasy IV), Sabin René Figaro (Final Fantasy VI), Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII) and Zell Dincht (Final Fantasy VIII)) can be roughly categorized as Monk-type characters. Amarant Coral (Final Fantasy IX) incorporates a number of characteristics of both the Monk class and the Ninja character class.

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