best advanced job for a blm ?Follow

First off, you should not make a summoner a sub(support) job. If you really want to play summoner and blm, you should make summoner your main job and blm as your sub(support) job. If you make your summoner a sub job, the max level that it could go up to is 35. Therefore, summoner lose all it potential abilities.

You do not lose the spells that you learned from previous jobs. It is still there, but you will not be able to use it until your level is high enough. For example, your summoner is your main job and your whitemage is support job. Your summoner is level 10 therefore your whitemage is level 5 (sub job is always half of it main job). Your whitemage had learned cure, dia, and poisona back when it was the main job. As of right now, you will only be able to cast cure and dia from the whitemage spells because poisona is level 6 and your whitemage is only level 5.

Originally, I wanted to be a Black Mage who turned into Summoner/Black Mage. But I was silly and made my BLM an Elvaan. As a result I get only 7 mp per level. So I won't have any mana to spare for maintaining a summons.

So then I thought about Beastmaster, but I read (1) the beast may break the charm and attack me. Ok. I also read that Bind *may* not hold long, and the fact of the matter is Bind doesn't much hold AT ALL. So a beast that *may* break charm and attack should be phrased "is guaranteed to break charm and attack." And (2) beasts apparently steal exp from the group? So I'm not sure I want that either.

Then there's Dragoon...that has possibilites, but I'm not sure of the downside, yet.

Any other insights?