Power-ups

YESSSSS I AM SO KEEN AS BEANS. Nostalgia being quite the powerful beast, I'm at least going to give a nod to my first run and call this guy Trout.

Ok so: My first choice would've been a build to utilise Thief-ing, because Power-Up stealing is great because it a) nerfs enemies who needed that power-up to be a credible threat, b) even worthless powerups you have three of like "spark attack" are good for selling/trading. I was also the Thief last time haha nope, turns out Slorange was the thief, I was the cleric, but either way I really liked the mechanic.

Then I realised that the thief build was hella fragile and (despite speed investment) didn't work fast enough to be any real use. Its core ability's inherent unreliability didn't help matters, either.

I then realised a fatal flaw with our last team and all its highly-specced archers and ninjas and rogues and other fragile builds was that the tanks were kind of useless. If everyone had to congregate on the Boss each turn to land a hit on it anyway, it would usually do the expected minimal damage on the tanks, and rip all the casters/rogues/rangers new arseholes. What made matters even worse was that it'd take the Tank a couple extra turns to get in the firing line anyway, because between armour and specialised weapons they weren't built for speed.

So this is my solution: A tank that can actually tank.

Hit All Linked with Battle Shield creates the Interceptor, a shield which can draw All Enemy Attacks (albeit with a cooldown, which makes it a strategic decision about when it's best to use this ability).

The last two slots could be any of:
Iron Armour, Health+10, or Defense+3 so I can actually take hits. Iron Armour could also be Linked with the Interceptor to make me into some kind of living statue.

Heal and Mana+10 is another valid option, if I'm exclusively relying on others to kill the monster in question. Heal also has good synergy with Hit All; a second Link lets me cast Heal All as well as Tank All.