Anyone else finding the stat caps on certain characters downright ridiculous? I'd say this applies to Uya and Melodiana who get pretty early class changes and don't change till very late the most but it affects everyone to some extent.

Melodia starts out strong and has really good resistances but suffers from an extremely long period of time where her stats are capped at relatively low amounts. She gains 100 stat caps at level 55 but I manage to cap her stats (without using Marwen's) by about level 45, that's 10 levels of wasted stats. In addition, despite being a strong tank early on, I find that she's relegated to being next to useless on the last few levels because she's not tanky enough to take the damage and not hard hitting enough to be worth the effort to heal her.

To put it into perspective, I just compared my level 55 Melo to my level 50 Elizasleyn, aside from strength(and only by 2 points...) and hitpoints, Eliza has higher stats in every department (yes, including con ironically....)

Uya suffers a similar fate but he's at least got the dodginess and damage to make it worth using him, Kohakuren becomes a really powerful frontline AND backline fighter around level 50 though.

No real point here I guess, just want to vent at the game for making my 2 favorite frontliners so much weaker than they should be :/

Edit: for clarity's sake, when I mention Marwen's. I mean the ring. I don't have access to the other item yet on this save file.

I totally agree, I was really frustrated in particular with Melodiana. She started out as a great character but eventually those ridiculous caps of hers just bogged her down. This is also a problem with Will and his story driven class changes.

Wil's pretty easy to fix though, he gets 100 for all his stats by the end of the game unlike everyone else who need to grind to 5x.

Just keep him relatively low leveled for most of the game, not too difficult considering he's pretty frail in the early chapters until he gets his senior alchemist clothes where he gets both really good resistances as well as a decent stat boost. Even if you manage to gimp him, give him a chronos gem and he's practically invincible anyways. The only other person that might want it is probably Yuela(and equipping Naqua or using 5 evade potions makes her unhittable anyway ) considering Emilita has a range 5 attack in her gothic costume and Serawi has LOTS of ranged options