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Bravely Default |OT| For the Americas
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HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
who asploded?
podracer35
Member
So since I finished rebuilding Norende a few days ago, I think I found my new "leave the game running to progress" habit: Big Pharm exploitation. Not even 2 hours and I'm at almost 700k!
.... Did I mention I haven't even restored the Wind Crystal yet? Honestly, I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed of myself for putting so much effort in enjoying the game while not enjoying it.
.... Did I mention I haven't even restored the Wind Crystal yet? Honestly, I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed of myself for putting so much effort in enjoying the game while not enjoying it.
Fbh
Member
I'm just a bit after the Fire Crystal.
So far I'm liking the Pirate/Swordmaster combo;
For grinding I'm using a Red Mage With Summoning plus another character with the protect ally support skill.
PS: no story spoiler. Just put those there in case someone doesn't want to know about job skills.
So far I'm liking the Pirate/Swordmaster combo;
. Provoke (pirate) for enemies to hit you and take adavantage of the counters from the sword master (his LV1 skill is quite good, great for taking and dealing good damage).
For grinding I'm using a Red Mage With Summoning plus another character with the protect ally support skill.
Get the mage to critical HP and then use his support skill to get free HP and spam summons. The character with protect ally is there in case someone wants to attack the red mage.
It's useless against enemies that tend to use attacks that hit the whole party, but in areas with monsters that focus on single target skills it's great. Most stuff dies after 4 summon attacks in a row, specially when several enemies tend to have the same elemental weakness in a specific area
It's useless against enemies that tend to use attacks that hit the whole party, but in areas with monsters that focus on single target skills it's great. Most stuff dies after 4 summon attacks in a row, specially when several enemies tend to have the same elemental weakness in a specific area
PS: no story spoiler. Just put those there in case someone doesn't want to know about job skills.
So, I have a couple questions. Also, try to answer them as spoiler free as possible please, just answer yes or no if you can.
When will I be able to destroy a crystal, and when should I do it? Should I create a second save for when I do destroy a crystal? I tried to destroy the fire crystal this chapter, and Airy kept asking what was wrong with me, but after two minutes of pressing x nothing happened. So my final question is, will I know when I desteoy a crystal? Will it shatter and then trigger a cutscene?
Regarding chapters..
I know there are at least 8 chapters. At the latest, whicj chapter should I do it? And should I save doing it for the last of the four crystals, copying my save file right before I awaken the final crystal?
You don't need to make another save file. Once you finish the other ending, it'll let you save and take you back to before you broke the crystal, and you can get the true ending. It doesn't really matter when you do it. I did it on the last crystal in chapter 8, so you have until then.
SenorArdilla
Member
Question regarding a certain side-quest in Chapter 3:
How exactly do you trigger this "Owen's Memento" side-quest? I've already seen the scene where the Innkeep is lying in a bed.
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Time Mage / Ninja
wow, that was one weird quiz
wow, that was one weird quiz
Acquiescence
Member
So I just arrived at the dreaded Chapter 5... hoo boy.
Question -
Question -
Is there any point in fighting all the bosses and sub-quest bosses again, or can I just go straight to releasing all the crystals without worrying about all that superfluous crap?
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
You sure can, if you want to skip any potential fun scenes.
Annoyingly, they vary in their quality.
I'd recommend fighting the first few sub-quest bosses in chapter 5 just to get a sense of the character's puzzlement over small changes in this world, then skip the rest. I think not getting burned out on chapter 5 is crucial to enjoying the later game.
You have to fight the crystal bosses, though.
You have to fight the crystal bosses, though.
Acquiescence
Member
Thanks man, will do.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Yup. People always say, "Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy VIII are so broken, though!" But by the time you've figured out how to start breaking the game and become a godly Time Mage Arithmetician, it's like a reward at that point.
DrROBschiz
Member
Its why I love job system games
Wouldn't mind them taking these features into account when designing end game content though.
podracer35
Member
I've calculated that I can gain ~3,200pg per minute with my current setup, which means ~193,000pg per hour(?). My god, I feel like that's worth it right now, but it's totally screwing my play time. I have 36 hours and am still in the same spot. Meh... If it means I can get all the big weapons and feel free to play with job setups, then whatever...
I'm praying for an Elixr Mammon, though. It'd be even faster! Anyone know if the Salesperson ability doubles the 25k to 50k? That, plus double steal on a thief, would be a solid way to maximize profit. My Tiz and Ringabel would be making it rain pg!
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I'm praying for an Elixr Mammon, though. It'd be even faster! Anyone know if the Salesperson ability doubles the 25k to 50k? That, plus double steal on a thief, would be a solid way to maximize profit. My Tiz and Ringabel would be making it rain pg!
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Yes, I'm crazy. What of it?
flatearthpandas
Member
Will someone please kill
?
Egil
The_Darkest_Red
Member
I'll do it if you make me eggs for dinner.
Such a little shitbag I genuinely thought he was going to turn to be a bad guy, probably the ninja
theprodigy
Member
Oh man, by Chapter 6 you can make that in about 5-8 battles or just about 3 minutes of killing regular enemies XD
Grinding becomes so easy in that Chapter...
Yes.
An interesting thing (spoilers chapter 5)
Also a question about chapter 5
if ARE re-doing the boss fights and do the Time Mage/Spell Fencer boss fight first, he's no longer there when you go to do Merchant or Thief.. which makes sense but it's a nice touch
Also a question about chapter 5
Does Egil actually show up? It's mentioned nobody controls the mines at this moment but I haven't been able to find where he is
That's good to hear. I am not interested in cheesing the Big Pharma thing or anything like that so it'll be nice to have a chance to buy some of those high money items a little easier. I did buy the Golden Egg which was of course a significant chunk of change for me at the end of Chapter 4.
podracer35
Member
Wait, 15 minutes for only 100,000? Shouldn't you be getting that much after just two battles?
What the effff! In Chapter 5 fighting my first bosses again (Holly and Barras). Kill off Holly after awhile then get Barras down to 8k and he somehow did some attack that wiped my entire party out despite being at or around 3000 HP each. Fucking hell! 
I had set my DS down for a second so I don't even know what to look for next time.. lol.
I had set my DS down for a second so I don't even know what to look for next time.. lol.You're right. I must have missed a zero. 1,000,000 pg.
podracer35
Member
What the effff! In Chapter 5 fighting my first bosses again (Holly and Barras). Kill off Holly after awhile then get Barras down to 8k and he somehow did some attack that wiped my entire party out despite being at or around 3000 HP each. Fucking hell!
I think I had that with a nemesis fight I went into. (Foolishly so, a level 20 party has no chance against Lv 99s... -__-)
Barras has this attack that seems a lot like explosion/self-destruct in Pokemon. Massive damage to everything on screen.
O_O Well okay, then....
What the effff! In Chapter 5 fighting my first bosses again (Holly and Barras). Kill off Holly after awhile then get Barras down to 8k and he somehow did some attack that wiped my entire party out despite being at or around 3000 HP each. Fucking hell!
It's Invigorate. Normally when you use it it has a chance to damage you, but when his HP is critically low it'll always fail for him, and will damage everybody. It's physical, so you can do stuff like rampart, p def buffs, attack debuffs, utsusemi, etc to partially block or negate it. At that point though you should go all out on him to finish him off.
Also your post is kind of spoiler-filled.
Also your post is kind of spoiler-filled.
flatearthpandas
Member
Finally moved into Chapter 4 at lunch; haven't had much opportunity to play the last few days.
Wiped on the ice golem. Time Mage be-bopped me to the beginning of the fight and I barely managed to scrape by. Game doesn't seem to be fucking around right now, although my job setup was a joke.
Wiped on the ice golem. Time Mage be-bopped me to the beginning of the fight and I barely managed to scrape by. Game doesn't seem to be fucking around right now, although my job setup was a joke.
What the effff! In Chapter 5 fighting my first bosses again (Holly and Barras). Kill off Holly after awhile then get Barras down to 8k and he somehow did some attack that wiped my entire party out despite being at or around 3000 HP each. Fucking hell!
I just skipped that match. I was getting frustrated myself.
Thanks.
I'm in Chapter 5 and I only have the
left. I've been doing the sidequests up to this point, but I have a question:
Is it worth it to
I really don't want to fight all those irritating dragons and the rest of that hassle. Do you get anything good? Does avoiding it screw up some later chapter or sidequest?
Earth Crystal
Is it worth it to
rematch DeRosso?
So I have a question for anyone who has beaten the Japanese version 'For The Sequel' even though the changes of those people hanging around in this thread are slim I guess.
I beat the original version and actually have had FTS sitting here for a few months but haven't had the urge to play it again just yet. I just realized something though and it's really bugging me so I must know...
How do they handle the post-game
in FTS...?
I beat the original version and actually have had FTS sitting here for a few months but haven't had the urge to play it again just yet. I just realized something though and it's really bugging me so I must know...
How do they handle the post-game
subtitle change on the title screen
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
You can skip the dragons and fight him still. Dragons are optional to fight.
Really? Oh, in that case I'll go and fight him. Might as well get that optional JP.
RoninChaos
Member
This appears to be sold out every where. Any idea when more will be available?
SoraanTribal
Member
You don't find them extremely repetitive going back to the crystals and fighting the same bosses over and over and over and over for 4 chapters? And Chapters 5 and 6 sidequests really do not change all that much unfortunately - even a lot of the dialogue is the same. I wouldn't have minded them so much if I didn't have to hear the same dialogue all the time. At least Chapters 7 and 8 change things up with the sidequests and make them a bit more challenging. Make sure you do the Conjurer sidequest in Ch6 btw - it's a cool sidequest imo.
NHarmonic.
Member
Regarding Chapter 8:
Anything worthy in the sub-quests this time? good steal-able items or anything? i kind of want to be over already...
SoraanTribal
Member
Not really any good stealable items. The only one who has anything is the Black Mage boss, but you probably already have what you would steal from him anyways. The other bosses in the chapter mostly have Elixirs and Turbo Ethers. Chapter 8 does provide some pretty fun fights though - they are challenging due to how you fight them (it's usually 4 bosses vs you at a time).