GABYSOFT

Personally, I use 2 Samurai, 2-3 Priests 2-3 Mages and a Thief (I don't use Rangers because the are hard to roll and hard to level and I don't have the time). I am probably not the best player, however, so others might weigh in with better suggestions.

I'm using 3 samurai 6 rangers and 1 priest right now, however the priest and 1 Samurai will go whenever I get around to rolling 2 more rangers. 2 samurai 8 ranger seems to really be the optimum team. Either that or 10 rangers. Haven't tested whether you can pump out more damage with just using rangers in spot 1 and 2 and just casting spells with no auto attack vs using melee rangers. Ofcourse that only applies once your team of rangers have enough spells to cover a trip. I think rangers have more magic and priesr power than either pure class even if you don't count the other school. Reason being that my rangers tend to level faster than my priest does or mages did when I had them. Yes they do have less chance to level but having more spells gives them more opportunity to level. I found mages and priests ran dry of spells pretty quick. If you simply look at total spells of each level rangers do have many more and both types have powerful attacks for level 4-6 spells. So 3 firestorms and 1 holy word is almost as strong as 4 firestorms and rods and blade barrier are competitive or better than the mage ice storm and lighting storm. Plus I like having enough seek home spells in my party to never have to walk out. There really isn't one spot I think could be filled by a different class. Rangers have enough hp that if one samurai does die they can hold their own and the third samurai isn't nearly as powerful ranged as a ranger.

As I said this is all based on higher level optimum party ideas until 30+ mages and priests are still pretty useful they get more gigher level spells and get them earlier I believe, once your rangers get a few level 6 spellsthough the difference becomes very apparent.