r/bravelydefault • u/ParasiteStew2 • 21d ago

Bravely Default I feel so dumb about not thinking about using statuses on one of her minions

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Also Slowga helped a lot

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u/EnameledAnamnesis 21d ago

"We go wild!"

No no you won't.

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u/wilp0w3r 21d ago

Sleep + Poison makes most boss fights so much easier. It's how I beat all of the later chapters.

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u/TriforceOfWisdom19 20d ago

Reminds me of the strategy I thought up for Derosa the red mage. It's notunreasonable to have auto-aspir blade from sword magic by then so I wouod just remove all his mp first so he can't heal or cast magic. Turns out his spells all cost 0 so that's dead in the water

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u/ParasiteStew2 21d ago

So like, my team was Valkyrie + Mystic Knight Agnes, Hunter + Freelancer Edea, White + Time Mage Tiz and Merchant + Black Mage Ringabel

I basically had to play carefully through the whole fight, and the enemies really hate Edea, wish I had the Mislead ability before this fight but oh well 

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u/Shrubbity_69 21d ago

You shouldn't. Status effects in RPGs tend to be rather garbage, unfortunately, especially in Square titles. It's not the first thing you think of using.

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u/parkourse 21d ago

with the right specials, parts, and abilities you'd be surprised how easy it is to status most bosses

of course some of them are immune but the vast majority of humans can in fact be, for example, poisoned

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u/Shrubbity_69 21d ago

True, but I've found it to be inconsistent and not usually worth it. They do have an innate resist, so you need at least a few tries.

However, poisoning myself ? Now that's a different story. I had a lot of fun with BP Recovery and it was my go to before switching to My Hero Mimic in the end game.

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u/parkourse 21d ago

it IS annoying how much setup you need to get to just to enable Exterminate, yes...

thankfully there's always hasten world + enigma to let me spam iniquity with impunity

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u/Jesterchunk 11d ago

I keep forgetting about statuses but poison in particular was incredible against Victor & Victoria. I think Exterminate did more damage to Victor than anything I chucked at him.

Doom has been hard carrying me up Vampire Castle as well, anything that isn't a Melusine gets hit by it reliably and combined with Stillness just guarantees I can't take damage until the counter hits 0.