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[bulborbish]

Hello Folks, It's that time of year again, so the Four Job Fiesta Thread will again rise for a good month.

The Fiesta

If you are unfamiliar with the Four Job Fiesta, it is a challenge run for Final Fantasy Five where you play with a limited selection of jobs.

The Rules are Simple:
1. Every time you complete one crystal, you will unlock one new job that you get at that crystal
2. You are only allowed to use jobs that you have unlocked
3. You must have at least one character assigned to each job that you have unlocked. You are also allowed to have characters use skill from other unlocked jobs.

In addition to these rules, you can add modifiers to your run to control what jobs you can use or not.

Spoiler: Additional Rules (click to show/hide)

Random Run
Players will be assigned one class from any of the available jobs when new jobs are unlocked. As above, Bare/Suppin/Freelance can only be used until the Wind Jobs are obtained.

Chaos
Players will be assigned random jobs in FF5 for each Crystal, Excluding the Freelancer and Mime Jobs

Pure Chaos
Players will be assigned jobs totally randomly. Freelancer and Mime and included

Popular
Like a regular Chaos run, but more weighted towards the Jobs that won the Spring Popularity Poll. I haven't been able to find more info though, so take at your own risk.

Team 750
Players will be be assigned jobs that can only break rods or jobs that are similar in play style and theme.
The Jobs are: White Mage Black Mage Blue Mage Time Mage Summoner Red Mage Geomancer Bard Chemist Dancer

Team No 750
Players will only be assigned jobs that cannot break rods and follow within that play style and theme.
The Jobs are: Thief, Monk, Knight, Mystic Knight, Berserker, Ninja, Beastmaster, Ranger, Samurai, Dragoon

Natural Jobs
Users are limited to the job related to their associated crystal, and only may be that Job. Until their Crystal is unlocked they remain a Freelancer. This is a modifier that can be applied to almost any run.
Crystals are: Bartz = Wind, Lenna = Water, Faris = Fire, Galuf/Krile = Earth

Upgrade
Upgrade can be added to any non Natural-run. To do so either tweet #upgrade to Gilgabot after registering or include it in your registration tweet. What this means it that you intend on playing with these extra rules in mind.

You will only use your Wind Job until you unlock your Water Job. Water until you unlock Fire, and then Fire until you unlock Earth. Then once you unlock your Earth job will be the job you use until the end of the game. Any abilities learned from the previous jobs may be used. Of course, we here at the Fiesta do not want to force upgrades on our users. So you may tweet for your next crystal job when you are ready to #upgrade!

Taken from the FJF site since even I don't want to try explaining Upgrade.

Classic
Classic runs emulate the original Final Fantasy by limiting you to the Knight, Black Mage, White Mage, Monk, Thief, and Red Mage Jobs. All Classic runs are Natural Runs.
All jobs can be assigned multiple times, and it is possible to get any Job Four Times

EDITORS NOTE: Red Mage, as a Water Job, cannot be selected as a Wind Crystal, meaning you cannot get four Red Mages

Fifth Job
Once you get Krile in your party, you roll again for a Fifth Job, that replaces your Fourth Job. You are not allowed to use the skills of the fourth job that you already have learned.

BERSERKER RISK
BERSERKER RISK can be added to any run (Excluding Classic Jobs) to give the player a chance of getting the Berseker job assigned to their Water, Fire or Earth Crystal slots. The only difference is that a Normal run will have their Water Job set to Berserker instead of any other slot. To do so either tweet #BERSERKERRISK to Gilgabot after registering or include it in your registration tweet. When the fiesta starts, for every $10 of donations, one player with BERSERKER RISK will get another Berserker. If there are more Berserkers to hand out than players with BERSERKER RISK players will end up with multiple Berserkers. This is the only way in the Fiesta to end up with a duplicate job. Once the fiesta has started, BERSERKER RISK is no longer an option.

As Always I encourage new players who have never tried the fiesta before to give it a go, since its good fun and helps motivate for charity.


Four Job Fiesta Reddit

[Logical2u]

I will probably be doing this again this year, streaming parts of it again likely.

Hopefully I'll remember to actually finish it this year, though, but I doubt I'll get as good a job combo as last year. (Blue/Time/Beast/Dancer)

[Baneling]

The optional rules ARE

Natural mode: One person per crystal's job. So, Wind is Bartz only, Water is Lenna only etc. I can't remember what they are specifically. This means that until you get all four of your jobs, you will always have at least one freelancer in the party. Also, no skill switching - WM can only use WM skills etc.

Team 750: Rod-breaking or similarly themed jobs only.

No Team 750: Non-rod-breaking or similarly themed jobs only.

Berserker Risk is now the only way to get duplicate jobs and, of course, they have to be berserkers.

I'll be playing this year too for my third year. Should be fun.

[bulborbish]

The optional rules ARE

Natural mode: One person per crystal's job. So, Wind is Bartz only, Water is Lenna only etc. I can't remember what they are specifically. This means that until you get all four of your jobs, you will always have at least one freelancer in the party. Also, no skill switching - WM can only use WM skills etc.

Team 750: Rod-breaking or similarly themed jobs only.

No Team 750: Non-rod-breaking or similarly themed jobs only.

Berserker Risk is now the only way to get duplicate jobs and, of course, they have to be berserkers.

I'll be playing this year too for my third year. Should be fun.

Thanks Baneling

OP UPDATE GO

[Ochita]

ohman ohman ohman

Yes I enjoyed this last time, and so I'm gonna enjoy it this time.

Also ouch, natural mode sounds quite bad. Skill switching was usually pretty good, but if everyone is locked to only one class..

[beorn080]

I had debated doing a FAQ on this mode last year. Its my opinion that almost every combination is extremely viable and workable, as I did like 3-4 runs through it, though annoyingly I discovered it at the end of the fiesta so couldn't contribute.

I think my first run was a thief/beast/time/chemist run. Let me tell you, chemist in ANY set of combinations is VASTLY overpowered. Especially since the only SCSJC to solo omega at a reasonable level was a chemist.

But yes. There are no good or bad teams. Just don't over level. There are a large number of bosses who do percentage damage, and ironically its easier to beat them at lower levels, as 80% of 500 health can be topped off with a hipotion, but 80% of 1000 health can't be.

But yeah. Keep every item you find, get the early summons and songs until you know you won't need them, and kick ass.

Everything has an abusable ability. Except monks. Kick is kinda nice, but ultimately, he just bashes things.

[freeformschooler]

Natural mode sounds pretty fun. Almost like original FF. I'll probably do this again this year.

[Baneling]

I'd say there are teams that can't beat the game, but one guy beat Shinryu and maybe Neo-Shinryu last year with one knight and 3 berserkers.

[quinnr]

Actually haven't played Final Fantasy V before today. I'm liking it.

...Especially the part where a random guy in an inn tells you "Knights do it two-handed!...hic"

[Microcline]

I'd say there are teams that can't beat the game, but one guy beat Shinryu and maybe Neo-Shinryu last year with one knight and 3 berserkers.

No matter what modifiers you put on, you're guaranteed at least one of the wind crystal jobs and all of those can solo the game.  The damage output from the triple berserkers even makes the hardest runs (WM and thief) a bit less tedious. 

I'm not sure how crazy level grinding affects it, but I'm certain that at most levels Shinryu and Omega aren't guaranteed, with Shinryu being possible for the majority of parties and Omega only being possible for a few.  Few FJF players think about the bonus GBA dungeons and if we value our sanity neither should we.

Everything has an abusable ability. Except monks. Kick is kinda nice, but ultimately, he just bashes things.

I wouldn't say that.  Barehanded makes world one a joke so even though they get less relevant later on they're still far more useful than dragoons, geomancers, and dancers.

[freeformschooler]

I'm not sure how crazy level grinding affects it, but I'm certain that at most levels Shinryu and Omega aren't guaranteed, with Shinryu being possible for the majority of parties and Omega only being possible for a few.  Few FJF players think about the bonus GBA dungeons and if we value our sanity neither should we.

Sanity is for the weak.

I haven't ever fully completed FFV or the bonus dungeon stuff, so clearly I must do it ALLLL this time around.

[bulborbish]

I'm not sure how crazy level grinding affects it, but I'm certain that at most levels Shinryu and Omega aren't guaranteed, with Shinryu being possible for the majority of parties and Omega only being possible for a few.  Few FJF players think about the bonus GBA dungeons and if we value our sanity neither should we.

Sanity is for the weak.

I haven't ever fully completed FFV or the bonus dungeon stuff, so clearly I must do it ALLLL this time around.

You know what is REALLY lacking in sanity.

Beserker Risk Natural Mode. On a blind run. With a shinryu and omega run goal
 Fortunately, It's not like I'm actually attempting this.

[/sarcasm]

[Ochita]

I'm not sure how crazy level grinding affects it, but I'm certain that at most levels Shinryu and Omega aren't guaranteed, with Shinryu being possible for the majority of parties and Omega only being possible for a few.  Few FJF players think about the bonus GBA dungeons and if we value our sanity neither should we.

Sanity is for the weak.

I haven't ever fully completed FFV or the bonus dungeon stuff, so clearly I must do it ALLLL this time around.

Freeform if you do that I'll do it with you, with Diary included to show my slow decent into madness.

[beorn080]

I wouldn't say that.  Barehanded makes world one a joke so even though they get less relevant later on they're still far more useful than dragoons, geomancers, and dancers.

Dancers get sword dance and ribbons, and can give ribbons to everyone else. Geomancers have innate magic ability that can do a LOT of damage to everything for free, plus lava walk which is nice in a few places., and dragoons get jump and drgswd abilities. Early, yes, monks tear through world one. But world three? Meh. Counter is nice. But otherwise? Not so much.

[freeformschooler]

Beserker Risk Natural Mode. On a blind run. With a shinryu and omega run goal
 Fortunately, It's not like I'm actually attempting this.

Yes. All of my yes. Although - on Natural mode, wouldn't that mean you can only get one Berserker?