Here’s a few tips for two of the hardest asterisk boss fights in chapter 1 Orpheus: Have at least one character be at freelancer level 10 so they can learn the skill “square one”. This removes all buffs from a target. A strategy that works fairly well is to have your black mage go full brave at the very beginning of the fight and use magic that the minions he has are weak to. You want to kill the minions ASAP and then focus on Orpheus Equip at least your black mage and white mage with clothespins to prevent sleep Use the black mage spell “poison” right away to get consistent damage. The final boss of chapter 1 Have your team equipped with iron bangles to increase their HP by 500 Have your tankiest vanguard use the skill “aggravate” to draw the enemy’s attacks towards them and not your squishy units like your healer and black mage Also have your vanguard occasionally use “defang” to reduce the enemy’s attack Have your bard spam “don’t let them get to you” to increase physical defense When the enemy uses “vent fury” they will have an attack buff, but their defense will fall. Use this time to attack. The boss ignores the defense increase you get from defaulting, so don’t default thinking it will protect you. Also poison the boss ASAP.
The easiest way to beat the final boss of chapter 1 is just to uses beast master job class and capture cait sith monsters. Cait Sith off the leash attack applies the freeze status affect which stops the boss from performing any action whilst doing damage over time. With just two cait siths I manage to stop the boss from performing any action for over 20+ turns.
Every easy fight im braving to max with 2 chars that's 8x forage then killing the mobs. You find great stuff same as cutting grass(no money tho) but a lot quicker it doesn't fail or cost anything forage a lot when you can do not buy items if you don't have to!
The insect treats (nectar) seems to drop frequently, especially with the vesps around Halcyonia. I would target bugs simply because you can stockpile their treats easily at the start of the game.
If your like me unlock your 4th party member first before grinding otherwise that certain person will always be behind by several 1000s of jp. Another solid tip if you wanna grind each of your jobs to level 12 quickly early game get your freelancer to level 12 to get the jp up abilities and body slam. Bodyslam early game is fairly broken you can literally just trigger brave 3 times and have each of your party members destroy everything with bodyslam. This makes farming items jp and gold early game easy just repeat body slam at max battle speed on casual and when your done swap back to your main diffculty and continue the game. Also it should go without saying run freelancer as your sub job for body slam while grinding. Kind of pointless to keep grinding free lancer when your already level 12 with it.
Hey! How are you! So currently, i'm in ch5, and honestly, in my opinion, the game pushes you to have all jobs on all characters, or at least, as most as you can get. Also, from freelancer, the lvl 11 skill, body slam, that scales with weight, combined with the passive "sub-job bp saver" from the pictomancer asterisk, that gets -1bb of all pb abilities on your secondary job, is insane. It's the best damaging ability period for most physical classes. I've been using it from chapter 1 and the numbers are atrocious. And it works fairly well on any class woth decent weight and damage. Not only for tanky classes, but Hunter and Beastmaster for example do a lot of damage with it as well. I'd typically have 2 characters that use this ability fairly well, 1 that i pick randomly and 1 with a magic class and white mage as a secondary job, and mp saver equipped on them instead of sub job bp saving. So far, it's only Meh on dragoon, thief and monk, but insane on vanguard, beastmaster, berserker, ranger, swordmaster and shieldmaster. Also decent on red Mage. And early game, it's insane on any class. Haven't tried this on spiritmaster, oracle or salve-maker, btw. Also, from what i've seen up until now, Freelancer, White mage, beastmaster, berserker, Ranger, dragoon and pictomancer are my preferred classes. Swordmaster is also great. I would prioritize those over all the others. Either bcz off their passives or bcz of their insane potential. For example pictomancer has the best light and darkness magic available up until a certain point, and also gives you sub job bp saver. Dragoon has the single best surviving ability in the entire game as a passive, Comeback kid. White mage is necessary so that you can have anyone you want as supp and switch classes on other characters. Swordmaster has "2 hands are bettee than 1" wich improves a lot of damaging classes, such as Dragoon, or even mages. Well, that's it. This has been my strategy up until now and worked wonders. I have 10 jobs on each character after saving Reimdhal, so i'm pretty happy with it. As a final advice, if you wanna level up very flimsy jobs, shieldmaster helps a lot.
Beastmaster is the most absolutely broken class for the bulk of the main game. If you get beast whisperer and main job beast master on all 4 characters and just go about your business, eventually they grow to absurd powerhouses. Mix in indiscriminate rage from berserker with thief sub job on at least 2-3 characters and have the 3rd as a white mage subjob. You can just brave auto attack most mons and godspeed strike bosses. Did it through the majority of the game and they all have double the stats of any other class. 999Mp, 500+ patk, and ~7,000 hp, etc. I stole the high power weapons (Tristans Bow is OP for how early you can get it) from rare enemies and just didnt use armor because weight limits. Chapter 5 was giving me underdog bonus even though any character could 2 shot entire waves of enemies regardless if they have half damage from bows. I don't recommend this for anyone who wants to actually use the job system for its strengths, but its mindless fun at least once.
the shiny kiwis drop a bunch of jp. Yo can kill them by spamming brave and items, if you're lucky they wont run. I think I've only killed like 4 so far
@@joshuafranklin8599 magic never miss but they have high resistance to magic at first but if you max the black mage job you has skill that ignore element resistance and you can deal raw magic damage to them and 1 shoot them
These are very basic beginner tips. This is stuff you should have learned within a few hours of playing. And the tip about guest is backwards. you want as little exp. as possible unless you have all your characters.
Not really. The game is always different cause, with all the asterisks you can change your playstyle everytime and there are limitless combinations you can play with. When you explore a new area, the new monsters are quite difficult to fight, so you can't just go in auto mode hoping to beat them easily, cause you'll probably lose in that case. Bosses (Asterisk bosses) are very difficult fights and if you do not have a solid strategy, you'll end up losing. I don't understand how this game could even be just a little repetitive and easy. I played in easy mode while training, but sometimes I couldn't win cause I wasn't putting sufficient effort into the battles
@@giusoriano seems to be the 1st load of hours. im still only at chapter 3 and only now is it starting to become a challenge in battles, apart from bosses they all been a challenge and a pain. not played in weeks and unsaure if going back yet
Here’s a few tips for two of the hardest asterisk boss fights in chapter 1
Orpheus:
Have at least one character be at freelancer level 10 so they can learn the skill “square one”. This removes all buffs from a target.
A strategy that works fairly well is to have your black mage go full brave at the very beginning of the fight and use magic that the minions he has are weak to. You want to kill the minions ASAP and then focus on Orpheus
Equip at least your black mage and white mage with clothespins to prevent sleep
Use the black mage spell “poison” right away to get consistent damage.
The final boss of chapter 1
Have your team equipped with iron bangles to increase their HP by 500
Have your tankiest vanguard use the skill “aggravate” to draw the enemy’s attacks towards them and not your squishy units like your healer and black mage
Also have your vanguard occasionally use “defang” to reduce the enemy’s attack
Have your bard spam “don’t let them get to you” to increase physical defense
When the enemy uses “vent fury” they will have an attack buff, but their defense will fall. Use this time to attack.
The boss ignores the defense increase you get from defaulting, so don’t default thinking it will protect you.
Also poison the boss ASAP.
The easiest way to beat the final boss of chapter 1 is just to uses beast master job class and capture cait sith monsters. Cait Sith off the leash attack applies the freeze status affect which stops the boss from performing any action whilst doing damage over time. With just two cait siths I manage to stop the boss from performing any action for over 20+ turns.
Wow, nice post, thanks!
Thanks for the great video! I didn’t know I could do multiple forages at once. That was really helpful.
I didn't know about using food items for more battles. Helpful video. Thank you.
Didn’t know forage was such a good skill. Thanks!
I accidentally used forage ONCE and immediately recognized its power. Up to 4 new items?? Yes please
Every easy fight im braving to max with 2 chars that's 8x forage then killing the mobs. You find great stuff same as cutting grass(no money tho) but a lot quicker it doesn't fail or cost anything forage a lot when you can do not buy items if you don't have to!
I used Forage during the final boss fight....I had nothing better to do
The insect treats (nectar) seems to drop frequently, especially with the vesps around Halcyonia. I would target bugs simply because you can stockpile their treats easily at the start of the game.
If your like me unlock your 4th party member first before grinding otherwise that certain person will always be behind by several 1000s of jp. Another solid tip if you wanna grind each of your jobs to level 12 quickly early game get your freelancer to level 12 to get the jp up abilities and body slam. Bodyslam early game is fairly broken you can literally just trigger brave 3 times and have each of your party members destroy everything with bodyslam. This makes farming items jp and gold early game easy just repeat body slam at max battle speed on casual and when your done swap back to your main diffculty and continue the game. Also it should go without saying run freelancer as your sub job for body slam while grinding. Kind of pointless to keep grinding free lancer when your already level 12 with it.
Hey! How are you! So currently, i'm in ch5, and honestly, in my opinion, the game pushes you to have all jobs on all characters, or at least, as most as you can get.
Also, from freelancer, the lvl 11 skill, body slam, that scales with weight, combined with the passive "sub-job bp saver" from the pictomancer asterisk, that gets -1bb of all pb abilities on your secondary job, is insane. It's the best damaging ability period for most physical classes. I've been using it from chapter 1 and the numbers are atrocious. And it works fairly well on any class woth decent weight and damage. Not only for tanky classes, but Hunter and Beastmaster for example do a lot of damage with it as well.
I'd typically have 2 characters that use this ability fairly well, 1 that i pick randomly and 1 with a magic class and white mage as a secondary job, and mp saver equipped on them instead of sub job bp saving.
So far, it's only Meh on dragoon, thief and monk, but insane on vanguard, beastmaster, berserker, ranger, swordmaster and shieldmaster. Also decent on red Mage.
And early game, it's insane on any class.
Haven't tried this on spiritmaster, oracle or salve-maker, btw.
Also, from what i've seen up until now, Freelancer, White mage, beastmaster, berserker, Ranger, dragoon and pictomancer are my preferred classes. Swordmaster is also great. I would prioritize those over all the others. Either bcz off their passives or bcz of their insane potential.
For example pictomancer has the best light and darkness magic available up until a certain point, and also gives you sub job bp saver.
Dragoon has the single best surviving ability in the entire game as a passive, Comeback kid.
White mage is necessary so that you can have anyone you want as supp and switch classes on other characters.
Swordmaster has "2 hands are bettee than 1" wich improves a lot of damaging classes, such as Dragoon, or even mages.
Well, that's it. This has been my strategy up until now and worked wonders. I have 10 jobs on each character after saving Reimdhal, so i'm pretty happy with it.
As a final advice, if you wanna level up very flimsy jobs, shieldmaster helps a lot.
Beastmaster is the most absolutely broken class for the bulk of the main game. If you get beast whisperer and main job beast master on all 4 characters and just go about your business, eventually they grow to absurd powerhouses. Mix in indiscriminate rage from berserker with thief sub job on at least 2-3 characters and have the 3rd as a white mage subjob. You can just brave auto attack most mons and godspeed strike bosses.
Did it through the majority of the game and they all have double the stats of any other class. 999Mp, 500+ patk, and ~7,000 hp, etc. I stole the high power weapons (Tristans Bow is OP for how early you can get it) from rare enemies and just didnt use armor because weight limits. Chapter 5 was giving me underdog bonus even though any character could 2 shot entire waves of enemies regardless if they have half damage from bows.
I don't recommend this for anyone who wants to actually use the job system for its strengths, but its mindless fun at least once.
the shiny kiwis drop a bunch of jp. Yo can kill them by spamming brave and items, if you're lucky they wont run. I think I've only killed like 4 so far
Best way I found to kill them is using Brave and Black Magic, as physical attacks don't do much damage against them.
@@gl3163 how do you hit them with magic they usually just dodge
@@joshuafranklin8599 magic never miss but they have high resistance to magic at first but if you max the black mage job you has skill that ignore element resistance and you can deal raw magic damage to them and 1 shoot them
Thank you for the tips
Your welcome, hope they were helpful. -MD
Thanks this has helped
Thank you for the video, it has really helped improve my gameplay.
Your welcome Mason, please support the channel by hitting the like button and subscribing to our channel. -MD
Nice video, thanks!
That’s really helpful thx 🙏🏻
Thanks
Your welcome. -MD
These are very basic beginner tips. This is stuff you should have learned within a few hours of playing. And the tip about guest is backwards. you want as little exp. as possible unless you have all your characters.
Thanks Elvis!
What does the triangle symbol on the enemies mean??
Excuse me I seen the ship give you at most 10,000 pg
Welcome to 3021
Even Link can cut grasses faster. pfft. 🤣
Its become a rinse repeat gane. Just hold a on all battles and auto completes.. Easy.. Then hard bosses
Not really. The game is always different cause, with all the asterisks you can change your playstyle everytime and there are limitless combinations you can play with. When you explore a new area, the new monsters are quite difficult to fight, so you can't just go in auto mode hoping to beat them easily, cause you'll probably lose in that case. Bosses (Asterisk bosses) are very difficult fights and if you do not have a solid strategy, you'll end up losing. I don't understand how this game could even be just a little repetitive and easy. I played in easy mode while training, but sometimes I couldn't win cause I wasn't putting sufficient effort into the battles
@@giusoriano seems to be the 1st load of hours. im still only at chapter 3 and only now is it starting to become a challenge in battles, apart from bosses they all been a challenge and a pain. not played in weeks and unsaure if going back yet
@@ZeNex74 I literally finished the game yesterday ahahah
@@giusoriano ive had no time for the constant grind of easy battles then a nightmare boss.. i wanna retry though
@@ZeNex74 you should