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MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Sega or Gameguard broke something for me again because I'm just getting illegal error crashes left and right tonight. I just wanted to hunt a Twin Agito! :(

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MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

kirbysuperstar posted:

Double Orochi Agito :getin:

Break Stance potential. :negative:

I'm loving how Speed Rain is the king of Partisan PAs again. Even with a Lambda Patty I was taking out Robo-dogs in one swoop with it. Hell I love all the changes they made to melee in general so far.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

Samurai Sanders posted:

Does anyone actually do crafting requests? That's one area of the game I haven't explored at all, since all I know is my requests list is always empty.
Depends. You can put up popular crafting recipes (which require a lot of achievement grinding to unlock) and you might get some pubbies who happen to come across your crafting advertisement and don't want to do the grind themselves. You better have the "Ex Maker 3" and "Tech Maker 3" (the ones that boost great success rates) sitting in your room or they'll notice you don't have them and pass you up on the craft request.

Simply put, it's usually not worth the effort unless you're strictly trying to be self-sufficient, then it's a possible bonus on the side.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

kirbysuperstar posted:

Even the Japanese players know to avoid it at all costs, especially when it's time for an Emergency Quest.
It's funny because even the B20 lobby loiterers know not to stay there when it's time for an emergency quest, then they go and be terrible across all the other blocks. v:v:v

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
I think he means the mag's trigger abilities.
Just put a bunch of Revival A's and an Invincibility A.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Pendulum Roll got a nice buff, so it's good for doing damage while slightly moving forward to keep an enemy in range.

I think Flash Thousand got a slight range buff as well, I'm hitting things a bit more reliably with it.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
To be fair, cmode was just memorizing button combinations and knowing what rooms to go to.
The only real challenge in that mode is the gal gryphon and olga flow fights.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Oh yes, haha. Or when the resident HUmar takes the only Resta disk in the forest run for himself. Having to deal with 13 damage Zondes for Dragon was always a knee-slapping time though.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Mag cap was 99 in beta. I think it was 150 on release, then right around the release of Extreme Quests they bumped it up to 175. I can't recall anything inbetween then. I'm willing to bet the release of Ultimate will give them enough reason to push it up again. When it happens you better hold on to all your 7-9* weapons because they're going to skyrocket in price. Insomuch as they'll cost 10,500 meseta instead of 1,050

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Trade in a number of AC scratch items in the Recycle Shop to get a color change pass. You can buy a bunch of cheap CAST parts off player shops to trade in.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Go to the scratch menu, pick a scratch and pick the bottom option to look at the prize list.

Rule of thumb is any clothing item that's not a default will work. Anything else would probably be too expensive.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Closed beta was 3 classes, 2 areas, 1 emergency quest area, level 20 cap.

Now there's over 12 areas, 8 classes, many more emergency quests, entire story arcs if that's your thing, brand new skill trees that make things a lot more accessable. Aside from the core mechanics which were always fine, almost everything is new and improved. Definitely worth checking out if you've been gone for so long.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

NextTime000 posted:

the problem with that though is that at least the right stick prioritizes targets in that direction, with tab I often have to tab a whoooole lot and reposition just to get the target I really want
Yeah Tab just seems to toggle between the 2 nearest targets. You really gotta mess with your positioning to get it to do what you want. Vol Dragon's back horn is the biggest example.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Vardha's shoulder clusterbombs you pretty much have to go into TPS aiming mode to hit with daggers. It's satisfying to do as it feels like you're gaming the system, though.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
You could pull out another 200 HP (or 20 PP if that's your thing) with soul+stat+stamina/spirita on each piece of your armor and it really isn't that hard to do.

The most annoying part is making your fodder pieces by buying from shops. All the +10% affix booster items you inevitably pile up from +10ing weapons will help with that step, too.
If you have access to PSO2es you can farm the bosses on there for chances for Soul Receptor items which make souls transfer with 100% success, helps a lot. Soul Receptors on units also sell for a ton of meseta if it came with the boss soul as well, like Quartz or Mizer.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
If you add me on es I guarantee I'll either have my Tranmizer chip for wrecking desert mobs, my Lisa Chip for all around usefulness, or my 10* Grenade Shell chip for really strong assists set at all times. At least I think it's a strong assist.

At the very least, it's another 15-25 FUN you can earn. :shobon:

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
The Guld Milla nerf seems kind of sad given how iconic of a weapon it is. Though given how quickly it was released in this game's lifespan it became too common to remain that powerful.

Guld Milla+ as a 14* or some other lazy reskin might show up later on in the former glory along with Eternal Psychodrive or something. :v:

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

NextTime000 posted:

my biggest issue with steam overlay is if I am accessing the back two PAs/Techs on my Rifle/Launcher/Rod/Talis/Wand and I try to tab over to a different target :v:

You know you can change the keypresses to open the overlay right? I use ctrl+tab for mine.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
I don't remember at what point it starts dropping off, but unless they changed it recently with episode 3 it's typically 75% of normal EXP on the start of the drop off, then another 5% taken every level above that dropoff.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
And yet 10* which are by all means irrelevant in the current endgame likely still need premium in order to purchase. :v:

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
I'm not too well practiced with daggers, but I find them to be the weakest mobbing tools a fighter has. Bloody Sarabande is the best thing you'll have for mobbing due to its wide AoE.
I suggest if you're going to be mobbing with it, setting Sarabande on your first PA slot, dashing towards a group to pull out your daggers, make a short hop to boost your gear gauge one level, then do a mid-air twirl to get the last level and PA out of that. Juggling is rather hit-or-miss depending on what you're trying to attack, and as far as I'm aware, your "make enemy airborne" moves have a very small range meaning you'll likely only launch one or two enemies, separating them from the mob and defeating the purpose of attacking the entire group at once with Sarabande.

Take what I say with a grain of salt though, as I only really use my daggers against certain bosses. I tend to use Chaos Rise with doublesabers for the sake of mobbing personally.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
What's your class? Ketos Proi is the best PB in the world to a force with PP Charge Revival. Otherwise it's a bit of a tossup to what you prefer.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Sometimes I think Sega intentionally executes bad ideas just so they can later fix them and make it seem like a big update.

Stockholm syndrome, the game company.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Guess I need to get a hold of a Monkey King Bar now.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
I hated that Bullet Keep didn't work with gunslashes so I had to throw away any left over weak bullets during a Bayaribbles encounter or risk getting screwed over by an unboxed drop.

I wonder if this'll work even when you're dead while the crystal drops. That would relieve so much stress in UQs.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
I wish there was an AFK-kick function during an EQ announcement. Like if you haven't moved in 10 of the 15 minutes of advance notice, you get booted to your room.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Since we're talking about wands, I've been meaning to find out: does the amount of element on a wand affect wand gear's damage at all? Like, is there a difference between a 30 light wand and a 50 light wand?

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Weird. I always thought 200k was the floor price for any AC scratch item because of the recycle shop. It does suck for CASTs since they have to buy 3 pieces to get a full outfit (four if you include the super-expensive head!) while everyone else only buys one.

Alas, it'll probably never change since a vast majority of the playerbase are all lolis.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
My level 3 one says 0.5%

I can't ever seem to heal more than 30 HP in one shot, so the 50 cap is not that relevant for now. The gun's pointless now. To be honest, with the neutering of S-Roll JA (a good thing) and the lack of any real compensation for power on PAs (a bad thing) gunner's probably the least played mainclass right now.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Share. I haven't gotten anything exclusive from Ult or XH except that lame Diabo partisan. v:v:v

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

NextTime000 posted:

Since the game is 2.5 years in and still lacks the ability to see the last time someone was online
It amazes me that it's still not a thing in this game and yet PSO2es had it since day 1.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
I guess when you're reusing server hardware from 2005, it's not a good idea to have a very robust shop searching module in it.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
The fact that he can, at will, improve your success odds on a whim (bingo events etc) but chooses not to shows how much of a dick he is to customers. He's got some seriously strong union there or something to stay employed.

I still love him and it's better than listening to Monica's whining.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
I think PSU's "disclaimer" window before you attempt a grind explained it a bit. Don't remember what exactly it said though.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Nyau's going to run a black jack nyack table in the casino. Hoping he throws a tantrum when you get 21 on a max bet or something.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Focus on daily boost orders first and get your daily boost to 30%. That'll get you 30% more exp (and meseta and rares)everywhere.
Early on it'd be best to keep playing Ranger in super hard mode with bouncer as a subclass until it reaches maybe level 15 or 20 or so which lets you get a decent head start in the skilltree.
Do Hans' "New ______ trial" COs frequently combined with the matching super hard boss COs, that will net your ranger about 45000 to 60000 exp and your bouncer 4500 to 6000 which will get it past those early levels real fast.

As for gearing up bouncer, Magatsu on super hard will have a high chance at dropping the highest stat 10* boots and dualblades currently in the game which should set a nice baseline of power at +10. These and these. Just be aware they have dexterity requirements instead of s-atk and t-atk.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
More importantly: Bullshit trial-and-error puzzles.
Who remembers the Cave 3 room with 9 switches that had to be pressed in a certain order?

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
God help you if you were a RAcast or were very high level in Ultimate. Being high level worked against you as attacks started multi-hitting you that were originally meant to knock you down once you passed a certain threshold of HP.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
When it rains in PSO2 it pours in PSO2.

167th Anga kill:


And then the very next run:


Guess I'm stuck playing bouncer forever now.

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MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

The White Dragon posted:

If I based my class decisions around the junk twelve-star weapons I've gotten, I'd be a Hunter with a rainbow set of Lightning Espadas :sigh:
If it's any consolation these are the first 2 things I got that are worth a drat since Ult and XH were introduced.
Only other exclusive item was a Diabo nose long ago.

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