For FFI I used to stick with the standard fighter-thief-black mage-white mage party. but last time I took two red mages instead of the normal ones. even if they can’t learn the best magic in their class, they have other points that make them more usefull.

for FFX I went with Tidus, Riku, Lulu. Two fast characters and one all powerfull mage, just my thing. I hardly ever used Yuna and Kimari was completely forgotten. Same with the aeons, I almost never summoned them exept for the few cases where you had to.

In disgaea I am overly reliant on mages, training them to have a reach that includes half of the battlefield and comfortably killing everything from out of a corner. Tales of series sees more mages as well, I run to the front with a fast melee attacker and letting a mage and magic swordsman attack with magic while my healer waits untill (s)he can heal and occasionally throw in another magic spell.

I’m wondering, I believe there are a few people here that play Valkyria Chronicles as well, what do you prefer do use? I for one love scouts and snipers, however some missions simply require you to use others (if you want to get through in one piece that is)

For FFI I used to stick with the standard fighter-thief-black mage-white mage party. but last time I took two red mages instead of the normal ones. even if they can’t learn the best magic in their class, they have other points that make them more usefull.

for FFX I went with Tidus, Riku, Lulu. Two fast characters and one all powerfull mage, just my thing. I hardly ever used Yuna and Kimari was completely forgotten. Same with the aeons, I almost never summoned them exept for the few cases where you had to.

In disgaea I am overly reliant on mages, training them to have a reach that includes half of the battlefield and comfortably killing everything from out of a corner. Tales of series sees more mages as well, I run to the front with a fast melee attacker and letting a mage and magic swordsman attack with magic while my healer waits untill (s)he can heal and occasionally throw in another magic spell.

I’m wondering, I believe there are a few people here that play Valkyria Chronicles as well, what do you prefer do use? I for one love scouts and snipers, however some missions simply require you to use others (if you want to get through in one piece that is)

And yeah, I use this general theme in most every game I play. Swords! Stat boosts! YEAH!

And yeah, I use this general theme in most every game I play. Swords! Stat boosts! YEAH!

That’s why I’m loving the hell out of Persona 3′s party management system…even though Yukari has the best healing abilities, she’s also a solid ranged attacker.

That’s why I’m loving the hell out of Persona 3′s party management system…even though Yukari has the best healing abilities, she’s also a solid ranged attacker.

Generally in RPG’s, I tend to lean towards faster characters and spell casters, and depending on the game, eventually end up having a hybrid of the class I first chose, and one of the more powerful classes. I loved my Alchemist Sage from Tactics Advance.

Generally in RPG’s, I tend to lean towards faster characters and spell casters, and depending on the game, eventually end up having a hybrid of the class I first chose, and one of the more powerful classes. I loved my Alchemist Sage from Tactics Advance.

For games like disgaea etc I tend to create one of every human class there is available but the brawler classes tend to be the ones that level.

For games like disgaea etc I tend to create one of every human class there is available but the brawler classes tend to be the ones that level.

For example, FFVII Vincent and Yuffie are clearly gunners/ranged. You could even argue Vincent is a bit of a Blue Mage or Beserker, since he can transform. Aerith/Aeris is designed to be a healer/mage in the game, as her attack isn’t really that good no matter what weapon you equip her with. You could even “kind-of” consider Cid a dragoon, if you wanted to go by the traditional weapon.

As for FFVIII, there are classes there, since characters have distinct abilities and weapons unique to them. Quistis is clearly a blue mage, since you can give her monster items and have her learn monsters’ abilities. Zell is a brawler/monk, and has limit breaks similar to Sabin or even reminiscent of Tifa. Irving is clearly a ranged/gunner unit, and you could even argue that Rinoa was designed to be the party’s main mage/healer.