PSO2es Discussion Thread

[Zorak000]

bonus box stage 9 doesn't have any units in it D:

now how am I going to drown in 3-slot soul receptors to turn 3-slot falz souls into 4-slot and sell them

at least I got Guld Milla to make me literally invincible

I should post my chip inventory for each character sometime just to get some good advice

[Lyrise]

Just remember, ARKS quests are now 3x exp for the week, so if you're not logged into PC, you can level via es for those classes that still need levels or cubes - it's 80940 exp for the final mission, which you can do in about 2 minutes. (Also, the math has been done, exp/stamina point, you can't do better than the final mission)

[Dark Emerald EXE]

Can someone summarize the new Chapters? I went through and can only go on context of what happened lol

[bankcute]

i want to know about last Chapters too. i get Gene *11 from clear last story quest

[Lyrise]

Chapter 9, Cliff notes edition:

Spoiler!

-Fel wakes up after having fallen unconscious. (you did kick his ass pretty hard in Chapter 8.) Dante fills him on the details, congratulates him on a job well done for bringing Gene to them.
-Your team are getting a bit anxious and decide to go save Gene.
-Fel asks about Levy, how she's doing. Dante doesn't know but mentions that she should be ok, since Zackard's doing the healing.
-Fel has a flashback to about the time Gene willingly turned herself in. She mentioned that she hated his actions, but would be saddened if Fel were to die.
-Dante spots Zackard, asking about Levy. Zackard doesn't know what he's talking about. His expertise is to repair Genesis weapons, not to heal living beings
-Dante then realizes what Lord's plan is; Lord appears to have played everyone for fools.
-Dante appears to care about something. He doesn't like the fact that promises were made (to Fel) that weren't going to be kept. At this point he decides to pay you a visit.
-When you wonder why there is a Banther Donar here, you realize that this was the specimen used to create Levy.
-Dante mentions he'll take you to Lord. He also mentions that Lord's plan is to absorb Gene, to become complete (so it seems Lord might be incomplete, and Gene is the other half?)
-A Flashback is played out (Gene's). Here we see a sane Zackard talking to Gene, telling her that weaponoids will be useful in contributing to the future. Before it cuts out, he also does mention something about her ...half? (other half maybe? it cuts out really suddenly - but definitely foreshadows something to do with Lord)
-Gene regains consciousness, and recognizes that Zackard is here. However she remarks that she can't seem to see anything.
-Zackard comments that she is slowly losing her senses due to all the fighting she is doing. She's lost her eyesight, about to lose her hearing, and will eventually lose her other senses.
-You run into a Dragon EX as well. By now you can probably guess that this was the specimen use to create Fel.
-In some more exposition, Dante asks Bruno if he remembers an investigative mission he took on 2 years ago. Bruno is shocked and wonders why Dante would know this.
-Annette also comments saying that if her memory is correct, Bruno was to search for a Genesis weapon at the EMA labs (which specializes in such things). Apparently this was a lab that specialized in fixing broken Genesis weapons.
-After the Explosion at EMA labs Bruno was ordered to go there and retrieve the Genesis weapon left there. Remember that he did say he could never find such a thing.
-At this point, More is questioning Dante why he would have such information.
-Dante provides a hint and points at More. More is confused what this means. Annette however is quick to realize what Dante is getting at.
-Annette has realized that the EMA labs succeeded in creating a weaponoid based off a Genesis weapon. That weaponoid is More, who was converted into the form of a claymore. This is why Bruno could never find the weapon.
-Annette also comments that the same thing happened at the second lab, the Genesis weapon went missing.
-Dante confirms this, and that the capabilities of such a weaponoid would be beyond comparable to the others.
-Annette is asking why Dante would know this and is revealing it to them?
-Annette also questions why they were explicitly targeting Gene and nobody else.
-Bruno and Annette realize what's going on. There was a Genesis weapon at that 2nd lab that couldn't be fixed and was split into 2 pieces. Dante more or less confirms this.
-The original Weapon was called Roto-Rauto (I assume this is a reference to Rotraut, a small planet that orbits the sun, or some kind of German figure) which happens to be a Doublesaber、With an additional sub name given to it. "Punishment and Forgiveness" (罰と赦し）
-More is understandably distraught. Not only is Gene a weaponoid, and More is a weaponoid, why does Lord have to do these cruel things, to Gene, Levy, and Fel? Especially to Gene, since they are two halves of the same Genesis weapon (Never mind the fact that Lord looks like a Dark Falz Vessel)

Biggest spoiler and the biggest question:

Spoiler!

Gene The higher ups at EMA originally devised weaponoids as "Tools for evil". Zackard didn't agree with this. They had him brainwashed. He resisted, which is why you see him as bipolar, one side is his brainwashed self, the other side is his real self. He was the one who caused the explosions because of this turn of events. He didn't want to see the weaponoids used for evil. Now we've gon full circle, and it turns out his brainwashed side created Lord, and weaponoids being easily impressionable at birth, took on the worst characteristics of Zackard's evil side.

So the question is, who were these executives at EMA, and how did they go undetected by Oracle? Perhaps it was during Luther's evil phase? I don't think it was Luther himself, though he certainly didn't hesitate to allow the use of brainwashing tactics back in Episode 2...

It's probably not Luther, or it could be something Luther started. The influence of Profound Darkness is at work here as well. I do remember there being a Falz who could brainwash. Apprentice?
-Zackard mentions something very important here. Lord is definitely a Dark Falz Vessel, but the vessel is incomplete. If he ever absorbed Gene, he would indeed become a complete Dark Falz. Shades of Episode 4 anyone?

Chapter 10 Cliff Notes:

Spoiler!

Zackard is dead. Lord offed him pretty good. Probably didn't help that he was neurally linked to that Embryovarder we laid waste to.
-Lord feels zero remorse for what he just did. Considers him a tool to be used to its end of usefulness.
-Bruno is starting to sweat at the situation, which Annette comments as pretty rare coming from Bruno. Bruno just doesn't like the odds so heavily stacked against him (My comment: he's partnered with me, like hell I'd even fail)
-Lord summons good ol' Wolgarda to distract you while he moves to capture Gene. Succeeds at it too. (What were you doing Annette?!)
-Teleports the lot of you out as well (smartest thing a bad guy could do at such a moment, though Bruno and More end up somewhere else).
-Lord is clearly delirious. He says that by becoming a Dark Falz, he could remake the world as he sees fit. (I beg to differ. We took out Elder, Loser, Apprentice and Persona out at the time.)
-You get a better idea how Lord was going to absorb Gene than was presented in Chapter 9. Zackard previously mentioned that Gene would have to lose her sense completely before she could be absorbed. Apparently now, for lack of a better term, she's being "decompiled" by the computer that Zackard built, and linked Gene to, for the purpose of letting Lord take her over (remember, she's a weaponoid). She loses one of her senses for every 20%.
-It's heavily implied that Dante was Zackard's plan B if things went crazy, hence is has full access to the "house that Zackard built", even though Lord was the one who created Dante, Levy and Fel. Dante's more than willing to help you, out of respect for Fel's wishes.
-Dante mentions that the ideal world that Lord would have created would be one completely devoid of emotion. Sounds fitting for something that would represent a D-arker Society.
-You and Annette run into Bruno. However, More isn't with him (seems like Bruno completely forgot he was with him to begin with).
-Lord of course is understandably pissed off when the main system dies. He can't absorb Gene, and is even more peeved that Dante has betrayed him. (An eye for an eye)
-Lord is about to attack Gene in anger, but More saves Gene and takes the full brunt of the attack (remember, he himself is a Genesis weapon originally AND the original Weaponoid prototype) He's clearly not in good shape after this.
-You, along with the rest of the entourage show up, Bruno gets a good shot in at Lord. This leads to the battle with ProtoFalz Lord (Seriously, screw this red on red, it's hard to avoid his attacks like that)
-Lord cannot comprehend how you beat him. Annette mentions that because he himself is not complete, by becoming a Dark Falz, he has put himself in the exact situation as Levy and Fel, where the power he has taken in is rapidly deteriorating his body.
-Lord refuses to admit that he is weak. Gene points out Fel and Levy were much stronger than him, due to the emotions and feelings that had for others. (Levy for Lord, Fel for Levy) She states that he fears the emotions and feelings he could have for other people, especially given that the hatred and sadness born from Zackard came from the betrayal of the EMA execs.
-Lord is now screaming out for Dante, Fel and Levy. In what seems to be an absolute show of emotions. Of course, nobody is going to respond to him (given how he backstabbed ALL of them)
-Even when its time to bail out of the unstable dimension, Gene still wants to save Lord. Lord however, has given himself up to the influence of the Profound Darkness. You get to fight Protofalz Lord again
-After the battle, things are really falling apart. The tables are turned as Lord is now unable to see anything, and he feels like he's burning up too.
-Gene cannot forgive Lord, but she does however, want Lord to see the world proper, that isn't perfect.
-Team Darker Busters, having completed its mission has disbanded. Dante, Fel and Levy (who has somehow healed) is off on vacation on Wopal.
-Bruno has returned to doing solo recon missions. You on the other hand are off on another mission of your own (probably episode 3). More is certain that everyone will meet again.
-Moer is going off with Annette for a different job, meanwhile Bruno is off to investigate a new planet. (Shades of Episode 5 maybe?)
-You and Gene are reminiscing on the past, when you first met Gene, and if you remember the original outfit she had on (Stellar Innocent). She also brings up how she from the very beginning to the very end ended up relying on you, always getting her out of a jam. She says that this world is beautiful, because you were always there by her side, thanks you, and says that she'll never forget you.

As for your rewards for finishing story:

Spoiler!

You get 1 Gene Memorial Chip (it's a 12cost barrier chip), and 1 Genesis Emblem, just in time for next week. I think you may see more than just the Clarissa III at Sieg's.

[Dark Emerald EXE]

So is this the end for ES for now? I am full of sadness.....hope they do more. Also I hope if they eventually give out the camo for the Lord/Gene DS that you can only get it if you completed ES

[Atmius]

Sega, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that people aren't allowed to have gift receptor on units, and will apparently delete the gift receptor affix and the lucky rise/meseta fever/exp boost affixes that aren't from the excube exchange/matterboard that give them by default (I don't actually know if there are units with exp boost, I don't recall such but you never know).

I don't know why gift receptor was never put on units to begin with when it was introduced, it would actually entice people not to be as much of a leech using lucky rise units when they could have a proper affix AND lucky rise ontop of it.

[Lyrise]

I really doubt that. If you took the time to create a high slot affix, I'm pretty sure Luckyrise is the one thing you wouldn't put on it. Not only is it a waste of a slot, given how you could put something else on it with better utility, to actually get a Rise3 affix on your gear takes way too many resources and complicates your affix by a lot. (you need 3 rise3 and gift receptor to even have a 50% base chance of getting it on.)

[starwind75043]

Chapter 9, Cliff notes edition:

Spoiler!

-Fel wakes up after having fallen unconscious. (you did kick his ass pretty hard in Chapter 8.) Dante fills him on the details, congratulates him on a job well done for bringing Gene to them.
-Your team are getting a bit anxious and decide to go save Gene.
-Fel asks about Levy, how she's doing. Dante doesn't know but mentions that she should be ok, since Zackard's doing the healing.
-Fel has a flashback to about the time Gene willingly turned herself in. She mentioned that she hated his actions, but would be saddened if Fel were to die.
-Dante spots Zackard, asking about Levy. Zackard doesn't know what he's talking about. His expertise is to repair Genesis weapons, not to heal living beings
-Dante then realizes what Lord's plan is; Lord appears to have played everyone for fools.
-Dante appears to care about something. He doesn't like the fact that promises were made (to Fel) that weren't going to be kept. At this point he decides to pay you a visit.
-When you wonder why there is a Banther Donar here, you realize that this was the specimen used to create Levy.
-Dante mentions he'll take you to Lord. He also mentions that Lord's plan is to absorb Gene, to become complete (so it seems Lord might be incomplete, and Gene is the other half?)
-A Flashback is played out (Gene's). Here we see a sane Zackard talking to Gene, telling her that weaponoids will be useful in contributing to the future. Before it cuts out, he also does mention something about her ...half? (other half maybe? it cuts out really suddenly - but definitely foreshadows something to do with Lord)
-Gene regains consciousness, and recognizes that Zackard is here. However she remarks that she can't seem to see anything.
-Zackard comments that she is slowly losing her senses due to all the fighting she is doing. She's lost her eyesight, about to lose her hearing, and will eventually lose her other senses.
-You run into a Dragon EX as well. By now you can probably guess that this was the specimen use to create Fel.
-In some more exposition, Dante asks Bruno if he remembers an investigative mission he took on 2 years ago. Bruno is shocked and wonders why Dante would know this.
-Annette also comments saying that if her memory is correct, Bruno was to search for a Genesis weapon at the EMA labs (which specializes in such things). Apparently this was a lab that specialized in fixing broken Genesis weapons.
-After the Explosion at EMA labs Bruno was ordered to go there and retrieve the Genesis weapon left there. Remember that he did say he could never find such a thing.
-At this point, More is questioning Dante why he would have such information.
-Dante provides a hint and points at More. More is confused what this means. Annette however is quick to realize what Dante is getting at.
-Annette has realized that the EMA labs succeeded in creating a weaponoid based off a Genesis weapon. That weaponoid is More, who was converted into the form of a claymore. This is why Bruno could never find the weapon.
-Annette also comments that the same thing happened at the second lab, the Genesis weapon went missing.
-Dante confirms this, and that the capabilities of such a weaponoid would be beyond comparable to the others.
-Annette is asking why Dante would know this and is revealing it to them?
-Annette also questions why they were explicitly targeting Gene and nobody else.
-Bruno and Annette realize what's going on. There was a Genesis weapon at that 2nd lab that couldn't be fixed and was split into 2 pieces. Dante more or less confirms this.
-The original Weapon was called Roto-Rauto (I assume this is a reference to Rotraut, a small planet that orbits the sun, or some kind of German figure) which happens to be a Doublesaber、With an additional sub name given to it. "Punishment and Forgiveness" (罰と赦し）
-More is understandably distraught. Not only is Gene a weaponoid, and More is a weaponoid, why does Lord have to do these cruel things, to Gene, Levy, and Fel? Especially to Gene, since they are two halves of the same Genesis weapon (Never mind the fact that Lord looks like a Dark Falz Vessel)

Biggest spoiler and the biggest question:

Spoiler!

Gene The higher ups at EMA originally devised weaponoids as "Tools for evil". Zackard didn't agree with this. They had him brainwashed. He resisted, which is why you see him as bipolar, one side is his brainwashed self, the other side is his real self. He was the one who caused the explosions because of this turn of events. He didn't want to see the weaponoids used for evil. Now we've gon full circle, and it turns out his brainwashed side created Lord, and weaponoids being easily impressionable at birth, took on the worst characteristics of Zackard's evil side.

So the question is, who were these executives at EMA, and how did they go undetected by Oracle? Perhaps it was during Luther's evil phase? I don't think it was Luther himself, though he certainly didn't hesitate to allow the use of brainwashing tactics back in Episode 2...

It's probably not Luther, or it could be something Luther started. The influence of Profound Darkness is at work here as well. I do remember there being a Falz who could brainwash. Apprentice?
-Zackard mentions something very important here. Lord is definitely a Dark Falz Vessel, but the vessel is incomplete. If he ever absorbed Gene, he would indeed become a complete Dark Falz. Shades of Episode 4 anyone?

Chapter 10 Cliff Notes:

Spoiler!

Zackard is dead. Lord offed him pretty good. Probably didn't help that he was neurally linked to that Embryovarder we laid waste to.
-Lord feels zero remorse for what he just did. Considers him a tool to be used to its end of usefulness.
-Bruno is starting to sweat at the situation, which Annette comments as pretty rare coming from Bruno. Bruno just doesn't like the odds so heavily stacked against him (My comment: he's partnered with me, like hell I'd even fail)
-Lord summons good ol' Wolgarda to distract you while he moves to capture Gene. Succeeds at it too. (What were you doing Annette?!)
-Teleports the lot of you out as well (smartest thing a bad guy could do at such a moment, though Bruno and More end up somewhere else).
-Lord is clearly delirious. He says that by becoming a Dark Falz, he could remake the world as he sees fit. (I beg to differ. We took out Elder, Loser, Apprentice and Persona out at the time.)
-You get a better idea how Lord was going to absorb Gene than was presented in Chapter 9. Zackard previously mentioned that Gene would have to lose her sense completely before she could be absorbed. Apparently now, for lack of a better term, she's being "decompiled" by the computer that Zackard built, and linked Gene to, for the purpose of letting Lord take her over (remember, she's a weaponoid). She loses one of her senses for every 20%.
-It's heavily implied that Dante was Zackard's plan B if things went crazy, hence is has full access to the "house that Zackard built", even though Lord was the one who created Dante, Levy and Fel. Dante's more than willing to help you, out of respect for Fel's wishes.
-Dante mentions that the ideal world that Lord would have created would be one completely devoid of emotion. Sounds fitting for something that would represent a D-arker Society.
-You and Annette run into Bruno. However, More isn't with him (seems like Bruno completely forgot he was with him to begin with).
-Lord of course is understandably pissed off when the main system dies. He can't absorb Gene, and is even more peeved that Dante has betrayed him. (An eye for an eye)
-Lord is about to attack Gene in anger, but More saves Gene and takes the full brunt of the attack (remember, he himself is a Genesis weapon originally AND the original Weaponoid prototype) He's clearly not in good shape after this.
-You, along with the rest of the entourage show up, Bruno gets a good shot in at Lord. This leads to the battle with ProtoFalz Lord (Seriously, screw this red on red, it's hard to avoid his attacks like that)
-Lord cannot comprehend how you beat him. Annette mentions that because he himself is not complete, by becoming a Dark Falz, he has put himself in the exact situation as Levy and Fel, where the power he has taken in is rapidly deteriorating his body.
-Lord refuses to admit that he is weak. Gene points out Fel and Levy were much stronger than him, due to the emotions and feelings that had for others. (Levy for Lord, Fel for Levy) She states that he fears the emotions and feelings he could have for other people, especially given that the hatred and sadness born from Zackard came from the betrayal of the EMA execs.
-Lord is now screaming out for Dante, Fel and Levy. In what seems to be an absolute show of emotions. Of course, nobody is going to respond to him (given how he backstabbed ALL of them)
-Even when its time to bail out of the unstable dimension, Gene still wants to save Lord. Lord however, has given himself up to the influence of the Profound Darkness. You get to fight Protofalz Lord again
-After the battle, things are really falling apart. The tables are turned as Lord is now unable to see anything, and he feels like he's burning up too.
-Gene cannot forgive Lord, but she does however, want Lord to see the world proper, that isn't perfect.
-Team Darker Busters, having completed its mission has disbanded. Dante, Fel and Levy (who has somehow healed) is off on vacation on Wopal.
-Bruno has returned to doing solo recon missions. You on the other hand are off on another mission of your own (probably episode 3). More is certain that everyone will meet again.
-Moer is going off with Annette for a different job, meanwhile Bruno is off to investigate a new planet. (Shades of Episode 5 maybe?)
-You and Gene are reminiscing on the past, when you first met Gene, and if you remember the original outfit she had on (Stellar Innocent). She also brings up how she from the very beginning to the very end ended up relying on you, always getting her out of a jam. She says that this world is beautiful, because you were always there by her side, thanks you, and says that she'll never forget you.

As for your rewards for finishing story:

Spoiler!

You get 1 Gene Memorial Chip (it's a 12cost barrier chip), and 1 Genesis Emblem, just in time for next week. I think you may see more than just the Clarissa III at Sieg's.

Barrier type chip? So its a defensive chip?

edit: Nvm finally found it on the wiki

[Atmius]

I really doubt that. If you took the time to create a high slot affix, I'm pretty sure Luckyrise is the one thing you wouldn't put on it. Not only is it a waste of a slot, given how you could put something else on it with better utility, to actually get a Rise3 affix on your gear takes way too many resources and complicates your affix by a lot. (you need 3 rise3 and gift receptor to even have a 50% base chance of getting it on.)

It might be kind of tedious and expensive, but there wouldn't be anything stopping you from trying it. I'd probably make a set with apprentice/mod/stig/LR3/MF2 for general non tryhard use. It gives the benefit of meseta fever for xqs, LR3 for LR3, and app/mod/stig give a reasonable amount of attack/pp. Not overly hard to make.