I decided to replay the game, this time doing all sidequests I can find. I also decided to differentiate the characters more this time. The ideas so far:

Lann - I'm going to see if a fighter/mage hybrid is viable. With mage I mean offensive caster, I already know fighter/healer builds are not only viable, but overpowered. So far it does seem to work thank to the AP system having diminishing return and whips being hybrid equipment in nature. The question is however if I will use magic at all once Dual Wield is available.

Liara - I don't think I will keep her around once more characters join, so I didn't bother to think of any concept for her and just made her a vanilla mage. If nothing else it means I can't make any other character a vanilla mage without breaking the differentiation idea.

Ark - I have two ideas with him. First, he's going to be a fighter with heavy armor. That probably doesn't sound like a new concept, but in the other playtrough I made I found it more efficient to give fighters mage armor than heavy armor. The second idea is not to give him dual wield. I'll see if I can make him more than "the fighter who deals half the damage fighters with dual wielders does". Ideally without him having to spam Y-something Slash and eat Peptides like crazy.

I soon need to figure out something for Alexis.

Anyway, did you tone some bosses down in the latest build? The ogre never used it's earth spell and I could easily defeat it at level 3. Ifreet was killed before Merces left the battle, something that I've never been able to accomplish before.

I managed to complete this.
It's a fantastic game, good job Dark Gaia.
I'll write a review for it when I get the chance. (Probably now.)

While almost any build is possible and I'm not going for the most powerful this time, I will still only choose builds that I feel has meaningful advantages. The build I choose for Arc for example, has less agility, magic defense and later even damage output than a powerbuild fighter. Still, he does gain more defense and evasion, so there are meaningful advantages with it. Meanwhile, a critical hit build would (at this point at least) deal less damage in average than a Double Strike spammer as well as having less consistent damage and gain nothing useful in return.

Anyway, for Alexis I decided to make her a fast and strong physical fighter. The restriction I put on her is that I will not put any points into defense, evasion or HP. Basically, she's a glass cannon.

The Zombie Dragon or whatever it's called, is far tougher than any preceding bosses. It had a multitarget attack which could two-hit kill Arc and Alexis. Further, the boss could use that move twice in a row and only Alexis was guaranteed to be faster than it.

Edit: I just found out what exactly Luck does. This allows for tank builds, although not until later.

Why exactly is it called Luck? It's an extremely misleading name.

Anyway, in case anyone else wants to know what Luck does (did I miss the game in any way or shape mentioning what it does?), it decides how likely you are to get targeted. Each character has Luck chances of getting targeted. If you max out Luck, it will be 29 which means you have 29 chances compared to the 4 of every other character. This is almost a 71% chance of every single-target attack being directed at that character.

They're back again... :/

how do i get to the shrine of hate?

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how do i get to the shrine of hate?

I thought you said shrine of hats... That brings back memories of Hook Champ.