PSO2 JP: More Books; Ruins in November

 

More Books

Dengeki will be releasing their own walkthrough titled "Dengeki Phantasy Star Online 2" (tentative title) which will contain the item code of a weapon introduced in PSP2i.

ディシオン/ナハト Tradicion  / Nacht

Dengeki Phantasy Star Online 2
 電撃ファンタシースターオンライン 2

  • Price: 1,100 Yen
  • Date: 10/20/2012
  • Contains: ディシオン/ナハト Tradicion  / Nacht

Features

  • Interview with the Developers and the future of PSO2
  • Class and Weapon Details
  • Quest and Enemy Details
  • Mag System, Client Orders, and Drop System Mechanism
  • Weapon Database

Phantasy star Online 2 Master Guide Book
ファンタシースターオンライン 2 マスターガイドブック

There's also going to be a Master Guide Book but the details about it so far are unknown.

  • Price: 980 Yen
  • Date: 10/18/2012

 

Ruins in November

The ruins area is arriving in November with the Zeshreida boss. But you can experience this first hand by attending the offline event "Arks Party". Eight teams in total will compete for prizes at the Space Create BIGBOX Takadanobaba in Tokyo.

 

PSO2 JP: Emergency Maintenance to Fix the EXP Curve

There have been many comments and feedback regarding the 10/10/2012 update. In addition, many have inquired about the required EXP needed to reach beyond level 41. We'll discuss these changes below.

Concerning the current EXP situation.

The experience table was set around July after the official game started. It was under the assumption that after level 41, class leveling slowed down in comparison to previous levels. It was based around the assumption that around that time, players were speeding through levels and in very hard mode, you could acquire much of the experience through the appearance of rare enemies.

This can no longer stand considering the game's situation has changed since then. He thinks the leveling up speed should be a little bit faster considering we have access to few quests at this difficulty setting and that we're leveling multiple classes. However, this was to be done after the level cap. His original plan was:

  • After the November update it would be possible to acquire experience when reaching the cap, you would use this to trade for special items.
  • At the beginning of next year, they will introduce a system for those that reach the level cap that includes highly difficult quest and fields.

But since the current experience table has teared away the motivation and willingness to play, the development team will revise the experience needed to level through 41 ~ 50 ahead of schedule.

These modifications won't come around until tonight's maintenance.

Special Maintenance:

  • October 12th 09:00 ~ 14:00 JST
  • October 11th  8:00 ~ 1:00 AM EST
  • Countdown Timer

Selling to NPC Shop Situation:

They received many opinions regarding these changes. They were going to make adjustments while looking at the current flow of meseta, but they think they should look into this as soon as possible.

  • On October 17th, 2012's maintenance, they will reduce the prices you pay for recovery items, medical center services, and grinding.

Though the October 10th update nerfed some aspects, in the future, they plan to boost other areas as well to compensate. They will also examine other changes made in this update based on feedback. It's not their policy to forever keep these changes once it is applied. They will continue to examine the situation and make appropriate adjustments for the betterment of the game.

Concerning Cheaters:

They have now implemented a system to detect cheaters in the October 10th update. In the future, once a problem is detected, they will switch over to suspending the accounts immediately.

 

PSO2 JP: Call of Mortality Update (10/10/2012)

Today's update.

Class and Weapon Update

  • Class Level 50
  • New Photon Arts
    For Wired Lance, Knuckles, Twin Daggers, Double Sabers, Gunslash, Assault Rifle, Twin Machine Guns.
  • New Class Skills
  • New Technics: Fire / Lighting / Wind / Dark

New Skills

The following Skills have been added to the skill tree: (unfinished/researching)

New Fighter Skills

  • チェイスアドバンス: Chase Advance: Bonus attack damage is given to an enemy inflicted with a status effect.
  • チェイスバインド: Chase Bind: When attacking an enemy inflicted with a status effect, the bind status effect may occur.
  • ハーフラインスレイヤー Halfline Slayer:  When HP is less than 50% S-ATK and R-ATK increases.
  • デッドラインスレイヤー Deadline Slayer:  When HP is less than 25% S-ATK and R-ATK increases.

New Hunter Skills

  • アイアンウィル:  Iron Will: You may be left with 1 HP, if you receive damage that would normally incapacitate you.
  • フラッシュガード1  Flash Guard: S-ATK and R-ATK damage reduced.
  • フラッシュテックガード Flash Tech Guard: T-ATK damage reduced.
  • ガードスタンスバーン Guard Stance Burn: When the Guard Stance skill is used, it will restore the burn status effect. 
  • ガードスタンスポイズン Guard Stance Poison: When the Guard Stance skill is used, it will restore the poison status effect.
  • フューリーSアップ1 Fury Stance Up 1: During a fury stance, S-ATK and R-ATK increases.
  • フューリーSアップ2 Fury Stance Up 2: During a fury stance, S-ATK and R-ATK increases.

New Ranger Skills

  • トラップサーチ: Trap Search: Discover hidden traps
  • スタンディングスナイプ2: Standing Snipe 2
  • ミラージュショット Mirage Shot : Load a Mirage bullet to the Launcher to inflict the mirage status effect.

New Gunner Skills

  • ゼロレンジアドバンス2Zero Range Advance 2
  • オートメイトデッドライン Automate deadline

New Force Skills

  • フォトンフレアアドバンス Photon Flare Advance: When the Photon Flare skill is used, T-ATK increases further.
  • アイスマスタリー2 Ice Mastery 2
  • フレイムマスタリー2 Flame Mastery 2
  • ボルトマスタリー2 Bolt Mastery 2

New Techer Skills

  •  ライトマスタリー2 Light Mastery 2
  • エレメントウィークヒット Element Weak hit: Additional damage given to the enemy's weak element.
  • ダークマスタリー2 Dark Mastery 2
  • ウィンドマスタリー2 Wind Mastery 2

 

New Rare Enemies

Burn Doral

 

Rogbelt

These are just a portion of the rare enemies.

Very Hard Difficulty:

  • Forest (Arks Quest: Lv 40+ \ Free: Lv 41+)
  • Caves (Arks Quest: Lv 41+ \ Free: Lv 42+)
  • Desert (Arks Quest: Lv 41+ \ Free: Lv 42+)
  • All Emergency Quests (Lv 41+)

Client Orders

  • New Client Orders, New Daily Orders

System Update

  • 10 Star Weapons/Units and Lv 11+ PA/Technic disks added.
  • You can not trade or sell 10 star or higher weapons/units or Lv 11+ PA/Technics to other players. Because of this, weapons/units higher than 10 star and level 11+ disks will not have bound to owner settings.
  • After creating a room and four hours have passed, interrupt events and enemies will no longer respawn. (This applies to MPA and some single party areas.)
  • You can not create a party to join a room mid-way after the room has been created for more than 3 hours and 30 minutes.

たれツインテール(Hanging Twin Tail)

A new female only default hairstyle was added to character creation.

Balance Changes

  • The price for Weapons and Units sold to NPCs has decreased.
  • 7 star+ weapons will drop with 20 ~ 45% attribute percentage.
  • Weapons decided by the Tekker will have 25 ~ 50% attribute percentage.
  • Boss enemy dropped meseta value has increased.
  • Reduced the number of data needed for the レベル制限解除試練・Ⅰfirst Level Cap Client Order.