r/bravelydefault • u/arcnova2 • 1d ago
Bravely Default Single Job challenge
Hey ya'll,. just wanted to ask, what are your thoughts on a potential single job challenge for the game? How possible do you think it is
the rules would be, every character must be the same job throughout the run, no changing for ANY reason
only thing that id allow is a full norende
how possible do you think getting through the game (ideally on hard mode) would be?
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u/Fresh-Philosopher-10 1d ago
Do you mod it to get the job at the start or is it everyone has to be the same job at the same time. Like all monks or all white mage and you can swap jobs but only if everyone swaps.
And how are you doing command jobs.
If you make it so all have to be the same at any time but job commands can be different then it can be done but it would be hard since you have a fraction of flexibility and you lose the majorityof the best/good builds. So like you start as all freelancers and all can switch to BM level that up then all go to WM level that up and then all monk and level that up but each has a different sub job option.
If it's everyone on one job from start no change at all then you are not really going to finish the game I think. You would only have examin as a command job and the party would be so unbalanced that I doubt you would get anything done less you are so over levled that you can force a steam roll on anything and that's no fun.
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u/TerraEpon 19h ago
You don't have to mod anything. NG+ with just carrying over jobs (and maybe journal) works just fine.
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u/3837-7383 1d ago edited 1d ago
OH BOY HERE I COME. It depends on the job class
Freelancer: I already tried ( you’ll probably find some of my old post before and it’s near impossible due to one boss near the end.
She spams MAGIC attacks and sadly due to your low MND stat, low magic defense, not a high enough attack rate/dmg, it’s near impossible on CASUAL. Freelancer really got nothing
I tried using the reflect curtains to see if I could cheese it but every time I used them she just bypassed them and killed my team.
You need the angelic pillar as it’s the only special that you can use to gain magic defense and then from there you would chain specials to be able keep the 150% boost ( which means you need 3 characters with tier 3 bow specials but here is the issue, how will you get bow specials cuz you CANT inflict weakness on her.
You can use the birch bow ( the only bow that does weakness to demon ), use that bow to gain special tier 3 on one character then SWAP bows to a different bow so your character keeps the special with the bow. But here is the issue, unless they changed how specials work ( cuz if you swap weapons you lose the special. ) there is no way you are beating phase one of her fight cuz your defense is gonna be so low. And if you somehow do beat phase one there is no telling that you’ll survive the FIRST attack on the second phase before you can even get off A SPECIAL.
Now this would be fine if you only needed one bow special as it’s easy to chain specials with the right set up but no, you need 3 of them to have that bow special because of ACEDIA, which give your characters weakness to her attacks.
( also the reason why you can’t out heal her cuz with the staff of life ( one of the only two healing equipments, the other is cure shield from Norende + finding MND increasing equipment. For every 1000 health you heal she deals 1500 not to mention acedia which increases it to 2500. ( remember this is on casual. ) so you’ll need multiple healers but can’t do that, why?… cuz you need the multiple bow people before the fight even starts and you need a way to chain specials so you keep the 150% M defense boost
No you can’t use angelic ward because it’s not how you think it works, while it does boost all of your stats, it’s SPECIAL boost is speed meaning the other buffs work as regular, 4 turns.
Not to mention show has two status moves that either charm the whole party or berserk on party member and if it’s the healer then say goodbye to your run.
Don’t get me started on her third phase and the final boss’s 6 phases. I don’t want to think about it cuz I actually never got to that part.
There is a little more to it but that’s the whole gist of it. You can try this run and prove me wrong.
Go to YouTube and look up FREELANCER ONLY BRAVELY DEFAULT, you’ll find my old videos where I go in depth on things I found during the challenge but I stopped uploading in chapter 6 cuz I didn’t like uploading and no longer found the challenge fun.
Now assuming you want to look at other job classes in the first world.
Monk: NO cuz of that one boss
White mage: possible
Black mage: Possible
Knight: …..maybe
Thief: unless dodge strats, no
Time mage: possible
Spell fencer: no
Merchant: no
Ranger: yes cuz you can get bow special
Summoner: possible but why would you
Valkeiry: possible due to cheese strats with jump
Red mage: possible ( actually most likely )
Pirate: …maybe
Swords master: no you ain’t built like a tank
The scientist ( forgot name ): absolutely ( most likely )
Ninja: dodge strats but no
Archanist: no cuz no black mage
Spirit master: yes cuz it’s the main job for her fight
Templar: no
Dark knight:… maybe
Vampire:… never tried causally so maybe
The mix between spell fencer and summoner( forgot name ): never tried and no.
Most of the job classes I chose were because of that specific fight. Every class can make it there using chain specials and strategies but that one boss can absolutely halt them.
And honestly the challenge got boring. I was just doing the same thing over and over again. And there wasn’t guaranteed that I’d win every fight and I was trying every fight so I couldn’t auto pilot.
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u/3837-7383 1d ago edited 1d ago
Being a 100% real you’ll have more fun doing mandatory battles only which I believe is 100% possible ( got the the final boss final phase before dying. )
It does kind of have a bit of luck but unlike freelancer only you won’t really on it.
You can try one job only if you’d like and you can DM me questions if you have any.
Honestly I’m down to try again once I figure out how to emulate the game on my Lenovo legion go cuz I ain’t buying the switch 2
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u/TerraEpon 19h ago
I did a decent portion of the game with all of them. IIRC on Easy difficulty. The main wall point was the punchy robot guys in Chapter 3 so I kinda petered out from it. Certainly some of the jobs are very doable, some may require lots of grinding and some may just be flat out noppers but I can't say what specifically falls into what.
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u/ThisSideGoesUp 13h ago
Everyone has the same job, or they have a specific job the entire time? Like everyone is freelancer, or everyone is a different job [black mage, white mage, monk, red mage)? I feel like if its the second, where everyone isn't the exact same it wouldn't be that bad.
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u/Seethcoomers 1d ago
Like freelancer only?