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Oxyclean
Sep 23, 2007


I feel like they should have left the big sonic statue up.

Said the ARKs rally is over. Whats the best way to level now that the Amplified VHAQ are gone? Is there particular VHAQs that people gravitate towards?

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NextTime000
Feb 3, 2011

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most of us are kinda taking a break right now, but the 8th anniversary event next month coupled with some of us on na getting our characters there to a spot where we can kinda leave them be for a while will probably mean that break will be coming to a close soonish.

there was a jp devstream yesterday morning too, so I guess here's a rundown since I'm here: http://www.bumped.org/psublog/pso2-station-plus-7-recap/

Early July update:

AC Scratch: 2019 Item Design Winners Side-C
Anniversary Limited Quest Part 1: [Special Training: Episode 6]
A quest with 2 paths that need to be handled at the same time; The quest will do what it can to try to scale each path to the number of players taking it.
Drops weapons with S1-S5 abilities on them, as well as some parfaits for summoners.
Also drops a 4-player trigger version of the quest.
Anniversary event quests will drop a new 15★ weapon series; as well as *Coated - series camos for Etoile weapons.

Late July update:

AC Scratch: "Ritual Bride", features Margie's 6-5 outfit, more variants of priest/nun/bridal outfits, and a bunch of episode 5 related stuff I can only assume were cosmetics they originally intended to release through buster quests lmao
12★ Units will become tradable
Anniversary Limited Quest Part 2: [Enemy Battleship Infiltration: Enhancer]
Fight your way through 3 randomly-selected areas and take down the Grav Execour at the end.
Drops 13★ units with S6-S8 abilities on them, as well as a 4-player quest trigger
The Dark Falz [Persona] Emergency Quest, Trigger Quest, and Rematch Trigger will have Ultra Hard difficulty added!
Lightstream Xion units will be upgradable to a 13★ version
The final phase of the [Persona] Rematch Trigger on ultra hard will be different...
https://imgur.com/ivfuMG6
https://imgur.com/cooxgub


Early August update: (update series title: "The Profound Darkness, The Great Light")

AC Scratch: "Exotic Revelry", features requested gender-swap outfits Gothic Maid Dress M and Noble Long Coat F
Story Chapter 6-6: Episode 6's Final Chapter is here!

Latest updated PSO2 JP Update Roadmap:

PSO2 2020 Roadmap posted:

Summer

ARKS Connect Memories 8th Anniversary Event

August ~ September

EP6 Final Chapter
New Raid Boss and New Raid Quest
Summer Event

September ~ October

Fourth Successor (Scion) Class
New 12 Player Emergency Quest
New Advanced Pet

October ~ November

New Extreme Quest
Highly Difficult Solo Quest
Divide Quest Expansion

Afterwards

Instead of a new episode, we'll have a Gigantic New Update

End of Stream teaser: This September, That which the Photoners sealed away seeks to return....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXEdVi3-PuQ

Combat Lobster
Feb 18, 2013

orange juche posted:

They are Christmas trees hastily reskinned with extremely patriotic ribbon yes

It's Chirstmas in July, duh.

Jack Van Burace
Jun 4, 2003

Is the Discord in the OP the one for US and JP players both? I'm on NA Ship 3 since I was going to play with some RL friends but they never ended up joining. I guess I'll transfer to ship 2 when those open up, but it'd be nice to play with this community, especially with the situation with the forums, now.

Splash Attack
Mar 23, 2008

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




orange juche posted:

I dunno, caricatures suck. I've seen more than enough advertising from Japan "all foreigners are lily white, have blond hair, and big noses, or are black, have red lips and look like Sambo (the racist caricature)" to kinda really not like cheap/lovely generalizations? (Yes I know it comes from living in a monoculture with no appreciable interactions with people who are not like you, still sucks)

I'm really wavering on whether I'm amused or not with this.

as a asian american i’ve seen so many cheap/lovely depictions of asian cultures (including mine) in american media that i am thoroughly enjoying the shoe being on the other foot

Diephoon
Aug 24, 2003

LOL

Nap Ghost

I have a symbol art for this



e: This new Vegas UQ is amazing. It's like Strees of Rage meets Naruto on hallucinogens

Diephoon fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jun 24, 2020

Combat Lobster
Feb 18, 2013

Jack Van Burace posted:

Is the Discord in the OP the one for US and JP players both? I'm on NA Ship 3 since I was going to play with some RL friends but they never ended up joining. I guess I'll transfer to ship 2 when those open up, but it'd be nice to play with this community, especially with the situation with the forums, now.

Yeah it's used for both. Even if you aren't on Ship 2 you should come on anyway. You can watch us bicker about stuff.

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

I appreciate the effort to create an even just for NA. Plus, I assume that if you convert your glory medals to rising 2 medals you can easily get that 12 star unit set.

I also like that we can get rare triggers in the casino now.

Stanos
Sep 22, 2009

The best 57 in hockey.
It's honestly kinda silly how many USA badges you can get with little effort. 3 abandoned mine potatoes, 20 red meat, 50 falspawn and 50 robot kills (any difficulty) gets you 20 a day. Repeat on any alts you have and say hello to cramming out a pile of Ray units/weapons for all your bad alts.

That's not getting into the casino stuff too. Let's just say if you got any brissa pieces kicking around still it's probably a good time to get rid of them. It was better to get rid of them before magatsu but hooh boy.

fadam
Apr 23, 2008

Stanos posted:

It's honestly kinda silly how many USA badges you can get with little effort. 3 abandoned mine potatoes, 20 red meat, 50 falspawn and 50 robot kills (any difficulty) gets you 20 a day. Repeat on any alts you have and say hello to cramming out a pile of Ray units/weapons for all your bad alts.

That's not getting into the casino stuff too. Let's just say if you got any brissa pieces kicking around still it's probably a good time to get rid of them. It was better to get rid of them before magatsu but hooh boy.

Is the Ray stuff a lot better? I just bought a Brissa set a few day ago

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

fadam posted:

Is the Ray stuff a lot better? I just bought a Brissa set a few day ago

The brissa set in total gives 200 HP, 20 PP, and 70 all attack stats. Ray gives 150 HP, 27 PP, and 75 all attack stats, while also having slightly higher defense stats. I'd say it's an upgrade, but not one that's immediately necessary. Later on the ability to add ring skills to 12* rarity units will be added, which will invalidate most 11* sets, but for now that mechanic is disabled for some reason.

Stanos
Sep 22, 2009

The best 57 in hockey.
Yeah I'd say if you already have a decent brissa affix'd set I wouldn't dump it as it's still fine but once you can put left rings on 12* units it's no longer a question.

Ray weapons are different. For ranger at least I prefer yas7k from unique badges but I plan on getting a ray launcher since I'm still using a cannon revolsio and cannon weapon bonus is pretty bad. I also plan on still using my brissa set I affix'd already until the ring thing gets put in. I'll probably affix Ray units when pso2 day rolls around again and I can put arks fever on it. I think ep4 souls are also dropping and maybe doom break from the new monthly UQ which helps.

fadam
Apr 23, 2008

Thanks guys!

Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

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Nap Ghost

Stanos posted:

It's honestly kinda silly how many USA badges you can get with little effort. 3 abandoned mine potatoes, 20 red meat, 50 falspawn and 50 robot kills (any difficulty) gets you 20 a day. Repeat on any alts you have and say hello to cramming out a pile of Ray units/weapons for all your bad alts.

That's not getting into the casino stuff too. Let's just say if you got any brissa pieces kicking around still it's probably a good time to get rid of them. It was better to get rid of them before magatsu but hooh boy.

If I already have a nemesis weapon, is it worth getting a ray one instead?

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Nemo2342 posted:

If I already have a nemesis weapon, is it worth getting a ray one instead?

Ray weapons are a considerable downgrade from nemesis. They're only useful for their special ability factor, astral soul.

Stanos
Sep 22, 2009

The best 57 in hockey.
Nemesis/slave from what I've been told by jp players will probably last you until episode 5. You'll want both eventually but whether you prefer nemesis or slave depends on which effect you want more. For classes that channel their damage slave shield is very nice.

Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

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Saagonsa posted:

Ray weapons are a considerable downgrade from nemesis. They're only useful for their special ability factor, astral soul.

Good to know. I already ground this thing to +35 so I was hoping not to replace it so soon.

Oxyclean
Sep 23, 2007


How hard are nemesis weapons to get?

Diephoon
Aug 24, 2003

LOL

Nap Ghost
Without outright buying the weapon off the AH I'd say the odds of getting a weapon you actually want are extremely low.

PepsimanVsJoe
Nov 16, 2007
I'm trying to find blue crates for the mission pass and they are more rare than 13 star weapons.

Hyper Inferno
Jun 11, 2015
I made over 2 million meseta just selling potatoes today. Good use of the last day of my 3 day shop pass.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

PepsimanVsJoe posted:

I'm trying to find blue crates for the mission pass and they are more rare than 13 star weapons.

The underground mineshaft is a pretty good place to box hunt since many of the rooms have that ramp up in the middle with 2-4 boxes in it.

Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

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Nap Ghost
In case anyone else was wondering, all 3 of the boss enemies for "A Stress Free Celebration" show up in the new UQ.

Also, they fixed the typo with "Godspeed operative" but left in "anticiscpate"

Pumpkinreaper
Jan 19, 2010


This is the most cursed outfit I have made. (Those aren't tights I'm wearing, my CASTs skin is that pasty of a white)

Doubly so because I'm a whale and bought the sonic bundle and can do the tails emote, scarring everyone I fly by.

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

The Harukotan Time Attack mission is also an easy way to kill the Fire Wheel boss, Anjadeurili, and 50 falspawn.

Molestationary Store
May 21, 2007

The 'Murica event is dumb as hell and I loving love it.

sevenflow
Jun 28, 2003
just watch it for a second
Have +30'd a few 13* weapons now and have been following this guide: http://www.bumped.org/psublog/pso2-grinding-13-star-weapons/

One thing I've noticed is that it seems more cost effective to just straight up buy 12* weapons that are already at +13/+26/+30 and keep the 10* weapons I would have used and turn them in at the Swap Shop instead. Am I missing anything? And if not, what should I be doing with all these 12* weapons from UQs?

Stanos
Sep 22, 2009

The best 57 in hockey.
I used them to grind weapons but if you're fine buying them outright you can turn 3 in at the swap shop for a lambda grinder.

Soulfucker
Feb 15, 2012

i,m going to kill myself on friday #wow #whoa
Fun Shoe

Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

Have A Day




Nap Ghost

sevenflow posted:

Have +30'd a few 13* weapons now and have been following this guide: http://www.bumped.org/psublog/pso2-grinding-13-star-weapons/

One thing I've noticed is that it seems more cost effective to just straight up buy 12* weapons that are already at +13/+26/+30 and keep the 10* weapons I would have used and turn them in at the Swap Shop instead. Am I missing anything? And if not, what should I be doing with all these 12* weapons from UQs?

I hadn’t seen that guide, so I ended up taking the longer route of buying up 12* of the same weapon type and mashing them together. 10* became photon spheres or ex cubes as needed.

sevenflow
Jun 28, 2003
just watch it for a second

Nemo2342 posted:

I hadn’t seen that guide, so I ended up taking the longer route of buying up 12* of the same weapon type and mashing them together. 10* became photon spheres or ex cubes as needed.

Yeah, the guide streamlines the requirements a lot. You can buy the required 12*'s and get to +30 for a couple of million mesata. That seems about the same as what you'd pay doing it yourself, but it takes less time and it frees up the 10*'s (and I guess 12*'s based on the message above) you would have used as fodder for swaps and depending on the value you place on those might actually net out to you paying less.

Getting to 13* +35 for me has been:

Enhance with 12* +26
Unlock Potential
Enhance with 12* +30
Enhance with 12* +13
Unlock Potential
Enhance with 12* +26
Enhance with 12* +26
Unlock Potential
Now you're at +30. Get to +35 with your duplicate 13*'s.

sevenflow fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jun 25, 2020

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

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

i showed you my patriotism pls respond

Super Space Jam 64
Jan 6, 2010

Yet another violation of regulation 1910 subpart D.
I seem to be banned from the discord. Could I get a mod to message me why, either here or on discord proper? My username is AnimeCartoon#4061. WIth the forums burning down around us I'd like to be able to keep as many SA connections going as I can.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Super Space Jam 64 posted:

I seem to be banned from the discord. Could I get a mod to message me why, either here or on discord proper? My username is AnimeCartoon#4061. WIth the forums burning down around us I'd like to be able to keep as many SA connections going as I can.

If nobody answers in a couple hours I'll let you know. There are very few people iirc banned from the discord so there will be a good reason I'm sure.

Super Space Jam 64
Jan 6, 2010

Yet another violation of regulation 1910 subpart D.

orange juche posted:

If nobody answers in a couple hours I'll let you know. There are very few people iirc banned from the discord so there will be a good reason I'm sure.

Thanks much! I probably said something stupid while under the influence and/or otherwise deserved it, but it'd be good to know.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.
So did the nolvac activity sheet ever get made? I can’t log in until Sunday and remember it being some one week inactivity check to free up spots.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Evil Fluffy posted:

So did the nolvac activity sheet ever get made? I can’t log in until Sunday and remember it being some one week inactivity check to free up spots.

It did and it's been linked in the discord and the MOTD of Nol Vacancy. Check the announcements channel or the pins in discord, or the MOTD.

Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

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I'm currently running Hunter/Fighter. When I hit 75, should I switch to Fighter/Hunter until Fighter is 75 too? Or stick with Hunter/Fighter and just turn in client orders as Fighter?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
What you get off COs and the daily missions drops off at 55ish so you'll want to switch at some point and bang it out

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Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

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Nap Ghost

kirbysuperstar posted:

What you get off COs and the daily missions drops off at 55ish so you'll want to switch at some point and bang it out

Welp, Fighter is already at 55. What's the best way to bang it out?

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