Triburos
Jun 22, 2012, 11:31 PM
Hello, everyone! As stated by the title, I am a complete new-comer to PSO2, not to mention the PS series in general. While I'm not completely familiar with the other PS games, PSO2 has caught my attention as it's own stand alone game and I have been playing ever since the Open Beta opened, which was only about two days ago, so I'm still learning the ropes. But from what I've seen, I quite like it so far in terms of gameplay and style. There's still some lag here and there, but the as a game, it's quite enjoyable.
Now, before I start off and start giving some of you guys a hard time, I just want to mention that I believe I've done quite enough research to ask some questions from the community. I've read most of the guides on the official fan site, looked at the wiki, Googled a few terms here and there and browsed a couple of forum posts here to try to help me along my way. I've gotten basic gameplay down, in other words. I didn't want to be another person that would have to be redirected to a Google search or anything, since that's just wasting time and a thread.
With that said, I'd be very grateful if you guys could answer a few questions I have below. This will be a literal list, by the way. So sorry if I'm asking alot from everyone, and this is bound to be a Wall o' Text post. Again, my apologies. It's just one of my habits ^^;
1. I've noticed that when attacking, occasionally you see these blue circles around your character that turn to red then disappear shortly after. Clicking just as they turn red makes a shine effect and seems to cancel and animation quicker. What bonuses do these circle things provide?
2. With all the lag I've come across, I need to know; are dungeons ran off of the server's connection, or the connection of the party host?
3. Photon Arts I've heard and read about seem to drop in dungeons and can be bought from vendors. Do ALL Proton Arts drop from every dungeons- or are some restricted to higher level dungeons and lower level dungeons? For example, I'm looking for some Proton Art for the Wire Lance called "Wire Charge" and "Azasupin", as they're listed on the wiki when translated. Where would I go about finding those Photon Arts? Are they restricted to higher dungeon levels? I've heard they can be obtained as rewards from completing quests, though I'm not sure which quests.
4. I've been seeing certain players with armor colors that don't seem possible for me to make with the materials and knowledge that I know about. But I have heard about "color tickets", though I havn't been able to turn up and information on how to obtain them. Someone wanna fill me in?
5. The FUN scratch cards, do they only reward furniture for the character rooms you can make, or can they also reward stuff like armor and such? So far I've only gotten armor.
6. Are the little personal quests for NPCs worth doing? The ones where you talk to the NPCs with blue icons above their heads? They seem to be nice for EXP but I don't know how I should go about leveling yet. Not to mention understanding them is out of the question until an English UI patch comes, and even then NPC text might be server-sided or something.
7. On the topic of those personal NPC quests, how should I be leveling exactly? I've been mostly just running dungeons that are at my level and clearing them, though I don't know if this simple way, is also the most efficient.
My last question is a technical support question that my friend has been having recently. I'd rather not make another thread in T-Support section if that's okay with everyone. But the issue is; that unless her graphics are set to 1 on the slider bar in the launcher, the game gives her a crash error upon getting to the Character Selection screen. For some reason, the game will work on 1, but no higher despite her computer being better than mine, and I can run this game on 5 with native screen res in window mode at an high FPS. Any clue how to fix this?
Again, major apologies about the Wall o' Text. I've previewed this and it really didn't feel like it'd be this huge :P. But, I'm just trying to get some answers that I couldn't find easily in other places, and the threads I've viewed here seem to be quite helpful, so hopefully you guys can help me with my issues. But I think I'll stop here, but thanks in advance, guys.
Now, before I start off and start giving some of you guys a hard time, I just want to mention that I believe I've done quite enough research to ask some questions from the community. I've read most of the guides on the official fan site, looked at the wiki, Googled a few terms here and there and browsed a couple of forum posts here to try to help me along my way. I've gotten basic gameplay down, in other words. I didn't want to be another person that would have to be redirected to a Google search or anything, since that's just wasting time and a thread.
With that said, I'd be very grateful if you guys could answer a few questions I have below. This will be a literal list, by the way. So sorry if I'm asking alot from everyone, and this is bound to be a Wall o' Text post. Again, my apologies. It's just one of my habits ^^;
1. I've noticed that when attacking, occasionally you see these blue circles around your character that turn to red then disappear shortly after. Clicking just as they turn red makes a shine effect and seems to cancel and animation quicker. What bonuses do these circle things provide?
2. With all the lag I've come across, I need to know; are dungeons ran off of the server's connection, or the connection of the party host?
3. Photon Arts I've heard and read about seem to drop in dungeons and can be bought from vendors. Do ALL Proton Arts drop from every dungeons- or are some restricted to higher level dungeons and lower level dungeons? For example, I'm looking for some Proton Art for the Wire Lance called "Wire Charge" and "Azasupin", as they're listed on the wiki when translated. Where would I go about finding those Photon Arts? Are they restricted to higher dungeon levels? I've heard they can be obtained as rewards from completing quests, though I'm not sure which quests.
4. I've been seeing certain players with armor colors that don't seem possible for me to make with the materials and knowledge that I know about. But I have heard about "color tickets", though I havn't been able to turn up and information on how to obtain them. Someone wanna fill me in?
5. The FUN scratch cards, do they only reward furniture for the character rooms you can make, or can they also reward stuff like armor and such? So far I've only gotten armor.
6. Are the little personal quests for NPCs worth doing? The ones where you talk to the NPCs with blue icons above their heads? They seem to be nice for EXP but I don't know how I should go about leveling yet. Not to mention understanding them is out of the question until an English UI patch comes, and even then NPC text might be server-sided or something.
7. On the topic of those personal NPC quests, how should I be leveling exactly? I've been mostly just running dungeons that are at my level and clearing them, though I don't know if this simple way, is also the most efficient.
My last question is a technical support question that my friend has been having recently. I'd rather not make another thread in T-Support section if that's okay with everyone. But the issue is; that unless her graphics are set to 1 on the slider bar in the launcher, the game gives her a crash error upon getting to the Character Selection screen. For some reason, the game will work on 1, but no higher despite her computer being better than mine, and I can run this game on 5 with native screen res in window mode at an high FPS. Any clue how to fix this?
Again, major apologies about the Wall o' Text. I've previewed this and it really didn't feel like it'd be this huge :P. But, I'm just trying to get some answers that I couldn't find easily in other places, and the threads I've viewed here seem to be quite helpful, so hopefully you guys can help me with my issues. But I think I'll stop here, but thanks in advance, guys.