Phantom Job Skill and Unlock Requirements

Unlock: Available from the start.

As previously stated, Phantom Freelancer is unique in that it levels up from gaining stacks of Phantom Mastery rather than from gaining EXP from FATEs or CEs. It has little to no use in combat, instead focusing on skills that improve the player experience in Occult Crescent, such as being able to view the number of available treasure coffers or applying multiple passive buffs with a single skill. Players who have Freelancer at Level 24 and wish to enter the Forked Towers will be able to do so on Freelancer and swap to another Phantom Job when inside the special dungeon, ensuring that the team has the necessary jobs and roles.

Unlock: Complete the quest New Job, Old Tricks.

Phantom Knight is a purely defensive job that focuses entirely on mitigation and healing. With access to a 60%/90% personal mitigation, the ability to gain a permanent self-regen effect, one of the four passive bonuses available at a Knowledge Crystal, a powerful single-target heal and the ability to make either the user or a party member gain immunity to two instances of damage from most attacks, the Knight excels at keeping itself and priority party members alive in both field content and the Forked Towers.

Unlock: Complete the quest New Job, Old Tricks.

Phantom Monk is a strong offensive job that can require some care to play effectively, especially in encounters with death walls. With a 15%-27% damage buff at max Phantom Kick stacks, the ability to counterattack parried attacks, access to one of the four passive bonuses available at a Knowledge Crystal, and an HP/MP restoration skill that grows stronger at lower values, Monk is a reliable pick for much of Occult Crescent, especially early on.

Unlock: Complete the quest New Job, Old Tricks.

Phantom Bard is a powerful supportive job that allows users to aid their comrades in battle in a variety of ways. With access to a permanent 1%-4% damage increase for the entire party, one of the four passive bonuses available at a Knowledge Crystal, an incredibly strong survivability tool that increases the party's maximum HP, and a 10% raid buff every two minutes, Bard remains relevant throughout Occult Crescent and the Forked Towers.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Time Mage is a unique job with a mix of offensive, defensive, and supportive skills. With access to an 80% Slow debuff that is extremely useful in the mob pulls of the Forked Towers, a strong AoE damage spell, a permanent Addle-like effect, the ability to dispel certain beneficial status effects from targets is mandatory in the Forked Towers, and a raid buff that speeds up the party's weaponskill and spell recast times instead of directly increasing damage, Time Mage is always a useful job to have.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Chemist is an extremely powerful healer that requires purchasable resources to be consumed in order to activate most of its skills. With access to a five-second recast single-target full-HP heal or full-MP restore, a Raise that bypasses the Resurrection Restricted debuff in the Forked Towers, and the ability to consume an item worth 300,000 gil in order to fully restore the HP and MP of the entire party, Chemist is invaluable in emergencies and stressful healing situations.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Cannoneer is a strong offensive job with various supportive effects attached to its actions. With five high-damage weaponskills that are all affected by haste buffs and skill speed, players have access to a chance of Instant Death on their targets, a choice between afflicting Blind or Paralysis, and a choice between increased damage to Undead enemies or a permanent debuff on targets that reduces their damage dealt while increasing their damage taken, Cannoneer is extremely versatile while maintaining a high-damage output.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,600 Gold Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Thief is a unique job focused almost entirely on supporting parties in the Forked Towers. With access to a super-powered version of Sprint, the ability to gain additional gold currency from enemies that reward it, a strong critical hit rate buff for the opening of an encounter, the ability to reveal traps within a certain range, a permanent Feint-like effect, and the ability to open locked doors to obtain additional rewards for the party, Thief is a mandatory and invaluable job to have when taking on the harder content within Occult Crescent.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,600 Gold Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Samurai is an extremely powerful offensive job that requires purchasable resources to be consumed in order to activate one of its skills. With access to a six-second stun, a skill that allows it to entirely ignore a single instance of physical damage from almost any source, an attack with a chance of Instant Death on its target, and the ability to consume an item in order to use one of the strongest single hits in the entire game, Samurai is a force to be reckoned with and it is recommended to have as many as possible in order to ease the difficulty of the DPS checks within the Forked Towers.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,600 Gold Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Geomancer is a very strong supportive job that has both damage-increasing and healing skills available to use. With access to a skill that increases the target's damage by 24%-40%, a myriad of supportive techniques available to use depending on the current in-game weather, the ability to heal itself or a target player whenever damage is taken, and the unique ability to levitate itself or a party member in order to avoid fall damage and resolve mandatory mechanics within the Forked Towers, Geomancer's power is not to be underestimated especially in a coordinated group.

Unlock: Rare drop from The Unbridled Critical Encounter.

Phantom Berserker is an extremely simple job that has extremely strong synergy with tanks such as Warrior. With access to a skill that prevents the player from acting for several seconds in exchange for repeated high-damage hits, and an attack that becomes increasingly powerful the more damage is taken while the player is unable to act if used within a few seconds of regaining control, Berserker can be one of the strongest jobs available in Occult Crescent if used to its fullest potential.

Unlock: Rare drop from The Black Regiment Critical Encounter.

Phantom Ranger is a mostly supportive job that sees notable use in the Forked Towers. With the ability to increase its critical hit rate by 15%-50%, a 15-Yalm dash, a long-range ground-targeted AoE that triggers any traps it hits, and a very strong party-wide shield, Ranger is a very useful job to have when taking on the harder content within Occult Crescent.

Unlock: Rare drop from the On The Hunt Critical Encounter.

Phantom Oracle is a job with strong supportive skills and a heavy RNG element to its signature spell. With the ability to deal massive AoE damage or greatly heal the party depending on its prediction, prepare a timer that cleanses removable debuffs from all allies when it ends, inflict Doom on a target, prepare a timer that heals all party members when it ends, and the power to prevent any single player from falling below 1 HP for eight seconds, Oracle has multiple tools at its disposal in order to handle any situation it finds itself in.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Mystic Knight is a strong offensive job with minor supportive capabilities providing strong team synergy. With access to a choice of three different magical ranged weaponskills, two of which are augmented in a different way when under the effect of a buff granted when its personal shield is broken or expires, this job can choose to either attempt to petrify enemies, deal additional damage to Undead enemies, or increase the damage the target takes while also increasing its own damage dealt, Mystic Knight offers both strength and flexibility.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Dancer is a supportive damage dealer with a heavy RNG element to its signature ability. With the ability to deal damage while either draining HP from the enemy or restoring its own MP, access to one of the four passive bonuses available at a Knowledge Crystal, a personal shield and the ability to reduce the damage dealt by an enemy while also increasing their damage taken, Phantom Dancer is a strong pick for players looking to support their allies without losing significant offensive potential.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,600 Gold Coins in the South Horn.

Phantom Gladiator is an exceptionally powerful offensive job that requires proper planning in order to maximise its damage potential. With access to two simple yet powerful attacks, a 50% mitigation that grants stacks of a unique buff upon taking damage while it is active, and a signature action that has a higher chance to deal massively increased damage the more stacks the player has, Gladiator is a job that is not to be underestimated, especially in the hands of a skilled player.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the North Horn.

Phantom Ninja is a strong offensive job with unique defensive skills. With access to both Lightning and Fire element abilities, a buff to boost its evasion, a haste buff for the opener upon entering combat, and the ability to nullify up to three hits of most physical attacks, Ninja is both good at range and able to dodge hits as necessary.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the North Horn.

Phantom Black Mage is a very powerful offensive job with multiple strong spells and an extremely powerful debuff. With access to Fire-, Ice-, and Lightning-aspected spells, alongside a strong unaspected AoE and the ability to lower the damage of a targeted enemy by 99% if they are vulnerable to the debuff, Black Mage has high elemental versatility and is a strong addition to many parties.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the North Horn.

Phantom White Mage is a strong supportive job with powerful healing abilities. With access to both single target and AoE heals, a buff that makes a target immune to magical damage from most sources for one instance of damage, a Raise that bypasses the Resurrection Restricted debuff in the Forked Towers, and AoE that does increased damage to Undead enemies, White Mage is an extremely useful addition to many parties.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,000 Silver Coins in the North Horn.

Phantom Red Mage combines the strongest parts of both Black Mage and White Mage and adds its own unique techniques into the mix. With access to Fire-, Ice-, and Lightning-aspected spells from Black Mage, a strong single-target heal, the unique ability to exploit and display enemy weaknesses in order to increase the effectiveness of spells of that element, and an identical Dualcast trait to the regular version of the same job, Red Mage is a perfect middle ground between the two jobs while also being able to aid the party in its own way.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,600 Gold Coins in the North Horn.

Phantom Dragoon combines damage and personal mitigation in order to create a job greater than the sum of its parts. With access to a jump that reduces damage taken by 60%/90% while the user is in the air, a 10-yalm dash with a short cooldown, and a ranged attack that drains HP from an enemy and applies any excess remaining after reaching full HP as a shield to prevent further damage, Dragoon blends its core aspects together in order to create a satisfying and exceptionally useful job.

Unlock: Purchase for 1,600 Gold Coins in the North Horn.

Phantom Summoner is defined by its raw power, wielding multiple high-damage abilities in order to end encounters quickly. With access to Fire-, Lightning-, and Wind-aspected spells, a large party-wide shield, and an extremely strong unaspected AoE attack, Summoner combines high elemental versatility with its own brand of power and support.

Unlock: Rare drop from the Dark Artistry Critical Encounter.

Phantom Necromancer stands out even among Phantom Jobs, with its entire kit revolving around a short-duration buff. Necromancer spends this buff to empower spells that cost 10% of its maximum HP. Casting these empowered spells grants extra effects but also inflicts Doom on Necromancer, requiring it to be healed to maximum HP to avoid death. Its toolkit includes an ability that drains HP from an enemy; Ice-, Wind-, and Lightning-aspected spells that can Freeze, Petrify, or Paralyze, respectively; and an unaspected spell that can remove beneficial effects from its target. Together, these actions give Necromancer high elemental versatility and a unique risk-reward playstyle.

Unlock: Rare drop from the Appalling Behaviour Critical Encounter.

Phantom Blue Mage is a fairly simple and well-balanced job once all skills have been learned. With access to a strong wind spell, an attack with a chance to remove 75% of the target's current HP, an unaspected AoE, a strong party-wide mitigation and a strong healing spell as long as the user has enough HP, Blue Mage can fit well into almost any party composition.