Well, I built the Amusement Center, reopened the pool, and got the Arachne and Unicorn familiars.

The Clown is useless because he keeps casting a useless LoDown spell on the enemies, that wastes his MP. When a familiar runs out of MP, they fall alseep and become useless, so that's why I don't like using Clown. Picket is just too weak. Even at higher levels, he only does 1 HP of damage per attack!

I Crawl and 1000
"I always seem to see both sides when they disagree
and neither one seems right" - Daryl Hall