Bravely Default: For the Sequel – Full Free Play Edition

[Ratatapa]

Wow ok

[Esvedium]

Going on a trip later this week, so I've been putting off playing the main game, only just into chapter 2 right now, but my Norende is almost completely finished... Do the beast parts do something for you later in the game, I've got a big stockpile from Norende and from grinding a bit by killing everything with mug, don't want to sell them if they are actually used for something, though.

[Cream Soda]

End of CH 4

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Had a "DAFAQ" moment at Alternis for more than one reason.

The obvious one of course. Identical to Ringabell and D's journal.

and the fact that Edea didn't know he looked like Ringbell. I mean they did grow up together, no? Wouldn't she have had a wtf moment when first meeting Ringabell (but if this is explained later, just say so rather than spoiling it for me please)

Also, between the vampire quest and the Earth tower, it makes it look like the forces of Eternia are the good guys; but contridicts all of the actions/things they've done in the game up until that point, like waging wars and oppressing people. Threatening claudisia to get a hold of Anges, etc. (but again if this is explained later, then simply say so vs spoiling)

Lastly, I have a feeling about Airy... she's a little cunt.

[Eanae]

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Ended up just using Rampart and Stillness to block Energy Burst myself. Made him a pushover. Getting all the spells is fun, Vampire seems to be quite god damn powerful with a good arsenal of Genomes to play with.

OP Strats:

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Templar is completely OP. Revenge, Pdef 10%, Protect Ally, Angelic Ward. I don't think I've had him die yet. Using a thf/nin to feed him BP off Revenge in the case I need to get up Rampart otherwise I spam Desperation. The pdef down from it doesn't mean shit since Templar always attacks last anyways.

My other favorite combo is Swordmaster/Spell Fencer + Ninja. Swordmaster keeps up drain blade and spams it's counter moves, ninja forces things to attack sword master. He counters for 9999 every time and heals to full with the drain blade. So op.

[Rocl]

Going on a trip later this week, so I've been putting off playing the main game, only just into chapter 2 right now, but my Norende is almost completely finished... Do the beast parts do something for you later in the game, I've got a big stockpile from Norende and from grinding a bit by killing everything with mug, don't want to sell them if they are actually used for something, though.

A job uses them later on.

[Scythiroth]

OP Strats:

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Templar is completely OP. Revenge, Pdef 10%, Protect Ally, Angelic Ward. I don't think I've had him die yet. Using a thf/nin to feed him BP off Revenge in the case I need to get up Rampart otherwise I spam Desperation. The pdef down from it doesn't mean shit since Templar always attacks last anyways.

My other favorite combo is Swordmaster/Spell Fencer + Ninja. Swordmaster keeps up drain blade and spams it's counter moves, ninja forces things to attack sword master. He counters for 9999 every time and heals to full with the drain blade. So op.

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It's pretty hilarious how much you can break this game and basically just be Invincible. Someone with Hasten World set and Spiritmaster abilities set on your slowest person -> all your fast people attack -> Stillness goes off making you immune to the enemy attacks -> Default until Stillness wears off -> repeat with tons of brave -> lol, never take any damage.

[Damane]

So I suspect that the bonus "egg" for xp and jp only affect the person who wears it?

Anyway just grinned outside of eternia 47-56 in about 30 min lol

nope you only need one person in the PT equiped with it and all benefit from it

[Antithesis]

This game has such a strange synergy with it's music. The game is evocative of the traditional pseudo-European setting with knights and dragons and such but I found it quite amusing getting into the first "job" boss battle in this world setting only to have this hard, heavy rock song play:

[Damane]

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It's pretty hilarious how much you can break this game and basically just be Invincible. Someone with Hasten World set and Spiritmaster abilities set on your slowest person -> all your fast people attack -> Stillness goes off making you immune to the enemy attacks -> Default until Stillness wears off -> repeat with tons of brave -> lol, never take any damage.

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your idea actually made me a setup to auto kill all nemesis at lvl 99 lol

Taz
Job: Thief/Freelancer
ability: speed up 30% and 20%
equip: 2x Falcon knife for more Agility, hermes sandals/shoes
use: godspeed ----> mimic

Agnes:
Job: Spiritmaster/singer
Traits: Steady MP recover/Hasten world/Speed up 20%
equip: falcon knife/hermes shoes, adjust to go after the thiefs, but before the enemy
use: use Stillness, follow by love rush (AoE haste for pt members)

Ringabell:
Job: Spiritmaster/whitemage
traits: holy one/group cast all
equip: falcon knife x2 hermes etc., equip as much agility/speed so you go before the NM, doesnt matter in what order in the party
use: Fairy Ward (status ailment cover), Curaga

Edea:
Same setup as Taz and use


----> proceed to use auto battle after you have set up one round

additionally change ringabell to thief if debuff protection/cures arent needed! This does not work on enemys with physical counter.

[Rocl]

the fucking ancheim bosses are my favourite

"That's enough from the stupid hat club!"

can i have an entire game based on Khint/Jackal pls

[Ratatapa]

mmmm getting wrecked by the Dragons for the Vampire quest, even if I put the correspoding charm, mmmm have to revise my strat

[Rocl]

Utsusemi & afk

just like XI

[Ratatapa]

Utsusemi & afk

just like XI

Doesnt work he starts with eye then does his AOE that does 5k dmg even with Utsu

[Rocl]

That's patently false. Utsusemi blocks the breaths. They'll do Eye -> Breath, but Eye goes through Utsu and Breath will eat the shadow.

If you're slower than him throw on some Hermes shit or swap to a faster job.

[Fievel]

That's patently false. Utsusemi blocks the breaths. They'll do Eye -> Breath, but Eye goes through Utsu and Breath will eat the shadow.

If you're slower than him throw on some Hermes shit or swap to a faster job.

This ^

I just did the dragons an hour ago, utsu blocks breath just fine.

[Antithesis]

Utsusemi & afk

just like XI

Tempted to sig.

[Ratatapa]

That's patently false. Utsusemi blocks the breaths. They'll do Eye -> Breath, but Eye goes through Utsu and Breath will eat the shadow.

If you're slower than him throw on some Hermes shit or swap to a faster job.

found my mistake lol

[Prothescar]

Rampart blocks the breaths too, and Greater Fairy Ward/Enigma overwrites resist down. Ward is nice since it persists until they uses Eye again; occassionally they can do Eye -> Breath -> Breath which can be annoying if you aren't expecting it and are relying on Utsusemi.

[Eanae]

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Yes, it'll put you back in the world you were in before you broke the crystal. Like, I was in Chapter 7 and broke the Earth Crystal after awakening the Wind. Upon beating the boss it asked me if I wanted to save & restart that world? I was dreading doing Orthros again (since for some reason he always give me the most trouble) but it just spat me back in Chapter 7 w/ the Wind Crystal awakened.

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Funny story about Orthos since I just hit him in ch7. 3/4 of my party died and I was out of Phoenix Downs so I thought the fight was over until I noticed they were hitting my Templar for 0 and 1. Managed to take a video of how hilarious the fight was:



Fight went on like that until I won. Would have went faster if I used up the BP from revenge, but auto was good enough.

[Karbuncle]

Spiritmasters level 14(?) Ability grants Elemental immunity to all party members for ~4 turns. Just slap that and RDMs BP+2 When hit with a debuff move on one of your people and back, have your 3 people beat he boss up and have the 4th keep your party immune to E'ERTHANG.

Or Utsusemi and afk, as Rocl said. They both work.

Edit: Yah, Turtling works really REALLY well in this game, but you take a bit hit to your Attack output by doing so. It just depends on your play style. Faceroll through immunity, or faceroll through 9999. Still had a lot of challenging boss fights, even when I was overleveled though.