Bravely Default: For the Sequel – Full Free Play Edition

[Draylo]

Love this game so much, really enjoying it!

[Karbuncle]

Nothing worse so far than you would have figured out on your own reading the enigmatic writings in D's journal like 15 minutes into the game.

In my defense I ignored the journal after it was described as essentially story spoilers.

[CoreyX]

This game has a ridiculous amount of flavor text for even the most insignificant things

[Mina]

In my defense I ignored the journal after it was described as essentially story spoilers.

I kinda flipped through everything really fast to get rid of the "new" mark but I never even glanced once at the contents. So I guess we're both guilty of that. I actually only started going through all of it now.

Edit: yeah the flavor text is nice. Even weapons have a nice bit of detail to it.

[Ratatapa]

The red mage boss

godamn that guy

[Mina]

The red mage boss

godamn that guy

I said the same thing. My solution in case you want it:

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You need to do big bursty damage. Thief or Valkyrie, Jump/Godspeed that punk ass.

[Ratatapa]

I said the same thing. My solution in case you want it:

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You need to do big bursty damage. Thief or Valkyrie, Jump/Godspeed that punk ass.

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Currently having WHM BLM RNG MNK Guess i'll remove MNK BLM, i just unlocked Valkyrie so it's lv 1 atm

Also don't have friends attacks anymore cuz people not updating their shit!

[Mina]

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Currently having WHM BLM RNG MNK Guess i'll remove MNK BLM, i just unlocked Valkyrie so it's lv 1 atm

Also don't have friends attacks anymore cuz people not updating their shit!

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Valkyrie is definitely the most broken class for a while. It eventually loses out to other classes but I want to say I beat that boss as Valk, Valk, Valk, White Mage/Thief... This is on hard difficulty of course.

I update mine once every hour but I don't think we're friends on my JP 3DS. Seems like no one else is updating besides xopher, lol.

[Karbuncle]

I said the same thing. My solution in case you want it:

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You need to do big bursty damage. Thief or Valkyrie, Jump/Godspeed that punk ass.

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He surprisingly gave me no trouble, beat him into a bloody pulp pretty quick, but I have a special or two saved up. just Defaulted to 3 turns, had my mage throw up shell on all 4, and Edea(My night, has WHM sub) tossed 3x cure to counter the Thundara spam... Then my RNG and my THF just blew him a new A-hole. (PS, Life Steal and Mug are immensely awesome, I've stolen a good deal of decent weapons/armor from the Job fight bosses).

[Mina]

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He surprisingly gave me no trouble, beat him into a bloody pulp pretty quick, but I have a special or two saved up. just Defaulted to 3 turns, had my mage throw up shell on all 4, and Edea(My night, has WHM sub) tossed 3x cure to counter the Thundara spam... Then my RNG and my THF just blew him a new A-hole. (PS, Life Steal and Mug are immensely awesome, I've stolen a good deal of decent weapons/armor from the Job fight bosses).

Steal is pretty good. Some bosses have x2 things to steal so keep an eye out for those. This method would probably work too Ratatapa.

[mistmonster]

I been getting lots of update from people. I'm not doing 9999s yet but been uploading 6k-7k ones. Don't know if it helps and if people get them.

My OCD is going to kill me on this. So many combos, so many jobs to level.

Are there any missables?

[Karbuncle]

Steal is pretty good. Some bosses have x2 things to steal so keep an eye out for those. This method would probably work too Ratatapa.

I usually have my THF mug until it says enemy has nothing to take.

Edit: I also have my Friend summon ting set to Rejuvenation, since everyone is doing MAXIMUM EPEEN numbers as theirs, I figured I'd send out a Full heal buff.

[Ratatapa]

I just owned him my own way, thx all and SWEET REVENGE

[Krandor]

Templar (currently sitting on 366 def) with Kairai from Ninjutsu is freaking awesome. Been going thru where you can redo boss fights with leveled up stats. Any boss with single target attacks just smacks her for single digits, while the rest of the party just goes balls out without a care in the world. Anything AoE based just gets shit in by the healing throughput of the level 12 WHM support ability.

And to top it all off the level 12 Templar ability let's them poor on nearly as much damage as the others with no negatives because the class is so goddamn slow that it's one turn debuff won't matter.

[Krandor]

Are there any missables?

As far as I can tell, nope. The blue chests aren't meant to be opened til much later in the game and they're scattered all over the place, so you're going back anyways.

[Ratatapa]

As far as I can tell, nope. The blue chests aren't meant to be opened til much later in the game and they're scattered all over the place, so you're going back anyways.

I heard if you dont do side quest you cant do them in other chapters

[Krandor]

I'd be inclined to say based on what I've seen in chapter 5 that you can redo any you missed, but I'm not 100% on that.

[Mina]

I'd be inclined to say based on what I've seen in chapter 5 that you can redo any you missed, but I'm not 100% on that.

Some things are easier to get early on

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Vampire skills in Chapter 4

but I don't think there are missables.

[Damane]

Templar (currently sitting on 366 def) with Kairai from Ninjutsu is freaking awesome. Been going thru where you can redo boss fights with leveled up stats. Any boss with single target attacks just smacks her for single digits, while the rest of the party just goes balls out without a care in the world. Anything AoE based just gets shit in by the healing throughput of the level 12 WHM support ability.

And to top it all off the level 12 Templar ability let's them poor on nearly as much damage as the others with no negatives because the class is so goddamn slow that it's one turn debuff won't matter.

I was impressed by templar too but then i switched to the dark side....

nothing comes close to damage burst and somewhat safety consisten of a party of:

Main/Sub
Spiritmaster/Whitemage
Group Casting (Blm 14 ability)
Holy blabla (cure potency up, Spiritmaster)

with 3x
Monk/Dark Knight
HP+20%
Max HP up (doubles HP at start of battle, but doesnt fill it up)

go with 20k+ HP into town and abuse that minus strike for 9999 dmg. Shit is retarded (of course adjust your equipment to various battle). So far havent seen in story mode any obstacle that couldnt be rollfaced by this ¬.¬ (Town nemesis are different), tough I havent yet finished the storyline. Of course if your HP gets to high due to healing for 10k HP just use some Black bane or Dark bane, and if the oponent is anal about only casting magic use the spiritmasters enigma. Most enemys dont even survive the first round of 12x 10k dmg.

The only draw back is if you die during battle your HP boost gets nullyfied. so make sure you dont die or its back to 10k HP in that fight


This is one of the few JP RPGs I really enjoy since years. Biggest plus is the ability to totally turn of monster encounters if you wish just to proceed through story, and the conversations and character development is made very good.
Reminds me alot of FFXI jobsystem with main subjobs etc. me like alot the flexibility!

[Rocl]

Steal is pretty good. Some bosses have x2 things to steal so keep an eye out for those. This method would probably work too Ratatapa.

I spent forever trying to get the 2nd steal on the NIN boss then said fuck it I wanted Ninja too bad to keep at it. Same with Swordmaster.