PSO2 Alpha Test General Discussion Thread

[Cayenne]

Yeah, you can't say damn or sh*t but you can F bomb all day lol

[•Col•]

The recent discussion of Force skill trees has me wondering, has anyone put in an English translation of the three class' skill trees yet? It'd be really interesting to see what they are and an explanation of what some of them actually do - and how much flex room there is for creating actual builds (rather than cookie-cutter builds being the norm).

Stickied thread...

Could've changed from the last Alpha, but it's unlikely.

• Hunter:
  -Skill tree:
  
  Spoiler!

  • Step: Nimbly and quickly step short distances
  • Step Attack: Attack during “step”
  • Step Advance: The time of Invincibility during “step” is increased.
  • Guard Stance: Shooting / Striking power decreases, while Defense power increases (Stance Skill)
  • Guard Stance Up 1: Improve defense during a Guard Stance
  • Guard Stance Up 2: Improve defense during a Guard Stance
  • Guard Stance Auto Mate: Automatically use Mates while receiving hits when in a Guard Stance
  • Guard Stance Poison: Recover Ailment Poison while in Guard Stance
  • Guard Stance Burn: Recover Ailment Burn while in Guard Stance
  • Guard: Hold weapon in front of you to guard attacks from enemies.
  • Just Guard: Reduce damage greatly by guarding at the moment of receiving an attack
  • Just Guard Master: The time for Just Guarding is extended.
  • Guard Absorber: The Damage reduction rate during guarding is increased.
  • Just Guard Stun: During a Just Guard, the probability of stunning the enemy is low.
  • War Cry: Attract attention of Enemies.
  • Fury Stance: Striking and Range Power increases, while defense decreases. (Stance Skill)
  • Fury Critical: Improve critical hit rates during the Fury Stance
  • HP Up and Response Up.

  
  
• Ranger:
  -Skill tree:
  
  Spoiler!

  
  

  • Weak Bullet: Exclusively for Ranger, you can charge a weakening bullet.
  • Bind Bullet: Exclusively for Ranger, you can charge a binding bullet.
  • Dive Roll: Quickly move short distances by diving.
  • Dive Roll Advance: Invincibility time during Dive Rolling is extended.
  • Tool Mastery: Damage from Skills in the Tool System is increased
  • Upper Trap: Install a trap that launches Enemies
  • Upper Trap Custom: Damage from Upper Trap increases
  • Poison trap: Install a poison trap
  • Poison Trap Custom: The probability of poisoning increases with the Poison Trap
  • Ability, Reaction, and Range UP.

  
  
• Force:
  -Skill tree:
  
  Spoiler!

  • Flame Mastery: Fire Technics power increases
  • Flame Mastery 2: Fire Technics Power Increases
  • Photon Flare: Temporarily increase TEC Power in exchange for your maximum HP which decreases.
  • Flame Tech S Charge: Shorten the Charge Time of Fire Techs
  • Ice Mastery: Ice Technics power increases
  • Ice Mastery 2: Ice Technics power increases
  • Freeze Ignition: Give an explosive heavy damage to enemies that are frozen
  • Freeze Tech Boost: The establishment of “freeze” from ice technics increases.*
  • Bolt Mastery: Power of Lightning Technics Increases
  • Bolt Mastery 2: Power of Lightning Technics Increases
  • PP Convert: Temporarily increase the PP recovery rate, in exchange for your maximum HP, which decreases.
  • Bolt Tech PP Save: The PP Consumption rate of lightning techs decreases.
  • PP Regenerate: The amount of PP recovery increases
  • TECH Up, Mind Up, PP UP
  • Mirage Escape

[Mike]

The ranger tree is different. I don't have it in front of me so I can't say anything but there are a few skills in the second alpha that weren't present in the first one.

[Spellbinder]

The PP skills for Force seem different as well.

[BioWarrior]

Only difference on force is mind up being gone and they added just attack tech damage up and 2 tech charge up (which is the same power as each individual element boost and comes first in the tree). Oh and pp regenerate is now tech charge pp regenerate.

[Eclipse5632]

That Hunter tree seems to be a modified version of the one that was posted on Famitsu(?). There's no longer a skill called "Response Up", but there are a couple skills that just give a flat bonus to attack power and another that makes Just Attacks do more damage.

[WBMike]

Ranger Skill Tree (Rough Draft)

• 技量アップ1 : Ability Up: increases ability stat.
• ウィークヒットアドバンス1 Weak Hit Advance: Damage to the weak point area on enemies increases.
• ウィークバレット Weak Bullet, exclusively for Assault rifles, charges a weakening bullet.
• 技量アップ2: Ability Up 2: increases ability stat.
• 射撃防御アップ1 Range Defense Up
• ウィークヒットアドバンス2: Weak Hit Advance 2: Damage given to weakpoints increase a lot.
• ツールマスタリー Tool Mastery: Tool type skills increases
• ポイズントラップ Poison Trap: Set a Poison trap
• アッパートラップ: Upper Trap: Set a trap to launch enemies in the air.
• スタングレネード: Stun Grenade: Throw a grenade that stuns the enemy.
• アッパーTカスタム Upper T Custom: Increase the power of Upper Traps
• ポイズンTカスタム: Poison T Custom: Increases the chance of poison in poison traps.
• 射撃アップ Range Up: Range stat power goes up.
• 射撃アップ2: Range Up 2
• スタンディングスナイプ1: Standing Snipe: Firing damage increases when you stand still.
• バインドバレット: Bind Bullet: Loads a Binding bullet
• ダイブロール: Dive Roll, Dive a short distance.
• ダイブロールアドバンス: Dive Roll Advance: Extended Invincibility time through dive rolling.
• ジャストリバーサル:Just Reversal (When you are blown away (from an attack) and fall down, you can get up quickly by jumping?*)

If there is any mistakes let me know, especially Just Reversal.

[Eclipse5632]

Just wondering, but has anyone done any stat comparisons between the classes yet? I was just thinking about how Hunters can't use techs (at least in this test), and since there's no evasion or accuracy stats, what motivation is there to make a non-cast hunter? Or on the other hand, why would you ever make a FOcast? Besides aesthetic reasons, of course. Then it struck me that race/gender choices could possibly be totally aesthetic in this game. If no one says anything here I'm gonna try to do some research on that tomorrow. I'll probably just make a FOnewearl and FOcast and try comparing their level 1 stats (not enough time for me to grind them both up to 20, plus there's other stuff I wanna try out tomorrow).

[Dinosaur]

The F bomb is culturally cool in Japan

seriously

OT: @WBMike: Great job.

Just wondering, but has anyone done any stat comparisons between the classes yet? I was just thinking about how Hunters can't use techs (at least in this test), and since there's no evasion or accuracy stats, what motivation is there to make a non-cast hunter? Or on the other hand, why would you ever make a FOcast? Besides aesthetic reasons, of course. Then it struck me that race/gender choices could possibly be totally aesthetic in this game. If no one says anything here I'm gonna try to do some research on that tomorrow. I'll probably just make a FOnewearl and FOcast and try comparing their level 1 stats (not enough time for me to grind them both up to 20, plus there's other stuff I wanna try out tomorrow).

There will be sub-classes in a future build.

[Eclipse5632]

There will be sub-classes in a future build.

This has been officially confirmed? I don't actually recall reading about that. Do you remember where that was said?