I haven't tried I just heard that was the case, surely they patched it out though by now
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Looking up the issue for Ephinea doesn't yield any results so I'm guessing it was a shitposter rumor or the problem was extremely brief
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post more webms, this era of gaming and this game in particular are so fucking comfy it's insane, it's pure nostalgia talking but I don't care I love this shit, take me back take me back NOW
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
puuuuuuuuure kino, it's actually INSANE just how far ahead of it's time this was. I mean on the fucking dreamcast of all things. I remember visiting my cousin's house and he booted it up and I was just mind-blown, watching him run around with randoms and loot not knowing what any of it meant. I feel like there's never been a real successor to PSO, the closest is what, Destiny? Destiny never figured out what PSO had figured out all that time ago, that people in hub towns love to hang out and talk. It's like destiny managed to clone most aspects, but no soul.
I actually was not aware of the problem since I haven't played for a while
post more webms, this era of gaming and this game in particular are so fucking comfy it's insane, it's pure nostalgia talking but I don't care I love this shit, take me back take me back NOW
If this thread gets a few new players online it's a good time to at least give it a shot. Playing solo is also viable but you may need some extra level ups
Any of the androids are good, high physical stats and immunity to certain status effects in exchange for not being able to use magic, but they can use traps which are also very useful for large groups of enemies. (RA)nger if you like guns (HU)nter if you like melee.
HUmar is a bit of a noob trap, he's the poster boy but his magic capability doesn't make up for his lower physical stats compared to androids, HUnewearl is a better melee / caster hybrid and has a good evasion stat
RAmar doesn't have same issue has HUmar in that is attack stat doesn't have as much disparity with his android counterpart. RAmarl is also a decent hybrid caster, just with guns instead.
For (FO)rces (mages), FOmar has the highest physical attack stats if you don't want to rely purely on magic, and FOmarl has the highest HP as well as defense if you want more survivability. She also has boosts to support skill range if you do end up grouping occasionally.
FOnewearl is the best if you want a pure caster as they have TP regen and boosts to offensive as well as support magic, but playing them solo can be a nightmare as they can be one-shot by critical hits easily
FOnewm is the best if you like funny shoes and having a damage boost to all area effect spells
>Playing solo is also viable
uh, no? why would anyone grind this game solo? thats miserable and boring. I dont care if Ramar with a dim needle is op, its just not worth it.
who is going to spend hundreds of hours grinding an item that lets them accomplish what they have been doing for hours and hours by themselves? the fucking point of the game is to find cool shit with friends around so you dont get lonely killing the same enemy ten thousand times (literally)
you may as well lock yourself in a sense deprivation chamber.
>h, no? why would anyone grind this game solo?
some of us just like grinding, personally I love grinding games, anything from d2 to poe to bdo I'm a grinder man I just rise and grind I'm up here grinding around just on my grind
I'm somewhat of a veteran on this server and I can confirm playing solo is miserable unless you're unsealing something with a podcast/video in the background.
I'm somewhat of a veteran on this server and I can confirm playing solo is miserable unless you're unsealing something with a podcast/video in the background.
Hi. So as supposed veterans explain to me how the fuck I'm supposed to actually get good items in this?
I've gotten to the point where I can see the sorts of things my guys want to get, shit like excaliburs and dark flows and these things with proper HIT cost over 1,000PDs.
How the actual fucking shit am I expected to get these things without some 1 in 10 billion chance of farming a 50hit lame'd argent or whatever? this thing feels extremely biased towards the lucky few that have spent their lives on the server and already have extremely rare drops. I'm sure PSO back in DC/GC/XBOX era was a hoot because it was more about just wild wacky fun but like most private servers that rise up well after official servers are down the game loses all of that nostalgic charm and just boils down to the usual elite few running the show with god items and a market that shoos away newer players trying to get endgame gear for doing things.
private servers for almost all grindy games end up like this, with either turboNEETs or people just straight up abusing mod privilege for items. At a certain point you realize that every grindy game turns to shit once you have the gear, so I'm not sure what their motivation is once they do this.
This is what bothers me the most about these games and, in a way, these threads. New players or oldfags that remember these games see this and go "oh shit I used to play PSO, there's private server?? I want to try!"
and it's like yeah you'll have some fun initially reliving that nostalgic tickle, but then you get players like me that go past that initial nostalgia phase and try to actually get into endgame content and gearing and you rapidly realize what a complete vapid shithole the game is. Back in "the day" no one gave a fucking shit about gearing or meta or auctions or item prices(who the fuck cared about fucking photon drops lmao) because it was just a wacky online game to play with friends and nothing more.
Flashforward past all that to a modern private server and it's the same elitist trash every private server turns into. You either farm for literal years to get god items or be a mod and get shit handed to you. Stay the FUCK away from this shit if you have any intention of actually playing past the initial nostalgic tickle of running forest->cave->mines->ruins, or TTF. The server is literally just "rich get richer" elitist trash and you won't get shit.
The game heavily encourages playing with other people with different IDs. Its all based around whos hosting (at least thats how the stock and schthack were setup). Some IDs just get really weird drops, so it helps to party up with other players so you can hunt for what you're looking for. Also if you weren't aware IDs are generated based on your characters name. There are generators out there that will tell you what you'll get ahead of time. But again I wouldn't get too wrapped up in it and just try to play with as many varying people and enjoy it.
Fun fact, if you play with more players (in a party) it lowers the overall chance for rares to drop. This is under the logic that 4 players in a room could all be just farming for one person so if a drop happens for player 4 they could just give it to player 1, so everyone gets a lower chance to get anything at all. Regardless no one is going to just farm with you for months day in and out to get some 0.000000001% drop. The thing is the game and the price market only gives a shit about HIT weapons. You can get an ultra rare drop but if it has 0 hit you may as well shove it up your ass because you're not selling it for shit. Ultra rare + high HIT may as well bring out your ramen collection because you're farming for the next 1 year IRL.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>only gives a shit about HIT weapons
why is this?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
HIT adds extra accuracy to your attacks. So if you did something like special special special with 0 HIT it would likely miss all 3 or miss the first 2 and land the last.
70 HIT would land all 3 hits
Hit statted weapons are pointless gimmicks that are overhyped by min maxers. You don't need it and can clear ultimate difficulty stages with ease if your level is high enough. Which can happen really fast.
The problem is HIT is all that sells. I've actually managed to find some "rare" items like heaven striker and because it has 0 hit no one gives a shit and it sells for dirt. It's just bullshit because the market, as always, is controlled by those same MIN-MAXers that decide if your items are worth shit or not. I can't make any gear progress in this game
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You're doing it to yourself getting involved with player markets at all. You don't NEED hit weapons. Those rare items you're finding are fucking great all the same. It sounds like your idea of "progressing" is finding the most valuable items you can pawn off to another player. Its certainly not difficulty you're complaining about because you can get by just fine using the rare tier weapons you like.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>like your idea of "progressing" is finding the most valuable items you can pawn off to another player.
My man, it's PSO. The game is 100% reliant on your gear for progression? This isn't a WoW clone where progression involves getting armor then armor of booboo then armor of coocoo and same shit every new item drop until you have the best and they roll out another upgrade.
You either have the high end weapon with HIT on it or you don't. The way PSO does it's progression is 1 in 100000000000 chances to drop, not so much gradual steady progression like WoW clones do.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Bro I spent 10 years on and off playing this shit. Had a legitimate red ring, damn near every hunter weapon outside of a few sonic themed items and one of the lower tier double sabers that I'm forgetting the name for, dumb amount of unique mags, and a bunch of really high tiered armor. If this were a WoW clone I would imagine eventually something would catch up to your level, but in PSO that never happens. By the time you get over the initial shock of reaching the highest difficulty in episode 1, about the only thing that can maybe overwhelm you is stuff in episode 4. And even then spending a short time there will make you too strong for even that. But yeah I know, we're arguing 2 different things here. I hunted plenty for items and got what I wanted through time and hunting with other players. Not once did I give a fuck about the player market or hit weapons. I didn't mean to collect as much as I did, but did so through natural progression. Not gonna tell you how to have fun, but searching for high hit percent weapons and getting involved with player markets is gonna suck any enjoyment you get from the game.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>You don't NEED hit weapons
Carried by ranger detected.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>game makes a class that literally doesn't need hit because of 100% accurate AOE freeze that also massively lowers enemies evasion >your the bad guy for picking it though, even though statistically, its always been the most picked class by players
Hit and evasion are bad mechanics in general and PSO would unironically be a better game as a whole if they were cut out and every attack that landed was a hit.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>because of 100% accurate AOE freeze
?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Freeze traps and Stun traps, which all CAST race classes have access to from level 1 in addition to Frozen Shooter and Spread Needle which are ranger class exclusive rifles.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I agree, not even being sarcastic. Hit should be an incentive not required, but still also ranger is definitely a carried class. I cant blame you for picking it because its literally a free ride. I just get sick of people pretending they learned the game by playing ranger, when its clear that when they step outside their high ata comfort zone they're ass and literally learned nothing about how the game works.
>because of 100% accurate AOE freeze
?
They're probably talking about how froozer does multiple checks for freeze activation while its passing through spawning mobs. Even without snow queen you can freeze multiple mobs and its basically free depending on where the room owner sees the mobs.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Hit statted weapons are pointless gimmicks that are overhyped by min maxers. You don't need it and can clear ultimate difficulty stages with ease if your level is high enough. Which can happen really fast.
>people just straight up abusing mod privilege for items
Mods cant /item on ephinea. I hope you're not that same turboautist from last time that was convinced mods could make items from thin air at will.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I wasn't talking about ephinea in particular just some WoW and BDO pservers I tried ended up like this, people do things to skip the grind or for status but I don't quite understand the point of it, the grind is the whole point
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Fair enough yeah, thankfully most pso servers are well controlled nowdays. Even schthack got rid of the corrupt abusive mods from what I've heard.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Fuck schtack cunts. I put like 3000 hours into that shit and they WIPED all character data. Those cunts need to be flayed. At least I hear ephinea never server wipes, but it's also just controlled by min maxers
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Fair enough yeah, thankfully most pso servers are well controlled nowdays. Even schthack got rid of the corrupt abusive mods from what I've heard.
that's how it always goes though right? It's either constantly wipe or it gets run by min maxers that only care about the absolute most endgame stuff
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Schthack is the only server that wiped to my memory.
t.been a part of the PSO private server community since gamecube. Though the ephinea staff are kinda so afraid of people finding items a wipe might happen someday, we'll see.
The game heavily encourages playing with other people with different IDs. Its all based around whos hosting (at least thats how the stock and schthack were setup). Some IDs just get really weird drops, so it helps to party up with other players so you can hunt for what you're looking for. Also if you weren't aware IDs are generated based on your characters name. There are generators out there that will tell you what you'll get ahead of time. But again I wouldn't get too wrapped up in it and just try to play with as many varying people and enjoy it.
>You buy it via the forum's player market
that'll be 1000PD plus tax 🙂 >or you find people willing to no life autismo grind with you for it.
No one fucking does that, no one is going to spend 2 months of their lives trying to farm a weapon with high HIT for me like they were korean sweat shop PSO workers.
I get stuck farming for anything that sells for a decent amount and all I get is 0 HIT trash that no one cares for because metafags decide private server markets. PSO private servers are fucking shit
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Then you dont get them.
You're acting as if these extremely rare versions of already rare endgame weapons are necessary to finish content when in reality literally nobody save for ten or so people actually have these hyper rare weapon rolls.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
and these ten or so people DECIDE the market. Why is it you only see the same set of people auctioning off hyper rare items over and over?
This shitty server is just a playground for the same ten people to keep getting more and more rare shit while newer plays get stuck with 5PD drops that don't buy them shit. Why would you even defend this practice that actively robs the fun of what PSO was actually like? Private servers are fucking pathetic
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
NTA but it just isn't that big of a deal to other people. I've never cared about trading in this game except for dumping endgame stuff on noobs.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
so dont play, idk what you guys want when you go ape about shit like this, im not one of those 10 people nor is anyone itt
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I have literally never seen anyone auction off these hyper rares because in reality, They RMT it away to the extremely desperate people like you who think they absolutely need it.
t. was friends with an oldfags who NEETd the game for like two years straight every day but sold everything he found to pay for IRL bills.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Bullshit. I know this is a lie because for the sake of that exact line of thinking I thought to myself that these elitists were making money off those items. Go ahead, show me where these items are being sold as RMT. I'll wait. Oh wait you can't, because they aren't. I googled around to try and cross reference recent drops with someone selling said drops for RMT and no such thing. There is no one selling RMT ephinea items.
On that note they do. Go check the official forums. Someone sold an 80HIT sword for like 2000PDs. wow what a shock it's yet another favored player
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
nagger RMTing is against the server rules, no one would actively advertise this because it draws in botters who ACTUALLY ruin the game, not this made up group of PSO hyper weapon owners your obsessed with.
You don't have to believe me or not, but I quite literally was friends with a guy who sold his Sealed J Sword to another friend for like 160 dollars plus 100 photon drops.
Their is zero reason for RMT'ers to actually say anything to anyone about this because neither side have anything to gain from doing so.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
No anon you don't get it. I'm not saying that they advertise it, but the way RMT works is there are forums where people advertise to sell these things on. I used to know a lot of people that did EQ/WOW/FFXIV/FFXI RMT back in the day and I ran through ALL of the forums they used.
Not a single post about someone selling ephinea items. That's why I said go ahead, show me. Show me where these supposed RMT are selling items because otherwise you are talking 100% shit out of your ass and concede that these hyper mod players aren't making profit, but just hoarding high end items via auctions to only other privileged autists.
You avoid scrubs who resta and carrying noobs. Other than that yeah it is lonely, but sometimes if you're actually good at the game its the better option than the stress of carrying multimode yourself. That's why TTF, RT, and other spammed quests are still prevalent aside the leveling, because people cant possibly fuck up playing those quests, and they're rewarding at the same time.
I feel like this game is finally dead
I used to be able to run some pubs and get a party of randoms on ephinea, but not anymore. people only play ttf, and there is no point to this game unless you just have 3 other friends.
everyone just sits in the fucking lobby doing nothing for 8 hours, and you KNOW they arent afk because they dont get auto disconnected. they dont type or play, but they have an alarm clock on their phone to just waggle the control stick every 5 minutes. they require themselves to be in there and do nothing for days on end
Dark Falz is one of the coolest boss designs I've ever seen in my life and I feel like we don't get bosses like this art style anymore and I'm not sure why. Final Fantasy used to have some epic strange looking monsters but even they gave it up to go with boring generic fantasy dogshit.
basically it was an exploit that turned someone in your party into an NPC model which also destroys your inventory and equipped gear, bricking that character permanently
So what I gather is PSO servers are fine to play for a bit for the nostalgia trip, but leave quickly because they're just run by meta min max homosexuals that control the entire market?
I might play till I get up to Ultimate difficulty, kill the bosses at least once, then just quit then.
You can still tradeup for nice stuff, and work from there. Getting into PSO servers late can be tough unless you find tradeables to buy yourself into the market, or that one legendary drop to get yourself established. There are people on ephinea server with literally thousands of pd's
You can still play and have fun and find stuff, end of the day its gonna be a grinding game regardless of what you want.
I would say PSO is a legit good game and Ephinea is a legit good server, but the nature of any online game ever made is your experience will vary drastically depending on who you play with.
I mostly do passworded games with 1-3 players for high level stuff with people I know outside of the game, but sometimes play random low level open lobbies if I see those pop up as well. Never had too much issue because I always avoided engaging with the hyper end game autism
> they're just run by meta min max homosexuals that control the entire market?
No, you leave because nobody actually plays with anyone outside of their private friend group.
Most people either don't know about or care about quest that aren't TTF/RT/War of Limits and wont enter open rooms that arent running them, and these multi mode missions aren't made with single player runs in mind.
>PSO "endgame"
Who the fuck cares about farming one shitty weapon for 6 months. PSO grind was always trash. Bro there's items with 1 in 22,000 drop chance. Who the FUCK beyond literal turbo autism monthly check fueled tismos are going to stay all day farming for these things?
Just fucking play the game and ignore these meta retards
ephinea
QRD? I heard people were still getting NOL'd on there
I actually was not aware of the problem since I haven't played for a while
basically, your character gets overwritten and you lose everything, you get turned into Nol
Oh I know what getting NOL'd is, I didn't realize it was possible on the Ephinea servers.
I haven't tried I just heard that was the case, surely they patched it out though by now
Looking up the issue for Ephinea doesn't yield any results so I'm guessing it was a shitposter rumor or the problem was extremely brief
puuuuuuuuure kino, it's actually INSANE just how far ahead of it's time this was. I mean on the fucking dreamcast of all things. I remember visiting my cousin's house and he booted it up and I was just mind-blown, watching him run around with randoms and loot not knowing what any of it meant. I feel like there's never been a real successor to PSO, the closest is what, Destiny? Destiny never figured out what PSO had figured out all that time ago, that people in hub towns love to hang out and talk. It's like destiny managed to clone most aspects, but no soul.
post more webms, this era of gaming and this game in particular are so fucking comfy it's insane, it's pure nostalgia talking but I don't care I love this shit, take me back take me back NOW
I've played on Ephinea for years and never heard of a single instance of anyone getting NOL'd, no idea where the hell you heard that.
I play on Ultima cuz my buddy runs it
just play on Ephinea, literally no reason to try anything else
Are these PSU? I only played PSO and PSZ. What are the areas called, I wanna look at them more
those are all PSO areas
first one I believe is ep.4
second is some camera trickery in the ice dragon arena unless i'm mistaken
third and fourth are ep.2
Reminder that this game can work on steam deck.
The PC version?
I will never forgive Sega
hop on ephinea bro
I already play on it. But i haven't played in a while might start up again
how's the playerbase?
It's good for end game stuff. You won't find anything for lower level stuff unless you get lucky
That's all I have
I'd gladly sink 500 additional hours into the game with you guys but sadly I have to stop being a NEET.
is it too late to get into this game? I always wanted to play it as a kid but my mom would never let me go online
If this thread gets a few new players online it's a good time to at least give it a shot. Playing solo is also viable but you may need some extra level ups
what class/race should I play to play solo?
Any of the androids are good, high physical stats and immunity to certain status effects in exchange for not being able to use magic, but they can use traps which are also very useful for large groups of enemies. (RA)nger if you like guns (HU)nter if you like melee.
HUmar is a bit of a noob trap, he's the poster boy but his magic capability doesn't make up for his lower physical stats compared to androids, HUnewearl is a better melee / caster hybrid and has a good evasion stat
RAmar doesn't have same issue has HUmar in that is attack stat doesn't have as much disparity with his android counterpart. RAmarl is also a decent hybrid caster, just with guns instead.
For (FO)rces (mages), FOmar has the highest physical attack stats if you don't want to rely purely on magic, and FOmarl has the highest HP as well as defense if you want more survivability. She also has boosts to support skill range if you do end up grouping occasionally.
FOnewearl is the best if you want a pure caster as they have TP regen and boosts to offensive as well as support magic, but playing them solo can be a nightmare as they can be one-shot by critical hits easily
FOnewm is the best if you like funny shoes and having a damage boost to all area effect spells
>Playing solo is also viable
uh, no? why would anyone grind this game solo? thats miserable and boring. I dont care if Ramar with a dim needle is op, its just not worth it.
who is going to spend hundreds of hours grinding an item that lets them accomplish what they have been doing for hours and hours by themselves? the fucking point of the game is to find cool shit with friends around so you dont get lonely killing the same enemy ten thousand times (literally)
you may as well lock yourself in a sense deprivation chamber.
>h, no? why would anyone grind this game solo?
some of us just like grinding, personally I love grinding games, anything from d2 to poe to bdo I'm a grinder man I just rise and grind I'm up here grinding around just on my grind
I'm somewhat of a veteran on this server and I can confirm playing solo is miserable unless you're unsealing something with a podcast/video in the background.
Hi. So as supposed veterans explain to me how the fuck I'm supposed to actually get good items in this?
I've gotten to the point where I can see the sorts of things my guys want to get, shit like excaliburs and dark flows and these things with proper HIT cost over 1,000PDs.
How the actual fucking shit am I expected to get these things without some 1 in 10 billion chance of farming a 50hit lame'd argent or whatever? this thing feels extremely biased towards the lucky few that have spent their lives on the server and already have extremely rare drops. I'm sure PSO back in DC/GC/XBOX era was a hoot because it was more about just wild wacky fun but like most private servers that rise up well after official servers are down the game loses all of that nostalgic charm and just boils down to the usual elite few running the show with god items and a market that shoos away newer players trying to get endgame gear for doing things.
private servers for almost all grindy games end up like this, with either turboNEETs or people just straight up abusing mod privilege for items. At a certain point you realize that every grindy game turns to shit once you have the gear, so I'm not sure what their motivation is once they do this.
This is what bothers me the most about these games and, in a way, these threads. New players or oldfags that remember these games see this and go "oh shit I used to play PSO, there's private server?? I want to try!"
and it's like yeah you'll have some fun initially reliving that nostalgic tickle, but then you get players like me that go past that initial nostalgia phase and try to actually get into endgame content and gearing and you rapidly realize what a complete vapid shithole the game is. Back in "the day" no one gave a fucking shit about gearing or meta or auctions or item prices(who the fuck cared about fucking photon drops lmao) because it was just a wacky online game to play with friends and nothing more.
Flashforward past all that to a modern private server and it's the same elitist trash every private server turns into. You either farm for literal years to get god items or be a mod and get shit handed to you. Stay the FUCK away from this shit if you have any intention of actually playing past the initial nostalgic tickle of running forest->cave->mines->ruins, or TTF. The server is literally just "rich get richer" elitist trash and you won't get shit.
Fun fact, if you play with more players (in a party) it lowers the overall chance for rares to drop. This is under the logic that 4 players in a room could all be just farming for one person so if a drop happens for player 4 they could just give it to player 1, so everyone gets a lower chance to get anything at all. Regardless no one is going to just farm with you for months day in and out to get some 0.000000001% drop. The thing is the game and the price market only gives a shit about HIT weapons. You can get an ultra rare drop but if it has 0 hit you may as well shove it up your ass because you're not selling it for shit. Ultra rare + high HIT may as well bring out your ramen collection because you're farming for the next 1 year IRL.
>only gives a shit about HIT weapons
why is this?
HIT adds extra accuracy to your attacks. So if you did something like special special special with 0 HIT it would likely miss all 3 or miss the first 2 and land the last.
70 HIT would land all 3 hits
The problem is HIT is all that sells. I've actually managed to find some "rare" items like heaven striker and because it has 0 hit no one gives a shit and it sells for dirt. It's just bullshit because the market, as always, is controlled by those same MIN-MAXers that decide if your items are worth shit or not. I can't make any gear progress in this game
You're doing it to yourself getting involved with player markets at all. You don't NEED hit weapons. Those rare items you're finding are fucking great all the same. It sounds like your idea of "progressing" is finding the most valuable items you can pawn off to another player. Its certainly not difficulty you're complaining about because you can get by just fine using the rare tier weapons you like.
>like your idea of "progressing" is finding the most valuable items you can pawn off to another player.
My man, it's PSO. The game is 100% reliant on your gear for progression? This isn't a WoW clone where progression involves getting armor then armor of booboo then armor of coocoo and same shit every new item drop until you have the best and they roll out another upgrade.
You either have the high end weapon with HIT on it or you don't. The way PSO does it's progression is 1 in 100000000000 chances to drop, not so much gradual steady progression like WoW clones do.
Bro I spent 10 years on and off playing this shit. Had a legitimate red ring, damn near every hunter weapon outside of a few sonic themed items and one of the lower tier double sabers that I'm forgetting the name for, dumb amount of unique mags, and a bunch of really high tiered armor. If this were a WoW clone I would imagine eventually something would catch up to your level, but in PSO that never happens. By the time you get over the initial shock of reaching the highest difficulty in episode 1, about the only thing that can maybe overwhelm you is stuff in episode 4. And even then spending a short time there will make you too strong for even that. But yeah I know, we're arguing 2 different things here. I hunted plenty for items and got what I wanted through time and hunting with other players. Not once did I give a fuck about the player market or hit weapons. I didn't mean to collect as much as I did, but did so through natural progression. Not gonna tell you how to have fun, but searching for high hit percent weapons and getting involved with player markets is gonna suck any enjoyment you get from the game.
>You don't NEED hit weapons
Carried by ranger detected.
>game makes a class that literally doesn't need hit because of 100% accurate AOE freeze that also massively lowers enemies evasion
>your the bad guy for picking it though, even though statistically, its always been the most picked class by players
Hit and evasion are bad mechanics in general and PSO would unironically be a better game as a whole if they were cut out and every attack that landed was a hit.
>because of 100% accurate AOE freeze
?
Freeze traps and Stun traps, which all CAST race classes have access to from level 1 in addition to Frozen Shooter and Spread Needle which are ranger class exclusive rifles.
I agree, not even being sarcastic. Hit should be an incentive not required, but still also ranger is definitely a carried class. I cant blame you for picking it because its literally a free ride. I just get sick of people pretending they learned the game by playing ranger, when its clear that when they step outside their high ata comfort zone they're ass and literally learned nothing about how the game works.
They're probably talking about how froozer does multiple checks for freeze activation while its passing through spawning mobs. Even without snow queen you can freeze multiple mobs and its basically free depending on where the room owner sees the mobs.
Hit statted weapons are pointless gimmicks that are overhyped by min maxers. You don't need it and can clear ultimate difficulty stages with ease if your level is high enough. Which can happen really fast.
>people just straight up abusing mod privilege for items
Mods cant /item on ephinea. I hope you're not that same turboautist from last time that was convinced mods could make items from thin air at will.
I wasn't talking about ephinea in particular just some WoW and BDO pservers I tried ended up like this, people do things to skip the grind or for status but I don't quite understand the point of it, the grind is the whole point
Fair enough yeah, thankfully most pso servers are well controlled nowdays. Even schthack got rid of the corrupt abusive mods from what I've heard.
Fuck schtack cunts. I put like 3000 hours into that shit and they WIPED all character data. Those cunts need to be flayed. At least I hear ephinea never server wipes, but it's also just controlled by min maxers
that's how it always goes though right? It's either constantly wipe or it gets run by min maxers that only care about the absolute most endgame stuff
Schthack is the only server that wiped to my memory.
t.been a part of the PSO private server community since gamecube. Though the ephinea staff are kinda so afraid of people finding items a wipe might happen someday, we'll see.
>afraid of people finding items
what do you mean?
The game heavily encourages playing with other people with different IDs. Its all based around whos hosting (at least thats how the stock and schthack were setup). Some IDs just get really weird drops, so it helps to party up with other players so you can hunt for what you're looking for. Also if you weren't aware IDs are generated based on your characters name. There are generators out there that will tell you what you'll get ahead of time. But again I wouldn't get too wrapped up in it and just try to play with as many varying people and enjoy it.
You buy it via the forum's player market or you find people willing to no life autismo grind with you for it.
>You buy it via the forum's player market
that'll be 1000PD plus tax 🙂
>or you find people willing to no life autismo grind with you for it.
No one fucking does that, no one is going to spend 2 months of their lives trying to farm a weapon with high HIT for me like they were korean sweat shop PSO workers.
I get stuck farming for anything that sells for a decent amount and all I get is 0 HIT trash that no one cares for because metafags decide private server markets. PSO private servers are fucking shit
Then you dont get them.
You're acting as if these extremely rare versions of already rare endgame weapons are necessary to finish content when in reality literally nobody save for ten or so people actually have these hyper rare weapon rolls.
and these ten or so people DECIDE the market. Why is it you only see the same set of people auctioning off hyper rare items over and over?
This shitty server is just a playground for the same ten people to keep getting more and more rare shit while newer plays get stuck with 5PD drops that don't buy them shit. Why would you even defend this practice that actively robs the fun of what PSO was actually like? Private servers are fucking pathetic
NTA but it just isn't that big of a deal to other people. I've never cared about trading in this game except for dumping endgame stuff on noobs.
so dont play, idk what you guys want when you go ape about shit like this, im not one of those 10 people nor is anyone itt
I have literally never seen anyone auction off these hyper rares because in reality, They RMT it away to the extremely desperate people like you who think they absolutely need it.
t. was friends with an oldfags who NEETd the game for like two years straight every day but sold everything he found to pay for IRL bills.
Bullshit. I know this is a lie because for the sake of that exact line of thinking I thought to myself that these elitists were making money off those items. Go ahead, show me where these items are being sold as RMT. I'll wait. Oh wait you can't, because they aren't. I googled around to try and cross reference recent drops with someone selling said drops for RMT and no such thing. There is no one selling RMT ephinea items.
On that note they do. Go check the official forums. Someone sold an 80HIT sword for like 2000PDs. wow what a shock it's yet another favored player
nagger RMTing is against the server rules, no one would actively advertise this because it draws in botters who ACTUALLY ruin the game, not this made up group of PSO hyper weapon owners your obsessed with.
You don't have to believe me or not, but I quite literally was friends with a guy who sold his Sealed J Sword to another friend for like 160 dollars plus 100 photon drops.
Their is zero reason for RMT'ers to actually say anything to anyone about this because neither side have anything to gain from doing so.
No anon you don't get it. I'm not saying that they advertise it, but the way RMT works is there are forums where people advertise to sell these things on. I used to know a lot of people that did EQ/WOW/FFXIV/FFXI RMT back in the day and I ran through ALL of the forums they used.
Not a single post about someone selling ephinea items. That's why I said go ahead, show me. Show me where these supposed RMT are selling items because otherwise you are talking 100% shit out of your ass and concede that these hyper mod players aren't making profit, but just hoarding high end items via auctions to only other privileged autists.
>Miserable and boring
You avoid scrubs who resta and carrying noobs. Other than that yeah it is lonely, but sometimes if you're actually good at the game its the better option than the stress of carrying multimode yourself. That's why TTF, RT, and other spammed quests are still prevalent aside the leveling, because people cant possibly fuck up playing those quests, and they're rewarding at the same time.
I feel like this game is finally dead
I used to be able to run some pubs and get a party of randoms on ephinea, but not anymore. people only play ttf, and there is no point to this game unless you just have 3 other friends.
everyone just sits in the fucking lobby doing nothing for 8 hours, and you KNOW they arent afk because they dont get auto disconnected. they dont type or play, but they have an alarm clock on their phone to just waggle the control stick every 5 minutes. they require themselves to be in there and do nothing for days on end
How the fuck do I MAG?
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Dark Falz is one of the coolest boss designs I've ever seen in my life and I feel like we don't get bosses like this art style anymore and I'm not sure why. Final Fantasy used to have some epic strange looking monsters but even they gave it up to go with boring generic fantasy dogshit.
I used to nol people back in the day, felt so good being a cyber terrorist at the age of 12
wtf is nol
basically it was an exploit that turned someone in your party into an NPC model which also destroys your inventory and equipped gear, bricking that character permanently
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So what I gather is PSO servers are fine to play for a bit for the nostalgia trip, but leave quickly because they're just run by meta min max homosexuals that control the entire market?
I might play till I get up to Ultimate difficulty, kill the bosses at least once, then just quit then.
You can still tradeup for nice stuff, and work from there. Getting into PSO servers late can be tough unless you find tradeables to buy yourself into the market, or that one legendary drop to get yourself established. There are people on ephinea server with literally thousands of pd's
You can still play and have fun and find stuff, end of the day its gonna be a grinding game regardless of what you want.
I would say PSO is a legit good game and Ephinea is a legit good server, but the nature of any online game ever made is your experience will vary drastically depending on who you play with.
I mostly do passworded games with 1-3 players for high level stuff with people I know outside of the game, but sometimes play random low level open lobbies if I see those pop up as well. Never had too much issue because I always avoided engaging with the hyper end game autism
> they're just run by meta min max homosexuals that control the entire market?
No, you leave because nobody actually plays with anyone outside of their private friend group.
Most people either don't know about or care about quest that aren't TTF/RT/War of Limits and wont enter open rooms that arent running them, and these multi mode missions aren't made with single player runs in mind.
I never got my shippujinrai in PS:P
man that game was also good
>PSO "endgame"
Who the fuck cares about farming one shitty weapon for 6 months. PSO grind was always trash. Bro there's items with 1 in 22,000 drop chance. Who the FUCK beyond literal turbo autism monthly check fueled tismos are going to stay all day farming for these things?
Just fucking play the game and ignore these meta retards