Newman Supremacy

[diemildefreude]

Hello,
You can call me Goldmund. I started playing PSO on the Gamecube, where I only played offline. With real-life friends, I played for a few months on Sega's BB servers before we switched to PSU - unfortunately, they lost interest in both fairly quickly. I made a Schthack account a few years ago, was inactive after a few months and started using it again last summer. Since then I have been sporadically addicted.
I love music, literature, and painting. I am also very interested in other languages and cultures.
As far as my play style goes, I only really like playing as forces. I laugh at the stigma that reduces us to a supportive role and that is propagated by time-attack nerds complaining about Damage Cancel and who whine when their LV 200 Dark Flow-wielding HUcast has to go 2 seconds without buffs. So if you agree with people like this: http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/topic/3437-playing-a-good-fo/?hl=%2Bfonewm+%2Bequipment , you might want to avoid teaming up with me.
I like trading, doing random quests and enjoying the atmosphere of the game. I hate TTFing and like leveling up slowly (which could be a problem on this server). My favorite episode is Ep. 2, whereby I do enjoy solo- or group-newking Ep. 4.
I have yet to make a server account, but am increasingly interested in your server, as it seems very lively. I have a couple of questions for now.
On Schthack, I have a LV 171 FOnewm. It took me a few months of hunting and trading items to save up enough PD to buy a Psycho Wand (since my ID was not purplenum, and, based on my experience helping some friends hunt, this was probably the faster route). My setup varies, depending on the area/quest and includes the following items:

Weapons:
Psycho Wand (30% boost to Ra techs on Schthack)
Magical Piece (60% boost to Gi techs on Schthack. Used once in a while, when I find Gifoie useful)
Excalibur 0/0/100/0|40 (great for the mines, so-so for Ep.2, as I could still use more ATA)
Glide Divine
Sigurd's Staff (Schthack item that boosts Grants by 150%, lets Megid pierce and has a neat, auto-aim, long range physical special attack)
Doom Bringer 60 Hit (Another Schthack weapon. Double Bringer's Rifles: Demon mechs with rifle range)
Plantain Huge Fan 50 Hit

Armors:
Mother Garb+
Smoking Plate
Ignition Cloak (boosts Foie by 60%, Gifoie by 40%, Rafoie by 20% on Schthack)
Congeal Cloak
Tempest Cloak

Barriers:
Ra Merge (40% boost on Schthack)
Gi Merge (used rarely, 60% boost on Schthack)
Yin Yang Merge (used sometimes on Ep. 4, 75% boost to Grants on Schthack)
De Rol Le Shield

Units:
Adept
Adept
V801
V101
Smartlink
Cure/Freeze
Cure/Slow

Mags:
Bhimae of different stats and colors.
Robochao 5/0/0/195

After browsing your forums, I have learned about the FOnewm's MST-cap being raised to 1600, the Hylian Shield and Psycho Bridge which apparently allow for higher Ra-tech power than on Schthack. Aside from the 100 MST difference, the highest you can have to any ONE Ra-tech on Schthack is 145% with the FOnewm bonus, Dark Bridge (45% to Ra-techs on Schthack), Three Seals (50% to Ra-techs on Schthack) and one of the elemental cloaks. What are the highest boosts you can have to Ra-techs or other techs here? How attainable/unattainable is the best tech-boosting equipment? (On Schthack, Three Seals does not drop and is the rarest, most expensive item. Dark Bridge isn't super common either)
Aside from FOnewm, and despite my apparent racism, I am interested in FOmar. I played as one on the GC (after getting frustrated with HUmar's terrible techs) and on Sega's server, but always had a hard time due to his terrible ATA, DFP and HP. They evened him out a bit on Schthack by introducing the Battlemage Cloak and Battlemage Bracer, which are equippable only by FOmar and FOmarl and boost their ATA and DFP substantially, making them more suited for meleeing. Are there any such solutions on this server?
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Your answers will help me decide if I want to make a character here, and with which one I should start.

Best Regards,
Goldmund

Edited April 15, 2014 by diemildefreude

[chuk]

Three seals drops in Very Hard on Delbiters in episode 2 for redria's if I remember correctly.

[Khireborn]

Hehehe I like this guy if you see my fomarl rose in game ill help I out

[Cyane]

:3 I agree with all! I know how strong forces could be on schthack. Doing decent damage fully geared. Here they get somewhat strong. Not as strong as on schthack but it's good for a challenge!

Fomar and fomarl seem to be balanced here

[diemildefreude]

Three seals drops in Very Hard on Delbiters in episode 2 for redria's if I remember correctly.

Thanks, chuk. If I read correctly, Ultima's Three Seals has different stats than Schthack's. Is there a PSO Ultima wiki?

Hehehe I like this guy if you see my fomarl rose in game ill help I out

Thanks, Khi/Rose. For now I am just doing some research, but should I make a character, I will keep an eye out for you. ^^

[diemildefreude]

:3 I agree with all! I know how strong forces could be on schthack. Doing decent damage fully geared. Here they get somewhat strong. Not as strong as on schthack but it's good for a challenge!

Fomar and fomarl seem to be balanced here

Really? It seems like Ra techs would be stronger here with the Hylian Shield and the Psycho Bridge, but those are probably very difficult to acquire. On Schthack, techs that hit single targets are boosted a lot more.

How are the human forces balanced? Were their stats also changed?

[Cyane]

There are exclusive weapons to help those classes.

I remember doing over 1k damage with ra techs being lv 117 there, here I do about 400-800 on ultimate being 150. It's not as op or I might be lacking some gear.

I'm using hylian/pwand/mg+

Edit: You might want to check this topic http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/topic/10353-psobb-ultima-itemweaponarmorshieldunit-effects-ie/

Edited April 14, 2014 by cyane

[diemildefreude]

There are exclusive weapons to help those classes.

I remember doing over 1k damage with ra techs being lv 117 there, here I do about 400-800 on ultimate being 150. It's not as op or I might be lacking some gear.

I'm using hylian/pwand/mg+

Oh, cool. Maybe you can recommend me some gear, if I decide to make a FOmar. Or I'll just use your search engine...

Perhaps they tweaked things since you were at Schthack. As a FOnewm with max MST (1500), Psycho Wand, Ra merge and Ignition Cloak, I hit Bartles for a little over 600 damage with Rafoie. 3Seals and Dark Bridge (which, like I said, are super rare), would probably take me over 700. Most enemies have more resistance than Bartles, though.

I saw here that with Hylian and Psycho Bridge you can hit them for over 800, but I imagine Psycho Bridge is difficult to have, since it is a transformed PGF item.

edit: According to some posts from last year, http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/topic/8906-suggestions-for-a-fomar/?hl=%2Bfomar+%2Bequipment#entry66688 , FOmar still has a problem with ATA. Have the new items come out recently?

edit2: Just saw that you edited. I will check it out now - thanks!

Edited April 14, 2014 by diemildefreude

[Cyane]

Right now I was thinking of using a kroe's sweater and Excalibur for my fomarl. I'm still not sure what I should use more since i'm pretty new to the class (fonewm and fonewearl are my main). Vivienne and such are good to start (but not that awesome to keep using) if you are poor in pd's.

Edited April 14, 2014 by cyane

[Fyrewolf5]

Hello and welcome to the Ultima Server.

3 seals drops on skyly too, also from vhard delbiters like on redria. The stats are still 33 for everything, resists, dfp, evp, requirement, and it has a 25% ra boost.

Hylian shield will not be dropping until the triforce event, (between summer and halloween), but many were farmed and it may be possible to trade for one, its boosts are 100% grants 75% rafoie 60% razonde, 35 edk 32 eth 25 efr. It also adds +1 to all tech levels and 20 mst.

Also obtainable in the triforce event is the Master Sword, which is basically a weaker Tsumikiri J-Sword that forces can use.

Some merges drop in the christmas even from very hard bosses (vol opt), including resta merge.

The ignition/tempest/congeal cloaks are vanilla on this server, only 10% to their respective simple tech.

Psycho Wand is 45% ra techs on this server, from purple mil lily and whitill del lily.

Psycho Bridge will be very difficult to obtain, as it requires both the extremely rare dark bridge (pgf is christmas event) and a proof of sonic team (which is dropping somewhere in this easter event, and is also used to make the much more sought after arrest needle, a spread needle upgrade with 400 atp 60 grind 75 ata). Not many people have dark bridge or psycho bridge on this server, the boosts on psycho bridge are 75% rafoie 75% razonde 95% rabarta, as well as giving a small amount of hp. It does not inflict status effects like dark bridge does, but it does reduce tp cost for hp drain like psycho wand does.

Grants boosts are a little more limited, mostly hylian shield 100%, mercurious rod 30% (claires deal trade), cadeceus 20%, clio 10%, and mother garb+ (all forces random 30% grants boost. normal mother garb is still fonewm only).

For Fomar the Godric's Cloak is dropping in this event. Likely increases ata significantly.

Fomarl can wear the female only Kroe's Sweater for 10 ata over max, and can get a blank rambling may(exceptionally fast on fomarl) from the valentines quest, generally fomarl has a very wide variety of gear and is fairly competent at meleeing.

In terms of damage, a maxed fonewearl with psycho bridge and hylian shield will just barely break 800 on bartles, with pwand+hylian it's 746 vs bartle. Fonewearl and Fonewm damage are almost identical when maxed, (about 12 damage more for fonewm with rafoie vs ultimate goran).

Here are a bunch of links you may find useful:

Easter Event Thread

http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/topic/11608-easter-event-100-souls-2014/

Quests with Highest Enemy Counts (some ultima quests not included)

http://www.phantasys...0-enemy-counts/

Item Effects (list of items including server changes to them)

http://www.phantasys...item-effect-ie/

Item Combination Guide

http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/topic/10372-psobb-ultima-item-combination-ie/

Max Stats Increase Patch, most stats max up by +100, also ATA up by +10 on all classes

http://www.phantasys...pdate-patch-25/

Commands in Game (/npc 6 and above require the default hair 1 on your character to work, if you don't you will crash and need to go dressing room to change your character back in order to log in again. Changing hair color affects the npc chars hair colors too! Also the common bank is buggy I advise against using it for valuable items.)

http://www.phantasys...mmands-in-game/

Some nice buffs to Force weapons, notably pwand and mg+, and a few other weapons

http://www.phantasys...se-little-more/

Kroe's Sweater Buff ( +10 ata over max and +40 edk)

http://www.phantasys...-kroes-sweater/

Wedding Dress Buff and New Shambertin Drops (some of the drops are acquirable elsewhere)

http://www.phantasys...and-shambertin/

Rambling May quest reward

http://www.phantasys...valentines-day/

Cell of Mag 502 quest reward

http://www.phantasys...ell-of-mag-502/

Ultima Mumble Server (eww Mumble)
details: http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/topic/11527-ultima-voip-service/

Unofficial Ventrilo Voice Server run by Team PRO, open to all (You have nothing to lose but your keyboard chains!)

http://www.phantasys...o-voice-server/

[diemildefreude]

Thank you very much, Fyrewolf. It seems that Ra techniques are boosted here more than other techniques, which would bother me more if it weren't my favorite tech series.

Still, it means that a FOmar wouldn't be able to boost his Gi techs very much with the current equipment (unless I have over-looked something). But I suppose FOmars will be meleeing more than anything else.

Having a bunch of forces run around with Master Swords and Hylian Shields sounds hilarious. xD Especially since it is high-end and not joke gear and, for this reason, this scenario is all the more likely to happen.

By the way, where can I get warning points, and can I buy things with them?

Edited April 14, 2014 by diemildefreude

[Nessly]

Welcome to ultima!

... the boosts on psycho bridge are 75% rafoie 75% razonde 95% rabarta...

Great post Saith. It's very informative/comprehensive even for us non-newbies. Just for correctness, Psycho Bridge's boosts were fixed so it's now 85% rafoie, 85% razonde, 95% barta.

[Fyrewolf5]

Welcome to ultima!

Great post Saith. It's very informative/comprehensive even for us non-newbies. Just for correctness, Psycho Bridge's boosts were fixed so it's now 85% rafoie, 85% razonde, 95% barta.

They actually did end up fixing them? Cool. It was a little funny how it had the same rafoie boost as hylian for a while but pbridge being much more rare. I wonder how much damage variance we would have now with rafoie kekeke. Still probably so very close that it's negligible.

Edited April 15, 2014 by Fyrewolf5

[Armando]

Ill gent you hunt that anytime just ask when you see me and welcome

[Armando]

Also I see mewplushie in your sig I miss her so much