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** The plot has also drawn criticism, given [[Creator/SquareEnix Square Enix's]] throwback to 90's [=RPGs=] (including the ''Bravely'' series and ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'') have been viewed by some as having dull, formulaic plots that are so predictable that they actively detract from the solid gameplay at their core. That ''Bravely Default II'' barely changes on that front, after years of criticism, and even replicates things from ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' that were viewed as cliche at the time, has led to it being viewed more negatively than prior games.
* LesYay: Martha seems to have a bit of a crush on Adelle, both for her looks and her strength, and Adelle's responses mirror her responses to Elvis' feelings.
* LesYay: Martha seems to have a bit of a crush on Adelle, both for her looks and her strength, and Adelle's responses mirror her responses to Elvis' feelings.
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** The plot has also drawn criticism, given [[Creator/SquareEnix Square Enix's]] Creator/SquareEnix's throwback to 90's [=RPGs=] (including the ''Bravely'' series and ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'') have been viewed by some as having dull, formulaic plots that are so predictable that they actively detract from the solid gameplay at their core. That ''Bravely Default II'' barely changes on that front, after years of criticism, and even replicates things from ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' that were viewed as cliche at the time, has led to it being viewed more negatively than prior games.
*LesYay: [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Martha seems to have a bit of a crush on Adelle, both for her looks and her strength, and Adelle's responses mirror her responses to Elvis' feelings.
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** The weight system. New to ''Bravely Default 2'', this gives every piece of equipment a weight amount, and every character has a maximum carrying capacity depending on their job and level. The closer they are to capacity, the less frequently their turn comes up, and going ''over'' capacity causes ''all'' of that character's stats to drop. No longer can you choose the best weapon, the best shield, and the best armor for everyone in your party. Each character's maximum weight capacity does increase as they level up, but equipment also gets heavier as you progress through the game, so it's essentially EmptyLevels for that one stat. Naturally, the tankier jobs like the Vanguard and Shieldmaster can carry more weight, which results in an UnstableEquilibrium as the characters who are less in need of strong equipment due to higher base defense are better able to equip it, while the [[SquishyWizard Squishy Wizards]] are proportionately even more fragile because their base defense is lower but they ''also'' need lighter armor.
** Several things got [[{{Nerf}} nerfed]] pretty heavily compared to the first games (such as More Money only giving a 10% increase and most buffs having a shorter duration). Perhaps the most annoying of these is item stealing. While there are plenty of good items that are stealable, the rate of success for stealing them is ''abysmally'' low. For comparison, the base steal rate was 25% in Bravely Default—or 50% with the Master Thief passive—and 50% in Bravely Second. In this game? Even a character ''who is wearing two pairs of Thief Gloves and is affected by Lucky Charm'' won't reach 50%. And if you think you can get around this with [[GameBreaker Results Guaranteed]], nope; that's one of the few things that it ''doesn't'' work with.
** Several things got [[{{Nerf}} nerfed]] pretty heavily compared to the first games (such as More Money only giving a 10% increase and most buffs having a shorter duration). Perhaps the most annoying of these is item stealing. While there are plenty of good items that are stealable, the rate of success for stealing them is ''abysmally'' low. For comparison, the base steal rate was 25% in Bravely Default—or 50% with the Master Thief passive—and 50% in Bravely Second. In this game? Even a character ''who is wearing two pairs of Thief Gloves and is affected by Lucky Charm'' won't reach 50%. And if you think you can get around this with [[GameBreaker Results Guaranteed]], nope; that's one of the few things that it ''doesn't'' work with.
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** The weight system. New to ''Bravely Default 2'', this gives every piece of equipment a weight amount, and every character has a maximum carrying capacity depending on their job and level. The closer they are to capacity, the less frequently their turn comes up, and going ''over'' capacity causes ''all'' of that character's stats to drop. No longer can you choose the best weapon, the best shield, and the best armor for everyone in your party. Each character's maximum weight capacity does increase as they level up, but equipment also gets heavier as you progress through the game, so it's essentially EmptyLevels for that one stat. Naturally, the tankier jobs like the Vanguard and Shieldmaster can carry more weight, which results in an UnstableEquilibrium as the characters who are less in need of strong equipment due to higher base defense are better able to equip it, while the [[SquishyWizard Squishy Wizards]] {{Squishy Wizard}}s are proportionately even more fragile because their base defense is lower but they ''also'' need lighter armor.
** Several things got[[{{Nerf}} nerfed]] {{nerf}}ed pretty heavily compared to the first games (such as More Money only giving a 10% increase and most buffs having a shorter duration). Perhaps the most annoying of these is item stealing. While there are plenty of good items that are stealable, the rate of success for stealing them is ''abysmally'' low. For comparison, the base steal rate was 25% in Bravely Default—or 50% with the Master Thief passive—and 50% in Bravely Second. In this game? Even a character ''who is wearing two pairs of Thief Gloves and is affected by Lucky Charm'' won't reach 50%. And if you think you can get around this with [[GameBreaker Results Guaranteed]], nope; that's one of the few things that it ''doesn't'' work with.
** Several things got
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* ShockingMoments: [[spoiler: Prince Castor]] being the ArcVillain of Chapter 1 caught many players of the demo off-guard, as [[spoiler: there Castor was a helpful NPC and gave no indication he was deceiving the party]]. As seen above, many avoid spoiling this boss' identity on principle.
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* QuestionableCasting: A common complaint about the game, both with the demos and final product, is the casting choices for the English version. Similar to ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the voice actors are European based rather than North American based like the previous games were. The quality of the acting though is inconsistent due to odd casting choices and direction; the main characters generally sound good, but characters like the Asterisk Holders have ones that range from pretty good to rather poor in direction, such as having the White Mage Asterisk owner talk in a mild German accent, while paired up with the Vanguard Asterisk owner who has an over the top Australian voice complete with Australian slang.
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** The townspeople condemning her aren't immune to this, either. [[spoiler:Father Rhydion--who lost his daughter Margaret to the judgments--himself says that he wanted to strike Gladys down for hounding his daughter to her death, but he that he had no right to, because he was as much part of the WitchHunt as she was. This is a sound mindset that the rest of the people fail to adopt; during the scene where Margaret was accused, a lot of the townspeople betrayed her and made up lies to satisfy Helio. [[{{Hypocrite}} So they're not one to talk]].]]
* WTHCastingAgency: A common complaint about the game, both with the demos and final product, is the casting choices for the English version. Similar to ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the voice actors are European based rather than North American based like the previous games were. The quality of the acting though is inconsistent due to odd casting choices and direction; the main characters generally sound good, but characters like the Asterisk Holders have ones that range from pretty good to rather poor in direction, such as having the White Mage Asterisk owner talk in a mild German accent, while paired up with the Vanguard Asterisk owner who has an over the top Australian voice complete with Australian slang.
* WTHCastingAgency: A common complaint about the game, both with the demos and final product, is the casting choices for the English version. Similar to ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the voice actors are European based rather than North American based like the previous games were. The quality of the acting though is inconsistent due to odd casting choices and direction; the main characters generally sound good, but characters like the Asterisk Holders have ones that range from pretty good to rather poor in direction, such as having the White Mage Asterisk owner talk in a mild German accent, while paired up with the Vanguard Asterisk owner who has an over the top Australian voice complete with Australian slang.
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** The townspeople condemning her aren't immune to this, either. [[spoiler:Father Rhydion--who lost his daughter Margaret to the judgments--himself says that he wanted to strike Gladys down for hounding his daughter to her death, but he that he had no right to, because he was as much part of the WitchHunt as she was. This is a sound mindset that the rest of the people fail to adopt; during the scene where Margaret was accused, a lot of the townspeople betrayed her and made up lies to satisfy Helio. [[{{Hypocrite}} So they're not one to talk]].]]
* WTHCastingAgency: A common complaint about the game, both with the demos and final product, is the casting choices for the English version. Similar to ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the voice actors are European based rather than North American based like the previous games were. The quality of the acting though is inconsistent due to odd casting choices and direction; the main characters generally sound good, but characters like the Asterisk Holders have ones that range from pretty good to rather poor in direction, such as having the White Mage Asterisk owner talk in a mild German accent, while paired up with the Vanguard Asterisk owner who has an over the top Australian voice complete with Australian slang.]]
* WTHCastingAgency: A common complaint about the game, both with the demos and final product, is the casting choices for the English version. Similar to ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the voice actors are European based rather than North American based like the previous games were. The quality of the acting though is inconsistent due to odd casting choices and direction; the main characters generally sound good, but characters like the Asterisk Holders have ones that range from pretty good to rather poor in direction, such as having the White Mage Asterisk owner talk in a mild German accent, while paired up with the Vanguard Asterisk owner who has an over the top Australian voice complete with Australian slang.
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* {{Narm}}: Every time Adelle performs a special attack, she finishes by spouting off a one-liner while staring blankly off to into the distance with an utterly emotionless face, a complete contrast to the rest of the game which takes great care in each character's facial expressions during cutscenes.
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** Every time Adelle performs a special attack, she finishes by spouting off a one-liner while staring blankly off to into the distance with an utterly emotionless face, a complete contrast to the rest of the game which takes great care in each character's facial expressions during cutscenes.
** Every time Adelle performs a special attack, she finishes by spouting off a one-liner while staring blankly off to into the distance with an utterly emotionless face, a complete contrast to the rest of the game which takes great care in each character's facial expressions during cutscenes.
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* DifficultySpike: Chapter 1 is often considered a case of EarlyGameHell, or at least improper game balance, because the bosses are ''significantly'' trickier to get around than the ones in the prologue, with a lot more potential [[CounterAttack counterattacks]] in their repertoire, and you don't have many different jobs available yet.
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...there is a quest log. This entry makes no sense.
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** The lack of a Quest log. There's no way to check to see which quests you have done and which ones you haven't completed yet meaning you have to constantly check everywhere, day & night and several of them aren't even in a town. Because of this most people just simply [[GuideDangIt look up the list of quests online.]]
** Newly introduced to the ''Bravely'' series in this game is arbitrary counterattacks, an addition that has been base-breaking at best and despised at worst. In the [[VideoGame/BravelyDefault previous]] [[VideoGame/BravelySecond two]] games, only specific bosses could counter the player, usually with counters based on one of their job's gimmicks, such as Kamiizumi and Kikyo in ''Default'' and Janne in ''Second''. In ''Bravely Default 2'', however, nearly ''every'' boss has at least one counter move, and depending on the boss, ''any'' action may trigger a counter, including ''healing or Defaulting'', and there is no way to know what they are until they happen (unless you [[GuideDangIt read a guide]]). [[FromBadToWorse Worse]], the triggers are ''random'', meaning that even a savvy player can test the waters with a particular move, be lucky enough not to trigger a counter, then decide to go all-out with it and have the boss counter multiple times in a row, potentially causing a TotalPartyKill because the RandomNumberGod was feeling spiteful. Heaven help you if you go up against the Bard or Berserker with a team of mages. Additionally, [[ArtificialStupidity AI-controlled guest]] characters can still trigger certain counters and there's nothing the player can do to prevent it. It is possible to NoSell many of the counters later on in the game (or even bait enemies into countering [[HilarityEnsues and then]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard taking advantage of the resulting dodge]] or [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine countering yourself]]), but if you're still in the first couple chapters (see DifficultySpike above) or are a new player, they can be a ''huge'' hassle to get around. By far the worst of these are some bosses who counter ''any action you take'' by gaining BP, which effectively lets the bosses hit you with a four-action nova turn every single turn, making what should be a challenging boss into a frustrating slog at best.
** Newly introduced to the ''Bravely'' series in this game is arbitrary counterattacks, an addition that has been base-breaking at best and despised at worst. In the [[VideoGame/BravelyDefault previous]] [[VideoGame/BravelySecond two]] games, only specific bosses could counter the player, usually with counters based on one of their job's gimmicks, such as Kamiizumi and Kikyo in ''Default'' and Janne in ''Second''. In ''Bravely Default 2'', however, nearly ''every'' boss has at least one counter move, and depending on the boss, ''any'' action may trigger a counter, including ''healing or Defaulting'', and there is no way to know what they are until they happen (unless you [[GuideDangIt read a guide]]). [[FromBadToWorse Worse]], the triggers are ''random'', meaning that even a savvy player can test the waters with a particular move, be lucky enough not to trigger a counter, then decide to go all-out with it and have the boss counter multiple times in a row, potentially causing a TotalPartyKill because the RandomNumberGod was feeling spiteful. Heaven help you if you go up against the Bard or Berserker with a team of mages. Additionally, [[ArtificialStupidity AI-controlled guest]] characters can still trigger certain counters and there's nothing the player can do to prevent it. It is possible to NoSell many of the counters later on in the game (or even bait enemies into countering [[HilarityEnsues and then]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard taking advantage of the resulting dodge]] or [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine countering yourself]]), but if you're still in the first couple chapters (see DifficultySpike above) or are a new player, they can be a ''huge'' hassle to get around. By far the worst of these are some bosses who counter ''any action you take'' by gaining BP, which effectively lets the bosses hit you with a four-action nova turn every single turn, making what should be a challenging boss into a frustrating slog at best.
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In the [[VideoGame/BravelyDefault previous]] [[VideoGame/BravelySecond two]] games, only specific bosses could counter the player, usually with counters based on one of their job's gimmicks, such as Kamiizumi and Kikyo in ''Default'' and Janne in ''Second''. In ''Bravely Default 2'', however, nearly ''every'' boss has at least one counter move, and depending on the boss, ''any'' action may trigger a counter, including ''healing or Defaulting'', and there is no way to know what they are until they happen (unless you [[GuideDangIt read a guide]]). [[FromBadToWorse Worse]], the triggers are ''random'', meaning that even a savvy player can test the waters with a particular move, be lucky enough not to trigger a counter, then decide to go all-out with it and have the boss counter multiple times in a row, potentially causing a TotalPartyKill because the RandomNumberGod was feeling spiteful. Heaven help you if you go up against the Bard or Berserker with a team of mages.
Additionally, [[ArtificialStupidity AI-controlled guest]] characters can still trigger certain counters and there's nothing the player can do to prevent it. It is possible to NoSell many of the counters later on in the game (or even bait enemies into countering [[HilarityEnsues and then]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard taking advantage of the resulting dodge]] or [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine countering yourself]]), but if you're still in the first couple chapters (see DifficultySpike above) or are a new player, they can be a ''huge'' hassle to get around.
By far the worst of these are some bosses who counter ''any action you take'' by gaining BP, which effectively lets the bosses hit you with a four-action nova turn every single turn, making what should be a challenging boss into a frustrating slog at best.
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** Newly introduced to the ''Bravely'' series in this game is arbitrary counterattacks, an addition that has been base-breaking at best and despised at worst. In the [[VideoGame/BravelyDefault previous]] [[VideoGame/BravelySecond two]] games, only specific bosses could counter the player, usually with counters based on one of their job's gimmicks, such as Kamiizumi and Kikyo in ''Default'' and Janne in ''Second''. In ''Bravely Default 2'', however, nearly ''every'' boss has at least one counter move, and depending on the boss, ''any'' action may trigger a counter, including ''healing or Defaulting'', and there is no way to know what they are until they happen (unless you [[GuideDangIt read a guide]]). [[FromBadToWorse Worse]], the triggers are ''random'', meaning that even a savvy player can test the waters with a particular move, be lucky enough not to trigger a counter, then decide to go all-out with it and have the boss counter multiple times in a row, potentially causing a TotalPartyKill because the RandomNumberGod was feeling spiteful. Heaven help you if you go up against the Bard or Berserker with a team of mages. Additionally, [[ArtificialStupidity AI-controlled guest]] characters can still trigger certain counters and there's nothing the player can do to prevent it. It is possible to NoSell many of the counters later on in the game (or even bait enemies into countering [[HilarityEnsues and then]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard taking advantage of the resulting dodge]] or [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine countering yourself]]), but if you're still in the first couple chapters (see DifficultySpike above) or are a new player, they can be a ''huge'' hassle to get around.
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** Newly introduced to the ''Bravely'' series in this game is arbitrary counterattacks, an addition that has been base-breaking at best and despised at worst. In the [[VideoGame/BravelyDefault previous]] [[VideoGame/BravelySecond two]] games, only specific bosses could counter the player, usually with counters based on one of their job's gimmicks, such as Kamiizumi and Kikyo in ''Default'' and Janne in ''Second''. In ''Bravely Default 2'', however, nearly ''every'' boss has at least one counter move, and depending on the boss, ''any'' action may trigger a counter, including ''healing or Defaulting'', and there is no way to know what they are until they happen (unless you [[GuideDangIt read a guide]]). [[FromBadToWorse Worse]], the triggers are ''random'', meaning that even a savvy player can test the waters with a particular move, be lucky enough not to trigger a counter, then decide to go all-out with it and have the boss counter multiple times in a row, potentially causing a TotalPartyKill because the RandomNumberGod was feeling spiteful. Heaven help you if you go up against the Bard or Berserker with a team of mages. Additionally, [[ArtificialStupidity AI-controlled guest]] characters can still trigger certain counters and there's nothing the player can do to prevent it. It is possible to NoSell many of the counters later on in the game (or even bait enemies into countering [[HilarityEnsues and then]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard taking advantage of the resulting dodge]] or [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine countering yourself]]), but if you're still in the first couple chapters (see DifficultySpike above) or are a new player, they can be a ''huge'' hassle to get around. By far the worst of these are some bosses who counter ''any action you take'' by gaining BP, which effectively lets the bosses hit you with a four-action nova turn every single turn, making what should be a challenging boss into a frustrating slog at best.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many fans of the series were very vocal about their displeasure with the new CTB (Charge Time Battle - characters take turns based on their Speed stat, with abilities effecting how soon their next turn will come.) battle system over the previous round-based arrangement used in ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' and ''VideoGame/BravelySecond''.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many fans of the series were very vocal about their displeasure with the new CTB (Charge Time Battle - characters take turns based on their Speed stat, with abilities effecting how soon their next turn will come.) battle system over the previous round-based arrangement used in ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' and ''VideoGame/BravelySecond''.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The game's regular battle theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5bdx4Eaa0 "The Bells of Battle Ring Out Again"]], opens off with a MusicalNod to the battle theme of ''Bravely Default'' before spinning off into a light-hearted yet intense romp perfect for pumping you up for a fight.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wxn7X2Gek0 "Battle Against Those We Must Face"]], a more action-packed theme setting the stage for a battle for your lives.
** [[https://youtu.be/iD_vUmujlOQ "Battle Against Those Learned of the Stars"]], which starts off the same as the first boss theme but trades some of the action for a more subtle intensity that ramps up as the theme progresses.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmVI7ZXtkXw "Battle Against the Wicked Ones"]], used for the Crystal-wielding Asterisk Holders, is a deranged keyboard piece that really shows how twisted these villains' desires are.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVlPM15DcM "In the Shadow of Conquest"]], the Holograd Commander Asterisk battle theme is an awesome and blood-pumping theme that let's you know that these Asterisk holders are much more serious than the previous ones you fought. Also unique is that each of the three have a slight variation at the end of each of their loops. The first one posted is Lonsdale's version, "A Sparkling Bastion in the Shadow of Conquest", which is a majestic and noble feel for someone that is the TokenGoodTeammate of the four. Marla's, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srNPakqjO98A "A Phantom In Service Of The Shadow of Conquest"]], uses violins for a melancholic feeling as [[spoiler:her main motive is revenge for her father, Lupus's death]] while Vigintio's, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1zNzjbC0g4 "An Arcanist Slithering In The Shadow of Conquest"]] is a chaotic piano piece for an AxCrazy undead mage.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8VLAxKn6U "The Might of the Hellblade"]], Adam's battle theme (which is also used in the game's final trailer), is an absolute ''masterpiece'', with special attention given to the movement that starts around the 1:05 mark.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhMyHuYeHqw "The One Who Soars in the Darkness of Having Longed, Leapt, and Suddenly Fallen"]], played during the fight against [[spoiler:Edna]], combines Adelle's theme and a section from "''Wicked Flight''" from the first game to an incredibly awesome degree.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnBtgaLgcM "Trial for the Brave Ones"]], the battle theme for [[spoiler:Sir Sloan]], is an energetic and disco-worthy song (with a bit of the main theme sprinkled in) that's only befitting for a battle against [[spoiler:a former Hero of Light]].
** The final boss theme against [[spoiler:The Night's Nexus]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6_6pStPlSo "Eyes That Gaze Into the Nexus ~ The Ones Who Gather Stars in the Night"]], is agreed by the ''Bravely'' fanbase to be a worthy, if not superior, successor to Revo's past final boss theme for the series, [[AwesomeMusic/BravelyDefault "The Serpent That Devours the Horizon"]]. Like said track, it's in multiple parts: its first movement, "Eyes That Gaze Into the Nexus", begins ominously, accompanied by almost operatic vocals by Hanayo Kimura. The second movement, "The Ones Who Gather Stars in the Night", begins with [[spoiler:a building intro as Seth manages to [[BeyondTheImpossible surpass the Brave limit]] and escape the Nexus's thrall]], before the song moves into a medley of all of the Asterisk boss themes (occasionally interwoven with the Nexus's theme), followed by the Special Move themes of all four party members, and finally ending with a TriumphantReprise of the main theme.
** The game's regular battle theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5bdx4Eaa0 "The Bells of Battle Ring Out Again"]], opens off with a MusicalNod to the battle theme of ''Bravely Default'' before spinning off into a light-hearted yet intense romp perfect for pumping you up for a fight.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wxn7X2Gek0 "Battle Against Those We Must Face"]], a more action-packed theme setting the stage for a battle for your lives.
** [[https://youtu.be/iD_vUmujlOQ "Battle Against Those Learned of the Stars"]], which starts off the same as the first boss theme but trades some of the action for a more subtle intensity that ramps up as the theme progresses.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmVI7ZXtkXw "Battle Against the Wicked Ones"]], used for the Crystal-wielding Asterisk Holders, is a deranged keyboard piece that really shows how twisted these villains' desires are.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVlPM15DcM "In the Shadow of Conquest"]], the Holograd Commander Asterisk battle theme is an awesome and blood-pumping theme that let's you know that these Asterisk holders are much more serious than the previous ones you fought. Also unique is that each of the three have a slight variation at the end of each of their loops. The first one posted is Lonsdale's version, "A Sparkling Bastion in the Shadow of Conquest", which is a majestic and noble feel for someone that is the TokenGoodTeammate of the four. Marla's, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srNPakqjO98A "A Phantom In Service Of The Shadow of Conquest"]], uses violins for a melancholic feeling as [[spoiler:her main motive is revenge for her father, Lupus's death]] while Vigintio's, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1zNzjbC0g4 "An Arcanist Slithering In The Shadow of Conquest"]] is a chaotic piano piece for an AxCrazy undead mage.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8VLAxKn6U "The Might of the Hellblade"]], Adam's battle theme (which is also used in the game's final trailer), is an absolute ''masterpiece'', with special attention given to the movement that starts around the 1:05 mark.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhMyHuYeHqw "The One Who Soars in the Darkness of Having Longed, Leapt, and Suddenly Fallen"]], played during the fight against [[spoiler:Edna]], combines Adelle's theme and a section from "''Wicked Flight''" from the first game to an incredibly awesome degree.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnBtgaLgcM "Trial for the Brave Ones"]], the battle theme for [[spoiler:Sir Sloan]], is an energetic and disco-worthy song (with a bit of the main theme sprinkled in) that's only befitting for a battle against [[spoiler:a former Hero of Light]].
** The final boss theme against [[spoiler:The Night's Nexus]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6_6pStPlSo "Eyes That Gaze Into the Nexus ~ The Ones Who Gather Stars in the Night"]], is agreed by the ''Bravely'' fanbase to be a worthy, if not superior, successor to Revo's past final boss theme for the series, [[AwesomeMusic/BravelyDefault "The Serpent That Devours the Horizon"]]. Like said track, it's in multiple parts: its first movement, "Eyes That Gaze Into the Nexus", begins ominously, accompanied by almost operatic vocals by Hanayo Kimura. The second movement, "The Ones Who Gather Stars in the Night", begins with [[spoiler:a building intro as Seth manages to [[BeyondTheImpossible surpass the Brave limit]] and escape the Nexus's thrall]], before the song moves into a medley of all of the Asterisk boss themes (occasionally interwoven with the Nexus's theme), followed by the Special Move themes of all four party members, and finally ending with a TriumphantReprise of the main theme.
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** Triffids are one of the most devastating captures in the game, only helped by the fact they are found in abundance at the very beginning of Chapter 3: they're practically built to be anti-boss with their [[SpamAttack Tempest]] attack which fires off seven or eight hits on random targets, and if an enemy is the only one on the field when Tempest goes off, every single one of those hits will land square on that enemy's face. These aren't light hits either: they often average five to six hundred damage unmodified; splatter a bit of defense-lowering paint with the Pictomancer, Brave, and then let four Triffids off the leash and...
** Sub-Job BP Saver, obtained from leveling Pictomancer to level 9, reduces the BP cost of sub job abilities by 1. This makes some abilities from sub jobs ''absurdly'' powerful. The Vanguard's Gift of Courage becomes a ''free'' and spammable way to give party members extra BP, the Monk's Pressure Point becomes a free and spammable attack that pierces both Defense and Default, and the Spiritmaster's Devotion becomes a free way to restore good amounts of MP.
** Godspeed Strike returns as the Thief's most powerful attack in its arsenal, dealing massive damage based on its very high Speed stat, but this game somehow makes it even ''stronger'' by also adding in additional damage that procs after the initial attack if the enemy somehow survived the first attack.
** After being relegated to the background in ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', poison is back to its former glory from the first game. And ''this'' time, with the addition of an aggro mechanic, many, ''many'' bosses can just be patiently stalled by your Vanguard or Shieldmaster as the poison tears them apart. In a series where you often have to selectively time when to go all-in with attacks, a simple use of poison and a tank goes a long way towards ensuring victory. It borders on DiscOneNuke, too, given all of the [[DifficultySpike Chapter 1 bosses]] are both susceptible to it and will never counter its use, allowing the player to obviate the tedious process of figuring out what actions draw out bothersome counterattacks. For extra reliability, combine with the Red Mage's second specialty noted further down to make damn sure the poison sticks as early as round one, then have fun going all out with the massive damage Chainspell and Poison gets you.
** On Ice, obtained by capturing Cait Siths with a Beastmaster, might qualify, at least until it isn't able to hit enemies as consistently later on. It's the only ability in the game that can inflict Freeze (aside from the Red Mage's second specialty, and even then, it must be combined with a Black Mage to cast water spells). Take the useful aspects of using poison on bosses to damage them, then make it so they also can't take any actions. While the freeze status does wear off, unlike poison, you can use the turns that the enemy missed to build up BP, buff, and otherwise prepare for when they finally thaw and start attacking. Or just freeze them again.
** Counter-Savvy, gained from the Ranger class, does its job too well. Anyone with Counter-Savvy will evade any counter-attack aimed at them unless the source is ''specifically'' a spell. Spell-like abilities won't cut it - the counter must be a spell to hit someone with Counter-Savvy. If this page hasn't made it clear already, counters are something of a contentious point in this game, mostly because of how a lot of boss fights are dependent on them to be threats. Since the majority of bosses ''aren't'' spellcasters, having Counter-Savvy cuts their challenge in half; in the case of [[spoiler: Adam]], it actually makes the boss die faster, since [[spoiler: Adam's go-to counter is a Diabolism ability, which will deal massive damage to him.]]
** Elemental Supplement, an unassuming ability the Oracle gets, is disgustingly overpowered. The ''intended'' use is to give an ally an elemental affinity so their physical attacks can hit enemy vulnerabilities. You can absolutely do that...or you can set it on an enemy. Elemental Supplement is considered a buff, and buffs always stick when used on enemies, even without Phantom's Results Guaranteed. There are a ''ton'' of armor sets, shields, and hats, not to mention dedicated accessories, that passively give the wearer elemental resistances. So, if you give your allies each two lightning talismans, use Elemental Supplement on an enemy, and give them lightning attacks, '''the enemy will do nothing to you, no matter the physical attack.''' How this breaks boss fights can't be stressed enough - even if an attack has multiple elements, like Shroud being darkness and whatever element you gave [[spoiler:Marla]], the fact it is even partially an element you resist means ''all'' the damage is canceled. With a little creativity, this broken technique can get even more powerful - such as having a Vanguard Enrage targets to focus their ire on them, thus freeing up how much you need to give other allies elemental resistances, or buffing the resistance even further so the enemy heals you. Elemental shields that nullify all damage are also purchasable in shops after a certain point, so you don't even have to up your own resistances once you buy them. The ''only'' limiting factor is that the buff only lasts two turns, but if you just have someone with either an Oracle job or sub-job focusing on giving out Elemental Supplement like candy, this is barely a limit at all.
** One of the best moves in the game is none other than the humble Body Slam from the Freelancer, meaning that you can get it immediately with grinding if you're so inclined. What does it do? It does quite a bit of damage based on your current equipment but more importantly, decreases the enemy's ATB gauge, all for the cost of 1 BP. In a game that runs on the CombatantCooldownSystem, being able to decrease the enemy's gauge means you can StunLock them ''permanently'' as long as everyone continuously tackles over and over again, making this move hideously overpowered. You can make it even more powerful by making the Freelancer your sub-job and then using the Pictomancer's Sub-Job BP Saver passive ability to make this move free of cost, assign the Ranger's Counter-Savvy and Phantom's Turn Table abilities to reduce the chance of counter reprisals while getting extra BP for more body slams, and making your main class something fast like the Thief to make sure you can start body slamming as quick and often as possible. Who cares about how much damage you deal per hit or how many BP the enemy gets from [[ThatOneAttack Counter Any Ability]] or similar variations if they ''never'' have a chance to act? Honestly, you should be more worried about the party's shoulders after tackling so many times without rest.
** Some of the Jobs' second specialities obtained by leveling them to 12 are absurdly powerful, which makes them worth using even late in the game.
*** The Freelancer's Late Bloomer, previously considered a PowerUpLetdown in the previous games, receives a significant buff in this game. Instead of a 1% increase to all stats per job mastered, it instead grants a flat boost to stats per job mastered (They are: +100 HP, +10 MP, +15 Strength/Magic/Defense/Magic Defense, +4 Healing, +3 Aim, +2 Speed/Evasion, and +1 Critical), which adds up ''very'' significantly as you master more jobs.
*** The Black Mage's High-Velocity Spells, which makes their spells able to outright ignore any elemental immunities or absorptions the enemy has.
*** The Vanguard's Attention Seeker. The higher your aggro stat, the higher your critical chance and physical attack power. It's not a 1-to-1 bonus. You can easily see your physical attack jump into the 900s by Chapter 6 once you start getting equipment that ''really'' starts boosting your chance to be targeted. This isn't very powerful with the Vanguard's skillset alone, but it can be combined with pretty much any class with a multi-hit attack to do ''obscene'' amounts of damage. Pairing it with Swordmaster, for example, means your Ninefold Flurry is suddenly doing 5,000-8,000 damage ''per hit.'' A fully realized Vanguard with Swordmaster supporting it can even outdo the Phantom / Thief in terms of max damage due to the sheer number of hits. Unless the enemy being fought has a dedicated means of countering physical blows, most fights will end in seconds.
*** The White Mage's Holistic Medicine doesn't sound like much on paper - its description is written oddly in saying that "all healing magic affects all allies", which does nothing to alleviate the dispersion typically issued full-party magic. What it actually means is that any spell you can cast with a healing effect can be cast on all allies, whether or not it could do so otherwise. This allows you to raise your entire team from unconsciousness or treat everyone's afflictions all at once... with the White Mage itself. With a Red Mage subjob, you can cast the Heal series of spells on the entire team with no power deprecation, while with a Spiritmaster subjob you can cast Regen and Reraise to everyone in one go, and supplant it with a spirit of your choice to boot. Suddenly, White Mage just became a lot more powerful...
*** The Beastmaster's Creature Comforts, which boosts all stats based on how many monsters you've captured. With enough time and patience, the Beastmaster can potentially beat out the Freelancer's Late Bloomer in terms of stat boosts.
*** The Red Mage's Chainspell, which makes all spells be cast twice in a row, doubling the Red Mage's overall damage output.
*** The Ranger's Apex Predator, which greatly boosts the potency of their Slayer skills, and grants them 1 BP whenever they score a critical hit or a kill. Given the Ranger's naturally high critical rate, it's easy to get extra BP.
*** The Shieldmaster's Chivalrous Spirit, which restores their MP and grants them 1 BP whenever they cover for an ally, nearly eliminating the need to press the Default button.
*** The Swordmaster's Double Duty, allows the user to use their sub-job's two specialties if two of the same weapon is equipped. This makes the Swordmaster an absolute monster if using certain specialties like the ones listed on this page. Like for example using the Freelancer's Late Bloomer or Beastmaster's Creature Comforts to greatly boost the Swordmaster's stats so that they'll be doing insane damage from abilities and counters.
*** The Phantom's Results Guaranteed, which ensures that any ability that has a chance to activate will ''always'' do so, at the expense of 40 MP. This means that, for instance, Strong Strike will always hit, Revenge will always give you 1 BP upon taking damage, Capture will always work on a monster no matter what its health is, and status effects will always land on any enemy that isn't outright immune to them. If you ''really'' want to break things, give the Phantom the Salve-Maker as a sub-job and equip the Sub-Job Specialty 1 passive from the Spiritmaster. Now the Salve-Maker's Master Medic specialty will always trigger, ensuring that every item that that character uses will never be consumed as long as they have at least 40 MP, which includes results from Compounding, and the status effect bombs will always inflict that status against enemies that can be affected by it (which also pairs disgustingly well with Rewarding Results, the Phantom's level 10 passive, which grants them extra actions for inflicting status effects). The one downside is doing that costs a ''lot'' of MP, especially against large enemy groups, but the Salve-Maker can also compound Elixirs and high-tier Ethers, which ''also'' will never be used up.
** The [[spoiler:Bravebearer job, obtained in Chapter 6 by defeating Sir Sloan's ghost]], is the ultimate job, boasting fantastically high stats overall, and access to very powerful abilities that can make short work of enemies, with a special mention to Victory Smite, Victory Double, and Best Practice, which deal massive damage based on how many battles you've won, and how long you've played the game, which pretty much guarantees that you'll hit incredibly hard. It also gains a passive that lets you use your sub-job's second specialty. Combine that with the Freelancer's Late Bloomer or Beastmaster's Creature Comforts, and you have yourself a god. And if you thought those attacks were powerful, the real piece de resistance for said job is the passive skill "Across The Board". It allows any single target move to become multi-target. Thief's insanely OP "Godspeed Strike"? How about you take that and do 200K combined damage to all enemies on the field for each BP you spend. What's more, you can get a weapon that gives you ALL of this job's passives at all times! Broken doesn't begin to describe it.
** The 22 job weapons you can possibly get from beating the Asterisk Holders in the trials. They're the most powerful weapons in the game you can get and they each have the effect of giving you the job passives of the respective job class the weapons belong to. And several jobs have very powerful passive abilities. The best part is that several passive abilities you can equip from the weapon can STACK with the passives you can equip manually. And you can farm multiple copies from the bosses as well. Some notable weapons:
*** Roddy's Red Moon. It gives revenge, which has a chance of giving you BP upon being hit, Magic Critical, and HP/MP Converter which allows you to use skills that require MP to use HP instead.
*** Anihal's Ringmaster Spear. Anyone equipping this weapon will always go first because of the Beastmaster's Spearhead. There's also Raw Power and Brute Force which increases your physical power based on the number of times you braved in one turn, and as mentioned above, stack with the same passives you can equip. MP Saver and Beast Whisperer are also stackable.
*** Bernard's Givampalui allows the stacking of Thief passives including Mug, Magpie and Rob Blind, allowing more steal attempts, a better chance of rare items and more items when a successful steal is pulled off. For best results, a Phantom equipped with 2 them and Mug and Rob Blind as passive abilities can use Results Guaranteed to make 3 mug attempts with every attack, potentially netting 4-12 items because of the way these abilities stack. Equip 2 Thieves Gloves for a better steal chance, and add the Berserker passive Indiscriminate Rage so you can mug all enemies at once. Then find an area where the enemies have stealable [[RareCandy Booster Buns]] [[note]]the volcano dungeon near Holograd is a good choice, having enemies that drop booster buns for speed, evasion and HP... speed and evasion being 2 of the hardest stats to max with Beastmaster's Creature Comforts[[/note]] and turn it into your own personal PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling.
** Freelancer's level 15 skill Mimic, which you get immediately upon [[spoiler:starting chapter 6]]. It has no innate cost and repeats the last basic attack or active ability action that any ally, including the user, used that battle also for free on the same target(s) (if applicable). After the first use of an ability and then using Mimic, anybody can, for example, repeat -aga spells to nuke a single enemy or the enemy party, keep an enemy from ever acting by repeatedly using BP Depleter on them (or helping a particular ally get a lot more actions with BP Tonic), leave the party mostly out of battle and striking enemies every so often with Soul Jump, or pile the pain on single targets with expensive skills like Pressure Point, Godspeed Strike, or Freelancer's own Body Slam -- all for free.
** The Hellblade's level 13 skill Ultima Blade, with a little EliteTweak. This move expends all of your MP to deal damage proportional to the MP spent. With the Red Mage's HP/MP Converter, you can switch this to spending your HP to deal ten times the typical damage; with the [[spoiler:Bravebearer]]'s Across the Board you can hit the entire enemy party; with the Hellblade's Surpassing Power you can jack the damage cap up to 99,999; with the Berserker's Bloody-Minded you can guarantee it always connects; with the Salve-Maker's Advanced Compounding you can cheaply craft Elixirs to heal yourself up and do it all over again. The result is a combo that can deal 199,998 damage to everyone on the opposing field in a single salvo, enough to bring an immediate end to nearly any fight in the game; only a few high level {{Superboss}}es (Helio with his Reraise, Lonsdale with his Reflect Physical Damage, and [[spoiler:Gwydion]] with his Reflect Physical Damage and 500,000 HP) can survive.
** B'n'D has its own Minigame Breaker in Martha, which you can grab as early as Rimedhal. Once you've placed her down on the field and as long as her tile isn't broken, she will automatically grab one extra tile after every time the opponent plays a card, which can potentially net you more than one if it happens to flank an opponent's tile or give you the right position to flank them with your next move. Add to that it having shades of an AIBreaker (Opponents won't prioritize breaking Martha's tile, while the player ''can'' just counter an opponent's Martha as soon as they play it) and it becomes an easy way to win against any opponent except those packing cards that specifically counter Character cards or can randomly remove her.
** Triffids are one of the most devastating captures in the game, only helped by the fact they are found in abundance at the very beginning of Chapter 3: they're practically built to be anti-boss with their [[SpamAttack Tempest]] attack which fires off seven or eight hits on random targets, and if an enemy is the only one on the field when Tempest goes off, every single one of those hits will land square on that enemy's face. These aren't light hits either: they often average five to six hundred damage unmodified; splatter a bit of defense-lowering paint with the Pictomancer, Brave, and then let four Triffids off the leash and...
** Sub-Job BP Saver, obtained from leveling Pictomancer to level 9, reduces the BP cost of sub job abilities by 1. This makes some abilities from sub jobs ''absurdly'' powerful. The Vanguard's Gift of Courage becomes a ''free'' and spammable way to give party members extra BP, the Monk's Pressure Point becomes a free and spammable attack that pierces both Defense and Default, and the Spiritmaster's Devotion becomes a free way to restore good amounts of MP.
** Godspeed Strike returns as the Thief's most powerful attack in its arsenal, dealing massive damage based on its very high Speed stat, but this game somehow makes it even ''stronger'' by also adding in additional damage that procs after the initial attack if the enemy somehow survived the first attack.
** After being relegated to the background in ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', poison is back to its former glory from the first game. And ''this'' time, with the addition of an aggro mechanic, many, ''many'' bosses can just be patiently stalled by your Vanguard or Shieldmaster as the poison tears them apart. In a series where you often have to selectively time when to go all-in with attacks, a simple use of poison and a tank goes a long way towards ensuring victory. It borders on DiscOneNuke, too, given all of the [[DifficultySpike Chapter 1 bosses]] are both susceptible to it and will never counter its use, allowing the player to obviate the tedious process of figuring out what actions draw out bothersome counterattacks. For extra reliability, combine with the Red Mage's second specialty noted further down to make damn sure the poison sticks as early as round one, then have fun going all out with the massive damage Chainspell and Poison gets you.
** On Ice, obtained by capturing Cait Siths with a Beastmaster, might qualify, at least until it isn't able to hit enemies as consistently later on. It's the only ability in the game that can inflict Freeze (aside from the Red Mage's second specialty, and even then, it must be combined with a Black Mage to cast water spells). Take the useful aspects of using poison on bosses to damage them, then make it so they also can't take any actions. While the freeze status does wear off, unlike poison, you can use the turns that the enemy missed to build up BP, buff, and otherwise prepare for when they finally thaw and start attacking. Or just freeze them again.
** Counter-Savvy, gained from the Ranger class, does its job too well. Anyone with Counter-Savvy will evade any counter-attack aimed at them unless the source is ''specifically'' a spell. Spell-like abilities won't cut it - the counter must be a spell to hit someone with Counter-Savvy. If this page hasn't made it clear already, counters are something of a contentious point in this game, mostly because of how a lot of boss fights are dependent on them to be threats. Since the majority of bosses ''aren't'' spellcasters, having Counter-Savvy cuts their challenge in half; in the case of [[spoiler: Adam]], it actually makes the boss die faster, since [[spoiler: Adam's go-to counter is a Diabolism ability, which will deal massive damage to him.]]
** Elemental Supplement, an unassuming ability the Oracle gets, is disgustingly overpowered. The ''intended'' use is to give an ally an elemental affinity so their physical attacks can hit enemy vulnerabilities. You can absolutely do that...or you can set it on an enemy. Elemental Supplement is considered a buff, and buffs always stick when used on enemies, even without Phantom's Results Guaranteed. There are a ''ton'' of armor sets, shields, and hats, not to mention dedicated accessories, that passively give the wearer elemental resistances. So, if you give your allies each two lightning talismans, use Elemental Supplement on an enemy, and give them lightning attacks, '''the enemy will do nothing to you, no matter the physical attack.''' How this breaks boss fights can't be stressed enough - even if an attack has multiple elements, like Shroud being darkness and whatever element you gave [[spoiler:Marla]], the fact it is even partially an element you resist means ''all'' the damage is canceled. With a little creativity, this broken technique can get even more powerful - such as having a Vanguard Enrage targets to focus their ire on them, thus freeing up how much you need to give other allies elemental resistances, or buffing the resistance even further so the enemy heals you. Elemental shields that nullify all damage are also purchasable in shops after a certain point, so you don't even have to up your own resistances once you buy them. The ''only'' limiting factor is that the buff only lasts two turns, but if you just have someone with either an Oracle job or sub-job focusing on giving out Elemental Supplement like candy, this is barely a limit at all.
** One of the best moves in the game is none other than the humble Body Slam from the Freelancer, meaning that you can get it immediately with grinding if you're so inclined. What does it do? It does quite a bit of damage based on your current equipment but more importantly, decreases the enemy's ATB gauge, all for the cost of 1 BP. In a game that runs on the CombatantCooldownSystem, being able to decrease the enemy's gauge means you can StunLock them ''permanently'' as long as everyone continuously tackles over and over again, making this move hideously overpowered. You can make it even more powerful by making the Freelancer your sub-job and then using the Pictomancer's Sub-Job BP Saver passive ability to make this move free of cost, assign the Ranger's Counter-Savvy and Phantom's Turn Table abilities to reduce the chance of counter reprisals while getting extra BP for more body slams, and making your main class something fast like the Thief to make sure you can start body slamming as quick and often as possible. Who cares about how much damage you deal per hit or how many BP the enemy gets from [[ThatOneAttack Counter Any Ability]] or similar variations if they ''never'' have a chance to act? Honestly, you should be more worried about the party's shoulders after tackling so many times without rest.
** Some of the Jobs' second specialities obtained by leveling them to 12 are absurdly powerful, which makes them worth using even late in the game.
*** The Freelancer's Late Bloomer, previously considered a PowerUpLetdown in the previous games, receives a significant buff in this game. Instead of a 1% increase to all stats per job mastered, it instead grants a flat boost to stats per job mastered (They are: +100 HP, +10 MP, +15 Strength/Magic/Defense/Magic Defense, +4 Healing, +3 Aim, +2 Speed/Evasion, and +1 Critical), which adds up ''very'' significantly as you master more jobs.
*** The Black Mage's High-Velocity Spells, which makes their spells able to outright ignore any elemental immunities or absorptions the enemy has.
*** The Vanguard's Attention Seeker. The higher your aggro stat, the higher your critical chance and physical attack power. It's not a 1-to-1 bonus. You can easily see your physical attack jump into the 900s by Chapter 6 once you start getting equipment that ''really'' starts boosting your chance to be targeted. This isn't very powerful with the Vanguard's skillset alone, but it can be combined with pretty much any class with a multi-hit attack to do ''obscene'' amounts of damage. Pairing it with Swordmaster, for example, means your Ninefold Flurry is suddenly doing 5,000-8,000 damage ''per hit.'' A fully realized Vanguard with Swordmaster supporting it can even outdo the Phantom / Thief in terms of max damage due to the sheer number of hits. Unless the enemy being fought has a dedicated means of countering physical blows, most fights will end in seconds.
*** The White Mage's Holistic Medicine doesn't sound like much on paper - its description is written oddly in saying that "all healing magic affects all allies", which does nothing to alleviate the dispersion typically issued full-party magic. What it actually means is that any spell you can cast with a healing effect can be cast on all allies, whether or not it could do so otherwise. This allows you to raise your entire team from unconsciousness or treat everyone's afflictions all at once... with the White Mage itself. With a Red Mage subjob, you can cast the Heal series of spells on the entire team with no power deprecation, while with a Spiritmaster subjob you can cast Regen and Reraise to everyone in one go, and supplant it with a spirit of your choice to boot. Suddenly, White Mage just became a lot more powerful...
*** The Beastmaster's Creature Comforts, which boosts all stats based on how many monsters you've captured. With enough time and patience, the Beastmaster can potentially beat out the Freelancer's Late Bloomer in terms of stat boosts.
*** The Red Mage's Chainspell, which makes all spells be cast twice in a row, doubling the Red Mage's overall damage output.
*** The Ranger's Apex Predator, which greatly boosts the potency of their Slayer skills, and grants them 1 BP whenever they score a critical hit or a kill. Given the Ranger's naturally high critical rate, it's easy to get extra BP.
*** The Shieldmaster's Chivalrous Spirit, which restores their MP and grants them 1 BP whenever they cover for an ally, nearly eliminating the need to press the Default button.
*** The Swordmaster's Double Duty, allows the user to use their sub-job's two specialties if two of the same weapon is equipped. This makes the Swordmaster an absolute monster if using certain specialties like the ones listed on this page. Like for example using the Freelancer's Late Bloomer or Beastmaster's Creature Comforts to greatly boost the Swordmaster's stats so that they'll be doing insane damage from abilities and counters.
*** The Phantom's Results Guaranteed, which ensures that any ability that has a chance to activate will ''always'' do so, at the expense of 40 MP. This means that, for instance, Strong Strike will always hit, Revenge will always give you 1 BP upon taking damage, Capture will always work on a monster no matter what its health is, and status effects will always land on any enemy that isn't outright immune to them. If you ''really'' want to break things, give the Phantom the Salve-Maker as a sub-job and equip the Sub-Job Specialty 1 passive from the Spiritmaster. Now the Salve-Maker's Master Medic specialty will always trigger, ensuring that every item that that character uses will never be consumed as long as they have at least 40 MP, which includes results from Compounding, and the status effect bombs will always inflict that status against enemies that can be affected by it (which also pairs disgustingly well with Rewarding Results, the Phantom's level 10 passive, which grants them extra actions for inflicting status effects). The one downside is doing that costs a ''lot'' of MP, especially against large enemy groups, but the Salve-Maker can also compound Elixirs and high-tier Ethers, which ''also'' will never be used up.
** The [[spoiler:Bravebearer job, obtained in Chapter 6 by defeating Sir Sloan's ghost]], is the ultimate job, boasting fantastically high stats overall, and access to very powerful abilities that can make short work of enemies, with a special mention to Victory Smite, Victory Double, and Best Practice, which deal massive damage based on how many battles you've won, and how long you've played the game, which pretty much guarantees that you'll hit incredibly hard. It also gains a passive that lets you use your sub-job's second specialty. Combine that with the Freelancer's Late Bloomer or Beastmaster's Creature Comforts, and you have yourself a god. And if you thought those attacks were powerful, the real piece de resistance for said job is the passive skill "Across The Board". It allows any single target move to become multi-target. Thief's insanely OP "Godspeed Strike"? How about you take that and do 200K combined damage to all enemies on the field for each BP you spend. What's more, you can get a weapon that gives you ALL of this job's passives at all times! Broken doesn't begin to describe it.
** The 22 job weapons you can possibly get from beating the Asterisk Holders in the trials. They're the most powerful weapons in the game you can get and they each have the effect of giving you the job passives of the respective job class the weapons belong to. And several jobs have very powerful passive abilities. The best part is that several passive abilities you can equip from the weapon can STACK with the passives you can equip manually. And you can farm multiple copies from the bosses as well. Some notable weapons:
*** Roddy's Red Moon. It gives revenge, which has a chance of giving you BP upon being hit, Magic Critical, and HP/MP Converter which allows you to use skills that require MP to use HP instead.
*** Anihal's Ringmaster Spear. Anyone equipping this weapon will always go first because of the Beastmaster's Spearhead. There's also Raw Power and Brute Force which increases your physical power based on the number of times you braved in one turn, and as mentioned above, stack with the same passives you can equip. MP Saver and Beast Whisperer are also stackable.
*** Bernard's Givampalui allows the stacking of Thief passives including Mug, Magpie and Rob Blind, allowing more steal attempts, a better chance of rare items and more items when a successful steal is pulled off. For best results, a Phantom equipped with 2 them and Mug and Rob Blind as passive abilities can use Results Guaranteed to make 3 mug attempts with every attack, potentially netting 4-12 items because of the way these abilities stack. Equip 2 Thieves Gloves for a better steal chance, and add the Berserker passive Indiscriminate Rage so you can mug all enemies at once. Then find an area where the enemies have stealable [[RareCandy Booster Buns]] [[note]]the volcano dungeon near Holograd is a good choice, having enemies that drop booster buns for speed, evasion and HP... speed and evasion being 2 of the hardest stats to max with Beastmaster's Creature Comforts[[/note]] and turn it into your own personal PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling.
** Freelancer's level 15 skill Mimic, which you get immediately upon [[spoiler:starting chapter 6]]. It has no innate cost and repeats the last basic attack or active ability action that any ally, including the user, used that battle also for free on the same target(s) (if applicable). After the first use of an ability and then using Mimic, anybody can, for example, repeat -aga spells to nuke a single enemy or the enemy party, keep an enemy from ever acting by repeatedly using BP Depleter on them (or helping a particular ally get a lot more actions with BP Tonic), leave the party mostly out of battle and striking enemies every so often with Soul Jump, or pile the pain on single targets with expensive skills like Pressure Point, Godspeed Strike, or Freelancer's own Body Slam -- all for free.
** The Hellblade's level 13 skill Ultima Blade, with a little EliteTweak. This move expends all of your MP to deal damage proportional to the MP spent. With the Red Mage's HP/MP Converter, you can switch this to spending your HP to deal ten times the typical damage; with the [[spoiler:Bravebearer]]'s Across the Board you can hit the entire enemy party; with the Hellblade's Surpassing Power you can jack the damage cap up to 99,999; with the Berserker's Bloody-Minded you can guarantee it always connects; with the Salve-Maker's Advanced Compounding you can cheaply craft Elixirs to heal yourself up and do it all over again. The result is a combo that can deal 199,998 damage to everyone on the opposing field in a single salvo, enough to bring an immediate end to nearly any fight in the game; only a few high level {{Superboss}}es (Helio with his Reraise, Lonsdale with his Reflect Physical Damage, and [[spoiler:Gwydion]] with his Reflect Physical Damage and 500,000 HP) can survive.
** B'n'D has its own Minigame Breaker in Martha, which you can grab as early as Rimedhal. Once you've placed her down on the field and as long as her tile isn't broken, she will automatically grab one extra tile after every time the opponent plays a card, which can potentially net you more than one if it happens to flank an opponent's tile or give you the right position to flank them with your next move. Add to that it having shades of an AIBreaker (Opponents won't prioritize breaking Martha's tile, while the player ''can'' just counter an opponent's Martha as soon as they play it) and it becomes an easy way to win against any opponent except those packing cards that specifically counter Character cards or can randomly remove her.
