octopath traveler ophelia chapter 2 dialogue

HP is a given as this is your health, and while there is an overall cap given to your current level, there are skills and items that can allow you to extend it past the maximum amount. While you can save up to a maximum of five BP at a time, you will only need three to maximize any particular skill. While you'll want to use some BP to get in a few extra hits to lower an opponent's guard, it can be a difference maker when you have enough to enhance a very powerful attack to its maximum effect, that is, if it actually hits. Boost Points, which are gifted to you at the start of each turn, and each subsequent turn provided you don't spend it, can be spent to enhance any particular skill or allow for a repeated strike of your basic weapons.

The core aspects to combat are based around the three attributes attached to each character BP, HP, and SP. The last few rounds of that fight had been a rollercoaster of emotions. Thankfully, Alfyn had 3 BP saved up and charging his Last Stand skill managed to finish off the boss anyway. Now, this could have been assisted with H'aanit's Take Aim skill, a move that greatly increases each companion's accuracy, but H'aanit had been out of SP and using that skill just wasn't an option that turn. I almost dropped my Switch and I let out a big sigh. I selected his special attack, Brand's Thunder, and unleashed it upon thy foe.

Olberic's BP was fully charged and his Abide skill used the turn prior, ensured that my next few attacks would hit a whole lot harder. Ophilia had been struck down on the previous turn, and I decided that one big play was about all I had left as only Olberic and Alfyn stood in his way before the boss would have another two attacks that would easily end my third attempt.

When I was locked in battle with Ophilia's final boss, his health was drastically low and I knew the battle was almost over. Ending the turn with a bosses guard level at one due to a missed strike can be a frustrating experience for sure, but pulling off a lucky strike or a string of solid attacks that lead to its demise can be an absolutely thrilling event. In fact, most of the boss encounters can last 30 minutes or more due to how the fights themselves play out. Each opponent will be protected by a certain guard level that must be chipped away in order to break them and several bosses will actually rotate their weaknesses between turns or even bring out reinforcements that will prevent you from accessing those weak points.

While some have as few as one weakness, several contain significantly more. You'll do this by striking them with an attack they are weak to. The main focus of each encounter is to break your opponents' guard with the four available party members at your command.

As Octopath Traveler doesn't contain a difficulty option, you can solve the easy and hard aspects of the challenge by either min-maxing your stats through various weapons and items, making the perfect combo of job and sub-job, or by simply grinding away until you are at a much higher level than the challenge recommends. The challenge is certainly there for those that crave it, but for those who simply want to enjoy the story, it just requires that you put far more time into the combat and stat-centric systems.įor as deep and complex as some combat systems in JRPG's can get, Octopath Traveler is refreshingly simple, yet loaded with depth. With a host of eight individual characters to level up, missions to complete, and side quests to take on, getting to that next mission 'recommended' level can be done with only a small amount of straight grinding. Each character will progress through four chapters that come with a recommended level set to them to indicate their difficulty. However, I strongly suggest being leveled much higher than the recommended level indicates as some of the encounters can bring some serious difficulty with them.

Octopath traveler ophelia chapter 2 dialogue