Personally I found at the beggining of the game:
Yuna: Gunner
Rikku: Black Mage
Paine: Warrior
to be pretty much invincible, I mean the Black Mage’s magic is so fucking strong I could literally kill any boss in 2 turns, that along with Trigger Happy to set up the chain = win. Paine just used breaks and stuff, didn’t really need to heal since enemies were dead in like 2 turns.
After that I got bored with face-rolling and went on to even more face-rolling by having:
Yuna: Berserker
Rikku: White Mage, I later added Black Magic to her.
Paine: Dark Knight with Swordplay from GG
Damn Dark Knights take out all the fun from the game, they’re too freaking powerful, and I dunno if it was just my Berserker, but I found Yuna in this dressphere to be kinda weak, I mean there was no real reason for me to use her other than I like the looks and the fact that she is a berserker and sets some challenge due to her low defense.
so what are YOUR favourite setups?
Death Knight (I think it’s called that…..)
Warrior
White Mage
But in reality just switch to a special dressphere and auto win most battles, that’s how I beat the final boss anyway.
Lady Luck
Alchemist
Dark Knight
The Alchemist is one of the best dresspheres in my opinion because she can fight as well as use awesome restorative items free of charge. I know it’s kind of cheap, so sue me. The Dark Knight is obvious; I preferred it over the Berzerker because the latter isn’t really as much of a controllable powerhouse, and I didn’t really like the Berzerker’s abilities. I enjoyed using Lady Luck for Four Dice and Critical abilities. I also used the Samurai from time to time instead of Lady Luck.
And yeah I found Berserker to be kinda lame, Samurai is cool I guess, and I hate Lady Luck just because of… well, Luck. And I agree with you the battle system was really good with magic taking time to be casted, and it was dynamic, etc. It was really nice.