[3DS] Bravely Default

[DragoonKain3]

One more OT post...

Originally Posted by dniv

I've never played/heard of SaGa before, it seems interesting. Maybe I should get some Japanese DS games of it.

By this being more like SaGa I meant like Romancing SaGa (SNES era) onwards. The Japanese DS games are remakes based on the gameboy series, which while IMO were good games in their own right, they don't have much in common with the later games or even with Bravely Default.

And if you aren't into punishing RPGs, don't bother with SaGa. Unlike here where the 'broken' stuff are merely optional to beat the game, there you HAD to figure out how to optimize your party/formalize an efficient strategy, or the game will beat you. You think the recent Wizardry-esque RPGs (ex. Etrian Oddysey) are niche? SaGa is even more so.

[Netto Azure]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

A lot of the music have a song-version to them, but I've never really liked them. Guess the non-song version is just so good and the song distracts from the actual music.

I'm the opposite. I actually prefer the song version. The lyrics enhances the meaning of the battles as it provides context alongside the story.

[Von Himmel]

Just got around downloading this because the store where I usually import it got out of stock.. anyone mind sharing friend codes? I need more people to built my village ;_;

[Netto Azure]

Originally Posted by Von Himmel

Just got around downloading this because the store where I usually import it got out of stock.. anyone mind sharing friend codes? I need more people to built my village ;_;

You should get 4 a day just uploading data on the internet.

[Marina2]

Originally Posted by Von Himmel

Just got around downloading this because the store where I usually import it got out of stock.. anyone mind sharing friend codes? I need more people to built my village ;_;

You are misunderstanding. Number of friend in your friendlist doesn't relate to the number of people in your village.

You can increase villagers number by:

1. Steet Pass system. Each person who walk past you will give you 1 villager.
2. Update Data everyday.( can be done in Save menu) This will give you 2-5 villagers per day.

[Von Himmel]

Oh great, so I should walk around with my 3DS then

I guess there's still that abilink that needs friend code?

[Netto Azure]

Well you can easily grind Job levels to Lv.9 in the latter chapters. Its Job lv. 10-14 that's a time sink.

[Neki Ecko]

I love the game but one thing,

It is very hard to come up with a comfortable Team Builds (heck, right now i have Merch, Red Mage, White Mage, and Knight), i am still on chapter 2 but still I know that Agnes is White Mage and Edea is a Knight or Black Mage and that is it.

[Marina2]

Originally Posted by Neki Ecko

I love the game but one thing,

It is very hard to come up with a comfortable Team Builds (heck, right now i have Merch, Red Mage, White Mage, and Knight), i am still on chapter 2 but still I know that Agnes is White Mage and Edea is a Knight or Black Mage and that is it.

You can actually make everyone to be anything. The difference in status is small.

However, by status

Edea is suitable for a job that relay on atk/def/vit

Tiz is has balance status. He good at everything.

Agnes and Ringnabel are good magic user.

[Netto Azure]

My team for most of tfhe game (but not that optimized compared to the crazy builds people had was) Tiz: Arcanist/Black Mage, Ringabel: Dark Knight/Thief, Agnes: White Mage/Performer, and Edea: Templar/Pirate. The Poison/Exterminate combo did wonders for most boss battles, Ringabel just kept Mugging everyone, Agnes was full support buffs and heals, Edea was debuff and defense. Standard builds, but not like others who uber hax things xP

[agetreme]

I am going to max all my Job.... except for those after Vampire... because I am still not that far in the game yet.

Currently level 99...yay?

[Neki Ecko]

Originally Posted by Netto Azure

My team for most of tfhe game (but not that optimized compared to the crazy builds people had was) Tiz: Arcanist/Black Mage, Ringabel: Dark Knight/Thief, Agnes: White Mage/Performer, and Edea: Templar/Pirate. The Poison/Exterminate combo did wonders for most boss battles, Ringabel just kept Mugging everyone, Agnes was full support buffs and heals, Edea was debuff and defense. Standard builds, but not like others who uber hax things xP

How do you combined jobs like it? i know about the Job Command but there is anything else besides that.

[Aogami]

Originally Posted by Neki Ecko

How do you combined jobs like it? i know about the Job Command but there is anything else besides that.

There are support abilities which allow you to use specific skills from any other class but depends on the level of your other jobs and how many support points you have which you get from awakening crystals ( a max of 5) which you access this in the same Ability menu as the Job command.

[Netto Azure]

Yeah, you can mix and match a lot of the passives for builds. The Performer passive "Buff up" is a great one for long boss battles.

[dniv]

Originally Posted by DragoonKain3

One more OT post...

By this being more like SaGa I meant like Romancing SaGa (SNES era) onwards. The Japanese DS games are remakes based on the gameboy series, which while IMO were good games in their own right, they don't have much in common with the later games or even with Bravely Default.

And if you aren't into punishing RPGs, don't bother with SaGa. Unlike here where the 'broken' stuff are merely optional to beat the game, there you HAD to figure out how to optimize your party/formalize an efficient strategy, or the game will beat you. You think the recent Wizardry-esque RPGs (ex. Etrian Oddysey) are niche? SaGa is even more so.

Will I probably like it if I liked DQ 7 (haven't played the 3ds version)?

I'm fine with challenging RPGs, but I'm not necessarily the best at beating them. But if the story is good I really don't care about the difficulty, I will find a way to beat it.

I really just need a good storyline and I'm hooked. That's one of the main reasons I like Bravely Default. The storyline gets really good, and the sequel's PV storyline already looks badass and amazing, that trololol in the in-game PV for it.

Originally Posted by Von Himmel

Oh great, so I should walk around with my 3DS then

I guess there's still that abilink that needs friend code?

I'll find my friend code soon and then put it up...

[dniv]

I haven't found my friend code yet...

Anyway, I just realized I was retarded:

Braev is ""'s name. Therefore, Bravely Default obviously means ... How did I not notice this before?

[Iron Maw]

Okay! I've finally hit chapter 5 and i'm midway through it.

Spoiler for some thoughts:

So far I don't really mind parallel worlds twist. I find pretty interesting that MC's have sort become outsiders now. As if their viewing a movie of some sort and commenting on events. Alternis' journal is was a pretty cool read, in fact really love the entire D notebook. Certainly does quite fair share to add lots favor to Luxendarc, almost as much as the art in anycase.

My current party as follows is:

Tiz - Pirate/Spell Fencer
Agnes - Spiritmaster/White Mage
Ringabell - Ninja/Thief
Edea - Templar/Knight

Everyone is at lv 58 with Job Lv of 12/14
I've been satisfied configuration and performance so far.

Originally Posted by dniv

I haven't found my friend code yet...

Anyway, I just realized I was retarded:

Braev is ""'s name. Therefore, Bravely Default obviously means ... How did I not notice this before?

Pretty much most of characters names are one pun or another. lol

Your FC should be in the FC menu on your 3DS.

[agetreme]

At chapter 5 too. I max my level and all the Job (except for one)

-_-

Current setup:
For Boss battle:

Tiz: Slave-Maker/Thief (I think I should have switch it around....>_<)
Agnes: Dark Knight/Vampire0
Ringabel: Arcanist/Red Mage
Edea : Templar/Spirit Master

Just in case you are wondering: Yea... it is "that" kind of build

Tiz: stealing > using Compound ability > Dagger Special

Agnes: just do damage with Black Bane

Ringabel: BP generator > Exterminator (after using the Wand special....)

Edea: For Stillness.... Templar is just because it is a slow class (Alternatively is Knight so that I can use the Overcharge combo)

[DragoonKain3]

My go to party was (listed jobs are their secondary, their current job is whatever I was leveling up at that time)...

Agnes: Red Mage
Group Cast, BP Recovery, Stat ailment amp

Tiz/Edea: Dark Knight (for dark nebula until you have blood blades for everyone) or Monk (pressure point is good against that third crystal boss so you can kill him before energy burst)
2-hand, BP recovery, Weapon Lore, one with More Money, the other with Healing Lore

Ringabel: Templar or Spiritmaster, depending if the boss is magic or physical based (thief knife for stealing)
Slow World, Rob Blind, BP recovery

So if Ringabel is Spiritmaster, then Adaptation for all into Dark Nebula spam.

If Templar, Pressure point x3 with Edea/Tiz, Rampart with Ringabel then auto-battle.



Now that I maxed lvls + all jobs, my current party uses the Rage method. Basically stillness into buff up/debuff the enemy first turn+second turn, slow world means that most bosses will be at -1BP third turn, then release 3 rages doing 50k each rage with 3 people = 450k damage (it might be less depending if Ringabel can hit the damage cap).
Agnes - caster setup: make sure she's slowest
Time Mage/Red Mage
Group Cast, BP Recovery, Status Ailment Amp

Tiz
Dark Knight/Merchant
2-hand, BP Recovery, Drain Amp, Sword Magic Amp, BP Limit up

Edea
Dark Knight/Salve Maker
2-hand, BP Recovery, Drain Amp, Sword Magic Amp, BP Limit Up

Ringabel
Dark Knight/Spiritmaster
2-hand, BP Recovery, Slow World, BP Limit

Only problem with this setup is against undead (only Gigas Lich AFAIK is an undead boss, but you can easily switch over to a Dark Nebula setup against undead) and those enemies with absurdly high PDEF (like that Be Mine Nemesis fight), of which you need something absurd like Knuckle Lore + Natural Talent to do damage. Which of course means that I had to make Ringabel like Templar+Spiritmaster (for rampart + enigma) else my damage dealers gets one shotted since they are naked.

It's less safe than the High Jump method, but infinitely more satisfying considering you can finish a lot of bosses by the first turn of Rages.

[Netto Azure]

I feel bad because for the Gigas Lich I just use Bravely Second and give it an Elixir. xP