You're starting to get to the point with these bosses where you might want to start using certain skills to your advantage. The Hunter's Leghold Trap ability forces the enemy to act at the end of each round, giving you as many turns as possible to break it before it can act. This is especially useful for bosses who act three turns in a row. The Merchant's Sidestep ability makes a physical attack miss the character. It doesn't help against magical attacks, but you can pair it with the Warrior's Cover support skill. Cover causes the equipped character to take a hit for an injured ally, but sidestep will cause the physical attack to miss. There's a later boss where the whole strategy is to have Tressa in the party, along with one other person using the Merchant class. Have your other two non-merchants die in a random battle, then use Revive on them to bring them back to 1 hp. Use Sidestep and cover on your two merchants, and enjoy complete damage immunity for the rest of the fight. Also, it's kind of pointless to leave your unused party members equipped with items and jobs. You can always re-equip them when you switch them into the party, but in the meantime, go.ahead and let Cyrus learn all of the different jobs. You can equipthe support skills you learn even if you're not using the associated job at the time. I believe Dancer (in the Sunlands) has SP Regen as a support skill, and Merchant should have SP saver, both excellent skills for Cyrus to have. Merchant also has the Rest ability, to let Cyrus recover SP if he gets low.
This was a really nice chapter
You're starting to get to the point with these bosses where you might want to start using certain skills to your advantage.
The Hunter's Leghold Trap ability forces the enemy to act at the end of each round, giving you as many turns as possible to break it before it can act. This is especially useful for bosses who act three turns in a row.
The Merchant's Sidestep ability makes a physical attack miss the character. It doesn't help against magical attacks, but you can pair it with the Warrior's Cover support skill. Cover causes the equipped character to take a hit for an injured ally, but sidestep will cause the physical attack to miss.
There's a later boss where the whole strategy is to have Tressa in the party, along with one other person using the Merchant class. Have your other two non-merchants die in a random battle, then use Revive on them to bring them back to 1 hp. Use Sidestep and cover on your two merchants, and enjoy complete damage immunity for the rest of the fight.
Also, it's kind of pointless to leave your unused party members equipped with items and jobs. You can always re-equip them when you switch them into the party, but in the meantime, go.ahead and let Cyrus learn all of the different jobs. You can equipthe support skills you learn even if you're not using the associated job at the time. I believe Dancer (in the Sunlands) has SP Regen as a support skill, and Merchant should have SP saver, both excellent skills for Cyrus to have. Merchant also has the Rest ability, to let Cyrus recover SP if he gets low.