Do you know that if you have maria in the back row and she has not gained hp since the beginning of the game, and you buy her fire and she casts it on herself, she will die? And then when Minh revives her the next round, she will cast it on herself again and die again. And then when minh revives her the next round, she will cast it on herself again and die again ad infinitum.

I'll post my screenshot of beginningness after a while(I forgot to make it of the character naming screen so I just got one of base stat window xD)

[edit- I did some equipment optimization. My party was set up like this: Frioniel- dual shields, handful of armor, Maria- bow no armor, Guy- axe+sword, the rest of the armor, Minh- cane, no armor.
I realized that guy's evasion was pathetic, thus he was the only one frioniel could hurt. I also realized that he had such pathetic evastion because of all the armors on him. Once i took those all off it was much higher xD I gave minh's copper armor (formerly on guy) to maria since it has a +5 mdef (see fire incident above) and she's not going to be evading any attacks in the back row anyways. I gave frioniel the sword and one of his shields, you can't live off of dual shields forever (but it is level 3 now I think xD) and Guy got the hat left, trading 2% evasion for 1 def point. I'm not sure if I like that deal or not, selling armors is a lot more lucrative (I'm kinda bitter because I had to pay 146 out of my 147 gold at the inn because minh ran out of mp xD)

Does anyone else notice a tendancy for the 4th and 3rd place characters to be hit much more often?