2nd Anniversary Thanks Festa

[EspioKaos]

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/event/2nd_anniversary/

The official site for the upcoming Japanese 2nd Anniversary Thanks Festa has just opened! This event will begin in the end of August (either August 21 or 28), and will be bringing back Holupe Dence's VR training program. Forgive the rushed job here; I've got to get ready for work, but if I have a chance when I get to the office, I'll add anything I've missed.

The event missions are "The Protectors Gamma" and "The Protectors Delta." Think of them as AOTI only versions of last year's Alpha and Beta. The event will feature increased rare drop rates, increased enemy EXP payout, multiple boss battles and (as such) 2x boss containers. Also, the site says that the exchange mission "Desert City Armory" will receive an update during the event.

[landman]

This will be our summer event next year lol

[Arika]

cool, and we have event in my sig.
and when did Ethan become this cute? :3

well, since you are busy, I will try to translate it with my poor Japanese ability then. hope it can help a bit :wacko:

[joefro]

Cool, I actually liked the winter event missions, and I guess that we'll get this event around winter next year.^^ I can't wait to see what we will need for the Guld and Milla binding, please no Casino items!

[Arika]

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/event/2nd_anniversary/mission/

To celebrate Phantasy Star Universe second year and Ambition of the Illuminus first year. The popular mission which combine different part of the map come back again.
This time, it will add numbers of Illuminus maps and Boss.

Event mission specialness:
1. the drop rate from monster and boxes will be multiple. This is your chance to hunt your rare.
2. the exp bonus! this is your chance to straight right to the next lv cap 160 which will be the new cap that will start together with this event.
3. continuous boss battle with the Illuminus bosses such as De Ro Lei! boss drop containers will also be increased! Bonus container will be counted from the mission result. the better result, the more container will appear ( I assume that more disc you get = more container, max = 24 Disc from screen.)

Event mission detail :

Prologue mission
To practice fighting with strong monster. The combat training simulator is finally finished! All top-class skill guardians such as you are encouraged to participate in this.
The Protectors Gamma
since the time of unification is no longer an issue, My most important mission is to encourage many talent guardian to participate in this simulator.
The Protectors Delta
Base on gamma version, I have upload an addition custom version. Show me your top-class guardians' power.

cooperate with Desert City Armory
the exchange mission "Desert City Armory" will receive an update during the event. There will be new material which are normally unobtainable drop from event mission to be exchange in some new specific items.

[relentless]

Even if it's basically the same as the last Festa, this one looks MUCH more promising.
Thanks, Ari and Espio. :)

And lol, Ethan... turning into a shota. :/ ^^

[CHA0TIX]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't make me run White Beast again... even just one block of it!

Seriously though, Japan now has the last story chapter of the current episode, and another thanks 'Recap' Festa ....
Here comes the next expansion.

[Para]

Winter Event... I want this =/

[AxelgearVII]

::stills lacks a Milla::

[Kylie]

I hope it's better than last year's. The "Winter Festival" was HORRIBLE. I don't care what anyone says; it was our worst event by far. Then again, they did it right before the drop rate patch, so it seemed really pointless. :-?

I guess it all depends on if they release it one at a time like last year, and what drops.

[Turb0]

Better look out everyone! All the boss box drops are going to become worthless now that there's twice as many boxes. Oh wait...

[EspioKaos]

Thanks, Arika! That covers pretty much everything. Now, going by the little schedule they have on the front page, it looks like we can expect Gamma to begin on August 21, followed up by Delta on September 4. These are just assumptions, but since they given an end date of September 18, that evens things out fairly well. Two weeks for Gamma, then two weeks for both it and Delta. Going by that same chart, it looks like the illustration contest winners will be announced (and their work released) during the final weeks of the event.

Also, I've gone ahead and made articles for these missions at PSUPedia. Nothing in them yet, of course, but once real info surfaces, we'll begin filling in the holes.
Government Directive (http://psupedia.info/Government_Directive)
The Protectors γ (http://psupedia.info/The_Protectors_γ)
The Protectors δ (http://psupedia.info/The_Protectors_δ)

On that first mission, it's only a "prologue mission" where Holupe will give you tutorial on how to play the others. I assume it takes the place of his pre-mission pep-talk from α and β.

[ShadowDragon28]

Great, now we're way behind THREE events... *sigh*
If SoA & ST allowed the US servers to keep some form of the special missions from some of the events I think more people would play. Just leave out the high xp boost, and only increase the drop rate *slightly*.

I think some players would like challenging special misssions in general;
I wish they would give us the hover board, floader, tank mission, and mop-up challenge modes...
An all-new Night's themed mission and a Burning Rangers themed mission would kick so much ass.

[Yusaku_Kudou]

lol Ethan looks like he's 15.

[goldbrease]

Better look out everyone! All the boss box drops are going to become worthless now that there's twice as many boxes. Oh wait...

its really funny lol, since most boss boxes usually will drop specific item types in only a certain box/es usually.
wb boss: from the direction everyone faces the boss from when it dies the boards for weapons and armor and pre made weapon armor and units usually drop in the 2 boxes in the bottom right hand corner, or are note seeds while the top middle and top right are usually healing items/berries the bottom center and right center are also healing items/berries. while the left bottom to left top are usually synth materials for force gear and sometimes wood. this is usually what i see happen in the wb boxes, however a few times it has been different.

serpent the boards/weapons/units are usually in one of the 2 boxes right beside the cyrstal everything else is random.