Sword of Mana/Classes

Your level-up type selections build up to class changes. After five selections of a particular type, you'll establish a class and a track toward more class changes. Advanced classes give your character new strengths. The magician and sage type expert classes give your character the benefit of having one spirit gain the powerful 8-spirit hit, which allows you to hit every enemy onscreen with a powerful attack when you have all eight spirits of that type. Abbreviations for the class types are as follows: