If you are struggling with Octopath Traveler surely you have wondered several times how to build the perfect party using the eight characters available, each with their own peculiarities and personal skills. The game becomes much more interesting as soon as you discover the way to assign each of the Secondary Classes, and once you are strong enough to unlock the prestigious Advanced Classes which will be very useful if not crucial to defeating the optional bosses and of course the Dungeon Secret in the game's end-game.
The octopath traveler characters are all useful in their own way, therefore, there is really no better training than the others; the choice of the four party members is more dictated by the player's play style.
So here are some tips for assigning the best secondary classes to individual characters.
Olberic
- Comandante: With his exceptional physical parameters, Olberic is perfect for filling the role of tank / warrior of the group, and this class gives him access to all the weapons with which to weaken the opponent's defenses, as well as endowing him with the deadly ability Winnehild's Scream.
- Rogue: The Thief skills of HP and Steal AP paired with his strength are perfect for ensuring a self-sufficiency of points and dealing massive damage. Additionally, the Vampire Binding and Owl's Acid debuff abilities are always useful against bosses and complementary to his role as a damage dealer.
- Speziale: In case you need a pure tank, this class is great for boosting HP and physical defense, as well as having useful support skills.
Therion
- Cacciatore: A good way to balance physical parameters while keeping it efficient in Speed and Dodge, while also gaining access to two other weapons that make it very flexible to hit the weak points of enemies. Not to mention the very useful Pincer Trap skill.
- Artist: Perfect for specializing him to the extreme in the parameters of Speed (on which the damage inflicted by him depends in part) and Dodge, as well as acquiring useful enhancement spells of companions who do not need a high level of Elemental Attack.
H'aanit
- Soldier / Commander: In addition to the obvious advantage of having four weapons available, with this combination our hunter will become one of the characters capable of inflicting more damage in the game; a very useful choice especially if you choose not to use Olberic.
- Rogue: The parameters of this class are well complemented to that of the huntress, who also in this case gets two other weapons and the very useful debuff skills perfect as an advance to the summoning of the various creatures.
Alfyn
- Soldier: Normally weak, Alfyn can become more balanced and be a decent attacker (perhaps secondary), maintaining the useful skills of the Apothecary.
- Cacciatore: The parameters of this class tie in well with Alfyn's natural ones, keeping him as a balanced and versatile character, which unlike the Soldier is useful for hitting multiple enemies at the same time, and as a support with his skills.
Tressa
- Soldier: even if it is not very strong, by assigning it this class it obtains a considerable boost of parameters and can act as a good tank capable of withstanding the opponent's blows by attracting them with Incite and healing with Rest, or simply frustrating the efforts thanks to Side Step.
- Rogue: With this combination you will have a character who can have as many as four weapons and wind spells, useful for weakening the defense of enemies. In addition to useful debuff skills, Tressa becomes a character dedicated to stealing both their money and their belongings from enemies.
Primrose
- Necromancer / Scholar: already predisposed to a good value of Elemental Attack, associating it with this class makes it even more powerful and an all-round sorceress: capable of both supporting the party but also actively attacking, depending on the occasion.
- Ecclesiastes: Same speech as the Sage, but in case you prefer to dedicate her as a primary or secondary healer of the group.
Ophilia
- Necromancer / Scholar: By giving her this class you will get both an Elemental Attack boost that is also useful for healing spells, and will make her generally a sorceress capable of both attacking the entire enemy group and healing.
- Artist: If you want to focus the other members mainly on attack, with this combination Ophilia is excellent to devote completely to both the care and the strengthening of the other characters as needed.
Cyrus
- Ecclesiastes: Much like the combination for Ophilia, assigning this class makes Cyrus a well-rounded wizard, capable of both attacking enemies hard and healing the party.
- Merchant: This possibility has several hidden advantages: it increases HP and Physical Defense (very low basic parameters), it gives Cyrus the possibility to perform Wind spells (the only basic element excluded from the Sage's abilities, apart from Light and Darkness) and the always convenient access to two other weapons. Of the useful skills of the Merchant it is above all to note that thanks to Rest our wizard can also recover AP, and therefore be self-sufficient for the high expenditure for his spells.
As we said at the beginning of the guide, it is not possible to indicate an ideal or better character formation than others; the possible combinations are many and can be balanced on various game approaches. However, the writer can show you as an example of a good party the one used by me, with which I faced and beat all the most difficult bosses in the game.
- Oberic - Commander
- Therion - Hunter
- Cyrus - Ecclesiastes
- Ophilia Necromancer
Oberic he is a true battering ram, in battle he should focus on breaking the enemy defense, accumulating PP and unleashing Winnehild's Howl at the right moment in Domination phase if you can first boost his attack and lower the enemy's defense the damage will be devastating. Therion it is a good shoulder to deal further physical damage, but in general it is very useful as a general support: breaking the enemy defense with its multiple weapons, and casting various spells very useful to put a spoke in the wheels of any boss, such as Vampire Binding, Owl Acid and Pincer Trap. Although the most immediate approach for Cyrus it would seem to be the Necromancer, actually assigning him this class is a waste as he already has many elemental spells; it is certainly more useful to make him a backup healer to avoid relegating a single character to the care of the party, and to assign the class to Ophilia in order to multiply the number of attacks against the elemental round weaknesses. For example, of a boss weak to fire we can hit the weakness 5 times in a turn using both wizards. Having two healers in the party is also definitely useful for the toughest bosses. With the Necromancer class, Ophilia also becomes an excellent sorceress even in attack.
► Octopath Traveler is a JRPG-type game developed by Acquire and published by Square Enix for PC and Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 13/07/2018 The version for PC came out on 07/06/2019
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