When I played MM6 back in my adolescence, I got a bit beyond level 40 before finally getting bogged down by what seemed like a sudden steep rise in the game's difficulty curve. That's as far as I ever got in MM6. I'd start new games now and again over the next few years, but finally I let it go and played Oblivion or whatever.Now it's been nearly a decade since I touched MM6, and it's time I give this great game the full playthrough I should've given it years ago. First, I'm doing some prep-research (something I really didn't do back in the day), so I can create and develop my party according to a sturdy design. Constructive criticism is much appreciated. Please, give me your feedback!!
Druid and Sorcerer are a must, to cash in on the super-powerful later-game magic capacity that everybody tells me about. 
I was thinking about having a Knight and a Cleric, when I figured that I might be better off replacing that Cleric with a Paladin instead. Seeing as a Cleric's main healing role tends to diminish in utility as one gets further through the game, a Paladin would be a powerful alternative. Combined with the Druid, they'd provide more than enough healing power to replace a Cleric (with the Paladin as a survivable backup if anything happens to the Druid), and each of the two classes double as heavyweights in either melee or spells, so no character slots get used up on account of a pure healer with diminishing utility. The only loss here is the Cleric's later game light/dark ability.
Two melee tanks, great healing and self-magic, and, I think, formidable elemental magic (I'm sure some veterans will tell me that a Druid and Sorcerer are a bare minimum). Knight, Paladin, Druid and Sorcerer: What's your opinion? Do you think it lacks in some way, or has too much of something else? What would you prefer to change, and why? Please let me know!
Let me check . . .