[Knarfling]

I tried importing a party and finally gave up on them after about 4 tries. My trouble was that I built my Wiz 7 characters into high level elite classes after switching roles many, many times. I think I had two or three characters that knew almost every spell. They even knew different spells from different spell books that did the same thing. When I imported I found that I had a Lord, Valkyrie, Monk, Fairie Ninja, Bishop and Ranger, all elite classes. When they imported, they lost a lot of their stats, so in stats they were no better off than a new lot. They did have an advantage in skill points, as long as they were usefull skill points.

I found that I could not advance in magic very fast. I was heavy on the fighter end and very low on the magic end. I tried changing a few of them back to basic roles, but I could not seem to get any magic going and often died because I had no area affect or cone type offensive spells. I even made it to level 10 characters through Arnika without the benefit of an Armorplate spell. I finally gave up and built a new party from scratch. I supose that If I had built up a few high level base classes in Wiz 7 I would be much better off, but that would be bad for Wiz 7.

I will say that I miss some of the items that came accross. The diamond ring, the Ahnks of Might and the Stun rods were very kewl.

All in all, I will stick with the new party. At least until I can go back to Wiz 7 and change classes a one more time to maximize what gets imported.

Good Luck
Knarfling