In the nature of the gambler, the Ointment maker is an optional task that you can find in Brave default 2, but no less useful than all the others you will find throughout the story. In fact, it’s an excellent Job type job, much like the Oracle we discussed in our previous guide. Unlike them, however, Salve makers do not love the game. They prefer to use the player’s consumables within the inventory. Let’s talk about this and more in our Salve-Maker guide.
Salve-Maker guide and overview
Salve Makers is the only Job in the game that specifically uses the items collected from your adventure, or whatever you have purchased in the store. Their composing skill is their distinctive ability, which allows your character to select and mix a few items to create one, stronger object to use in battle, be it a healing object or a projectile to deal damage and other effects to direct.
Salve-Maker abilities
- Constitution: Combine two items for a variety of interesting effects.
- Recording: Examine all enemies carefully and reveal their HP, vulnerabilities and family – 32 MP cost
- Spread area: Use an item on multiple targets instead of one – 55 MP cost
- Filters: Try to enchant a target – 22 MP cost
- Relive: Relive an Excluded Target with 50% of their HP recovery – 25% HP cost
- Status aware: Increases the chance of status ailments – Passive / 1 slot
- Heart broken: Make a physical attack that is extremely effective on charming targets – 1 BP cost
- Push and parry: Reduce damage received by 15% x the number of weapons equipped. Damage is reduced by another 20% if the passive abilities of Highwind or Dual Wield are in effect – Passive / 1 slot
- BP Tonic: Mix drugs that increase BP with one, and administer it to a target – 7500 pg cost
- BP Depleter: Mix a medicine that reduces BP with one, and give it to a target – 9000 pg cost
- Analysis: Make a quick physical attack on a target that will reveal their vulnerability. For the next three innings, any attacks on family monsters will exploit vulnerabilities – 30 MP cost
- Healing enhancer: The effects of all healing items are increased by 50% – Passive / 1 slot
- Advanced composition: Combine three items together for a series of exciting effects.
- Double BP Tonic: Mix a drug that increases BP with two and give it to a target – 15000 pg cost
- Multimix Elixir: Make five copies of an article and give it regularly to a target.
Ointment specialties
- Specialty I: Master Medic – One healing herb and one magic herb are received after each battle. Sometimes items are not used to use it either.
- Specialty II: Unobstructed – All effects of items are increased if the user is empty handed. Any effects earned from compounding will also be sharpened, and the BP cost of all abilities will be reduced by one.
Anointing Weapon Affinity
- Swords: C
- Dolkies: A
- Asse: A
- Spies: E
- Bow: C
- Staff: C
- Screens: B
Salve-Maker Overview
As you might think, if you decide to use a Salve Maker, you need to build up better drinks and eaters, as you will need a lot of them. Their gimmick is to put these items together into better versions of it, leading to absurd healing and support in the course of a battle. I called healing because that’s what it’s best for. They can offer the same amount of sore healing as a White Mage, with the right passives and their unique specialties. Advanced Compounding allows you to merge three items instead of two, which further enhances this item merging feature.
While Compounding should be the main reason why you want to use a Salve-Maker, do not let it distract you from the rest of their very handy kit. They have a great passive ability, and Thrust and Parry are one of the best, if not the best, defensive skills in the game if you use double, reducing the total damage you receive by 50%. Any character in your party who functions twice must have this ability to be able to equip all the time. By doing so, you will realize that you can wear much lighter armor, with greater effects than heavy armor tends to have, but has the same defensive prowess.
Salve makers are chock full of handy abilities. Almost every one of them has its usefulness, and all they need to adapt it is what you need most in your team. If you decide to use a White Mage as a sub-job, which suits them very well, you need to enable their 2nd Specialization through passives such as the Bravebearer’s Sub-Job Specialty 2 passive skill. This allows them to use Advanced Compounding for the entire team. This means that you can use Elixirs and their upgraded versions for the whole party, which will replenish their HP and MP. If it’s not something tempting, I do not know. If you decide to go the more insulting way, make sure the Thief’s Attack Item Amp ability is equipped, as it is mandatory to inflict significantly more damage on items.
There is no shortage of Job combinations you can do with a Salve Maker. Easily one of the most versatile Jobs in the game, and with efficiency that never drops until the late post-match, this class is one of my personal favorites. The usefulness they bring to a fight is undeniably great, and I would recommend unlocking them as soon as possible, which is at the beginning of chapter 3.
As this Salve-Maker Guide comes to an end, we will finally look at the Job stars owned by the generals of Holograd, beginning with the impenetrable Bastion.
Brave standard 2 is available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch.
– This article was updated on March 14, 2021
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