If your planning on having Raven joining your party when you do the right quests for her, my advice is right from square one (ie Zeppelin Crash) gather arrows for her on every creature, chest, stolen goods, I mean every where. I have nearly 2000 arrows ready for her. She is an expert with bow and shots a barrage of arrows at the baddies. In my previous game I was a melee type so I ignored arrows then when I got her she quickly depleted the little I could find/buy that far in the game. So if you want to take advantage of one of her strongest points stock up as you go. By the way I have collected this many arrows and I am at the wheel clan part of the game thus I have a bit ways to go yet. Some people hate missile fire with party members since they can hit your own team members and sometimes turn on one another but I haven't really hit that too often.
next my next char i think is gonna be an ancher, maxed in melee,bow, repair, dodge and pick locks... gonna go completely neutral... no tech or magic skills, try to keep 0 on my meter and max as many different random skills i can ... gonna group all range chars (raven, lizardman, vollinger, and sebastion) hehe it will be interesting... the game can be easy.. but i try to make it both fun and challenging. peace