How are you developing your characters?

[Kirobaito]

I only recently got Ashe and Penelo and am yet to use them in a fight.

All of my characters have to know all types of magic.

Vaan - Sword/Shield
Balthier - The second best sword/shield
Fran - Archer, main healer and spell-caster
Basch - Axe, heavy hitter
Ashe - Spear, haven't actually used yet
Penelo - Rod, haven't actually used yet.

[Raistlin]

Basch - strongest one-handed weapon (right now an axe), shield, mix of heavy/light armor depending. The least magic, but catching up now. Basically a fighter.

Vaan - I'm testing between a 2H katana that's slightly less attack and the same weapon/shield setup as Basch. So far, the katana hasn't hit multiple times enough to warrant it. Light armor. Has all the black/white magic available, plus basic other magic (protect, etc).

Ashe - bow, mystic armor. All the magic that I have so far available, including green/arcane.

I've been ignoring the technicks for the most part (besides the basics like Libra and Charge). Basch may venture into that territory soon to see if any are worthwhile. Augments/quickenings were a first priority, with armor and weapons when necessary.

Balthier, Fran, and Penelo are all neglected outside of learning whatever they need to in order to get quickenings.

[Dell]

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.

Kiski. xD.

Vaan - Daggers, although when I got the Icebrand, the best dagger available was the Gladius so I had to switch to the sword. Vaan is a thiefy sky pirate wannabe, although he's got all the spells and techs...just because

Balthier - guns n crossbows, just depends on which has the best status enhancement ammo. Right now I'm liking the xbow w/ longbolts(added effect slow) Balthier is also my techy guy.

Fran - Bow of course, mild magic user mainly green time and white

Basch - I try to stick with one-handed heavy hitting weapons so he can use a shield b/c he's my backup 'tank'. basically no magic, some techs though.

Ashe - Bow, because she reminds me of the bow-wielding lass from an antique FF(see if you can guess) obviously a major magic user. She comes in to heal-spam when necessary.

Penelo - staves mainly, main magic user, and specializes in item use too, has the remedy/potion/phoenixdown upgrades. Main esper user too

Also I'm trying to give each person the right set of quickenings. Haven't gotten them all yet but:

Vaan: [Color - Moving Shape] Red Spiral, White Whorl

Baltheir: [Weather/Element "of" Something] Fires of War, Tides of Fate

Fran: [Descriptive - Contact of Some Kind] Feral Strike, Whip Kick

Basch: [dunno] Fulminating Darkness, don't know what next Q goes with this. Viscerating Terror maybe?

Ashe & Penelo: Ashe has Northwain's Glow and Penelo has Intercession, and I'm debating on which gets Heaven's Wrath, I think it should go to Ashe, but it could conceptually fit in with Penelo's Intercession although not with the phrase/word structure.

All of them have their own set of Quickening, you can't choose which Quickenings you want to give.
Like Heaven Wrath will only appear in Ashe's LB, not in Penelo or other.
Fires of War can only be obtained in Balthier's LB, and only he can learn it.
Fulminating Darkness is only available in Basch's LB. You can't obtain it anywhere other than this.
You pretty much got it.


MY THIRD DATA:
Vaan: Swords (1H)/Swords (2H) + Shields + Shirt Armor
- Famfrit, Ultima and Zodiac. Have 3 Quickenings.
Balthier: Bows/Guns/Crossbows/Hand-bombs + Ammunition + Shirt Armor
- Hashmal and Exodus. Have 3 Quickenings.
Fran: Spears/Maces + Shirt Armor
- Mateus and Zalera. Have 3 Quickenings.
Basch: Axes/Hammers/Measures + Shields + Shirt Armor
- Belias and Cuchulainn. Have 3 Quickenings.
Ashe: Poles/Rods/Staves + Shirt Armor
- Adrammelech and Zeromus. Have 3 Quickenings.
Penelo: Daggers/Ninja Swords/Katanas + Shirt Armor
- Chaos and Shemhazai. Have 3 Quickenings.
I teach them all of the magicks/technicks I have.