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Splash Attack
Mar 23, 2008

Yeahhh!
I am GHOS!!
Haaaaaa Ha Ha Ha!!




Ardeem posted:

Xion has a humanoid body because she found the Photoners facinating and wanted to understand them better, so she made herself as close to one as she could. As for Cabracan and Camelot, well, I'm pretty sure there's a crime involving genitic maniuplaton that VOID didn't commit, but damned if I can't think of one.

Saagonsa posted:

E: Also, specifically Xion's appearance is in the form of the first photoner she ever met

oh yeah, i got that part. what confuses me though is i was under the impression that the photoners died out/were reduced to xion's ocean like the end of evangelion a long time ago, so was that body just... hanging around in the ship's core? honestly i'm not sure why she kept a humanoid body around for so long unless it's because she had an attachment to it or it was helping her pilot or something. it just raises a lot of questions, like did she just hang out in that tube normally or did luther put her in there? it's not really that big of a issue, but it's enough to make me pause for a second to wonder why.

also you would think a sentient planet able to give herself a physical form would be able to also science up some clothes too.


e: why is this the post i snipe with

uhhhhh so for a actual question, did PSO2 launch with episode 1-3 or was each episode added over time?

Splash Attack fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Jun 7, 2020

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Healbot
Jul 7, 2006

very very very fucjable
very vywr very


jokes posted:

Force also gets some interesting skills. One buffs the poo poo out of your PP recovery rate, especially when standing still.

That’s a Techter ability.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Splash Attack posted:

uhhhhh so for a actual question, did PSO2 launch with episode 1-3 or was each episode added over time?

2/3 were added as time went on. 2 was 2013, 3 was 2014.

InspectorCarbonara
Jul 2, 2010

Evening, patrolmaaan.

THE loving MOON posted:

Edit: the other PSO2 anime though, oh man. Literally just a long-form ad for the game, its cute how trashy it is
It is also canon and will matter in future episodes. :getin:

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Re: the guy struggling with Force.
Get charge pp revival asap, let's you cast without stopping your pp regeneration.
After that is the boosts to charged and perfect attack techs, element conversion, then delving into elemental masteries. Once you grab all that stuff and a decent rod you'll be hitting like a TNT-loaded truck.

Kortel
Jan 7, 2008

Nothing to see here.
At level 45, Lightning Spec'd (only 30 points spent, haven't spent recent level ups yet.), I do about 8k-11k a hit with the low level chain lightning spell depending on if I hit perfect or not. With crappy equipment from level 15.

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

InspectorCarbonara posted:

It is also canon and will matter in future episodes. :getin:

Matter is a very strong word

InspectorCarbonara
Jul 2, 2010

Evening, patrolmaaan.

Saagonsa posted:

Matter is a very strong word
i think it's very important to understand the backstory of SOROKING・D

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

For anyone (like me) who didn't know, there's NPC's standing on the steps in front of the mission counter without anything over their heads initially that are like class/weapon trainers that give quests with various rewards. I think the one NPC gives a few quests that give you skill points in your class when you complete it so it's worth checking out.

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

explosivo posted:

For anyone (like me) who didn't know, there's NPC's standing on the steps in front of the mission counter without anything over their heads initially that are like class/weapon trainers that give quests with various rewards. I think the one NPC gives a few quests that give you skill points in your class when you complete it so it's worth checking out.

Every NPC associated with a class gives 14 skill points via client orders and none of them have client orders until you talk to them. Just make sure to talk with every person in the gate area to make sure you aren't missing them. I don't think anyone has no purpose there, either via client orders or a function like the class counter or quest lady.

Surprise Noodle
Aug 25, 2011
I think there's one lady at the medical counter who never does anything (she used to have COs that unlocked the various drinks, but you should be glad that they removed this feature).

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.
Klaris Clase III is useless.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The nurse who gave those COs has actually been completely removed from the game.

Surprise Noodle
Aug 25, 2011
Good riddance.

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

fired for withholding of popeye spinach from ARKS operatives

Bruc
May 30, 2006
Is there any way of raising defensive stats aside from just leveling up? I have a couple pieces of armor that require like 50 more than I have right now. Could I boost some of my other units or something or are the requirements based off of your base stats?.

Diabetes Forecast
Aug 13, 2008

Droopy Only
I honestly can't wait for them to give us more Cast parts. the game absolutely doesn't have enough as it is right now. I got all the gold mission pass stuff and everything, but it's hard to get anything fun (or female cast parts that aren't just horny on main garbage.)

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.
Stats from gear don't count for equipping gear, so you can't bootstrap your way into things you shouldn't be strong enough to equip. You could put the stats on your Mag, but, if you ever want to get those stats back and put them into something more useful when you're higher level, it'd be 300 xcubes to fix.

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

Diabetes Forecast posted:

I honestly can't wait for them to give us more Cast parts. the game absolutely doesn't have enough as it is right now. I got all the gold mission pass stuff and everything, but it's hard to get anything fun (or female cast parts that aren't just horny on main garbage.)

i like the chestpiece of that mission token set for females that has a Sorceress Edea-rear end halo

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
How do I unlock Ep,2

Bloodplay it again
Aug 25, 2003

Oh, Dee, you card. :-*

Bruc posted:

Is there any way of raising defensive stats aside from just leveling up? I have a couple pieces of armor that require like 50 more than I have right now. Could I boost some of my other units or something or are the requirements based off of your base stats?.

Your best bet is to continue leveling your class and subclass. Like Ardeem said, the only other way would be to feed your MAG DEF items and later undo it with MAG level down devices, 5 ex-cubes each, so 250 ex-cubes plus having to wait to feed the MAG. I recommend saving up redeeming dailies/turning in COs after you set your subclass to your main so you can get 100% exp applied instead of 20%. Then swap back to your main class and equip armor/weaps again to continue leveling.

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
Can someone explain what I can use all the different badges for?

I have Rising Weapon Badges (1 and 2), Mission Badges, Recycle Badges (I think that's what they're called), and some colorful badges from the Refer a Friend thing.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

khy posted:

Ugh, this game does not feel easy to get into at first.

I often play mage/wizard types in MMO games and thought I'd roll a force on the #2 ship. It might just be now but force felt REALLY weak to me, like weaker than hunter by a huge amount. I could be doing something wrong, but as my hunter I was hitting for ~300 or so with a normal attack and 350-400 on a perfect attack, but when I used a fully charged up Foie it did ~400 or so. Not bad but it fires SO SLOWLY and uses PP so I have to get up in people's faces to attack and recharge my PP. IDK. Ilgrants didn't seem much better.

I was gonna change class to ranger or hunter for a bit but I guess I only started with Force equipment, so trying to do either of them would be a bad idea (I guess I could be a gunblade ranger but I'd so prefer an assault rifle). I guess I stick with Force for a while until I have the meseta to buy weapons for other classes?

Force is very weak when starting out. Ilgrants is an awesome spell at least but once you get some levels (and gizonde) you'll notice your damage going up. As a Force/Tech setup you can get to the point where you are able to just lay down near-endless spell barrages and since our dodge includes a sizeable iframe window you can just evade through a lot of big hits that are putting others on the floor (or bypass effects like Luther's time freeze). Grab photon shot lvl 3 from your skill tree so that you get more PP when you melee, and your melee fires a shot that lets you hit at range (and still get that extra PP). Tech helps boost regen even more, especially when standing still. Combine it with the "regen pp when charging" and you get a lot more leeway before running out.

Hyper Inferno posted:

Maximum currently is 12 star and you can get those by trading in a crazy amount of Rising Weapon Badge 2s. 12 star ones will be able to slot in L Rings so you can have potentially 4 L rings at the same time so they're worth grinding toward.

It's pretty cheap to grind up units to +5 at least, so I would recommend finding some 10 star set that has a good set bonus (+60 power with 3) and just sticking with that for a while. The Luther set is probably pretty cheap ATM.

Luther set pieces were 60-70k each when I looked a few days ago (and they drop a lot from SH/XH luther) while the set bonus gives +90 or +120 to melee/ranged/tech attack, and +6pp I think? Affix some cheaper +tech and +pp (and maybe hp) to it and it seems like more than enough for most things.

It's possible to farm for Saikai pieces but with how expensive they are on the player market I'd be tempted to sell any that drop and use luther gear anyways.

Tsurupettan
Mar 26, 2011

My many CoX, always poised, always ready, always willing to thrust.

tbh gonna sell all my saiki/brissa and just rock diavo+granpike til ray pieces.

Million Ghosts
Aug 11, 2011

spooooooky
when flipping through anime dress up outfits on the player shops, is there any way to make the preview less tiny and useless? really don't want to drop half my meseta on something that ends up looking like garbage on my character

e: nevermind i'm stupid and didn't realize going a step farther would give you the normal shop preview

Million Ghosts fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jun 7, 2020

Lemon-Lime
Aug 6, 2009
Is there some sort of secret to levelling up fast once you hit the high 40s/early 50s? I've noticed my XP gain has slowed to a crawl, even in SH +50 advance quests.

TalonDemonKing
May 4, 2011

Lemon-Lime posted:

Is there some sort of secret to levelling up fast once you hit the high 40s/early 50s? I've noticed my XP gain has slowed to a crawl, even in SH +50 advance quests.

VHAQ is typically faster for leveling, since the xp loss is marginal compared to the speed you roll through it.
Use your tri-boost/xp boosters, you can get 1x 75% xp booster for 1 excube in the excube shop. You should always be in a party and have your daily boost maxed out as well.

Lemon-Lime
Aug 6, 2009

TalonDemonKing posted:

VHAQ is typically faster for leveling, since the xp loss is marginal compared to the speed you roll through it.
Use your tri-boost/xp boosters, you can get 1x 75% xp booster for 1 excube in the excube shop. You should always be in a party and have your daily boost maxed out as well.

Thanks! Does the boosted level carry over across all difficulties, or just the difficulty you boosted?

Zero VGS
Aug 16, 2002
ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE
Lipstick Apathy
This game cracks me up, living the Casino high roller life in my penthouse:

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Zero VGS posted:

This game cracks me up, living the Casino high roller life in my penthouse:



yo why is the water yellow

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

orange juche posted:

yo why is the water yellow

Full of photons

Surprise Noodle
Aug 25, 2011
That's not water.
It's liquefied Photoner juice from the mothership.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Swimming in tang

TalonDemonKing
May 4, 2011

Lemon-Lime posted:

Thanks! Does the boosted level carry over across all difficulties, or just the difficulty you boosted?

just the difficulty and mission you boosted

Dr. Fishopolis
Aug 31, 2004

ROBOT
i love that they used "dark falz" a name that literally only exists because the sega master system didn't have enough juice to spell out "force"

Zero VGS
Aug 16, 2002
ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE
Lipstick Apathy

Dr. Fishopolis posted:

i love that they used "dark falz" a name that literally only exists because the sega master system didn't have enough juice to spell out "force"

https://phantasystar.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Falz

"also known as Dark Phallus in some Japanese manuals"

Lemon-Lime
Aug 6, 2009

TalonDemonKing posted:

just the difficulty and mission you boosted

:rip: my A capsules.

Dr. Fishopolis
Aug 31, 2004

ROBOT

Zero VGS posted:

https://phantasystar.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Falz

"also known as Dark Phallus in some Japanese manuals"

the heroic story of anime space warriors in their struggle against bbc

Pumpkinreaper
Jan 19, 2010

orange juche posted:

yo why is the water yellow

I really hope that post + screenshot quote get archived.



Also actual content:

Selfie time!:


I'm having too much fun just doing dumb poo poo like this in game and dressing up.

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Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



what the gently caress did you want from me, ARKS Tournament mission? I went to literally every part of the map and killed every enemy I found but the guy at the end disses me and I only get an A ranking?

At least as far as I can tell it doesn't actually matter otherwise I'd angry instead of slightly miffed

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