Want an awesome weapon? A miniguide to Synthing by LELAND.

[R3Dirkulous]

I dont know if this has already been posted or if you guys have seen it, but i found it very useful. Credit goes to Leland of the PSU forums

"Now, I'm not an uber-high-level-20 or anything, but I know a thing or two now about what most people wouldn't yet. I rarely see anything but green photon flying around. That is, until I whip out my purple lance. Not only is it a different and more vibrant color, but it's stronger. With my standard, store-bought lance I was doing maybe 36-40 damage with an X-button attack. Now, I do around 76-78. Let me spell this out: WHY SYNTH?

- Stronger weapons, elemental bonuses, cheaper in the long run
- Cooler looking stuff.
- That's about it.

Okay, so I'm not coherent so far. Don't worry. Trust me. Let's look at a checklist of what you need, and what you need to do:

1) You need meseta. A fair amount. A good board for someone up to maybe level 15 or so would be 1000 meseta, or 4300 if you have the stats to use the next tier of weaponry. Materials will be even more. I'd suggest 4000 meseta for your first endeavor.

2.) Materials. A weapon needs an ore, a metal, photons, and usually a wood. It varies weapon to weapon, I think. Some materials are rarer and more expensive.

- Photon (Description coming up)
- Ore (ends in '-line', like Wenceline)
- Metal (Variety of endings - Harnium, Meganite, are example metals)
- Wood (Neu Wood, Par Ash, typically aligned with the brand you're synthing)
- Synthing board for the weapon (obviously)

3.) An idea or plan. You obviously need to know what kind of weaponry you plan on using the most. I favor spears, personally. Be sure to check the store weapons for stat requirements so you don't spend all your hard-earned meseta creating weapons you can't use! (Units in this game don't boost your base stats like they did in PSO, so be wary of that as well.)

Okay, so there's your checklist. Let's put it all together!

- First, decide which brand of weapon you like the most. I know I like Yohmei weaponry (Neudaiz) the best because it has more PP, while sacrificing some ATP. You can buy boards for weapons at Parum and Neudaiz. NOTE: You cannot grind Tenora weapons at this time, so be wary of that.

- Now, pick a photon. You know those annoyingly common photons you find? Those are what you need. They have many varying attributes, and affect the weapon's color. For instance, Ban-Photons would make you have a red photon color (very cool on swords and spears) and a fire element damage added to the weapon. Atributive photons are findable, not buyable.
Code:

+ Ban-Photon is FIRE, and makes your weapon red.
+ Di-Photon is EARTH, and makes your weapon orange.
+ Zon-Photon is LIGHTNING, and makes your weapon yellow.
+ Photon, Im-Photon, and El-Photon are ATTRIBUTELESS. They make your weapon green.
+ Ray-Photons are ICE, and make your weapon blue.
+ Megi-Photons are DARK, and make your weapon purple.
+ Gra-Photons are LIGHT, and make your weapon white.

Here's the element info, by the way. I will list these in pairs.
= Fire/Ice
= Dark/Light
= Lightning/Earth
Each one is effective against the other. The parum fields contain FIRE and LIGHTNING enemies, so you would want to bring ICE and EARTH weapons. If your weapon is 34% dark, it will have a 34% damage bonus on light, and a 34% damage reduction on dark.


- Gather the rest of the ingredients. The store you bought the board at SHOULD list all necessary ingredients needed, including attribute-less photons, which are nifty for making weapons to sell.

- Go to your Partner Machinery in your room. (Go find an orange crystal, choose 'Your Room.') Talk to it and choose PM Functions or something like that, choose Item Synthesis (once again, vague name.) and choose 'insert board'. Choose the weapon board.

- Go back and choose 'Synthesize item' (vague) and choose the board you just put in. This is where it tells you what ingredients you need. Add the ingredients, and let it go! (NOTE: The ???? ingredient always says 0/X, but it will still work as long as you have 5 of a photon in storage.)

- It should take 15 minutes or so, but as the weapons rise in rank the time increases. Now you just wait. Everything so far I've synthed, weapon-wise, has been 76% success rate. You shoulld most of the time get your weapon. (The rate can be improved by feeding your machine items, like juice!)

- When it's been 15 minutes (or however long), go back to synthesis and choose 'take out item'. Take the item and see if it worked right! (It tells you if it did or not.) Enjoy!

Now. You may be thinking 'But I spent so much money on this. It seems a little flimsy, too. Was LELAND right?' Well, here's a rundown. You first buy the board, which is sort of a 'base fee'. Then you get the supplies. Assuming you found most of the materials, that's about 450-1200 meseta to buy the rest of the materials needed. (Remember, this is assuming you used a 1000 meseta board.) So you could be paying 2200 or so at most for your first weapon. That's 200 meseta over store price, but now your weapon is uniquely colorful and elemental. And, on top of that, you could still use the board 4 more times! This allows you to gather more materials and start selling for a profit to other players. Or, you could alternatively make many of the same weapon with different elements to use in their situations.

Now, you WILL want more strength. I'm sure you've found tons of Base C Grinder thingies everywhere. Want to use them? Wink Okay, go to the Synth shop and buy a Grinder C Board. Buy one for each increment of 5 grinder bases you have. Synth them with your PM and see what quality you get. (I did two batches just earlier, one was C+3 and one was a C+5) Go to the weapon upgrade store. If you have a Parum weapon, it'll be the upgrade shop on Parum, (this applies to Neudaiz, Guardian Colony, etc.) Agree that you accept the risks, and choose the weapon to grind and the grinder to use. Now, start with your low-quality grinders. The first time is always successful, but after that, always pick the grinder that the chick says has a higher chance of working. I quit grinding when I don't have a 'very high' chance, as I'm scared of breaking my weapon. Razz Take the risk if you want. Your weapon will get very strong after a few grinds, but things do break.

I hope this helped somewhat. I think it's comprehendable, but I'm pretty tired so please don't stab me for being confusing at all!

Laughing

(Note: there may be some inaccuracies. I'm no database, and I'm only human. So please, no chastising me for errors! Kindly and simply correct them if you notice any and I'll edit the post.)"

Last edited by loveLELAND on Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:24 am; edited 5 times in total

[Cause_I_Own_U]

Just try not to get pissed when your twin suckers fail twice and insted you get 2 monomates

[Shooichi]

Thanks a ton for posting this guide. I could have figured it all out eventually, but you made it so much simpler for me. I hope that, about 10 minutes from now, I'll have a dark Lancata to handle those pesky Golmora.

[Ryogen]

You can find this all out by reading around the game but this is a good guide that don't feel like reading online but offline from psu

[Miphesto]

where do u get good weapon boards? do u have to just find them?

[Ryogen]

On 2006-11-02 01:47, Miphesto wrote:
where do u get good weapon boards? do u have to just find them?

You can find them or you can buy them at the synth shop (purple doors), but weapon boards are most likely brought.

[ProfessorZ]

This is pretty nice for the noobs. Submit this

[Miphesto]

well i'm a noob and it makes no sense....the synth shop sells no boards for weapons

[Miller]

It's also a good idea to grind on a char with the days highest luck.

[Miphesto]

how can u tell which char has high luck on x360? someone said something about a big star by thier head, i dont see anything like that