Octopath Traveler - Warmaster Advanced Job Location & Boss Tactics

Finally, it's time to take on the Advanced Job: Warmaster. This strategy will get you past the Warbringer boss of the Shrine of the Warbringer. This one's a little messier than other strategies, but the skills allow for a more casual approach.
I used the three other Advanced Jobs to beat this boss, get them with my guides:
Sorcerer (1st): • Octopath Traveler - So...
Starseer (2nd): • Octopath Traveler - St...
Runelord (3rd): • Octopath Traveler - Ru...
Recommended Level: 50. Surrounding area is Danger Level 45, Shrine is 50. Boss has 200k+ HP.
Requirements: Cyrus (Starseer), Primrose (Cleric), Therion (Sorcerer) & Tressa (Runelord)
Required Skills: Transfer Rune (Runelord), Sidestep (Merchant), Shooting Stars (Starseer), Peacock Strut (Dancer), Aelfric's Auspices (Cleric Divine Skill), Any Dark, Wind or Ice magic (or Runes)
Supports suggested: Surpassing Power (Warrior), Saving Grace (Cleric)
Weaknesses: Staff, Ice, Wind & Dark
Summon: Luckless Sellsword - Full Enfeeblement
Method:
[Setup Rounds]
Primrose (Cleric):
Heal More ► All
Aelfric's Auspices (Cleric Divine) ► Therion (or Cyrus)
Peacock Strut ► Casters (Cyrus / Therion)
Tressa (Runelord):
Transfer Rune ► Self
Sidestep (Boosted) ► All
Dark/Wind/Ice Rune ► All
[Damage Rounds]
Primrose (Cleric):
Staff attacks + Rune Buff ► Boss
Night Ode ► Boss
Therion (Sorcerer):
Staff attacks + Rune Buff ► Boss
Tenebrae Oprire ► Boss
Cyrus (Starseer):
Staff attacks + Rune Buff ► Boss
Blizzard ► Boss
Tressa (Runelord):
Maintain Sidestep and Dark/Wind/Ice Runes on Party
Maintain Transfer Rune when it expires
🔥 Skills 🔥
Guardian Liondog: Unleash 5 - 10 sword attacks against random foes.
Tiger Rage: Unleash an axe attack on all foes.
Qilin's Horn: Unleash a polearm attack on a single foe.
Yatagarasu: Unleash a dagger attack on all foes.
Fox Spirit: Unleash a staff attack on all foes.
Phoenix Storm: Unleash a bow attack on all foes.
Nightmare Chimera: Unleash an attack on a single foe using a weapon of your choice. The weapon will be destroyed.
Winnehild's Battle Cry: [Divine Skill] Wield six weapons to unleash six attacks on all foes.
🛡 Support Skills 🛡
Extra Experience: Gain additional experience from battles. (Does not stack with multiple).
Stalwart Defense: Increase physical defense by 50.
Fortitude: Deal more damage the lower your current HP is.
Physical Prowess: Augments physical attack and defense during battle.
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[@bettycreepersayuri-chan809]

Winnehild: **Exists** Runelord Tressa using Side-Step: *I'm about to end this gal's whole career.*

[@heoniseokjin]

This guide may be years old but I just wanted to thank you for posting it! In preparation for the octopath traveler 2, I’ve been replaying the first game and finishing up some things I never finished which includes the chapter fours and the advance jobs I was deathly afraid to take on after getting my butt handed back to me. Your guide completely trivialises the battle and I didn’t take a lick of damage after turn 1. You saved my life thank you so much 😭

[@DerTomatenToaster]

I just beat the boss and I found an addition that makes this strategy even more OP. Give Sealtice to a character with the Starseer class and let them use Moon's Reflection on everyone. When the boss uses attacks that attack multiple times everyone will evade but also attack AND activate their rune. For each single hit that is! Meaning when ONE character gets hit three times, he will attack back three times seperatly and activate the run three times aswell. That's crazy powerful.

[@nickcushing7374]

I agree

[@tristramnguyen712]

I ended up doing this but the damage I got from the counters wasn't worth the effort I put in so I stopped doing it like halfway through, if I had used characters that had weapons that broke Winneheld though I feel like it would've been crazy

[@UserName-sw4pm]

@@tristramnguyen712 Not if you have the Runelord Transfer Rune > Dark Rune, it gives your countering attacks a "shadowy pursuit" which can fasten the shield breaks. It also deals quite a damage! Honestly this was the easiest one out of the 4 after learning this OP strats from the person you replied to.

[@BlueMercury84]

I just tried doing this strategy, however Winnehild still manage to hit some of my team and took absolutely no damage in return. I pretty much did as you stated. I used Ophillia (Cleric/ Dancer) to cast the dancer's divine skill on Cyrus (Scholar/ Starseer), then I cast Moon's Reflection and .... nothing. Am I missing something?

[@orcfeseda]

Moon Reflect does not “evade”... it’s literally the same skill as Eye for an Eye.

[@Goblin4Coin]

There is no way I could've beat the Runeblade or Warmaster without these videos. Thank you

[@Flakii]

Same

[@horidzon5721]

Same

[@__Steve]

Hey these guides may be a few years old now, but I gotta say. It's November 2022 and they've still been super useful for me to this day when im currently playing the game. thanks so much for these!

[@MattRoadhouse]

Indeed, I just started my first OP1 play through this weekend. Using nexusmods to tweak a few things, so I don't have to grind or save-scum much ~

[@TheDuxun1977]

same here 8/20/23

[@iansexton2259]

I found the hunter support skill patience useful for tressa while runelord. Gives her 25% chance for more actions per turn

[@michaelmiller7465]

Love that level 21 Ophelia with everyone else at 60...

[@AnamanaCh]

Haha yeah, I begrudgingly need to do her second chapter next.

[@ecl1pse_216]

I just recently did ophelia chapter 1 and I had three characters at chapter 2 level so it was pretty ez

[@straypaper]

I love how you set Therion up as Sorcerer nuker but then finds out mid battle that he's actually better off normal attacking/debuffing to feed Dark Rune chases

[@solareflare47]

There is an NPC in Goldshore that has a skill called "Inhibit Defenses" it is much more useful than the Lucky Sellsword as it is AOE and it is more likely to proc

[@AnamanaCh]

I'll have to look into that one!

[@itachi8044]

Nice ty

[@starflame34]

Me: "Alright, I got my characters to just above lvl 50 and I've done well so far with the chapters, I think I'm doing good! Time to get those Advanced jobs. They can't be THAT hard to get. I GOT THIS!" *Dies within the first 4 turns* Me: "...Okay then."

[@nightatdark4225]

GABRIELLE OLLER the sorcery is the hardest for me

[@neat3655]

Just stack up elemental defense and break him before he double spell. Pretty straight forward boss

[@morriganrenfield8240]

@@neat3655 nah, just aoe spell reflect. Aoe buffing breaks some of these bosses lol..red eye was a joke because of it

[@rwang1618]

I have just finished a second playthrough where I start getting the advanced jobs at level 35 (I believe even lower is possible). It is not difficult at all if you know how to cheese the boss. The order is the sorcerer, the starseer, the runelord, and the warmaster. Before starting the job, make sure Primrose (or other dancers) has Sealticge's Seduction and as many as people having saving grace. The trick for sorcerer and starseer bosses is the same. First cast Sealticge's Seduction on your cleric, who will cast Reflective Veil on everyone. Then watch the bosses kill themselves. The runelord is a bit tricky, but the key is basically to have your apothecary cast Rehabilitate in the second phase so that the boss cannot disable your whole team. Finally, make Tressa the runelord and sidestep warmaster to death. Even without this strategy, with saving grace you can deal with these bosses, so long as you always prioritize safety and use Leghold Trap, you should be good to go.

[@thundy3348]

Bro same... lol. I got whooped by Starseer a few times but then went over to Sorcerer shrine and beat it first try. (all toons around level 48).

[@pokechatter]

Leghold trap really is a helpful skill against all of these bosses. It gives even a slow cleric Cyrus, scholar Ophilia, dancer Alfyn, and hunter Therion time enough to set up and work through the fight. Though it should be noted that with the strategy I used, this gives her enough time to get to the 3 actions per round phase, where her weaknesses shift to sword and the other three elements.

[@AnamanaCh]

Yep, maximizes your chances to get that break opened up and keeping your party far away from damage.

[@joshcurrie771]

Love your videos. They really helped me out. Saved warmaster for last myself. Keep up the great work!

[@AnamanaCh]

Cheers pal!

[@InfiniteUmbra]

And four down. Thank you for your guides my man. I defeated all of them with your help and got myself some nice achievements. : )

[@Rose_J]

Another great strategy. I have all the advanced skills now - thanks!!

[@AnamanaCh]

Yay! Nice work!

[@enricobonomi9471]

Aelfric's All-spices, for tastier battles!

[@HalfinchLonomia]

this method worked for me with a level 20 runelord-tressa lmao. good shit man

[@Kokiri-Kid-07]

Thank you so much for the guides, when I found Runelord I immediately wanted it cause spellswords are my favorite RPG class then it utterly destroyed me and was my first of many to come game overs lol now that I have all advanced jobs time for party and skill formation!

[@zachmitchell403]

Ty for showing me and I gave the Starseer to Ophilia and it still work.

[@Leondragon06]

Thank you lol that was the easiest one with Tressa Runelord sidestepping. I did just have to get her up for it as I did not have enough points prior for Tressa to get that Rune transfer.

[@galaticice3339]

Have Cyrus as sorcerer and have a runelord use whatever the boss is weak to. Then have Cyrus use elemental break doing massive damage (boost only increases effect so don’t regularly use it)

[@AnamanaCh]

This sounds like it would be so OP!

[@tressa4920]

With my ca.800 Elemental attack set I do Damage cap damage with runes without buffs/nerfs.

[@tressa4920]

@DeadlineUNIVERSE I do that, but only in Boss battles, in the random encounters I'd rather use the (second to) last dancer skill to regenerate SP.

[@tobathetura7482]

If you don't have runelord, just spam the therions attack debuff, really cripples this boss

[@AnamanaCh]

I was almost going to use that in the video, but decided not to last minute!

[@ahmedfalahy9337]

Not as much. Even with therion's Shackle Foe (Attack Down) and Tressa's Helping Hand Mercenary (Slash + Party DEF up), the Warmaster hits like an armored tank.

[@Lance.2451]

I'm hype now to grind up for this

[@AnamanaCh]

You got this, mate!

[@SgtBaha]

Just finished it myself with Runelord Tressa, Sorcerer Primrose, Merchant Ophilia, and Hunter Therion. Sidestep + Aelfric's Blessing to max out damage with Prim. This is the only one I truly did on my own and your vids helped me so much with the other three! Thank you!

[@AnamanaCh]

That’s awesome you got there on your own! I feel like with these bosses there’s 2 base strategies, 2 for avoiding physical damage and 2 for reflecting magic. Once you got that down, they’re super easy.

[@voldset9865]

Well made vid! Keep up the great work! Just a heads up; H'aanit is very good with this subclass!

[@AnamanaCh]

Cheers, mate!

[@BananaDragonLord]

Why did I go to this boss first out of the four? I'm impressed that I defeated her first try. It was my most difficult/exciting boss fight in the game. I don't want to talk about Galdera

[@Anthony_Cantos]

It was difficult and it took me about 3-4 tries but I beat her without the runelord.... but I just wanna thank you cause I followed your guide to the T exactly on the other 3 secret classes, so I truly thank you for helping me

[@AlbanianSunN]

Been refreshing your page every 20 minutes! Wouldnt be able to do it without you! Thank you! You are the man man!

[@AnamanaCh]

You’re the man too, man!

[@alliehamilton1058]

My strategy was similar to your runelord. Starseer cyrus, cleric Primrose (with enfeeble soldier), runelord Tressa, and sorcerer of your choice for breaking and pomegranate. Tressa provided evasion while the rest set up for max shooting stars. Full enfeeblement, Alephan’s enlightenment on Cyrus, Aelfric‘ Auspices on Cyrus, peacock strut, and max shooting star. Hit for 40,000 six times and it was done. I just tried to weather the storm and didn’t break until I was all set up. My Cyrus: lvl 60, rune glaive for weapon. Elemental augmentor for accessory. He received every magic nut. Support skills were surpassing power, SP saver (probably not necessary), elemental aid, and augmented elements. The other team members had patience for the potential to act again at the end of the turn. Like I said, a variation on your runelord strat so hats off to you for giving me the idea.

[@vbarreiro]

I completely cheesed this fight with Runelord Tressa. She just spammed Rune Transfer followed by Sidestep, rinse and repeat. Winnehild never touched me beyond the second turn. I was able to be super leisurely with my strategies, sometimes letting turns pass just because, so that I could get full BP. With a boosted sorcerer (along with the Cleric divine skill that allows him to hit twice) I was doing 40,000-60,000 damage every break and she didn't really stand a chance. It felt amazing to see the battle cry ability miss all my characters five times in a row!

[@AnamanaCh]

It’s so good removing the boss’ main mechanic. Makes you feel very powerful!

[@vbarreiro]

Anamana! It does! I took your advice on the Sorcerer boss, and that snowballed into basically all the other jobs. I got Warmaster and Runelord today! Only one left!

[@CrimsonStigmata]

I ran the same team but with H’aanit hunter/warrior for the leg trap ability to make the boss go last when they aren’t stunned. This fight really isn’t really melee friendly so unfortunately she kind of has to fill support role here with breaking with melee weapons. Patience Sp saver Melee and Magic switch from Runelord forgot the name. The reason for this is to work in conjunction with Tressa’s rune buff. After a melee hit a rune spell will go off and it scales with the attackers elemental damage. So you want to either stack weapons with high magic attack and elemental damage modifiers or use this ability from Runelord to maximize damage. So if you are running Magic weapon build then you can sub this out for something else. Like elemental magic and defense up from Runelord. Max damage from Warrior forgot name. Therion Cleric/Thief healer SP battery and healer divine skill to Cryus to make him attack twice on the same turn. Sp saver Patience Show goes on or whatever it’s called it’s from Dancer. Saving Grace can sub this out for Thief skill that does damage when you do non damage moves. Forgot the name of it. Primrose StarSeerer/Dancer Dancer divine spell on herself to spread BP regen spell on whole party. BP eater Patience Max damage Elemental damage and defense up from Runelord Cyrus Sorcerer/Scholar There for the broken damage. Elemental damage up from Sorcerer Elemental damage and defense buff from Runelord BP eater Max damage from warrior Tressa Runelord/Merchant to support the party and make it untouchable with merchant skill sidestep. Patience Max damage Show must go on Dancer ability to make buffs last one turn longer Elemental damage and defense up from Runelord. So basically you want to use Dancer to spread BP Regen Spell from StarSeerer to the whole party to make use of BP eater. Cleric divine spell on your main damage dealer which is Cryus. Tressa to nullify all melee attacks from the boss and to spread elemental rune on the party when she doesn’t need to refresh sidestep for the party. Once you have everything set in place you can focus on just nuking the boss down and refreshing the buffs when they start to fall off. With the Dancer ability that buffs the duration of buffs you should have more time to DPS.

[@AnamanaCh]

Nice tactics! After I finished the fight, I was looking through supports and saw that I forgot BP Eater and was kicking myself.

[@Im0nJupiter]

Alphn/Cleric Primrose/Sorcerer (Scholar will do) Tressa/Runelord H'aanit/Warrior This build is focused on Alfyn using concoct for +2 BP (This recipe is just purifying dust+essence of pomegranate) Primrose, Tressa and himself. Turn 2 (or turn 1 depending on who goes first) Primrose uses her divine skill on Alfyn, Alfyn uses reflect on all party members for max BP (turn after). Tressa uses unboosted transfer rune turn 1 and max boost turn 2. H'aanit uses leghold trap turn one. Turns 3 and 4, H'aanit and Primrose damage deal, turn 3 tressa uses a rune (unboosted), turn 4 she boosts misstep and spams it until transfer rune is gone. Turn 3 alfyn uses concoct, if you get a patience use concoct again, turn 4 use cleric divine skill on Prim, Turn 5 use the last of your BP on reflect. Any time alfyn has a patience, use concoct, unless circumstances require another reflect or divine skill. Feel free to use essence of plum as needed as well, if a fight really drags on. Suggested passives are Show goes on+persistence+fleetfoot for Tressa, elemental edge and augment elements are optional if you don't need the extra time on transfer rune or any elemental runes. Alfyn: Persistence, fleetfoot and patience (one flex passive). H'aanit: Elemental edge, augment elements, surpassing power and patience. Feel free to swap out one for persistence if you need the coverage, usually I use the down time on rune buff to put down another leghold trap. Primrose: Augment elements, elemental edge, surpassing power, and BP eater. If you want to sacrifice turns with prim for buffs, swap elemental edge for BP eater on H'aanit. This is my take no damage build, it's really effective if you can survive the initial set up round. I haven't lost a fight with it yet. If you're matching someone with a dispel, you can swap persistence out with saving grace. Persistence is only there to give the party more damage options for longer when or if they run out of BP, via runes. Outlast the dispel and then buff the party. Consider giving this a try if you do a final boss guide. Turn H'aanit into a warmaster obviously.

[@AnamanaCh]

I'll have to give this a shot, thanks for this!

[@Im0nJupiter]

You can also do a variation with a Cleric Starseer, but I found it harder to pull off.

[@nivla2349]

I just beat the boss with lv 55 warrior Therion as tanker (803 evasion + Incite + share BP items + cover), lv 41 cleric Cyrus (heal + staff attack spam + revive), lv 41 scholar Olberic (staff attack spam + share BP items + cover), and lv 52 Runelord Ophilia (transfer rune + revive + heal). Took 4 times to beat this boss.

[@LifeAdmiral]

I accidentally ran into Warbringer just today and beat her on my third try (I'm not done the game yet). I basically just outlasted her with Warrior!Alfin (protagonist), Cleric!Cyrus and a lot of items. Mage!Olberic with Patience and Second Serving and Alfin's Concoct did the majority of shield breaking for me while Merchant!Therion let me spread BP around and keep Warbringer under near-permanent Physical Attack Down. Once I broke her, I would let Olberic (and Alfin sometimes) just let loose with Brand's Thunder and Surpassing Power, managing to do nearly 20k per hit if Olberic had Attack Up while Warbringer had Defense Down. And poison. LOTS and LOTS of poison (which has basically been my main boss strategy since the start of the game when I realized how strong Poison status is on bosses). That is a great extra boss battle. And it was the first one I ran into so I was entirely unprepared for the ass-whooping during the first 2 failed attempts (attempt #2 had her at ~9000 HP before War Cry just killed my entire party from full HP).

[@PokeProExpertMode]

There is a strategy that seems to be missed when using Tressa Runelord - Transfer Rune - Sidestep. If you happen to have any extra Transfer Rune on Tressa be sure to use Ice Rune to give your entire party the ability to deal ice damage chipping the bosses shield much faster. Extra note. With Surpassing Power on your Scholar / Sorcerer, you can deal more than 9999 damage just with the Ice Rune's Buff from Tressa. I've tested it on Cyrus/Merchant and if you properly equip him with the best Elem Atk. Weapons. He can certainly deal past that 9999 damage. Step 1: Feed your party with 6 to 9 Side Step Buffs from Tressa - Transfer Rune - Sidestep Method. Step 2: Get Winnehild's Shield Broken Step 3: Make sure Tressa has at least one or more Transfer Rune Buff. Step 4: With any Character give Tressa Energizing Pomegranate (L) to Massively Restore her BP. Step 4: Have Tressa safely use her Ice Rune MAX Buff on the entire party. With Ice Rune on every party member, they're allowed to deal extra weakness damage, and chip the shield down faster than before. There is barely any preperation prior to the battle. As long as you maintain your Tressa- Transfer Rune - Sidestep - Ice Rune, dodging every attack, and being able to buff every character with Ice Elemental Damage weakening the boss further. I used Cyrus/Merchant, Olberic/Apothecary, Ophilia/Dancer and Tressa/Runelord. To easily beat Winnehild, Just make sure you equip the best gear possible for each character. Now you could use anyone and give them the Sorcerer/Scholar/Cleric Subclass and use Tressa / Runelored for more shield chipping, and stick to the plan and Transfer Rune - SIdestep then ever so often give everyone the Ice Rune buff. Doesn't seem like this guide or any guide ever mentions Transfer Rune - Ice Rune to fully maximize Weakness and Shield Chipping damage.

[@jasonwang1932]

for me i use Cyrus as a Sorcerer, Ophilia as a Starseer, Therion as a Cleric, and lastly Primrose as a Merchant. on the first round is to overheal and break the boss shield. after that is the prepare phrase use all boost to boost Cyrus with divine Cleric skill, Elem.atk boost, debuff the boss elemental shield, max BP Cyrus and then we are good to go. the boss should be dead at around round 4 to round 6.

[@ganiman]

Three of the characters in this video are so OP for this fight... at this point you could have already finished the game.

[@AnamanaCh]

More often than not, it comes down to rotation than how strong your characters are in this game. If you mess up a round, it's all over. My characters are probably overlevelled in a lot of my guides, as I'm usually doing everything I can, which means I end up overlevelled.

[@iansexton2259]

The luckless soldier from the video for the runelord is useful here too lol!

[@nayyarrashid4661]

On my first play through I was able to defeat only starseer and archmagus... On my second play through now I am able to beat Balogar, archmagus and Starseer ... Yet to face Warbringer which I will in a couple of hours... I messed up the first playthrough by feeding nuts to random characters. But not this time this time mt characters are well rounded...

[@justinq5334]

Where were you when I was struggling through this boss last night!?

[@AnamanaCh]

Probably at work 😂

[@wates101]

For people who can kill this one fast enough before she equips all weapons Poison the boss. T.RUNE or dancer divine one merchant and side step Let's poison kill her while you attack. Don't break her. That makes her get weapons Rinse and repeat till poison gets her to 1HKO health. Takes long but it just might work

[@Nex5c]

Very helpful video, thank you sir!

[@shaharsaig9207]

nice! exactly now I checked if you have a video on him

[@AnamanaCh]

Perfect timing 😅

[@shaharsaig9207]

there is a way to do it without all the advanced jobs?

[@AnamanaCh]

Advanced jobs make it a lot easier. Otherwise I’d use the Cleric Divine Skill Aelfric’s Auspices + Sidestep, then lots of Magic.

[@sebastianmartin8665]

I just rune with side step and alfrics thing on my sorcer and did spam the dark sorcerer skill lol... sorcerer hitting x6 for like 8k

[@AnamanaCh]

It's a good little tactic.

[@tristramnguyen712]

Just beat this with basically your set up but instead of Cyrus I used Alfyn and I forgot to put on saving grace. I thought I had the cleric's divine skill on Primrose but apparently, I forgot to make her learn it. So she really wasn't that helpful for the battle for me. Like 10 minutes in I really wished I had her divine skill since it just took me so long to break and kill the boss when she got up to 12 shields... On another note, I wish I had surpassing power on Alfyn too, it would've helped when I used the starseer's divine to not cap at 9,999 xD Now to finish my chapter two's!

[@hentailord-hp9sr]

olberic with the warmaster class is the best option and nice video!

[@CrimsonStigmata]

Yolomasters 74 olbernic is nice but I prefer H’aanit because of leg trap.

[@nickcushing7374]

I used maruf instead of luckless sellsword because maruf is a lot danker (Maruf is Ali’s dad. You can find him in Marsalim after initiating the sidequest Ali’s adventures)

[@timmytiger2]

I just used sorcerer Cyrus to do ~180K on turn 4

[@AnamanaCh]

Big numbers!

[@louis.r.corner6044]

Mind sharing the setup?

[@iansexton2259]

Also my team was Cyrus, Primrose, Olberic and Tressa.

[@seanmansfield3432]

Awesome videos, thanks 👏

[@tressa4920]

Why does Transfer Rune -> Sidestep work as AOE? In the Tooltip it says Transfer Rune makes your Runelord abilities only AOE? (German Translation)

[@AnamanaCh]

Unsure, but it works!

[@iansexton2259]

I think really only one advanced job is necessary for this boss. That’s runelord and have it equipped to Tressa. The runelord ability transfer time allows her to transfer the merchant ability sidestep to her allies. And then dark rune is good. After completing it I find the warmaster class underwhelming compared to the others.

[@AnamanaCh]

Runelord on Tressa is definitely best at making the boss ineffective and the party really strong.

[@iansexton2259]

Anamana! She literally makes most bosses after unless they’re mage bosses completely a breeze. If they are mages, I stick to the cleric primrose lol

[@pokechatter]

Perhaps it's the cornerstone of this strategy, but I wouldn't say it's completely necessary for the boss.

[@iansexton2259]

pokechatter well I agree with it being the cornerstone or easiest method, but as with all bosses in all games there are multiple ways to beat them, some just happen to be more efficient and time effective.

[@pokechatter]

I agree completely.

[@ciaranpatrick6859]

For some reason I read it as “warm master”

[@sloppyslush9858]

Therion sorcerer slaps compared to Cyrus sorc. Therion can kill this boss with a single cast of the fire sorcerer spell.

[@Hanzi23]

Hello. Great video. I'm starting from the same save point as you do. All characters above lvl 44. I arrive at the bridge, just like in your video, but I can't seem to be able to take the path south towards the cavern. Something "cloudy" is blocking my path. Any idea what it is? Requirement maybe? I didn't meet any problem with the three other advanced jobs. Thank you.

[@Hanzi23]

Nevermind ;) I obviously had to a fight with two snakes and a bug to be able to go through afterwards. Go figure ;) Thank you for all your good work.

[@AnamanaCh]

Hmm, that is weird. I didn’t run into anything like that. But I had finished chapter 1 for all characters and also had all of the secondary jobs first.

[@davidqi8835]

How about keep the warmaster of hp 1 (revival by cleric) with the fortitude as support skill. Probably will give a huge damage

[@AnamanaCh]

This is for unlocking the Warmaster, though. Can’t use it if you don’t have it.

[@TheSlayerofevil3]

Can you do the direwolf boss? Has something like 260k hp.

[@AnamanaCh]

Will have a look into it when it comes up 😀

[@TheSlayerofevil3]

Thx bb

[@tjreed7797]

Just got Runelord today and Warmaster will be my last one! And can we just appreciate how cool the advanced job bosses look! I would totally like to see a picture of them together!

[@ANBU_Blk_0p]

I'm a bit confused...does all this come AFTER finishing all chapters, is this end game content?

[@origa1614]

Me: Does Winnehild easily with no one dying without Tressa runelord. Anamana and literally everyone else: Uses Tressa Runelord Me: Laughs knowing I could've made it a lot easier.

[@therealsamtheman]

It's sad to see that "cheese" is the most reliable way to beat this boss. I beat the sorcerer on the first try, starseer 2/3 tries and runelord was fine, but this boss is something else. Even while debuffing her attack and buffing my party's defence she still shreds with her five/six actions per turn towards the end. It's basically her final form and her shield gauge goes up to TWELVE smh. I'm grinding up to the high 50's then I'll try again. I didn't want to be spoiled, but I want to watch till the end to see if it's even worth it when I have story to do....

[@AnamanaCh]

The game in general seems very magic focused, so when a strong physical boss comes along, they hit like a truck.

[@therealsamtheman]

LOL I did the grinding and fought her today, still cant do it... so I youtube-d a guide and then I saw this comment XD XD @@AnamanaCh

[@johannes8825]

Only thing im wondering about is at 7:25 why use blizzard instead of just staff itd prpc to defense and deal way more dmg similar with therion why cast tenebrae while hes broken instead of just elemantal break/staff + rune

[@AnamanaCh]

It was a first attempt, I beat the boss, doesn't have to be perfect.😘

[@johannes8825]

yeah but it was still pretty obvious considering u saw it did about 15 to 20k before still nice guide though woulda been nice if i knew i could sidestep my entire party i did it without

[@AnamanaCh]

Eh, this channel is clearly for beginner friendly guides, not min maxing everything.

[@Arcendium]

I think I'm too noob, I'm already level 70, But still lose

[@shaneturley9299]

How do you have Cyrus at base 650 elemental attack? Mine is level 60 with the sorcerer equipped and his elemental attack is only 358

[@AnamanaCh]

Any nuts that give Elemental Attack, usually stolen or purchased from townsfolk. Using a magic-based job as a secondary job. Then I've got these equipment pieces: Elemental Augmentor +100 E.Atk (Stoneguard Steal/Purchase) Elemental Hat +61 E.Atk (Stillsnow Shop) Sorcerer's Robe +50 E.Atk (Noblecourt / Everhold Steal/Purchase)

[@johnnyscifi]

She totally wreaked my shit!!

[@AnamanaCh]

They’re pretty rough!

[@RudiMyDear]

Another one bites the dust.

[@AnamanaCh]

Finally!

[@SenseiArgo]

“Alright with pretty mediocre damage with therion” *hits 5k 3 times I can barely get him to hit 200 ;-;

[@penguwu4311]

Wow dude I defeated all 4 bosses thanks to your guides lol

[@codynave8736]

What is the best subclass to pick for therion

[@AnamanaCh]

There is no best. You should be designing around the whole party, not character focused. Look at your play style and design from there.

[@Cryptiiix]

Is the weapon permanently destroyed/gone or just for that battle?

[@AnamanaCh]

Permanently

[@bruvaroni]

So what would you put on therion to make him effective?

[@AnamanaCh]

I’d probably aim to have a second set of the gear I have on Cyrus. Anything with +Elemental Attack. Pretty obvious 😅

[@CrimsonStigmata]

I usually run Therion as Cleric. He is fast and he also acts as emergency healer and SP battery restorer for Cyrus or your SP hungry damage dealer of choice. Once I unlocked Sorcerer Cryus never changed to anything else because he is that good.

[@Flakii]

*When you chose Ophelia as your main so you can't switch her out* >_>"" Edit: Oh yeah, since Therion is just there for the dark damage, why not swap out with Primrose so you can also do Sealticge with Moon's Reflection?

[@bngw3]

My damage is always 9999 at max, why is that?

[@AnamanaCh]

You need the Surpassing Power support skill learned from the Warrior subclass.

[@geo1740]

runelord tressa and sorcerer anyone destroys this boss so hard its not even funny

[@dil4404]

Idk how but this was the easiest fight for me Edit: I didn't even use supassing power

[@RicoLen1]

Yet another video explaining how to get an elite job by utilizing elite jobs...

[@AnamanaCh]

The videos are in an order. Probably just like other video makers have done. Mine are in order of Sorcerer, Starseer, Runelord and finishing with Warmaster.

[@RicoLen1]

How do you tell what the order is? Maybe you could also put a note up at the start of the video that links to the other boss fights and alerts the viewers that there IS an order? Or maybe you should number them in the title? Something like: "Octopath Traveler - Advanced Job #4 Warmaster Location & Boss Tactics" Or some such thing? I searched through about 10-12 other videos that had strategies on how to beat the other bosses, and your Sorcerer video is the only one I saw that didn't use elite jobs. Until I found that video I was getting really frustrated, because Warbringer was the first boss I came upon, and I couldn't beat her. After looking through all the videos I could find I finally found your sorcerer video and went and discovered that shrine and beat that boss and then the rest were easy. Just an FYI. Since the Warbringer was the first boss I found that was the first boss I tried to beat, and looking at the videos it's not obvious that there is an order unless you watch them 2 or 3 of them. This video was actually really good once I learned there was an order, over the last couple hours I've been able to clear all 4 of the shrine bosses. Without an elite job though, I was beginning to think Warbringer was the new emerald weapon! lol I was seriously getting frustrated. :p

[@AnamanaCh]

I’m not redoing the videos. I’ve added it to the descriptions.

[@RicoLen1]

Ha! I didn't mean to redo the video! I was merely suggesting renaming it, or adding an annotation to the beginning. :p In any case, just adding it to the description is a big improvement! Hopefully other people to just stumble upon the boss out of order, will be able to figure out what's what now.

[@AnamanaCh]

I think the biggest focus I’ve had is clear narrative voiced on the video. Cause I know that I’m not a fan of text videos or plain videos without any direction of what to do. But this is a good idea for future videos like this!