There's nothing wrong with defensive redundancies! My party actually isn't quite as redundant as yours (though there is still definitely a fair degree of overlap) yet is somehow even more defensive, with a Gladiator/Prince, Monk/Prince, Arbalist/Farmer, Ninja/Farmer, and Hoplite/Wildling (who is well over 99% Hoplite; he just splashed Wildling for Alertness and nothing more). One neat thing I noticed in my build is that if the Hoplite Bodyguards the Arbalist (and if she had full health already before you did this,) then she is absolutely 100% guaranteed to end the turn with full health and thus get the Brave Heart tick.
I retired one of my spare sitting-on-the-bench farmers into an Yggdroid (which I imagine must have been a Robocop-esque transformation) just to have one of those on the bench, too--thank goodness I had like three or four spare Farmers just for whatever, as not having Mantis (my Yggdroid, because the default male sort of looks like that) start at level 1 was definitely not a use for spare Farmers I had foreseen, but that I was grateful to have nonetheless. Still, Mantis just... did not have anything that fit in with my current playstyle and there was simply no room for him on my already-figured-out team, so now he's sitting right back to sitting on the bench next to the other spare Farmers, who are no doubt looking at him with a fair degree of concern.
And don't worry about post length--Etrian Odyssey does that to people. :)
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Date: 2011-03-16 05:38 pm (UTC)I retired one of my spare sitting-on-the-bench farmers into an Yggdroid (which I imagine must have been a Robocop-esque transformation) just to have one of those on the bench, too--thank goodness I had like three or four spare Farmers just for whatever, as not having Mantis (my Yggdroid, because the default male sort of looks like that) start at level 1 was definitely not a use for spare Farmers I had foreseen, but that I was grateful to have nonetheless. Still, Mantis just... did not have anything that fit in with my current playstyle and there was simply no room for him on my already-figured-out team, so now he's sitting right back to sitting on the bench next to the other spare Farmers, who are no doubt looking at him with a fair degree of concern.
And don't worry about post length--Etrian Odyssey does that to people. :)