@Satsuki:
Maybe I should try to level-up my mages then.
And I HATE swamp slogs, so this is going to be a bitch.
Clerics you mean. Male mages promote to sages which, while kinda cool, aren't the best units all things considered. Same with Females which promote to priestesses. Kinda useful if you have a ladyblade but eh. It's even better when the saints have the absolute best support spells in the game divided amongst all of them, with each of them also learning seraphim. I think by end-game, not only is seraphim useful, but the probability that your saint will heal in close combat at some point with nosferatu makes them shockingly decent there as well.
Despite having a class dedicated to defense in the Baron line, I'd say that the dread fighters have much greater utility because they still boast great defense and resistance with the speed and offensive stats to really fuck up whoever wants to tackle your front line.