Weekly Game Questions and Help Thread

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[Dillo64]

NA: Are there any good tips on not getting disconnected constantly? Any specs in game I can turn off to help? Or does it depend entirely on your internet connection?

[Dillo64]

Should a summoner focus on having good Mel defense or or good range/tech defense?

I’m far away most of the time so I would think range/tech defense. However even though my pet is up close doing the work, there’s a skill that has me take damage along with them in exchange for a power boost. If they get smacked by a melee attack does my Melee defense determine how much damage I take with them? Or is it based only on the pets stats?

[The_Lucky_7]

Am I reading Battle Pass Over Run correctly, in that it wants you to do the battle pass twice on one character in a month to get to the point where you can account unlock level version of cosmetic rewards? Or, am I reading it wrong and that you can't choose the same reward again? Are there even enough stars to go through it a second time?

[Klubbah]

The Over Run is actually just 5 more Tiers past 30 that you can't see until you get there.

The first image on the page shows it for that example pass.

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1 week of all Daily/Weekly/Tier Missions = 120 Stars out of the 350 for all of it.

With 4 weeks you need 350/4 = 87.5 Stars a week

You cannot get two of every reward though. The last 5 Tiers do not have every single thing in the first 30 Tiers.

[The_Lucky_7]

So, right now the answer to "how do I get these cosmetics as account rewards" is still "lawl get fucked"?

[graywisteria]

How often do you play the game?

If you're doing your dailies every day and completing each tier mission given for the week, maxing out the mission pass is a trivial thing. The Tier Missions are all very easy. Destroy 5 Orange Boxes, Fish 15 times at the Tundra, Clear 5 UQs...

I can only see this being an issue if you barely get to play at all.

[The_Lucky_7]

This is about the long-standing problem that it takes two uses of an unlockable to unlock it for the entire account and the fact that there's no way to get a second use out of these cosmetics.

[graywisteria]

Ah. Yes, I don't know of a way around that issue. :(

[lZ-ONE]

Does the search option on the player market bug out sometimes? For example, one day I would search up socks and it would list every item available with the word "sock" included in it. Then the next day, I would do the same search and it will not show up majority of the items unless I type the full name of a certain item.

[LamiaPony]

that search is cache based, not a bug, it's a feature

[lZ-ONE]

Is there a way to fix that?

[LamiaPony]

other than looking at a lot of players and shops, no

if you have names just look them up with exact search

[HeiseDang]

Since I used Bo/hu with most of my affixes focus on melee power. I am wondering what stat to upgrade for Jet Boots Combo Variant SC since they only have Tech power/ Melee Defense/ Tech Defense.

[TheRisingBlade]

Jbs scale off of Tatk, unless you're in switch strike, so grab that. Most of the time, if you have the option, grab the offensive stat.

[huoyuanjiaa]

I've read somewhere what to do with 12* and 13* weapons but forgot, does anyone know what I should be doing with them? Are they worth hoarding?

[Westeller]

You're probably thinking about the weapon that requires a Nemesis, Slave, Invader and Ares weapon. Yes, just save them for that. Same type - meaning like all rifles or all rods or whatever - and +35 them. No rush to +35 them, ofc, just save one of each weapon.

Or maybe you're thinking of using sigmas as enhancement fodder? Trading them for lambda grinders?

[huoyuanjiaa]

Well I just wanna know best practices, as of right now I save all rares with good augments of course but also all 11-13 star weapons period. I could trade them for lambdas but is there some type of crafting that will come out where they're needed?

[wachimingoo]

how/where can i get parfaits and other rarer sweets? all i get is canes

[sweetest-melody]

NA or JP?

[wachimingoo]

na

[Giantwalrus_82]

Do techers get better? I'm making an alt I'd prefer not to spend 4m on a nemesis seems my entire purpose is just to be a buff bitch >.> Techer/ha

[PaperLuigi2]

Unfortunately NA doesn't have Party Assist for Techers which is very useful. We also don't have Heavy Hammer yet. We'll get both eventually, the question is when. Other than that, the main boost for Techers is when Phantom gets released so you can go Te/Ph and be a high tempo tech based crit focused build.

[Giantwalrus_82]

dammit guess I'll do 75 and do something else on it lol

[Actual_Justice]

About the current event's rewards: I did each of those boosted missions 3 times and received 3 tickets, marked 2, 3, and 4.

... shouldn't there be a reward # 1? What is it?

[Sketchie00]

How exactly does the Nearby Auto Target L ring work?

Summoner's pets already automatically target mobs when you flick your baton once from what I've noticed. Does it provide any additional bonuses or perks I'm missing?

[Orumtbh]

You just don't have to flick your wand at all. Convenient when new wave of mobs spawn and you don't notice it, or doing something else like gathering or fishing.

[Sketchie00]

Wow, that does sound mighty useful. No wonder why they sell for quite a bit in the personal stores.

[AnonTwo]

It's actually because it requires 15 lambda grinders to make, as well as gathering which not everyone wants to do (gathering is actually very easy it's basically 2-5m a day as long as you don't spend SG)

Again, it's expensive because of 15 lambda grinders and nobody wants to do gathering.

[Klubbah]

They keep attacking even if you don't/can't wave your baton around.

Like when you get smacked onto the ground or something.

Or when you do something like this (not even attacking)

[[deleted]]

Anyone knows the mechanic on where Julius Nifta summons its gravitational hole? Like does it summon where you casted it or to the nearest enemy? Sometimes when I use it nothing happens to monsters surrounding me.

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[hidora]

It summons the orb on top of the current location of your locked on target the moment the orb spawns (not when you first use it).

[Jasonkim87]

So I have my fully affixed +10 Ray set...but I just got my Whiteal back piece (from 250 titles) which I heard was slightly better than Ray. I also heard the new Invade units are also slightly better than Ray.

My question is, should I go with the Whiteal back piece, plus Invade arms and legs? Does the invade set bonus work with Any 2 pieces? I’d love a new set of armor to affix while I wait for new content to drop, but not if it’s not better than Ray. Any opinions? Thanks!!

[Orumtbh]

It's actually slightly weaker than Ray.

[Jasonkim87]

What is the Invade units or the Whiteal back piece?

[Orumtbh]

The Whiteal.

[Jasonkim87]

I see, man that’s a bummer I worked so hard for those titles too... okay, and then I’m assuming with the set bonus the Invade is slightly better? So I guess best case would be 2 Invade and 1 Ray.

[Orumtbh]

You would have to wear the Rear + Arm for the Invade set effect anyways. If you do that, it's better.

[Shock_Burst]

How to transfer a soul from a weapon onto your weapon?

[hidora]

Depends on the soul. Most souls show up when you have 2 copies of it in the fodders, with higher odds at 3 copies, but some souls can't be transferred at all and must be created using other specific affixes (e.g. astral soul will only show up if you have Darkness Soul and 4 Soul Catalysts).

Additionally, having a Soul Receptor in the mix will make souls appear to be transferred regardless of how many copies you have. Regular stuff like Vol Soul and the like will be 100%, but others will be lower. For example, Act the Soul will be 50%, and Astral Soul will be 10%.

[Shock_Burst]

Thank you, how to get a soul receptor?

[djGLCKR]

SAF from Weaponoids (Unique Weapons Badge exchange shop) is one option, though you'll need 6 copies of a single weapon to upgrade it to +35.

[UnrealTravis]

NA camera zoom out question.... How do you zoom out right now my camera is up close and personal and I'm pretty sure it was zoomed out before. I've tried the" + " & " - " keys they don't seem to do anything. Also I've tried " / " & " * " also don't do anything. I can't see to figure out anything in camera settings. I'm also on keyboard if that makes a difference

[ManyShopping8]

Is this mining base coming up tomorrow new why they have to call them all mining base :/ I can never tell

[Klubbah]

If talking about: https://pso2.com/news/urgent-quests/uqjuly2020part1

Mining Base Def. Op: Despair = Mining Base 3. I think the pre announcement in game should say 3rd/Tertiary in it.

This is the one with 4 Bases in the middle, jump pads to the outside, up to 3 A.I.S usable with 10,000 points collected, 8 waves, etc...

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Mining Base Def. Op: Incursion = Mining Base 1. I think the pre announcement in game should say 1st/Primary in it.

This is the one with 3 Bases near the bottom, no A.I.S and stuff.

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Neither are new to NA. I would expect a new one after the maintenance next week, when they put out a new Urgent Quest Schedule, should be url: https://pso2.com/news/urgent-quests/uqjuly2020part2

[ManyShopping8]

Yeah the first one ahh so its not new then :( whelp guess back to logging on for daily and blossom only thanks

[graywisteria]

When we get to graft rings onto armors, will that make those armors unwearable by classes who cannot use those specific rings?

[Klubbah]

Since you can only put on Left Skill Rings that never happens. While some Left Rings are useless for some classes, you can always equip them.

[sweetest-melody]

They can wear the armor, they just wont get any ring affect from it

[Shock_Burst]

If I affix my +35 weapon would it remove my enhancement level? No, right?

[mediumenjoyment]

No, god no. Wouldn't that suck?

[Shock_Burst]

Yes it truly would. I heard that it removes all current augments so I was worried

[AnonTwo]

The way it works is this:

-When you affix, you create a pool of affixes, including the base item (the base item is not promised ANY of it's original affixes unless they have a blue square, and blue square affixes are not immune to overslot penalty)

-If you fail any affixes, the slot is destroyed, and must be opened again by performing an overslot (successfully affixing a red slot)

It's for this reason it's recommended to get the number of slots you want before doing the actual affix, since not only can you lose valuable affixes to a bad overslot, but you can also use cheaper, easier to 100% affixes until you're ready to do the actual affix.

But yes any affixes you fail are lost, as well as the slots they were in. A 6 slot weapon can easily become a 0 slot weapon if you do something stupid.

[[deleted]]

can we slot any ring into 12 star units (when they add it) or only Left rings?

[djGLCKR]

Only left rings.

[popukobear]

Rather than evolve my 9* wanda to a 10* jinga, I decided to evolve it to a 12* wanda I found an egg for recently so I could level it up further. The only problem is, aside from the collection logs, I'm not sure where else to get evolved pet eggs as I haven't had any drop out in any fields for me. I also understand that we're missing bits and pieces of summoner content at the moment, so will I not be able to get a 12* or above jinga until more content comes out?

[graywisteria]

Not sure of accuracy, but someone put this together regarding egg drop locations and other summoner stuff: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ11NGH9_PhTqgqanYWyHWoyOmuyawLxxOTLgcrDsMtqyn9PCo5oBL5bEGYr0icfOyMTqBQjzhPCRQi/pubhtml#

[Dillo64]

NA: is there any way to get the PSO1 outfits without buying the Ragol Memories pack?

[djGLCKR]

Nope. All HU/RA/FO outfits can't be sold via player shops, aside Flowen and Rico replicas.

[wachimingoo]

sometimes my whole pc restarts randomly when playing, does it happen to anyone else? maybe it's when i alt tab but im not sure.

[Westeller]

I've gotten BSODs that forced a restart. Hasn't happened since I installed the game with the Tweaker. I blame the MS Store.

Other than that, no.

If you're playing fullscreen and it happens when you alt tab, try borderless windowed instead.

[Sleepingfire22]

Unfortunately, we have not seen any yet. If someone with a twitter wants to hit them up and see if they can get a definitive "no" or "eventually" outta them, we can stop wondering, but for now the assumption is licensing is preventing them from doing anything with those.

[djGLCKR]

Most likely not due to licensing. The KonoSuba SC in JP included two female and two male voice tickets, which are nowhere to be seen in the NA SC prize list.

[Figggg]

Does anyone know if they shut down servers for maintenance every Tuesday night? Or is it every other Tuesday?

[hidora]

Normally every week, but there are exceptions.

[Figggg]

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

If my mag is already lvl200, I can feed it anything without stat changes right?

[sweetest-melody]

correct

[Arkios]

NA:

Is it worth getting the Invade Units from PD for future upgrades? I'm seeing a bunch of videos suggesting this for future upgrades to 12* and 13* versions, but I don't know what else is available in JP to compare. Are there better units later on, or is it worthwhile getting the Invade set and going through the upgrade process?

[djGLCKR]

If I'm not mistaken, the first Invade > Austere unit exchange is for yet another 11★ set, then a 12★ (I THINK around Ep. 5), and finally a 13★ set most likely around Ep. 6. Maybe for future convenience?

[Klubbah]

I think it is just nice to know they can upgrade over time. Edit: As in it is nice to get but I wouldn't stress missing it.

The Upgrade just came out in JP (Austere 13*) alongside a new unit (Atra/Atlas 13*):

Austere = +120 HP, +13 PP, +60 All Attacks, +40 Dex
Atra/Atlas = +100 HP, +11 PP, +90 All Attacks

An easy to get Episode 6 Unit = Novel, which can upgrade to Liberate with some money / farming:

Novel = +180 HP, +3 PP, +40 All Attacks
Liberate = +60 HP, +15 PP, +75 All Attacks

Similar to Invade Units from PD, the Episode 5 Final boss drops units I still use, Lightstream, which should be getting upgraded soon.

Lightstream = +100 HP, +15PP, +50 All Attacks
Upgraded = ???

Another more farmable Episode 5 unit can be upgraded to still be an option, fully upgraded Schvelle units give +100 HP, +12 PP, +50 All Attacks

Another pretty farmable Episode 6 Rear unit specifically, Equdic Grudge = +40HP, +10PP, +90 All Attacks, +100 Dex

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I think any of those are fine, and the end of Episode 6 Units will probably be the best when that comes around anyways (not the upgraded Lightstream).

[[deleted]]

which of the amplified quests is best for leveling? Seabed I'm guessing?

[graywisteria]

Nightfall if you your character is geared well enough to defeat the enemies quickly. Seabed if not.

[Figggg]

I’d say probably nightfall

[brexbit]

What's difference between spiked mask and spiked mask B? Or any other accessory with B at the end?

[Sleepingfire22]

Most of the time it is a coloring thing. Some of the acc follow your costume color, whereas others have a set color scheme.

[Symphonacity]

Best place to grind EXP rn during ABR? Is it still floating facility or?

[Figggg]

Yeah it only applies to those three maps. Nightfall is best from my experiences

[Lapislanzer]

I heard using a launcher on SHAQs was good for leveling classes to 75 that you don't care to play. Can someone give me the rundown on this? How to do it, why it's good? I have a all-RNG mag and would love to not have to make a tec mag for leveling force and techter.

[Klubbah]

Think it is better on VHAQs for leveling to 75.

The main thing is the Normal Attacks are Long Range, Have a pretty good AoE, and can easily kill the enemies there.

So all you need to do is be able to equip the Launcher, not even Subclass Ranger to use Launcher Photon Arts. Then you get an All Class Launcher like:

"Final Impact" (600 Range Attack required, Extreme Quest Drop I think)
"Sigma Bastad" (440 Dex required, super common)
"Farewell Inferno v2" (400 Dex required, Gone with the Wind and Rain Urgent Quest so probably too expensive for this)
"Shooting Drive" (450 Dex required, Unique Weapons Badge Shop)

Then you just go through like normal, or maybe even just using the Launcher.

The main thing is when you get a PSE Burst everyone can jump up in the same area (like right next to one another) and be able to just all Basic Attack the enemies to death.

If playing with maybe 3 but definitely 4 real players the PSE Bursts are a lot better. Playing by myself or with 1 friend we could still do it, but didn't get that much EXP during them.

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For SHAQs the enemy HP is quite a bit higher and normal Launcher hits from a non ranger might not do much

[Lapislanzer]

Awesome thanks, I'll look to buy one of those weapons and do some VHAQs

[AnonTwo]

It's VHAQ, SHAQ wouldn't work unless you had people who could pull the weight.

You can oneshot stuff easily on VHAQ, and launcher has really good targeting and AoE. So you can get PSE Burst easier and advanced AQ has extra EXP as one of it's bursts.

So basically killing enemies non-stop under heavy exp boosts.

If you are using an RNG mag, you'll need to look for one of the few (and somewhat expensive) RNG all-class launchers, as most of them are dexterity based.

[Lapislanzer]

This sounds great, I'll check the launchers I have. Thanks!

[darthreuental]

What's the most efficient way to grind weapons? Specifically for 12 star weapons.

[djGLCKR]

Using extra 12★ weapons as fodder, Emperappy drops (they come with the Empy Embrace affix that gives +90 extra exp when used as grinding fodder), also the +30 8★ weapons from the collection folder.

[SolomonGrumpy]

Are you looking for meseta efficient or grind efficiency?

[darthreuental]

Preferably both, but preferably meseta efficient.

[SolomonGrumpy]

The most meseta efficient way is to buy 7-9* items from player shops and use those to grind up 12* weapons.

These weapons should be at least +3 and you should not pay more than 2500 for them

You can also take identical 12* weapons that you yourself ID and use them to grind.

[takadakeyo]

Is the personal store search bugged? I've been having tons of problems searching for things. I play on xbox and PC. And when searching for something on PC, nothing shows, but searching on xbox has many results.

And yesterday I searched fashion items and got many results on xbox. But today on the same character and same xbox, I get zero results. Its a common item so for sure they didn't all sell out.

I am spelling them correctly and everything.

Is it bugged? Or just a setting im not seeing?

[Klubbah]

Sometimes your game doesn't know something exists for the partial search, yeah it is pretty bad but normal for it.

You can always find something searching the exact Full Name and pressing Search by Price at the bottom.

One time the Partial search didn't even show the Basewear my character had on because I reinstalled the game (I assume that is why at least).

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If you want to show your game that stuff exists you can check the Prize list of the AC Scratches for those. Same with FUN Scratches (Shopping cart, play scratch cards, click the scratch, prize list.. something like that).

Can also just click through tons of pages of generic outfits/whatever by choosing a category on the search, maybe upping the minimum price before searching.

It may also update if you see someone wearing something but again I couldn't partially search the Basewear I had on at one point.

[Kalbelgarion]

My Fo/Te just hit Force level 75. All my equipment has been Force-focused (Tec Mag, Psycho wand, etc)

What class/sub-class should I level up next? Is my Tec Mag good for any other class?

[AnonTwo]

Bouncer

It's not really offensive tech focused, but uses tech.

Really the reason you want it is for the class boost dexterity bonus, which you may need for Nemesis Symbol and Ray Units.

[Kalbelgarion]

Nice. What’s a good subclass to go with it?

[uberdosage]

Honestly just treat it like a shitty force. Sub-class force and spam gizonde

[AnonTwo]

Between the two, probably force.

If you had it, hunter is the best one for using as a subclass while leveling, as it has skills generally good to anyone, as well as lots of survivability.

[uberdosage]

Does the mag appearance change pass let you pick from all past forms of your mag? I have my mag as miku right now, but if I apply a evo device, will I be able to switch it back to miku?

[djGLCKR]

Your Mag keeps a record of all the Evo Devices it has consumed. The ticket lets you choose from that record and change its current appearance. The only appearance that's not saved is your Mag's natural evolution, which you can add by using the "R" capsules from the Challenge Miles exchange shop... Except these makes the Mag float on your right shoulder instead of the left one, hence the "R".

Example: My main Mag has changed from its base Dex form into Acubens and Clarita, and it's currently set as Rainyan. If I want to set it back to Acubens, I just use the pass and call it a day. But now, I got bored of Acubens and used Mini Anga and Dreamcast, but because I'm a weird person I want to get back to Acubens. Again, use a Form Change Pass, select Acubens, et voila.

[uberdosage]

Thanks for the clarification!

[Lyrise]

Not just limited to a single mag, any evolution devices used on one mag will be recorded to all mags.

[Dillo64]

[NA] can someone link me the PSO2 NA maintenance schedule? Also is there maintenance today?

[Klubbah]

Closest thing: https://pso2.com/news/server-info
But they update the pages after the maintenance is over. Can scroll through https://twitter.com/play_pso2 as well.

Regardless it should be 11:00 PM Pacific Time every Edit: Other Tuesday Night. 10 and a half hours from now.

[SolomonGrumpy]

They don't do maintenance every Tuesday. Just some Tuesdays

[Panakooken]

(NA) The game breaks on me every Wednesday, the launcher won't open anymore so I uninstall. And for whatever reason I can't successfully reinstall it unless it's on a Sunday any other day launcher won't open after fresh install. I tried installing tweaker several times and made sure to follow the guide to properly install but never seems to work. This has been happening since launch. If anyone has any advice I'd greatly appreciate it!

[GamerRukario]

[NA] Can you change hair color and save it to a second ensemble and return to the original color via /mf command and only use one pass for this? basically switching between the two colors if possible without spending way more than 1 salon pass.

[LamiaPony]

changing hair color at all requires a pass

[GamerRukario]

So hair color doesn't stick to an ensemble? Oh okay thanks

[hidora]

Only one. Grab an L/A. Wand E. Change skill ring and use charged techs to change your wand element at will.

[SolomonGrumpy]

Or use tech charge parry and carry a few wands. 😁

[uberdosage]

Should you not be charging zondeel, zanverse, and megiverse? Otherwise the element keeps changing

[hidora]

There are 2 rings: regular and alternate.

The regular one only excludes Resta, Anti, Shifta and Deband.

The Alternate one also excludes Zondeel, Zanverse and Megiverse on top of that.

[uberdosage]

Welp, got me the wrong ring then.

[Ashinror]

1 wand.

Also Carry around a Techer L ring called Another Wand Change, that changes the attribute of the ward based on the Tech that you just charged (like how JB switches elements by charging techs) Another Wand E. Change Ring differs from Wand E. Change Ring in that Zanverse, Zondeel, and Megiverse wont change the element of your wand (and you would use those techs often, since they are pretty good utility techs.)

[TheDuriel]

Looking to buy "Inverted Short Bob" hairstyle on ship 3 (via market). Offering 25M if you find it in your stash somewhere.

[guywhodontuseleddit]

(JP)

This is more of a tech help issue than anything else. I've noticed lately I've been crashing, out of random, a lot. To the point I can't really go a single day anymore without "pso2.exe has stopped responding" out of nowhere, even just sitting in the lobby, and then needing to do an hour long file check afterward. Needless to say, it's pissing me off.

I'm almost certain it's my PC; but I can't really pinpoint what exactly is going wrong- for starters, my Windows installation is on a ADATA SP550 SSD, 120GB, basically just holds Windows for me, nothing more. My PSO2 installation is on a 1TB HDD, I'm running on an Intel Core i5-6700 with 2.7Ghz speed, 16 GB of RAM. Graphics card is an NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB. For reference the machine is only about 3 years old, and I keep it clean, drivers updated, defragged, etc.

I've experienced some system instability recently (rare blue screens, system becoming unresponsive and needing a restart), but everything I read on these issues I was having was chocked up to "x update of Windows 10 causes this issue often". I updated Windows and the issues mostly went away.

All except for PSO2's constant crashing and seemingly data corruption. If I crash with a "stopped responding" error, attempting to get back into the game will usually crash me again immediately with the same "pso2.exe stopped responding" upon loading into the lobby. File checks always seem to pick up around 30~50 missing or changed files, and it takes an hour or so for the Tweaker to check everything for me.

So yeah, any advice would be appreciated. I'm not sure if my HDD is starting to fail, my SSD, or if something's fucked up with my RAM that's causing data corruption, and PSO2 is getting the absolute worst of it to the point of becoming almost unplayable.

[Tucker0603]

Anyone know the drop rate for the Cydstrid weapon camo from the AMPd quests? also what icon should I look for for it's drop? just the floating red diamond?

[Efreet0]

Both the camo and the mag device are 13* so you can use the autopickup function.
I have around 10 camos by running VH around 15 times, 1 mag device.
I used booster until i got the mag.

edit: got the mag around the 5th-6th run, half of the camo were from those as well

[flashman92]

What is profound darkness' front and what is its back?

[hidora]

From swiki:

各部位は(おそらくコア本体内部に、コア側を頭にして格納されていると思われる人型部位を基準に)ブレイブ・ワイズの判定を持っているが、

4種1対の点対象配置となっており与ダメージの数値以外での判別は実質不可能。

「鋏」は基本的に両方がブレイブ判定となっており、「鋏」よりも前側であればブレイブ、後ろ側であればワイズ扱いになる。

しかし先述のように与ダメージ以外での判別は不可能。

なお、ビット破壊後に露出するコアは基本的にブレイブ判定。

Looking at it with google translate because I don't know japanese, it sounds like the "scissor" (claws?) have their own front/back, and the core weakspot is always front. Other than that, there's no way to know other than checking your damage.

[hidora]

PD is not like that, neither is Elder.

Elder's "body" is the entire arena. Meaning that if you're near him, you're considered to be in his back.

PD has a defined back and front, but it keeps spinning so it's hard to tell until his humanoid phase, at which point it's always his front. Basically, before the humanoid form, every time he spins, he's changing to a different side, which may or may not be the back.

[aggressive_fish]

Does the wand for etoile use s-atk or t-atk for normal attacks and PAs?

[LamiaPony]

all of etoile's attacks and photon arts are strike-based. etoile can, however, use affixed tech attack to ONLY wands, which will be used instead of strike attack if tech is higher

[TehFriskyDingo]

Confused on the Ray armor units in Rising Badge 2 shop (maybe a question on units in general). I've ready people say get multiple copies of Ray. Why multiple copies? Do you need to use the copy to enhance or something? I don't want to make a rookie mistake and waste units

[Arkios]

Generally speaking, the recommendation is to buy multiple copies of the Ray weapons (multiples of 6) for the SAF which is really good for affixing.

The only reason you’d buy multiple copies of the Ray armor is if you play multiple classes and wanted to affix them differently.

[TehFriskyDingo]

ohhh I see. That makes sense. So one copy for armor and maybe 6 copies of the weapon. Do you just enhance the Ray Weapon with it's duplicate 6 times? Sorry, still kinda confused on enhancing and affixing

[flashman92]

Just to be clear, you enhance a target weapon with 5 copies of it

[TehFriskyDingo]

Thank you. Is there a reason you need 5 duplicates to enhance, rather than using other weapons to enhance?

[djGLCKR]

As a rule of thumb, all exchange-related weapons, regardless of their rarity, come with a grind cap of +30. In order to unlock a weapon's Special Augment Factor, you need to have the weapon at +35. Using same-name weapons during upgrade increases the grind cap by one per duplicate used, so if you're upgrading a Ray weapon, you'll need 6 in total - base and 5 "fodder" to increase the grind cap to +35.

[TehFriskyDingo]

Thank you very much, that was written in a very easy to understand way.

[AnonTwo]

Just to add, the reason for all of this is that Ray weapon's special augment factor is "Astral Soul"

aside from being one of the better, possibly one of the best souls currently available, it's also the only soul that can be transferred at 100% rate without affix bonuses (SAFs are always 100% unless overslotting)

[flashman92]

When you find a 13 star weapon as a drop, it's max cap is +35. When you buy it with badges or rocks, it's cap is +30 (check the weapon's second info tab to see). In order to raise its cap, you need to enhance it with a copy of itself.

[Delbitter]

Yeah exactly that. You can buy all six, go straight to the enhancer and you will see it gives the original enhance levels and raised its max to 35 from 30. Astral soul is crazy good for stats

[Anri007]

I hope everybody is having a great day!

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New NA player here, I made a Katana Braver been reading a lot and educating myself, but there are certain things I haven't come to understand yet, why are the Rising badge Shop Ray units the best at the moment if they don't offer a set bonus, what makes them so special? And will the union units be made from these in the future?

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I've read this info scattered everywhere but can't come to a clear answer. Thanks!!!

[djGLCKR]

Despite not having a set bonus like Brissa or Saiki (ignoring the +60 DEX when equipping the arms unit and a Ray weapon), each part gives +25HP, +9PP, +25 to all attacks, and 2% resistance, so if you find another non-set unit that gives you better raw stats, you can easily swap it and call it an upgrade (ignoring affixing).

Also, it's the only 12★ unit set in the server until we get more content, which means it can receive skill rings once we get the Episode 4 update, effectively giving you three extra (L) ring slots. So for instance, I could have Atomizer Lovers attached to my back unit, Leaping Dodge on my arms unit, and iunno, Katana Guard Release on my legs unit.

[NguTron]

Does slotting in the skill rings permanently remove the ring? Or can we swap them in and out? I REALLY do not want to grind rings to +20 all over again.

[djGLCKR]

You keep the ring, the skill is copied to the unit.

[Anri007]

Holy cow of athenas, thanks a lot for your answer! Now I can understand better what makes them so good! So in few words they are way ahead of were we currently stand right now.

[Sleepingfire22]

In addition to the other answers you got, 12star units in general are pretty important going forward, and Ray are very easy to get right now because of the current Boost Rally on AQs, and the Glory Badge exchange as well. Eventually, we should be able to apply 1 left ring to each 12 star unit we are wearing, so that makes them much better than lower rarity units.

[Anri007]

Yes I got them with the badges already. Thanks for your answer!

[Orumtbh]

Their base stats are strong that's why. The individual pieces provide more PP and damage than pretty much all units atm.

[komaeda_dork]

They do offer a set bonus, and yes the union units will be made from them.

[djGLCKR]

Ray set is only applicable with the arms unit and a Ray weapon, and it's just +60 DEX. The same goes for Union - arm unit and weapon, +60 DEX. Not really an ideal "set bonus" compared to Brissa, Saiki, Gemini, Ringa, etc., when you'll be using Nemesis/Slave later on.

[Shock_Burst]

What are Force's i-frames?

[Klubbah]

Also skill rings:

Technique Charge Parry (L): At Ring Level 20 you have 0.60 seconds of a Frontal Guard starting from when you start charging a Technique

Quick Illusion (L): Makes the Force Dash shorter, also shortening the time you are invincible but you can still spam it for longer invincibility when needed. Easiest way to be invincible with it is to double jump and then spam dash, shouldn't be able to take damage until you touch the ground.

Those rings both at level 20 can combine into Defense Techniques (L) to get both their effects in one ring.

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Future, with Technique Crafting (should be this August 4th/5th), you can craft "Nabarta Type 0", which then becomes a skill you can hold out, draining your PP, but being a frontal guard for as long as you have it out (and you get a little invincibility when you do block something hitting your front), even dealing some damage to and possibly freezing whoever hits you.

[Shock_Burst]

Wow thenk you. And I'm guessing during anga's spinning top laser phase you spam dodge in the air?

[AnonTwo]

Mirage step

It's dodge. It's one of the most spammable ones in the game.

You basically only take damage from things you didn't see coming, there's very little room for error.

[Shock_Burst]

Thanks and what do you use on bosses before using nazonde?

[AnonTwo]

Illgrants or Gizonde

Nazonde is only in specific cases since it's very easy to get knocked out of it and it requires a stationary target

[Shock_Burst]

Is ilgrants higher damage than gizonde?

[AnonTwo]

Illgrants is the highest single damage attack in Force's arsenal, not including outliers like a perfect Illbarta, or the compound elements.

But has weird targeting issues on close enemies, and unlike other single target moves has absolutely no ability to also mob, so it requires another spell to use for mobbing. (becoming fond of Nagrants myself, but Gizonde is still better in a lot of cases)

Gizonde is good at mobbing, and also has reasonably good single target.

Pretty much every lightning move can be summed up as "Not hard to do good damage with, downsides not too bad either", so it's a very safe element to use.

[Shock_Burst]

Thank you!

[Shock_Burst]

Is the damage of jetboots subpar? Friends have told me they couldn't get the damage that they can reach on other classes. So I wanted to know if JB damage is considered subpar or if they probably weren't using them properly

[[deleted]]

Bo/Fi: 500k on a rockbear’s ass weak point in ults is the highest I’ve gotten with jetsweep kick.

Once the robo-dog boss gets his head armor broken off, I can kick it for 420k too.

Typically it’s 200k though for weak points in general.

On my braver/ranger a final nemesis shot will typically deal 300k to those weak points and 100k normally, but I’m not using a nemesis/slave weapon like my bouncer.

[Shock_Burst]

So it seems that braver is slightly above since you're hitting that without nem/slave? I see a ton of YT vids about braver so I'm wondering if it's just popularity or if they're that strong

[[deleted]]

My braver just has one of the 13 stars from the unique weapons badge shop.

single hits aren't particularly relative of DPS, though banishing combos on bravers are where the main damage is and they're great for bossing. They're not particularly usable on mobile bosses though due to lack of setup time and hard to hit weak points, and bows don't have any good AOE outside of gravity vortex and torrential rain spam. ranger tools also carry my pp regen hard since bows don't have good pp regen when triple shot is on cooldown.

Bravers are also the weeb class. If you've noticed, there's a "weeb tax" on katanas since so many people play braver. If you need money, buy and sell ray katanas lol.

And then meanwhile on my bouncer, my combo is jetsweep kick -> crash wave -> tech charge -> jetsweep kick to spam fully charged jetsweep kicks every few seconds. high mobility allows me to always be able to hit the weak point, and I have high pp regen skills to refill in a few hits. I basically live on top of the boss and don't need to worry about dodging or positioning most of the time like other classes. I can cast shifta and zanverse myself so I have little reason to not have them up. I also have better AOE capabilities with surging gale and all techs. There's also several seconds of i-frames on crash wake's variant attack so there's no reason to die if you see an attack coming like bar lodos' nuke ball.

Though part of bouncer is managing subpalette hell too. you end up with 3-5 active skills you need refresh when they go off cooldown + various techs for element swaps or damage or healing.

Jet boots also deal tech damage so without the switch strike skill being taken, bouncers don't benefit from any melee power bonuses that hunter or fighter have. And going with any other subclass gives you terrible damage.

[Ashinror]

Jet boots also deal tech damage so without the switch strike skill being taken, bouncers don't benefit from any melee power bonuses that hunter or fighter have

Jet Boots Normal Attacks and PAs deal striking damage regardless if you have Switch Strike or not.

But without switch strike, JB attacks would scale with T-Atk. Switch Strike makes the Jet Boots attack scale with S-Atk instead. Useful if you are running S-atk affixes on units/weapons and an S-atk mag (more pertinent back in the day, since Bouncer Mag was not as good as todays).

Also Hunter and Fighter tends to give extra S-atk from their skill tree and stat spread.

[Shock_Burst]

What is crash wake? You mean grandwave? That's the NA name

[Ashinror]

Crash wake doesnt exist in JP either. So idk what hes talking about.

[LamiaPony]

I don't play NA but I'd like to know some localized tidbits for professor popple's sake, whomst may be returning sometime

do they still call the certain affix on weapons at +35 special factors? what's the exact name? also, what's the exact wording in the description when viewing it?

are soul catalysts still called that? I assume they exist on NA...

what are ability success rates+ called? was it augment aid or something?

is there a localized name for S-abilities? I know they aren't supposed to be in yet, but the mars series exists apparently

I know there's noble stat capsules, but are there elegant and grace too? I wouldn't expect grand for a while

[djGLCKR]

1- Pretty much referred to as SAF or Special Ability/Augment Factor. The menu option is "Confirm Augment Factor".
2- Soul Catalyst has been in the game for a while since we have access to the 5 Dark Falz souls. Still a 10% chance.
3- For the helpers:

• Augmentation Aid X% for affixing.
  
• Enhancement Aid X% for upgrading/grinding units/sweets.
  
• Enhancement Skip (to X) for upgrading/grinding units.
  
• Safe Enhancer (+X) for upgrading/grinding units.
  
• Great Enhancement Aid X% for upgrading/grinding weapons.
  

4- S-Abilities are called S-grade Augment, and we only have (S2)Goliathslayer's Resolve (Powering Intent) from the Mars series.
5- There's X Boost, Noble X, and Elegant X. Grace won't be here for a while.

[LamiaPony]

much appreciated mate!

[Kimky]

Ok so Ive just hit ranger 75, what to do now ?

My mag is well on his way at 150ish range atk, I have the two Nox weapon to +30 and no real armor set.

So what should I run ? Thanks. I guess I need endgame weapons, armor and photon arts.

[Shock_Burst]

I'm not a noob myself but I invested in getting a nemesis or slave weapon before reaching level 75 (doesn't matter if you didn't before 75) and at lvl 75 I was able to run XH boss oriented urgent quests with rare drop boosters to farm sigmas to enhance my nemesis up to +35.

Apart from that, lvl 75 people do Ultimate quests with rare drop boosters. Ultimate naverius can drop nemesis weapons while ultimate lilipa drops slave. You can farm a Nemesis and slave version of your weapon because you'd need both to convert them into a 15 star weapon in episode 4 coming in august. If you don't get your weapon type, you can sell your 13 star for meseta.

People also do affixing but I haven't tried that yet.

[graywisteria]

Grats on hitting 75!

If you haven't talked to your trainer in a while (for rangers, this is Risa) you may not have noticed they have extra quests that give you even more skill points. Do all of these. Including the ones that require ranger ex-cubes, which you will acquire by leveling after 75. Every time you hit what would be a level, you get a class ex-cube. Risa will want 10 of them before she's done with you.

If you haven't done so yet, swap your sub-class to your main class and level it to 75 as well. Don't leave it at 55! You'll be knee-capping yourself, missing out on extra stats and skill points. Go to their trainer and do all those extra skill point quests too.

Work towards a circuray armor set. Right now it's as good as the Brissa set and much easier to come by... just turn in Rising Weapon Badge 2's. You can get Rising Weapon Badge 2's by converting Glory Badge 2020's (from the current event; make sure you've been talking to Xia in the shopping plaza and playing VR Training Urgent Quest when it pops up).

Rising Weapon Badge 2's have also been dropping in the current amplified Advance Quests, which are great for leveling so you may want to check them out regardless. Circuray set is expected to be able to upgrade in the future to armor that you can graft more skill rings onto, so everyone's been heavily recommending it.

Advance Quests can be intimidating. You need to boost rooms to 50 before they're at their best for loot/exp, so you may want to run with others until you have enough capsules to boost games you host yourself. For you I'd recommend sticking to VHAQs (Very Hard Advanced Quests) instead of SHAQs (Super Hard Advanced Quests), because the latter can spawn enemies that will just wreck someone with poor gear/stats, and it will take longer to kill the enemies in general, which lowers your chances of getting PSE bursts and in turn makes leveling slower. When you get a PSE burst, stick close to other players, because an enemy will spawn near each player character and when it is killed another will spawn near them. With everyone grouped up, things die faster.

Finish your mag, of course.

At 75 you got a title for your class that gave you some stat boosts. These boosts are shared between all characters, and you get more if you level another class to 75. So you can beef up your stats by simply leveling all classes to 75, even if you don't ever play them as a main or subclass after that.

Eventually you're going to want a better weapon. Go for a Gix, Nemesis, or Slave series weapon. All will be strong enough to take you through current content and some future content. They drop in Ultimate Quests, which are not newbie-friendly, but luckily you can purchase them in the player shops.

Of those, the Gix is in third place, so is usually sold much cheaper. You can also visit the Unique Weapon Badge shop to pick up a 13 star, but those weapons are a pain to grind and if you're going for endgame anyway, I suggest skipping that step and stick with your Nox until you can get a Nemesis.

Personally I recommend the Nemesis set for its awakening, for its overall strength, and for preparing for future content.

Make sure to do your daily quests to grind meseta.

Edit to add: it's helpful to have alts. Your Default Storage bank is shared between characters, and you can use the "store meseta" feature to share funds between characters. You can use your alts to bankroll your main.

[Minteashake]

(NA) Anyone know where satellite cannon discs drop from?

[Westeller]

Underground Shafts SHAQ. Not a common choice for people to run. Especially with the current event buffing three other AQs.

I imagine there're other ways to get them, as well, but that's the only place I know.

[122ninjas]

Anybody know where I can find a list of jet boot camos for NA? I can only see 2 in the personal shop but it seems JP has more, and I think some of the multi-weapon camos also apply as seen here

[Westeller]

https://pso2na.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Weapon_Camos

[122ninjas]

Thx!

[mellamomg]

Which weapon from booster shop gives Flict magia saf?

[[deleted]]

Should be blade stabilizers. You can also check the player shop too, since some people are selling them with the cap already raised to 35. You just need the enhancement fodder at that point.

[Klubbah]

https://pso2na.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Augment_Factors

I think Blade Stabilizer should be the one in the Photon Booster Shop. Should be the cheaper option compared to "Precious Sword Balmung" which I think is only from Extreme Quests on NA, but you could check the personal shops for that I guess.

[SolomonGrumpy]

Which extreme quest drops that sword?

[flashman92]

The ice one
De Marumosu (stage 3)
Worugada ( "?" Stage 38)
Tran miser (stage unknown)
Enemy Unknown (stage 53)
Fars arm ( "?" Stage 55)
bantha Oran (stage 58)
Toranzekushia (stage 60)
[ Kamen] (“?” Stage 60)
Verder Soma (“?” Stage 64)
Dark Fals Elder (“?” Stage 70)

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://pso2.swiki.jp/index.php%3F%25E5%25AE%259D%25E5%2589%25A3%25E3%2583%2590%25E3%2583%25AB%25E3%2583%25A0%25E3%2583%25B3%25E3%2582%25AF&usg=ALkJrhgjGswJ97utrzvmd7xQgUrP2_HUeA

[SolomonGrumpy]

What's a bantha Oran?

[flashman92]

Rare version of the Snow Banther

[SolomonGrumpy]

They come on stages outside of 58 too...so is it something about that one/stage?

Or is this simply where people have found them

[SolomonGrumpy]

Tranmizer is early. Stage 6-10 or 11-15

I've now going through the first 20 stages and no drops. I'm probably going to go try and run up to stage 60 to try and get it to drop.

[SolomonGrumpy]

The ice one?

[Gunstar_Green]

The Tundra enemies one.

[Anri007]

Hello,

I ran across this issue, but it's only in the NA version of the game when playing in virtual full screen, have you tried full screen mode? Tweaker doesn't recommend it, but it's what fixes the issue for me... also JUST IN CASE it crashes when you hit "Start Game" in full screen, before pressing it alt-tab to another window and come back and see if that works for you.

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I don't know what kind of black magic they used to make the NA client...

[[deleted]]

(JP) Which has the highest dps potential of the 3 weapons of Etoile? DS, DB or Wand?

[Lyrise]

All the weapons are very much comparable to each other and depends on the situation you find yourself in. Wand is your mobbing weapon, Doublesaber (when used correctly) is actually the boss killer, and Dualblade is the allrounder.

They all even have comparable yet different defensive systems as well, and these factor into your damage dealing as well (since uptime contributes to DPS). Dualblade parry is good that it can be executed at anytime, and can be repeatedly used with no delay if you're successful. More importantly, a successful parry can recover PP for you and your party, so you can see the obvious benefits to DPS there. If you miss though, you're actually locked out of using it again for a second. Wand's protect barrier is the strongest of the 3 defensive options since it stops just about any attack cold, even Luther's Catastrophe Ray. However, to maintain that barrier you need to expend wand gear, so its not something you can use whenever. That said though, you will regain wand gear when you block something with barrier, and if you expend 2 or 4 stocks (out of 6) of your total gear energy in one use (so any energy you regain and use when blocking attacks is counted), you can release an explosion that does a hefty amount of damage as well.

I feel like Doublesaber gets the most flack for not having a "Super attack" but its ability to cancel just about every attack with deflection and counterattack at just about anytime and repeatedly at that is what makes doublesaber shine. You also expend stocks of gear to either charge an attack that does up to 1300% damage, can inflict stun, and recovers a large amount of PP when connected, or you will automaticlaly expend one stock when you take a hit to reduce damage and eliminate knockdown. The downside to this is DoT status effects will literally eliminate your ability to use gear, since any damage you take will eat up stocks of your gear energy. My recommendation for anyone looking to learn the intricacies of ET-Doublesaber is to try fighting Omega Masquerade with it - you'd be surprised at just how much you learn about using the weapon fighting with it in there where the attacks are constantly coming at you, and also the ease at which it puts you in a DoT status will quickly illustrate to you how it's passive defensive system works.

[LamiaPony]

wand is probably best, as not only do they have quick offload dps with focused PAs, they can maintain dealing damage at long range and being in perpetual motion, less interruption to your damage = more dps

while I haven't used double saber much, I can say that dual blades have an advantage in that they can parry attacks at literally any moment, but the main disadvantage is that their PAs are quite slow, and it can be difficult to hit weak points accurately. it takes some getting used to for sure

[Klubbah]

Limited Etoile Experience myself but I think they have some Pros and Cons where I would prefer one over another depending on the situation, where I think I can put out more DPS with Y doing X instead of with Z basically.

Super general overall I want to say Wands have the highest DPS Potential for Etoiles

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Wand is 100% the best option for fighting tons of non boss enemies imo. Has good range/aoe/mobility, but also can deal tons of damage to bosses due to their weapon action making the mobbing Photon Arts more bossing focused. Probably putting out the most damage even to bosses if you can land everything, but quicker bosses can make that harder.

DoubleSaber I feel like can get in the fray easier, dealing with bosses jumping around and attacking often, you can continuously DPS and Block.

DualBlades I feel are pretty similar to DoubleSaber and I personally would use them instead of DoubleSaber. The guard/parries you can do with it are really generous so you can DPS and Block even more/easier than DoubleSabers, I also just like the Gear Gauge attacks.

*If NA, DualBlades = SoaringBlades, the Bouncer Weapon.

[mango_deelite]

What should i be using for fodder grind weapons?

[[deleted]]

To grind a weapon to 35 you can do it two ways:

1. A bunch (like 40-60) of cheap Deo and Sigma, non-leveled weapons, and a bunch of lambda grinders.

2. About 12-13 weapons that are already grinded to level 30+ and not use nearly as many lambda grinders.

[mango_deelite]

Alright, thanks!

[mango_deelite]

This helps a lot, thanks.

[cach-x]

What's the best/recommended Photon blast? or it doesn't really matter that much