Thanks~ <(^^)>~
Yuri 2 - Yuri did great, he was my main offense both physically and thanks to the array of fusions he brought to the table - even early game - magically as well. Good for support spells too. SHC status blockers. Offense for floor one, revive by F2 and fire damage for Ultros . His stats were quite good as well, definitely not as slow as some might have thought. Cleary wasn't getting doubled. MVP obviously along with Songstress. I made some enquries about the dungeon during the duration that my team was in and right after and judging from the advice I got from Tonfa - divide end game levels by seven - Energy Charge, reviving and L2 wind fusion for speed stat twinking were definitely legal for Yuri by F3 , there shouldn't have been any issue by that. Meh. Judging by the levels of my characters and the way chapters are split in game Amon and two L3 fusions were also legal (as well as Lucia's Night Oil) but at least I can see why people might not allow those due to the brokeness of Shadow Hearts Covenant in allowing your characters such goddamn overpoweed stuff early in game. They are definitely options though.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I *really* recommend people dungeon voters that haven't played SHC already to play it. It's a good game and it has some really nice twinking options for characters in battle (Lucia's oils are <3) The battle abilities of each character in general are quite interesting really.
Songstress - Songstress is hax clearly. Shuts opponents down with Silence by F1, slow and sleep options by F2. Stop and Haste by F3. Hax. Nice array of accessory options as well - Tonfa should totally post some of these in the stat topic! >.> What is also hax is Songstress speed. Faster than Yuna 2! I didn't realise quite how good her speed was in my team overall until I checked but due to that the team should have definitely been able to handle the Lulu/Yuna fight.
Great support character. She, Lucia and Nei would have enabled Yuri to do very, very evil things on later floors due to the nifty even more hax abilities they pick up as they progress. Oh well.
Lucia- Surprisingly good! At least to those that underestimated her. Mwhahahaha. Even I underestimated her a bit and I already knew she was awesme! Mainly I didn't know that she picked up Rage and Gale pretty early. Healing, support spells, stat boosters, status protection and mp regeneration are all availble to her early on. Evilness. Stats aren't too shabby either. Faster than I thought she was, not a speed demon by any means but not snail slow either. SHC status blockers.
Neph should give her added ring effects for her physical as well to make her even meaner! Yes~
Nei- There! - for the first while until she picked up SoM. Seems to be something to carried around until she get SOM, just being there! on the first floor or two. Granted Song of Serenity seemed to have some uses in slowing enemies down ... but I'm not sure what it lowering SKILL! does so I couldn't really argue points with that move. Song of Madness alone is worth picking Nei for though. Very evil buffer. Gives me fond nostalgic memories of Peppita's Power Dance so I like Nei!
Eiko - LVP. It seems like Eiko was the weakest link in my team, everything points to her being so. I'm disappointed. I thought she'd be better than that. Speed ... is not really something I take note of in game FFIX and I always find Eiko very useful there ... just .. bah. Definitely snail like in the dungeon. Faster than Lulu though! Just >.> Had a quite a range of useful abilities (Life, Cura, Shell, Protect, Fenrir, Silence, Haste (Emerald is Cleyra), Reflect (hey Garnet is allowed it for F3! >.>), possibly Phoenix for those who take Phoenix Pinion being in the inventory from early on being reason enough to allow Eiko to use it. Meh. Just wasn't fast enough for voters to give her the respect she needed to take advantage of the skill set. Disappointed!
