have made zero story progress since yesterday but i decided to focus on clearing the colosseum to get that one character
somehow pulled it off with a team of
josef/hodrick/selvie/mordon/berengaria, though i did have to grind the colosseum to get selvie a ruby pendant just so she could get a sandstorm off (and i guess i also did an hour of level grinding as well to get the team barely up to lv30 too, though i'm not sure if that was actually necessary). still shocked i managed to win that fight though, especially considering i'm pretty sure one of the skills they had was one to guarantee hits (combined with a ton of party-wide attacks...) and i wasn't even using evasion builds on any of them, but i guess it worked out.
and now i just have a whole squad of people at level 30 and a newly unlocked level 40 character to complement all my barely level 20 squads lol, guess i have an excuse to retire them so i can actually fit some of the elves in
anyway i guess here's finally where i try doing the rest of the plot so i'm actually ready to move onto the other games i wanted to play this month lol
edit:
i'm taking the equipment off of them now and oh wow i didn't realise i'd even just left a golden egg on one of them lmao, i definitely had a chance even without the ruby pendant if i'd optimised them a bit better. also it's very nice that the trophy character also comes with legit great equipment (at least for this point in the game anyway. a free second ruby pendant among other things is super nice given how long it takes to grind the colosseum)