History VideoGame / FinalFantasyBraveExvius

* DeathOrGloryAttack: Several characters, as well as anyone who equips the Odin esper, have access to an attack that does massive damage, but it has a 50% chance of missing. Taken UpToEleven by Zile's ultimate technique, Exploding Shell, which is a massive attack that has a 26.5 times multiplier... but 80% of the time, said attack multiplied 26.5 times hits the player's party. Even if you mitigate that with reraise or mirage (or if you get unlucky and the enemy can mitigate the damage somehow, if he connects properly), setting up Exploding Shell requires 3 rounds of preparation and all of his unboosted magic points, so Zile commits to the one attack and is nigh useless otherwise.

** This trope gets taken UpToEleven with the appearance of Pyro Glacial Lasswell, complete with Rain's sword, hinting that something happened to him (spoiler: it did. Specifically, [[spoiler:he died, and got better]], ''and'' took on a SecretIdentity). Gumi even promoted this in their news and released an update video to promote him. All of the future versions of the main characters and Raegen have been released as well. Japan gets the rest of the armorless Sworn Six, Hyoh, and Akstar.

** The Steel Castle of Melfikya, the dungeon responsible for weapon enhancements, takes this UpToEleven. Not only are rare passives about as rare as a rainbow drop, the higher-percentage stats are split between the six main stats. For example, you could find nothing but MAG enhancements on a greatsword, or ATK enhancements on a rod. It usually takes many runs to get an acceptable set of enhancements for one weapon.

* SkillTree: A numerous amount of fighters have a modified version of this trope. Using a certain skill will unlock the next step in the tree. [VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Prishe]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Yda]], Goken, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Cagnazzo]], and Roy use this for certain moves.

** The Global version's Power Creep happens ''much'' faster than the Japanese version's. While most expected Akstar to reign in Global, Gumi decided to release Sylvie and Esther. The former, if released in Japan, would have been the best support, despite said game having Power Creep'd for ''nine months longer'' in comparison to the global version; the latter not only outpaced Akstar by a mile, but also surpassed (not yet Globally released) CG Lightning, the next threshold of PowerCreep. Finally, Zeno of the Beta Star, a unit based on True Dual Wield, made ''Esther'' obsolete ''only a few weeks later'', being at least on the level of CG Bartz (who symbolized the level after Lightning). Meanwhile, Akstar, notorious to single-player-campaign players as the strongest ally to the good-guys party -- not to mention, probably the fourth-most-powerful character ''alive'' (and the other three are villains) -- and hotly anticipated for all these reasons, came out at the same time and was almost instantly VendorTrash, leading to strong debate from fans.

* TwentyBearAsses: Several missions require obtaining materials and/or VendorTrash for people. Some of these are just items harvested from glowing points on exploration maps, but most are enemy drops. One particularly confusing one involves collecting raptor feathers. It's quickly discovered that not all birds have feathers... but apparently, some bats ''do''.

* VendorTrash: While all of the items dropped are useful either in ItemCrafting or in improving units, the volume at which they pile up in the later part of the game turns them into this as well. This goes double for raid materials, which are only useful in crafting items from their specific raids and quickly clutter up the player's inventory.

* UnstableEquilibrium: The story mode starts out difficult for a beginning player, but over chapter and season breaks, during which the player can collect more powerful equipment from events and so forth, the rate at which the player grows more powerful quickly eclipses the difficultly of the story levels, to the point that a seasoned player will tear through every boss like tissue. It gets to the point that a well-equipped player will find themselves having to deliberately hold back when fighting bosses in order to get enough crystals to perform a Limit Break or summon in order to accomplish a side mission.

* LethalJokeItem: The Seraph Staff is a limited item that, when run through Steel Castle for its unique enhancement, auto-casts a three-turn status effect immunity at the start of the battle. This isaverage on its face, since plenty of units can copy it, but how it interacts with Neo Vision units is what elevates it. Whenever a unit Brave Shifts, the effect is refreshed, making it permanent on a unit that can shift consistently every few turns. On top of that, the effect is undispellable, so it trumps effect debuffs cast by certain bosses, making it an excellent choice for provokers if you can fit it.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfSidequests: Much of the action in the game is helping out random villagers with various issues, be it collecting TwentyBearAsses or finding lost items. Rewards vary from easily obtained items to recipes for valuable equipment.

** The way Entrust works leaves it rife for abuse. Instead of doing it on a crystal-by-crystal basis, Entrust fills by a percentage. For example, a freshly-pulled Larsa could Entrust a full LB gauge to a fully-powered Ayaka, despite her LB costing almost 5 times as much. Its culmination was [[spoiler: a popular strategy to kill Omega by stacking an underleveled unit with as much LB crystal filling as possible and having them Entrust to a powered-up Olive every turn. This allowed her to spam her LB every turn for massive damage with impunity, killing Omega fairly easily.]]

* LethalJokeCharacter: Kenny Crow, the mascot from VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV, looks useless at first glance, as a 4-star base DPS/buffer hybrid with 100% passive provoke and too little bulk to back it up. However, he has 20% innate evasion. With the amount of evasion-based gear, he actually becomes a competent provoke tank, since it's easy to fit enough bulk for him to survive.

** The maximum amount of gil a player can have is 100 million, later increased to 200 million. It seems like a lot, but it's easier to earn than one might think, especially if you aren't summoning 5* units on a regular basis.
** During raid events, the maximum amount of damage the game will record is 999,999,999. Not an easy number to reach at first, but doing so will earn a modest bonus to the number of raid coins you receive.
** The maximum amount of damage the player can do in any single turn/hit is 2,147,483,647. This is because the number is stored in a 32-bit integer, and that is the absolute maximum value it can store. This has no practical effect on gameplay most of the time -- anything you could do that much damage to isn't meant to be a serious challenge -- and mostly serves as a milestone for players to reach.

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** The Realm of the Dragon King, available once the final boss of the first season is cleared. It's not plot-critical, but it's a ''massive'' exploration dungeon (so much so that, by using a tent, a player can set a waystation that can be restarted at with its own sidequests) where even the weakest enemy present has hit points in the hundreds of thousands. Their attack stats are on par with their hit points, all of them get multiple actions per turn in combat, about half of them are immune to StandardStatusEffects (so while some fights can be cheesed with use of poison, paralysis, and stone, many cannot), many of them have outright OneHitKO attacks on top of other very powerful attacks, and it's the one area on the world map where enemies can get a preemptive strike. If the RNG is particularly merciless, a large and powerful group of foes can get the drop on the party and perform a TotalPartyKill before the player has a chance to do anything. Furthermore, the encounter rate is higher and there are twice as many encounters per section, at a minimum. Oh, and continues are barred. The rewards for clearing this are a chance to get Bahamut as an esper as well as the recipe for an improved version of the Dragon Killer materia.

** 7* units are improved versions of 5* base units that get dramatic boosts to their specialty, special bonuses when equipping their own Trust Master reward, and come with a Super Trust Master reward that is extremely potent. In exchange, they are only really valuable in pairs: creating one requires having two copies of the requisite 5* unit (one to awaken and the other to consume as a reagent), and getting the STMR requires an ''additional'' two copies to fuse into the 7*. The odds of doing this are... pretty low.[[note]]As mentioned above: if you are doing a normal-style gacha summon and ''not'' using a specialized banner that commemorates the unit's release, the odds of getting ''any'' 5* unit are no higher than 1 in 20. To get ''4'' of the same 5* unit would, at the time of this writing -- October 2018, shortly after the release of Citra as the 52nd 7* units in the Global game -- require well over a thousand summons.[[/note]]
** Special note goes to Esther, Zeno of the Beta Star, and Sylvie. These three Global Original units were not only head over heels above their competition at the time, but most other units released during the next few months. They were so overpowered that community math determined that they were competitive in Japan's meta, which was nine months ahead of the Global version's, resulting in eleventh-hour nerfs. They even eclipsed Akstar, who was hyped for starting the next stage of PowerCreep and was one of the most powerful characters in-game.

* CognizantLimbs: Several bosses have limbs that are counted as its own creature and can be targeted individually. The giant flower boss template (such as the Antenolla from the Chamber of the Fallen) has the flower distinct from the roots, a vine, and the leaves, while the giant squid boss template (such as the Achiteuth from the Grandshelt Catacombs) has several tentacles that can be targeted. Some machine bosses also have this, most notably in the case of the Chamber of the Fallen's Aigaion.

* CustomUniform: If a named character is part of a military organization, they are guaranteed to be wearing something distinctive compared to the grunts of said military. With the various members of the Knights of Grandshelt and the Orders of Aldore, this helps them stick out to show their importance, but they're at least high ranking officers in their organizations. With the Sworn Eight of Paladia, it's at least [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that their custom armors are [[AmplifierArtifact Amplifier Artifacts]] that enhance their powers. All of this goes right out the window, though, when you consider that Shatal got to wear ''his'' custom uniform even when he was just a grunt in the Aldorean army.

* DummiedOut:
** The Ayaka event introduced a new hybrid format. This was a mix between story events (that provided a short story) and the Mog King events. After finishing the short story about Ayaka and Gouken, you farmed Ayaka's stages for candy materials, used them to craft memory candies, and from there, you turned them into the Minister of Moogles to get materials that were normally dropped in story events (like Giancrysts and Purecrysts). Despite Purecrysts being unprecedently easy to obtain, this style flopped. Most people ran story events for the high drop rates for low-end crystals, which were the main source of the bottleneck for enhancements. In short, the event saw a low repeat rate once people got enough Purecrysts and Giancrysts, and it was dummied out in both Global and Japan.
** Some wondered why there was an extra space after the Global-exclusive 5-star units (like Fryevia, Olive, and A2). The spaces seemed arbitrary until Japan's 2nd anniversary, when 7-star units were revealed. The purpose of these "skipped slots" became clear: they were placeholders for their future 7-star forms. This has big implications, possibly foreshadowing a future ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' collaboration, and showing that Gumi had this system planned for a long while.

* MoneyForNothing: The rate at which money can be acquired outstrips the increase in shop prices somewhere around the end of the first island, and that's if you don't do any vortex missions that allow money farming (the Gil Snapper's Cave event every weekend is an easy 2 million gil at the least). Attempted to be averted by some extra bundles, which allow a player to purchase materials and [[RareCandy metal cactuars]] for in-game currency as opposed to real-world currency or lapis. The cost of enhancing characters also increases dramatically as their level goes up and getting the last 10 levels for a 6-star unit can cost as much as getting them from 1 to 50, if not more, though still a drop in the bucket all things considered. Ability awakening is genuinely expensive, up to 1 million gil per enhancement in some cases, though certainly not difficult to earn. Expeditions serve as a steady drain, costing far less than ability awakening but quick to add up as you queue new ones. This problem is more pronounced for players that don't spend real money for lapis, as they have less units to spend the money on and thus can reach the cap a lot faster.

* DamageIncreasingDebuff: There are multiple spells and abilities that can lower a foe's defense and spirit (physical and magical resistance, respectively). There is also the Imperil spell, which specifically lowers elemental resistance and thus increases damage from any elemental source. There are other abilities that lower one specific elemental resistance (the most notable being Orlandeau and Agrias's Divine Ruination and Veritas of the Dark's Dark Punishment).

* ShooOutTheClowns: The writers tried to do this with Lid and Jake in the middle of Season 2 [[spoiler:by crippling Jake to the point he's all but dead and having Lid leave the party to take care of him, even almost performing a HeroicSacrifice to heal him. This didn't sit well with players for a series of reasons (in particular the massive DarknessInducedAudienceApathy the dragged-out, extremely grim Visectrum arc caused), and by the end of the Operations Map arc, the two were back to Lasswell's team and in full shape]].

** Many former 5-star max units become this. Rain and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Paladin Cecil]]. Rain even going up to his 5* form pales when compared to a lot of the popular Physical Vision characters, having fairly mediocre stats and no real notable skills. At his 6* form, Rain gains access to a skill with the same debuff as Full Break, as well as his own unique "Leadership" buff, which is essentially the Cheer and Focus skills in one, making him an amazing Support option for any party that even outperforms some Premium units. Cecil, on the other hand, goes from a tank outclassed by General Leo or Amarant to arguably the best StoneWall in the game at his 6* form (primarily rivaled by Warrior of Light). At 5*, Cecil has issues serving as the tank since he lacks an effective option to DrawAggro on his own compared to the other two having the Draw Attacks Passive. At 6*, not only does Cecil gain passives that allow him to cover 75% of attacks (even taking 2 AoE hits when covering an ally) with a Defense and Spirit boost included, but he also gains access to Curaja to supplement healing (which can be helpful given his HP Pool at high levels and he benefits from Spirit boosting for magic tanking) and Focus if you need someone to buff the {{Squishy Wizard}}s he's covering. And to top it off, Cecil's LimitBreak is upgraded from a DEF/SPR boost to include an Attack buff for the party, making Cecil one of the few units some players consider Limit Grinding.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Kenny Crow, the mascot from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV]], looks useless at first glance, as a 4-star base DPS/buffer hybrid with 100% passive provoke and too little bulk to back it up. However, he has 20% innate evasion. With the amount of evasion-based gear, he actually becomes a competent provoke tank, since it's easy to fit enough bulk for him to survive.

* BossInMookClothing: Some levels have bosses that look exactly like the mooks of that area, only with much higher health and stronger attacks. These can end up being some of the more difficult fights, as these upgraded mooks often come in groups to make up for the fact that their attacks haven't changed, making it harder to neutralize them without a herd-hitting debuff attack.

* AntiPoopSocking: Via the ''VideoGame/FarmVille'' system of almost everything requiring Energy, which regenerates 1 point every 5 minutes, the total maximum based on your rank. Arena/Colosseum fights and raid bosses require a token orb to fight, with orbs regenerating every hour to a maximum of 5 (for raid) or 10 (for Arena/Colosseum regardless of rank.

* AntiPoopSocking: Via the ''VideoGame/FarmVille'' system of almost everything requiring Energy, which regenerates 1 point every 5 minutes, the total maximum based on your rank. Arena/Colosseum fights and raid bosses require a token orb to fight, with orbs regenerating every hour to a maximum of 5 regardless of rank.

** The White Dragon, the Demon Chimera, the Brachiosaur, and the Erinyes on the Farplane. Unlike every other fight, attempting these fights requires no energy expenditure (except if you want a rematch after winning), and defeating them for the first time gives [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity +1 equipment]]. Friend units are locked out, but the bosses are easy enough to beat after playing the game for a bit. Although most weapons have fallen to PowerCreep, the rest are usable in the current meta.

** February 2021 followed up with Boss Rush Survival 2. The headliners for this event were a modified version of the original Wicked Moon trial, followed by the Scorn versions of Antenollo, Venemous Vines of Death (second battle only), the Octopus and the Teacher (second battle only), and Tiamat. This trial was released in tandem with the Neo Vision awakened form of Draconian Princess Fina, who is well-suited to clear the trial as a pair. Hybrid chainers also work, though it's definitely a trial meant for the Neo Vision era.