new player job help

[Taika]

For a single job (White Mage) you are basically leveling 3 classes: your base class (Conjurer) and your two subclasses (Arcanist and Thaumaturge). You can unlock your job when you reach level 30 on your base class (Conjurer) and additionally you will need to have one of the two subclasses (Arcanist) at level 15. After unlocking White Mage, your White Mage level will always be the same than your Conjurer level, so you're leveling both your White Mage and Conjurer at the same time no matter which you're currently on (if you have your White Mage soulstone equiped or not). For 99,9%+ of the time you will want to be on White Mage though.

When you change from class to job, you will only be able to use cross class abilities from the two subclasses of your job. As White Mage, in addition to using White Mage and Conjurer abilities, you can select additional abilities from Arcanist and Thaumaturge. This is why you will want to level both your subclasses in addition to your base class: to be able to use the best abilities they can offer. As White Mage, you will want at least Eye for an Eye (level 34) and Virus (level 12) from Arcanist, Swiftcast (level 26) and Surecast (level 8) from Thaumaturge. In short, to have a fully powerful White Mage, you will level Conjurer (as White Mage after level 30) to 50, Arcanist (as Scholar or Summoner after level 30) to 34, and Thaumaturge to level 26.

You are able to level all the classes and jobs on single character and can freely change classes / jobs any time after you reach level 10 on your first class. Changing classes is as simple as changing your weapon (although you need to unlock each class by visiting their guild first). Whenever you're on a class that isn't your highest level one, you will receive an exp bonus for it. Each class gets its own individual set of 30 attribute points (Scholar and Summoner share those 30 points as both are based on Arcanist class).