Here's a handy guide for the most useful way to exploit your battle PMs and NPCs in solo mode.
First off this guide should be used for your main, that you intend to do any soloing on. PMs created on your main might be a little gimped synthing wise, it's always a good idea to make at least two PMs on other character slots that are pure in one area. That area being POW if you are a Hunter of some sort, DEX if you are a Ranger and MIND if you are a Force, and the other pure PM that EVERYBODY should have is the DEF PM. Armor costs a lot in PSU and the failure rate is depressing. However if you intend to use all your characters for soloing or playing in small groups at some point, matching the pure PMs to the ideal character is going to help a lot. Firstly to get this out of the way, here are what the pure PMs will turn into.
If your PM is pure DEX, it will become GH-430, a Ranger PM. This is the easiest pure PM to make, simply by feeding traps from the shop that cost a mere 100 meseta.
If your PM is pure DEF, it will become GH-440, a Ranger PM. This is the second easiest pure PM to make, simply by feeding it cast parts stripped from new characters.
If your PM is pure POW, it will become GH-410, a Hunter PM. This is the second hardest and expensive pure PM to make, the best way is to feed it 1-3 star melee weapons found/bought/synthed yourself and 5 star curative items/food items to lower MIND, which offer the best pow/mind ratio for the job.
If your PM is pure MIND, it will become GH-450, a Force PM. This is the hardest and most expensive pure PM to make, requiring force weapons and tech disks to feed. Curative items and food raise POW by too high a ration and have to be reduced a great deal. If you are NOT going to be a Fortetecher a pure version of this PM is not recommended at all. It will cost well over a million meseta and isn't cost effective for synthing items for even Wartechers and Guntechers as the FO weaps they can equip are limited. For a cheap and easy non-pure alternative check the folowing guide : http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.p...50&forum=22&24
With that out of the way here's the guide to ideal BATTLE PMs for each class. Your battle PM may not be needed for synthing items. But it will be useful in soloing and on low capacity parties, and should not be dismissed as a useless NPC.
Wartecher
First off I'll cover the Wartecher, as this is PSU's most versatile class. There really isn't a race best suited at Wartecher as they'll all end up with different methods of play, beasts and cast being concentrated melee with a hint of support, newmen being concentrated support and nuking with a hint of melee, and human being smack in the middle. Because of this there's a variety of recommendations to be made for your PM.
Beast Wartechers should go for the ranger PM. If you aren't using a ranger as a secondary character, make it the defense based ranger, GH-440. That way you can make an easy pure stat DEF PM, and synth up armour for all your characters. If you ARE using a ranger as a secondary, make it the easy DEX based ranger, GH-430.
Bast wartecher is a great class for solo. The Ranger PM will stun enemies which seems to not only stop them attacking, but lower their evade, making up for your low ATA. The NPC in question is Leo, arguably the best NPC available as he will nanoblast a lot. While in nanoblast you can heal him, you're a wartecher!
This character could solo A rank relics quickly at the LOWEST qualifying level (35) with the PM and NPC.
If you are a CAST wartecher, your ATA is a lot higher and your ATP is lower. A ranger PM is still a good idea for the stun factor, but a melee PM is also good. it also depends on your method of play. Bear in mind your NPC is Lou - a Fighguner - arguably a mostly Hunter character so you may want to go for a ranger PM to even it out a bit.
Human wartechers also get a choice, but here the ATP is lower overall. The TAP is also much higher than cast and beast, so healing potential is higher. they should choose a melee based PM (410 or 420) as their PM. If you're a Fortefighter or Fighgunner on another character, here is the opportunity to make a pure pow 410 or your artecher to synth up melee weapons for both your wartecher and other character. The NPC in question is Hyuga, who I THINK is also a wartecher as he both melees and occassionally restas. He's the least useful NPC in my opinion for this class, but you take what you can get - it would be better to go with Leia Martinez when episode 2 comes to US servers and you receive her card.
Fortefighter
Fortefighters of any kind should go for the 450, the healing PM. If you are a PURE force on another character, make your 450 pure MIND if you can afford it, for synthing. A 450 PM will keep you and your NPC healed. With this in mind the best race for soloing on a Fortefighter is beast, as Leo will also go into nanoblast form and be healed by your PM.
Fighgunner
Again, the 450 for the same reasons. With ATA and ATP in mind, the best class for solo here is the cast, purely because your stats will just be the highest they can go. Lou is also a Fighgunner and will fight melee-style alongside you, meaning the PM will stay close and resta.
Guntecher
A GUNTECHER'S TECHS SUCK! However, they are still great to have around for resta. PMs rarely get blasted all to hell by a flurry of attacks, they have high HP, meaning you can let their bar go low, take them to one side and resta them. In the guntecher's case, over and over again. But it's still effective for you, so as a ranger with lower power than a forte, your clear choice here is a melee based PM, GH-410 or GH-420, depending on preference. Remember GH-420 can never be pure in any one stat, so use your other characters to determine which is best to choose as your melee PM. This goes for every race of guntecher.
The best solo guntecher is the cast, accompanied as they are by Lou, a fighgunner and a mostly HU class. Other races will have a harder time.
Fortegunner
This is the worst class for solo play. It's a hard choice really, as your damage will be low as a ranger, and you can't resta a melee PM. So the ideal PM would be melee if you intend to party with forces a lot, or a GH-450 (force) PM if not. YOu are still going to have a harder time soloing than any other class. I'd like to say the best race for soloing as Fortegunner is human, as they get Hyuga and he restas, but he DOESN'T DO IT NEARLY ENOUGH! Perhaps Maya would be better, but a Fortegunner newman is clearly a waste of their TAP potential.
Fortetecher
The best PM here would technically melee, but if you're an all out nuker you may want to consider the RA based PMs. This is the most verstaile class in terms of a good PM to pick. I'm really not sure what would be best, but obviously you don't want 450 as a battle PM here. Let your decision rest on what items you want to synth for your other characters. Also you can constantly resta any NPC that comes along, so you aren't really in for a hard time whatever you pick. IMO though a Fortetecher should always be a newman. It's a little wasted on other races.
Protranser
I don't know shit about this class, and I don't think I want to.
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