Talk:Stat Growths/@comment-26156434-20150228212752/@comment-3331592-20150307083107

What mostly matters are your magic and strength stats. Ranger and fighter use strength and both have good strength growths, so you can switch between them with no problem. Magic archer mainly uses magic, not strength, to do damage. So if you want to raise your magic stat it's best to level some as a sorcerer, but you can still beat the game with just leveling as a magic archer if you want. It comes down to how much you're willing to level as a different class in order to do extra damage.

Augments aren't something you need to worry about too much early on, but something easy would be to switch class to warrior and immediately pick up Bastion, which raises your defense. Then you can switch right back to the class you were before.