Servers are back up!

[Mekhana]

Enjoy the update! :D

[Meji]

Aaah, I want to go home and play! ;_;

[jooozek]

i guess they were lying with the passes, all i got is 1 pass (yes, i checked collection storage and campaign awards)

[SociableTyrannosaur]

yeah I found the same thing

[jooozek]

you need 13750 stones for a single 11* weapon? what?

[Z-0]

1 pass here also.

Friend got back speaker unit immediately in ExQ lol

[Bellion]

Yep, that was totally...well...disappointing. Already completed 5 floors :/

[jooozek]

and the fun shop prices are actually what they were in the screenshots
ha
ha
ha

[Z-0]

400 fun for a +1 is kind of ok, except fun scratch throws them at you, lol...

time to scratch my 30k fun then

[redroses]

Where do you get the extreme pass tickets?
Also, what is that ARKS GP 2013 quest?

[Xaeris]

There's a new NPC named Pudding (lolz) to the right of Koffie. Talk to her and have her Issue Pass.

[LordShade]

segaa where are my 10 extra passes D:

[UnLucky]

don't worry guys, in a week the extreme floors will actually be somewhat extreme I'm sure

[Lebensohl]

Anyone else have nothing in their collection storage?
And I'm talking to the new NPC and she isn't issuing a pass

[Z-0]

They claim to have given out rewards for various camaignsin their patch notes, but nothing yet.

Maybe they'll be late like one week was.

[redroses]

Same here, I also won't get a pass from her :c

[Shinamori]

I can't play until later today or tomorrow when my cable modem gets here...

[KatsujinkenKik]

Have to be level 50, get close to quest gate and have pop up, then she will issue pass

[Bellion]

Try going to the campship first and Purin will tell you to see her. Wait, how does that translate to Pudding? =w=

That's interesting, that does translate to Pudding. :[]

[jooozek]

I can't play until later today or tomorrow when my cable modem gets here...

thats okay, 1 extreme pass gives you like 3 minutes of gameplay

[redroses]

Ah thank you Bellion and KatsujinkenKik Going into the direction of the quest gate triggered her pop up!

[Cyron Tanryoku]

-Shuts down the server-

[UnLucky]

Try going to the campship first and Purin will tell you to see her. Wait, how does that translate to Pudding? =w=

That's interesting, that does translate to Pudding. :[]

Yeah, it's what they call the dessert


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLJ-jXJLPcU

[Bellion]

^ I see.

8/13500 Red cherry fragments, only 13492 to go for an 11*!
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[Z-0]

The sad thing is that the 11*s are only marginally better than the best AQ rares, which you will probably find faster.

[Xaeris]

^ I see.

8/13500 Red cherry fragments, only 13492 to go for an 11*!
[SPOILER-BOX]http://oi48.tinypic.com/357k089.jpg[/SPOILER-BOX]

Fft, 11/13500 for me, get on my level.

Edit: Oh. Well if that isn't a surprise. It turns out your ticket cooldown is account wide. Your alts can't get extra tickets. That's...well...that's just...I going to smolder into a puddle of impotent rage now.

[Bellion]

Fft, 11/13500 for me, get on my level.

If you keep getting 11 each day, you'll only get your 11* 460 days faster than me....

[TaigaUC]

This all sounds terribly disappointing.

[Xaeris]

Honestly, it really is. Perhaps it's not fair to judge Tower by its first five floors, but they're a complete and total joke, and they comprise 1/8th of a weekly circuit.

[FO-RA-HUnightv]

might be busted :/ o well, got s rank on the GP qualifier with our group so all challenges for today are met.

[ReaperTheAbsol]

Me when the servers came back online:

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Me when I began to login:

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Oh boy... (http://youtube.com/watch?v=pFIQNlxTD3w)
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Me when I actually played the game:

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Me right now:

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By the time I wake up this will all just be a bad dream... A bad, bad dream.

[TaigaUC]

By the time I wake up this will all just be a bad dream... A bad, bad dream.

Haha. Someone should do a symbol art of Sakai doing an "all according to keikaku".

[Lebensohl]

The sad thing is that the 11*s are only marginally better than the best AQ rares, which you will probably find faster.

Well there are a few things that are going for it that I really like.
No Base weapon requirements - Just stones, and a lot of money for Dudu
Low S/R/T attack requirements - I might actually be willing to invest in offclass weapons because I don't need a mag to equip them.
Potential - 11 stars usually have better potentials than 10
And this is only the first half. I'm hoping for a launcher at least :3

However I am much more interested in the units, they seem considerably easier to get at least.

[Z-0]

Unit set costs the same as a weapon.

[Mekhana]

Those twin mechs that like something out of Metal Gear Solid are ultra sexy.

[Z-0]

Arks GP quest is pretty cool, although far too short, gives no EXP or drops.

More proper quests should be like it and Den.

[Mekhana]

I dunno the purpose of the Arks GP yet but I'd recommend getting a S rank on it just to be sure you don't miss on future rewards.

[Z-0]

Arks GP is far the Arks Grand Prix event in summer. It's most likely so people can learn it and strategise for it before the event itself.

[fay]

I think I'm just going to save my tickets up till later on so I can run them for a while instead of once a day.

[Shinamori]

thats okay, 1 extreme pass gives you like 3 minutes of gameplay

Not the way I play.

I honestly, I wish they'd give you more than one pass. However, they don't want it to be too easy to get those 11*.

But "Tomorrow, players will receive 10 extreme passes, afterwards, 1 pass will be distributed per day." We should have 10, right? I expect outrage from both Japanese and Western communities.

[fay]

Got a wee question, but slightly off topic. The new patch that's released today to go with this update; is there a mirror for the download as the usual link area does not work?

[BIG OLAF]

Wait, you get a time limit on your Tower mission time? I thought it was "fight until you die". Is it seriously 3 minutes?

[Xaeris]

You have a time limit of half an hour. People are saying three minutes because three minutes is about how long it will take you to clear the first five floors in a full group.

[jooozek]

Wait, you get a time limit on your Tower mission time? I thought it was "fight until you die". Is it seriously 3 minutes?

its not a time limit
thats how long it takes to do the 5 stages that 1 pass allows you to do :lol:

[Z-0]

It's fight until 1 or 2 spawns are dead. Except this is PSO2, so everything is a cakewalk.

[Bellion]

The challenges for each stage so far are simple as well.
Kill 20 enemies in 30 seconds, kill 12 gulfur in 30 seconds, defeat Del Mammoth in 180 seconds, clear stage 5 in 60 seconds.

[Z-0]

Stage 5's order is to not heal in 60 seconds.

Dunno if you can clear before the time is up. We waited to be sure.

[renji84]

10 pass is in my storage now...2 tri boost 100% :)

[Bellion]

Was it? I suppose that I should stop skimming through the messages. I guess that makes sense since they gave 180 seconds to kill 1 mini-boss.

[Shinamori]

10 pass is in my storage now...2 tri boost 100% :)
You got a 10 pass in your storage? lucky.

[gravityvx]

Tower is easy? *gasp*

[jooozek]

signo beat dropped me... a cornelia wand

[XbikXBd]

You got a 10 pass in your storage? lucky.

yall do know that the passes will be a Champaign reward so you need to get them from your visiphone.

[jooozek]

yall do know that the passes will be a Champaign reward so you need to get them from your visiphone.

uh, except we didnt get them when the servers went live after maintenance

[XbikXBd]

uh, except we didnt get them when the servers went live after maintenance

emergency maintenance? OR it seems some people did get them...

[Z-0]

SEGA were just late and have been distributing them now.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I didn't get Falz Arm on floor 30, I got Gwanahda instead.

[jooozek]

so, 11 passes used and im at 99 shitstones, only 13401 to go!

[darthvader]

"kill 2 micdas after inflicting them a status effect"
derp, didnt have force or SE affixed weapons. though not like it affect much, the max i can get is 3 items after successfully finished all 5 orders each stage.

oh yeah, df body on 40th floor drop the 2nd stone 紅桜の石 (i think i missed one kanji here but w/e) instead of irista stone, so get all of his arms.

[Z-0]

DF isn't a set spawn on floor 40. I got Zeshrayda, King Yede and Snow Banther. Also, breaking Falz arms doesn't increase Iritista drops at all. I've gotten max (6) with no arms broken, I doubt it would be different there.

Just like how Falz Arm doesn't always spawn on 30.

Just cleared all 40 floors, got the equivalent of 523 spellstones... I will add that 11*s CAN drop in the quests (that come from the shop). A Japanese person got one of the R-Def requirement 11* units from Snow Banshee on Floor 20. I believe the spellstone shop is there incase you never get the items "hunting" them, except by the time you do accumulate enough stones, they'll be severely outclassed.

[Coatl]

What's the prize for clearing all floors of extreme quests?

[Z-0]

3 upgraded Spellstones. Nothing more, nothing less...

[Coatl]

gg...

[Crysteon]

I didnt get anything special for clearing all 40 floors with some friends either. But I swear floor 40 was some fun shit (Zesh & Banther going apeshit on that small arena was just priceless), lol. We now need a floor where you encounter 3 Hunars in a narrow space, with a 200% ATK modifier.

[Arios]

Stage 5's order is to not heal in 60 seconds.

Dunno if you can clear before the time is up. We waited to be sure.

Yep, you can clear it before the time is up and you will still succeed in these types of stage orders.

[jooozek]

used 7 passes on my old account, 43 shitstones so far, yay?