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Asterisk Guide: Freelancer

Pahrak Model ZX

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Asterisk Holder: N/A

 

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Origin: Final Fantasy V

 

Was It In Bravely Default?: Yes

 

Overview: The basic Job one has without an Asterisk. Rather than having a unified theme, Freelancer outfits are whatever the character wears normally, though in Bravely Second three of the four protagonists do wear similar uniforms in their Freelancer Job. Though they don’t have any specialties, Freelancers do learn a variety of useful abilities, and gain a boost to all stats for every other Job you master. The majority of Freelancer abilities from Bravely Default will likely return in Bravely Second, though there will be a new ability called “Halfs” that allows a character to use a healing item on the entire party at once, though its effectiveness will be reduced to 50%.

 

Personal Thoughts: Freelancer, in any incarnation, is one of those classes most people ignore until very late in the game. Bravely Default gave them more early-game relevance thanks to having abilities like Examine, Treat, and Dungeon Master. Mid-game, investing in a Freelancer will get you the wonderful JP Up ability, and of course mastering it gives you the ever-broken Mimic. However, the allure of flashier Jobs kept me from spending a lot of time in Freelancer until I realized I needed one of its abilities. Even with the stat boost that comes with mastering Jobs, I still feel like its command abilities aren’t worth setting it as your main Job, but that might just be because I’m comparing it to the wonderful brokenness of post-game Freelancers in FFV. Regardless, I definitely recommend spending some time in Freelancer to get a few low-level abilities and then switching back to get JP Up before you start your serious late-game grinding.

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Dorek
The last level needing double the experience put me off of this one, though I got em all eventually. Really, you only needed one party member with Examine and the rest is just fluff.
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Pahrak Model ZX

Treat is super-useful before you get White Mage, and Dungeon Master is handy for getting in and out of places with hazards really quick, but yeah, Freelancer is never meant to be a Job you focus on until all your other Jobs are done.  Poor Freelancer...

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Voltex

My favorite aspect of the Freelancer job was that the characters wore their default outfits, TBH. I ignored several jobs entirely because I couldn't stand the ridiculous costumes until I unlocked the special items for each character that let them keep their default outfits no matter what job they had.

 

Hopefully an option like that will be more readily available in Bravely Second. 

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Pahrak Model ZX

It turns out most of those outfits were DLC in Japan, so they're only that hard to get for the American release.  Since they weren't too sure how the game was going to be received, it sort of makes sense, and now that they know there's a large audience they could reconsider and let us get codes for special outfits from the beginning.

 

I understand where you're coming from, though--a big part of why I don't use Salve-Maker that much is because the outfits just don't appeal to me.

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