Yeah, it's just something to do. You either like to look at it or you don't, honestly. The combat is nice but with such irritating enemies you're forced to either slog through annoying stunlock and flinchlock or get into a large party and suffer literally zero challenge whatsoever as the forces nuke everything before you can even get close enough to slash anything one time.
Right now I'm still entertained by it, but only marginally. It's something to do. I do like that it's exposure to japanese, so I'm picking things up as I go along, but it's not like I'm expending real energy to actually learn it. I could learn it far faster if I even just grabbed an interactive language teaching program. But, then, those don't have lasers. I know of Math Blaster, don't think there's a Japan Blaster though.
You're welcome to pop on and we can do TA if I'm available, but really I don't blame you for getting bored. They really are just turning it into an endless grind that can only be made easier by spending money so the next time you spend money it's more cost effective.
whats good my man, im sorry i haven't been on to run some time attack lately, but things have been kicking into high gear IRL, and pso2 being less and less fun for me to play as each day passes doesn't help. the excube system to me is almost the final nail (for now) in the coffin that they won't really try to change much (it seems kinda final for a while you know? like, kinda, "hey we'll create this system where we don't even increase level cap anymore to keep people doing something.") i mean yeah the excube system is cool it's definitely better than just giving nothing at all but really.
at that point the game to me just seems so dry. it already is pretty boring for me currently lol. i get on for like 30 minutes and i start thinking, "lol jeeze this is really boring."
the only times i get on now are if i have some kind of tv show i wanna watch online so i can watch that while i "play" pso2 you know?
i still have moderate hopes for this game because i still honestly and earnestly believe it has the best combat for a game of it's "type" or "genre" and it really has the potential to be something amazing, but they just aren't delivering for me. and that's fine, that's why it's f2p after all. i can stop whenever i want and come back any time i want too.
anyway this isn't a "omg im quitting blah blah blah" it's more of a "hey this is why i'm never on but it was fun playing with you so i'm just letting you know this is why i'm not on ever."
anyway i'm glad ur still able to enjoy the game, if you find the new PA's upload them to youtube for me so i can see (i've only seen the new ones from the mid october patch, none of the new ones like over end and the partisan pa's, etc.)
Yeah I get what you mean. Gils always flop around (I do tranmizer subdue instead of mines free field, so I get both types all the time). The gilnas do their lunges and jumps, then the gilnatch run over to heal them. The end result is a nas with 2+ natches right there. AOE is ideal. Dubs would be the best if not for the swing, lunge, and jumps all knocking you down, and with 3 gils on top of eachother one of those attacks is always coming your way.
It's one of those cases where sonic arrow is ideal honestly. Sword WRECKS those situations, but I haven't tried the grabby dagger PA so that might be awesome. I'll do that tonight.
LOL ohh okay yeah that makes sense about the knucks, ya. i gotcha
as for the dubbersayburs that's true they're not universal lol, especially against flying enemies. holy shit flying enemies are annoying to fight with dubs.
as for gilnachs though, they do do that swingy spam attack that knocks you over, but you can stay a good distance away enough by doing the longer ranged charged deadly archer so you don't get smacked. and since it already does so much damage they're usually down for the count after 3 charged dudleys lollll.
i just feel like with decent maneuvering dubs can still outdo all other hunter weapons against those gilnachs so long as they can gauge distance well with charged dudley art chairs. but no
they suck harder than kirby mimicking vacuum power against those damn flying enemies. nowadays i pretty much always just change to dagger for them and grab their asses with the stab grab thing.
step attack with knucks gives you 3 bars? do you have to LAND the step attack? i'm a little ashamed of myself that i didn't notice this.
also i donno if i can agree dubs aren't the best weapon. if we can both agree that the most important thing a weapon should do is damage, then dubs just out do all the other melee weapons because deadly archer is so stupid strong. all other PA attacks for all weapons should get like a 25-50% damage boost just so they're somewhat viable compared to deddorriiii aaachaaa.
the only downfall deadly archer has imo is how you can miss with it. but if you practice using it properly your accuracy goes up a lot. you can also use techniques so you can gauge distance better, like aiming to the diagonal side of you instead of straight in front, because aiming straight is a bit more difficult to see the distance. it's still the best weapon for single target, and arguably the best weapon for multi target, because of its gear and tornado dance.
I WILL ADMIT THOUGH, i get shredded to pieces a lot when i go into a group of mobs maybe 4+ with double sabers, since most enemies have super armor when they initiate an attack. so in that sense, sonic arrow could be better for crowd control, because you don't have to physically be near all enemies to hit them all, you just skirt along the edges of a group of enemies and shoot sonic arrows through them while gaining pp through dash kicks.
i donno the times ur usually on but we must time attack sometime pls. if some random guy added you recently that was me. i sent you a good job saying time attack pls or something lol.
Things I've learned for EN release if we get IP banned:
How to raise mags
How to invest SP on my skillsheet (same as sword build, but drop two JA Bonus for the other two gear)
That Tucana is the only mag
That FOcast ain't bad, don't hate
That being refunded 90 dollars from SoJ made all of this especially worth it
I'm cool if an IP ban happens honestly. I've dumped characters with way more play time than this, just to restart a new one because I got bored. In the end we play capped for probably 90% of the time anyway.
I haev all the attacks, and yeah if that one can be lined up it is just stupidly powerful. I don't even know why, it doesn't look like it hits THAT many times but it must because basically everything dies, weak point or no.
i'd bet so much money that we won't get ip banned until after NA/EUR pso2 gets launched. *if we get banned. lol
there's really no point in ip banning, other than gaijins taking up a meager amount of bandwidth on off times when it doesn't even matter since most japanese players are at work/sleeping when gaijins play.
regardless, even if people are still supporting the game through expensive webmoney purchases, i got a gut feeling that pso2 gon' ip ban. going through the headache of returning every gaijin transaction is some dedication (unless our numbers are that small looool)
so even if our time gets wasted, i'm just trying to get all three gears for fighter, so i at least get some kinda closure lol. knuckles were a disappointment, twin daggers are the most fun, and doublesaber does way too much damage.
if you don't have it yet, get デッドリーアーチャー. that move is really broken. it's hitbox is wonky and you have to aim it, but it hits like 8x if you get the distance perfect, and it hits for A LOT. you can charge it too, which is also broken. the distance gets elongated, but you do even more damage, and the doublesabers stay out spinning longer.
sup mayn, lemme know if the amex prepaid card got accepted. i don't really feel like buying webmoney in bulk just to make it not cost stupid amounts of money compared to when you buy it in small amounts (last time i checked, the smallest amount, 500 web money was like 10 usd. bullshit)
so if you can still purchase directly from sega using that amex prepaid, i'd much rather pay ~6.50 than 10 usd, for 500 ac.
(i've only seen the new ones from the mid october patch, none of the new ones like over end and the partisan pa's, etc.)