Record of Agarest War

Story related, cannot be missed.

I would recommend Leonhart, Ladius, Borgnine, Thoma, Ellis, and Winfield (or Vira-Lorr if you are finding battles difficult) for this generation. As before, first you must find the Forbidden Tome in order to be able to bring back Ladius. Even though Thoma is a mage, it is still worth boosting his VIT stat. Since this will be more costly, you may want to leave it slightly lower before moving onto boosting INT.

Of note in this Generation is that Midas, a boss near the end of the generation, is probably one of the hardest fights in the game, so I will provide an in depth guide to taking him down. At the level you face him (generally around level 50), he will KO anyone he targets and has a couple of area of effect attacks that can wipe a party if they are close enough, at least on a fresh Hard run.

EX skills will be your friend in taking him down, but first and foremost, make sure you have a full party at minimum level 50 all with Proofs of Valour used (you can get these from chests and completing titles). These are crucial as they 'upgrade' your characters giving you a big boost in AP/max AP and Move (as well as stats and HP). If you have to grind a little to reach this point, then battling in quest zones won't raise your turn counter.

At the start of the battle, send out your main tank to stand off against him and have your other characters hang back 4+ squares without any being directly behind your tank as the boss has a move that will hit them also. Try to have the Tank in the extended area of one of the characters at the back (many have a single spot far forward) but only as an outlier to your main formation, not as the lynchpin. You may find you have to place a character directly behind your tank to get this set up (this will be Leonhart if following the suggested party); if so, make sure you have a good few fragments of life and a character with lower agility than your tank (i.e. moves after him) in a position to revive this 'off tank' character. It is useful to have Ellis in the party both for her ability to resurrect (healing is of little importance in this fight and you'll generally be KOed when hit) and total field coverage thanks to her second EX skill (even without the SP/AP to use it).

Begin the action phase and the boss will KO your tank giving your party members 25 SP. Stand back until the boss attacks (he will destroy you if you run in since you won't be able to do enough damage to finish him off in one turn without EX). Once your tank is down, use one of your mages to resurrect him (with the rest of your party so far back). Your mages should have low enough agility that they will go after the boss even when on full AP. At the very least, you need someone slow enough to be able to send a mage up to resurrect your tank after the boss hits (hence it's a good idea to use a character with decent agility as the tank)

Now in the move phase, run your mage back into formation, and simply repeat the process until you have 150-200 SP. It helps a lot to have skills like status up/power up on your non-mage characters, and casting this on themselves will net you 10 SP per cast as well. When you are ready, unleash a full turn of EX 1 and 2 attacks, making sure to pull off any specials you can. You should be able to easily take the boss out in one action this way, even on Hard. If you have spare AP, then use this to run the combo counter as high as you can before launching the EX attacks as it a higher combo adds a multiplier to damage. Alternatively, if you have few decent combo attacks, perform high damage attacks after the EX attacks to break the boss.

I would suggest taking Faina as your bride this generation as it leads to a great mage version of Duran.