Oh, really? That's my bad then, I assumed she was crap. Sweet! I'm going to keep dumping lapis on the GL banner then, hopefully I can get another one or three. Haven't really seen her in the companion list, only Aurora Fryevias, so I just assumed she wasn't great.
As for Firion, it is indeed the vast array of killers at his disposal that interest me. I was hoping to make use of him for a trial or two. Wilhelm's on the list too... I might prioritise him actually.
I spent the night blasting through the story (from Gronoa to end of chapter 1 in four hours because insomnia), all easy, pretty much just pressed Repeat over and over. But then, doing the pre-Bahamut explorations required a little more focus. I mean, it was straightforward, my team is strong enough to take a beating, but a tank would have been quite helpful for the pre-emptive strikes. Would have saved me time and MP from healing up after that shit.
And I was crazy, I did all the explorations in one sweep because I blew my tent in the first area. I didn't really know what I was doing lol. Fortunately my team is pretty self-sufficient when it comes to HP and MP. But yeah, tank would be good, and I'm definitely going to need one for the trials that you can't just OTKO with buff + break + killers + ridiculous element chains.
Edit: just noticed why no one ever equips Bahamut to their leader units — cool stats but he has literally no skills (yet).