Octopath Traveler - Tressa the Boss Killer (Character Build)

Octopath Traveler - Tressa is, for all intents and purposes, a jack of all trades. She does everything, and in the last video we showcased her utility. This time, she's the centrepiece of the enemies' demise, serving up some incredible elemental damage!
With an all-out attacker build, Tressa hits hard with little to no setup, allowing her to one-shot the toughest enemies! The SP cost may be hefty, but you can use the SP Saver support skill to make her a viable farming unit. Tressa is the hero we need, and one we seriously don't deserve! ^^
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[@BlackScale86]

When first time I played this game, without referring any guide, I chose Thessa as a main. I like her at first sight. Turns out she is the best teenage money grubber unique class in RPG history ever!

[@kazegamirito9031]

man I love Tressa but I chose Therion as my main and I don't regret it. Therion is da goat but Tressa is dam good as well

[@jeffreystone8974]

I did the same thing, I always love the merchant class but the story is usually a little weak for them so I was excited and hers did not disappoint ❤️

[@mttbeltran91]

This is why Tressa is best girl

[@plastoncul9428]

I prefer h'aanit but tressa is really cool

[@theAmazingJunkman]

not all heroes wear capes BUT THIS ONE DOES

[@asouvaiomain5450]

Sometimes they wear hats!

[@wearefucked7244]

Edna Mode would probably talk her out of it

[@garyowens7665]

When I first saw this game, I heard about the character Tressa and thought “Oh, she’s just a merchant what can she do to help”, but then I played the game and turns out she’s my fav character plus she is the most useful! My mama used her a scholar at first and it was a very good job combo cuz she can spam her spells and use rest (Which restores HP+SP) and it’s perfect! I have now made her a Runelord cuz I saw your video+ I used transfer rune +sidestep so everyone can avoid attacks! Plus, she has naturally pretty high Elemental attack so with all the support skills you showed in the video+equipment, she was the best character! Plus, her personality is really good. She was level 86 whenever I defeated Galdera! 🥲☺️ If I play octopath again, my first choice as the protagonist would be Tressa!

[@shao-weihuang3977]

Having been playing this game for nearly 60 hours and watching the strategy videos online, I feel gaining the rune lord ability is like THE turning point for Tressa as well as the whole team. I honestly didn''t know how to appreciate her ability besides making money, passing BP and making her a dancer in the early stage of the gameplay. But with rune lord, she is like transformed into the master of the game. What a stark contrast.

[@minarc3682]

Can’t wait to finish the game and start doing those builds!

[@thesoulforge3607]

Did you finish the game yet?

[@love2lovesum1]

It’s crazy how much stronger an advanced job can make a character. I’m looking forward to getting these jobs. I honestly believe Tressa makes the best Runelord and Cyrus makes the best Scorcher.

[@jeomaxx7499]

i like tressa with the hunter outfit she was adorable

[@joppuh]

I bought this game around September and played it for a while, but I got bored of it pretty fast (I also got my ps4 a little after buying this game, might have had something to do with it). But I recently picked it up again and I've been really enjoying it. I'm about a 100 hours into the game now and haven't even beaten all chapter 4s yet but I'm having a lot of fun building teams and OP characters like this one. Your video definitely helped a lot.

[@Matthias-pj6th]

I personally like abusing Runes with Second Serving and Stat Swap (As needed) on other characters as needed, generally results in a lot more damage than this, especially when Cyrus or Olberic get their turn. It also doesn't really require BP (You're gonna murder them with basic attacks) which you can save for other important things.

[@MineNAdventurer]

I like making Cyrus into an God Sorcerer. Elemental Edge+Elemental Aid+BP-Boost+Surpassing Power is really good. When Cyrus has a Bishop Staff and over 900 Elem. Atk with only one Elem Augmentators is really broken. (hes also only at lvl 60)

[@MrCharly780]

He is the best character of the game, I beaten the final boss first part 1 with him, using concort to boost BP, have ophelia transfer cleric divine ability to him, have cyrus use the divine sorceror ability and enjoy doing multi crit damage of 15 to 20k x6 to everybody, pretty much the best character. The perks I use are the same as you but I prefer the one that halves SP used because he consumes sp like crazy if not using the sp nuts (which I didn't.)

[@ASquared544]

Tressa deserves more love because she is the best

[@alexperaza9475]

Wow.... OK. I'm currently building up Tressa actually so I'm going to use this build as a blueprint for mine. This is great! Good video! Still working my way through the advanced job bosses, but I already have Tressa as my Runelord so I'm on the right track.

[@garyowens7665]

Yes, you’re on the right track. Also, she’s the best sorcerer too cuz she can do SP Saver+rest+spam spells and the spells won’t affect her SP too much if you rest and have SP saver on her.

[@Daboy804]

Runelord is the only job I don't have now. Meanwhile my Tressa is level 15 and I haven't done any chapter 3s. I'll be way OP when I continue the story.

[@nintelligentpodcast1851]

The Symbol of Peace my Tressa is a level 70 sorcerer

[@aetheruszhou1526]

Runelord is easy to get too. You need 2 merchants that has the first warrior skill "cover", a cleric (better also be one of the merchants), and one or two damage dealers. Make sure that the attackers are near death so that the merchants can cover him/her. The 2 merchants just keep stacking side-step on themselves, so that all Balogar's single attack will 100% miss. When Balogar uses AOE, just revive the attackers with the cleric (don't boost).

[@makoto5309]

Please dont kill me... My Therion have the runelord job

[@tjelmore40]

Thanks for the videos. I was stuck in the hidden dungeon. After I found your content I used a few pointers from you and finally finished the game.

[@kevan1922]

I was wondering if there was a build similar to the herald qtpi build in xc2 in Octopath I guess this is what I was looking for

[@Gavriel92]

A.K.A My Alias have you seen the haanit judgement day mode? That’s ones much better. You can also do the same build on olberic.

[@Rex13013]

You can actually get 1 more elemental augmentor by doing the quest of the guy next to the entrance of wispermill and I think you need to kill the direwolf in the forest of purgation.

[@yhx4356]

Ultra Instinct Tressa

[@MrCmitche11]

Tressa was the one character I hardly used and now I am seeing all of these gnarly Tressa videos.

[@Piyamakarro]

You can probably swap out Elemental Edge for Augmented elements and use Peacock strut since it's the same buff. This build has 2 dancers that are faster than Tressa so you can reliably pull that off. I mean, it doesn't matter because the bosses are already dead, but it's a way to get a little more damage.

[@DaltonGoesSlow]

I was loving this game then mmxlc came out. Then I got Gungeon. I was playing dead cells, then I started a Minecraft world! I love how many more games I play on switch

[@Colencence...]

I'm currently at level 50 ish with my characters. I got so excited when I saw that surpassing power skill . 🤩🤩🤩

[@Cykk0]

i had hanit as a theif equiped with double tomahawk, so in addition to being a debuff god, she also breaks anything super consistently for tressa to wipe the boss with. also if alfyn lines up, his concocts sometimes means i can just ignore the breaks and kill the boss with 2 balagor blade over 2 turns.

[@marcthecarc]

Dear Lord please do more of these build videos, they are really structured and informative. I'll definitely be using this to beat galdera

[@felixramonarmeroperez1245]

Tressa for Smash Ultimate! you could use Hired Help to summon random characters from Octopath and summon the eight heroes as a Final Smash to beat the shit of opponents.

[@suavepilled7647]

honestly,any octopath rep in smash would be fucking amazing

[@skins4thewin]

I think it's no secret that she makes THE perfect Runelord, if not for being able to Rest & Sidestep everyone! She is without question meant to be a Runelord & it would be a waste to make her anything else.

[@elrey5671]

Nice build!

[@New3DSLuigi364]

Isn't there a fitting Merchant Class in DnD?! After all; Her entire Role is the Buying & Selling of Items; even Buying Items off of NPCs with the Money She Earns from selling her wares. . .

[@SpriteDuel]

Tressa is best girl.

[@TheMixedPlateFrequency]

I thought that too. I feel like Runelord melded with Tressa the most.

[@danibrazales2717]

I have everything exactly the same, but she is only doing 12000 damage each attack. Could someone tell me what is happening??

[@aidan7442]

I made primrose the runelord, i made tressa the starseer, olberic the warbringer and cyrus the sorcerer

[@cypher838]

I made ha'anit a warmaster Cyrus a starseer Ophilia a sorcerer And tressa a runelord.

[@Zephlo97]

I personally prefer to use Tressa as a support character. Even as a Rune Lord. Her combo of 100% evade buff along with sharing said buff to the other party members completely negates some boss fights that rely on nothing but physical attacks. Combine this with a character with the Reflect Veil to send magic attacks back where they came from and congratulations, you won the game.

[@mattice403]

Wow nice build. Good stuff

[@m3m0ris80]

You can even use Cyrus divin skille to have 100% critical hits during 3 turns lol

[@helio-sama178]

I'll try this too

[@MultiFunkyjunk]

You are THE MAN

[@prozorozo]

Elemental break + cyrus + any rune= death to enemy

[@vitXras]

Do you have more videos like this for the other travelers. I'm trying to get ready for the final battle

[@firby7341]

could someone please explain why a peacock dance doesnt work with runelords abilitys?

[@glimmervoid6719]

Can you explain more about why the peacock strut doesn’t work?

[@ShadowThiy]

What are your thoughts on apothocary Cyrus? Giving him the battle tested Axe and the Sub Zero staff will make him a scary ice based nuke when tressa gives him an ice rune and he uses last stand. +2 to ice and a +1 to lightning is nothing to scoff at.

[@MrCharly780]

better as a sorceror with the cleric staff, just use alf for bp concort, use ophilia to boost cyrus with the cleric divine ability and if only 1 enemy use cyrus scholar ability, deals 20k x 6 for 100k to 120k damage.

[@jeromegrossley8122]

Best girl once again surprise the party with her talent.

[@Gavriel92]

Jerome Grossley too bad she can’t be best girl during the actual game damn it xD

[@jeromegrossley8122]

gabriel estrella nani

[@bronzleaguehiro]

Just a Question, does the Weapon dont break with this play style ? maybe i am just wrong with the skill.

[@moisessamonte7067]

Hi sir any tips before I go to the rune lord thing, I planning to change thressa into apothecary, is that ok?

[@frozengamer3030]

I am stuck on the high level bosses.

[@zkatt3238]

Question: What weapons slots does the Starseer job add to your character?

[@Skylair95]

Spear and dagger

[@Lyzander911]

The problem is, by the time you get to this point, there is no reason to do it

[@JordanAndersonExplodes]

Can’t touch this

[@Mundus66]

I don't get why you dont swap Tressa and Cyrus? I mean Tressa is better as a runelord overall. But if you want to oneshot Cyrus damage is much higher. My Cyrus with double elemental augmentor has 999 elem atk. And Tressa makes an excellent Sorcerer.

[@craig581]

Most overpowered character in the game by far. Makes everything a breeze. Once you get that Rune Lord class, it completely changes the game. But i would warn you, it does make the game far too easy, so if you want a challenge in this game, i wouldn't recommend using her.

[@adamzandarski8933]

When you say all bosses do you mean the last one?

[@maiknocon773]

isnt there a better lance for elemental damage or are u using that one for the extra fire?

[@jamesworkshop9181]

Tradewinds spear has 380 elemental attack, not that far off the 399 of the Battle-tested staff

[@metalsteel5631]

"elemental aid is quite costly" No lol, it's NOT. Only if you use elemental attacks. A normal attack costs NOTHING. so double of nothing is NO SP USED. elemental aid is damn good for runelord. Also, battletested shield is great for sp regen. with elemental gear, each of the party members can do 50k for a normal hit with tressa's runelord buff. I got a party build that uses no attack skills, they only do normal attacks to save sp.

[@NnLiMedia]

It costs twice the amount of SP to use all skills,so if you used Balogar's Blade (like I did in this video) it costs 100 SP. But you're right about one thing: the damage of the pursuits from the runes does increase with Elemental Aid.

[@skjain1232]

How many hours do you have...

[@BetaNights]

Oh my god, this is the Octopath version of the KOS-MOS / Herald / QTpi build... Hey, I was wondering. Sometimes when I use Leghold Trap, it doesn't change the turn order for the current or following turn at all, so I sometimes have to wait for the NEXT turn after the ones shown. Is there a reason for this? It just seems kind of odd, especially when I see it changing things immediately like in this video.

[@baninithepanini1537]

BetaNights, You probably used Leghold Trap on a broken enemy. Broken enemies will *always* move first on the turn they recover.

[@MultiFunkyjunk]

BetaNights i also dont think it works when using it in the patience support skill

[@overratedcynic9124]

it works with patience. kinda got lucky on some boses like that

[@notster7114]

It never works on the current turn, only following turns

[@TwinBladeFury]

Why not use Alfyn and boost the entire party to 3 BP right off the bat instead of spamming donate BP?

[@NnLiMedia]

That would work too, if you used Essence of Pomegranate! I just prefer playing around with Donate BP.

[@frankzlol2031]

If you finish the game, you can go into final boss fight again ?

[@Piyamakarro]

No. If you overite your save after beating the boss, you can't go back to the boss rush or anything.

[@darkleafangle]

is it better for Tressa to have "speed" or "MAX sp"?

[@Piyamakarro]

SP definitely. You want Tressa to move last out of your party so the other members can help break/buff her.

[@humbertoamorim8130]

What is the point of being able to do those builds mostly after you have beaten the game and all bosses are 1 hit KO? I don't see any fun in repeating Galdera over and over again. Major flaw in my opinion. Either the secret jobs should've come earlier or the game should have the option to a New Game +

[@Busker_3000]

I just copied this build and wow, True story. 1-hit most of those bosses on the first brake.

[@crocing]

yES

[@fifthelite2921]

Would this build work for cyrus?

[@NnLiMedia]

It could! His high elemental attack can punch some holes into the enemies easily. While he doesn't have access to as many weapons as Tressa, this just means he can't stack Wind bonuses. As a scholar/Runelord, he has access to Sword, Axe and Staff. So he could use Harald's Sword, Battle-tested Axe and Bishop's staff to give bonuses to Fire, Ice, Lightning and Light.

[@fifthelite2921]

Nn Li yeah I gave it a whirl it's not too bad now I just need stronger weapons

[@vitXras]

Would she be better for the first or second phase of the final boss

[@erk8520]

2nd phase for sure. He does phys damage, so Tressa's rune lord + dodge on everyone helps big time!

[@johnnyscifi]

Primroses dance tnat gives you random buffs/debuffs is so good. Ive gotten the jp*5, twice in one round of combat. So...times 10!!!

[@Gavriel92]

johnnyscifi it doesn’t stack. It just uses the highest one.

[@Wreaknatter]

I got really surprised at a JP x 100

[@johnnyscifi]

Damn...:p

[@notjonas]

Is there a way to get more than 2 Elemental Augmentors?

[@icetan1267]

x Jonas x No, but you can farm Mental Belts from Bishop (Ele Att/Def +65) at Saintsbridge Cathedral after you have cleared Ophelia's storyline.

[@notjonas]

ice tan Thanks

[@Rex13013]

x Jonas x Yes, you can get 1 more by doing the quest of the guy next to the entrance of wispermill and I think you need to kill the direwolf in the forest of purgation.

[@icetan1267]

Found a third EA - 1) Stonegard Merchant 2) Direwolf sidequest 3) Therese at Atlasdam (Cyrus story complete)

[@joppuh]

I hate that Primrose is so usefull because I really dislike her

[@skins4thewin]

Lol imagine someone not having Cyrus set up to do damage.... Tf are you doing with your life man?

[@camryds]

This build is a bit of a one trick pony... Good stuff, just not my cup of tea