A Question about Durant, See inside for info! Options

[Yuka]

I'm not too fond of using Durant for some bizarre reason, but does he become essential later in the game?

[ChefMKT]

How could you not...? You fought, and beat, Gulcasa, didn't you...?

I didn't know it quadrupled against units you're weak against. I thought Gulcasa only gave buttloads of exp because he's Gulcasa.

But it's a misnomer. You always get a stat upped for the MVP. The MVP Bonus is the extra bit you get when you beat the level in a certain amount of turns.

Yes yes, I labelled it wrongly. I should've said the stat bonuses gained from MVPs.

Little stars are still counted, you know. Not toward skills, but they do make a difference.

Oh, little stars don't count towards skills? No freaking wonder that Medusa Eye kept stoning my hunter in that battlefield. =(! Also, if little stars are counted towards the general skirmishes itself, that'd make MVPs somewhat of value, especially LUK when trying to get enemies to drop items. Of course, there's items to increase stats permanently. Getting MVPs to reach the next big star however, will maximize the efficiency of the item since they boost the stat until the next big star.

Well, a little hint.
O = "Good" effect. It could actually be bad, however, based on the situation.
- = Neutral effect. I don't really remember any items with this.
X = BAD. Usually. It can be good, depending on the situation, but in most cases it's bad. I think the items you get from Pamela (you should know their effects) have this.
The thing is, the items you get in the end game are almost all fucking good. I remember one item I got late in, for Elena or Milanor, I think, that continued to charge my aggression at all times. Even when in Aggressive mode. Albeit slow, but it did.

Yeah, I knew what the symbols meant and as you said, sometimes the 'good effects' can be bad in certain situations. I'll probably wait for the english version so I can decipher what these effects do.

Yes, but you can use them as many as seventeen times (in theory, though I don't know if there's a practical moment for it) without have to wait for the "reshuffle" time.

Seventeen times you say? That's interesting. Could you explain how this would work? (In theory of course)