Black Mage Job Abilities and Best Sub-Jobs

This is a guide to the Black Mage Job class in Bravely Default 2 (Bravely Default II) for the Nintendo Switch. Read on to know all the details about the Black Mage Job including its abilities, specialties, stat modifiers, and weapon proficiencies!

Black Mage Overview

Black Mage Overview
・Black mages aim to inflict damage through elemental vulnerabilities. ・Lightweight equipment helps them get turns fast. ・With lightweight armor, they get more turns which allows them to aid others via item usage.

Black Mage Overall Stats

HP	MP	Strength	Defense
Magic	Magic Defense	Healing Power	Agility

How to Play the Black Mage

Exploit enemy's elemental weaknesses

The Black Mage has an array of spells that can be used against single enemies and group of enemies alike. Learn about the enemy and exploit their weakness using the right elemental spells!

Black Mage Ability List

Ability	Type	Cost	Level	Effect
Fire	Command	15 MP	1	Perform a fire magic attack on a target/all targets.
Blizzard	Command	15 MP	2	Perform a water magic attack on a target/all targets.
Thunder	Command	15 MP	3	Perform a lightning magic attack on a target/all targets.
Poison	Command	18 MP	4	Attempt to poison a target.
Lunar-Powered	Support	1 Slot	5	During the night, offensive magic, evasion and luck are increased, and 4% of MP is restored each turn.
Fira	Command	38 MP	6	Perform a powerful fire magic attack on a target/all targets
Blizzara	Command	38 MP	7	Perform a powerful water magic attack on a target/all targets.
Thundara	Command	38 MP	8	Perform a powerful lightning magic attack on a target/all targets.
Aspir Attack	Support	1 Slot	9	Restores an amount of MP based on damage inflicted with the 'Attack' command.
Firaga	Command	66 MP	10	Perform an extremely powerful fire magic attack on a target/all targets.
Blizzaga	Command	66 MP	11	Perform an extremely powerful water magic attack on a target/all targets.
Thundaga	Command	66 MP	12	Perform an extremely powerful lightning magic attack on a target/all targets.
Flare	Command	80 MP	13	Perform an incredibly powerful fire magic attack on a target.
Freeze	Command	80 MP	14	Perform an incredibly powerful water magic attack on a target.
Burst	Command	80 MP	15	Perform an incredibly powerful lightning magic attack on a target.

Best Abilities

Poison

Lunar-Powered

Poison

An often neglected move in RPGs, Poison will allow you to inflict ahem.. poison on the enemy. In Bravely Default 2, several bosses are susceptible to this ailment and it is a great source of damage against them.

Lunar-Powered

Night-time is a time period in the game where enemies are more abundant and stronger. Having an ability to restore your combat power during long fights at Night is essential to grinding your character's levels and Job levels.

Black Mage Speciality and Special Ability

Speciality

Speciality 2 Can only be learned after leveling the Black Mage to Level 12.

Special Ability

Black Mage Weapon Proficiencies

Below are the weapons proficiencies for the Black Mage Job. Refer to this section to know which weapons are best suited for the Black Mage Job.

How to Unlock the Black Mage Job

Automatically Unlocked

The Black Mage Asterisk is an automatic addition to your party at the early stages of the game.

Best Sub-Jobs for Black Mage

Bard

The Bard class allows you to provide buffs to your allies. There will come a time where casting offensive spells may not be the best course of action so gaining a support skill for your allies is a great skill for a Black Mage. It also opens up the ability to amp up your magic stat when enemies are defaulting so it's not an entirely defensive Sub-Job for the Black Mage

Bard Job Abilities and Proficiencies

Oracle

The Oracle Sub-Job is great for the Black Mage since it can fully utilize the Black Mage's High Velocity Spells to make all the three spell casts hit enemy at full damage. You can also use Elemental Impairment to make enemies more vulnerable to your spell casts to deal even more damage!

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Jobs
Freelancer	White Mage	Black Mage	Monk
Vanguard	Thief	Bard	Beast Master
Gambler	Berserker	Red Mage	Ranger
Shieldmaster	Pictomancer	Dragoon	Swordmaster
Spiritmaster	Salve-Maker	Oracle	Bastion
Phantom	Arcanist	Hellblade	Bravebearer

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