Topic: Bravely Default: The Flying Fairy

Revenge is a killer support ability. Best tactic is to default all your characters, while the healer keeps healing, then do an onslaught for one turn with all your best attacks, since the maximum BP they can get is 3. Then go on the defensive for the next three turns to get your BP all up again and repeat. At least that works until you get the really massive damage attacks, at that point it's just "meh, so you have some more BP, take more damage than you can heal!"

Normally I would agree, but not this time. BD becomes mostly strategy for the last few chapters, it's all about setting your characters up to optimize them for that area and boss fight, less about what levels they are at. It does make the game less tedious than most RPGs. I am finding some great value in abilities I never thought would be useful now that it's all an even playing field, like full cover for the knight and using equipment that has lower stat values for their "use" power.

So, this guy is exploitable in two ways, to my eyes. The first, indeed, is to try to hit him harder with single attacks so he can't constantly heal himself. Another way to make this fight easier, however, is probably to attach Abate Lightning as well, considering his most damaging move is a Thundara spell.

U have maxed your levels and jobs??

What are some thoughts on the Valkyrie class. I just beat her last night , and was noticing a lot of people don't prefer the class.

Yep, right after getting the conjurer one of my characters learned obliterate, set that ability then just ran back and forth in the Earth Temple until it was all maxed. Took about a day, but having them all maxed made no difference in how difficult the sub bosses are in chapter 8, when there are four of them in a single battle.

Abate lightning can help, but the default until full BP for attackers, then onslaught for one round (two if the player characters are faster) does the most damage to him, while giving him little to no advantage. Also there is a sword that nullifies lightning damage, though it's weaker you can give it to your healer.

Hah! Equip everyone with Abate Lightning, turn Edea into a Valkyrie, give her sword magic, and suddenly Mr. Date Rapist wasn't so tough.

imo, Valkyrie is good for random encounters since your BP is getting reset a lot. Judgement hits really hard and Crescent Moon almost guarantees the Sweeper bonus. The class isn't as good in boss battles though, where using 2-3 BP per turn is actually going to detriment your party efficiency.

Haha, I just barrelled through Rusulka in two turns. First turn I chained four special moves. Then Edea mopped up with some electric attacks.

Which is funny, because when I held back, that seep attack kept killing me.

Argh, just walked up to a certain mage at the start of chapter 7 and got into a HUGE brawl!!! Managed to finish of the Knight but when the Fighter got low on health he spammed an explosive technique that wiped me out, that was 35mins of battle time that didn't end well ;( Consider my lesson learnt.

Has anyone started a new game with hard mode and the "normal" encounter setting not being touched? I am going through normal and feel the village was a bit meh...aside from the weapons that I can't afford. There is very little use for it now that I have it completed before ending chapter 2. ,i feel I went about some parts wrong...the overall game I mean from the start.

Lol, i got ya there. My village is almost done (like 4 hours left to max everything) and im still in chapter one. I don't feel i did anything wrong though as my play style is slow. I do feel i might've bought a few to many weapons and armor from the town shops! From what i understand though none of that will matter in the later parts of the game when skill means everything!

Gosh, I feel like I fell a little behind there. Only put about 3-4 hours into the game this week.

I think the level cap is a little too easy to reach. It hardly even scales upwards. Job growth rates seem fine, as I still have about 10 more jobs each to master for everyone anyway.

Almost done first playthrough! For anyone who has finished it already, is there any New Game+ mode? And if so, what treasures does it bring?

RE the Zombie Dragon: Easiest mini-boss ever!

Curaja Spam? Curaja Spam.

Revive Spam!

I got a little worried when it got back up the first time but it stayed down the second time and I still won in one turn.

I wonder if using a Phoenix Down on it will kill it in one hit?

In the next chapter it's 4 you face at once, most annoying optional bosses. However, try salve-maker compounding or attack items, with the attack item boost. You can hit with the thunder until the knight is down, and the others will be hurt badly enough to make them quick KOs. For chapter 7 you should have wind resistances up, Holly is a pain, but in chapter 8 you will need fire and poison resistance more.

The benefit to the attack items is that they do the same damage to a target no matter what, they ignore defense, default, and hit all opponents. The only thing that modifies their damage is the attack item support ability, and weaknesses or resistances of the target.