Spawning Extra Hero Shield
Hero Shield is 2nd best Shield in terms of stats but resist all element and considered the best shield You can normally obtain only 3 Hero Shield via Bloody Shield in 1 playthrough: Stealing 2 from Geist in his rematch fighting, and 2 from a post game dungeon chest. With the glitch, you can obtain multiple Hero Shield Typically, After you fight 255 battles with the Bloody shield equipped, it changes into a Hero Shield. There is only 255 battle counter, regardless of how many Bloody Shield you have equiped or how many characters have Bloody Shield. The game assume you have the Bloody Shield on the Left Hand as normal and a weapon in the Right Hand, thus Disposes the item on the Left Hand and put a Hero Shield in it's place However, the game get confused when you have the Bloody Shield equipped on your right hand via the Knight Ability Dual Shield. After the 255 battle Counter is complete, The game check for 1 bloody shield on the left hand on all character to dispose, and checks inventory next. If there isn't 1, check is considered complete. On Character with bloody shield on Right hand: shield on the left hand is unequipped and placed into inventory and an newly spawned Hero Shield in it place. That Hero Shield need to be verified, otherwise when you unequip the bloody shield, the bloody shield with disappear. Thus unequip the Hero Shield and equip it with another character. 1) So Have a character with ability Dual Shield and equip 2 shield, with Bloody Shield on the Right Hand (Yew for example.) 2) If you have any other Bloody Shield in Inventory, do the above on another character (Tiz, Edea for more) 3) Fight 255 battles battles with the Bloody shield equiped 4) Yew's equipment should now be Bloody Shield on Right Hand, Hero Shield on Left Hand. 5) Unequip the Hero Shield and equip said Hero shield on another character. Glitch is now complete. and you can treat your equipments as normal (Step 5 is to prevent Bloody shield from being deleted)
Alternate Costumes
'Bravely Second: End Layer' contains multiple costumes that are unlockable through shops inside the game.
Bonsoir Bunny - Available in Al Khampis for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Magnolia.
Bravo Bunny - Available in Al Khampis for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Edea.
Cadet Uniform - Available in Florem for 100,000 pg. Equipable by Magnolia.
Chompette's Coat - Available in Gathelatio for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Edea. Also available for pre-ordering the collector's edition.
Dimensional Garb - Available in Sagitta for 150,000 pg. Equipable by Yew.
Eastern War Garb - Available in Al Khampis for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Tiz.
Freelancer Garb - Available in Chompshire for 200,000 pg. Equipable by all characters.
Knight's Tunic - Available in Caldisla for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Edea. Also available for pre-ordering the digital edition.
Minstrel's Garb - Available in Caldisla for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Tiz. Also available for pre-ordering the digital edition.
Onion Knight Garb - Available in Caldisla for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Yew. Also available for pre-ordering the digital edition.
Planeswarden Garb - Available in Gathelatio for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Magnolia. Also available for pre-ordering the collector's edition.
Research Lab Coat - Available in Sagitta for 150,000 pg. Equipable by Magnolia.
Sagittarius Garb - Available in Gathelatio for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Tiz. Also available for pre-ordering the collector's edition.
Scholar's Gown - Available in Al Khampis for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Yew.
Shephard's Garb - Available in Yunohana for 80,000 pg. Equipable by Tiz.
Sky Knight Garb - Available in Hartschild for 50,000 pg. Equipable by Edea.
United Garb - Available in Gathelatio for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Yew. Also available for pre-ordering the collector's edition.
Vestal Garb - Available in Caldisla for 990,000 pg. Equipable by Magnolia. Also available for pre-ordering the digital edition.
Washcloth - Available in Chompshire for 200,000 pg. Equipable by all characters.
Bonus Dungeons
After fully beating the game, reload your file and you'll be able to access three new dungeons:
- Dimension's Keep (found near Caldisla)
- Dimension's Hollow (near Chompshire)
- Dimension's Cauldron (in the Mythril Mines)
Demo Bonus
When you complete the demo and save your data, you can then use this data in the actual game to unlock the Three Musketeers Set.
English Version Demo Bonuses
Complete the following Play Bonus feat from demo to transfer over to the full game. 20 villagers from demo also will be transfer over to the full game as well.
Ambitious Cavalier Set - Defeated Gargantua at Wind Temple.
Cavalier's First Mission Set - Defeated Hawkeye Asterisk.
Cavalier-In-Training Set - Start playing the Demo.
Full-Fledged Cavalier Set - Defeated Ba'al V ; Urchin.
Learned Cavalier Set - Completed every kind of monsters in Bestiary.
Legendary Cavalier Set - Defeated Ba'al V ; Urchin at Hard Difficulty.
Seasoned Cavalier Set - Completed both Pharm-Lab and Munitions Factory to Lv5.
Veteran Cavalier Set - All characters base level reach lv20 and all job levels reach Lv4.
FreeLancer Costumes
You can only unlock 4x FreeLancer costumes in game with the method below. After you have meet the requirements ,you will need to UPDATE DATA on those 2 games first before you UPDATE DATA on your Bravely Second End Layer to receive the costumes. On the EU Version the Freelancer costume can be brought from the weapon shop in Chompshire for 200,000 pg.
FreeLancer Costume x1 - Register your Bravely Defult Flying Fairy 's bravely code on Member's site.
FreeLancer Costume x1 - Register your Bravely Default For The Sequel 's bravely code in game.
FreeLancer Costume x1 - Clear the Ending of Bravely Default For The Sequel.
FreeLancer Costume x1 - Clear the True Ending of Bravely Default For The Sequel.
New Game+
After finishing the fourth chapter of the game, you can opt to save and go to the title screen, from which you'll be able to use this file to start a New Game+. This will let you bring all sorts of data, including items, money, character builds, asterisks, and more, to a new file.
Furthermore, if, during the new file, you press [Start] once you gain control of Yew in battle, as if activating Bravely Second, you will be able to continue to the second half of the storyline. Take note that this will disable New Game+ for this file again until you beat the game. You will also be able to redo all of the asterisk sidequests in this file all at once, letting you pursue the asterisks you missed the first time around.
After beating this true ending to the game, you will unlock a more proper New Game+ option again, this one letting you restart from any chapter of your choice (Note that chests will not respawn unless you start from the prologue.)
Unearthly Bun Farming
In Bravely Second, the Unearthly Bun is a powerful item that increases all of your attributes by at least 1 point each and is sometimes dropped by Ba'al's. Normally, it is extremely rare, but there is a way to farm them. To do this trick, you're going to need to get the Yokai Asterisk, which will allow you to level up your jobs to 11 instead of 10. The level 11 thief skill Prince of Thieves allows you to steal rare items that are normally impossible to steal. Once you have this skill, mark a Ba'al as the protected status (I prefer to use it on Firstborn) which will prevent the Ba'al from being deleted. Then just keep initiating combat with it and spamming Prince of Thieves to steal the Unearthly Bun and then run from battle. Rinse and repeat. If you have the support ability Rob Blind, you can even steal two Unearthly Buns at once and double the farm rate!