A ridiculous amount of items for a "Austere" Weapon

[TaigaUC]

I don't do XQ often, so I have upwards of 500 passes on every account.
If you need to, you can get passes from Casino and then just do a few full clears to get the titles.
The titles really makes XQ much easier. But if you've already done them, well... shit.

I don't think I got an Elysion or Guld Mira until TD1.
Still no Elder Pain here. Doesn't help that he usually dies before he can pull his sword out.

[[Ayumi]]

Was there ever something wrong with hunting gear or trading for it? They've had the most relevant gear tradelocked throughout this game's lifespan long enough already. Then they put the stones in an as a consolation prize of sorts, but now it's the main draw for most people since drop rates are so terrible you can't realistically expect to be able to find, let alone hunt for the weapon you actually want. Or trade for it for that matter. It's already bad enough that 13*'s lock on upgrade on top of currently being untradable.

I don't understand why either. I guess connecting and trading stuff with players is a big no-no.

Their excuse is something along the lines of letting people that find rares enjoy them for a while. Completely bullshit, seriously. By the time they will be available for buying/selling between players they won't even be desired and so they become items worth 100k on the market.

I'm sure there are people that enjoys rares equally finding them OR buying them, but I guess not according to SEGA.

I remember that excuse when 10*s came out. Pissed me off a bit when there were certain weapons I wanted that I knew/thought was coming and knowing my luck I would never get them myself. The whole "Wait, I can search for 10* in the shop" at that same time was a bit promising... not knowing how the whole set up is whatever is now considered junk is what would start to sell in stores now.
I liked the idea of trading things with friends and such long ago. Especially when I had 2 accounts back on PSO and even PSU while trading between my accounts. Can't do that now even if I had them both on premium.

I didn't get an elysion until the double falz EQ came out... so yeah I know that feel.

To add to the last thing I said just above this, one iconic weapon I always wanted in ever PS game since PSO was the Guld Milla. I remember when 11*s came out about rumour of it dropping in Parallel areas or from Elder and such. No luck getting it.
Then after my long break from PSO2, I just decided to check the stores to see if they were selling and saw the cheapest being 10k. I was happy to see that but problem...
No premium. And even if I had premium... I had no 11* to even make into a pass. So I was out of luck. By then I heard they dropped in TD3 so I played TD3 as if I didn't play, I would die of starvation or something *cuestupidhorrormoviethemebasedondoingsomethingory ouwoulddie*.
After a while I finally got an 11* and bought one of the best Guld Millas out there (before the nerfing of course) and was happy.
I still did TD3s and Elder and many Parallels and so on and so forth since then and still never actually found a Guld Milla.

I found my 1st Guld Milla during the introduction of Elder/Loser EQs... well no. I found my 1st and 2nd Guld Milla in the same run. The next time the EQ popped up I got like 4 of them in one run.
As you speak of Elysion, same time I got that one too. I had to buy mine long before as well.

I don't do XQ often, so I have upwards of 500 passes on every account.
If you need to, you can get passes from Casino and then just do a few full clears to get the titles.
The titles really makes XQ much easier. But if you've already done them, well... shit.

I don't think I got an Elysion or Guld Mira until TD1.
Still no Elder Pain here. Doesn't help that he usually dies before he can pull his sword out.

That's usually the problem for me I guess. I do 5 XQs (sometimes 10) a week for those orders for the money.

[Kondibon]

I found my 1st Guld Milla during the introduction of Elder/Loser EQs... well no. I found my 1st and 2nd Guld Milla in the same run.

That's exactly how I got my GMs too. >_>

[TaigaUC]

I'm sure part of the reason they tradelock stuff is because it makes it easier to control the incentives for doing whatever "new" content they dripfeed.
People trading stuff reduces incentive by a huge amount, since you can just buy it instead of wasting years trying to get it to drop.
That's what I usually do. Wait and then buy it instead. Time better spent elsewhere.
Exception is if I'm getting a lot of other stuff done at the same time, then it doesn't hurt if something I want happens to drop.

[wahahaha]

You could avoid getting the blue series, the game wont force you to get those, red series are a gift (considering 100 cubes and 100 stones)

[Achelousaurus]

Was there ever something wrong with hunting gear or trading for it? They've had the most relevant gear tradelocked throughout this game's lifespan long enough already. Then they put the stones in an as a consolation prize of sorts, but now it's the main draw for most people since drop rates are so terrible you can't realistically expect to be able to find, let alone hunt for the weapon you actually want. Or trade for it for that matter. It's already bad enough that 13*'s lock on upgrade on top of currently being untradable.

The problem is only ever the effort required. It can be fun to farm stuff and hunt rare stuff but only to a certain extent, then it's nothing but a chore.
Take for example Xie stones, 300 for a weapon was still pretty fun and even 600 for 60 element was still ok.
But then consider yurlungur stones and the 1000 runs or whatever you need for a 60 element slave weapon, especially because it's ultimate and Xie stones came from XH.

Then again, can't say finding stuff is nearly as bad as it used to be.
Hunting gear in PSOBB could take upwards of forever. Just glad I was big into trading and got some epic loots this way. It was also epic fun, playing the market can sometimes be just as fun but it can also get a lot more frustrating.

Either way episode 4 was announced for next year and as of now 10* works if you know what you're doing, so if Invade has a potential or not I'm gonna get a couple (at least Katana and Partizan) and then wait for ep4, because either we will see 14* when the initial ep 4 content is not new enough to keep people's attention anymore or at least we're going to see the top tier 13*.
So not much of a point in emptying my bank multiple times over for something that can't possibly be top of the line for very long.

[Gourd]

Some of you must have absolutely no lives if you think these requirements are worth it or even easy for a SINGLE one of these weapons. 15 of those EXQ stones? 300 Excubes? That's like 8 Magatsu EQ's. Are you all blind or high? o-O

[milranduil]

Some of you must have absolutely no lives if you think these requirements are worth it or even easy for a SINGLE one of these weapons. 15 of those EXQ stones? 300 Excubes? That's like 8 Magatsu EQ's. Are you all blind or high? o-O

8 magatsu eq's for 300 cubes? sounds like b1

[HeartBreak301]

Some of you must have absolutely no lives if you think these requirements are worth it or even easy for a SINGLE one of these weapons. 15 of those EXQ stones? 300 Excubes? That's like 8 Magatsu EQ's. Are you all blind or high? o-O

The extreme stones aren't too much of an issue, unless you pissed away your title stones on bio weapons or something. As for the excubes, it's about three full XH Magatsus. 4 runs and Sai will net you about 100 cubes every time on a 250%.

[Kondibon]

The extreme stones aren't too much of an issue, unless you pissed away your title stones on bio weapons or something.

Considering they were the best multiclass option at one point and it was pretty much encouraged by the community to do so, I don't see why it would have been considered "pissing away".