I've played for a few more hours and am now clearing the 3 star levels. I just fought a wolf thing that was a pretty neat fight.
My question is, which job should I be playing with? I've played mostly with the Black Mage and some Time Mage. I have the -a spells with decent mutations. But I read that you only need to beat 10 quests with a class to qualify it for Mastering once you can start Mastering jobs. It's getting to the point where I don't have the CP to continue learning mutations on my spells though. I tried out the Dark Knight and he seems fun but his Axe Abilities don't work well with the spell Abilities I already have trained up.
I looked up Red Mage and thought that it would be a fun end game Job. Does this mean I should play as a Knight to start getting mutations on Sword skills that will translate over to my Red Mage class? And how/when do I learn Curaga, Firaga, and Graviga, which are needed to unlock the Red Mage job?
Are the other Jobs useless to me if I want my final job to be Red Mage? I mean, Dark Knight was fun, Machinist seems interesting, but since I won't use Axe or Gun skills in as a Red Mage would it just be wasted time?
Isn't continuing playing as a Black Mage wasted time? Thoughts?