Recommended Builds (Part 2)

Discover powerful job builds in bravely second, including the Perfect Healer, Free Lunch, Suicidal Monk, Invincible Tank, Copycat Shenanigans, and Ghost Mage Onslaught.

Perfect Healer

To create the Perfect Healer in bravely second, you'll need access to the Bishop’s Holy Magic (by assigning Bishop as a primary or secondary job), the White Mage’s Group-Cast Master, the Patissier’s Items for All and Glace. Additionally, equip a 1-cost ability of your choice, such as Angelic Ward or Steady MP Recover.

Group-Cast Master enables your healer to cast Benediction (Holy Magic) on your entire party, fully restoring their HP. This ability also instantly exorcises undead enemies with 9999 HP or less. Items for All and Glace allow you to use items on your party with double their potency, serving as a useful backup strategy.

Free Lunch

The Swordmaster’s Free Lunch ability is renowned for removing the MP cost of abilities for two turns. This makes it an ideal companion for high-cost abilities like the Pirate’s Amped Strike or the Time Mage’s Meteor. To maximize its effectiveness, save up 3 BP by Defaulting or other methods.

Once you have accumulated sufficient BP, Brave three times and use Free Lunch, followed by three uses of your chosen expensive ability, such as Amped Strike. On your subsequent turn, Brave three times again and use four instances of the same ability. While this will deplete your BP significantly, it will result in immense damage output.

Suicidal Monk

For a high-risk, high-reward playstyle, this build is ideal. You will need a Monk with Natural Talent, the Catmancer’s HP 20% Up, the Dark Knight’s Blaze of Glory, and the Dark Knight assigned as a secondary job. Your Monk must also have no equipment equipped, aside from costumes.

Begin by using Phoenix Flight to reduce your Monk’s HP to 1 and inflict considerable damage on the enemy. Subsequently, continuously use Minus Strike until either your Monk or the enemy is defeated. If your Monk falls before the enemy, Blaze of Glory will trigger, dealing massive damage.

Alternatively, if you wish to avoid your Monk’s demise, you can protect their low HP using the Exorcist’s Undo Action, the Time Mage’s Re-raise, the Guardian’s Soul Mirror, or other similar abilities.

Invincible Tank

If you require a decoy capable of halting enemies in their tracks, assign a character to the Knight or Guardian job (Guardian is preferred) and equip the Knight’s Dual Shield ability to allow for two shields. Afterward, equip all available defense-boosting gear and abilities.

From this setup, you can utilize the Catmancer’s Purrfect Stance in conjunction with the Astrologian’s Limit Break to elevate your tank’s defenses to 200%. You could also equip the Performer’s Power Up to maintain your defense buffs throughout the battle, provided the enemy cannot dispel them.

Should the enemy possess the ability to dispel buffs, replace Power Up with the Astrologian’s Prescience to enable continuous use of Purrfect Stance. When confronting enemies that heavily rely on powerful magic, instead of assigning Catmancer as a secondary job, you can assign Dark Knight to utilize Absorb Magic.

Further enhancements to your tank include casting Soul Mirror (in conjunction with Prescience) to reflect all physical attacks, or equipping the Hero Shield (which requires equipping the Bloody Shield through 255 battles) to halve elemental damage. Assigning a healer job as a secondary is also a viable option.

Copycat Shenanigans

The Freelancer’s Mimic ability allows you to copy the last action performed by any character, but without any associated costs. This functions as a more adaptable version of Free Lunch. For instance, one character could use an ability, followed by three uses of Mimic, with the remaining three characters also using Mimic.

This strategy frees up an additional action for three characters. To employ it effectively, manage your characters’ speed carefully; the character whose action is being copied should have the highest speed to act first. This is primarily beneficial for physical strategies, as magic users have a superior alternative.

Ghost Mage Onslaught

For a game-breaking offensive strategy, assign one character to the Wizard job and up to two to the Yokai job. While these characters have maximum MP, transform them into ghosts by using the Patissier’s Ghostly Ganache. To ensure accuracy, have your Patissier equip Status Ailment Amp.

Next, your mage characters should equip the Red Mage’s MP Free in a Pinch and the Wizard’s Full Charge, with Time Mage assigned as a secondary job. Finally, your Wizard should equip Ventriloquism, while your Yokais equip the Red Mage’s Chainspell.

The execution involves your Wizard casting three Meteors followed by the Rain Spellcraft, while your Yokai casts four instances of Meteor. Due to Ventriloquism, all of these Meteors will combine into Meteor Rain. Furthermore, Chainspell and Echo will trigger additional Meteor Rains.

MP Free in a Pinch guarantees an unending MP supply, while Full Charge doubles spell power as you always maintain full HP. For optimal results, field an invincible tank, as the fourth character, who is not a ghost, will absorb all enemy attacks.