Lord Ghirahim
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Team Ringabel players got 3 Unearthly Buns (HP +100, MP +50, STR +1, INT +1, MND +1, AGI +1, VIT +2, DEX +2).
Team Edea, Agnès, and Tiz got 5, 4, and 3 Strength Buns respectively.
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Bravely Default |OT| A better Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy
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Team Ringabel players got 3 Unearthly Buns (HP +100, MP +50, STR +1, INT +1, MND +1, AGI +1, VIT +2, DEX +2).
Team Edea, Agnès, and Tiz got 5, 4, and 3 Strength Buns respectively.
Exentryk
Member
Belphegor
Usual stillness method. Hopefully someone finds it useful.
Unearthly buns are random stat gains, worst case scenario you get HP +100, MP +50, all stats +1. The best case I've seen is getting HP +300, MP +50, 2 stats +3 and the rest +1, or the same but HP +100, MP +150.
Lord Ghirahim
Member
Lame, but I wasn't planning to use them anyway.
Scratch that. Just got HP+200, MP+100, STR+2, VIT+3, INT+1, MND+1, AGI+2, DEX+2 from one.
Already beaten everything so this is just for fun now. Shame SQEX don't seem to want to release a truly difficult nemesis battle to pit my characters against...
royox
Member
Yup, it's the only way to play - I was surprised to see someone slating the dialogue, I thought it was excellent, surprisingly funny and sophisticated in places.
Lord Ghirahim
Member
I hear Lucifer is out. Recommended level is 70.
It's the usual four dull charicatyres of young teens who don't know anything. I stopped reading the optional dialogues long time ago. Painstaking stuff.
Early chapter 4 spoilers:
That ice Golem was crazy hard. I lost three times before i beat it. In the end, i decided to default a lot and do a lot of counter damage to it. Had to use my specials, too. The salve Maker job is a lifesaver, used resurrect and and first aid like a madman.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
They spelled "reminiscent" wrong.
bumpkin
Member
"EB Games" are still around? All of the EBs around here turned into GameStops.hmmmm....
eh, I can't be bothered.
I'd probably have noticed, except I can barely read that font
The opposite happened in Canada. No GameStops, only EB Games.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
I'd probably have noticed, except I can barely read that font
When my writing equates to chicken scratch I can pretty much read any english font known to humanity.
hmmmm....
eh, I can't be bothered.
I didn't know BD was high profile enough to warrant a "release party".
Unless you people get these all the time, of course. There's never anything like this in Finland.
First look at the Canadian cover:
Run for your lives
Do they really need to tell us that the game is also available in French ?
I mean the game is gonna be available in a bunch of languages anyway -_-
Oh and i bet the game will not have any freaking manual, for that kind of game I think it's pretty ridiculous to not have one.
We will get tons of tutorials and text pop-up in the first 5 hours of the game instead >_<
Oh and quick question about the town building, I have zero friend with a 3DS am I screwed to quickly build the town ? Will I be stuck with like 2 villagers ? can you add/street pass people from the internet instead ?
The PAL release comes with a fold out quick guide (controls, online stuff, battle basics) and an electronic manual. And no, you're not screwed - you can update data once a day to get 3 - 5 villagers (per day) from random internet hits.
Cool thanks !
Squall ASF
Member
Phew, it took all week to read this thread but finally caught up. Sucks having to wait a month to get this after reading all the fun you guys have had but at least there have been useful pointers. I already cleared the demo and am currently trying to get up to 20 villagers before the full game releases but I have some questions to you vets:
1. How does AB Link work exactly? So you link to a friend and you access all the abilities their potentially higher level job has but is this permanent? Or do you only get it for one fight?
2. How do you change what action your character will perform as a summon? In the demo, you just use a potion and I saw there's a send command in battle but I didn't see where you modify what action you'll perform for your friend when they summon you.
3. Are there good spots to grind in the early chapters? I've read some of you say the later chapters are much better for the JP increases, but I've also read that Freelancer has the JP Up ability which I'd think you would want ASAP. I also have the intent to just become super powerful and crush everything in the game and if I wait until chapter 6 to grind..that's over half the game gone without being a powerhouse. So are there good grind spots in the first half of the game and classes worth trying to max out at that point?
4. Do you have to progress the game a bit at the start to access the village? It'd be cool to milk street pass for villagers at gamestop when I pick up the game but obviously that won't work if I have to progress a ways in.
Thanks to those that answer my questions!
1. How does AB Link work exactly? So you link to a friend and you access all the abilities their potentially higher level job has but is this permanent? Or do you only get it for one fight?
2. How do you change what action your character will perform as a summon? In the demo, you just use a potion and I saw there's a send command in battle but I didn't see where you modify what action you'll perform for your friend when they summon you.
3. Are there good spots to grind in the early chapters? I've read some of you say the later chapters are much better for the JP increases, but I've also read that Freelancer has the JP Up ability which I'd think you would want ASAP. I also have the intent to just become super powerful and crush everything in the game and if I wait until chapter 6 to grind..that's over half the game gone without being a powerhouse. So are there good grind spots in the first half of the game and classes worth trying to max out at that point?
4. Do you have to progress the game a bit at the start to access the village? It'd be cool to milk street pass for villagers at gamestop when I pick up the game but obviously that won't work if I have to progress a ways in.
Thanks to those that answer my questions!
1. Yes, it's permanent - abilink to a friend and you have access to their job abilities, so you could level up different jobs and access each other's progress, essentially halving the time to level everything up. It's one character per friend, but the game will give you bot friends if you don't have enough real life friends playing.
2. I think when you choose Send you have the ability to change what you're sending, but I never used it so I'm not 100%. Edit: yeah if you select Send you then pick a command from your usual battle menu.
3. Not sure about earlier than this (I did some grinding by mostly just running about wherever I was at the time) but there's a smallish island in the northeast of the map that has a beach on the south end and ice up north. The beach is excellent for grinding, and accessible after
chapter 3
4. You do, a bit. Couldn't say exactly how long you'd have to stand in the shop though!
Squall ASF
Member
Holy Moley! That's pretty crazy but I guess the game caps you at 4 characters and thus, four jobs so you couldn't do it for every class. Or can that person just change what class they are and you do an update and get them all that way? Can you even get classes you haven't unlocked yet in your game? That's wild
Ah, I wondered if that would be the case, I never selected send thinking it would send my crap potion ability haha
I have no idea how many job classes you get in the first few chapters so maybe it won't even be a big deal to level stuff up yet but I'd still think the JP UP ability would be quite handy.
That's what I figured, oh well haha I'll have minimum 23-5 to start so I guess I can't complain.
Thanks for your response!
Just finished Chapter 2. Goddamn, that Summoner side quest was tragic. Poor girls
The side quests in general are a lot darker than I expected after playing the demo
Btw, do you guys think LV32/JL9/JL4 for each character is overleveled or is the level still in a normal area? I can't judge it by the difficulty of the bosses. The turtle and Valkyrie almost wiped me, but the Red Mage and Chapter Boss (that water thing) were a complete joke.
The side quests in general are a lot darker than I expected after playing the demo
Btw, do you guys think LV32/JL9/JL4 for each character is overleveled or is the level still in a normal area? I can't judge it by the difficulty of the bosses. The turtle and Valkyrie almost wiped me, but the Red Mage and Chapter Boss (that water thing) were a complete joke.
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I'm level 21 at the same point in the story where you are. Getting trashed by giant turtle and artemis
Maybe I need to grind some ;_;
I'm level 21 at the same point in the story where you are. Getting trashed by giant turtle and artemis
Maybe I need to grind some ;_;
Try changing your strategy first. Some strategies work better with certain bosses.
royox
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Just finished Chapter 2. Goddamn, that Summoner side quest was tragic. Poor girls
The side quests in general are a lot darker than I expected after playing the demo
Btw, do you guys think LV32/JL9/JL4 for each character is overleveled or is the level still in a normal area? I can't judge it by the difficulty of the bosses. The turtle and Valkyrie almost wiped me, but the Red Mage and Chapter Boss (that water thing) were a complete joke.
This game some times depends more on the tactic than the level.
I wiped several times on Red Mage and Water thing....but dstroyed the Valkyrie and the Hunter at 1st try...
Chrono Helix
Member
He's a pushover.
Hours Left
Member
That stupid logo is so damn huge.First look at the Canadian cover:
Run for your lives
A simple notice at the bottom included with the 3D warning would suffice.
Yeah, I think the game is
designed to encourage you to do both - all that stuff about disobeying, it's clearly pushing you to try and break a crystal at some point. You'll get a different type of reveal and more story detail. Sadly the lead-up to the true ending is then not particularly well-handled, as - like you say - it requires you to ignore the twist and keep doing what you were beginning to become highly suspicious of doing in the previous chapter.
thanks, I'll do both.
If there's a difference, it'll be worth it.
Am in chapter 8 and Level 99, but I'd like to master the rest of the jobs. What's a good place to grind JP? still on that island north of Florem?
There maybe somewhere better, but yeah that was always my favourite spot, northeast of Florem with ice and a beach, with grinding done on the beach.
I set an arcanist with black mage support, cast poison twice and then exterminate to run through crowds like the proverbial dose of salts. Get the growth egg and you'll be getting 400 - 900 JP per battle with bonuses. Once you've got conjurer high enough, obliterate is even better.
Ok, I'll stick to it then. Last time round Tiz' Bone Crush was enough usually.
Lord Ghirahim
Member
New Bravely Quest for Japan, they want us to surpass a total of 160k registered BD friends by Jan 22. Current friend count is 143,544. No teams this time.
Exentryk
Member
Lucifer
Got bored with the usual stillness method, so Raged a little with the Dark Knights.
(This setup has 300K damage output in the first turn. Lucifer's HP is 270K on hard.)
(This setup has 300K damage output in the first turn. Lucifer's HP is 270K on hard.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxnXAy0raE
(Lv 70 Nemeses) wrapped up in one turn on hardLucifer
Got bored with the usual stillness method, so Raged a little with the Dark Knights.
(This setup has 300K damage output in the first turn. Lucifer's HP is 270K on hard.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxnXAy0raE
out of curiosity, what's the setup of your characters?
Atm, my preferred method is still Free lunch-Amped strike with two characters, while the other two sing them back for the next turn.
If there are more enemies, I use stillness to re-charge. Compared to your strategy that seems very slow.
EDIT: BTW: I know for certain that I would NEVER have finished the original release. In later chapters the abaility to switch random encounters off is a godsend!
Exentryk
Member
I posted it in the description of the video, but here it is again.
3x Dark Knights with Sword Magic job command
P. ATK 30% Up
BP Recovery
Bow Lore
Bow Weapon
Strength raising equipment
Hermes Shoes/Sandals
1x Red Mage with Singing job command
Status Ailment Amp
Group-Cast All
Speed 10% Up
2x Falcon Knives
Whatever equipment
Hermes Shoes
Turns:
Red Mage - Poison (on allies), Poison (on allies), Love Power, Love Power
Dark Knights - Drain, Rage, Rage
P. ATK 30% Up
BP Recovery
Bow Lore
Bow Weapon
Strength raising equipment
Hermes Shoes/Sandals
1x Red Mage with Singing job command
Status Ailment Amp
Group-Cast All
Speed 10% Up
2x Falcon Knives
Whatever equipment
Hermes Shoes
Turns:
Red Mage - Poison (on allies), Poison (on allies), Love Power, Love Power
Dark Knights - Drain, Rage, Rage
Don't forget to get Aeroja! I've given up all hope of being sent a Belphegor. He's the only one I missed
and I'd like to get Firaja to complete my save file.$$$
If PS4 does well in Japan, here's to hoping the series gets brought to next-gen.
Although, since Nintendo is publisher outside of Japan, its not too likely I don't think.
I did love what I played however, but it just makes me want to go play some psone classics on my ps3.
You can buy Bravely Default on the eshop should physical copies ever become hard to find, though I've no idea about sales so far.
As for which one to get, I love BD but, well, it's Chrono Trigger, innit? If you've not played it before you're missing out on a classic.
It's quite hard to find at European retailers, at least in certain countries. In Germany, I haven't seen any copies in stores since release week. Amazon.de doesn't have it in stock since then either and it's's being sold only on their marketplace -- for roughly 60. The situation seems to be exactly the same in France.
So, yeah, if you want to own a physical copy, it might be a good idea to buy it sooner rather than later.