Final Fantasy V Job Classes

Mystic Knight

Vital Statistics

"Able to enchant swords, these magical warriors automatically cast Shell when HP is low."

Job Description

The Mystic Knight has surprising stats for a heavy armor Job, as its Agility and Magic Power are higher than you'd expect. It ranks quite high in Agility compared to other Jobs (second!) and even gets a tiniest of Magic Power boosts over a Freelancer. The Job’s Strength and Stamina, obviously, suffer. Its Strength is comparable to Clothes Jobs and its Stamina, while high, is bad compared to other heavy armor Jobs. As a melee tank, he is good enough but bad compared to similar options.

The Mystic Knight doesn't hit as hard as the other Jobs, and it’ll require you to spend a turn casting a spell on your character’s weapon before he can be anything but a weaker Knight. This turns out great for boss fights and bad for random encounters, to put it bluntly. Two-Handed is a great support ability to boost the Job’s damage (at the expense of a Shield, of course), and Equip Swords puts him on the level of the Knight.

Job Ability Summary

Magic Shell, of course, is useless even as a free support ability; there's no way you'll want to give up your single ability slot for it. !Spellblade as an ability is half-decent, but not awesome. A Knightwith !Spellblade will be better than a Mystic Knight. However, you'll really want a support ability such as Two-Handed or Dual-Wield to increase damage so you'll wind up returning to the Mystic Knight anyway. Ninjas really benefit from Spellblade by the way, since Knives are affected by !Spellblade and they have inherent Dual-Wield.

Transfer to Freelancer

Magic Shell, technically, but you shouldn't need to see it. The stat boosts are nothing to write home about either. The best physical attacker contains a slot for !Spellblade 6 however, so you'll want to master Mystic Knight regardless.