ToH Monster: Feedback?

[azurerogue]

Harder monsters would be fine with me. Last ToH I actually made it to I brought a level 95 Hunter (a very good PvM class, admitedly) wearing only +4 gears that fall into the Archer Set, no second accessory, and a +5 Hunter Bow[1] with a Cruiser Card in it. I brought various arrows, and some mastela fruits (which I never used). I totally forgot to bring SP healing items because I was preparing the character at 3 AM before going to sleep. I also brought traps.

Without even really trying (only used Double Strafe a few times) I earned 50 points on Monster and like 40-45 on Item. It shouldn't be that easy. Now, no matter what you do, Hunter/Snipers will probably (in general) perform fairly well on Monster Trial, so maybe this is a bad example. All I know is that, even with the current monster choices, Monster Trial sucks for Sage/Professor - if only because most high end monsters (5th round choices) have high MDef to make them not get totally owned by Amp SG (which they still usually do anyways). It's not so much that the Professor can't survive, it's that high MDef generally owns bolters (though, with siroma and imp cards, it might be a little bit more reasonable now).

I dunno, just my opinion. I'd be fine with harder monsters.