a claw user is your friend
claws are AMAZING.
first they can use flailing nails which can hit 4 times in a row which is great for killing the metal slime family. and the attack is to one monster not random so like i said its good for killing metal slimes. occasionally it will miss totally or only do one but it does at least three a lot.
they also can do hard claw. which i think is the best ability in the game (keep in mind that ive only used like 3 percent of the abilitys but ive read about all of them). hard claw hits twice hard to a single monster. and it does more then a single attack. also, and this is what i like to do, cast oomph on ur claw user and bring his/her tension to 100. epicness.
you can also use the claw of god move (might be called hand of god) which does high damge.
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