#bravely default help

[char1cific]

Help with Bravely Default?

First, thanks for reading and hope someone help me, please :x

I bought Bravely Default recently so I'm kinda new. I'd love if someone help me explaning how exactly I get people from the internet to help me? It's like, just add the FC and that's it?

Also, does anyone want to help rebuild my Norende?

[bravelydefaulted]

How did you beat the game so quickly? Can you give me any tips? c:

**SKIP TO THE SECOND TO LAST PARAGRAPH IF YOU WANT TO JUST READ THE SHORT ANSWER**

I actually didn't beat it very quickly at all (in my book anyway)!  I had this game pre-ordered, so it took me MONTHS to beat it.  I guess the game never became a grind fest for me because 1) I had my encounter rate at +50% for most of the game, making my party a little stronger than normal.  Sometimes even +100%.  I did go on a 5 hour grind spree, but that was some major end-game powerleveling mastering every job and getting every character to level 99.  Going from level 68 to 99 in five hours was pretty quick in my book, since that included getting the vampire job (Incredibly hard but totally worth it)

2) SPECIALS: I feel there is something that a lot of people overlook and that is the SPECIAL MOVES!  I was actually able to beat quite a few bosses in just a few turns by making every character have Paralyze Touch on their special attacks.  Before using anyone's special attacks I had Agnes use Withering Ripple (The Rod Level 2 Special) which had a Paralyze resistance down ability.  Throughout almost the entire game Agnes used a Rod and a Staff so that she could use Withering Ripple, and so she could use Rejuvenation, because Rejuvenation can get the ability to raise MP and BP, and of course having the 200% healing magic boost was great because I could fully heal my party with a Cura when they had over 10,000 HP (I once had all my characters getting a 185% P. Atk boost along with a 140% M. Atk boost and 135% Hit Count boost.  We were dealing max damage with every attack no matter what).

3) THE POWER OF A MONK: A MAX LEVELED MONK IS NECESSARY FOR ANY TEAM!!!  A Max level monk can deal the most physical damage with absolutely nothing equipped because of Knuckle Lore and their final ability Natural Talent, which doubles their physical attack when nothing is equipped.  That and Pressure Point, which only uses 1 extra BP, deals double damage and IGNORES DEFENSE.

4) JOB HUNTING: Some jobs are just meant for each other.  They're soul mates.  Or even just the support abilities.  Red Mage and Ninja are really good together, especially because of the support abilities.  Get Red Mage up in levels so you can get the Turn Tables(atleast I think, my 3DS is actually at my cousin's house so I'm not 100% sure that's the name of the skill... but something like it), and then you can get Transience and Comeback Kid.  Use the Ninja's Kairai to target yourself during a 1v1 fight, and then use Utsusemi, which allows you to dodge a physical attack one time.  When you dodge you will gain a stat boost, do a counter attack, and gain BP. If someone is a Dark Knight and someone else is a spirit master, you can use Fairy Ward to make your party invulnerable to all elemental damage. Use Dark Nebula, which will deal quadruple dark damage to ALL.  Enemies and Allies.  But wait, allies are impervious to dark damage.  So you guys get no damage.  The dark knight will lose 20% HP, but 20% is the amount that is healed when you use Treat, the Level 2 Freelancer skill, so you can really use it endlessly(This is the combo I used for my end-game powerleveling because I dealt 9999 damage every time I used the attack because of the Natural Talent ability I talked about earlier).  Swordmaster's Free Lunch ability, which gives 0 MP cost for 2 turns, and then use the Conjurer's 10 turn buffs that originally cost 90 MP each, so you're set with a crazy stat boost.  Do some job studying and hunting, and you can get some AMAZING combos!  Before chapter 4, my strongest combination was Ranger w/ Sword Magic.  I could use specials all the time because I could find the enemy weakness, and sometimes deal triple damage if they were weak to an element and also in one of the families that the Ranger can use their slayer skill for.

So in short, my tips are to make sure you have your encounter rate increased so that you don't catch yourself having to grind a whole lot, make use of your special attacks, because when you get them to combo together you can get some crazy stat boosts, make sure you get a max level monk, and really just mess around and see how some jobs can mesh together (in case you skipped, I have a few examples for the jobs.  If you want more I can post all of the different job combos I have in a nicer format on a text post or something, just send a message in my inbox saying something like "job combos please!").

Have fun playing the game, hope my tips helped you in any way at all, because these are really the things that made the game fun, and not a chore!

[sunnychespin]

Can someone help me with bravely default? I am trying to steal the claymore from Braev the Templar but I can't seem to. I used mug on him no less than 40 times and had no luck stealing the item. I have never tried to steal an item from a boss before so I don't know if that is normal or not. Can someone let me know if I'm doing this right?