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  1. Updated. Sorry that I have not been around in a little while. I have had a lot of real life stuff going on. Let me know if you want any of the mags that I have made or want a different mag made by me. As always, I charge 15 pds to raise a mag to level 200, plus 10 pds if I supply a ppp mag, plus the value of a mag cell used if I provide it. All mag cells are free except dragon scale, liberta kit, ultima! mag cell, and d-photon core. Just remember: If you want to pay more for mags, that's your business. If you want to pay less for mags, that's my business.
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  2. As we all know, one of the most fun and engaging aspects of this game is trading. The purpose of this guide if to detail how new players can acquire useful low level items and trade fodder. These are all quests that can be completed by players at any level. New players should not feel like they have to wait until reaching level 100+ before hunting useful drops to trade with others. Green names greatly help with many of these items, but are not required. If green names is not active, divide expected drops by 3. Photon Drops ID: all IDs Quest: Ultima -> Mysteries of the Void (normal ep2) Drops from box found right before teleporting to spaceship beta Drop affected by green names? - No Recommend using techs (specifically rabarta and gifoie) box can be found by hitting the switch on the right side of the final room before the spaceship beta teleport (avoid the switch in the middle of room) and then leaving out the exit on the left side of the room. Use warp pads to reach and a handgun to destroy gate switch. Takes 5:30-7 minutes to reach depending on how strong techs are. This is the most reliable and efficient way to farm PDs until acquiring the gear and level needed to survive WOI. PD also drops 1 per player, so if you are starting out with a friend this quest is a much better use of time than doing forest or caves in ep1. (Bonus: farming on Skyly gives a 1/121 chance of dropping luck materials from barb wolfs) Power materials ID: greenill Quest: Ultima-> Max Attack: Forest/TTF ultima (normal ep1) Enemy: hildeblues Drop affected by green names? Yes With green names each run will yield ~9 power mats and takes between 3-4 minutes depending on how strong techs are. A strong enough Razonde will clear each room. Mind materials also drop from blue rappys in this quest (16 total rappy spawns in this quest). If you do not have access to strong techs yet (lvl15+) or are still struggling to kill forest enemies in 1 or 2 hits, TTF ultima would be a faster farming method. In room 1 kill the first Hilde then move to the second room to kill the boomas, then 7 Hilde spawns an 1 rappy before using the /Lobby command to exit and remake. This method takes 1-2 minutes no matter how strong the player is. HP materials ID: Bluefull, Oran Quest: Ultima -> Wrath of Forest (normal ep1) Enemy: blue rappys Drop affected by green names? - Yes With green names the first room of the quest will have ~3 each run. Takes less than a minute, but recommend running the quest until the first room of forest 2 to avoid burnout. Typically yields ~6 HP mats and will be able to mag feed each run Mind materials ID: several, see description Quest: Ultima -> Max Attack: forest/Wrath of Forest (normal ep1) Enemy: blue rappys Drop affected by green names? - Yes Recommend grinding in conjunction with power mats in the manner detailed above. Possible to run greenill wrath of forest instead of max attack forest as there's more rappys, but the quest takes much longer (~8 minutes). Also drops for IDs: Purplenum, Viridia, Skyly. These IDs should grind in the same manner as HP mats described above Trigrinders ID: bluefull Quest: VR-> Max Attack 2 very 2 (normal ep2) Enemy: hildeblue Drop affected by green names? - Yes After clearing the first room, run to the first maze and return to the first room to kill the 2 hildebear/blue spawns. Continue south through three maze rooms then turn right to reach a room with ~12 hildebear/blue spawns. Will yield ~6 trigrinders each run with green names and takes less than 2 minutes Addslots ID: redria Quest: VR -> max attack 2 very 2 (normal ep2) Enemy: Hildeblue, Nar Lily Drop affected by green names? Yes Same method described above for trigrinders. Dragon scales ID: all IDs Quest: Ultima -> point of disaster (normal ep4) Enemy: ep4 boss Drop affected by green names? - Kind of Quest takes less than 15 minutes to complete if follow the route describe here straight to the boss: http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=2349 If you're low level and wondering how to make the most of happy hour and/or green names, dragon scales go for 5-10pds and if you're a hunter they can be used to evolve your Kama to the best mag in the game and open up the fastest mag feeding table. Green names raises the chance of rare boss spawn which has a higher drop rate than usual, but Happy Hours affects this drop more than green names. Photon crystals also drop from rare monsters in this quest Unsealing Quest: Ultima -> intelligence defense system (normal ep1) This quest was recently changed and now has slightly more enemies before the PD. Recommend running the quest until the PD box in the roof(found in room immediately after the baranz-on-an-island room). Takes ~8 minutes, ~450 enemies per run, PD drops 70% of the time in my experience. Would recommend running MotV instead for the guaranteed PD (~300 enemies per run), but if you're in a hurry to unseal, this quest is faster. Hunewearl is the queen of unsealing since she can equip every sealed item, and has access to techs. Photon crystals Quest: Ultima -> Maximum Attack U: Desert (normal ep4) Enemy: rare enemies ID: all IDs Drop affected by green names? - Yes "With a nuking FO, you can honestly just spam razonde in the middle of the room and it will kill 90% of the mobs in the quest. With green names, i'd average around 3-5 per run, but if you get lucky, you can see as many as 8 photon crystals in a single room. If you've ever farmed mats during green names, it's the same deal. Sometimes the room has 9 rares, other times the room only has 1 rare spawn." - special thanks to @Nills for the help. The first half of M4ADMD has also been suggested and will be compared next time green names are turned on. These can either be traded, used to add hit to enemy weapons, or acquiring gear from black papper. See the following guides for help: http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=2423 *Note: the undisputed champ of farming items on normal mode is FOnewm given his innate RA tech boost, so if you are looking to make a character just to farm these items as quickly as possible, this class would be the top choice. FOmar is also an option if you have Godricks cloak* Exchange rates Power mats 5:1pd Hp mats 5:1 pd (these sell the fastest in my exp) Mind mats 5:1 pd Luck mats 1:1 pd TP mats 1:1 pd Trigrinders 7:1 pd Photon crystals 5:1pd Addslots 4:1 pd Dragon scales 1:5 pds Unsealing prices: negotiate with the person needing the unseal, typical prices are ~10pds for lames, 25 for SJS, 8 for Limiters or Swordsmans Lore How to make the most of your time Stacking multiple PD-earning tasks together is the most effective way to quickly reach a stack of PDs or even a photon Sphere. For example: Agree to unseal a Lame - 10pds Unseal a limiter to sell as an Adept - 15pds profit Agree to raise a custom mag for another player - 30-40pds Run MotV 33 times to unseal, mag feeding 2x per run - 33 pds (takes around 4 hours) Total - ~90 pds And with green names you can get a stack of 99 power mats (20pd value) in as little as an hour, not counting the mind mats dropped along the way. Each class's top priority gear for beginners (most cost-effective weapons to spend your PDs/farmed items on): Hunter: Ultima reaper (20-25pds) and/or crimson sword (~75pds). Serene swan for ranged (35-45pds, more with hit%) Ranger: spread needle w/hit (50-100pds) with proof of sonic team (~50pds) or arrest needle with hit (100pds-20DTs). Acquiring a bringers rifle for episode 2 is also recommended (10-15pds) Force: banana cannon (15-20pds), for techs: glide divine v00 or psycho wand (both ~15pds) Units: Limiters (5-10pds) and unsealing, or Adepts (20-25pds) V101 (~5pds) Centurion/battle (eventually** cause: 200pds) There is no reason to be intimidated by the prices you see in shops or feel powerless when reaching ultimate mode without decent gear. It is much easier to grind on this server than elsewhere. Good luck! Any questions feel free to PM me 😊
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  3. You can absolutely recommend multi-logging as it is totally allowed on this server. Also, Christmas Catastrophe on very hard gives 2 mats per character per run. But I understand the idea of making the most profitable use of your time. I just also think that giving more options of quests to run can help players of any experience level achieve the desired goal. What is easy to one player might be difficult to another imo. But thank you for your time and effort. I think this guide will be beneficial.
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  4. rare monster event is what u guys called green name...hmmm i get 12-15 pow mat 5 - 8 mind mats if u do wrath of forest (hmmm) counting on my toes... that take like 6 runs give or take...lol...you dont need a TA f#ck that just play casual ...starting drama is pointless...welcome to ultima server..
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  6. Please note the words "prefer" and "arguably" in my reply. The point here is that providing a menu of applicable quests is better than pigeon-holing a new user to a quest. As you said, you were using a max mst fo. Equipment, level, play style will all impact which quests would be optimal for new players. I'd be interested to see you clear MAU Forest in a little over two minutes as you say, as each run from counter to counter is anywhere from 3:45 to 4:00 in my runs. Case in point: Time from lobby to lobby: With a max FOmar - TTFU yields 7 hilde at 72 seconds, MAU Forest yields 7 hilde at 106 seconds, and the entire run of MAUF yields 32 hilde at 3 min 57 seconds (237 seconds). At these times here is the break down of hilde per second: If the player runs entire quest: TTFU: 9.722% (7/72) MAUF: 13.33% (32/237) If the player runs until the second room of each quest (7 hildes): TTFU: 9.722% (7/72) MAUF: 6.660% (7/106) Ultimately the difference is negligible. It comes down to what class, level, gear, playstyle the user has and whether or not they are willing to lobby frequently.
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  7. Hello all, This is a quick start post I have compiled for new people and individuals that may require a little extra information. Good luck with your hunts and if you are new here welcome to the server! IMPORTANT NOTE!!! IF YOU CANNOT MOVE PRESS F11!!!! LEVEL UP FAST: Sometimes 5X Experience is enabled making this even faster. Fastest way to level up is by spamming TTF VR (toward the future) until you are level 100. Then you can unlock CCA (central control area) by pressing the 3 switches at jungle-, mountain- and seaside area. Once you have unlocked cca you can rush/kill Gal Gryphon over and over again. He gives you the highest exp in game. do that till lvl 200 Max stats calculator (where you can make a plan for your lvl200 character): https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/tool-box/calculators/max-stats/ COMMANDS: Usefull commands you will need! you can just enter them into the chat by pressing ENTER: /dropstyle 1 will change the dropstyle to individual drops so nobody will be able to steal your drops. you should do that asap! /bank willl switch to a shared bank which can be access by all your 4 character on your account. execute it again to get back to your character bank /lobby will exit every quest and put you to the lobby /map will maximize the map if you need to check for something. execute it again to minimize /hh will check if happy hour is active und how long it remains. happy hour (180 min duration) gives you a 3x times increased droprate. 1/90 will be 1/30 while hh is active all the other commands are here: https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/tool-box/commands/ TRADING: People on this server love to trade items. there is a whole market in the forum where you can sell/buy stuff. There are 2 currencies accepted by the players: Photon Drops (PDs)(THESE CAN BE FARMED IN GAME) and Donation Tickets (DTs) (THESE ARE FORUM ACCOUNT ONLY) PDs drop while playing or you can collect them at some quests ie. WOI EP2. DTs you can get by donating real money to the server or selling items. 1$ = 1 DT = 7.7 or 8 PDs Subject to negotiation not set in stone. DTs are the ultimate currency. There are items that go for 2 PDs and others go for 500 DTs You can always ask at the chat box on the start page of the forum if you want to know the price of any item. A beginners guide to grinding and getting rich on Ultima Ty JDHenry Where can I hunt items and When? Ty Kajex Useful abbreviations for EVERYTHING; Ty R-78 Ultima Custom Equipment WIKI; Ty Saber +7 Installing LUA (ie. Floor reader); Ty Yannv Drop tables https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/droptable/drop-tables/ How to send Donations https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?app=donate&module=donate&controller=send&do=sendTotal PSOBB Ultima Item WIKI https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/wiki/items/ Keyboard Controls Tutorial videos
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  8. I have linked this guide from mine. That way you get the best of both worlds while still going from the quickstart.
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  9. I appreciate the effort of documenting and organizing all the relevant information and guide newbies throughout their journey, but if i may suggest, you and @C01D1 should merge your topics and do a definitive beginners guide in one topic. Essencially, you both have the same goal - organizing and documenting all the must know information to people that are starting. That way would be easier and more intuitive for people to find the information that they need, instead of looking for multiple topics. You could organize the info for things like: - Getting Started - Mechanics - Tools - Quests to farm for X objective - Etc.
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  10. Exchanging 99 Photon drops in Gallon's shop or Lemon's shop is the only way.
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  11. Press f12 to open your menu. In the bottom right corner is your total exp and exp needed for your next level.
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  12. Again, not ignoring the increased drops, TTFU also has chance to drop mind mats, and meseta is worthless. In fact, if you look at the math I've factored that in. I have calcs for if the player does the entire quest as well. My point is that this quest may or may not be ideal for new players, especially if they are running solo and that it would be good to provide multiple applicable quests for farming these items. Providing feedback to make a guide more user friendly should not be interpreted as argumentative and if that's how it comes across, I apologize as that wasn't my intent. And again, I have provided the rate for if the player does not stop at the second room. The reason I provided the number if they DID stop, was to do a real comparison of 7 enemies to 7 enemies between the quests, and then compare that to the whole quest. Link to screen recording software: https://obsproject.com/ Link to my recordings of both quests: MAUF: TTFU:
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  13. If you are online, please make a room
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  14. hi ill buy the preta cyan humar stats 15pds and the kama red ramar no unit stats 25pds plz thanks
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  15. good start on some basic farming ideas for new players. Just a thought - there are other quests that people may prefer or that are more efficient for farming some of this stuff - might be cool to add a couple suggested quests rather than just one. For example - first room of TTFU is arguably more efficient in farming pow mats, and first half of MA4DMD arguably more efficient for farming PCs.
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  16. Hi, welcome. Quick answers to your questions: 1) no, that mag is standard. If you make a mistake on your mag you can just get a new one by either finding one or creating a new character and transferring it over. There are special mags that you can get from an advanced quest that have 0 def starting stats that are desirable late game for maxing stats, but the ones that you start with are no different from ones you may find during the game. 2) Yes, materials are the only items that impact character stats that have a consumption limit. This limit varies from race to race. These can be reset if a mistake is made or if you want to re-stat, using a command in lobby "/matreset (material type)". 3) Most rare mag cells require specific conditions to be able to use those cells, and most rare mags that do not require cells have specific requirements including mag level, section ID, class, or gender. Best to look up individual requirements for whatever mag you are looking to make. 4) Not that I can think of. Most things about your character can be reset or modified, such as stats or appearance. The only thing that is kind of a pain to rework is the mag.
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  17. Updated and finished (I think) the guide. If you have any feedback let me know, but again, this guide is to direct new players towards useful and tradeable items they can farm easily in normal mode. Edit: I would like to add the most efficient and easy way to gain meseta. If anyone knows a certain quest on normal (any episode) that gives 100k+ meseta please comment and I will add.
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  18. I thought about adding frozen shooter, but it's such an easy drop I wouldn't even bother spending PDs on it. I also don't have any experience with restless lion, so I didn't know if it's something a beginner would be be able to complete.
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  19. The Sunniest event of Ultima has come! Summer Items Centurion/Legs - 75 EVP Centurion/TP - 125 TP Centurion/Technique - 5 Technique Levels Trap Search - Makes traps visible Zanbacon - Delicious sword Summer Main Items Blood Sword Do not underestimate the power of blood... Soul Booster Need a boost on Excalibur? Combine them to obtain Hundred Souls. Psycho Black Crystal Give to your Master Raven the ability to curse your enemies with death by making it Psycho Raven. Or upgrade your Sword of Ultima to Ten Years Blades. Centurion/Battle Is this game too slow for you? Then this item is gonna be your best friend! +110% Attack Speed Alis' Resolve Foie +35% Barta +35% Zonde +35% Serene Swan Shoots 3x4 bullets per combo. Has a rifle range. Can be used by any Hunter or Ranger. This item can now be found in episode I as well, in case you get bored of Spaceship. ____________________________________ Event is active until July 26, 2020 Thanks to @Yannv for the portuguese addition Credits to @FALC0N for the Banner Good Luck / Bonne Chance / Buena Suerte / Boa Sorte ! Discussion topic
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  20. Not arguing with you anymore. You misunderstood or misrepresented what I've said. I'm open to Tots suggestion, and I'll look into it. Again, let me post tots own data on the matter and why I was dismissive initially: Clearly showing MAUF giving more hildes per second unless the player /lobby after the second room of MAUF. Which is an absurd comparison considering most of the hilde spawns are in the third and fourth room. In addition, there are much more more rappy spawns, and the player is given meseta for each run of MAUF, which takes less than 4 minutes. I think Tots has a valid point in that maybe players with weaker gear and stats would benefit from TTFU instead, which I'll look onto. But I'm glad you acknowledge that this info is useful. It's a wonder you didn't post anything similar in your 3 years on the server
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  21. ....what? Green names is universal to every quest. The lowered rare enemy rate would apply to TTFU as well as MAUF. Perhaps I misunderstood Tots, but his own post presented clear evidence for MAUF being more efficient to grind: The only way TTFU could be seen as more efficient is if the player /lobby after the second room of MAUF, which I don't know why they would do. And new players are in need of meseta which is a benefit over TTFU, as well as mind mats dropped along the way. Both of these are not "worthless" for new players, as they need meseta to raise their mag, and they can sell mind mats for PDs or use them on their own characters.
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