Bravely Second - Job and Class Combo Guide ~ The MetaGame

[@VGPorage]

I kinda disagree with Bishop being a less powerfull healer than the white mage due to it's benediction abbility. If you combo it with Group Cast Master you can do a full recovery on you entire team and it cost way less than a regular curaga.

[@cyndawu1940]

In my opinion, White mage is better at healing everyone. White Mage heals more in the beginning which might be more useful in the early game, mix the healing moves with Spellcraft Mist is very useful in the early game. Bishop on the other hand is really good for healing individually. It's not that as useful as white mage early on because you has very less HP in the earlier chapters. But in late game, it's really useful since it has even better healing moves. So in the end, white mage is good for healing everyone and Bishop is good for healing individually. Personally, I use Catmancer as my main healing job. White Wind is so useful as a healing move

[@cronical246]

Whitemages have a few better utility options as well as actual yet limited offensive spells. Bishop is strictly focused on healing with 1 offensive command in it's roster but great healing options that work for any party member sinve it's a fixed value

[@mitz2866]

I say that Bishop is better for two reasons: 1) Benevolence wall for MP drain. 2) Bishop is less risk more reward.

[@glenhawk3996]

Bishop+Group cast master +spellcraft = benediction mist (need I say more)

[@nsolomons8361]

Which class has group cast master?

[@IceFireofVoid]

Ninja with Quad wield and Multitask, taking names. And spellcraft is just amazing. Whoever came up with that deserves all the medals.

[@Coaltergeist]

Oh man, Oni, I got some GREAT combos for you here. So my setup usually goes like this (the one I used in Default and Second): -Magic DPS (Agnes/Yew) -Physical DPS (Edea) -Healer (Tiz/Magnolia) -Tank (Ringabel/Tiz) First of all, I gotta say Wizard is one of the best classes in the game; I personally never use it as a primary OR a secondary though. THEY GIVE YOU SPELLCRAFT AS A SUPPORT SKILL! THAT IS OVERPOWERED! You never need to have a wizard, you can just use spellcraft regardless. Second of all might I just say that I firmly believe that Summoner is the best class in Second, so I used Summoner/Time Mage on Yew. Summoner was awful in Default; what changed? Well, in Default, you could only group-cast summons, so it was only good for mobs, not bosses, making it useless as a primary or a secondary. Now they added Support summons like Charybdis and Amaterasu. Then, they gave Invoker to summoner (like you said in your vid)! Invoker was (imo) one of the best classes in Default, and now it is paired with Summoner for an even better combo. THEN, they made spellcraft a support skill, so you can use it with Summoner without wasting a slot! This means you can cast previously group-only spells as single-targets WITH increased damage. So now you can max your MAtk with Deus Ex Invoked, then cast (insert boss weakness here) with Arrow to literally hit eight times for 9999 damage. Dear. God. THEN you can add on another class as a secondary; I personally chose Time Mage. That means that, along with insane dps, I could also cast a Mist (spellcraft) Reraise on my party, ensuring they never die. Literally immortal party. I used Bishop/Astrologian on Magnolia. Bishop is the same way with summoner, but with White Mage's Groupcast Expert support ability (forgot the name, the one that makes group-casting as potent as single-casting) you have a low-mp spell (Benediction) that heals the entire party for ALL of their HP (100%) no matter your Mind stat. Pair that with Astrologian (and the spellcraft support ability of course), and you can make your entire party immune to status/elements for basically eternity. I know you mentioned Performer being better than Astrologian in buffing terms, but I don't think Performer can work with Spellcraft (I'm not sure about this, correct me if I'm wrong). I used Guardian/Knight on Tiz, which I thought synchronized very well. Guardian is incredibly good for bosses that have minions/ads, because you can kill all but one ad, then possess the last one. The benefits are twofold; you can do extra dps to the boss, AND they never respawn the other 2 minions! For bosses without ads, you can use the 11th level knight skill, who's name escapes me at the moment but is basically Forbearance from Paladin in Dragon Quest 9 to cover everyone while you take no damage. Last slot for Edea could have gone many ways, but I settled on Dark Knight/Fencer for the ridiculous damage output. Aurochs on turn 1, default for 4 turns, then goring aurochs -> Dark Bane -> Dark Bane -> Dark Bane/Wolf fang. Not much else to say. Woooooow that was a long post. I did not plan on writing an essay, but it all just kind of came out, so here it is. I hope you have time to read it lol. Great video!

[@OniBlackMage]

+Coaltergeist Great Tips!

[@jorge511000]

+Coaltergeist I just copied all this to a note for when i get the game lol thank you for the detailed and awesome set-up :)

[@samdenison7145]

+Coaltergeist You should try Fencer/Freelancer and a Kaiser/whatever or Whatever/Kaiser to do this: Use Kaiser's Noble Eagle and Overlord abilities, (this character needs to be faster than the Fencer, btw) then have the Fencer use Soaring Falcon first turn, then Falcon Claw + Mimic + Mimic + Mimic (helps to have Fencer with the Brave Suit or you have to default on your first turn, but this is essentially 4 hits of 9999 damage 4 times= 80000 damage in one turn.) Then have a Performer/Freelancer restoring everyone's BP with My Hero + Mimic + Mimic + Mimic) and lastly have a Astrologian / Bishop for what you mentioned before. Also, perhaps Edea could try being a Dark Knight / Excorcist to do Rage + Undo HP on herself? Guardian / Swordmaster is better imo, because counters are good for the damage reduction, and Guardian can build up Soul Power to devestate with Soul Cannon. And to answer your question about Performer class, they are not able to use Spellcraft. HOWEVER, the only flaw with Fencer / Freelancer is that against bosses with minions, you may end up hitting the minions more than the boss. And if you don't want to risk a LOT on Noble Eagle and Overlord, you could try a different, but essentially the same setup: Fencer/Freelancer stays the same but has to use Bloody Wolf and then switch to Soaring Falcon to do the combo. Guardian character needs above average attack power (two-handed spear should be enough) and possess Fencer/Freelancer on the turn he/she uses Soaring Falcon to add attack power, compensating for the lost Overlord buff. Performer/Freelancer is the same Astrologian/Bishop is the same Oh and you need the support abilities Limit Break if you're going with the Bloody Wolf method. (prolong support helps too)

[@rpglover5955]

+Coaltergeist Actually Yokai/wizard is probably the strongest class in BS, mainly due to how the ghost status mechanic works. Basicly you can get double magic damage and mp free abilities (and never EVER get hit) at the cost of not being able to buff your "ghosted" party members (and can only use "magic"). So either you go for potential multi cast for free (the support ability for yokai CAN trigger multiple times, have had one spell being "copied" 3 times at most) or you spell craft rain anything you need (4x hit which usually is 9999 damage if you have set up properly). Then probably just mimic that 4 times for some rather quick damage on whatever is in your way.

[@johnnyscifi]

Ringabel is in the game!!?

[@huntersampayo]

Damn, I love this Game. There is so Much Freedom and anyone can do incredible combos.

[@zantanzuken]

you missed out on something incredibly important.... monk rank's 5 and 10, knuckle lore and natural talent... can be used INCREDIBLY effectively on a guardian because when you possess one of your allies, all the guardians HP and attack are directly transferred to the second character without factoring in the second character still has equipment on to boost even further. add on buffs and everything, then bravely second to break damage you explode out into the redonk levels of damage.

[@daddyrobin4628]

Decent I guess but I personally find that class to gimmicky and slow AF! so Ima stay with monk or any other "hit hard" class thank u very much

[@paulpreserves8310]

i mean yeah but think about it, it's really worth giving up a character only for boosting another one? I mean u can do 2 same build for 2 characters and i think its better

[@samus88]

Hi, I just left another comment about how I don't understand this game. I'm close to ending BS, and I enjoyed both games, but I just don't understand them. You say "with this insane combo you reach ridiculous levesl of damage" (paraphrased), right? How? Your damage cap is 9999. I can do that much damage with minimal buffs and a "favorite pokemon style" approach to jobs, meaning I'm using the jobs I like without much thought put into them. So even if I used any of these "insane combos", it still wouldn't be any better that what I already did in both games. Now, of course "bravely second" mechanic exists and with that you break the damage cap, but I don't get it. Even if you've got a combo than can do say 999.999 damage with BS, you can only beat what, 3 bosses on one go and then you wait 24hs for t to recharge? Or you pay money for it? I don't get it.

[@zantanzuken]

for one, you can use the bravely second system in the same way you use your brave points... though the cap for both is 3 points, you can actually spend up to 6 points per turn dealing out damage, which means if you've buffed one character and are doing their strongest skills it can end up being some impressive damage. now, granted, you likely will NEVER have to actually utilize this in the game.. its just a neat system, but you can also save those combos and upload them online for other people to use, and for them (or if you're lucky enough to get one) those combos will do massive amounts of damage still, as though you had used SP, without actually using any... that's a system outside of just playing the game though, so if you're the kinda person who just enjoys playing the game yourself, you can choose to skip over it completely. you never have to use bravely second if you don't want to (except once really)

[@jamespadgett8660]

I had my guardian Yew possess my hawkeye edea with max P ATK buffs and armor piecing, and used Laser Barrage while in bravely second for 175k damage.

[@PyraXadon]

My final group was Tiz: Fencer/Hawkeye, Edea: Templar/Guardian, Magnolia: Yokai/Astrologian, and Yew: Summoner/Patissier. I don't get how this worked, but it REALLY worked. It required some setup, but the whole idea was to cheese the katana dual equip on Tiz with multitask and have him basically crit at any point possible as the glass cannon. Edea was meant to be a literal brick wall who could absorb damage and use the guardian skills to dish out soul power damage and damage nullification with Rampart and the Soul mirror. And Magnolia and Yew were built as mage/supports where Yew would use the Patissier command to draw attention to Edea and Magnolia provide any buffs when needed, as well as utilize spellcraft augmented powerhouse nuking spells that would deal a sh*t ton of damage. The only downside is that I had no way to rez people aside from phoenix downs, and there was a lot of searching needed to get everything set up.

[@mattyc6001]

With the yokai class, you can equip the exorcist lvl 11 ability and regain health and mp to previous turn after each turn. What this means is you don't need to worry about the mp costs of using yokai magic (75mp for most spells) as well as having a solid recovery every turn.

[@chokoanders6546]

The only reason to take Whitemage is the skill that makes it so that When you cast a heal on the party it dosent get weaker mix that with benediction and mist and Youre unstoppable

[@Chloethepikachu100]

I just finished Bravely Second today (after playing it on and off for 2 years :P) Here are my combos: Yew: Wizard/Black Mage: I swear he's a freaking BEAST with this combo. Yew did the most damage out of anyone! Magnolia: Bishop/Performer: Made Magnolia a full on support character. I mainly gave her the Performer job for One More for You so that Yew doesn't miss a turn after using spellcraft. ^^ Edea: Ninja/Freelancer: Ninja worked well for me in the first game so I gave it to Edea again. I gave her Freelancer as a secondary job just so I can examine enemies. I like to know how close I am to beating bosses. :) Tiz: Templar/Fencer: Again Templar worked well for me in the first game so I used it again. Not a great combo I guess but none of the other jobs really struck me (I considered Gaudian but I didn't want to cover Tiz's cool hair. Lame excuse I know.) Magnolia's One More for You helps Tiz out a lot too since Rampart costs 2 battle points! Yikes!

[@marcus6647]

You forgot to mention Group-Cast All from White Mage works with Astrologian and is more flexible because it's 2 slots instead of 3 slots in this game

[@chrisjackson6149]

I am in chapter 3, and it is very, VERY fun to use Ninja + Triple Wield (I do not have Quad Wield yet) + Hawkeye as secondary for Warhead. The trick is to have a Patissier make the enemy (usually bosses) weak to the element of your choice, select the same with element with Warhead and go to town with them. Condor + Harpoon if you wish to do MASSIVE DAMAGE!

[@marethyux3744]

Try Harpoon as well, it ignores defense and destroys your opponents

[@ivanbcn4]

copying your strat in 3,2,1...

[@javgamer722]

Great vid. Something I feel you should have mentioned is the Exorcist lv 3 job ability steady mp recovery. It heals 30 mp at the end of every turn. I feel it's great for any magic user especially ones with heavy costs if you don't want to use the Exorcist itself or the swords master free lunch.

[@OniBlackMage]

With that, I'm going back to working on RECAPitations again (seriously, it's been like 5 months) :p

[@TurtleFlowerboi]

Taking request by any chance?

[@OniBlackMage]

+Maanda Manyatshe Always, though I can say Xenogears is overdue

[@itamarmaoz9279]

To level up your job to level 11 you HAVE to equip awakening

[@mikei6605]

+Oni Black Mage it would be fun to see a recap of the zero escape series!

[@natedog2104]

The silent hill series would be a great recap

[@sonnytapman]

Oh, you forgot to mention that because of the Dragoon weapon, Hawkeyes can work great with Valkyrie as the secondary. ;)

[@janus_silvertongue]

I love that you did another one for Second. Looked for your video a while ago and was sad there wasn't one. So glad you got this up. Thanks!!!

[@FurryFan]

My favorite thing to do is put damage dispersion from Wizard on everyone and then the BP recovery when hit ability from the Red mage. The person hit takes less damage, everyone else takes like 40 damage, everyone gets free bp for practically nothing.

[@callumvicary5591]

Do you mean revenge? BP recovery is when Status effects hit you gain 1 BP.

[@CrimsonStigmata]

+Rinpoo That takes up a lot of ability slots though.

[@MorganMindfulness]

Ninja primary with quad wield BP recovery frenetic fighting and multitask with Hawkeye as secondary.

[@tooshay8]

Just saying, but you're a god for making this, I'm going through this game right now on Hard (just like i did with bravely default after maxing all jobs and character levels and roughly 120 hours) and i'm almost 50 hours in on chapter 3 about lv 43 each and currently grinding. This makes boss battle a lot easier to plan. Thank you so much!

[@stanley1698]

I actually like using a Dark Knight/Guardian combo (or vice versa) as Adversity and Guardian Spirit synergize well. Take a big hit, buff your stats and counter with a Soul Strike for good damage.

[@louisnick5660]

Items for all boosted devil's food cake, all enemies weak to dark. Astrologian casts Elemental mirror, dark. All dark attacks are reflected to enemies. Benediction wall on the enemy with the most health. Dark Nebula spam.

[@ruiribeiro8010]

I always had 2 sets in mind: The *First Set* is based on what I expected The characters to be. Yew: Fencer/Knight or Wizard/White Mage (as he is a scholar, likes books and studying whatever) Magnolia: Valkiry/Astrologian or Valkiry/Red Mage (Her main weapon is a glaive, a spear type weapon, and Red Mage is versattile like her. I dont need to explain Astrologian right?) Edea: Swordmaster/Patissier or Swordmaster/Ninja (Edea can hit extremely hard, has shown great domain with swords and had training, seems pretty agile, basically a glass cannon but with counters) Tiz: Ranger/Knight or Guardian/Emperor (Knight is obvious I guess, Ranger because Tiz was seen weilding a bow in a oficial picture, Guardian because he is loyal and protective, Emperor because shows superiority, as the famous hero he really is). *Second Set* is the ones that I find the best for a balanced team. Yew: Wizard/Time Mage or Red Mage (highest Magic Damage, really great, Red Mage is more versatile and can provide healing spells too wich you can use as mist, Time Mage is going all out for Damage) Magnolia: White Mage or Bishop/Astrologian (has the highest MIND best for healing and supporting) Edea: Templar/Ninja or Ninja/Shamanism (highest physical attack, can hit extremely hard, Ninja is very versatille and Shamanism provides some great skills like Harpoon to pierce their defendes and warhead to burst the enemies with their elemental weaknesses) Tiz: Guardian/Exorcist (Tiz is tanky af, Guardian fits perfectly and is very strong, Exorcism has a good sinergy with this and helps a lot at supporting your team mates or even to get them some MP if they run out of it.)

[@SinclairLocke]

8:44 Hawkeye only has A proficiency in Axes

[@xKagatox]

Astrologian with group cast all and steady mp recovery is the godsend of support units. Also, If you give a ninja frenetic fighting, multitask, barrage and crossfire, you are basically soloing the bosses

[@samus88]

I was disappointed with "frenetic fighting". Even at level99 and max ninja job, you still need to use the command to double hit count, otherwise you don't get to 32 hits.

[@treboreroom124]

Holy cow that's a lot of classes!! Nice work!!

[@kannonpq]

So far my favorite class combos are (Team Wise) Kaiser/Excorsist for a nice bulky tanky damage support. Monk/Dark Knight For blasting everything down (Excorcist is there for a reason) Summoner/Wizard or Yokai/Summoner (Do I really need to explain this one?) Valkyrie/Hawkeye (Lots of nice single target, and aoe elemental damage)

[@lalainesmith8509]

Leveling up those jobs takes a long time here coz there are more than in bravely default, but they do have some amazing new ones worth mixing up.

[@isaacbuddy]

Bishop's benediction spell+white mage's group cast master support ability=OP. The best thing about holy magic is that it heals based on a percentage of your health, so you could be using a class with the worst MND stat but you would still heal 30%, 50%, or 100% of your target's health.

[@cryptid2923]

My set up for the game is currently this (I'm at chapter 6, may add Yokai) Yew: Primary Fencer, Secondary Shamanism (Hawkeye) - Triple Wield - Eye of the Wolf - Rifle Lore - Barrage - Stampede (Guncleaver and Vendetta/Artisan Gloves) Edea: Primary Time Mage, Secondary Black Mage - Revenge - Spellcraft - M.Atk 20% Up (Megiddo Fire and Nirvana/Heart Ring) Magnolia: Primary Astrologian, Secondary Confectionery (Patissier) - Damage Dispersion - Critical Hitter - Precognition - Spellcraft (Staff of Life and Demon's Staff/Magic Armlets) Tiz: Primary Bishop, Secondary Exorcism (Exorcist) - Steady MP Recover - Damage Dispersion - Spellcraft - Undo Trois (Gambanteinn and Dark Shield/Life Ring) On the first turn I default for everyone, almost always Edea ends up with 2 bp on the second turn. I brave twice with Yew, using Harpoon and Warhead, Edea defaults again, Magnolia braves twice, using Bon Appetit to give the enemy an element weakness, and then using Soft Spongecake to lower their defense. Tiz uses Holy Night Blast to cast Holy Night on everyone since I default a lot, this saves me recovery time. Tiz doesn't get used much, I try to keep him at 3 BP so that if clean up is needed, he's there. I usually default until everyone is at 3 BP at this point, and then brave with Yew and Edea, using elemental weakness. By this point Yew probably has his special, Laser Discharge. I use Laser Discharge, shrike, and then Goring Aurochs. Edea usually uses elemental hammer's. As Yew and Edea are charging, I use Magnolia to put Evade, Physical, Mystic, and Elemental boons on the team, as well as re-applying weaknesses to the enemy. I've found that repeating this has left me with a lot of clean victories When in need of Tiz, I have him use Resurrect Blast, as well as sometimes reapplying Holy Night Mist and or using Innocence Mist to get rid of pesky status effects How does this strategy sound, any tips or was this helpful for your own playthroughs?

[@lionclan4575]

pirate and swordsman is still my fav! you can do so much damage with it, i always have to have one in both games! though I'm rather fond of fencer and hawkeye as well. and of course the spellcraft and *insert healing class* is also rad.

[@xKagatox]

Oni, quick note. The Yokai does require you to have awakening equipped otherwise it won't except job points between 10 and 11.

[@badassoverlordzetta]

Some synergy I''ve been playing around with: Ninja/Pirate: Quad Wielding Falcon knives to crank up the agility stat while taking advantage of Dual Wielding makes the damage of Tiz's auto attacks better than running Amped Strike without the need for Free Lunch from Samurai. Sky high evasion with Utsusemi for avoiding spells takes away the high risk of running no defense gear. Piracy is used to debuff enemies and draw fire into perfect avoidance. Turn the Tables from Red Mage for extra BP recovery and Precision from Ranger for even more damage. Monk/Merchant: Natural Talent is just gross. BP Drink is just gross. The amount of JP grinding to max all 30 god damn classes in this game is just gross. Might as well take advantage of all of it at once. I'm pretty sure monks are supposed to forego worldly desires like money, but there's nothing quite as satisfying as an unstoppable killing machine that can straight up ignore default and physical defense and has infinite BP. Take Stand Ground from Freelancer as a defensive catch all, and Redoubled Effort from Samurai for even more damage. Freelancer/Performer: My personal coup de gravy. As you mentioned, Performer only really suffers from losing the reduced mp costs on songs. Freelancer Mimic crushes the need for mp on all subsequent casts in addition to unlocking the most outrageous BP fill synergy via My Hero + Mimic letting you quad cast BP+1 on your whole team. Freelancer's Square One is also powerful in keeping buff heavy bosses from getting out of control. Halfsies makes Magnolia my emergency healer with aoe phoenix down + elixir. I use standard Magic defense gear and shore up Freelancer's average physical defense with Dual Shields and Shield Lore. Protect Ally from Knight covers my otherwise poor defensive situation on my damage dealers which leaves my last two ability slots available for Limit Breaker which is mandatory, and Encore which makes things a bit more efficient. Bishop/Astrologian: I found myself to be a bigger fan of Bishop than White mage at pretty much all points of the game. Good Measure just makes everything a Bishop does incredible. Astrologian comes with the all important elemental shields/reflects and things so that needs to fit into the team someplace. Both Astrologian and Bishop are made complete with Spellcrafting from Wizard. There's not much else to say here, Benediction/Resurrection/Innocence/and any spell from Astrologian are all made immediately incredible with Spellcrafting:Mist.

[@TheM00Monster]

Awesome video man! you can really tell you put a lot of time into making this and it shows big time!

[@tlotpwist3417]

Magnolia's cinematic setup (inspired by the rescue cinematic) Fencer Black Mage as secondary job ATT +20% Spellcraft Rod mastery Spear mastery Gave her a lunar spear and a Megido rod from chomptown shop. For armor, any new armor that boosts magic. Using the fencer stance that boosts both attacks, it can adapt to the situation and not be blocked by Silence or Darkness since you can just change what you use foe attacking. Picked Black mage over Wizard, the spells are far stronger for a character that spread its stats. I will test a Kaiser passive that turns single target commands into group, to make use of the spear group attack bonus, to see if it can make the fencer attacks multi hit

[@fearmaster129]

dude thanks for all of these tips, I love this game but I always find trouble having a good team that works well with eachothers

[@extendedgamemusic]

I kinda wanna do an all mage playthrough of the game. Current set up is just a simple Wizard, Red Mage, Bishop, and Astrologian. So in a sense i'll be making one that is purely focusing on damage, one that is all-round with melee capabilties, healing, and one who can buff me up.

[@Eltrio2]

1:45) Detailing basic weapon info. Basically what weapon will do more damage against monster family x. 1:55) Clarification on terms. 2:29) Freelancer: Never found much use for it myself. Late Bloomer is kick-ass though. 2:47) Wizard: Level this up so you can get spellcraft for all its worth. Then put the spellcraft ability with something more useful like any of the other magic users. That's all this is good for. It's spells are SHIT and not worth it otherwise. 3:18) Charioteer: Never found the skill itself interesting enough to use. Not my cup of tea. 4:10) Fencer: This kicks ASS as a a secondary job. Like he says it goes with anything and the stances count as a seperate stat boost to normal boosts so there's that going for it. :) 4:53) Bishop: Awesome healing class. I cannot recomend enough. 5:40) Astrologian: A great support class and best when paired with Cast-All. Blows Performer out of the water in my opinion. 6:23) Catmancer: Been meaning to collect all of the skills so I'm not certain if this job is worth it or not. Personally I miss Vampire. T-T 6:52) Red Mage: Same verse same as the first. Get it leveled ASAP to get the abilities, don't bother using it beyond that. 7:06) Thief: For when you wants the stuffs. 7:32) Swordmaster: It has its uses. Take it or leave it, up to you. 8:07) Summoner: Vastly better this time around. Even better than the mage in my opinion. 8:40) Hawkeye: Basically spellfencer 2.0, it is very useful for adapting to the enemy at hand with its warhead ability alone. 9:18) Patissier: Got an enemy that isn't immune to dark attacks but your Dark knight looks to damn cool not to use? Throw a cake at the enemies face! Works every time. :D 9:58) White Mage: Personally I like Bishop better even without the offensive spells. 10:37) Merchant: More money. That's all it's worth for me. *Next!* 11:07) Black Mage: It's a good classic and if you prefer this to summoner, go for it. 11:35) Ranger: Not a personal fav but I see its uses. 11:59) Knight: Still testing it out myself. 112:36) Ninja: Confession time, I kinda suck as a ninja so moving on now... 13:12) Exorcist: Great for when you need to fix a fuck-up. 13:47) Monk: Didn't find it useful myself. 14:13) Valkyrie: Used it as a secondary with Guardian while I was still trying to get all the jobs just because spears. Did not impress me. 14:41) Pirate: Wasn't all the interested. 15:07) Performer: Why bother when Astrologian is imperically better? 15:35) Time Mage: Meh. I see its worth, it's just not for me. 15:57) Dark Knight: Default, Benediction Spellcrafted, Rage, Minus Strike, and then proceed to give your opponent the middle finger as you're inevitably ready to do it again. 16:25) Guardian: I'm a bit confused how posession works but other than that its okay. 17:15) Kaiser: Eh... Either I'm not smart enough to properly use this class or its the dumbest class in the game. Jury is still out on that. 17:41) Templar: Still trying to figure out a way to incorperate it into my team. I REALLY want one. 18:11) Yokai: Eh. Mostly a mage version of Pirate where its focus is causing the other guy problems. Again not my cup of tea but worth upgrading to unlock the 11th level of all the other jobs. [kinda bs that you need to wait so late in the game but what ever...]

[@paulpreserves8310]

I think Kaiser is one of the most broken support class in the game; the stats are awesome and the fact that it can disable heal of HP/MP... for you and your enemy is wonderful; think about the adventurer or the companion, they cant resurrect each other; or the sin Gluttony, if you dont know how really his boss fight works u can disable his heal while u try to understand (and that was what i did). I dont know if Winter Storm work agaist Nikolai when he resurrect himself or similar boss fights (Braev too), i got to try it yet. Yokai as primary is good, i mean the stats and ECHO. Yeah it's 25% but with chainspell (3 slots, red mage, cast spells twice) and with a ventriloquism in your team (yeah u need 2 mages or at least a supporter that have ventriloquism and spellcraft) u can cast 4 of whatever spell you want with the Rain spellcraft and basically u do 4x4 (rain) x2 (chainspell) = 32 spells on a boss, with "in the red" if u brave 4 times and go -4 u can add another x1,5 multiplier to the dmg. If Echo cast (25%, it should cast at least once) u do 8 more spells, that is a lot. You can build 3 mages and a tank with protect ally or something like that (actuallt ghost exists too but i think it's too risky) and obliterate the world. Ninja is pretty easy, it's like a free dual wield and a lot of speed, so with and even without hastega u can outspeed a lot of peoples. Frenetic fighter is a good support ability too, almost double the dmg at lv 99. From 16 hits to 32, so 1 slot for frenetic fighter, another one or two for triple/quad wield and katana lore (for crit, with triple wield u have 45 critc and quad 60) if u dont want to use a kaiser with overlord in your team, if yes u can put axes or swords for more p.atk. Most of the time the ninja will die (even with utsusemi) so a slow bishop (u want to make sure that u cast the heal after the boss or whoever attacked, so that it doesnt kill it right away) is good. I wanted to try a high p.attack valkyrie with like super jump, BP skill amp (3BP cost is actually a lot so u want a performer or vigor tonic from catmancy), Centurion from kaiser (idk if it work with super jump but it should) and pierce default, u know just in case. Probably here its better a knuckle over dual wield-triple/quad 'cause u dont do a lot of attack for dmg but just one (actually if u put knuckles u need knuckle lore and triple wield with a spear for that 50% from the attack). I mean u cant do more than 9999 per turn so actually this "build" can be used only during bravely second i like some other stuffs too like full counter swordmaster with Eye for an Eye and a full defense knight that uses Iron Wall i would like to think of a gun build (u know new class, new weapons (?), its cool to use it even if it doesnt do a lot of dmg)

[@davidelmz2]

Kaiser is by far the best class in the game. You can disable enemy AI, you don't even need a healer if you use it properly.

[@TheLaioElektrizzel]

If anyone wants to see how to really break the game, look for omegaevolutions Videos. Espacionally the fight against the optional superboss. Making Mass Attack an abillity without BP cost was a very big mistake.

[@xKagatox]

Patissier cannot use the decoration skill for self targeting aggro. Some one else has to be the patissier and choose the tank as their decoration target

[@karfsma778]

Group Cast All+Spellcraft+Meteor. That is all.

[@randomsheep1165]

Why would you need group cast all? Just use rain right?

[@spencerchild8781]

In regards to Thief, the best way to use it is to equip a good bow and have Shamanism as a secondary class, and to constantly use Steal Breath. This is a better strategy in the late game, but this is a great way to consistently get 9999 damage every turn while keeping your recovery maxed out at all times, so long as you equip Big Bad Burglar. Again, this works better in the later game (Chapter 5 onward), so it doesn't help Thief out much before then.

[@kathrynrovito6855]

Oni, I'd watched your video (obviously) and noticed a few things that you got wrong about a few jobs. The most noticeable to me was the stat table, which I don't understand. In either video (Default or Second) you never made it clear how job stats work. Weapon stats at E rating have +0%, but in your guides, a job with rating E is -50%, and since you've only made it clear for weapons, and not jobs, that whole bit is completely contradictory in my eyes. Explaining that more properly would be great! The other thing is around 17:40, where you mention in the Templar's section that it has higher defensive stats than the Knight, which is somewhat false, so I'd like to clear that up for those who are confused about that. The Knight is tied with Guardian for having the highest Vitality, which determines Physical Defense, while Templar has (slightly) higher Mind, which determines Magic Defense. Overall, Knight is still a better option, because they have way more defensive abilities and the lower Magic Defense can be more than made up anyway through Equipment. If we're only talking about stats, Templar has only slightly higher Magic Defense, but the difference is minuscule. Knight for life. There are more things I could point out, but I'm tired right now, so whatever, and don't get me wrong, I love that you made the video to begin with, as you provide a huge amount of strategical information that I didn't know about and I don't thank anyone else has made any videos like this one. Keep it up! One last thing: If you (the reader, not just Oni) have a question about strategy or a character build, or just a question about Bravely Second's combat mechanics, (aside from school) I have more than enough to get back to you.

[@OniBlackMage]

+Syth Alterna Good input. The Letter rankings for Weapons start at 0% (E) and move up to +100% (S) while the letter rankings for Classes start at 0% (C) and go from -50%(E) to +50% (S) but its not consistent what A, B, or D translate to. They don't differentiate and explain the letter rankings in the game unless you actually examine the numerical changes, and because its not clear/consistent universally, I instead made it clearer for each individual class since that matters more.

[@kathrynrovito6855]

***** Ahh, I see. I trust that someone will eventually find out the exact numbers to fill the variables. Thank you for replying as quickly as you did. Cheers and have a good night/morning!

[@ruiribeiro8010]

Geez I feel like this game is so old now but I love it/want it ;-; I agree, but am I the only one that kinda disliked the fact that characters are quite off of what we expect from them? Yew is literally shown always with a rappier, yet he is better as a Magic user instead of Fencer. Magnolia has one of my prefered weapons, glaives, as her main weapons, yet all of the jobs that fit her stats aren't attackers or even good with spear type weapons. The only one that I got right (kinda) was Edea, tho I still expected the Swordmaster job to fit her much better. About Tiz I didn't really know what to expect from him. Of course I eventually got used to this, as this game Just looks so awesome in general 😊.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

...you know I always found it strange how in the post game of bravely second Victor, Victoria, yulyana and de roso are optional superbosses you can find on the moon... but cannot reobtain their jobs. Especially de roso, I actually really like the vampirism skills

[@eking3737]

Im using a White/black mage combo with the spell craft ability to set up some insane damage, and healing plays. If your party is melee based give your target a Curaga shield and pound away for easy hp recovery. Mist your chosen boss with his/her/its weak element to up the damage. this class set up is insane, but a heavy mp use.

[@Jostanos]

I don't have a favorite set up for my teams.. I think that I may have several.. but I don't remember what they are without playing Bravely Second again. Right now I am focusing on grinding job levels for Tiz, Agnes, Eda, and Ringabell in Bravely Default.

[@ElectronJake]

Pretty solid video, but I'm confused as to why you didn't mention Performer's use as a BP Battery, because with that knowledge it makes it one of the most useful classes in the game.

[@44kryth]

Wish they could redo FFV with this series Job system!

[@kayoyoh6725]

I find Bishop very useful as a secondary for Theif or Ninja because they have high speed and they don't have to worry about mind because it uses percentages.

[@cronical246]

Also which characters fit better into which roles? I myself was surprised to see the Yew had the best time as a supporter unlike Agnes who was obviously a good supporter. Edea also has a decent int stat I could barely guess for

[@samus88]

That's something I don't really like about these games. These story and the characters are clearly fixed, and yet the game is supposed to "pick your own role" right? You want Edea to be a mage? You can. But she's clearly meant to use swords as she trained with Swordmaster. You could also make her Templar in BS and use her father's sword. Agnes being White Mage and suing Wind spells is a given... Yew is a "cavalier", a knight. He's meant to use swords as well. That kind of thing takes away from the "do what you want experience".

[@vannoah]

I’m sorry but can’t we just use unearthly buns and max every stat meaning only ability’s are important?

[@Delzethin]

I was wondering when you'd do one for this game! Glad to see it out! Any thoughts on Steady MP Recover (Exorcist Lv. 3)? I've had it on Yew and Magnolia, and they basically never run out of mana.

[@frost2094]

Exorcists Auto-Undo is pretty obscene if you want to do a turtle team. Though on hard mode it wouldn't matter as much then since a lot of bosses pack party wiping capable attacks.

[@obikim11]

In bravely default I would use the buff up ability from performer and adversity from red mage on Tiz when he was my Dark Knight, along with perks that gave you more bamage and defense the more damage you took. Looking back he was kinda my glass cannon... that could turn to stone when it was too late

[@kylehill3883]

I find that the swordmasters the best secondary class. the Bushido skill list is amazing.

[@paulpreserves8310]

i liked it too, it's like "dont touch me or i'll kill you"

[@HeartThief21]

I mixed Guardian with Swordmaster. Tiz being able to deal insane physical and magical counter damage without ever dying made him nigh unkillable.

[@cyndawu1940]

You know what's better at healing than Bishop and White Mage? Exorcist and Catmancer. Catmancer's White wind is the ultimate healing move in my opinion

[@ultamaflare]

Summoner and Yokai...go ahead make two mean classes even meaner and give them spell craft I am sure it will be fine.

[@funhow123]

My team setup was to have tiz almost kill himself with black magic as a templer and did 9999 every time he attack because of minus strike While Edea just did whatever job while magnolia was Buffer and healer she did not let anyone even come close to dying and Yew? Oh boy even if you had or got an elemental weakness he just keeps on summoning anything, heck his main magic power was as a yokai

[@wiirkirbys6981]

Why is swordmaster not listed as a good secondary for guardian? They are perfect for each other, especially when combined with revenge from red mage. You're raising your aggro level, defending, countering, increasing your soul power, and increasing your bp all at the same time! Combine it with a ninja using kairai and a good healer and you will literally never lose to anything that isn't a sweeper!

[@harmonioushyena187]

You were fast with this one. Nice!

[@PureOctarine]

Fast? I was just thinking how slow this was. I finished the game months ago

[@Videogamer80]

Yo, I didn't finish watching the video, but I just wanna put down my ability combos, and class combos. I make Yew my main offensive magic user, and at my best, I made Excorcist my main for Yew, and my secondary of Spirit Magic. My abilities were Spellcraft, Good Measure, and Steady MP Recover. I'd use Good Measure and Spirit magic together, as Spirit Magic is cheap, and they're very strong together. Putting those two together with a Spellcraft makes it deadly. Plus, I found using spirit magic at the late levels better then using high-level black magic, although I'm not sure why. The Excorcist is a VERY powerful class, with undo hp and mp being VERY powerful. Plus, it has a good intelligence stat, and enough mp to spam spells well. Magnolia is my support, but I don't have an exactly solid ability set. At her best, she was a Performer and her secondary was holy magic. She's kinda my miscellaneous character in terms of support abilities, she has Learning, BP Recovery, Triple Wield,

[@Videogamer80]

Turn Tables, and M. Def 20% up. I don't have much to say, besides that Triple Wielding staffs which boost mind works well. Oh, and she works well for support, as she almost always went first. Edea is my Brute Physical Force character, and while I've never really set up a good set up for her, Based on the classes I have for her progressed through, her primary would be probably Valkyrie, and her secondary would be Freelancer (gotta examine EVERYTHING). Her abilities would be Dual Wield, Quad Wield, and P. Attack 20% up. She's purely for brute strength, so she could still do damage on enemies with high physical defense. At the moment though, she is my Guardian, and possesses Tiz for god-like amounts of p. Attack. Tiz is my other Physical attacker, and at his best he was a Dark Knight, with the Fencer as a secondary. His abilities are Barrage, Multitask, Triple Wield, and Precision. Triple Wield would give him more weapons, duh, but Barrage, Multitask, and Precision would be deadly,

[@Videogamer80]

+Karsten Ngai-Natsuhara (Videogamer80) mostly when quad-braving with all attacks, as he could sometimes attack 8 times with each weapon, getting a gradual boost with barrage, and a set boost with Precision, making it so that he could start with each weapon doing about 400 damage each, all the way up to about 1200 damage each hit. Also, just noting, I switch everyone's class constantly, even right before a boss fight, so I never have teams that are consistent for long.

[@enderdude1776]

Yew: Yokai/Time Mage Chain Spell Hp 20% up Glossolalia Equipment: Wonder Rod x2 Gold Hairpin Magus Robes Soul of Thamasa Magnolia: Wizard/Kaiser Ventriloquism Late Bloomer Falcon knife Falcon Knife Circlet Magus Robes Life Ring (The one that gives 1000 hp) Tiz and Edea: Pirate/Catmancer Triple Wield Late Bloomer P atk 20% up Cross fire Parashu/Juggernaut Staves with the greatest mind Space Time blade Crystal Vest Hyper Bracers For the first turn, and only the first turn, Yew uses Hastega and Meteor x3 while Magnolia uses Noble Eagle and Overlord. That's it for them. Tiz and Edea still use Rejuvenation and three Death Spiral. If you don't use Hastega, the adventurer can gank you with duo Meteor rain or soaring whatever attack that's basically falcon claw. This build never gives her the chance, really, after turn two. Because her companion dies, so bringing her back is what she lives for, at that point. And then she dies. And you win. Huzzah! After turn one, just have Magnolia use Spirit Rain x2, and Yew uses Meteor x4. Everyone hits and gets hit for 9999 at this point, but I set up my characters so they all have over 10000 hp, so they cant get one shotted. Death status is a factor one must be wary of, but I'm personally not too worried about it, You're typically faster than anything usually.

[@Ramsey276one]

Question: Which Game has your favorite version of each Asterisk? Me first BD: SalveMaker BS: Summoner BD 2: Swordmaster/Red Mage

[@Mudlink]

my team was Yew Wizard/Black Mage, Edea Dark Knight/Swordmaster, Magnolia Time Mage/Bishop, Tiz Pirate/Freelancer.

[@Binks129]

Ive found Guardian works well as a Secondary for Sword master.I just have a Pattisier decorate me, counter hits, build soul power, unleash, possess whoevers left, shenanigans.

[@kimtime45]

the Guardian class sounds amazing for getting cat man certain skills. Can't wait to get that class when I get t I chapter 4

[@selder_7]

I like using the knight to make defense as high as possible for tanking, and then hit like a truck using that defense stat

[@guimartgon]

I am buying Bravely Second after this week cause if I bought it I wouldn't study for finals... My heart is telling me to not watch anything related to it but i just can't!! Good video!

[@MiguelA77751]

Can't wait till finals are over so I can have a bit of rest and fully enjoy Bravely Second.

[@227someguy]

tbh, I never really liked the Monk Asterisk. It's support ability is knuckle lore. Are you telling me that it NEEDS this ability locked in to have an S-Rank in knuckles, the weapon type it specializes in? If it really doesn't then it just feels like a waste of a support ability (it could've had Paralyze Immunity or Natural Talent)

[@Heartless_Prince]

Thank you Oni this was supra helpful.

[@tiaamdunord7817]

13:56 You say Valkyrie is a good secondary for a primary Monk However it’s impossible to have both jobs since you have to choose between Monk or Valkyrie in the game

[@mwilke07]

You can get the other later in the game.

[@margauxkoutoupot9912]

I got: Yew: Yokai/Exorcist, Summoner/Exorcist or hell even Yokai/Summoner depending on how I feel I should approach the fight. I abuse reverse MP way too much; spellcraft, Undo Trois, steady MP Recover and MP+20% there you got a powerful spellcaster whose MP you don't need to worry much about. I use Yew as primary healer with Mist Amateratsu or simply character focus with reverse HP; consider it seriously, you can revive a character that you just wanted to heal and unfortunately died before you could with no trouble, and the cost isn't that high with this whole setup. Actually, my Yew has over 950MP so I don't care how I throw magic around. Tiz: The obvious and not really creative Hawkeye/Fencer combo. It's simple but efficient with Atk+20%, steady MP Recover and anything that raises the attack since it's my primary damage dealer. Edea: Guardian/Templar or Guardian/Swordmaster. Either way she's my tank. Triple Wield, with a shield in left hand, Def+20%, BP Limit Up, Guardian Spirit, Fortitude, counter physical attack with soul mirror and deal damages with soul-based attack. If you use the Swordmaster Combo, simply use the several counters, good way to accumulate soul power. Magnolia: Astrologian/Bishop. Since I usually use Yew as healer, I mostly focus on buff and switch with Magnolia healer as soon as I'm done with it. Steady MP recover, Spellcraft, Def+20% and whatever suits you. I usually am up to max MP by the third turn since I don't have to switch between buff and heal much. Consider Astrologian for Elemental Barrier and Status Barrier, I think those are indispensable endgame abilities. Bishop's Calm is also a real advantage. And Prescience, well duh.

[@natedog2104]

Would love to see a 'what happened' video of the silent hill series that would be great

[@Darzeal]

been waiting

[@raleo7466]

I loved the game but the freedom to break the battle system is too much. I managed to get a setup that killed the final boss on turn one, without triggering the other phases. And afterwards the Ba'als were a joke because they were dying in one turn too. The combo was abusing having 3 party members with the ghost status to work around MP costs and using the spellcaster's echo skill to deal more damage, first turn does rain meteor, others copy the rain effect (hits 16x9999, meteor normally hits 4 times, and rain casts it 4 times)x4BP with a 50% chance of hitting again due to one of the yokai skills. So basically you dealt 9999x4x4x4x3 + 50% more or less in one turn. Which basically one shots everything in your way. If it doesn't, and the 4th party member survives (a guardian with rerise is opaf for that), you do it again

[@luenesc5399]

Please, what was ur team (with first and second Jobs). 🙌

[@johnnyscifi]

I beat the demo already, but still havent played the full version. Cant wait too!!! :$

[@99snake99]

Will you be doing a video like this for Bravely Default 2?

[@ruiribeiro8010]

Summoner or sword Master? Dark knight or time mage?

[@degunshow]

I'm confused about invocation this time around, does it max stats on all party members without the use of spellcraft, and can it raise hit count also?

[@cronical246]

thieves : That High dex + Rifle lore. . . Let's see if I can't sweep them now

[@zylokun]

Will you be doing this with bravely default 2?

[@mikutsu5356]

Im level 21 just defeated the astrologyst asterisk professor (in al-kampis) and I cannot bring myself to chain more than 3 battles at its best when farming….. is that expected like you can only chain 10 once higher level and best skills acquired or am I supposed to be a ble to chain 10 as of now but im just a bad player??

[@leeeroyjenkins555]

just like in ff5 gba and tactics advance, I love to combine dual wield/double sword with spell blade/shamanism. is so versatil.

[@roseknight9314]

Hey Oni I am trying to make A hybrid Physical damage/tank that uses the Ranger as the Primary class can you give me a hand on the secondary class and abilities I should use? I just love how the ranger class looks and I want to try and make it tanky so any Ideas?

[@johnnyscifi]

Finally gonna be able to buy this game soon!!

[@Polyphony1987]

great video

[@samus88]

I'm currentyl in Chapter 6 of this game, and even tho I enjoyed both Default and Second up to this point, I don't really understand it. The damage cap makes no sense. Bosses have insane amounts of HP, and you can only do 10k per attack? Every boss can literally 2-shot your entire team most likely, but you need to attack it like 50 times with close to max damage to kill it? How's that fair? The whole "do more damage with bravely second" is a microtransaction scam. And the fact is, no matter how good certain combos are, you can basically do 9999dmg with any job setup and minimal buffs, it's just a matter of what you do to survive a few attacks from the boss until you kill it. I feel like the game could be refined a whole lot more.

[@scarfking1579]

Rate my team, anyone? I had a White Mage with secondary Black Mage, Pirate with secondary Patissier, Monk with secondary Chariotier, and a Time Mage/Performer i kept switching between. I had steady MP recovery equipped with all but my monk, because i knew MP was expensive, but i didnt want to switch my secondary job to exorcist for just the MP reversion. I mostly used the Patissier to make my opponents lightning and magic weak for my White/Black mage, and the Amped Strike paired with Shell Split. I used the Charioteer's Wanton Destruction as pure physical damage paired with the Monk's high attack, and also used Invigorate, and occasionally Pressure Point, and sometimes Pheonix Flight if i was desperate. FOr the performer, i added the BP recovery skills and spammed Hearts!On!Fire!, paired with Got your back and Key to your heart for quick full party buffs. After that i used either Quaga or Meteor depending on the situation.

[@drygnfyre]

I dunno why, I just find it kind of funny that bare knuckles are the strongest weapon type. I guess in the BD world, punching is stronger than a gun.

[@hennyzhi2261]

The new guardian class does give the best lore skills in the game. DPS classes with weak armor ratings can make great use of Armor lore and it only costs 1 skill point.

[@itsmellslikeupdoginhere5756]

Would add Freelancer for a good secondary for the mimic usage

[@itsmellslikeupdoginhere5756]

to fencer

[@KidSnivy69]

I kind of wish you went a bit more into ability combos

[@selder_7]

My hero + mimic x3, the BP engine

[@johnnyscifi]

Ps: i like that the yokai pretty much summon the Demon/Nemesis'!!!

[@jiancarlomiranda2308]

Can you make a chart of the all the classes and put it in the description

[@jiancarlomiranda2308]

Im new to the series and this would help me alot

[@raleo7466]

Just use meteor rain ASAP and you'll destroy the game...

[@veiotisligon9140]

Cast the Kaiser buff then Hastega then meteor rain and you should be Gucci

[@bigguy31ish]

And btw On BD I wasent a fan Using 2 rods due I likenusing shields And now I see why magic damage without Phantom weapon sucks But Magic wasent thta powerful without it on BD now but on BS I'll try to make use of dual rods this time XD

[@Redpoppy80]

I have to ask this to anybody. Is the game unstable? In two days of playing this game it has crashed/softlocked on me Four times. If this is not just me than SquareEnix should make a patch.

[@Livingvapour]

I beat this whole game using 4 wizards with the three weapons skill for three rods equipped, my secondary class was red mage for all four characters. was a very each and cheesy chame. using Hammer and Fira and fire rods you can hit 9999 easily and one turned every boss. so sad.

[@bigguy31ish]

And btw On BD I wasent a fan Using 2 rods And now I see why magic damage without Phantom weapon sucks But Magic wasent thta powerful without it on BD nkw but on BS I'll try to make use of dual rods this time XD

[@johnnyscifi]

I got halfway into this game and lost interest. I really wanna get back into it too...:(