Final Fantasy Hacktics

Dome, my party levels were mostly in the low 50s range

anyway i replayed using one of my other older saves and had an easier time with this team (just finished with adramelk, lv 38 max now, havent recruited specials yet):
heretic ramza: draw out, autopotion/counterflood/abandon,MA atkup - stacking MA gear for ultima/drawout/elemental
onion knight: jump, hamedo/autopotion, twohand - dragon whisker and stacking PA gear for jump/attacks
generic archer[/b]: time magic, autopotion/HP restore, short charge - yoichi bow and stack Sp gear, she's pretty awesome for OHKO-ing using short charge +10/+20
holy knight agrias: item, autopotion, throw item, move hp up - light robe for regen+shield, cherche for permadefend, a walking tank that revives, heals and pretty much immune to physical damage basically
chemist musty: snipe, abandon, equipshield - blaze gun, kaiser shield, germinas boots, again a hard-to-kill chemist + disable/break stats + healing rubber costume teammates using gun

but yeah the short charge archer definitely works in this version, especially since yoichi bow is so easy to poach..

finished the game, enjoyed the patch and it wasn't much harder than vanilla, so easier than 1.3 eztype 

some comments:
-I don't know if it's a design feature or not but there's definitely less emphasis on sandbagging in this version (which is awesome because gameplay doesn't drag on as much)
-monks are pretty much useless in this game, they deal insignificant damage, stigma magic is useless, i don't mind the elemental change though
-same thing with summoners, eg. rofel casts bahamut, deals 50 damage to my team
-ramza's focus (prot+shell+regen) is definitely OP, ie. mini mbarrier, makes 1on1 duels much easier
-final stages were pretty easy too, rofel and kletian fell down pretty quick, except for balk's army of robots
-hardest stages were actually in monster fights (ghosts having 100% sleep/stop's wtf) and probably elmdor instanuking everyone using chiri

anyway my final setup, all specials in their base jobs:
-ramza: battleskill/punchart (for chakra only), speed save, 2swords - physical damage + occasional ultima
-agrias/meliadoul: item, hamedo, atk up/def up/concentrate - itembot and damage/equipment breaking
-cloud: drawout, hamedo, shortcharge - climhazzard (zodiac bosses), meteorain (it's like summon, but much better) and kiyomori
-rafa: truth+white magic, abandon, MA atkup/equip shield - magic damage + cure/raise
-beowulf: magic sword+white magic, abandon, precision - disabler + cure/raise
-worker 8: anti magic and dispose awesomeness

I usually switch between beowulf (he's great in non-boss fights) or worker 8, but leaned towards worker 8 in final stages