12/21 Update: Ride on! Vengeance of Holy Mother

[sparab]

"Crap! Use that katana kombat!"

The holy mother rises as the moon dyes blue.
Her vengeance shall announce earth with its doom.
Fellow Arks. Ready your weapons, pets, and rideroids, for the final showdown is nigh.

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[New Raid Boss: Esca Falz Mother]

After crushing through the entire mother cluster like swordmaster yamato. We now face the EP4 final boss--a rampaging mother that seeks nothing but destruction.
Witnessing AIS shredding yamato in one minute a half, the cunning Esca Falz decided to hide in tunnels that you have to pursuit it with a rideroid.
The enhanced rideroids are equipped with [autoshot], [homing missile], and [spin attack]. Use [Over boost] to chase down fast moving enemies!

In the second stage you will directly confront Esca Falz Mother. No boost effect is available thus you can only rely on your gear and skills.
Mother's attack pattern grows fierce as the fight progress. Be wary of its instant kill attack!

* Quest will still progress if you fail to defeat mother in rideroid stage.
* This EQ is scheduled only, one clear per ship.

Spoiler!

Mother fight begins as a glorified Falz Arm fight that you fight...Esca Falz Arms

Spoiler!

Esca Falz Arms uses signature attacks of previous Dark Falz:
Pincer: incest swarm (poison), phallus laser (with fin arm)
Fin: arm extend, cluster meteor (stun, with pincer arm)
Wing: sword fall, catastrophe ray
Toy: spinning cart (panic), gravity hole>castle wall (with wing arm)

Spoiler!

As battle progresses, mother will fight players on its own, somewhat like loser

Clear rank is affected by:
Mother is defeated during rideroid stage (-360, B rank if time up)
Rideroid death (-100 after 10th death)

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[Astra Series]

You can get these awesome *13 weapons through drop and collect file. However, astra units are drop only and cannot be completed as always.
The potential grants 12% damage boost and 40% pp regain on attack, which makes them the EP4 equivalent of austra.

[*14 Weapons!]

Behold the release of Kazaminodachi (Katana), Spread Needle (Rifle), and Eternal Psycho Drive (Rod)! *14 weapons can be obtain as drop only.
However, if you are lucky enough to get one of these, they will always have 60 element and overlimit +35.
Rumor suggests *14 weapons have lower drop rate than austra but higher than *12 in EP1......

[Redran]

The dragon pet that everybody is waiting for! Redran is a high attack, low defense pet than specializes in ranged combat.
It inherited torim stab, sally fall, and two charged shots that are similar to homing emission/ilgrants.
*13 Redran eggs can be obtained through collect file.