J/S/RPGs

[Shonumi]

You should wait until later in the game before switching jobs and experimenting a lot. How far are you in? Whenever you get to Edea's homeland (the final crystal) that's a good time to start grinding. Just change the game speed to Fast, spam 4x attack for everyone (press the Y button to enable auto-battle, which repeats moves you did last time) and all you have to do is move the Circle Pad.

For the longest time, I didn't switch jobs. Until you hit some of the later bosses (especially on the way to the true ending) it's just not necessary. I had:

Tiz - Hunter class (the wolf costume from Artemia), using the accuracy up + sword mastery thing from Knight class
Anges - White Mage, nothing fancy, knew basic Black magic as well
Ringabel - Thief for speed + bow, knew basic White magic to back up Agnes
Edea - Thief for speed + sword w/Knight's sword mastery skill or whatever. Knew basic black magic

You're supposed to pick abilities you'd want someone to have, then level up until they can use it for another class (if you want them to switch classes). Having the Merchant's money-throwing attack is awesome (does damage regardless of enemy defense), so sometimes I would have two characters equip that, and default for 4 turns, then spam it.

[DrHouse64]

I reached the second chapter, Agnes is going to participate to the beauty contest.

Thanks for your advices, I know how to handle jobs now. I felt that I was doing something wrong but it's fine, I have to swap and grind jobs only if it's necessary or if I want abilities. I will also speed up the game and take a look at money-throwing :p

[Shonumi]

Money throwing is awesome. It was introduced in FFV iirc. It spends as much money as the attack does, but once you start grinding and earning ridiculous sums of money, there's no better way to spend it. I think at lvl 100, you can do 4K per attack, so 16K if you Default enough. You can literally pay your enemies to die if you're rich enough :p

[MayImilae]

You know what they say: if you have a problem, throwing money at it always solves it.

That and the mental image of them throwing money at monsters is hilarious!

[DrHouse64]

(05-14-2015, 11:03 AM)Shonumi Wrote: You can literally pay your enemies to die if you're rich enough :p

Hahaha you made my day You mean, like dictators? Fuck yeah.

[NKF98]

i like the bribe mechanic in FFX as well. you pay an enemy money and they do a funny animation where the sprite just turns right around and runs away. it's especially funny with really large enemies (sand worms)

[cyrax33]

(05-15-2015, 12:44 PM)NKF98 Wrote: i like the bribe mechanic in FFX as well. you pay an enemy money and they do a funny animation where the sprite just turns right around and runs away. it's especially funny with really large enemies (sand worms)

As mentioned previously by others, this won't be beneficial unless you have an immensely amount of gil to waste. Quite frankly I didn't bother doing this myself only just a few tries here and there, however, throwing money at a beast x times larger than yourself is comical.

For me, FFX had the best battle system out of the series. I found myself predicting when the enemy will attack by looking at the order slots on the upper right hand corner and remember a fight I had with Seymour when my HP was literally in red and my entire party was out. By having to figure out and predicting the turn of attack of Seymour's strategy, I managed to win the fight with Tidus left standing. I was surprised afterwards, winning by the skin of my teeth. No other FF game in the series made me think like this in battle before. Fun times.

[NKF98]

bribing requires an exorbant amount of gil but you can get items that you can't otherwise (wings to discovery, mega phenoix, etc.) and in large quantity

[delroth]

Just started playing Bravely Default on 3DS. Really surprised so far by how good the game has been (only a few hours in) -- big fan of the art style, the music, the Tales-like skits that allow for more character development, and the way how they justify some game mechanics with in-universe explanations (the journal).

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[Garteal]

Been interested in Bravely Default too. Waiting on a deal before I get it though.
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