Whats a Good Starting Job?Follow

Where you start kinda depends on where you want to go. What sort of advanced jobs are you looking at?

I was thinking of thf/beastmaster or mnk/sam ??

Bard doesn't make a particularly good support class really. You can't use any instruments, and you can apparently only have one song in effect instead of two. A bard/whm however is very useful to a party and tend to be more rare than whm's

well, all three of your choices so far include an advanced job, so pretty much narrow it down and chose from there.

thf/bst mnk/sam support(lets say brd/whm)

We'll pretend for now that you're just going for the most effective choices, I'm not really sure how mnk/sam works out, but brd/whm is extremely effective, like bard however beastmaster doesn't make a particularly useful sub. Basicly you won't be able to charm anything worth using as a pet, anything bigger will just attack you.

If you want to play thief I'd recomend a ninja as a subjob. Samurai is ok but really thieves are relatively fragile. If you put out a huge weaponskill without trick attack you're going to get stomped. Maybe others have tried both nin and sam at higher lvls and can provide some input.

Monk/sam seems like a decent combo, but as always sam becomes vastly more effective at lvl 30. So using it as a subjob before then may not be nearly as effective as others. Also, while monks have absurd hitpoints they tend to wear paper thin armor. With your hitpoints you'll be able to take quite a few hits, but if you tank too much its detrimental to the party as you end up a mana sink for the healers. Then they heal too much and get agro trying to keep you alive, monster comes after them....bad things happen. Personally at level 50 blm I'm not a huge fan of having a monk in the party. This may change at higher levels, I would much rather have another melee damage dealer (thief/ranger) a tank, or a rdm or bard instead. Its not that the monks don't contribute to the party, it just seems like other jobs do the same thing but better. Again this is from my perspective at my level, your mileage may vary.

Of course as a blm I simply adore bards and rdm's for their debuffing and refresh/mage ballad

Really you need to find a job you'll enjoy playing. The most effective jobs in the world will suck for you if you don't enjoy it. And to deal with the "you can play any job you want, not just the most powerful, as long as you hae fun!" crowd. Of course you can play whatever you want, go ahead and play the brd/drg, just realize you'll be putting yourself, and any party desperate enough to invite you at a disadvantage. There are TONS of very effective combinations out there, more than enough so that everyone should be able to find something they enjoy without putting themselves at a disadvantage

And don't be afraid to start as a thief. It isn't just for high level players. Thief just has a few hard levels to get through from 12-14. After that you get Sneak Attack and Treasure Hunter at 15 life is easy again.

Just do some research on what roles different jobs play in a group to see if that style of play is going to be fun for you.

Pre-30 it is roughly like this:
Warrior: Tank (taking damage), secondary damage dealer
Monk: Damage dealer, secondary tank
Thief: Damage dealer, Treasure Hunter, (aggro control when you get trick attack at lvl 30)
Black Mage: Damage dealer, secondary debuffer
White Mage: Healer, secondary debuffer
Red Mage: Debuffer, secondary healer, secondary damage dealer

One weird theory that I found is don't try blm at the start of the game. BLM without a sub is a pain in the *** to lvl unless u got a group of friend who party together.

A few friend of mine and some LS members agreed that BLM without a sub is a bit harder to lvl compare to others since the blm can't heal, the hp sux, no mp boost, the skills point are most likely not maxed/blue... that means if you ran out of mp.. u have to cross ur finger that u don't miss the mob with ur weapon and hope you kill the mob first :)

Other basic jobs are pretty fine since they have a bit more hp, damage more, def is higher, or whm can heal a bit ...

But that's just my theory :) Some still have good time to start the game with a BLM.

I liked being a redmage, and it was pointed out to me that you get a pretty good immersion to both fighting and spellcasting, as well as being a great soloer at lower levels.

I kinda liekd starting as RDM. You get the heal and damage spells. You also get to use weapons for more than decoration and armor. It's pretty cool and you have an opportunity to see what kind of character you'd like to play. It makes a good sub too even if ya want to go the thf route. You'll be able to debuff and cure which will be important after level ten for your thf. *dink dink* 2gil

Not that easily... =)

DRK/THF or DRK/SAM do a lot of physical dmg too =)

Guillotine + Trick + Sneak is pretty sick...

so is Guillotine combined with Store TP

Hey would a RDG be a good cub class for a Theif or would a NJA be better?

Yeah i think im taking theif all the way and sub class will be ninja
I think its a crucial combonation but I heard that it is very expensive.

Beastmaster is the best character to level... so damn fast...