you can punch trough the story with a fist cleric and you'd be fine, just a matter of levels and if that's what viability means for you, then yes: everything is just as viable as everything else. If you just wanna have fun, then do whatever. If you just want to go trough the story as fast as humanly possible, the fastest way is to only use killia and not waste any time on other characters simply because you already have exp on him and replaying stages is slower. but eventually it becomes obselete, but thats usually a bit of a time investement to reach that point. It is while grinding up your 10k elexir/shards stats for the first time. Nekomata unique evility is also pretty amazing on a Sage. Usually, its really just a matter of 'how much time do you want to invest in a unit untill it hits uber status?'. aptitudes can be maxed on anyway, resists like i said before, magic can be taught to anyone and weapon proficiency can be ranked up to S super quick. The rest is pretty much the same on any class. Star Resistance (or negative resistances, all resistances can easily be pumped to 99 with innocents anyway)īase Movement/Counter/Jump etc (fairly unimportant at some point) Unique skills (Sage's LD for example, most classes's unique skills are fairly very underwhelming) Inate evility (which is 1/4 (or 1/5) of your unique evility slots. keep in mind that there are only very few differentiating factors when it comes to units that cant be 'fixed'.

So far I have not found any 'bad' class, and it's the first time I am finding myself using monster classes without it being for the meta-gaming (like power-levelling 5 characters with magichange and such). Same for the buffing classes, there are a few and all of them have really good evilities for it (slight personal preference for the professor because her base evility is OP in the early parts of the game). On the other hand, if you focus on a 'hit squad' that is all about bursting down enemies at all cost and as fast as possible, those healing or defensive units are not that great value. What the 'best' classes are really depend on how you play as well, for example fairy+flora beast is a combo that is great for healing a group's SP and HP while out on the map without even having to 'waste' actions on characters that have less than 20% HP missing, letting you reserve healing spells for those that are hit very hard. I prefer male cleric over female (healing status effects with heals is just so potent), but in the post game you will definitely want both of those classes' base evilities for your dream healer. Armor knight, dark knight and sage definitely are among the top tiers that you will want both in the story maps and in the post-game.

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