To whoever said that LoT1 character roster was balanced, i disagree, i found the LoT 2 way more balanced skill wise
It would be nice if you explained your points instead of dismissing an entire page of discussion with a vague statement.
But Now that i think abit more about it, the two games dont change much in general (Nukers,Tankers,Buffers,Extra stuff) and LoT 2 just added more ways to be broken with the sub-class thing, meanwhile LoT1 was like disgaea, high damage numbers and broken equips everywhere with some bosses having a "Kill me or you die this turn"
LoT1's equips are nowhere nearly as important or "broken" as LoT2's due to how they work. The game also did not have numbers that huge before the plus disk, which we still don't have for LoT2, so you're comparing the games wrong.
Bosses in LoT2 also have damage rushes (Flandre's Laevatein, Mirror and Magatama becoming stronger on each turn taken, bosses that damage maximum HP), so that also is like LoT1.
LoT2 also has way bigger numbers when compared to boss HP. You need to be very overlevelled to be able to take out such large chunks of health in a single attack in LoT1 like you can in LoT2
In LoT1 every single character has its use. Some have very similar functions, let's take Patchouli, Mokou and Rin using their fire nukes for an example. Patchouli is slow, strong, very resilient against MND attacks but dies to anything physical and has damaging spells for different ocasions, Mokou is durable and regenerates SP at a fantastic rate, has damage debuffs, but generally outputs weaker damage and Rin fast, not so durable but not so frail, has some utility spells, but heavily dependent on a buffer capable of buffing both of her offenses at the same time to deal good damage.
Meanwhile in LoT2 we have VERY CLEAR best characters. There is no reason to carry buffers other than Byakuren, if not to get her buffs up faster and Nitori and Flandre are such strong damage dealers that almost everyone else seems obsolete, only Eiki can compete. I guess Parsee, too, if you want to depend on a terror infliction before pressing the win button. Aya just destroys the entire game with a single subclass skill. Hina debuffs and tanks and attacks if you want to. And that's it. No one compares to those.
In LoT1 if you opt to use the worse characters you'll end up with a game with about as much difficulty. In LoT2 using the top tiers utterly trivializes anything and everything.
Now, Whos the queen of broken, Nitori Or Byakuren? :V
At higher levels, Maintenance allows Nitori to tank and nuke at the same time. If nothing changes she may be able to trivialize the expansion by herself.
Edit: I mean, just look at this:
https://youtu.be/0iwvD3uwIv4disclaimer: This video is kind of a fraud because I was lazy with the levelling down and choosing equipments that would be available at that part. Damage wasn't thoroughly optimized, though (no stat gems, for example). So it should be enough to prove a point.
