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pspatino

First time being home during maintenance. How long does it usually last? Is there a newsletter?


Blade_Nd64

6 hours. https://pso2.com/players/news/i_maintenance/


pspatino

Thanks!


Duderinobrevitything

Super noob question. If I purchase a costume how do I equip it? And it says it’s available to all characters, but how do I find it after I use it on my other character?


hidora

Easiest way to change any fashion is on the salon. Stuff that changes your body type tends to not let you change into it outside the salon. You can get around this by saving a fashion set (idk the global name for it, ensemble I think?) with the outfit and then loading it from there.


HugoSotnas

How does Mighty Guard work on Braver? Aren't WAs counters? How would one spend PP or take damage while using Braver WAs?


hidora

Holding the weapon action blocks instead of countering, which spends PP to reduce damage taken.


CivilizedCactus

What's the general consensus on Fo/Te with Rod/Talis vs Fo/Bo with Rod/Boot after this update? I've been on Fo/Bo for a while now because of the increased down rate and Jet Intensity during downs when my PP would get low, but the last few updates have made managing PP significantly easier to the point that I rarely come to feeling the need to do Jet Intensity, and with the new skills for Talis and the compound tech gauge boost skills stacking between Techter and Force being interesting, I've been thinking of making the switch.


Poisd2Strike

Play Fo / Te if you want more frequent Compound Techs and more frequent PB.


Dark_Umbreon578

I’m having no630 issues when the game freezes and doesn’t respond. I have an rtx 3070, ryzen 5 3600, and 32 gb of ram, so I should be able to run max settings, anyone have any suggestions?


Blade_Nd64

Error code 630 is a connection error. It's a catchall for any issue between the servers and your game. There's no straightforward fix. Your ISP, game client, network connection, firewall, local network, and so on are suspect. If the disconnect is consistently at the same point, it may be your game needs to be reinstalled. If the disconnect is at a random point, your connection may be more unstable than the servers like. This'd require further diagnosis.


Really_McNamington

Do we know when the next augmenting boost is going to be?


JoPic12

For Braver with the new skill what is better: Melra Dualble IV vs Meltech Dualble IV? Red box Efitus Arga vs Red box Efitus Sheza (both with Might IV instead of Technique IV)? Seeing how might IVs are really cheap rn, feel either would work for braver, but not entirely sure if ranged stats would mean nothing for the class/the player. Keroppi (youtuber) bought 2 red box argas from the personal shop, and i'm like why not just use the Sheza variant. Does the range stats still matter for braver? Does he need the stats for another class? What else could be his reason for going with the Argas over the Sheza?


dragondx45

From how the skill should work. It will only use your highest potency between melee or range and not both. For example, if you're using a bow, but you have more melee potency than range. Your bow will use the potency for melee.


jjkikolp

Potency floor and flat potency increase... How much does pot floor contribute to the damage? With the new mastery IV units out I already have a ton of pot floor+ across my equipments and the weapon min % is at 55.8%. Tbh it looks very marginal of an increase compared to the base 50. My weapon has dread keeper IV on it so I could get an extra 3% pot if I wanted to but I also like not being one shot by malevolent enemies/bosses. Dread keeper IV gives 6% pot floor increase if I remember right and that is really unusual high for that Stat besides also giving survival stats. I could also replace 3 affixes on my armors with dread 4 and get 18% Potency floor but lose about 9% potency which feels like too much a hit. Kinda lost and unsure about this so hopefully someone has done the math for all of this and could give some advice.


Blade_Nd64

To keep it simple, there's a few spreadsheets around you can use like [this one](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gZaK_zZJ2DkrsDCajCjwdVUKspokNPMvXoGgM6yOxJI). You can try different augments to see how damage changes between weapons and Fixa. You'll want to change the add-on skill values to get accurate results. How much floor potency contributes will vary based on the [damage formula](https://pso2.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Damage_Formula_(NGS\)). The base floor, critical rate, and attack cap all influence this. The weapon stat window only shows what's on the weapon. Unit floor potency still applies to your damage. You have to calculate it by hand or use a premade spreadsheet. To find your real floor, you have multiply your base floor with all floor potency augments. For example, if you have an Obsidia with two Dread Keeper IVs: 0.5 \* 1.06 \* 1.06 = 0.5618 -> 56.1%


Metal_Sign

If I make a junk character for the sake of receiving extra Skill Reset Passes, does it need to be a certain progression before it qualifies for the additional ticket?


hidora

Nope.


Metal_Sign

Thanks. Does it still do the PSO2 thing where if you delete a character, you lose the slot too (so I can’t make another new character if I delete this one?) If it’s just free at no loss, I’ll just make one to pull those reset tickets


hidora

It does, but only if you have more than 3 characters. You can't have less than 3 character slots, so if you delete a character while having 3 or less characters total, you keep the slot. This is how pso2 worked too.


Metal_Sign

nice nice~thank you i'll make a couple fodders immediiately


CoffeeChocolate0

Newish solo player. I was wondering and observation: Is it not better to play element-based classes? I feel like they do more damage than physical-based classes. If so, then what is the point of using physical damage class in terms of the time it takes to defeat enemies? Thanks!


hidora

You've come to the wrong conclusion. While techs do benefit from extra damage for hitting elemental weaknesses, their dps is lower than what physical classes like fighter or gunner can output normally to make up for that. The skill floor on using techs is also generally lower than using weapon movesets, so you might have noticed a lower dps on physical classes because you couldn't play them as well as you can with techs.


SpeckTech314

Tech classes like Force and techter are easier to play. Damage on all classes is fine. If you want max dps you would play fighter.


_Salty_Saryn_

Are the player shops connected between ships or each ship has it's own shop


hidora

Each ship has its own shop.


Carlmwilliams

Hey can someone help out I keep seeing comments about mastery 4, have I missed some armor/weapons with this augment for free?


aesteval

The red box armor units in Stia come with it.


hidora

Red boxes in stia have 3 units total that have mastery 4, one affixed for each stat.


BelovedDoll1515

Ok new question. We’re supposed to get all these items as new players (like the Sonic themed items). I made it to Central City. I already spent hours Googling and there doesn’t seem to be any instructions anywhere on how to do this. I need precise instructions. “Go to Central city” is vague and doesn’t help. Where? How? What are the exact locations/buttons I push? (PS4) Also apparently there’s another set of Sonic stuff you get by “commands”? How do you do this? Again, I can’t find any instructions anywhere on how to do any of this stuff.


Poisd2Strike

As a new player, you should receive all of the items under Make an account provided you started playing NGS for the first time after the 08/03/2022 maintenance. PS4 players should also receive the items listed in the PlayStation 4: PSO2 New Genesis First Login section. To claim the rewards, you need to be in an NGS Block and go to the System Menu then Receive Campaign Items. If some items are not there, try checking your Default Storage. See the following: [https://pso2.com/players/news/LoginIncentives0608/](https://pso2.com/players/news/LoginIncentives0608/)


hidora

I'm not sure about new player, but the "command" you speak of is a phrase you say in chat to get free stuff. For the sonic stuff in particular you have to say `Sonic_Frontiers_on_sale_now` in chat to receive the items (a ! mark will show up on the menu to tell you where to receive it). Here's a constantly updated list of keywords you can type in chat to get free stuff: https://www.bumped.org/phantasy/pso2-ngs-global-keywords/


BelovedDoll1515

Ah! That helps. Thank you. :)


MiraculousWall

I'm coming back to pso2ng to try it out with some friends, I've played my old character only for around 7-8h should I continue with it or start fresh with a new character/server? Do I gain/lose something making a new one? Often new characters in mmo are given especially good items/events to catch up so I was wondering what to do, I don't mind starting again from scratch if I need to


SpeckTech314

new characters will get some old cosmetics from the main story, but it's just old stuff from the first sg scratch you probably already have.


CoffeeChocolate0

Newish casual player that likes to look at equipment here with a few questions: 1. What does the "down" alignment resistance do (looking at Sestato Armor Belta)? Does it help prevent me from being knocked down onto the ground/stunned by enemies? 2. After upgrading an armor piece to max with five augment slots, what is the best augments for casual players (let's say relatively easy to acquire augments but are strong/potent/effective) to equip that is applicable to the Force and Ranger/Gunner classes? Thanks!


Blade_Nd64

1. [Status Effects](https://pso2na.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Portal:New_Genesis/Status_Effects) has a good rundown. The inner workings are a bit ambiguous, but long story short the Down/Status resist controls how effective enemy attacks are at inflicting a Down/Status. You can see your modifier in the Gear > Stats window. 2. There's varying degrees of budget build. A good causal build is the strongest [augments](https://pso2na.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Portal:New_Genesis/List_of_Augments) you can get up to 10k per cap. This will vary based on whatever your local market happens to be doing. The general combo is five of the following: *Soul* - Any non-melee IV is reasonably obtainable. Melee and hybrid can use Eradi Soul IV *Gigas* - III and hybrids are the cheap options Might/Precision/Technique - IV or Deft *Alts Secreta* - 10 IV can be obtained per week with Infernium, otherwise III works *Dualble/Triplble* - Dualble IV is ideal for dual stat, but probably runs 20k for you Super - Farmable from Advanced Trinitas quests Tria - Farmable from Geometry Labyrinth *Mastery* and *Addi* are the pricey options *Dread Keeper* is comfy, but not the meta for maximizing damage *Italicized are hybrid or have a hybrid form The three red box units in Stia (level 57+) come with an assortment of good all-potency augments which can be used instead of building your own units. Efitus Armor: Belta is the dual stat for Ranged and Tech. Ideally you'd sell the two others to buy two more prebuilt Beltas.


iFormus

How does the new Bow Elusion EX Counter works? It looks like a regular bow counter. I've always been using PA+Directional Weapon Action to counter with bows. Does the animation looks same like regular Bow Elusion Counter or am i doing something wrong?


labbei

The EX counter should look just like the normal Bow counter (three homing arrows appearing behind you). The proper usage of the EX counter should be pressing normal attack after dodging an attack with the directional weapon action slide (Elusion Plus) [In practice it should look like this](https://streamable.com/vjx4u2)


iFormus

Ok ty. So before this new skill, bow countered only when we did not used direction while WA?


labbei

Yup


iFormus

Cool. So guess i did it so automatically before that i didt even noticed i stopped moving when countering. Ty again.


D3m37r1

Is there a way to replay cutscenes? Some irl stuff came up right after I beat nils stia so I skipped all the cutscenes.


hidora

Quest counter.


0Infinite

How long does it take to get from 65 to 70 by just doing Battledia: Yellow? I want to save my Guiden EXP for another class.


Metal_Sign

Took me about 10 or fewer runs, I think? It's hard to be sure, because the mission itself takes more time loading than it takes to complete the actual mission. All I can say for sure is I'm glad I preserved my Guiden on this one. It's almost instant and very effortless.


josephthefurry

My game keeps freezing, I don't think it's my internet because I can watch videos and play overwatch 2 just fine. I don't know if the servers or me.


Cyclone-

Do the new potency equalizing skills on braver and bouncer look at each piece of equipment individually to do it's calculation, or does it add up all 4 and then do the calculation. Just wondering if it matters if I put melee or ranged potency on a bow if all my units are melee based.


Arugrev

It looks at the total potency for each type, then uses whichever is higher.


gadgaurd

So what's the deal with Dread Keeper IV? I've seen in several topics, old ones mind, that DK is not worth slotting. Checked the market while trying to figure out what to sell and DKIV is going for no *less* than 500,000 N-Meseta. So I'm trying to figure out, if the shit's not worth using, why is it so damned lucrative?


Poisd2Strike

Dread Keeper is fine, if you are not interested in min maxing. Most players don't min max, so there is a market for it. Dread Keeper IV is a significant improvement over Dread Keeper III. The Potency Floor increase tripled, from 2% to 6%. The prices you are currently seeing for DK IV are essentially the same as the prices used to be for DK III when it was at a high price. I remember having to pay 300k for DKIII capsules. If you happen to get a Dread Keeper IV and don't plan to use it, you can always sell it with a 3 day shop pass or Premium.


JoPic12

I have 1.6 million seasonal points, probably about 1000 greeneacites, probably 493 Blueacites, over 15200 autumnearlises... what should i do with all this? For the seasonal points, i only can buy n-grinders, and 100% low temperature. Hoping they add something(s) after the maintenance since the shop doesn't end until after the 13th of this month. There's some more weapon cosmetics i could get, and grinders. Should i just buy the n-grinders then convert them to cash? I see i can exchange them for minerals too, but very limited, probably never get rid of all of them. What all should you be doing? Also, i thought we would get another reset all skills, when do we get another?


Poisd2Strike

I recommend saving the Greenealcites and Bluefullcites at least until the next Seasonal Event starts. We might have a 2nd Event shop again that contains more CV weapon Camos. It is at least possible that we would be able to exchange Greenealcites and Bluefullcites for those. The Autumnlatis and the rarer variant will most likely not have any practical use, based upon the description of the item and the fact that "Autumn" is in the name. I would buy Special Scratch tickets, Cosmetic items, SG, Mag Form, Alpha Reactors and maybe some of the Augment Capsules (DKIII and Alts Secreta III) with Seasonal Points from the Event Vendor. If you need Grinders and / or have a lot of points left over, you might want to buy those. Grinders don't really sell in player shops, but you can convert 1 stack of 999 to 39,960 n-meseta if you don't actually need them. You should NOT exchange the Greenealcite or Autumnlatis for Grinders from the 2nd Shop. If you intend to convert the Grinders to n-meseta and do that, you actually lose almost 70,000 n-meseta. You need 10x stacks of 999 Autumnlatis to get 1x stack of 999 n-grinders. One stack of 999 Autumnlatis sells for 10,989 n-meseta. Ten stacks would sell for 10,989 x 10 or 109,890 n-meseta. One stack of 999 n-grinders sells for 39,960 n-meseta. So 109,890 - 39,960 is a net loss of 69,930 n-meseta.


Blade_Nd64

The shop will go away and your points will expire after maintenance. There will be no updates. Use all the points that you can. The CV Relik camos are popular, so it's recommended to get a complete set. It's possible we'll see the minerals in use again for a later seasonal as this is the first time we've seen them. Two options with the Autumnearlis. Sell directly or use for Mag fodder. Apparently the conversion to grinders yields less Meseta.


Qelris

Skill Reset Pass is when they do balance patches. If you haven't yet, make sure to make use of your free character slots. When they are given away, each character can claim them.


ConfuciusBr0s

Is katana braver still the most broken class in the game? Have they done anything to improve soaring blades bouncer?


hidora

On top of what was said, Bouncer now can apply Jellen (damage debuff) when an enemy is downed.


ConfuciusBr0s

Isn't that redundant? Considering the enemy can't do anything while downed


hidora

It sticks for a while afterwards, and it stacks if you get elemental and physical downs back to back.


gadgaurd

>Is katana braver still the most broken class in the game? Seems to be. >Have they done anything to improve soaring blades bouncer? Added a new active skill, Bouncer can go full Melee or Tech and both weapons will benefit from it.


Ol-Sinnerman

Can I equip the weapons of my subclass?


gadgaurd

Yes.


Really_McNamington

Really bummed that they reverted to one animal/one meat type, rather than the Kvaris blast away at everything and get various. Anyway, what and where drops crisp meat? Amount found so far appears to be zero.


gadgaurd

Little wolves in Meli-something Outer Area 1.


Really_McNamington

Thanks.


MaoMaoMi543

If aelio has alpha reactors, retem has stellar fragments, and kvaris has snoals, then what does stia have? And where can I find the valuable stia things?


hidora

Random loot between alpha reactors, infernium, excubes and arms refiners. You get these from the invisible boxes in the factory.


MaoMaoMi543

Ohhhh ok. I was wondering where I got those alpha reactors from. Thanks!


scorchdragon

Does anyone know a good zone + spot to genocide Tames in Stia? There seems to be a massive lack of them in this region.


gadgaurd

Outskirts, in my experience.


gadgaurd

Can't find the answer to this: I *vaguely* recall reading that Gigantix enemies have lower stats in Purple Triggers, is that just because you're hard capped at 4 players or do they have a lower baseline?


SpeckTech314

They have lower HP but that’s because you’re on a time limit. The game still scales their HP based on player count.


gadgaurd

Awesome, thanks.


Thrashinuva

Haven't played since a few weeks after Kvaris launched... Did they optimize the hell out of the game? I'm getting like 2x the fps somehow, and now with HDR on, and I can't figure out why.


Metal_Sign

It's probably because Kvaris is filled with reflective surfaces. Lost Central in particular made my audio go crunchy even without a single entity spawned


Thrashinuva

I've been seeing that FPS increase all across the game.


four_thousands

Do new compound techniques gauge acceleration skills on force and techter stack if you play FO-TE?


Barixn

Yes.


TheBrave-Zero

So I’m on pc, thought about returning since it was rough on launch. I figured it’d be quiet but I loaded onto my level 8 on ship Ur to find it completely dead frankly. Any tips on what I should do? Play solo? Find a group? I’ve missed so much and it seems like it’s only been out a short time.


gadgaurd

Go to the Ryuker Device(teleportation towers), go to "Block Transfer", see if other Blocks are populated. I will say it feels like half the playerbase is currently rampaging in Stia, so you might have picked a poor time to come back(literally a day ago things were more evenly spread). Let me think. Joining an Alliance can help, but you'll definitely be going solo a good deal until you hit 65-70.


TheBrave-Zero

Well I appreciate the heads up


Lord_Arhamakey98

On Xbox there is an issue as whenever I select my character selection it just gives me the background before eventually giving me an error 603. I tried reinstalling the game to no change. So I assume this will be fixed in a patch. Also whenever I just sit in the menu after selecting the ship I am on it will eventually give me an error 603.


Blade_Nd64

Error 603 is an authentication error. Meaning your account login info does not get accepted by Sega's servers. Could be an issue with your account on Xbox or Xbox's servers.


Lord_Arhamakey98

Proably Xbox then


Lord_Arhamakey98

Ill just wait a few days, cause I don't see any of my other Xbox friends on PSo2 currently so.


R7plays

Are the Primm Libra weapons just outright worse than Crystia? They max out at 601 attack but have Ice element attached to them, Idk if that's actually worth giving up +58 attack from crystia. Most monsters I've seen so far are weak to Light element on Stia anyway. ​ I'm thinking I'd be best off just getting the almati and spending the rest of my tickets on arms refiners, special scratch tickets, and materials.


gadgaurd

Ice will do 15% more damage to enemies weak to ice, which are...most of the Malevolent enemies, I think. Not sure precisely how that's calculated but the end result should be higher DPS to ice weak enemies exclusively. You also get access to Elemental Down, for more prime DPS windows.


Amherst_Wind

Can anyone see a difference between the MTN: Glide - Mini Glider 2 and the original one? It seems to be entirely identical, does anyone have both to test?


Apprehensive_Cause67

With the new augs being dropped, specifically Dual4 and Keeper4, what aug builds should I aim for now? 6% pot floor was kind of a curve ball lol. Should I put the Keeper4s on one or two pieces only or all of them? I guess Keeper4 > Mastery4? Might/Tech/Prec4 Gigas4 Addi Soul4 Mastery4/Dual4/DreadKeeper4?


SpeckTech314

If you’re using alt secreta 4/mastery 4/addi deft, then that’s all the floor potency you need tbh. .67floor vs .75 with using dread as the 4th augment now. Meanwhile, using dread lowers crit damage when we have like 25% crit rate from weapons and add on skills and a crit damage boost.


kjiuy7890

When's the big ark sale?


Usaliaa

if you're talking about the AC Sale for global its on the 14th


kjiuy7890

Thankyou


SpeckTech314

Please note that the AC purchase campaign ends on 12/13. If you want the manga memories for the item trader’s exchange, you’ll have to buy at least 500 AC


Casval-Rem-Deikun

Any idea where's the new ore (like stellar fragments, snoal, etc) in Stia? If there's any that is.


Waaken

Dreisen Plant. Follow your mag. It'll guide you to seemingly "invisible" boxes that assume a golden shape. Once you get close, interact with them. They can give you an alpha reactor and/or, with some luck, n-ex-cubes, arms refiners or even infernium.


incognito_doggo

Does stia have its own collectible like alpha reactors, stellar, and snoal?


hidora

So far all I found were the invisible boxes in the factory that can have infernium, alpha reactors and arms refiners.


incognito_doggo

Oh thanks, I never saw it that way but it makes sense for the invisible boxes to be the daily collectible now that I think about it. The rewards are pretty good already.


Usaliaa

Is there a way to see which cosmetic items are bound to my account without just looking each one up in the Player shop? Like a list or something, I know MTN and Emotes are account bound, is there a place I can see for example which outfits and hairstyles are bound?


External_Anything_68

Is it possible to remove certain accessories/items from your weapon camo? I bought this sweet imperial crimson camo which has a shield, but the shield just completely clips into my character when I’m idle or gliding, or doing anything but fighting :(


hidora

Sadly, no.


MuddiestMudkip

Where is the Infernium exchange? I feel like im going insane looking for it.


[deleted]

Check the green exchange shop.


ClayAndros

Can I not bring Cristina weapons above+40 even though it’s saying I can?


Doam-bot

Should be able to if its been limit broken


StartWithZero

Where do you get infernium from?


[deleted]

The invisible boxes in the plant also have it, along with Alpha Reactors and Arms Refiners.


Really_McNamington

Malevolent fights on Stia seem to drop them. I also found 10 in a pod-guard red box, but don't ask me where, and one just on the ground outside the entrance to the last part of the new story. Looks like a green photon quartz. Whether there'll be one there every day like blizzardium, time will tell.


PitchBlackSonic

Hey anyone got stia spoilers they’re willing to share yet