What makes having Agnea in the group worth it?

[Chadwick Strongpants]

Don't get me wrong, I like her and her happy go lucky journey is charming as heck, but I just think her dancer skillset is underperforming. Am I missing something?

[Juan-Pedro Vidol]

She's absolutely useless.
Only interesting things she has are tied to the dancer class which isn't something unique about her.

[saideron]

I usually have her in one of two builds:

Grinding with Merchant/Thief - Given Boost Start and A Step Ahead, I can hit all enemies with a fully boosted Collect or Steal on turn 2 with her LP. This is great for farming leaves or items.

Boss build with Inventory - A full party BP/HP/SP hit with her LP and Arkar's Coil or massive shield breaks with Elemental Bomb Bottle. The latter throws 1 bottle per BP for every elemental weakness show. So a boss with 2 elemental weaknesses has just lost 6 shields.

[shinsai10]

I paired her with a max star judge npc, and the npc did most of the work by debuffing and finishing a boss with some kind of three hit hammer attack that did like 3k a hit.

[Doragon]

Before I started speccing my characters for the final boss and the secret boss, I used Agnea to speed up my boss fights. T1: Partitio Latents and Boosts Hikari (main DPS). T2: Agnea Latents and Boosts both Hikari and Partitio. If the Boss is still not dead, Hikari has 2 more max power skills over 2 turns.

[Nauct]

Dude her Hidden Power or whatever is top. If you have cleric you can buff everyone, effective wall-all. Her peackcock strut and lions dance increase damage by 50% I believe. That's so huge.

My party I either have Scholar or Warrior fed BP with merchants and buff them and they just explode damage, makes the game trivial

[Nauct]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Nauct:

Dude her Hidden Power or whatever is top. If you have cleric you can buff everyone, effective wall-all. Her peackcock strut and lions dance increase damage by 50% I believe. That's so huge.

My party I either have Scholar or Warrior fed BP with merchants and buff them and they just explode damage, makes the game trivial

Also her ex skill where your party gets to go first next turn is really good, you don't need to pay attention to speed

[JK_Original]

I mean, if I'm in a new town I'll add her to my party, turn it to night, and steal ... I mean sweet talk items from every living soul.

[saideron]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Nauct:

Dude her Hidden Power or whatever is top. If you have cleric you can buff everyone, effective wall-all. Her peackcock strut and lions dance increase damage by 50% I believe. That's so huge.

My party I either have Scholar or Warrior fed BP with merchants and buff them and they just explode damage, makes the game trivial

Yeah, her LP makes alone her one of the most versatile characters in the entire game, but then you add to that Windy Refrain and Dance Sessions and she's a powerhouse. I only wish Windy Refrain counted as a dance but that would probably be OP.

[Stoibs]

She was my 'main' initial character, which by extension meant she's horribly overlevelled compared to the general level of the rest of my party (Bewildering Grace..); which also meant that I could steal entreat a whole bunch of OP gear and new weapons every new town I arrived at, which was nice.

As others have said just having the 75sp townsperson following her means I've literally never run out of SP or used an SP recovery item/skill to date, Her latent is loads of fun to play around with secondary jobs. Windy Refrain is nice, an EX skill I use more often than a lot of others at any rate.

The real reason though is because she's a Cinnamon Roll and has Haru's VA
But uh yeah.. my only beef with Agnea is her story really sucks and is boring compared to everyone else (So far? I haven't finished her chapter 5 yet..) and it feels like Octopath Traveler 1's middling average-at-best writing.. Unless Chapter 5 takes a sharp left turn and really wow's me, then hers has been the real low point of the game where everything else has been improved tremendously since the first one.

[saideron]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Stoibs:

Windy Refrain is nice, an EX skill I use more often than a lot of others at any rate.

It's an all-enemy Leghold Trap, so it's borderline OP for me, like Veil of Darkness.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Stoibs:

The real reason though is because she's a Cinnamon Roll and has Haru's VA

I can get behind that. :)

[YuukiRito]

Agnea is one of my favorite support characters during my farming and long boss fights.
- Her Unique EX skill Windy Refrain will put your team in front of all enemies at the
next turn, and since I had "A Step Ahead" on my whole party, I'd get two turn to do
things before enemy could act.
- Her Latent Power making it so a buff could affect the whole party was really useful.
I gave her the job "Apothecary" so she can give everyone passive HP regen or Status
Ailment Negation.
- You could even have her as cleric and give the whole party big defense or just
straight up dmg negation.

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I felt like I found a nice strategy with everyone when I had to keep switching around, and seeing what happens at the end of the game, it's good to discover combos for each person.

[Scy]

Sealticge's seduction and windy refrain. Both can play a key role during some fights, especially very late game. She also makes a good scholar and hikari buffer.

[Stoibs]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Scy:

She also makes a good scholar and hikari buffer.

Sealticge's Seduction on Osvald, Osvald casts teach on the whole party, Marvel at the animation as multiple Osvald's appear onscreen at once

[Gambit74]

A lot of folks are suggesting her as a support/buffer, but she can also be a good damage dealer as well. I gave her the Armsmaster subclass because I feel Hikari doesn't really need it, and she can be pretty broken with it as well with the Lion's Roar skill. Especially helpful in that her latent power will let her target all with it too.