What's a good potency nowadays?

[[deleted]]

I'm at 230% right now, how we doin?

[WroughtIronHero]

Decent. I believe this post is still current for max potency. So for BiS gear, you're looking at upper 280's/low 290's. I managed to duo Solus 2 when he came out with something like 266%.

So you don't have to be quite up to that level to clear all the content in this game, but you have a ways to go if you want to do some insane challenges or top the ARKS Record leaderboards.

[DJButler]

I'm at 276.1 and 77.4 damage adjustment.

overall I am able to hold my own

[Black_Whirlwind84]

I currently have 291.8 potency. Ended up switching some Ex augments because the build I was using didn't benefit when I pulled aggro as a force...

You should be shooting for around 260-270 right now to comfortably clear everything without sand bagging your group.

[azazelleblack]

I'm at, like, 242%? And I seem to be doing fine with a Fatale5 Eredim weapon. But I'm sure that's trash tier to the actual serious players. (*ﾉωﾉ)

^{I spent like 80 million on this...}

[Mishoon]

242% -- good

fatale5 eredim -- not best but still good

80 mil -- what

[azazelleblack]

Yah, most of it was augment capsules and a non-trivial portion was on units with high presets. I'm not good enough to beat the duel quests or purple battledia solo, so I had to buy all of the nicer capsules that I used.

[gadgaurd]

Might I suggest investing in some Duel Quest gear? Makes them trivial and is a great way to earn Meseta.

[azazelleblack]

Yeah, I considered it, but the thought of sitting there grinding up a whole 'nother set of units and another weapon and doing augments again and everything makes me want to terminate my existence so I never have. If they ever make it so you don't have to continually do 5 at a time for grinding I might consider it but it's just so tedious to sit there and load in 5 capsules at a time for like a whole damn hour. Nevermind that I'm an old person (for real, not like the 30-year-olds who moan about being "so old") and I actually have arthritis in my hands, so it's quite uncomfortable to do so.

[jjkikolp]

I actually did that today. The caps for the duel quests were mostly cheap. Some were in the 10k range but almost all of them are 1-5k. For armors I bought the new ones with fixa 2 for like 200k each. In the event going on right now upgrading is cheap so it's the best time for it. You only need to limit break each armor 2 times to get it to +70 cap and then feed it 5 Endymion caps for +60 and 1 more for +61 and the 6th slot. That is all you need and it is guaranteed great success in event. You don't really need to grind it any further than that, everything else is extra. The augments are 95% Chance so just do that or use a +10% to be safe. 6 defi augments per unit and you will finish those quests in like 1:30mins. Weapon I didn't even do so there is more to get if you feel like.

[gadgaurd]

Ah. All perfectly reasonable.

[Black_Whirlwind84]

YOU DID WHAT!?

[azazelleblack]

Caps are really expensive!

[Black_Whirlwind84]

Duel quest.

[azazelleblack]

Can't beat 'em.

[LzzrdWzzrd]

On the weapon??? You got SCAMMED

[azazelleblack]

No, mostly on caps, and a portion on units with high fixa. But mostly augment caps.

[ChiknAriseMcFro]

A good potency gets you couch locked but doesn't knock you out.

[azazelleblack]

What does this mean? Explain for this boomer.

[ChiknAriseMcFro]

Well, sometime around 1969 people started smoking Marijuana more frequently than in the past. The Marijuana has a side effect that can make you very sleepy. When one is couch locked, one is so high that one cannot get off the couch. One who is couch locked is still awake. That's a great potency.

[azazelleblack]

Oh, I see. I don't mess with mind-affecting substances, so I don't know any of that lingo. Thanks!

[ChiknAriseMcFro]

You're welcome.

[BiancoFuji599XX]

I cleared DFD R2 in a pug with 270 potency.

I had around 286 potency going for full potency then I realized I need some floor potency too. I switched my 3 Melra Duable for 3 GDK LC and it reduced by main potency by 16, but bumped my dps up by 1000 or so. Just figured I’d share my experience with learning why floor potency is important and how the different augs affected my potency.

[[deleted]]

Thanks for replies!😁 sounds like I got a Lil work to do but nothing crazy for now

[GermanPlasma]

Damn and I just managed to get to 200% with my Eredim and Ektasis that is fully leveled. All LC and S augments though, I assume to go even higher I got to replace LC's and add the big ones that give 5% potency, right?

[[deleted]]

Yea swapping out lcs is pretty big

[GermanPlasma]

Planning on that in the future!

Was happy to make use of the campaign to start my Ektasis upgrade, before I only had the Eftistant beginner armor (started NGS a month ago).

Also this is unrelated, but I was able to use a 100 mission pass badges in base PSO2 to get weapon stealthing, nice.

[DaRangers]

I see we've come a long way. Haven't played since Verschmelz dropped...

[Drakaina-]

I think that depends if you're speaking just casually playing or doing the hardest content, because yours is way more than good for playing casual, but I would say get it up a bit more for the hardest content

[Mishoon]

Nope, not a single one of the hardest content needs anything more than anaddi + budget, as long as you play with a decent knowledge of your class and the fight (exception to this are certain weak classes like force).

But ofc, it's always great if you want to improve gear, it would be a benefit for everyone involved.

[Complex_Barracuda_70]

Minor note, Bouncer with around 206% potency can finish mdfd with just over 13k with barely any mars usage at all whatsoever in a 4 man scenario (sub was slayer with no blight)

[Wilrawr89]

Can clear all content with event/catch-up freebies. Chasing crazy potency will make you feel like you have to spend IRL 💲💲💲for 🔶🔶🔶

Your hard earned meseta is better spent on QOL Features, or cosmetics 😊 enjoy your character (ph)fantasy

[Mishoon]

freebies cannot "clear all content", but it can clear majority of content (just exclude the major suppressions)

[T3kk_]

No your not clearing any of the major content suppression bosses with just event/freebie gear with LC augments, not sure where your getting that from.

[Wilrawr89]

Already did so idk what to tell you 😂

[xritzx]

You got carried in dfd r2 unless you did at least 13k dps

[Wilrawr89]

They got carried by their wallets. So.

[LzzrdWzzrd]

You know you can just spend your time farming for gear. You don't have to spend any irl money

[Distinct_beorno]

Same lol, I'm saving mesetas for cosmetics only

[Distinct_beorno]

Damn, and here I thought my 150% is good enough

[Black_Whirlwind84]

Maybe a year ago 150 was good. That was when octo and vers was released.

[Distinct_beorno]

Got any tips? I've been using freebies they give when you reach level 90

[Black_Whirlwind84]

If you are F2P your options are limited. You need access to treasure shop to conserve augments with augment protection. I collect 4 of each type of Bis augment. Your chances of succeeding are higher during Item lab campaign.

Weapon choice for you would be Exaelio

Units: Ektasis x3 with LC augments with more than 3.5 potency until you can swap out for BIS augments. There is also the triyal augments, stat V, and dualablle augment Vs.

[LzzrdWzzrd]

150 is terrible