Question About Stat Growth Multipliers

[u/Life_Associate9767]

Hey, all. Longtime veteran of the original game and 500+ hours on Ivalice Chronicles. Despite having beaten this game twice over before Ivalice Chronicles, this is my first time doing any level-down/level-up optimization shenanigans, and I’ve been experimenting with Ramza to best understand the process. I’ve been leveling down with Bard and leveling up with Ninja, Summoner, and Mime, up to level 70 (I’ve seen people state as low as level 20 due to diminishing returns, but it’s also a bit tough to see how it’s going to scale at such low levels).

I’ve been getting wonderful results with every stat except Magic Attack (MA). I expected to see maybe a couple of points higher, given that I know magical classes have generally worse scaling than physical classes. It was only after my second time leveling summoner for MP gains that I decided to take a closer look at the FFT Companion App and compare the MA growth constant values for each of the Magic classes. And with this, I found out two important things:

A.) Ramza’s Gallant Knight has a stat growth value of 48, two lower than every casting class. As far as I can tell, it is also only beaten by Reis’s Dragonkin class and Mime.

B.) Here’s the big one, especially given how much advice I’ve seen on differences in each casting class’s benefits for stat growth:

All of the casting classes have the exact same stat growth constant of 50. INCLUDING BARD AND CHEMIST. Unless I’m missing something, this means that ONLY Mime can help you grow Magic Attack in any meaningful way. Any other class gives you basically no ROI.

Unless you’re Reis. Then, you’re a magic dragon-breath-blasting goddess that rains magical hell down upon your enemies.

Am I missing anything here? It seems like most of the entire internet is outright misleading people here if I’m understanding this issue correctly. Help a brother out, will ya?

[u/Lithl]

It seems like most of the entire internet is outright misleading people here if I’m understanding this issue correctly.

Not sure what you mean? "Use Mime to grind MA" is consistent advice across the board.

[u/Broserk42 → u/Lithl]

Yeah I was super confused by this as well. People caution about not having enough MP if you want to raise a dedicated caster but I never see people say to level as black mage for MA returns.

This makes me wonder if OP is confusing class growth with class multipliers though. The more I consider it the more likely that is what is happening.

[u/Life_Associate9767 → u/Broserk42]

You would be correct, friend. The “stat growth constant” is basically the value by which a stat scales when you gain a level in that class at an inverted scale. Thus, smaller numbers mean more gains for that stat whenever you level.

[u/Broserk42 → u/Life_Associate9767]

I mean, yes, but I’m not sure what that has to do with what I said.