I for one still find the concept of reclassing as sacrilegious as grinding. The folks you get should be the folks you get

Whilst I agree to an extent, I can see why it's there for the post-game areas.

Promoted up the whole of the core team, except Lucina (who i'm spinning in in place of Gaius. If i really need a thief, Anna will do in a pinch, and i can just pair Sumia up with one of the other core members)

Well my ingame daughter has access to all classes besides lord, I call that balance!

All the special classes (Villager, Dancer, Taguel, Manakete) cap at level 30, presumably becaue they have no upgraded class. If you're that dedicated to the class, you can use a second seal and simply reset to level one of the same class though (once they hit level 30, that is).

Well that's a pretty neat idea. Way to go NoName! *Pegasus Hi-5*

Might turn Panne into a Gryphon Rider, and restart Tiki. She actually has the speed that Nowi sorely lacked, and Manaketes has some awesome defensive capabilities. Pretty much flying tanks. @_@

Also, I was really put off by Nowi's character design anyways...

Isn't Zihark better due to his earth affinity and Adept?

I think it's worth mentioning in the question of so-and-so is better than so-and-so that sometimes the random number generator just takes a liking to one character and a distaste for another. Especially in Awakening, where characters of the same class get the same skills.

In theory, Miriel has the worst base growths in the game, but she's actually the best mage I have right now. Sure, the point of the game is to stack the odds in your favour, but sometimes a unit just keeps on getting lucky, so am I supposed to bench my best mage because she might start regressing to mean in the future? Hell no.

OK I just broke the game, I had my daughter go Dark Flier for Galeforce, then Merc for Armsthrift, then Sword Master for Astra, the by the time I made her into a Sorc, her luck is already maxed out by default at 48, then I paired her with a family member at rank A relationship, boosted her luck to over 50, then forged my most powerful dark HP drain tomb that will now never break and she's running around 1 hitting everything with high dmg, high crit, and draining hp at every hit on top of Astra proccing left and right with no weaknesses, fucking GG LOL.

And then Lunatic+ laughs at her feeble attempts to even exist!