Talk:Mystic Knight/@comment-70.79.24.8-20141030044252/@comment-23878607-20141031204407

If this is the first time you've played the game, don't use a leveling path. You can always create another (free) PSN or GT to play in a more restricted fashion with a leveling path.

This game is not an MMO. Having the experience of building all kinds of different builds all the way to 200 and playing them for a while, I can say that in terms of killing stuff at 200, given the same equipment, there is very little difference in killing speed between someone with a base stat of 500 up to about 700 in strength, and little difference between 500 and 750 in magick. If your base stats are higher than that, there's little point in being something other than a min/max, as there are corresponding deficiencies that offset high power once you get above 550.

By little difference, I'm talking less than a second.

My main GT has strength of 374, magick 580, stamina 3004. That hasn't stopped me from playing any vocation well, nor killing anything I've taken on. I really think it's important to use your first time(s) through this game to play any vocation you want and determine which of them you like the best, rather than build for stats. I did that with my first Arisen, and I still keep coming back and playing it the most.