U's Journal: Bravely Second Megathread

It's time! Anyone from my bravely default friend list gettin get his today?

I've already been playing cause *** yeah Europe!

So happy of this game!!

WHAT!? This snuck up on me. I know what I'll be doing when I get home from work.

That opening cutscene...

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!!!!!

*skips work for the next 2 weeks*

Does anything carry over from the first game's save data?

No.

But there's a code for gifts if you played the demo.

Wow, it keeps saying my Gathelatio Costume Set download code is invalid :/

EDIT: Found the problem. The set isn't available for download until April 24th.

guess i'll try and finish the first one this weekend

I suggest doing the optional boss fights from BD cause there's returning characters and it kinda helps if you know their sidestories in full.

Is the second one in the Nintendo Store or did you have to go to the store and nab it? I kinda don't wanna drive anywhere to go get it after work

I bought mine from SE store.

You can buy both Bravely Default and Bravely Second in the Nintendo eShop.

I got the first one, been busy playing Fire Emblem tho. Noticed the Square Enix store has that Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness Day One Edition (pre-order) available , there goes $60

I got Bravely Default and enjoyed it and it fit my habit of playing a handheld game for a bit before I go to sleep at night, but like a lot of things I got distracted by other games and haven't gone back to it, first it was Final Fantasy Explorers, then it was LoZ Twilight Princess HD.

So I have no plans right now to get Bravely Second until I go back and complete Bravely Default, looking at a guide for what sounds familiar, I think I got to Florem which probably isn't very far but I was able to fully rebuild Norende because of all the streetpass got.

it was on pre-order for nintendo store so im sure its up there now

Reminder:
I know I've put my friendcode up for anyone to add as others have done too, but don't forget you have to tell the person you're adding because the ds doesn't have a notification feature and it has to be reciprocated to be effective.

That being said, the moon is waiting!

I'll add everyone in about an hour, my nintendo friend list is desolate with just Misao.

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THIS OPENING DOH *dies*

UGH!!! Off to a great start ;-;

I laugh every time these guys say Ba'al Busters >_>

BA'AL BUSTERS!

Had to order online... my copy of the CE is apparently in New Jersery... so I'm expecting it mid/late next week

Started slowly working on finishing bravely default for this but I didn't make it lol. I have this game sitting unopened but I'm on CHP7 now in BD, is that close to the end? Also the bosses are kinda kicking my butt, whats a good strategy in general? I typically do Bushido/Piracy for Free lunch + Amped strike on 3 characters and one as a healer with steal ability.

Bravely Illegal Chinese Factory is the best!!

Depends on the battle really, but for the superhard battles in the end my team was almost steadily Knight/Templar with double shield just doing default and rampart; spiritmaster/white mage as healer; then 2 dd with ninja sub(valk, monk or pirate depending on what I felt I needed).
edit: I found extremely helpful to have speed bonus sub ability and speed accessory on the healer so it was always the first to act at every round.

Why is this so *** addicting I've been playing it for an hour LOL

But damn if you're already there you probably surpassed me by now o.o I only just finished the first optional quest *rushes to the ds to not fall behind*

Inc babbling!

I have to say that so far, I'm liking what I've seen so far of the new classes. Fencer is cool with the shifting stances, especially paired with Muscle Memory to retain your stance stats longer, and I really, really love the building of Spellcraft from the Wizard job. As a whole, it's a nice touch on things.

The chain system, I'm... so-so on. Because BP transfers over at the start of each new chain, you actually don't get your "start of turn recovery" on BP. This means that even if only one character acted and only took one action, which puts them at -1 (and then from there to 0 again at the start of the next turn), the start of the next battle in the chain has them at -1. Worse, if the other three Defaulted, they just stay at 0, because the +1 they'd get is given only at the start of the next turn. This means that unless you have some way to renew BP elsewhere, chaining is locked at a four-round chain.

So far, the only way I see this working is with everyone to have the Red Mage ability BP Recovery, which gives you 1 BP for sustaining an ailment. Then have one person do an AoE status spell (though I guess you need Black Mage for that, assuming that Group-Cast All is available via them again) to give everyone 1 BP including the user (net +0/+1/+1/+1), have another use the Freelancer ability Halfsies (consume one item for half effect on all party members; status recovery works on all normally! Just potions/ethers/etc are halved) to remove the status with a single item, and the other two use a one-BP attack. Rinse and repeat for infinite-chaining goodness as long as MP lasts. Make MP last by putting everyone in red HP and using MP Free in a Pinch with Red Mage. Annnd if you wanna get the most bang for your buck, Wizard with Full Charge (double potency if MP is full). Turn off EXP so MP never changes and viola, you have infinite chaining.

...I think. Group-Cast all was a 3 in BD (assuming it comes back), BP Recovery is 1. So that one person is at a 4/5, but only needs to spam status-ga. Then BP Recovery (1) on all three of the others, and the other two also have MP Free in a Pinch (1) and Full Charge (1) for 3/5... so can set JP boost on all four and have easy spamming of JP chaining. Dunno how many times you can chain though, but I believe it's 1 -> 1.5 -> 1.8 -> 2.0 -> 2.2 as far as I've seen. Prolly keeps going up by a x0.2 bonus each time after that.

Anyway, all this over-strategizing aside, there is one thing that just annoys me. *tableflip*

For an example of above (and this is a whole other level of spoiler):

Edit: Also so slow, Seha! I'm already past you, I think. And I just got the game last night. :P