It works out fine if your goal if variety, but when I set up my characters I was going for what I thought would be the strongest party, and variety did not factor into that one bit. I'm trying to keep it vague here because this isn't the place for arguments about best character set up, but suffice to say I feel one way of setting up a character is far superior to any others and that’s what I’m basing it off.

I should not be able to easily go through the game with 3 clone characters, and I'm not just talking about a token boss or two that rewards a certain type of build (which is ridiculously easy if you cloned that type).