Even with A rating with Leonie and a 33 in the hard stat she was interested in (STR), I still needed to get up to E+ in Lance for her to join my class. Huh.
Wrapping up the first half now. They REALLY needed to nerf the shit out of Professor Level on Maddening, but they didn't, which blows. There's room for a 4th difficulty to actually fix Professor Level, which is the biggest sore the game has for both balancing and pacing. Even doing almost every general Paralogue in Part 1, I have plenty of time to spare and grind.
Ignatz joined my class without needed to spend any time or resources on him, and went on to replace my Bernadetta as my main archer. +20 to Hit and his massive luck stat is a godsend in Maddening. Petra and Bernie often had like 60-70% chance to hit even just two spaces away.