Um..is this True

[ZiGDoG]

Yeah, I was on PSO today playin on Vhard Ruins. I kept noticing that I wasn't picking up ANYTHING good. Not even Dbl sabers or Photon Claws...nothing. Just DB Saber's and Varista's. So I thought maybe if I beat the game on VHard I would start gettin special weapons...nope..still nothin. So I finally got fed up and asked someone why I wasn't pickin up stuff. This was his responce:
"You have to have played for 200 hours or more, and it depends on your Guild.(ex. Viridia,Redria..etc.)"
Now...I'm not too sure if this is true, because I know some kids who have found rares and they've only clocked 110. I have a clock of 163 hours, so can someone just inform me why I get absolutely nothing offline...or online. Thanks, I'd appreciate it.

[Lord_Ariakas]

I know that section ID determines what rares you find. I've found that some ids totally suck for finding decent rares....(ahem)pinkal(ahem). I've also heard that the number of hours clocked affects your chances of finding rares. I don't know if that is true. I've found some fairly decent rares in my 140 hours of play.

[DiscoInferno]

I can help to dispel part of this I hope. Upon leveling my first character to Level 100, I bought a Gameshark CDX, so that I could play as a different character with out having to go back to Level 1. (Does anyone really want to do that?). Over 180+ hours and my first character couldn't find crap. I build myself a new one, level it up to 100 and head out...in the first 2 minutes along I found stuff that I had not ever come across. So...the jury's still out on the "Time Factor".

[Pollo_loco]

It's been said somewhere that having a particular section ID increases your chances of finding certain rares. I'm sure there's truth to that, but I think that it should also be added that it only slightly increases your chances - say from 1 in 50000 to 1 in 40000, just to pick arbitrary numbers. All ID's, logically, should have a chance of finding any rare item. If that's not the case, then that's an obvious problem in the programming.

[Socrates]

"If that's not the case, then that's an obvious problem in the programming."

Not necessarily. PSO's focus is online cooperative gaming. It'd make sense for certain items to only be available to certain IDs, since that would encourage online interaction and trading to get the specific item you are really looking for. Unfortunately, one would also then expect some sort of reliable trading procedure programmed into the game, but, well...

[Portent]

I found a proto regen gear yesterday in hard ruins using a character with far less than 200hrs. I don't know if you consider that to be a "good" item though - I kinda liked it, but I was only level 21 at the time.

[Marlboro]

Well my ID is Viridia and have the weirdest. I keep saving special weapons till I get alot. Half the time now I get the stinking varista. But in the last week I'll get three or four meteor smash gun and even got three spare supressed. (Arc if ya out there thats why I said keep it)

And if you hop in a game with a different Id it helps on rares.

[Zypher]

I KNOW the section ID stuff has something to do with the rare finds...

I find more good swords and armor than anything else...

I mean...I HAVE ALOT OF SWORDS!

-Zypher

[Crispin]

Marlboro, are you willing to part with any of those Supressed Guns? Mine was stolen last night and I don't have any other decent weapons...

[Ne0]

Nobody could be more wrong. Im Level 46 and have Dbl sided saber+20, and 2 photon claws whihc i picked up in V hard ruins (one of claws was trade). I couldnt be mroe against that "theroy"

- Ne0