Insane Difficulty: Character/Job Party Recommendations - Insane Difficulty

Many thanks sefie, praetarius, your point is incontestable, I'm going for it without any second thoughts as you boys pointed I'm going with Swordmaster/Vanadis/Archmage

Suggestions for an Ange/Lise/Carlie party?

Back to play again after intensive updates. I didn't finish the previous run with my brother on time without grinding. This time I plan to play Hawk/Lise/Duran. Please help me filling the roles. Thank you.

Nightblade, Vanadise (w/ whitelight ring), Duelist

Davzz, on 12 November 2016 - 04:49 AM, said:

quite late, but try:
Arch Mage, Starlancer, Sage

Praetarius5018, on 27 May 2016 - 03:16 AM, said:

Now that the hack has been updated a couple of times after this post, would you recommend changing Duelist to something else in a Duran-Angela-Lise party? Changing Duelist to Swordmaster would give you additionally Saint and Moon Sabers (and all the other Sabers too, of course), as well as Energy Ball (Duran-only), in exchange for Anti-Magic and Aura Wave (Archmage already has them both), and slightly less attack power. With the new buff <--> debuff accessory, Duran's Light classes could also be viable. With the accessory, Paladin would have Def Down and debuffing Magic Shield to go along with his Saint Saber, while Lord would have Speed Down and debuffing Life Booster to go along with his Energy Ball.

I prefer to not give recommendation, because I - as the idiot that creates this hack - am quite biased.
I've a very limited pool of teams/savegames* for testing/developing things.
So you could say those are my "comfort zone".
But I want this game to exist outside of that as well.


Concrete answer:
I specifically didn't suggest light Duran, because so the team wouldn't have early heal light; it was constructed as a "normal difficulty" team that would give the most experience with what this hack has for options (white light ring for MT AND for MT saber, how great auto-heals after battle are when you FINALLY beat bucca island, etc.).
for effiency sake Swordmaster would be better but it might have created the impression that whitelight ring only applies to heals since swordmaster already has most saber MT.


*Those would actually be "illegal"; they have stat combinations and spells that would not be possible in the live versions.

Praetarius5018, on 17 December 2016 - 01:29 AM, said:

I understand your concern, but this isn't my first run through the hack, so no need to worry about false impressions. Besides, I usually get at least one Whitelight Ring as soon as I can (in the Ghost Ship), since having someone cast MT Protect Up on Bucca is very useful. After only one class change, your low MP and long cast times mean it's very cost-ineffective to cast ST Protect Up. Even with Swordmaster, Whitelight Ring makes you able to MT 4 Sabers that you otherwise couldn't. I'll still consider Duelist, though, just for personal preferences, as Eruption Sword is great, and

PSA:

DO NOT BELIEVE PRAETARIUS' LIES.
I am on Bucca Island now with a Gladiator/Ninja/Valkyrie (so no heal light) and I want to fucking KILL MYSELF.

And now you know

Have you tried just running through?

I'm finally going to start a playthrough with a friend soon, with Hawk as the mc. Give me any team you want me to test

Currently, none. Just go and have fun.

So I originally planned to go Dragon Master, Warrior Monk, Grand Divina but now I'm thinking Rune Master might be better for Angela. The elemental spells seem a lot more useful than those buffs Grand Divina gets and I'm not sure how important a second healer is. And Lise already gets a multitarget neutral spell...double spell seems unnecessary. One of the reasons I wanted to go light with Angela is to get a holy spell against Gorva but it seems silly to do it just for that one boss.

What do you think?