As you reach the end of your journey in Bravely Default 2, you will have to face the final boss — Edna. Defeating Edna is the key to completing your first playthrough, seeing the credits roll, and unlocking New Game Plus in order to obtain the other endings (including the true ending).
Edna can be quite a tricky boss to face due to the onslaught of status effects that she inflicts on all party members and some of her devastating attacks. For everything you need to know about defeating Edna, we've got it all covered right here.
Battle Strategy
- Weaknesses: Spears, Bows, Lightning, and Light
- Half Damage: Water
- Immune: Earth
- Absorbs: Dark
One of Edna's most irritating attacks is Apoplexy, which applies elemental debuffs to the entire party. In order to mitigate this, you should have one character as a Spirit Master using Purebringer to remove these status effects regularly.
Edna can remove your buffs while buffing herself with Haste, and simultaneously hitting you with Slow. However, Purebringer can help to remove these also. She can counterattack to you buffing your party, as well as to healing, so keep an eye out for this.
Her other attacks also pose a significant threat, her Silent Storm attack deals heavy damage to the whole party and can also inflict silence, while her Vortices attack deals Wind damage to targets multiple times, which can prove fatal if they have the elemental debuff on them. When Edna's HP falls below a certain point, a short cutscene will play, after which she will begin to use Ultra Flare — another hard-hitting AoE attack.
Healing is a priority as Edna can easily wipe your entire party out in one go. Having someone like a Shieldmaster in your party to take some of the hits is worthwhile, and if you have the White Mage's passive ability "Better than Ever" you can heal up your characters to maximum HP if they have it assigned.
However, all of Edna's abilities use MP, so you can stop her from using these by draining her of her MP by inflicting Contagion. The most effective way to do this is to use Salve-Maker's Compounding ability to create a Pathogen item that will inflict Contagion on her. You can purchase Pathogen materials from the shop in Rimedhal once you have defeated Domenic, then combine it with an offensive item such as a Bomb Arm, Arctic Wind, or something else, using Compounding.