[HUnewearl or HUcaseal]

By the way, I talked about playing alone or playing with people...

If you want to play alone, there is actually a question to ask yourself (like, how the hell am I gonna make it works ?).

But if you're playing mainly with people, then either Hucaseal or Hunewearl is fine.

I basically said a silly thing such as : playing with team -> pick hucaseal

Now you may also consider the kind of people with whom you play :
-If there is at least one FO in every game... well, your s/d j/z and resta will be pretty much useless.
-If you're playing with casts (hucast, racast by example), then Hunewearl is a great choice and you're just like a God to them.

So when I talked about picking hucaseal when playing with people... I only considered accuracy (ATA), power and traps based on the
fact that you will probably have a FO in the team anyway.

But that is not true, sometime, the FO is just... you. So once again it depends what you want to play (tastes and colors).

I would make a rough big picture like :
Hunewearl :
- Alone : great potential
- Team : support (so ok, here the sue's coat with that supposed double resta range is great, assuming there is no flowers, but that's it)

Hucaseal :
- Alone : dangerous, slow and sometime frustrating (depend on the quest and stuff, you can also rox like a mighty pony, but am considering average stuff and hard quests)
- Team : carry/dps

Now about stuff... well have been first playing with a Hunewearl, then I went with a hucaseal (because I needed a new ID, not because I didn't like hunewearl).

I basically gave all of my stuff from hunewearl to hucaseal and it worked just fine (for the main, very useful stuff).

Only noticed a few differences at low level, like Lieutenant Mantle cannot be equiped by Hucaseal (but Black Hound Cuirass works just fine after lvl 121) and the Aura Field which also cannot be equiped by Hucaseal (but you got the BOVN). And of course there is the awesome Sue's Coat for both character later on.

So don't worry about stuff thing.

[HUnewearl or HUcaseal]

The high ATA of hucaseal is sure a really good thing.

I would personally consider things like that :

If you're playing all alone, no dual log -> choose Hunewearl

If you're playing with people or you can/want dual log -> choose hucaseal (notice: dual log is actually not a good point, for it's a pain in the ass to handle and you'd better just play with people or just with one character at the time. Or perhaps am just not good with the stress of having two characters ^^)

The reasons :

Hunewearl : have shifta/deband up to lv 20 AND jellen/zalure up to lv 20. This is really great when you're solo, because when applying buff/debuff, you can handle everything by yourself (most of time of course) with average stuff. Moreover, you got resta which is very useful to avoid piping to town every time you run out of dimate/trimate

Hucaseal : have more ATP, have more ATA... and have TRAPS which is overgreat. So if you can have a hunewearl or a FO to heal you and more importantly to buff you and debuff monster... Hucaseal is actually a better choice than Hunewearl in that case.

Was my two cents, and it's very discutable but I think you got the main points. (Then there is the skin or appearance, and the weapon animations/restrictions of course.) At the end it's all about your personal tastes ^^

[Everything about donations]

Hello mate !

You just came on this server, you barely know about PDS (http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php/topic/341-photon-drops-info) and already, people are talking about DTS...

So what is this strange beast, and how to get your way around that...

 

• WHAT IS IT ?

In order to maintain the server alive (since well everything come with a price), you have the wonderful possibility to make a donation to the server.

When you make a donation, you get what we call DTS or DT, standing for Donation TicketS.

1 DT = 1 $

DTS can then be used for at least two things :

- Redeeming things in this list : https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/announcement/13-item-list-donations/

- Trading with other players

 

• How to get it ?

First, you need to visit this page : https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/donate/make-donation/

When you've been through the procedure, you will then receive a automatic personal message (pm) from @Larva, with "New Donation" as the title. (Larva will most probably never read it, so don't lose your time trying to answer him ^^)

Just to be sure, the message will be the following :

 

Hello {yourpseudo},

This is an automated message confirming your donation.

Thanks for your donation of {the sum you paid} USD

To use your Donation Tickets, add a GM or Moderator to this conversation,
and contact them in game too.

Thanks Ultima PsOBB Forum

 

• What to do with it ?

1. To redeem for donation list item/service

In that pm, you will see at the top something like (outside the Conversation box area) :

Click on "add" and enter the name of one of the GM (@cyane and @Soly by example)

Then, if you want to redeem for something in the donation list. Well, make a nice post in that pm asking for what you want.

The GM will put the item on one of your character (first slot by default, but if you're online with your first character it will be on second slot, something like that).

You can also ask a GM on the chat or in game. If they have enough time and you ask nicely enough =) they will ask you to "up the pm" which means you have to post in the pm where your DTs are so that they can see it. They can then join you in a room in game and redeem on the spot.

2. To trade with a player

- Add the player to the pm (yes still the one with your DTS, that you get from that Larva) the same way you've added the GM before (even if you do not redeem, DO ADD A GM before adding someone else). That way, people knows that you have enough DTS to make the trade.

- Post a message in this pm saying something like : "x DTS to thatguy" where 'x' is the number of DTS and 'thatguy' is the pseudo of the trader (the forum pseudo). You can also write a true sentence like "I give x DTS to thatguy for that item and also that"

- The trader will give you what he/she promised you in exchange of the dts. It will happen in game, you need to make a party (with password or not, free to you) and the trader will join the room (if you told him the room's name and the password via pm before, of course) and give you what he/she owes you (according to the terms of your previous agreement).

Simply put :

Add the trader to the pm > post how much you give him > make a room and share the name/password with the trader > get your items

A bit of informations about trading...

People used to trade 15 DTS for 99 PDS, so like 1 DTS for 6.6 PDS

That is not set in stone and will depend on the market/trader, obviously.

 

• Key points

-DTS are stored as post on the forum in your PMs, therefore it's not an in game item.

-You need to add people to the pm with your DTS in order to sell them.

-You need to be added to the pm with other people's DTS in order to buy them.

-If you have DTS in many different PMs, you need to ask a GM to move them all in one PM in order to

be able to use them as a whole. (if you wanna buy something worth 10 DTS and you have 2 PMs with

5 DTS each, gather them first before the trade)

-In order to move your DTS, the GM must first be added in both pm.

-When you don't have any DTS left in a pm, you may leave this pm. Make really sure there is nothing left.

-Obvious but : only GM can redeem things from the Donation List. You just don't need to meet them in game

in order to get the items.

 

• Tips

-Most of the time, it is CHEAPER to just get the item from the players than from the Donation List. So don't get
in a hurry, take your time to ask people around. They will not eat you, eventually.

-When 15 dts = 99 pds, it is cheaper to sphere your weapons with dts than with pds.

15 dts get you + 35 % where 99 pds get you + 30 % (don't even argue with yourself, YES, 5 % is a big difference ^^)

-Do not trade all of your pds in dts. You need to keep some pds in your bank (like 50-99 would be a good thing ^^ optimally ofc)

because some GM's event will ask you for pds every once in a while, and at that time the dts value is greatly decreased.

-Considering the above point, try to think that way : only trade your pds for dts when you need it and no more than

the amount you need. PDs will most likely always be a more reliable value than DTs.

That's it for now.

If I made some mistakes (I must have ! One cannot be just flawless...), please feel free to correct me and point out what's wrong.

If it's incomplete, well post your two cents and I will add it (with credits !) to that post.

If you have a question... do I need to hold your hand ?

[Personal visit card]

I would have say "Hello world" instead but that's just me though =)

Anyway, have a nice day mate !

[Describe yourself]

Auroboro

Christian

Cyane

Fyrewolf

Larva

Misombre

r-78

Soly

PGF/STA hunters

Yskialuw

[Describe yourself]

T... that one must be a fake !

@currey26 So you think am creepy =) You sure know how to flat gratify people hehe. But well, I cannot agree more with your statement =D

[We Made 200 Souls! new weapon? ;3]

Yeah it's kinda like you can't freeze a dorphon but you can paralyze it. I guess...

But seriously, stop with the gun things T-T there is already too much useful/op guns and rangers are already op anyway so... (talking to people who dream about unlocking master raven... seriously ? or doing things like L&Knameit with zerk...)

What we need is : halbert, twin sword, and optionally double saber type... for hunter. And a nice lil thing for caseal, newearl, marl ; just saying =D

[We Made 200 Souls! new weapon? ;3]

Not to be an ass but this is also fucking useless. Don't ranger already have arrest needle ? But yeah, ice is cooler than paralysis if that's what you meant xD

[We Made 200 Souls! new weapon? ;3]

@killswitch

You mean a unit which gives +50 ATA if the current equipped weapon doesn't have any hit.

Well, that would actually be useful for s-rank weapon indeed.

It could be fun if a unit gave attribute depending on whether your weapon has the attribute or not.

Example :

Native Killer : +50 % against native if the equipped weapon doesn't have any native AND doesn't have more than two stats.

A.Beast killer : +50 % against a.beast etc. ... ...

Machine Killer and Dark Killer would work on the same basis of course. And each unit in this set would give 50 ATA like killswitch mention (assuming your weapon only have one or two attributes maximum).

It would be a really crazy set of units, but finally mostly useful for s-rank weaps. And also for hyper rare weapon that you barely have any chance to drop with good stats, such as sjs/tjs. Or for "almost good"/"beautiful skin" weapons that you'd like to use but doesn't deserve such a treatment as sphering/redeeming (cross scar, blood art, etc.).

@Izaya

Am so agreed with you ! B... but... is that a racast with the claw on this picture ? Heresy !

[We Made 200 Souls! new weapon? ;3]

Yeah so at the end of the day, it will not be up to us to make the choice so...

I guess it's not even to the GM to decide, though they can influence it, but to Larva.

But I'd like to think that among all this little ides that everyone gave, some will perhaps play the muse role and inspire Larva for the future =D

[We Made 200 Souls! new weapon? ;3]

@killroy909 We're going to think that you are that guy you're always talking about. I don't feel like "thanking" him anyway.

@Fyrewolf5 Nice one =)

@Soly Why not a unit for a change ? Like a v200+

[We Made 200 Souls! new weapon? ;3]

It has to be for dragon frames only ! Males already have PR right. A gothic/gore/not pinkish skin would also be great for once ^^

[We Made 200 Souls! new weapon? ;3]

So I come back with that "200 Swans" that currey26 once mention (royalties goes to you for the name ^^).

Twin Saber type(just because, well, there is not enough good twin sabers I guess. But imo a double saber could be just fine too)

50-100 atp

35 ata

150-200 grinders (just for the feel of having a +1xx weapons and because we find so much grinders that I feel we could use)

Normal, Hard and Special attacks are "Energy Waves" (without hp sacrifice) for the range. The special would allow to launch three energy waves per strikes.

If I remember well, twin saber strikes 5 times, so it could do like 15 strikes with S-S-S assuming that you have enough ATA to hit.

[Ultima's Official Price Guide]

I got a D-photon core this year. This is probably the only "rare" thing I got but I can tell you there is at least one. Some people around (the chat) told me I was not the only one to find it. So I guess there is some more (though I didn't saw any banner for that).

[/afk command?]

Well people are so susceptible nowadays that just "not replying" isn't actually enough ^^ So yeah, a kind of /afk function could be fun.

[/~|? Christmas Selling ?|~\]

Quick update with some christmas items added.

[Ultima's Official Price Guide]

D-Photon Core is most likely worth anything between 15-30 dts... If you can find a seller at this time.

[Weak]

Woups, sorry. I didn't mean to say that other server does have hit and stats on s-rank. Just that since it's ultima and ultimate monster have much more evp, it has become kind useless here. Hell needle ? Isn't it better to just get a hell arms with 50 hit ? Dunno, I don't play ranger but anyway I don't think a hell needle will be any help in ep1 and even ep4. So the only thing left I see is zalure/jellen weapon for cast...

[Just come back to PSO. This is AMAZING]

Welcome and hello !

No you can't unlock TTF in one person mode.

Best way is to join game with other peoples. Do meet people ! They can help you (sometime ^^) doing TTF, RT etc.

Have fun in the snow !

[Weak]

@Angel You took the words right out of my mouth : diska of braveman, vjaya and daylight scar really are among the most powerful weapon when to comes to raw damage. I can do a RT in 28-30 min with the help of my dear fonewife, which I think is pretty honorable given am not a pro nor a ranger =)

@cyane I so much want a Bloody Art T--T Well I know it's not hard to find, but I meant a good bloody art of course ^^

@chuk I feel like it's true enough, challenge mode is well named after all (however it's kinda sad that s-rank or not that good on ultima... because of the lack of hit mainly). Also, certain battle mode are a good way to separate the weak from the strong. Am not talking about the stupid one where people fight with their stuff 1v1, am talking about the kind where character are reset, you find stuff in the labyrinth (I think it was a temple map) and each time you die you level up. It was really a well made battle mode and kind hard to master.

[Describe yourself]

SelahIsASpot is a...

Dragon Frame

[Ideas to improve the server - feel free to post!]

That weapon seems awesome : first because it's a real hunter weapon (not some mechgun if you see what I mean). Two because it's op but if you think about it, not that much (berzerk does reduce life, not a good range compared to real op weapon such as dm). Three because I don't like this skin ^^ nothing to do with it but well we could really find something wonderful for it. *dreaming dreaming*

I think you all need to go back to school.

Well pure and not that useless knowledge speaking, yes we all do (since we forget so much by the time).

However Auroboro, I am really sorry to have to tell you that - but one day someone will have to tell it anyway, and it may hurt (but since you're being insulting atm, I assume you're a bit reading for some backfire) - but you really need to "stop".

Stop trying being always right.

Stop speaking without thinking before. (really a bad combo with the previous one)

Stop thinking everyone's your enemy and digging even deeper your own grave.

You do not need to prove to anyone that you know everything. (first is *sigh* because no one cares)

We are not your enemy and some people may even agree with some of your point.

So yeah, basically "chill down", recognize your mistakes (once in a while) and don't get involve in things you don't understand (there is, there is for everyone !)

This spoiler content is an eyesore so I putted it into a spoiler. <- Captain obvious doing his work.

[Any League of Legends players?]

Are you two dota2 players ? ^^

So much hatred, I can almost feel it behind my screen... no wait, what I felt was my backaches, nothing to do with it.

But well, much more than that poor game for preteens, the main "garbage" (recycle bin is too polite) is the community behavior itself in game.

Make me want to throw up... but he ! it's new year festivity tonight so that's actually a good idea to empty that stomach before !

[A reintroduction]

Sounds like a plan. Well enjoy the game once again ! And yeah, try to catch up the other faces of pso that time =D

[Easy to Implement Ideas/Features]

we need a better mechguns for females chars , since the best mechguns for female hunters are charge vulcans, c vulcans have a huge diference compared to psychoravens, at least female ranger can use yasminkov 9k, but female hunters dont have a nice mechguns like hunters have (psychoravens)

Indeed, Hunewearl and hucaseal sure could need some love. Why is there not a psycho swan to compensate the psycho raven ? (I don't say it needs to have the same kind of psycho name ^^ or effects). Rise atp/ata and rub some bacon demon's/spirit on it =D

(Ok. Now I just had an even better idea (will never happen so it's just some dreaming behind the computer) what about actually making real hunter weapons huh ? Like... not a gun ya see, not even a mechgun... yeah, something which involves close fighting.)