@Agatio: So let me get this straight - you hate Rief, who is statistically identical in every possible way to Mia, yet you love Mia?
To hammer this home...
Exact same stat targets (therefore, stat growths)
Exact same classes, both base and alt
Exact same equipment selection
Exact same role in the party
Yet you love Mia, and hate Rief? THEY ARE LITERALLY THE SAME GOD DAMNED THING, SAVE FOR GENDER! How the hell, does that make any sense? Since you aren't above insulting others for daring to have a difference in opinion, I'll take great joy in ripping you apart here.
What are you, an idiot? Are you seriously that stupid to not see what's right in front of you? What, do you think that him not being able to use blades has anything to do with how heavy they are? What do you have against girls that makes you think we're weak and pathetic? So you're a sexist pig, is that what you're saying? Are you saying that physical girls shouldn't be a thing in Golden Sun? Have you ever thought about the fact that it may have nothing to do with how strong or weak a person is, and instead have to do with what they've been trained to use? It's called WEAPON PROFICIENCY. Sure, he can pick up and swing a blade around, but he knows nothing of the technique in doing so - instead, he opts to pick up a mace, WHICH WEIGH MORE, and club you to death with it. Yes, that's right, Rief doesn't give a damn about stabbing people with a cutty thing, he'd rather bash your skull in and watch your brains fly out of your head.
Now, I'll give you that Rief makes no sense as a Cleric - he's a scholar, not a healer, so it'd have made more sense to for him to have a well rounded class - some attack spells, some support spells, and the one area healing line. That makes more sense for his personality. But DD screwed up EVERYONE'S class. Nobody's class makes any god damned sense for them. Tyrell is impulsive and aggressive - he should be a DPS character, not a tank. Sveta opts to beat your face in with her bare fists - so why the hell is her base class built like a mage? And for that matter, why the hell is her only unique alt class - a dual element class - built like a tri-elemental physical class? And why were they so lazy that it has the exact same spell selection as her Overdrive class, the Wild Animal line?
But that's not what this is about. No, you not understanding that the two are identical and have the same role in the party only proves to me one thing - you're too dumb to deserve the air you breathe. You insist that everything go your way, and when someone makes a suggestion you don't like, you not only disagree, you insult them and call them an idiot for thinking that.
How dare I want a balanced team.
How dare I want a balanced selection of genders.
How dare I want racial variety in the party.
How dare I chose a Martian that makes sense to start with the MC, Felix/Sheba's Daughter.
No, we should clearly do what you want to do, and that's "do whatever". Amiti has a god damned nation to run. Same as Sveta. It makes no sense for them to be a second party for anything. Oh, and how about some of that other bullshit, hmm? Dragon Diver and Outer Space, for example. They're not psynergies - they're SUMMONS. And how about Heat Flash and Rising Dragon? Heat Flash is an Unleash - it was heavily implied that it, as well as Death Scythe and whatever the hell Agatio's version was, are tied not to them, but to their weapon. Rising Dragon has a power of 250, compared to Dragon Fume's 230. in other words, it's not even a tier stronger - it's roughly similar in strength, and weak for a physical adept to use. I'm not even kidding. Oh, and how about Cage? Well, that almost never hits. You'd be better off changing it so that it inflicts paralysis instead. And where the hell do you get off saying that these are 'unique to proxians'? I can see a dragonform being done in the same manner as beastform, but with djinni to regulate it so they don't, you know, DIE like Prox duos did after using them. But do you seriously think that'd work like a healer class? What the hell do you think Dragons DO? A martian dragon, obviously, would KILL IT WITH FIRE. And yet you're bitching because... he... can do that? How the hell does that make ANY sense? And how about that weapon selection? Have you ever considered that I may not give him the Sage build? That I may give him a god damned scythe? Nope, apparently your brain couldn't comprehend such a thing.
To you, healer = Rief. Which means that if I make him a healer, he's stuck doing everything Rief does. Except, you know, IF HE DID THAT THEN HE'D BE ANOTHER MIA. Not Rief, MIA. Because that's MIA's class and MIA's setup. NOT ALL HEALERS ARE MIA. And why you're bashing Jenna, one of the most OP characters in the game, I'll never understand.
Why the hell would I, someone who's argued on behalf of variety and things being DIFFERENT, ever want a character to be exactly like another? Are you that dense that you haven't begun to understand that maybe I might make it so that he's not ALWAYS a healer? That maybe, just like Mia and Ivan, that he'll have some powerhouse classes to switch to if he wanted? That maybe this Scythe Wielding Healer can become a scythe wielding menace that turns into a f***ing fire breathing dragon of DEATH?
This doesn't say anything about your ideas being "perfect" save for your perfect lack of an imagination. If you're too stupid to see the potential, and so feeble minded that you can't accept other people having their own opinions, then maybe you should just shut up, hmm?
Your idea is shit. Not because it's bad, not because it's flawed (oh, it is. It so is.), not because it's essentially "I don't want a new team I'll just use the old one" - it's shit because you refuse to accept anyone else's ideas as a valid possibility.