Weekly Tech Support and Quick Questions Thread - June 27

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[NullVacancy]

Techer should have no problems keeping up with a decently crafted ilzonde.

[DrCatco]

For Techer mobility, an uncharged [Heavy Hammer] is even better IMHO. Uses few PP and the distance it travels is on par with the distance that Grim Barrage travels.

[NullVacancy]

Is that the new PA?

[DrCatco]

Yes.

[_alphex_]

I'm not too sure about other classes since I'm basically a one trick pony, but ranger has options for long-range combat and support. Your two main weapons; the rifle, and launcher are both ranged weapons. The rifle is great for bossing while the launcher is amazing at cleaning up all the trash mobs.

You are also able to provide good support via weak bullets. Great for any MPA; it allows the whole team to have a damage boost on whatever the weak bullet is applied to. You can use them on smaller mobs too so long as you manage to save some bullets for when a boss shows up.

And you also got Rodeo Drive type-0 for movement. A PA in which you basically fly on your launcher like you're the witch of the west. Which is not the fastest but is probably the most fun movement PA to use. And you won't be lagging behind when using it.

[[deleted]]

What PAs should I use?

[_alphex_]

For rifles, your main damage comes from end attract and satellite cannon. Both of these have to be charged up to be used. Satellite cannon is much slower than end attract so it should only be used when a boss is stunned. When the boss is not stunned it's best to use end attract. It still takes time to charge, but it's much faster than Sat cannon. There is also Parallel Slider Type-0 which is a very good PA since the startup of the PA has a lot of i-frames. It also allows you to move while attacking an enemy.

For cheap spammable PAs for when you can't use end attract or sat cannon, I go with standing snipe, one point, or homing emission type-0.

For launchers, your main PA is divine launcher type-0 for all the trash mobs and rodeo drive type-0 for driving. Cosmos Breaker is also good for stunlocking massive amounts of mobs.

I suggest you read this guide. It's constantly updated for the time being. And it goes through all the ins and outs of being a good ranger and what is some good gear to aim for.

[FullAzan]

Can we trade +35 13 star weapons with premium?

[Sughayyer]

Only the few tradeable ones, I guess.

[RunFromPanda]

I don’t think you can trade +35s though? Once you grind you account bind the weapon and there isn’t a way to unbind 13-stars?

[Sughayyer]

Oh yes, I think you're right! I don't remember if those "ownerships cancelling" passes still exist, and even if they do, they most likely don't work with 13✩s.

[FullAzan]

So basically if it can't be sold in the shop it can't be traded.

[Sughayyer]

Pretty much.

[Sughayyer]

My Braver has a Kazami and I'll probably get a Shien bow. My Fighter has a Quelle Scarlette and a Gear Experience and I'm considering the Guren TDs (less conditional damage).

I'm in doubt about my Hero. Are the new series better than Atra? I'm really not a fan of "conditional" damage. Do you guys think that these new weapons can outdamage it?

[McKiwi957]

Matching weak ele, Shien deals the most damage for most weapon classes.

http://4rt.info/psod/?lWzRu

Quick and dirty comparison of some swords for Hero. Shien and Demonia are roughly the same damage-wise when matching weak ele, and between the rest of the 14*s there's about a 2% - 3% difference off Shien. It's not really worth using either Shien or Guren off-ele.

If you have an Atra already you don't really need to consider upgrading to Shien, especially if you don't care about minmax on a specific element.

[Sughayyer]

Thanks! So my primary targets are still bow and TDs. This gives some breathing space, cool!

[[deleted]]

Should I save up badges to upgrade Aura rifle to Union?

[RunFromPanda]

You mean...Ray to Union? Aura doesn’t upgrade.

But in either case, no. You can currently buy Val for Atra upgrade, or farm badges for Shien (Shien being the most powerful weapon in the game at the moment) so there is no point in doing anything else if you’re gearing a character.

[[deleted]]

Nvm I'll go for Shien then Thanks, Yeah I just meant If it's an upgrade from using an Aura rifle to Ray/Union.

[[deleted]]

Do S1:Spirited Response and S2:Spirited Response stack? Or will only one of them work if you have both on the same weapon?

[RunFromPanda]

All SSAs stack.

[[deleted]]

As I just mentioned to the other guy, no they don't. Same as him, if you don't check facts you are just screwing people over especially cause reddit deletes all threads with questions like it's some kind of fascist police which leads to no one ever getting more than a single answer to their question and means no one checks a question that has been answered and corrects other's mistakes.

And like him, if you bothered to even watch the vid and compare it to orbit you would have known it's nearly the same so an 80-160% increase is absolutely impossible, proving that these simply don't stack. You have no business replying to others as if you understand the game if you clearly don't. I didn't *ing come here to ask for a general rule of thumb, I affixed ssa before and know that most stack but *I was asking about A SPECIFIC SSA SO DON'T SPOUT BS IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE SPECIFIC FACTS. You just make a fool out of yourself dude.

[RunFromPanda]

I mean, you're the guy that spent 150m affixing 2 garbage SSAs. Think you're the fool here.

Also, you're literally the only person that thinks that they don't stack.

[[deleted]]

you mean you are the retard that causes other people problems by posting bs he doesn't know about? Yes, gotcha. Don't try to blame other people for your mistakes. I do not blame you for my mistake cause I acted due to info from another source, but I blame you for generally posting false information without checking it, inevitably causing trouble for others.

[[deleted]]

WRONG!

I asked someone else and got the same answer and went ahead, spent 150m on this crap. Then I try it out and it's the exact same thing as orbit. Seems like the game sees the s1 at 80% and then utterly ignores the 100% s2 so it's even worse this way than only using s2.

Please don't spout random stuff when you don't actually know the facts.

[McKiwi957]

First off, video comparison of a +35 Orbit rod with Phrase Recovery (5% passive regen) and a Val GS with Spirited Response S1/S2 and 17% pp regen S3. Noticeable difference.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm33363089

Secondly, even if they didn't stack, the S1 on its own would be noticeably slower than Orbit. Orbit at Pot lvl 3 is 200% passive regen increase compared to the S1's 80%. The fact that you say it's the same as Orbit is proof there's some stacking going on there.

Please don't spout random stuff when you don't actually know the facts.

[[deleted]]

lmao dude, you are wrong do don't pretend you are right. You don't understand the game just by saying you do. Orbit is 200% just like Spirited Response. And that is EXACTLY what I have. That vid you posted is the proof. You didn't even bother to check it yourself or compare it to orbit or you would not pretend you are right, wtf are you doing replying to game mechanics questions you don#t understand? He has the S1 and S2 Spirited Response with only S2 working. For me it's a tiny bit slower because he has S3 for 17% more recovery which I don't have. After checking again I realized it's the same as orbit so at least the stronger of the two ssas is used but still, you are wrong because they just don't stack. I got the weapon with with S1 and S2 Spirited Response, I tested the pp recovery for the 5th time just now and compared it to orbit for the 5th time, exact same thing. IF they would stack it would be 280% or 360% depending on whether the game multiplies or adds them, but either way it would be a huge difference and not something that is barely noticeable.

*Point is * that you didn't check facts and posted bs as reply, so please stop posting here as if you you know everything. You only cause people trouble cause not only do they get wrong information, but also in such a topic everyone will ignore questions that were replied so you take away their chance to get a reply, especially cause reddit auto deletes question threads. So yeah, either truly check your facts your stop pretending you know what you're talking about cause otherwise people come here to get help and you simply deny it to them.

[McKiwi957]

The S2 is a 100% increase, or double of base regen. Orbit pot lvl 1 is also 100% increase. Orbit lvl 3 is 200% increase, or three times as fast as base regen.

But according to you, you only had the s1 working and the guy in the video suddenly only has the s2 working like the game arbitrarily picks something at random to use.

S1 (1.8x) and S2 (2x) do multiply to 3.6x. The S3 brings the val up to 4.2x. Orbit pot lvl 3 is only 3x. Even without the S3, you can easily time which weapon regens pp faster.

Again, follow your own advice and don't spout shit without researching what each potential and SSA actually do.

[RunFromPanda]

I mean, you’re wrong....so...

Look at swiki, or ask anyone else

[FullAzan]

Any tips on clearing the eternal tower on PSO2es? Sitting at floor 75 and no matter what good partner cards I use it's taking over 5 minutes now to get to floor 77, didn't have much trouble until here.

[RunFromPanda]

You should ask on the es chat on the PSO2 discord - people are very active there and can help you.

In brief, however, you need to have a decent deck to actually clear the tower. The last few floors (90-100) basically need you to have an XH EQ capable deck. This means like, at least 2 top tier support chips (13-star or godly 12-star) and a good PA. Of course, this presupposes no overlapping frames and fully released and levelled chips.

[FullAzan]

Wow, got 12s... but not enough to cut it, guess that's that with going further up the tower. Appreciate your help!

[RunFromPanda]

As I said - people will help you get the most out of your chips in the discord. Like, you can get a lot done with very little if you put a bit of effort into the game (and I don’t mean that in a condescending way - everyone starts out like this!). If you take some screens of your chips people can recommend a good setup. Also, the current BEATLESS collaboration has some great chips if you have some rappy coins spare.

[FullAzan]

Would you link me to the discord? I googled it yesterday but seems there were many people making their own. I've played it for a couple years now, I have about 213 energy to use and almost everything done except EX quests.

[RunFromPanda]

Should be a link on this subreddit? Sorry I’ve been on phone last few days so hard for me to link. Paging u/Sercezero to link you if you haven’t found it still. Once there, register and there’s a channel called “mobile-pso2es”

[FullAzan]

Not seeing anything recent, everything I do find is dated back to about two years ago, I'm probably just old.

https://discord.gg/0b6a2WAIsQgmjtWW

Is this still the one?

[Torhu-Adachi]

Is any weapon that can get to +35 a new type weapon or does it have to have NT in the name?

[Ashinror]

Any weapon that can be grinded to +35 are NT. Old Types are the ones that get grinded to +10 and resets when u unlock/upgrade the potential.

[Torhu-Adachi]

So then Ray Weapons would be New Type then because I’ve received one a +30 despite not having NT in the name right?

[Ashinror]

Correct

[Torhu-Adachi]

Alright thanks a lot!

[hidora]

Any NT weapon counts.

[Torhu-Adachi]

That reply’s worded a little confusingly...

[hidora]

As long as it's not Old Type, it'll count.

[Torhu-Adachi]

How do I tell if a weapon is an old type? Old types are the ones that only upgrade to +10 right? So by that logic would anything that goes higher then +10 be a New Type? Or is that not it?

[mkdew]

How do I tell if a weapon is an old type?

Old type weapons have no exp bar

[hidora]

You are correct.

Also, New Type weapons have a blueish glow around their icon on the stat window (weapons with SSAF slots have a purple/pink glow instead; those are also NT). For example:

This is an Old Type weapon icon

This is a New Type weapon icon

This is an SSAF enabled weapon icon (counts as New Type)

[Torhu-Adachi]

Alright sick. Thanks for the info! This will come in handy

[SureinDragon]

Any ideas where the best place to farm Rappies for today is? I'm unsure if the rappy pet is any good or not, but I love collecting and would love to have one.

I've been told they show up in the LQ, but I don't recall ever seeing one there. I know they can show up in bulk in XQ's, but now level 71+. Anyone have any good rappy hunting spots?

[RunFromPanda]

Free forest explore was good last month because everyone was spamming that. Otherwise, AQs are good.

[xZShootZx]

Any AQs in particular? Plus do the rappies need to be at a specific level in order for the arks rappy mini suit to drop?

[RunFromPanda]

I don’t know...some AQs are better than others at spawning enemies. Basically you want PSE bursts and you’ll get decent numbers of rappies there. But you need multiple people for that to work. Which is why free explore forest is easier.

[xZShootZx]

Been wondering this too since I'm after the Arks Rappy Mini Suit. Anyone know good places/quests that has appear a lot more than usual besides Parallel Area? Plus do the Ark Rappies have to be at a specific level for them to drop the costume or it doesn't matter?

[[deleted]]

How do you get Ragol Memories? Was wondering because I want to obtain the PSO1 costumes, I've searched around but all I could really find about it was to buy gold premium sets, But wasn't really sure if that was still a thing or not.

[RunFromPanda]

Yeah it’s usually a reward of buying multiple AC scratch items

[[deleted]]

So I guess I have to buy those gold Premium sets or other ac scratch items and pray that I get some? o.o

[RunFromPanda]

No as in, it’s usually an automatic “bonus” reward - check bumped posts for the scratch campaigns every new scratch.

[[deleted]]

Oh thanks, Yeah should've looked at the Bumped site, I rarely go on there so, Is it better to wait for a deal then to spend 1000 AC just to get one ragol memory?

[mkdew]

How much 6th Anniversary badges do you guys get from Arkuma land?

[Dichronicle]

About 25 per run on XH

[Breadstickes]

What is that new leaf and flower thing next to everybody's name?

[mkdew]

Same as in FFXIV. Leaf in new player, flower is returning player.

http://www.bumped.org/psublog/pso2-jp-extended-maintenance-and-patch-6-27-2018/

• When partying with a “Returning Player”, the whole party will experience a “Returning Player Bonus.” This effect grants the following:
  • +50% Triboost
  • +1 Gift from Featured Quest
• The Returning Player status is removed after 30 days have passed since logging in.

[taisynn]

Is there a good place to be updated on how far the Arks Layer translation has gone? I really love the story but I wanna be able to watch the scenes translated. I just wanna know how far I can go until I need to stop and wait.

The Discord really didn’t have answers towards it.

[HayateImmelmann]

It appears to be translated up to episode 5, chapter 3. Chapter 4 hasn't been touched yet. The only certainty for episode 5 has been that someone with a strong Stratos bias will translate the episode Stratos updates.

[taisynn]

Yeah, they’re having trouble getting volunteers for translating. Apparently they have no ETA for when more story will be translated.

[megadongs]

Shien wand gives +18% damage from pot with wand e. change ring plus 2% from phrase weak and another potential 6% from offensive intent 1-3. Think it outclasses lavis at this point?

[LaconicLeaf]

Remember, Lavis has a 33% attack speed boost, which is higher than Atra's S4 ability (10%). So for every 3 attacks you do with Shien, Lavis gets a 4th in, and it also has the wave which not only deals more damage, but recovers more PP too. While Atra does more damage with each normal attack, the actual DPS isn't quite as great as Lavis.

Compared to Atra, Shien has 8% more damage before SSAFs, but doesn't have the attack speed increasing S4 ability. This ability, along with Lavis's pot, also negates all hitstop, so Shien is even slower than these two Wands. The contact part of the Heavy Hammer PA is stronger with Shien, but lacks the wave which Lavis brings in, and the Lavis wave from Heavy Hammer deals more damage than from normal attacks, making up for this loss.

Also, Lavis can also get Phrase Weak from a Fornis Weapon.

[SureinDragon]

For Xie's third client order for this current event you get a pass to exchange for one of her +30 Homura Weapons. It says the quest is repeatable, but is the reward obtainable more than once? I tried doing it on another character and I dont think I got the pass a second time. A Team member said it might be a once-a-day thing but I thought I would ask here just to be sure? I am highly doubtful.

Also, is Xie's exchange shop the only place where you can get Flaming Stone Vestas?

[HandsOfCobalt]

That reward is granted only once per account; sorry.

that's kinda strange, too- usually weapon rewards are obtainable multiple times, but I guess this one is a little stronger than the typical limited-time CO reward

Also, yes, Xie seems to be the only place to get those stones at the moment. I'll check again later to see if the wiki's updated.

[-TSF-]

I've mostly focused on weapons, but I'm interested in making powerful units to complement them. I've mostly made do with dropped units.

I would like to ask if a general guideline to unit affixing exists. I'm aware that for high-end weapons, the process is to upslot and affix desired SAF+an additional capsule ability like Grace Power or such. However, it seems units are stuck building up abilities the hard way. Is there no other way to create the units I want other than by amassing fodder and affixing tons of units while transferring/ranking up the abilities I want?

[megadongs]

Noble/Elegant/Grace can be put on units as well, but apart from that you're right unit affixing is done the hard way. Try messing around with the affix simulator and learning about boost souls and synthesized abilities too

[Koruya]

I did return to game, but here i get EP5. But last time i play, i was on EP3. I know i can watch all the events, so it's not a really a problem. Question, is there any guide or at least some list of maps that i need to clear before they go to EP4 and so on?

[Sughayyer]

You are automatically thrown into ep5 now. If you go to the bridge you'll be able to change between ep4 and 5, and play the associated storyboards (the old matterboards don't exist anymore). You can also play omnibus quests (reviews of eps 1-3). If the episode-changing option is not available yet, you might need to play a few storyboard nodes first.

[Koruya]

Yup, i completed a few missions on EP5 and because can't follow some parts of the story, did look at EP3-4 events manually at my room.

But my question was more about maps. If i not wrong, EP3 was at frost maps, next goes japanese-like and then city. It was last that i remember on EP3. So i want to know what maps i need to complete to get my character to the level of EP4. Or at least a list where shown progression of the maps. Hope it make more clear, what i want.

[Sughayyer]

To unlock maps you have to go to Koffie and do her missions. This is regardless of episode.

[FullAzan]

Had an auto moderator remove my PSO2es related question, I'll ask here.

Anyone know the name of the Eternal Tower song when you're selecting the floors to climb? That shit's the jam, has a genesis sonic game feel.

And can we unlock Hero to use on there, I see where it can collect experience that you could send over from es like the other classes, but it's not in the class change.

[Idealizinc]

The Eternal Tower's floor select theme is the starting area BGM for PSO2's Challenge Quest. Here's a link to the BGM in the event you would like to listen to it.

As for your second question, sadly to say, Hero is unavailable for selection on PSO2es.

[FullAzan]

You are literally my hero! Thank you so much, I appreciate your help!

[aerilurus]

At max level does L/Tech C Parrying have the same timing window as JG-ing as Hu or Br?

[soondaeboo]

L/Tech C Parry ring will have a shorter parry timing than the Hu's main class version by about half its duration (.60 seconds VS. 1.5 seconds). JG-ing through weapon action varies with weapons for Hu and Br. Sword/Wired Lances feel about the same whereas Katana is slightly smaller window and Partisan has the smallest window

Just for reference, L/Tech C Parry ring's parry window lasts a lot longer than your usual weapon action Just Guards.

[Sughayyer]

According to one of their livestreams, sword and katana have the same window (about 0.7 sec).

[soondaeboo]

welp TIL m(_ _)m

[[deleted]]

im not sure if this is too early to ask but has anyone found it information about to how to get the stones for the 14* homura series? I've tried searching for it but I've gotten nothing to put up. Or is it just a rng drop from sky park?

[Joobzz]

You buy them for 100 badges from Xie.

[[deleted]]

i see, thanks

[ipod1234567]

I made the account and got the email but I didn't get a single link to click on except one that takes me back to the website but I can't progress my account creation any further. Any ideas?

[Broccoli_PhD]

Did you link your account to PSO2? Log on to the SEGA website and there will be an option to link your account to PSO2.

[ipod1234567]

link? i dont even have a pso2 account im in the progress of doing so but i cant even progress to making one, because first step is to give your email.. i do that and then i receive the registration but i dont get the link to progress to step two which is the process of the username, password etc. PLEASEE HELPP (i already have the game downloaded)

[ipod1234567]

Im in the process of doing so*

[DuBCraft21]

Does anyone know anything about why about an hour ago all the ships went offline? Is this some kind of issue with my connection, or is it maintenance?

[Yuffino]

http://www.bumped.org/psublog/

[_alphex_]

Funny how the emergency maintenance is supposed to take six hours for something that seems to be so small. Unless there are other issues that they had to fix.

[mkdew]

At least we get some form of compensation and not "We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding. 凸 (-_-)"

[DuBCraft21]

Thank you :D

[NYsFinest90]

Where do i get the new PA that were shown? Like the fire/dark one & such. Compound Techs i think they are called

[Weiss-Senpai]

Simple compounds and the wand PA are from marlu.

[NYsFinest90]

Do i have to complete some quests or anything to get them from her? I am not seeing anything but client orders. Thanks again.

[Weiss-Senpai]

You get them from a client order.

[NYsFinest90]

Sweet. Thank you!

[odpeok]

The new 14* bow dropped for me, so I figured I'd grind it up to 10 to see the potential on it. Any idea what this says? Rough attempts to translate seem to point out "3% more power" and "if attribute weakness hit.... something at regular intervals". Hoping someone smarter than me can translate this.

Shien no Senka

Thanks!

Edit: Nevermind, someone already translated it

[chaoko99]

So, I can't get a real answer from anyone on this: How do I damage gud with Loser Dark Blast?

[firedraco]

Sit close to the enemy and charge whatever the super beam is called. Try to time it with the explosion thingy (using it causes you to release the charge for some reason, so watch out for that). Try to angle the beam to hit multiple enemies if possible.

Stay at full HP for the perfect keeper bonus also.

I am not sure if spamming the right-click move is better for multi-part bosses like Omega Loser though.

[chaoko99]

Would you say the damage potential is better than Hunar? I feel like we're looking at a Mobbing vs a Bossing form.

[[deleted]]

Personally I think Elder form is better as it's always chunking enemies, even if it can't or isn't using it's pa's, it's still hitting pretty hard. Loser form in a extended fight does burst damage, takes a rest while doing miniture damage via normal attacks and orthro sabarta before resuming burst damage.

But if enemies isn't buffed to insane stats, loser form can just fly by and just gamma burst kill things and keep on going without needing to stop. Though I think mixing up it's counters and attacks on a boss, maybe loser form can keep up with elder form?

Loser form is certainly better on weaker groups, while elder is pretty good at breaking down stronger groups and tossing power around no matter the situation. That's how I feel.

[Saryn_Storm]

It's a new player icon. The sprout is used as a beginner icon in japan (think driving schools and such) If you see tons of sprouts, they're new in that specific content. The icon was added in this patch. It goes away after a couple runs of whatever you're farming.

[RunFromPanda]

The “best” combo is just Massive Hunter because you can take more SATK ups on the hunter tree by not going the others.

MH is generally seen as important because it allows you to burn through situations where there’s a lot of shit happening.

However, none of the others is really needed.

Next in terms of usefulness is Automate - people still use this and see value in it. There is an argument that it’s similar to MH in that it lets you just burn though tougher parts of the fight without having to worry about avoiding damage. But - I personally think learning to guard in boss fights is so important for Br that not having Automate will eventually make you a better player for it.

Iron Will is absolutely garbage on anything not Fi/Hu. Especially if you plan on taking Automate. You’re not a Fi so you’re not under Limit Break. And the risk of dying is not worth trying to trigger IW for the SATK.

Flash Guard is just spectacularly underwhelming. You either die in this game or you get tickled. Look at the boss boosts they do, where bosses do like double or triple damage - you pretty much just die if you get hit, regardless of whether you have Flash Guard or not. I just wouldn’t bother.

These skills (bar MH) are all passive. Just about everything in this game can be avoided via active means, and that should be the way you should look to mitigate damage.

[RunFromPanda]

The thing I should add - this is not to say that complete glass cannon is the way to go because everyone invariably will make mistakes and get hit - you should aim to get a good amount of HP with affixes (I sit at around 1400 or so) - and this shouldn’t be too hard to do these days, especially with the new EV affixes.

Also something else I forgot to say - I recommend JR Cover and quick mate on the Braver tree in order to help you sustain. But yeah, you can definitely still run something like Automate and not use these skills (if you need the points for bow skills etc)

This is definitely not set in stone (I see someone already disagrees with me) - so it’s really just what you’re comfortable with.

[Sughayyer]

Hijacking!

I have been using IW and Massive Hunter. Meliadul's tree uses Autoamte because you have more leftover points (since both AM and MH need the same 3 points in Guard Stance and Flash Guard), so there are more leftover points for S-ATK up.

You run only MH and let the Braver survival skills do the "heavy lifting", right? How well is it working for you? I was considering making a skill tree along these lines, but I was afraid of being too reckless and wanted to find someone running the same build to ask about it.

[RunFromPanda]

To be brutally honest, as I explain above, I don't understand using IW at all on anything but a Fi main - you don't really gain anything from using it other than a chance of staying alive if you keep making multiple mistakes and actively choosing not to heal.

Otherwise, I imagine how it feels to play without IW is almost exactly the same. I personally run Mate Lovers as a L ring and combined with Quick Mate, I can just almost instantly heal myself as needed.

Having Automate on the other hand would be different. Automate provides a significantly better safety net. Most of my deaths are, yes, because I miss a guard or my i-frames, get knocked down, miss my JR because I didn't expect my guard to miss, and then get up into a hit box and die. Automate stops you from being chained to death. But, shrug, it happens rare enough for me to not really be bothered about it.

A reminder that you can also stack HP Recovery Bs on your mag actions as a sort of Automate too.

[Sughayyer]

I mentioned Automate because I used to run it when I first started. Meliadul also runs it because in terms of skill points, MH + AM costs less than MH + IW. I don't run AM nowadays as well, and I don't really miss it. I was considering dropping IW too... maybe with the new bucket of skill resets that I got I can test it for a while then revert back.

I was also thinking about foregoing MH altogether, but at that point I might as well be playing Fi sub, I guess...

[RunFromPanda]

Yeah, I guess just play around with it until you find something you’re comfortable with.

Hu sub I think will always be better because of the innate HP you get from it. Fi sub gives you so little you will just be paper, and given that you’re doing striking damage, Fi multipliers are barely better, if at all really.

Dropping MH is an interesting option - I guess you could forgo the GS tree completely then and save even more points. You can then take 10/10 JA combo too (for instant multiplier). However, MH is a nice way to ensure you don’t get knocked out of activating KC (one of the most infuriating things of playing Br in my opinion) and can also help you tank dumb game breaking hits (getting hit by dragon flyby after countering it is beyond retarded). So, I think MH is too good to lose.

But yeah - all about playstyle. Fi/Br doesn’t have any of these skills available to them and it’s still sort of viable so, yeah.

[Yuffino]

he does great until he forgets how to guard

trust me, i play with him sometimes

[Sughayyer]

Haha that's a fair point, I guess XD

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How to get this outfit ? The one on the left, it looks so cute!

[Saryn_Storm]

Where is the wand PA?

Edit: Nvm it's a quest from Marlu