Well, my first run this year, in Classic Mode provided me with white and black mage and two knights, and that went over relatively well; since it's Classic that means 2-handed never left my knights and my mages got improved MP pools. I'd run away a few times by mistake but the Brave Blade was still able to outperform even the Ragnarok even then.
...Granted I had to kill Shinryu to get the latter, but it wasn't too bad with this party; just had to keep up blink while keeping my knights and enemy berserked, and the Defender and Excalibur provided fine as secondaries until then.
Exdeath decided to be cheeky and targeted my mages with White Hole instead of my Aegis-wearing-for-that Knights, but after that and in the end I prevailed with NED with everyone left standing at the finish. Didn't attempt Omega, who knows how much grinding I'd have to do to take it down.
Then after that, it was time to check out this year's two new modes; Popular and Fifth Job. The latter may have not been a good idea, because the former got me, in order, Black Mage (again), Dancer, Monk, and Bard; so unless the replacement is Beastmaster or Chemist, Omega escapes again.
Then again, I finally got to test out the combination I'd been wondering about for a while thanks to this job combo: Barehand Sword Dance, and well... 3-6k damage depending on luck? HOLY SHIT. And now that I'm in the Second World, that's slipping into the 4-8k (something around 1.8k noncrit per strike in Drakenvale?). This is, of course, RNG-heavy, but when it works, it DESTROYS. I dunno if even the fully-powered chicken knife will obsolete that when combined with a Sword Dance Up piece...
3 more dungeons until I lose Bard, though. Sigh, oh well.