This page covers all the best secondary jobs and subclass combos for each character in Octopath Traveler 2. Read on and check out our list of the best secondary jobs in the game and which subclass combination works well with each character.
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List of Contents
- Best Secondary Jobs
- Best Class Combinations
- How to Get a Secondary Job
- Related Guides
Best Secondary Jobs
Inventor, Cleric, and Merchant
| Job | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Inventor | ・Does not require SP to use any of its skills, best paired on characters that require a lot of SP on their primary job. ・Springy Boots makes sure that you will be able to act first for the next 5 turns, useful when setting up buffs. ・Tin Horn fills the Latent Power gauge of all allies which can be used in farming runs. |
| Cleric | ・Inner Strength raises the user's SP by 50, which is generally good, especially on characters such as Osvald. ・Has access to Rise Again, a useful support skill that allows the user to revive after being incapacitated once with 25% of their max HP. ・Mystical Staff allows you to steal 10% of your enemy's SP for the amount of damage you deal, which can be sustainable in the long run. |
| Merchant | ・Versatile job that benefits most, if not, all other jobs due to their Support Skills. ・ Has Full Power, which allows users to gain their Latent Power at the start of the battle. ・Grants the user additional BP due to Boost-Start, which is good if you want to kill enemies fast when farming. ・Rest allows the user to recover HP and SP, as well as cure any status ailment. |
List of All Jobs and Classes
Secret Jobs Are Generally Strong
| Job | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Armsmaster | ・A strong secret job that covers all the weapon types available in the game. ・Job skills can be unlocked by bringing rusty weapons to Porta. ・Rusty weapons can turn into Divine Weapons that deal tons of damage to enemies. ・ Is extremely strong when all of the divine weapons are available. |
| Arcanist | ・A job that can extend its own skills to all party members. ・Is able to deal dark-based elemental attacks to foes that also restores HP and SP to allies. ・Has the ability to change stat-reducing effects afflicted on allies into stat-raising effects. |
Story-Locked Secret Jobs
| Job | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Conjurer | ・A job that provides additional elemental based attacks on your allies' weapons. ・It's generally a good support job that provides players with BP, SP, and HP recovery at the cost of little SP. ・Can be obtained after finishing all of Hikari's chapters. |
Story Walkthrough and List of Storylines
Best Class Combinations for Each Character
| Best Secondary Jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hikari | Agnea | Throne | Osvald |
| Temenos | Partitio | Ochette | Castti |
Hikari Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Warrior Armsmaster | ・The Armsmaster job provides all weapon types to the character. Whether you're building Hikari as a tank or a damage-dealer, this job will fit him well. ・The Armsmaster's Bulwark utlilized with the Warrior's Incite, Vengeful Blade, and Stout Wall makes for a great combo for tank builds. ・The Warrior's Abide paired with the Armsmaster's Lionheart's Axe: On the Hunt is one of the highest damage dealing skill pairs in the game. | |
| Warrior Hunter | ・A versatile Physical Attacker combo that covers most of the weapon types in the game. ・Paired with the Hunter's Take Aim and Eagle Eye to increase crit and Warrior's self-buffing capabilities, you'll get an enormous amount of damage done to your enemies. | |
| WarriorApothecary | ・A support-type job combination that allows Hikari to become a tank with his skill Incite and Apothecary's many HP/SP recovery skills. ・It also allows Hikari to recover a lot of SP due to Inspiriting Break's effects. ・Since Hikari effectively becomes a tank, he can make full use of his Vengeful Blade skill, allowing him to counter physical attacks with his own. | |
Hikari Ku Profile
Agnea Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| DancerInventor | ・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. | |
| DancerApothecary | ・ A powerful support type class combination that makes full use of Agnea's Latent Power. ・Agnea's Latent Power All Together Now can extend the reach of single-target skills to all, which can be used in conjunction with Apothecary's strong single-target healing and buffs. ・She can also revive all of her allies when Healing Touch is used with her Latent Power at the cost of only 6 SP on top of healing. In comparison, Cleric's Job skill requires 40 SP to use Revive. ・Due to Inspiriting Break's effects, she's very sustainable in terms of both HP/SP regen. | |
| DancerCleric | ・A support combination allowing Agnea to access much of Cleric's mitigation skills and extend it to all of her allies when using her Latent Power. ・An example of these powerful mitigation skills are Cleric's Sacred Shield, which reduces damage taken by 50%, and Prayer to the Flame, which raises the Physical and Elemental defense of an ally. ・Mystical Staff can now be used on all your enemies instead of a single target when using her Latent Power. This allows Agnea to increase the SP she gains from using this skill. | |
Agnea Bristarni Profile
Throne Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ThiefDancer | ・A combination where Throne is used as a support where she can inflict status ailments while at the same time giving buffs to her allies. ・Her Latent Power Leave no Trace allows her to have twice the actions per turn and is very useful for applying more buffs or status ailments. ・You also cover two types of elemental attacks when using Dancer, Wind and Dark. | |
| ThiefMerchant | ・A type of support combination where Throne's Latent Power is fully utilized using Merchant's skills. ・Throne can use her Latent Power to support her allies and give them twice the amount of BP thanks to Merchant's Donate BP skill and Boost-Start. ・This ensures that she can basically get someone to 3 BPs at the start of the turn, allowing for a massive damage opener. ・Using Merchant allows her to cover 4 types of weapons: sword, dagger, polearm, and bow. | |
| ThiefWarrior | ・A combination where Throne can use her Latent Power paired with Warrior's Incite and Vengeful Blade allows her to effectively become a tank. ・Each time she is hit by a physical attack, she can counter and apply attribute-reducing effects to her opponents, thanks to Ensnare. | |
Throne Anguis Profile
Osvald Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ScholarCleric | ・Using Cleric as the second job for Osvald allows you to cover 4 elemental types: Fire, Ice, Lighting, and Light, making you versatile when it comes to elemental attacks. ・The HP and mitigation skills that come with Cleric are a huge advantage to Osvald whenever he uses his Path Action, Mug, where he'll have to fight solo against an enemy. ・Mystical Staff and Inner Strength are good skills for Osvald as both give him SP, allowing him to use more of his elemental skills in combat. | |
| ScholarMerchant | ・Having Merchant as a secondary job allows Osvald to gain BP and dish out massive damage at the start of the battle. ・This pair is mostly used on farming waves of enemies since Osvald gets to reap the benefits of Boost-Start, which allows him to have an additional BP at the start of the battle, augmenting his attacks on all foes. ・Rest is also good on Osvald, who uses a lot of SP to dish out damage. | |
Osvald V. Vanstein Profile
Temenos Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ClericScholar | ・A combination that allows Temenos to deal damage while supporting his own allies with his mitigation and heals. ・Self-sufficient when it comes to his SP consumption due to Cleric's Mystical Staff and Inner Strength, allowing him to use more of Scholar's skills. ・Great at shredding tanky enemies due to his Latent Power, Judgment, which allows him to lower an enemy's shield point, regardless of weakness, paired with Scholar's high damaging spells. | |
| ClericWarrior | ・This pair allows Tememos to go on the offensive and shred his enemy's shield. ・Judgement paired with Warrior's Aggressive Slash allows Temenos to destroy an enemy's shield instantly. ・You can also use Incite to force enemies to attack you paired with Vengeful Blade and Judgement to shred all of your enemies' shield. | |
Temenos Mistral Profile
Partitio Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| MerchantArcanist | ・The Arcanist's Seal of Diffusion allows skills that only targets the user to be instead applied to the entire party. Partitio has two great skills that work with Seal of Diffusion, Side Step and Rest. ・The aforementioned skills and the Arcanist's Seal of Immortality and the Merchant's Donate BP makes this job combo one of the best supports in the game. | |
| MerchantApothecary | ・Since Partitio can basically get his BP at Max using a combination of his Latent Power and support skill at the start of the battle, he can easily use the Divine Skill Dohter's Charity, which effectively extends the reach of items to all party members. ・Partitio can also use a Max BP Rehabilitate at the start of the battle. ・With Apothecary as his secondary job, he gets two elemental attacks: Fire and Ice. | |
| MerchantDancer | ・Due to how his kit works, Partitio will be able to use Dancer's divine skill, Sealticge's Seduction, at the start of the battle, which can extend the reach of an ally's skill to all for 3 turns. ・With the Dancer as his secondary job, Partitio can cover two types of elemental attacks: Wind and Fire. | |
| MerchantCleric | ・Again, Partitio will be able to use Cleric's Divine Skill, Aelfric's Blessing at the start of the fight, which grants an ally to act again at the end of the turn for 3 turns. ・With his BP at max level, he can use Sacred Shield to increase the damage taken from 50% to 100% at the start of a fight. | |
Partitio Yellowil Profile
Ochette Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| HunterWarrior | ・This job pairing allows Ochette to augment her physical power using enhancing effects from both her job class and the Warrior. ・Using Abide, Take Aim, and Eagle Eye combined with her Latent Power is sure to deal a massive amount of damage on any enemies she takes on. ・Deal More Damage also increases the damage cap, improving her physical power even more. ・Covers sword, polearms, axe, and bow weapon types, making her versatile in breaking shields during battle. | |
| HunterThief | ・This pairing allows Ochette to use Steal on top of her Capture to get the most out of the items during an encounter. ・Using the Thief's Surprise Attack on top of Ochette's crit-enhancing skills along with her Heighten Senses allows her to deal high amounts of damage to a single enemy. ・This combination of jobs allows Ochette to cover all 4 types of weapons: sword, dagger, axe, and bow. | |
Ochette Profile
Castti Class Combo
| Class Combination | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ApothecaryCleric | ・ Two combinations of jobs allowing Castti to cover all of her weaknesses as a single-target healer and support. ・ Having the Cleric as her secondary job allows her to access mitigation skills and party-wide heals, which she lacks. | |
| ApothecaryDancer | ・Another support combination where Castti can grant buffs to allies on top of her healing. She can also use Dancer's divine skill to extend the effects of her skill to all party members. ・Replenish Health paired with Dancer's Sealticge's Seduction allows everyone in the party to get constantly healed. Rehabilitate can also be used with the Divine Skill to prevent bosses from inflicting status ailments on the party. | |
| ApothecaryMerchant | ・This combination allows Castti to gain additional BP from Boost-Start to improve her skills at the start of the battle. ・Full Power makes it easier for Castti to use her Latent Power and create concoctions. | |
Castti Florenz Profile
How to Get a Secondary Job
Obtained by Finding Guilds Across Solistia
If you want a secondary job for your character, you'll need to head to a place called Guilds scattered across the world of Solistia. From there, you can talk to the Guildmaster, and they'll give out Licenses, which you give to a traveler to get the secondary job.
All Guild Locations
Octopath Traveler 2 Related Guides
Octopath Traveler 2 Tips and Tricks
| All Tips and Tricks | |
|---|---|
| Day and Night Cycle Guide | Boat and Canoe Guide |
| Travel Banter Guide | How to Fast Travel |
| What to Do at Taverns | All Radar Icons Explained |
| Should You Choose Mahina or Akala? | How to Restore Reputation |
| Nuts Guide | Trophy and Achievements |
| Crossed Paths Guide | Missables Guide |
| Ship Guide and Features | True Ending Guide |
| Is There New Game Plus? | 100 Percent Completion Guide |
| Drinking the Forbidden Elixir | How to Learn Limb from Limb Skill |
| Tier List and Best Guides | |
| Best Weapons to Use | Best Secondary Jobs |
| Best Party Setup | Best Support Skills |
| Best Starting Character | Best Concoction Recipes |
| Best Character Tier List | |
| Farming Guides | |
| Money Farming Guide | JP Farming Guide |
| Octopuff Traveler Farming | Cait Farming |
| Jerky Farming Guide | Cait and Octopuff Differences |
| EXP Farming Guide | |
| Location Guides | |
| All Divine Weapon Locations | All Black Market Locations |
| All Guild Locations | All Altar Locations |
| Inventor Item Locations | All Gramophone Locations |
| All Legendary Arms Locations | |
| Path Action Guides | |
| Path Actions Explained | Best Items and Weapons to Steal |
| Best Monsters to Capture | Best NPCs to Allure |
| Best Skills to Learn from Challenges | |
| Battle and Combat Guides | |
| Break and Boost Guide | All Latent Powers Explained |
| Combat Bonuses Guide | How to Increase Encounter Rate |
| Status Effects and Buffs Explained | All Stats and Attributes |
| Controls and Settings | |
| Difficulty Settings Guide | Recommended Settings |
| How to Skip Cutscenes | Basic Controls and How to Save |
| How to Transfer Demo Save Data | |
