Content Update for August 13th

[FOnewearl-Lina]

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=956

This week brings us the 4th wave of GAS, hold your breath!

GAS Supplements:
In addition to the new customs being added this update, the upper limit on Base Ability for each race will be raised as follows:

Human: 8 >14
Newman: 6 >12
Cast: 4 > 8
Beast: 6 >10



This Update's Type Customisations:
Base Ability:
The upper lvl limit will be raised from 2 to 4 for the following base abilities.
-MAX HP+
-Base ATP+
-Base DFP+
-Base ATA+
-Base EVP+
-Base TP+
-Base MST+
-Base STA+

Weapon Ability:
The following special abilities will be added with this update.
-Sword Element+
-Knuckle Element+
-Spear Element+
-Double Saber Element+
-Axe Element+
-Twin Saber Element+
-Twin Dagger Element+
-Twin Claw Element+
-Saber Element+
-Dagger Element+
-Claw Element+
-Whip Element+
-Slicer Element+

-Rifle Element+
-Shotgun Element+
-Longbow Element+
-Grenade Element+
-Laser Element+
-Twin Handgun Element+
-Handgun Element+
-Crossbow Element+
-Card Element+
-Machinegun Element+

-Rod Element+
-Wand Element+
-Madoog Element+

No Shadoog Element+, I wanna raise my shadoog element too! (not really).


This Update's Style Customisations:
-High Enhance Weapon (Prerequisite: Enhance Weapon)
-Common Speciality (Prerequisite: Common Mastery)
-Weapon Mastery (Hopefully S rank version of mastery?)
-Quick React (Prerequisite: Rapid React... sounds more like a downgrade going from rapid to quick)
-Ragan's Force (Prerequisite: Ragan's Breath)
-Two Times! (Maybe this'll make your criticals do 200% damage instead of 150%? who knows)

*You need to already have the lower tier custom learnt in order for the higher tier to appear in the menu.
*Learning the higher tier custom will replace the lower tier custom's entry.


Item Related:
-Casino item rotation, again.

[Shou]

D= Two times better not be 200% critical hits. Fighters do NOT need a power boost for JA >_>

Yay techer weapon element+!!!

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Yay techer weapon element+!!!
liek, a lvl 50 tech is already innate 55% before the weapon % or something amirite? :-?

[DPShiro]

Nice, i wonder how the rifles element+ and such will work?

[Shou]

Yup Yup! I wonder by how much though...

[Golto]

Nice, i wonder how the rifles element+ and such will work?

+5% maybic?

[RemiusTA]

MAYBIC -

The situation described before this word is suggested to be possible.

Or so we've been told.....allegedlyc.

[AC_Messiah]

That's a pretty cool update. Making it even harder to choose what to get!

[DreXxiN]

This is starting to seem like Diablo, lol.

[Allison_W]

This is starting to seem like Diablo, lol.

I don't mind that one bit.

Still chompin' at the bit for DIII.

[pinkace]

ANOTHER update?

what the hell? did Sonic Team send some ass-kicker to the US? or did Sega of America send an ass-kicker to Japan to get Sonic Team back on the job?

[stinkyfish97]

My guess. They finally realized that if they do not meet what we demand that nobody will play and thus their salaries will no longer exist. Or they looked at what they were making and realize they are loosing money keeping the few people employed to run a dedicated server for the very few of us that are left playing this on a regular basis. That and with potentially new systems in 2-3 years there is not much time to get all the updates out, not with the rate we were previously getting them. Seriously what are they earning a month on this game 10 bucks a month for maybe a couple thousand people to play. I dont know how many people still play or how many people per star, I know somebody tried to figure that out before. But if you take the number of people that pay every month for the entire year. Well you see where I am going, you can figure out how many people are actually dedicated to supporting this game. You have a few people running the sega site, I dunno if they are paid, you have gm's, although they are a rare site if you ever even get to meet one. Basically we dont get updates because they lost a lot of their fanbase a long time ago. With the exception of the last few updates this is the most people since the first year I have ever seen play PSU. And a lot of the people who played PS2/PC jumped ship and if they still play many joined us XBOX people. They also lost the foriegn populations. I used to run with brits, spanish speaking folk, french people. Now I know of 2 brits that still make a monthly payment. This is like sega's last ditch effort to squeeze out a greater population.

[Arika]

Way too many of them!
AP isn't so easy to get without exp boost.

[Ceresa]

Way too many of them!
AP isn't so easy to get without exp boost.

It takes 90 minutes to get an AP without exp boost soloing Seed Express. Or almost one an hour soloing Ragnus or Denes S3 if you don't mind no drops. Most other missions you can get one every 2 hours or so easy.

And if that's still too slow, I waste one every 30 minutes during this 6 week long event that's about to change to another minimum 4 week Thanksfesta event.

The trick is you gotta log on and actually play

[AC_Messiah]

How many exp is needed to aquire 1 AEXP?

[Ceresa]

AEXP is the same rate as normal exp.

Can only get if your character is level capped, either by the normal cap, or doing GAM (where the monsters have 300% XP so it's similar to 150 enemies...)

500,000 exp for one AP.

[AC_Messiah]

Thanks, so that's equivalent to about 1/2 of a level up 159>160. That's a lot easier than I thought to get then.

[Phaesphora]

It takes 90 minutes to get an AP without exp boost soloing Seed Express. Or almost one an hour soloing Ragnus or Denes S3 if you don't mind no drops. Most other missions you can get one every 2 hours or so easy.

So... it's going to take me 4000 hours or 1000000000 EXP to get Rentis and Dizas?

[Ceresa]

Rentis and Dizas cost AMP, not AP.

Takes around 8 hours each if you have a decent party.

[Phaesphora]

Hm, that sounds much better; thank you for pointing out the difference.

[NDW]

4000 hours

That would equal out to about five and a half months. That would be punishment to get it that way!

[Arika]

It takes 90 minutes to get an AP without exp boost soloing Seed Express. Or almost one an hour soloing Ragnus or Denes S3 if you don't mind no drops. Most other missions you can get one every 2 hours or so easy.

And if that's still too slow, I waste one every 30 minutes during this 6 week long event that's about to change to another minimum 4 week Thanksfesta event.

The trick is you gotta log on and actually play

Too slow or not is all about how many ability you actually wanted.
in JP server, I just play only Acro class (which enable me to share the same styles), so I have enough AP to spend on my part easily. But when it come to US server, you don't know the class I play here. I play every classes, and it will be crazy if you want to fill them all.

I have calculated how many AP I totally need to fill all ability I wanted,( that will take around half year to complete, and it gonna get boring) but then this high tier version will make it 2x or 3x.

[WHlTEKNIGHT]

ANOTHER update?

what the hell? did Sonic Team send some ass-kicker to the US? or did Sega of America send an ass-kicker to Japan to get Sonic Team back on the job?Read the thread title, its not for the worldwide servers

[Kylie]

Sorry, but I have to get this out. Reading these makes me want to play PSU less and less. I blame the error 60 crap more so, of course, but I was having a lot of fun during the first part of the event. Now I can't stay on the game for too long. It's just too... depressing. The game is dull, and then I read this stuff. I really don't think it's that exciting. I was hoping that with DLC, ST would put out a lot at once like missions, etc. So far it's only been a very slow trickling of the PM clothes, GC stuff, stat changes, purchasable stats, and more item exchange stuff; an event too. Stat changes have been long overdue, and the other stuff is stuff I think PSU should stay away from. Not too mention that this stuff is so far away anyway. Also, it seems like a desperate attempt to get us to play.

Grind missions, so you can get stat increases to help you grind missions for stat increases!

[FOnewearl-Lina]

D= Two times better not be 200% critical hits. Fighters do NOT need a power boost for JA >_>

Yay techer weapon element+!!!
Won't be a problem if it only applies to true criticals.
We already have JA Damage+ which increases JA damage by 10% at lvl 2, so I don't see why this can't happen.

[Shou]

Oh good. Thank God.

[Powder Keg]

I can't wait til AP comes to the US...it's about time that races/classes won't have to be exactly the same anymore.

[Shou]

What are they doing to make monsters and missions stronger/harder with all these abilities class boosts and such?

[RemiusTA]

Now now, Shou. Thats way too many steps ahead for them.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

What are they doing to make monsters and missions stronger/harder with all these abilities class boosts and such?
nothing, nada, zip.


I can't wait til AP comes to the US...it's about time that races/classes won't have to be exactly the same anymore.
Except they will, who's gonna spend AP to increase their MST as opposed to ATP/TP?
Customs are pretty much no-brainers, the only problem is earning enough AP to max out your class. Which isn't hard at all since getting to level cap and beyond is so easy.

[Powder Keg]

nothing, nada, zip.


Except they will, who's gonna spend AP to increase their MST as opposed to ATP/TP?
Customs are pretty much no-brainers, the only problem is earning enough AP to max out your class. Which isn't hard at all since getting to level cap and beyond is so easy.


I'd agree with you, but I see people wearing Opra/Force on Fighmaster all the time. So I'm gonna stick with "You'd be surprised" on this one. ;-)

[unicorn]

I can't wait til AP comes to the US...it's about time that races/classes won't have to be exactly the same anymore.

Yes they will...lol.

FM/GM/FF/AF/PT = raise ATP onry

GT/AT/WT might be on the fence with ATP and TP. Beast/CAST WTs will probably only raise ATP, while Newmans players using it on TP more. Human players would probably balance it out.

FT/MF = TP onry

[FOnewearl-Lina]

I'd agree with you, but I see people wearing Opra/Force on Fighmaster all the time. So I'm gonna stick with "You'd be surprised" on this one. ;-)
I wish people would stop surprising me...

[Shou]

Sooo..... What were the chages already?!?!

[Ceresa]

Nothing special.

For FM, Casts and Beast F can get enough atp for Geki and ryuk in R now. MF can get dfp for Serafi and smart.

Weapon element+ is 3% element up. But those slots are pretty cramped on non-master types...

Don't know on weaponmastery, it's low priority for me to buy unless someone else posts about it and it's amazing. Lina was speculating pp reduction from the description though.

High Enhance Weapon is still worse then Elemental Weapon.

Ragan's Force is another 150hp, so 350hp total from shield style slot.

Two Times doubles buff item duration. Slim picking for that slot already so it's ok I guess. Don't know if it doubles the duration you take damage from Megistalide or not.

[Shou]

Interesting. I really like these charecter customizations. One of SEGAC's better ideas IMO but they still need to fix many Many MANY MANY problems. Seems like after these updates there will always be SOMETHING to do in PSU no matter what.

[RemiusTA]

yeah Shou, but that'll all go to hell if obtaining it is just another ploy to force you to play for 210312903 hours, while the GC players are teasing you by doing it in a 4th of the time.

Suddendly, this game starts to resemble Maplestory / FlyFF / some other F2P Bull.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

yeah Shou, but that'll all go to hell if obtaining it is just another ploy to force you to play for 210312903 hours, while the GC players are teasing you by doing it in a 4th of the time.

Suddendly, this game starts to resemble Maplestory / FlyFF / some other F2P Bull.
Spamming SEED express is more than enough...
And then comes an event which is free and gives you 50m per week!

[Meta77]

sigh i made it 3 months and was doing good but i think i may be coming back to the psu universe T.T