Character/Party Build Ideas?

[Doktor_Q]

The patrols are FOEs. And can only ever see you in straight lines. Toss up a Simple Scope if you're getting caught in unmapped areas.

Also, I'm doing 5th stratum at level 45 and killing FOEs marked Red. Imperial = MVP.

[Wolkenritter]

[Doktor_Q]

Yeah, I know it's level based. As a point of fact, it doesn't care about how many people are in your party, either- a one-man party at 60 turns almost everything blue.

[Snowdome]

[Doktor_Q]

It's pretty haphazard. Probably just a quick thing they added, comparing your level to the monster's "level."

[Garlyle]

[Doktor_Q]

F/D L/N I/N
S/A M/R
here. Haven't had much trouble fighting anything really, but if I go against higher level stuff landing binds is really hard. Still working on getting Luc up to par, though, so I guess it's not too big a surprise.

[Doktor_Q]

Also, Emobears are a lot more annoying than I expected. Almost scarily beefy.

[Doktor_Q]

Drive skills are melee-only, and massively more useful on an I main, due to the increased power, better TP regen via Impulse Edge/Absorber/Finisher, and shorter cooldown thanks to their class skill. N/I is okay too, but do you really need two Imperials?

[Wolkenritter]

N/I has the highest damage potential, but requires a lot of setup. N/A should deal plenty of damage anyway. You should have Venom Throw and Ailment Boost by now. When Venom Throw is maxed a Nightseeker's poison can do 700(!!) damage per turn and lets not forget the amount of damage you can deal with Shadow Bite!

[Doktor_Q]

Venom Throw is basically murder on anything without poison immunity, yeah. So, basically, if you aren't fighting robots or absurdly lucky opponents, it's a -1TP mass damage ability.

[Doktor_Q]

Snipers do an awful job of pretending to be Nightseekers. Just gonna say right now.

Also, you can get everything you NEED out of a N/A pretty quick- Ailment Boost, TP Return, Mastery, Blade Flurry, and all the Throws. Spend the rest on things like Spread Throw, a Cloak, or the various knife skills.

[Doktor_Q]

Ditch the bind circles, get Venom Throw. Spread+Venom is a 2-turn "kill everything" attack, at a price of 1 TP. Or -1, if you have Auto Spread.

[Doktor_Q]

Landsknecht, if you want to avoid changing anything else. It does basically the same thing- physical/elemental damage, but at the opposite of the speed spectrum.

[Snowdome]

There aren't many choice actually. If you don't need your Fortress, retire him; if you do need him, then you must give up one of Landsknecht, Nightseeker or Imperial who you like least.
I would choose Fortress from my experience, but that's a party with stronger binders on the back and a main Dancer on the front.
It's your party, your choice to make.