best party...
monk in front middle and 3 mages in back. always endurance for monk and always intellegence for mages. always put highest armor rating on monk and do the most damage staffs for mages.
time for the starting guide....
===skip first 2-3 levels to buy lightning storm thing for mages and revive and party cure for monk. have mages cast lightning thing and monk heal. the monk will take most of the damage and the mages will finish the enemies too quickly to die.
easiest way to lvl 50 on harcore mode...
1 clerk in front with 3 mages in back.
beef up clerk with armor and damage reflection on rings and cloaks.
have mages focus on intellect.
its 100 seconds of normal fighting, then a boss...
then another 100 seconds of fighting,
then another boss...
the cycle keeps going on. if you spend like 200 seconds on first boss by juggling it near the edge of the screen, then u should hit 600 seconds by the 3rd or 4th boss.
there should be more lvls and diff modes and difficulties. buy freakys as you go farther in the game. then alternate buying skis with thrust so that you have same number of each. use all freakys and then use 1 ski. after that ski immediately use a thrust. do that with rest of skis and thrusts. buy the gunpowder when u get the money, and then the creativity.