How are you developing your characters?

[Ichimonji]

I actually have Penelo going the way of Ninja Swords/Katana's now.

[Madame Adequate]

This is how I'm planning to go;

Vaan - White Mage/Green Mage/Thieving whilst that's not going on
Baltheir - Physical attacker/Techs
Fran - Physical Attacker/Secondary mage
Penelo - Heavy gunner (Best armor and firearms I can get for her)
Basch - Black Mage/Time Mage

Ashe gets to fill any holes I end up with. Likely technicks and some magick.

[BustaMo]

For Weapons at least:

Vaan - Swords
Ashe - Daggers + Staves
Basch - Katanas
Balthear - Spears
Fran - Bows
Panelo - Maces + Rods

Might give Panelo the heavy Axes and Hammers later on in teh game for so ironic humor and ass-kicking.

[Miriel]

I DON'T KNOW. ;_;

I'm like. Oh! I'll use Fran as my black mage. And then it's like. No! I want her to hack and slash! Ok, so I'll use Balthier as a mage type person. But I want Balthier to use his guns. Ahhhhh. *head explodes*

I keep changing my mind and now all my characters all sorta haphazardly equipped with different magicks and weapons. This is so frustrating.

I think I miss having a clear idea of what each character's strengths are. All this freedom to pick and choose what I want to do is making me confuddled.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Yeah, I've just been grabbing whatever looks good on the License Board without lending too much thought (if any) to evolving a character in a particular direction. I'm cool with it, though.

[Moon Rabbits]

I DON'T KNOW. ;_;

I'm like. Oh! I'll use Fran as my black mage. And then it's like. No! I want her to hack and slash! Ok, so I'll use Balthier as a mage type person. But I want Balthier to use his guns. Ahhhhh. *head explodes*

I keep changing my mind and now all my characters all sorta haphazardly equipped with different magicks and weapons. This is so frustrating.

I think I miss having a clear idea of what each character's strengths are. All this freedom to pick and choose what I want to do is making me confuddled.

Yep. I'm constantly changing my mind! First Fran was an attacker, but I've turned her into a support character, but now she's balancing out. I don't know what I'm doing with Vaan, although he does have the most Green Magic.

I've been focusing on Augments lately, because I've sort of neglected the top half of the Board and gotten everyone ALOT of weapon/armor liscences.

Has anyone other than me noticed that guns are really useless? I mean, the instant I got a Pole liscence for Balthier I stopped making him use guns completely...their attack power is just too low.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I've consistently kept Balthier equipped with a gun this far based solely on the fact that, albeit pretty weak, they are totally befitting of the sky pirate mack daddy that he is.

[Dynast-Kid]

Vaan-I've got him equipped with daggers and swords and use him to Steal from enemies and to deal damage.

Ashe-She's mostly a physical fighter, and a bit of magick sprinkled into the mix. She's got the basic sword and shield thing going on.

Basch-TANK! Currently equipped with swords. (I'm anxiously awaiting some spears to appear)

Fran-Healer and master of Black and Green Magicks, mostly a support unit. She's using the bow and arrow.

Balthier-Support unit. Like Kiski said, I gotta equip da gunz!

Penelo-Healer, but does deal some physical damage. She's equipped either with a gun or a dagger. I can't decide on what I want her to use.

[isaac17]

Well, I spent 3-4 hours leveling in the Lhusu (or whatever) mines, and now (not to brag) but I'm WAY ahead of the game. Basically, I got a bunch of 140+ chains fighting the skeleton things, by running back 2 maps (while fleeing so I didn't attack anyone else), and then came back everytime they stopped coming. Once I got 99 Bone Frags, I went and sold them. Then, I bought everything any shop had to offer (except potions and the like). This also gave me a buttload of license points... Here's how I've set my characters out so far:

Vaan - Pretty much everything, as he sometimes has to be without a party at all. Mainly sword/sheild, and white magic, and a quickening (still not quite sure how to use those)

Penelope - Poles so far, I still need to work on her

Ashe - right now I have her with daggers and a lot of magic, but I think I'll switch her over to sword/sheild

Balthier - His guns sucked, so I have him a lance, and he kicks butt with it

Flan - every magic I have (and I've bought every magic I could find), and then a bow

Basche - Kept him with swords and basic white magic

Still experimenting with different stuff though.

[J0sh]

Vaan - Katana
Basch - Greatswords / Hammers / Axes
Ashe - Longswords
Penelo - Poles / Staffs / Ninja Swords
Balthier - Ninja Swords / Guns
Fran - Bow's / Hammers / Axes

Everyone has all the magic and all the augments and I don't use the Technicks except for steal, libra, and (SPOILER)telekinesis

[Tainted Angel]

Every magic I encounter I buy, then I spend the LP for each person to learn the spell. (Lotsa thing that have three spells under one LP square I only grab because I have one spell for the square.)

[im_mrbrightside20]

so i changed my team around some and i love it now

i have Ashe as the tank...the fact that her healing is the highest and her shield and sword combo makes her a good canidate for a tank =) shes obviously using heavy armor

and then vaan is a DD using spears for now and maybe later moving to great swords...he does a lot of damage and dabbles in all magick and wears heavy armor incase of hate

penelo is a DD/main support she uses a dagger and shield with light armor and she uses all magic too but due to her higher magick i make her main heal

and each of them has 2 quickenings and penelo has the only esper i have gotten thus far

[The Unknown Guru]

Vaan - Speed tank. Tons of armor, speed items, a Main Gauche (dagger) and shield for crazy evade, and the Nethicite. No spells required.

Balthier - Guns. Armor penetration is good, and it gets more power later in the game.

Fran - Red mage with a bow. Not much else to say.

Basch - Damage, damage, damage. Axes/hammers, and I Haste him whenver possible.

Ashe - Magic. Whatever I can get my hands on, I give to Ashe.

Penelo - Versatility. Lots of weapon licences, lots of magic.

[ChocoKid21]

Vaan - I had him using spears but I recently changed him to swords. He knows a couple white magic skills.

Balthier - I had him a spears too, then ranged with a gun, and now he has a sword/shield combo and some white magic.

Fran - I had her on bow, then I moved to sword, and now I'm back to Bow. She has a little more white magic than the previous two and she has a couple black magic.

Basch - Swords and healing...period.

Ashe - Swords/Shield and healing/defensive magic

Penelo - Rod/Staff and strictly offensive/defensive magic.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Vaan: Light armour and daggers; secondary healer, little Black Magic
Balthier: Heavy armour and poles; little magic to buff and debuff
Fran: Magic armour and bow; magic-user

The others I do not use a lot.