Jobs designate a character’s combat role - a fairly common element in roleplaying games. Instead of your fantasy staples like fighters, clerics, rogues, and wizards, since Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth attempts to remain loosely grounded in modernity, you’ll instead find your characters filling roles like Detective, Cabbie, Action Star, and Samurai… wait, that last one kind of works in fantasy settings, too. In any event, due to Ichiban’s restless imagination, various vocations end up fitting common fantasy roles, with some jobs being better at dishing out melee damage, tanking, healing, buffing, and using elemental attacks. Unfortunately, you’ll find yourself stuck in your starting jobs for quite a long time at the start of the game - Ichiban’s wavering fortunes notwithstanding - and several hours into the game you may be wondering when you can change jobs, how you change jobs, and what jobs you can unlock? This page will answer those questions.

• When can you change jobs in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth?: You’ll unlock the ability to change jobs near the start of Chapter 5, after you finish Substory 31 - Let’s Get Alo-Happy!.

How to Unlock and Change Jobs in Infinite Wealth¶

Near the start of the game, Ichiban will change jobs as his fortunes ebb and flow, eventually unlocking Freelancer before settling back on his peak delusion job of Hero. You’ll be stuck as a bat-wielding Hero for quite a while, but fortunately, it’s a strong and versatile job. Eventually, however, you’ll probably find yourself itching to make some changes. In order to change jobs you’ll have to advance the story quite a ways; reach Chapter 5 and you’ll eventually have to complete Substory 31 - Let’s Get Alo-Happy! This unlocks the Alo-Happy Tours building, where you can take various tours that will inspire characters to learn new jobs.

As part of your introduction to the Alo-Happy Tours mechanic, you’ll get a free tour, which unlocks the Aquanaut job. Additional jobs can be unlocked in the same way, but the Aquanaut is the only freebie - other jobs will require Ichiban to possess certain personality traits (i.e. boost your personality traits to various levels) and pay a fee to undertake the revelatory job-unlocking tour. The jobs you can unlock this way are as follows:

After you’ve completed Substory 31 - Let’s Get Alo-Happy! and unlocked the Aquanaut job, you can visit a changing booth in various Alo-Happy! Locations. You can find these near the Anaconda Shopping Center, the Hawaiian Haunt (an optional dungeon that unlocks near the end of Chapter 5), and of course the main store in Waikīkī (in the Worldwide Market Village). You can only unlock new jobs at the latter store, but all three will allow you to change jobs via a changing room. There are no extra costs for this, if it’s unlocked and that character meets the requirements (see below) you can freely change between all available jobs at a whim. You’ll automatically equip the best weapon you have for that class, but other gear will remain untouched (aside from class-specific accessories if equipped).

Job Requirements - Gender and Bond Levels - Infinite Wealth¶

Once you’ve purchased a tour and had a revelatory job-unlocking scene, that job will be unlocked for all applicable characters, albeit with some restrictions. All jobs unlocked via Alo-Happy are gender exclusive - males can only switch to male jobs and females can only switch to female jobs. Unlock Samurai and Ichiban, Kiryu and Tomizawa can all become a Samurai, but Chitose cannot. Likewise, if you unlock Geodancer, any female characters (present or future) can switch to it, but male characters never can.

For Ichiban, gender is the only real hurdle he has to overcome (character-exclusive jobs notwithstanding) - once a male-oriented job has been unlocked via Alo-Happy, Ichiban can change into it. His companions, however, need to reach certain Bond Levels before they can change into certain jobs. For more information about [Bond Levels], check out the linked page. Generally, these requirements will be in multiples of ten, and your best bet is to win battles with characters in your party, dine out, give gifts, or complete Walk & Talks. Some of these are locked behind story progression, but if there’s a job you just need to unlock, battles and meals are simple, repeatable, albeit tedious methods for increasing Bond Level.

How to Unlock Yokohama Jobs in Infinite Wealth¶

If you’re diligent and explore the inconveniently abundant weapon shops in Hawaii, you’ll start to notice that there are many more weapon types than there are jobs you can unlock from various Alo-Happy tours. These weapons have jobs they belong to, and these extra jobs come from two sources - character-exclusive jobs for characters you’ve not yet recruited yet, and familiar jobs you unlocked in Yokohama in the first game which you’ll unlock later.

Unlocking these returning jobs from the first game is simple enough. Reach Chapter 8 and you’ll be able to wander around Yokohama again and, after completing some objectives you’ll find that Alo-Happy Tours has a branch in Yokohama. Getting access to a changing room would be incredibly useful, so head over there and you’ll find that not only can you access said changing room to change jobs, but six new classes are automatically available to you. You don’t need to complete any new tours, spend any money, or raise any personality traits. They’re just there - already unlocked and ready to be changed into. These six jobs are as follows:

Again, you don’t have to do anything to unlock these jobs - no resources or money spent, no tours to take, and no personality traits to raise. That said, other requirements may apply, namely Ichiban’s companions may have to reach certain Bond Levels in order to switch to these new classes.

Anyhow, with that out of the way, let’s look at the final type of classes - the character-exclusive jobs.

Exclusive Jobs in Infinite Wealth¶

In addition to the jobs you can unlock via Alo-Happy Tours (or automatically upon returning to Yokohama in Chapter 8) each character has at least one exclusive job. These jobs define a character’s core combat role and personality, giving flavor to what would otherwise be a bland selection of cardboard cutouts sharing the same few jobs. No other characters can ever switch to these jobs and the character who possesses said exclusive job usually begins with that job active. Ichiban, as the game’s main protagonist, fittingly has several exclusive jobs, but most other characters only get one. These jobs are as follows:

While the job system in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth may get off to a slow start, you eventually get a wide array of options to choose from for each character… although female companions do, unfortunately, get the short end of the stick. Switching between jobs will help power up your characters, as you can earn passive stat bonuses as your Job Rank increases, as well as unlock new skills that you can inherit and use even when you switch to other jobs. This bolsters and diversifies characters and, dare we say, constitutes proper builds? Even getting to rank 16-22 in most jobs will grant an appreciable amount of power and skill diversity that will tilt the odds in your favor considerably, so try to put in the time to unlock and level up jobs!

Now that you know how to unlock every job in the game, check out the following pages for info on how to put these new vocations to use!:

• Leveling Job Rank
• Skill Inheritance Explained
• All Vocational Test Answers
• Upgrading Weapons
• Hawaiian Haunt Walkthrough