How to Beat The Night's Nexus | Bravely Default 2 (Bravely Default II)

This is a guide to The Night's Nexus, a Boss battle in Bravely Default 2 (Bravely Default II). Read on to know how to beat The Night's Nexus, its strengths and weaknesses, and the best strategy against The Night's Nexus.

The Night's Nexus Basic Info

The Night's Nexus Strengths, and Weaknesses, and Obtainable Items

Vulnerabilities
Half Damage	No Resistances
Immunity	No Immunities
Absorbs
Items Dropped	None available
Stealables	None available

Grasping Hand Strengths, and Weaknesses, and Obtainable Items

Vulnerabilities
Half Damage
Immunity
Absorbs
Items Dropped	None available
Stealables	None available

Cradling Hand Strengths, and Weaknesses, and Obtainable Items

Vulnerabilities
Half Damage
Immunity
Absorbs
Items Dropped	None available
Stealables	None available

How to Beat The Night's Nexus

The Night's Nexus Recommended Jobs, Abilities, and Equipment

Recommended Jobs

Best Jobs
Vanguard	White Mage	Red Mage	Phantom
Best Sub-Jobs
Bastion	Spiritmaster	Spiritmaster	Ranger

Recommended Jobs Phase 2

Best Jobs (All Jobs at Legendary Rank)
Shieldmaster	White Mage	White Mage	Swordmaster

Best Sub-Jobs
Bravebearer	Spiritmaster	Salve-Maker	Vanguard

Recommended Abilities and Items

Best Abilities/Items
Neo Cross Slash	Holy	Disaster	Shadowbind

List of Abilities

Recommended Equipment

Best Equipment
Carbon Cap	Peace Ring	Safety Ring Phase 2	-

The Night's Nexus Movesets

Ruin	Reduces all target's MP by 200.
Calamity Calls	Deals weak AOE damage to your party.
BP Up	Used as a counter against healing.
Attack	Used as a counter against physical attacks.
Inflame	Damages all targets and inflicts berserk.
World Ender	Damages all target and absorbs a portion of damage dealt.
World Ender	Damages all target.
Salvation	Damages all target and heals the Night's Nexus.
Exclusion 2nd Fight	Removes a party member from the fight temporarily.

Night's Nexus Phase 2 Movesets

A World Annihilated	Damages the whole party.
A Wellspring Depleted	Depletes all MP from all characters.
A Life Cut Short	Death to a single target.
Courage Squandered	Reduces all party member's BP by 1
A Tragic Denouement	Applies maximum debuff to all party members.

The Night's Nexus Strategy

End the Battles Quickly!

The Night's Nexus is pretty weak for a boss at this stage of the game. It sports a measly 90,000 HP and its attacks barely deals a thousand damage.

Unleash all your strong attacks against it to fell it quickly. Delaying the battle is disadvantageous since you'll be fighting the Night's Nexus three times and its resource depleting moves will make your party weaker for the battles to come.

Vulnerable to paralysis

Since the Night's Nexus is vulnerable to paralysis, having a Phantom/Ranger combo will allow you to easily lock the Night's Nexus' movement.

This will also prevent it from countering your attacks allowing you to dish out damage without the need to equip the Counter-Savvy support ability.

Don't use up all your BP on the second fight!

The second fight will use your current BP's status when transitioning to the third phase. Making all your characters Brave and have negative BP may spell a team wipe so be careful!

Third Phase's hands prevents your party to target the Nexus

The third phase's hands, while low in HP, will prevent your from targeting the Night's Nexus so taking them down is crucial.

Having a 2nd damage dealer that can dispatch the arms quickly is highly suggested for this fight. Take note that even AOE attacks will not make it to the Night's Nexus if even a single hand is alive.

Hands also resurrects itself

The Night's Nexus' hands will resurrect itself after a few turns have passed. To defeat the Night's Nexus easily, bank up your turns then unleash all your assault after taking down the hands.

The Night's Nexus' HP is only around 60,000 during the third phase so a well leveled party should be able to defeat it in one turn.

The Night's Nexus Phase 2 Strategy

Stock up on Ethers and/or Elixirs

The Night's Nexus' most annoying move is its Wellspring Depleted move that will literally deplete your MP pool. Having a way to instantly replenish your at least, replenish a lot of MP for your party members is highly recommended.

The Salve-Maker in particular, can use Widen Area to use Ethers or Elixirs to the whole party in a single turn.

Use Purebringer

The Night's Nexus can use Tragic Denouement which can apply all debuffs at the max level to all your party members. Purebringer can instantly cleanse these debuffs so you can continue the fight!

Avoid Over Braving!

A Courage Squandered reduces everyone's BP by one.

The Night's Nexus can counter any damage dealt to her by using Courage Squandered. Avoid over braving or even using Brave at all to avoid negative BP for your characters.

Leave allies on Critical HP

Reaching Critical HP is the sweet spot for the Shieldmaster to automatically guard your allies.

If you can get everyone's HP to critical levels while the Shieldmaster has an instant death resist armor, your win against the Night's Nexus is already guaranteed given you can focus healing the Shieldmaster before he falls to the Night's Nexus' attacks.

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