Agnea Character Guide: Best Build, Skills, and Job

Agnea Bristarni, The Dancer, is one of the eight playable characters in Octopath Traveler 2 (Octopath 2). Read on to learn more about Agnea's profile and her role as a protagonist, the traveler's EX Skill location, best party setup, Job and Support Skills, the hero's Latent Power, Path Actions, voice actor, as well as the best Secondary Job and build for Agnea!

All Agnea Guides
Agnea Character Profile	Agnea Story Chapters	Agnea Allure Guide

Agnea Profile and Best Secondary Job

Basic Information and Background

Agnea Best Secondary Job and Build

Secondary Job	Explanation
Inventor	・The Inventor job has some of the best single-target buff/debuff skills such as Springy Boots, Critical Scope, and Arkar's Coil. Agnea's Latent Power allows the Inventor's single-target skills to instead target all foes or all allies.

The best Secondary Job for Agnea is Inventor. You can get this build by going to Eastern New Delsta Highroad, Brightlands and talking to Arkar the Inventor at the Inventor Guild. He'll give you the Inventor License shortly after and you can equip it on Agnea from the Jobs menu.

Get its job skills by gathering items Arkar needs for his inventions.

Best Secondary Jobs and Class Combos

Agnea Tier Rating

Rating

Explanation

Great

・Has a good support Latent Power, which allows her to extend her skills to all allies or enemies. ・When paired with Apothecraphy, All Together Now lets her cleanse status ailments for all her allies. ・ Can apply attack buffs with Lion Dance and Peacock Strut. ・Stimulate allows her to manipulate the turn order and let her allies act first. ・Song of Hope is a relatively strong skill that allows her allies' buffs to last longer.

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Agnea EX Skill Location

Find the Dancer Altar at the Northern Wellgrove Trail, Leaflands

Map	World View

How to Get to the Dancer's Altar
1	Fast travel to Cropdale in the Leaflands region.
2	Head east to the Eastern Cropdale Trail and follow the path south.
3	Once you arrive at the Southern Cropdale Trail, follow the path heading west.
4	Once you're at the Northern Wellgrove Trail, take the path heading north until you find a tree with a hidden cave near it.
5	With Agnea in your party, examine the statue so she can receive her EX Skill.

All Altar Locations

Make Sure to Have Agnea In Your Party

Before heading for Northern Wellgrove Trail, Leaflands to get Agnea's EX Skill, you need to make sure that you have her in your party. Otherwise, you won't be able to get her EX Skill.

Start Agnea's story or add her to your party by going to a tavern.

If you don't have her yet, you can always visit the altar again once you have her in your party.

Tavern Guide

Finish Agnea's Story

Agnea's second and last EX Skill can only be obtained by finishing her story. It will automatically be given to her once you've cleared all chapters in her story.
Agnea's Storyline

Agnea Best Party Setup

Physical and Elemental Attack Buffer

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Agnea	【Attack Up Buffer】 ・Can grant allies a buff to their elemental or physical attack. ・Can extend her buff to all her allies with the use of her Latent Power. ・Can use Stimulate to manipulate turn order. ・Having Apothecary as her secondary job allows her to cleanse the whole party of status ailments.
Hikari or Osvald	【Physical Attacker】 ・Preserve as much BP as possible until the enemies' shield breaks. ・When their shield breaks, augment your skills using BP to strike your opponents down. ・Can use Incite with Vengeful Blade to act as a tank. ・Deals a ton of damage thanks to Agnea's buffs. 【Elemental Attacker】 ・Can use 3 elemental attacks. ・His Latent Power, Concentrate Spells, allows him to deal massive damage on a single enemy. ・Can use Study Foe to discover enemy weak points at the start of the battle. ・Synergizes with Agnea due to Peacock Strut.
Throne	【Debuffer】 ・Armor Corrosive reduces an enemy's defense. ・Veil of Darkness allows the whole party to evade physical attacks. ・Can also get damage done using Surprise Attack. ・Grants allies buff at night time with Blessing of Darkness.
Temenos	【Healer and Night-Only Debuffer】 ・Provides heals for everyone in the party ・Temenos has synergy with Throne during night battles with Moonlight Judgment. ・Strong damage mitigation skills

Agnea is the ideal offensive buffer in your party. As a way to complement her skills in buffing physical and elemental attacks, it is recommended to have Hikari or Oswald on the team to help strengthen their offensive damage output.

It should be noted that allies proficient in debuffing enemies can be a huge advantage when paired up with Agnea.

Best Party Setup and Team Composition

Agnea Primary Job and Skills

Jump to a Skill Type!
Job	Support	Divine	EX

Dancer Job Skills

Skill	Description	Damage Type	SP
Lion Dance	Raise the physical attack of a single ally for 4 turns.	-	4
Peacock Strut	Raise the elemental attack of a single ally.	-	4
Stimulate	Move a single ally's next action up 1 spot.	-	5
Sweeping Gale	Deal wind-based damage to a single foe.	Wind	7
Dagger Dance	Unleash a dagger attack on all foes.	Dagger	9
Ruinous Kick	Unleash a powerful physical attack on a single foe, and reduce their Shield Points regardless of their weak points.	-	10
Bewildering Grace	Cause a curious effect to occur 1 time.	-	25

List of All Job Skills

Dancer Support Skills

Skill	Description	Req. Skills
The Show Goes On	Extends the duration of augmenting effects granted by the equipping character by 1 turn.	4 (130 Total JP)
Ever Evasive	Enables the equipping character to more easily evade enemy attacks.	5 (630 Total JP)
Hard Worker	Receive additional JP after battles. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)	6 (1,630 Total JP)
Invigorate and Inspire	Slightly fills the target's latent power gauge when the equipping character grants them an augmenting effect.	7 (4,630 Total JP)

List of All Support Skills

Agnea Divine Skill

Skill	Description	Damage Type	SP
Sealticge's Seduction	Extend the reach of a single ally's skills to all for 3 turns. This does not affect divine skills or skills that only affect the user.	-	30

List of All Divine Skills

Agnea EX Skills

Skill	Description	Damage Type	SP
Windy Refrain	Deal wind-based damage to all foes, and cause your allies to act first on the next turn.	Wind	18
Song of Hope	Extends the party's current buffs by 1/2/3/4 turns. This does not affect divine skills.	-	32

List of All EX Skills

Agnea Talent

Dance Session

Agnea's talent is Dance Session. Her talent allows her to dance with an allured companion in battle to trigger various effects.

To allure a townsperson, use Agnea's Day Path Action Allure. The townsperson you've successfully allured will join your team and you can summon them in battle.

Agnea Latent Power

All Together Now

Agnea's Latent Power is All Together Now where she performs a Lion Dance to extend the reach of single-target skills to all.

With this power, you can apply buffs like the Lion Dance to everyone in the party instead of just a single ally. You can also use this along with Ruinous Kick to reduce enemy shield points and break them easily.

Latent Powers Explained

Agnea Path Actions

Day Path Action: Allure

Agnea's Day Path Action is called Allure - an ability that allows her to charm townspeople into joining your team and summon them in battle for support.

Before trying to allure an individual, Interact with them to see what they can do in battles, as well as the chance of successfully alluring them.

We recommend trying to allure individuals that have a higher chance of success, so your reputation in town won't suffer.
Reputation Guide

Night Path Action: Entreat

At night, Agnea can use Entreat to obtain valuable items from townspeople.
All Path Actions Explained

Obtain Items At a Certain Level

In order for Agnea to obtain an item from a townsperson, she needs to be of a certain level first. If she's below the required level needed to get an item, she can't obtain it.

If you have Agnea in your party, make sure that she isn't too behind from the levels of everyone in the team,
EXP Farming Guide

Octopath Traveler 2 Related Guides

List of Characters and Heroes

All Playable Characters

Main Characters
Hikari	Agnea	Partitio	Osvald
Temenos	Throne	Ochette	Castti