Shwartznwalder's Octopath Traveler 2 DPS Guide from the Basic to the Endgame
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Important Time Stamps:
Basic DPS Knowledge
1:53 - Stats and how equipment effects them
4:03 - Setting up damage "phases", buffs/debuffs, and breaking
8:28 - Support skills
12:30 - Noteworthy items and equipment
18:20 - Weapon stacking
20:09 - How typeless physical damage scales
Synergies/Subclasses
23:15 - Hikari 400k nuke
24:23 - Goddess Castti
26:05 - Immortality comp
28:53 - Hammer time Agnea
30:31 - Osvald rush/Temenos breaker
32:36 - Deathbringer Throne
35:11 - Intermission before boss/Sidestep Partitio
Boss Information For Consistent Kills
36:28 - General recommended build
42:44 - Team setup 1
51:49 - Team setup 2
1:03:56 - "1 turn"/"2 man" build
1:05:27 - My personal favorite team setup
1:14:34 - Final thoughts
Hello again everyone! I decided to remake my original DPS guide to cut out a lot of the dead time where I was pausing or setting stuff up, to provide a more tolerable and structured guide. I've also updated the time stamps to break down each individual topic so people can home in on exactly what they want to know without having to scroll through the entire video. Essentially I wanted to create a guide from the very basics of DPS from the beginning of the game all the way up to the end game to help people see how to reach those max damage hits and complete the hardest content in the game. Whether you are wanting to know exactly how buffs/breaking the enemy influences damage, how "typeless attacks" scale damage, interesting team synergies, or examples of them being used against "that" boss, you'll find something useful in this video about it! Hopefully you found this helpful! Enjoy.
Why isn’t this more popular? I scrolled past so much terrible videos with terrible advice to finally see a truly optimal setup. Well done and thank you. Best Octopath Traveler 2 video on RUclips. Believe me, I watched all of them.
I appreciate the kind words! I imagine it’s because it’s a super long video on damage, so I’m not sure how many people want to sit and watch something like that. That, and I’m not really a consistent youtuber, so I’d be surprised if I show up in a lot of people feed
Totally agree. The rest of the video's are awful compared to this video.
Earned yourself a subscriber, my dude. The amount of work and knowledge put into this video is nuts
Thanks! I was honestly surprised my videos got so much attention since I was just some random guy posting "proof" videos. Once my work week is over, I know I'll be posting at least 1 more guide video
+1
Best explanation of how to play that I’ve watched. Super impressed
Thanks!
Wasn't expecting this to provide so much game knowledge to me, great video!
Glad it was helpful!
this is insanely helpful!! thank you for putting this together, your ot2 content is incredible
Appreciate the kind words! Glad it can help some people
Helped me too, good stuff
@@kjahtv7944 Glad to be of assistance!
I got to the final blow and I was 10SP under using One True Magic III. Feeling despair, but noticed that the boss was weak to ice... so I used the ice spell instead and won. Thanks! Great/helpful video.
That must have been a very satisfying victory. Congrats!
Best OP2 video out there. Thanks so much. Massive like!
Thanks!
The one tip that really helped me a bit too late was the boss breaking one. I would always set up but then break too early and not get the 2 turns of damage, so when I had to do a replay of OT 1 to finally beat Galdera, I was constantly planning out breaks and it helped so much.
Yeah I used to have that problem big time. Would only ever get a single turn, sometimes without my buffs in place. Oddly enough, it was the mobile game that got me used to breaking and getting two turns of damage
@@DarrinNewcomer
COTC… Well when bosses having 30 shields becomes normal, you kind of need the two turns lol
@@6dm978 indeed. Especially those lvl 100 NPC’s; you can’t afford to NOT get all your damage in. Wouldn’t want them “getting serious”.
Thanks for this wonderful guide, my understanding of the game is better now. I could reach this setup with a lv85 team, however i had to farm another BT Blade for Throné.
Happy to help!
This is truly a guide everyone playing the game must watch and learn ! ❤
Man this game blew past my expectations. So happy it delivered after falling in love with 1
Indeed. I was hyped for it and it did not disappoint
Amazing guide, definitely learnt a lot
Glad it was helpful
Thanks! Finally beat Galdera with this guide!
Congrats on getting the kill!
Exactly the kind of video I was looking for. Thank you. Subbed
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid. A few things i noticed in my attemps and eventual kill (using first method).
1 - I don't think you mentioned to start the fight at night to start with Throne's darkness passive. Massive damage increase there.
2 - Even though you can 'fix' turn 2 order with whimsical concoction it's feels still pretty reset prone. Must be Throne then Ochette before both Eye and Oswald to kill adds, break center, then nuke.
3 - Sometimes the whimsical effect just moves some or one person, and not in a useful way.
4 - If you see you'll need to use whimsical, you'll be down 1 BP on Castti to cleric divine Oswald next turn. Use Oswald's first 'dead' turn to give her at least 1 bp to cover this.
5 - Since Temenos's job doesn't matter I threw on Inventor for fun thinking I might spring boots not-Hikari. My P2 damage was iffy and I suspect guaranteeing crits on the center (final) boss got me the kill on the last Lion attack.
I didn't realize that there's still an attack power coefficient on Aeber's Reckoning so I went all speed and minimal attack and made many failed attempts casting Aeber's Wet Noodle.
I had Oswald element attack 999 but was just shy of cap doing ~95k each hit. Still mostly there but idk how it could have been higher unless I missed another buff step/food.
My Hikari damage was abysmal. Only 50-60k on each Lion hit. Only killed 2 of 3 arms first go.I somehow spent an entire turn cycle not getting killed and finishing the last arm off. Only ~850 attack w/ Lion Axe selected so I guess that last 150 stat really does work. Time to nut farm.
Hikari was level 75. The rest averaged about 65 or so.
Anyway, thanks again.
Congrats on the kill! Yeah there is still a little RNG to the fight, and for the whimsical leaf, it will only effect Ochette if she went on turn 0 before Castti (it first looks at anyone on the current turn, then the next turn if they have already gone; I think it was the second kill where I mentioned it?). That being said, it’s possible for Ochette to go after Castti on round 1, but after the eye on round 2, which is basically the one time I would recommend to restart if your Throne can’t 1 shot it. It was always tough for me personally to balance keeping the video going versus giving an explaination for every possible scenario, so I likely could have done a better job with it. Thanks for providing this info for anyone who may read it and run into that problem!
Woah. 75m of Octopath Traveler 2. Yes please. ❤
Thank you for this!
24:23 Oh I actually discovered this one by myself on my first playthrough I did casually last month lmao
it is indeed extremely fun and I loved just seeing how many buffs I can get
Crazy how this is the first video I've seen that has this busted combo
Great video! I had a few questions:
1) Are you just using shield of strength for the memes? As far as I know, it's a joke item that just makes you take guaranteed criticals.
2) Was there a reason you didn't use Hienka to kill Galdera 1st phase in your second example of the fight?
3) Is there a particular reason to use Master of Offense over Peak Performance when Critical Scope and Targeted Strike exist?
10:45 its actually exactly like you are ambushing the enemy. It doesnt stack with ambush and if your foe ambushes you, you dont get the turn
Yes. It is a guaranteed ambush for whoever has it on. With the champions belt, it ensures that you always get a free turn before the first real turn of combat since you can't be ambushed if someone is using one. That, and it works on bosses, which normally can't ambush or be ambushed.
Hi, question about secondary stats, in the video you mentioned how if two weapons share the same secondary stat, the game will take the higher stat. Does this mean that weapons with negative effects (ie. forbidden weapons), we can equip another weapon with a positive same secondary to negate it?
Yep
How does Temeons have an infinite Alephan's Wisdom from the get go in the last fight?
It’s from an accessory called the “Stone of Truth”. You get it from the infernal castle. Also, it only gives “advanced magic” permanently, not Aelphans.
@@DarrinNewcomer Still great if you need to finish up the boss with Temenos.
@@nerdzone oh yeah for sure! It’s also really great for healing and reviving, as it makes both of those skills more powerful as well
@@DarrinNewcomer I was stuck at the boss for like 5-6 attempts and decided to check your vid. I was surprised how close my party was to yours. The main difference in terms of important jobs was Partitio Dancer instead of Arcanist. Pretty much everything else was the same.
However, your approach in the second phase is way more aggressive and aiming to outpace the boss. I tried to outlive it and ended up failing a few times. He just does too much damage and removes positive conditions way to often to be manageable that way.
I got sidetracked. I managed to beat him twice although way less cleaner than you did.
@@DarrinNewcomer In other words, thanks for the video and the amazing work.
Just watching these videos now, these are insanely helpful. I noticed you got more than one battle tested weapon of the same kind. How do i get more than one?
There are various NPC’s (one for each piece of battle tested gear) that you can fight that have a very low chance of dropping multiple battle tested gear. The sword specifically comes from the high level NPC in the eastern village on the beast people island (it’s been a while since I’ve played, so I don’t remember the name of the town). It’s the “young man” npc that is shown as having a maxed difficulty when you try to duel him.
@@DarrinNewcomer thanks a bunch for replying so fast. Sounds like a bit of grind then but i'll try. 👍🏻
Umh, i am atm in the final chapters of the last few characters, so my job combination are this:
Temenos - Armsmaster
I wanted kinda of a Paladin, atm even if i have the divine weapons he still can't dish out much damage but the fact that he can heal and do that sweet 6 hit shields it's so nice
Ochette - Thief
My go to for farming with her provoke, her damage is really good and the utility from both jobs is very nice, first character to break the 9999 barrier, the damage, utility of provoke and hunter/thief skills are a mix for a 10/10 unit
Castti - Cleric
I wanted to do big axe damage with her but in the end i really don't wanted to use her mix to heal, her roles are just to support, buff, heal and poisoning
Oswald - Arcanist
Oswald was my first character and i really liked the idea to have this ultra mage that can wield almost every element to be my magic dps
Hikari - Hunter
Testing him out atm, so far i like but i dunno if this a good secondary on him
Agnea - Inventor
Not much to say, op
Throne - Warrior
I saw many put this secondary on Ochette but her damage was already good and i liked more the fact that she was able to debuff herself the phy def of the enemy, for Throne tho, the combo with her lantent to aggro-revenge blade in one turn and crush shields+debuffs, man i love it and she can dish out very nice damage to!
Partitio - Apothecary
I really did not know what to with him but then i came to the conclusion that the bulk of his damage is in the hire support so i took the more supportive role, he can heal, donate bp and use the poison to tick the enemy health, atm he also has both spear and axe that do 1 extra hit to help with shields
I also really like this job on Throne for the fact that she can set up in one turn the poison-weak to poison combo but the first one with warrior won my heart
What do you think? Atm i only have 1 slot for secondary jobs and scholar, merchant and dancer really are the ones i feel no need to put on anyone XD i know that temenos pretty goos with it but the power fantasy of him as a full armor inquisitor that uses divine weapons and can crush 6 shields at once won my heart i also know that arcanist on hikari is broken but the power fantasy of Oswald with even more magic in his kit won XD
So when it comes to team setups and synergies, there are so many good options to go with. I may not have used several of the combos you used, but your reasoning for a lot of them are really good. I'll just point out a few things that stood out to me:
For Temenos, keep in mind that the elemental barrage accomplishes the same thing (and can potentially hit up to 8 times) if you have someone giving him BP. Armsmaster is actually good on so many characters that basically everyone can benefit from it. Most people use it for Lionhearts axe, since it can easily hit for double 99k on any physical damage dealer, but it's also good for magic users if you want to stack up 3 weapons that boost a single element. Using it to shred 6 shields with his latent is also good (and if you didn't already know, if you use the dancer divine skill on him, it hits ALL targets 6 times, meaning he can shred 6 shields off of everyone).
For Hikari, he actually is the highest damage dealer in the game. A subclass that lets him use a staff is ideal so he can use a battle tested blade and giants club. When set up correctly, he can use a learned skill called "Limb from Limb" (go to sacred flame HQ, head left as soon as you enter, get into the room being blocked by a guard, then challenge the person in that room) and do a 4x99k hit, which can even be turned into a 5x99k hit using one of the abilities from another class that adds extra hits to physical attacks.
For Castti, concoct is so broken that her secondary class doesn't really matter since it's much more useful to just refill everyone's BP every single round.
@@DarrinNewcomer i think the problem with my paladin are those divine weapons, those stats are not the best and you really don't need all those skills, i think i am gonna upgrade most of theme and yes, with a dancer he is even more broken!
Yeah castti it's just a gigachad XD
For Hikari, so hunter sub will leave his damage potential to the dust?
@@Lionhart1991 No, Hunter Hikari doesn't ruin his damage. Literally the only thing he can't have is the giants club, but until you have that, any subclass that boosts his damage is great. The giants club gives a 30% boost to all physical attacks, and since Hikari has the highest physical damage potential, it's usually best to go on him. That being said, he still does a lot of damage even without it if you want to use it on someone else. The game isn't really set up where you have to go super meta optimal, so it's not like it's necessary or anything.
And for the divine weapons, yeah most of them aren't great. If you're doing Temenos with them, I'd be using things that boost his light damage and E attack.
@@DarrinNewcomer ohhh so a more nuke light magic build and just use the 6 hit to break, i like it! I am gonna work for it
@@Lionhart1991 yeah the Temenos light nukes build is really good. Have fun!
Forbidden Elixir is better for healing Osvald. It takes all HP, heals all SP and gives you max 5 boost, perfect for this strat
It doesn’t give him his latent back. Osvald doubles his damage from his latent, so you want to be using something that restores his latent, which the forbidden elixir doesn’t do. Forbidden elixir is only good if you are doing an Alpiones build for Temenos, as there are much easier ways to restore BP and other than Temenos, nobody depleted their entire SP pool with a single move
Oh my God I went through the entire game thinking Agneas latent skill was useless, turns out I'm just stupid. Now I see why everyone goes inventor Agnea. I also thought Temenos latent was useless, and I just know that agneas is useless lol.
Hey I went through the entire game thinking Throne's latent wasn't too powerful myself! Some of these abilities really only shine under certain circumstances, but when they do, they can be really good!
Great Guide. I noticed you didn’t mention spear of strength much in your guide. Do you end up hitting enough critical attacks without needing its guaranteed critical hit effect? I mostly use it for help in one shotting NPCs with mystical bore.
That's correct; for some reason you don't need a high crit value to get nearly guaranteed critical hits. Kind of weird to be honest, but on top of that, this was more of a general guide on increasing your damage overall. Things like Alpione's Amulet or using the crit scope are great ways of easily dealing 99k hits, but I wanted to give people the flexibility of using their own builds while at least knowing what can make those builds stronger.
Awesome content! Quick question, where do you buy concoction ingredients?
It depends on what you’re getting. The diffusion and pomegranate you can buy from the New Delsta Flats black market at night (you might have to cycle day/night until the correct vendor shows up). You can also get diffusion at a lot of end game towns, along with strengthening at the general stores. For all others, you can by them on the second floor of the wellspring department store after you advance Paritio’s story enough
@@DarrinNewcomer Thanks! Found it. Also one more thing, in your videos, you seem to regain SP/BP after every turn for your entire party, how is that done?
@@jmgtan124 did you mean HP/SP? That is from the battle tested shields. I farmed them until I had one for everyone.
Tiny question, does putting The Show Goes On (is that the skill name?) on Throné increase the duration of night buffs?
Yes
How does the giant club help with the giant 400k nuke? Do the physical skill damage buff stack or something? Assuming so, how? Wouldn't I need to hold the weapon to get the buff?
That buff stacks with the battle tested blade, and it applies to all physical abilities rather than just staff abilities. The physical attack value would apply on staff attacks, but the secondary bonus of it applies to any physical based skill.
what do you think about fruits of labor? i find the extra defenses great
Oh yeah, it's a really good support skill for defensive comps; can easily give you more defense in both catagories than actual end game armor!
Am I the only one who always swapped to an weapon with effect before using an skill enhanced by it? Cus I have wasted my time doing that since the first game!
I used to do that in the first game myself. It wasn't until doing tests during the OT2 demo that I realized you didn't have to do that
Man, for some reason my hikari always starts first in your last build, even though his speed is the lowest of the 4. Any additional thoughts on how to fix that? I'm stumped
There's nothing you can specifically do to fix that, but if you Hienka or use the cleric divine on his, it allows him to go again at the end of the turn, so you can just use either of those to get him to go last.
@@DarrinNewcomer yeah I think I need to swap out a skill for the full latent fill. Which one not necessarily for him to be badass?
@@rawrrawrface you don’t need that skill. You can just fill his latent with items before the battle starts and he will start with it filled
@@DarrinNewcomer thank you! I'll try this out!
How do you unlock One True Magic II/III? I've got the standard one that hits a single time, but not the one that can hit three times on a single cast.
So you need to use the scholar divine on him to get the triple cast version. Basically the scholar divine is a buff that makes the next few casts of most spells a triple cast
@@DarrinNewcomer Thanks for the quick reply! I was looking everywhere think i'd missed some side quest.
Can you do a guide on the final story boss vide
How i can got my characters in level 99 ? I'm struggling there .
So what I did is use Alrond in the infernal castle. Basically I put all XP gear on and cait gear, along with the support skills that boost rare monsters and XP, then ran away from fights until I got either the mini boss or a cait. Then I used Alrond until I got 100x XP or until all 6 of his charges were up. If I didn’t get the xp boost, I’d reload my save
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I only got to 99 because I wanted a reason to keep playing the game. It’s super mega overkill for anything in the game, so if you’re trying to get 99 to beat a boss, I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Only do it if you’re just wanted to max yourself for the joy of seeing 99 on your character levels
Got any recommendations on beasts to capture with ochette?
Well basically any of the 2 hit all monsters are good. I’m also a fan of the peak a boo from southern Timberain trail that does a staff hit with a high chance to debuff the enemies physical and elemental defense. There’s also the ocean lizard king from roque island that does 2 dagger hits while giving your entire team a speed buff
@@DarrinNewcomer love it! Yeah I paused the vid when ochette was going and picked up those ones. I like the idea of the ocean lizard king to fill in the laziness of me not trying to capture the cait you had in there lol
@@rawrrawrface honestly, I just cooked up the cait. He isn’t necessarily bad, but he is entirely RNG since you don’t know what he will do. I’ve had situations where I’m like “ok, I want some buffs on my team”, then he heals my full health team 6 times in a row. I feel regular monsters that do exactly what you want are better overall.
@@DarrinNewcomer thank you!
How do you have multiple battle tested items? Other than the shield that you can get from the guard, where are you getting all these battle tested blades, daggers, and so on???
There are various NPC just like the shield that you can fight for a low drop chance on them
@@DarrinNewcomer literally after leaving this message, I found the NPC, and had the Blade within 30 min. Still, I wish I could fully understand the mechanics better. I just don't get the turn set, or even how to set them up. My guys are all in the 80's and 90's, with all the gear (except the Battle tested) and they don't do near as much damage. I can't figure out where I am dropping the ball. Oh well, I'll figure it out one day I suppose...
@@briscoetravel it could be a number of reasons, but even just not having the battle tested blade you’re missing out on a 30% damage boost on all physical skills. There’s also the giants club, which gives another 30%, then after that it comes down to accessories and support skills, assuming you are making sure to buff/debuff appropriately while breaking the enemy as demonstrated in the video
where do you grind from lvl 70 to 99?
I personally did it at the dungeon under the “beneath the wall” place (for some reason I can’t remember the name of the dungeon itself, but it’s accessed from “beneath the wall” on the world map). I put on everything that boosted XP and rare encounters, and anytime I found a cait or the dreadwolf, I would use Alrond until he gave me the 100 XP (or load a save if he didn’t before running out of summons).
New challenge. No items? What if we dont have 30 jams?
Are you asking for killing the super boss? You could just go farm the jams, but you don’t need a ton of them. I think I only used like 5 of them in the level 55 guide, which is better to go off of if you just are wanting to kill the boss.
Why don’t you use limb for limb on hikari?
It depends on the situation. Limb from Limb only becomes good once your Hikari has really high stats and a good DPS setup. When normally fighting the boss, I do use Limb from Limb since it can one turn phase 1 or phase 2, but Lionhearts Axe has a much higher base damage per hit and is much easier to hit for double 99k. Lionhearts is initially better than Limb from Limb until Hikari becomes strong enough to do over 50k per hit using it, then Limb from Limb becomes the better option since it isn’t limited to only 2 hits, but since it’s base damage per hit is much lower, it’s much less likely the average players Hikari will be doing enough damage for it to hit for over 200k, which means Lionhearts will be better for them to use.