If you've already gone through the 1st area and are creating the rest of your Party Members, be sure to take a note of their Personality. Acting positively towards his/her personality increases their trust, and vice versa. It's an important trick to ensure a steady growth in trust, which becomes very vital in the game later on.

Attribute also determines one other important factor of the game, the NPCs that join you. Different Characters will join your party depending on your Leader's and your party's attribute. Being "Neutral" is the big advantage here since more characters will join your party than if you were of any other attribute.

When you run into a Monster with his back turned on the side, there's a good chance you will surprise your opponent, giving you a full round of free attacks. But if a Monster runs into your side, then there's a chance he will suddenly attack you, giving him a full round of attacks. These also happen at random when you simply walk face first into a Monster.

When you get attacked from the behind (i.e. a Monster walks up behind you) your rows switch, putting your weaker members up in the front. And it will take a full round to swap back to the original position, thus the Monsters get 2 free rounds of attacks on you. Therefore, DON'T get attacked from the back. It's bad.

Allied Actions contribute a lot to the game. After a floor or so, you will probably not even think about using individual attacks. It's that important. So trust building is important. Everybody's trust go up after a battle. If you leave friendly Monsters, those with Evil attribute will have their trust lowered, and those with Good attribute will have their trust go up. The opposite occurs if you attack a Friendly Monster. Also, trust can be raised by building towards your member's personality. For instance, a Neutral Hobbit hates Insect Monsters. So if you kill tons of Insect Monsters his trust will sky-rocket (or at least go up faster than everyone else). And finally, conversations with NPCs you meet will affect trust as well. Positive responses raises trust of Good and Neutral members, while lowering the trust of Evil members. The reverse is true if you reply with a negative response instead.

You can thus tell that it's easier to raise Trust if your Party Members have the same attributes. It's suicide to go with a party of mixed attributes, so don't even try unless you are REALLY up for a challenge. In later bits, you can find items that can change your member's attribute, so don't worry too much if you did the wrong stuff to cause an attribute change.

There is one small advantage of being Evil though, the use of Evil Weapons. Evil Weapons are among the strongest weapons in the game, but require an Evil Attribute to equip, some are cursed, some are not.

Guild Class changes can also be done only once per level of experience. You lose whatever special ability that your previous Class had, but not your Spells. However, your MP will be recalculated for your new Class, so you may or may not be able to cast them. Your experience level will also be recalculated for your new Class, which may result in you going up or down a level or 2.

Trust, as mentioned countless times before, is an integral part of the game. Going down to the lower levels without sufficient new AAs will get you killed really quickly. Even the Monsters use AAs, so you should too. Explore every floor until you fill up all of it's map if possible. Go back to town to level-up and sell off/make spells of the items you've collected a few times per floor. And find shortcuts! They are fairly easy to locate, and save you plenty of time and patience.

ALWAYS have at least 1 Transfer Potion handy. Early in the game you can find plenty, and even find a Shop that sells 'em cheap. But once you start finding shortcuts, you will miss them, and you WILL regret it later in the game when you just HAVE to make a hasty retreat just to find out that you're out of Transfer Potions. If you are in need of combat hints, check the Allied Actions section.

Got some incredible item you want to equip on your characters but can't because of their Class? Here's a neat trick. It's costly, but might well be worth it. Go to B5, to Kasta's Shop. Buy an Orb and change your character to whatever Class that allows you to equip the item he/she wants. Then go ahead and equip the item, then buy the Orb of your original class. Use the Orb to change back to your original class - hey, they forgot to un-equip your stuff! As long as you don't un-equip them accidentally, they will stay on. You can also buy certain items at Vigger's Shop that give you Class changes as well, just use SP to release their special powers.

Having trouble with Traps and Locked Chests? Can't do Gotz's Traps? Press the Start Button to pause between 2 or 3 button presses to catch you breath and you should do fine.

Another nice trick for those nasty Monsters hiding in the back row. If you have a front row Samurai or Knight who has a Spell that targets a single Monster, then try this out. Select the Spell, then a back row target. Just make sure the arrow is pointing on the target (don't press X again), then back up 3 menus to that character's main menu and select "Fight" and you'll still be targeting the back row Monster! You can now even select other Monsters in the back row!

Note that the Spell MUST target a single Monster. Teal, for example, won't work with this trick.