As far as picking initial classes goes...if you're planning on doing any grinding at all to master some off the bat in Slimetree Forest or something, I actually recommend picking the same class for all three and repeating that over and over.
Because classes master at different rates, and if you happen to have one fast, one medium, and one slow, you're going to be wasting combats on some of those characters just to finish up the one guy before you go back to Alltrades and change again. Better to all master the same thing at the same time.
In that case my recommendation would be all priest, then all sailor, then all shepherd, then all warrior, then all thief. Something like that.
Apparently there is a major glitch that can be triggered in Aeolus Vale in the past.
Has anyone here experienced it yet?
I don't know what you're talking about but I have heard of a nasty glitch that can happen late game that I think most people would be glad to know about. Something found and discussed at GameFAQs.
Late game you have more than 4 party members and can switch who is active in your party. Well, in certain situations if you have Meribel in your party and view cutscenes during scenarios where she wouldn't normally be there, she disappears from your party and goes back to the place where you swap party members around...and stands
intersecting another party member, glitched out:
From that point forward you will never be able to have more than 3 party members on your team. Which is really bad I guess because you need to have a 4 member team at endgame or the game crashes, from what I read.
Has something to do with going back to the past and viewing optional cutscenes you may have missed the first time around.
Essentially, late game and post game, always check to make sure you have 4 party members before you save.
Thread discussing it.