Yes, this is indeed a quick and dumb question.
In DW7, do jobs work in a similar way to DW6? That is, you get 1 point of job after battles and you change at the Dhama Shrine (or something like it)? And all the other details about DW6 that you know if you’ve played it. Also what are the differences if any, and how far in is the shrine anyway? (I didn’t play that far, and it was long long ago.)
Jobs work pretty much the same way as you described. Each job has 8 “levels”, and to reach each level, you have to earn a certain amount of points from winning battles (and some levels teach your character abilities and techniques).
The Dharma Temple is surprisingly pretty far into Disc 1 (after the scene in the past where you meet the Deja tribe), and even once you find the temple, you cannot actually change jobs until you free it from the past.
All right, so it is a lot like DW6 then.
Now one more question that is driving me nuts: what game is your avatar from?
Wild Arms 2. The title is one of that character’s most famed lines. It means “Thanks”.
Ah, right. I was sure it was one of the Wild ARMSes.
Well at least now I can sleep without wondering about that.
Thanks for all the help in record time too.
Geez, now I completely remember Liz and Ard, even their “Red Screen” thing.
It may feel like Dharma is a long way into disc one, but that’s barely into the game at all.
well, 20 hours is a good way in… though it is barely 1/6 or so of the actual game >_<
It works almost exactely like DW6. There are, of course, more jobs, and more combo jobs, but all that info is in the shrine…
Don’t forget the level limiting with jobs and experience points. To gain job points, the enemies have to be at at least a comparable level (you know, like you can’t just fight slimes at level 30 and expect to gain job points).
That’s determined by the area and not the monster. There is a place in the end of the game that has random slimes for battles and no level cap for classes. The cap in Dharma is level 24, and it goes up by 2 more or less every area there after. http://agora.rpgclassics.com/showthread.php?t=21374
I know. That’s what I was meaning to say, since the game areas have different types of monsters at certain points… I got my wires crossed though in wording it.
There isn’t a 100% level limit, cause a friend of mine got to GodHand before he left Dharma, and, before you ask, he doesn’t own a Gameshark. Though… now that I think of it, he got so burnt out on the battle system doing so that he never finished the game… he was 140 hours in, but that’s most cause he’d fall asleep with the system on every night.
Also, vicki, I’ve never met a woman before who’d played a Dragon Quest game before, much less would even put up with watching me play one, so you totally get props from me. 
I mastered Hero in Dune on my last game, and I was level 19 when I got to Dharma. The fights in past Dharma don’t give much in the way of xp, so I was able to have a Godhand, a Sage (going on Teenidol) and Gabo as some funky mix of Tamer, Pirate, and Paladin.