Bravely Default 2 is beloved for a lot of reasons, but one of the biggest for many fans is its old-school JRPG style. Unlike many modern entries of the genre, this game plays like classic Final Fantasy games with a much higher difficulty, deeper customization, and an incredibly long initial campaign.
Whether you’re starting the game for the first time, or trying to perfect your New Game Plus runs, you’ll very likely be making some common mistakes if you try playing it like an average JRPG. If you want to step up your game, these are just a few things you can change about your party and play style to make the game significantly easier.
10 Not Enough Healers
There are definitely a lot of ways you can build your team thanks to the 24 different job classes in the game, but that doesn’t mean you can succeed with the game’s infinite amount of combinations. Broadly speaking, you should have a general formula of two healers and two damage dealers, since opponents can very often kill your allies in just one or two hits.
Both of the healers don’t have to necessarily have identical movesets, as you don’t specifically need two characters as White Mages the entire game. But even just having one main healer like a White Mage and an off-healer like a Red Mage or Spiritmaster will give you a huge amount of resiliency in long fights.
9 Too Few Stat Moves
Fans of the Pokemon series might be familiar with the usual strategy of sticking to damage moves, but this is absolutely not going to work in Bravely Default 2. When you’re up against aggressive asterisk-wielding foes, you’ll desperately want some boosts to your defensive stats, and against heavy tank bosses you’ll really need some offense-raising moves.
With this in mind, you should ideally aim to have at least one Bard or Pictomancer on your team, at least as a sub-job if you don’t want a dominant support teammate. If you do go hard on a support character for your second support teammate, though, your other healer will be a lot more relaxed if these stat moves make you take less damage.
8 Forgetting Freelancers
Since they’re nowhere near as exciting or colorful as the fancy outfits from the other jobs, many players will want to immediately cut Freelancers from their team early on. This isn’t the worst mistake you could make, but it’s important to know that leveling up the classic Freelancer job is still extremely important, both as an offense class and for grinding.
Several moves like Body Slam can deal tons of damage based on your other maxed-out job classes, making it a great all-around option with a bit more defense than aggressive jobs like Dragoon or Swordmaster. At the very least, getting the two JP Up abilities will make grinding a breeze, meaning it’s almost necessary in any playthrough to unlock these passive abilities.
7 Wasting Time With Status Ailments
If you haven’t played a game in the Bravely Default series before, you might quickly find that status ailments are incredibly powerful when used against you. Their effects can sometimes debilitate your team entirely through eliminating resources or wasting your turns, so you might be tempted to try using them yourself on your opponents.
This is a serious mistake, as very few status ailments or instant-death effects work on the game’s bosses. Most of the game’s random mobs are weak enough that status conditions like Poison or Contagion take too long to work as well, making it pretty useless to invest in these sorts of moves or abilities.
6 Not Buying Phoenix Downs
Even though they won’t give as much health as a healer casting Rise or Arise on your fallen foes, many players will massively underestimate how helpful Phoenix Downs are in Bravely Default 2. There are all sorts of enemies that can kill your party members in one hit, so having an emergency item that even your melee DPS characters can use are absolutely vital.
Once you’re past the first few bosses and don’t have Sir Sloan to bring you back to life randomly, you could honestly do well having at least 10 or 20 in your inventory all the time. This will let you get healers back on their feet if your opponents focus them, or give healers time to restore your full party if they don’t have enough MP to revive and heal everyone at once.
5 No Equipment Abilities
Your main source of stats in the game is usually going to come from your main job class, but that’s not to say your equipment isn’t going to make a huge impact on your character. The armor and weapons you equip will give a massive increase to your damage and defenses, and there are tons of abilities that can give you even more benefit from your fancy items.
Most of these revolve around increasing the stats from holding one or multiple weapons, such as the Dual Wield ability from the Phantom job or the Two Hands Are Better Than One ability from the Swordmaster job. Equipping at least one of these kinds of abilities to each main character is vital, as it’ll give you the highest stat increases of any ability in the game.
4 Too Many Mages
Even though magic is quite powerful and visually spectacular, it’s easy for most players to overestimate just how effective it is in the Bravely Default series. Many magic classes have actually been cut this time around, such as the classic Summoner job and the more unusual Conjurer class.
With your two damage dealers, it can be tempting to have both be mages and just go all-in on magic, but they often use way too much Mana to be usable in longer boss battles. Since few bosses resist a majority of physical damage types, it’s much more valid to just have melee DPS characters to hit with, so that your support characters can exclusively boost their physical offense stats.
3 No Health Accessories
With the diverse range of accessories with unique effects for your party, it can be tempting to have a lot of class-specific items to help them out. For example, mages and healers will do great with anything that negates the silence condition, and as a result you might only want mage-specific items equipped to your mages.
At the end of the day, though, you’ll easily find more success by loading any teammate with accessories that raise their maximum health. No matter their defense stats or job, most bosses in the game can only hit so hard, meaning more health prevents you from dying in one hit, making them the ultimate priority over almost any other type of accessory.
2 Too Little Grinding
One of the most important things you can do in this game is grind your JP to max out as many jobs as you can. This can be extremely boring in most games, but many of the late-game bosses expect you to have way higher stats than anything you can get from random battles and the main quest’s bosses, and with the wide set of abilities from each job it’s extremely helpful to have access to a lot of different abilities.
Grinding can be done much faster than you’d expect, though, thanks to a few different items and strategies you can pick up on fairly easily. By equipping the JP Up abilities from the Freelancer, your grinding will go by way quicker, and with maximized battle speed and enemy-clearing moves without mana costs like Obliterate you can blast through chained enemies to max out a job within a matter of minutes.
1 Strict Team Roles
One of the biggest and most important differences with Bravely Default 2 compared to past games in the series are the main characters’ base stats. Past games would see each character have different jobs they were slightly more oriented towards, but Bravely Default 2 puts the customization first as all characters have identical base stats.
If you don’t recognize this, you might feel like you need to keep Elvis as a mage, or Adelle as a melee DPS character. In reality, they can go into any role and you can swap jobs around all the time, and that ability to change your team on the fly can absolutely give you a big advantage in the game’s diverse and unique boss fights.
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