Bravely Second - or, "Yay, No More Microtransactions!"

BEST JOB.

I did the same thing with him actually. Although I did also give him some wizarding experience - Spellcraft is hugely useful for a healer. I swear by Heal + Mist.

Astrologer's buffs are literally broken early game, I breezed through most of the game just spamming physical attack buffs and using Fencer's attack skills. Well worth the party member that does nothing else in my opinion! Never even needed a healer until the last few bosses, everything just died too fast! By the time I needed a healer the Chainspell skill was a thing and Red Mage became a beast of a class.

Great job that one. Guns seem slightly OP in this game.

Astrologer + priority buffs + Black Mage's Group Cast All =

Spoiler:

Do you even have Black Magery by that point? Also not everybody power-levels all of their jobs early-game. I didn't have a single job maxed out by the time I finished the game!

Can you Astrology + Red Mage + Mist?

Oh I didn't power level all my jobs early on, just a couple for each character for skills and level 6 for everything they weren't using!

To be fair in chapter 2 it takes about 4 diffreent chain battles to get a job up to level 6-7 though!


And yep, you can use Mist with buffs!  If it's a magical spell of any kind whatsoever it can be combined with Mist so long as you're using a Wizard or the Spellcraft skill!

Pretty broken, although my favourite broken combo is still Echo and Chainspell.  Having a skill that has a chance of causing a immediate free recast combined with a skill that causes every spell cast be cast twice, so every recast has a chance of causing another two casts for indefinite magic spells is just sooooo broken and fun!

I communicated that badly - I didn't mean "can one", I meant "can Zero". I did Mist basically everything, although it ended up being mostly heals because not having to worry about that (OHKOs aside) was just too convenient (along with attacking spells, Mist + Dark did a number on a certain late-game boss). It's whether Zero has the right job levels in his party to just Mist-cast Fira or whatever.

Whoops, my bad. That said all this talk of Mist is making me want to abuse the heck out of it when I play through the game again, never really did use it much and it sounds super fun

Whilst I did have the Black Mage asterisk at that point, no-one had it; I'm more interested in levelling up Catmancy. The Astrologian was giving buffs where he could but only to Magic Attack - Physical Attacks resulted in a powerful counter which I did not want to happen to my two glass cannons. As it happened, things changed in my favour... blow it, back to spoilers...

Chapter 2:

And this is why you try a balanced selection of jobs.

Zero, you've not told us about at least one of your side-quest choices if I'm not mistaken! Specifically,

Spoiler:

I could probably guess, but who did you go for?

Ah!

Chapter 2:

That is a good call! I couldn't decide which one I agreed with there, saw advantages to both, so I went with the one that got me the best job. Which would be the same choice as you.

Eew, Knight class.  Dual wield skill >>>>>>>>> (times infinity!) anything knight offers

Condescending jokes aside though dual wield skill is one of the single most useful skills in the game since practically every class benefits from it, even more so with the addition of the triple and quad wield abilities of the Chariot which all get buffed from it.  Knight doesn't really do anything to be completely honest.

Best tank and healer is

super chapter 5 spoilers:

Thought Zero was saying he got Ninjary, by siding with the Knight?

That was indeed my intention! Getting near to the end of Chapter 2, I think - I've been playing the game for many more hours than I thought feasible, too. That does mean I've fully upgraded Fort-Lune, though - so that's good.

Woops.   Forgot you get the class opposing the one you side with, for some reason despite that being the general gist of the side missions!  

That boss was the first hard thing the game threw at me. I died several times. Which is ironic given the "sophistication" of its control units.

As for the side-quests, not sure on that one. I always took them down as soon as they appeared.

Panic over - the guy is back in place.

I feel compelled to mention unsubtly brag that I beat that chapter 2 boss on the first try with two triple wielding physical glass canons and another dual wielding offensive unit. The Astrologer class is that good!


I'm just going to mention again of the unspoken ability of triple wield is the ability to dual wield without the weapon strength penalty and defence penalty by using the head slot as your second weapon slot and using a shield.