"just the fact that you can toss heavy armor on a pure mage is just so...off."

Sure you can do that.. but their Magic damage or healing won't be as much..

IMO if you make clones then you must not have a very powerful imagination... And i'm not saying don't 100% fill the board cuz you can customize your characters just as well if you do.

Right now I just use. Vaan, Basch and Penelo. I honestly don't really like the others.. But that doesn't matter cuz they get LP anyways so when i do decide to use them they'll have 4k LP.

Vaan and Basch are my tanks. Armed with shields for less damage taken and vaan has a Rare secret sword, Demonsbane (just got it) and Basch uses an Axe (even though axes' damage isn't 100% full it still does great damage at most of the time) Penelo was going to be my magic user, dark magic w/e then found that basch and vaan kill things in a combo of their 2 hits and penelo just wasted mana.. so she reverted to a bow weilding caster and debuffer.

You just have to make the characters what you want... You can still do this by 100% the LP board.