At what point are you able to do ultimate difficulty?

[overlordsabre]

So there's a chance I'm doing something wrong, but what point are you supposed to be strong enough to do the ultimate difficulty?

 

I'm playing a RAmarl and I just hit level 101. I looked through the shop to find some weapons with hit% on them so I don't miss, but even using those I miss regularly and do basically no damage.

 

Is there some gear I'm missing like I can find on very hard or something that'd make it doable? Is there a solution to this without requiring help or gear from someone that's already level 200? Because I'm sorta trying to play mostly self-sufficiently.

 

Like what would recommended gear for me to find in order to be able to do Ultimate? I tried charge weapons but I'd need to find a charge weapon with a high hit%. So there's that I guess, but I don't think even that'd be much damage at this rate.

[Mr.Feeger]

Ultimate is pretty hard when you are a fresh lvl 100 with no gear

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4 hours ago, overlordsabre said:

So there's a chance I'm doing something wrong, but what point are you supposed to be strong enough to do the ultimate difficulty?

 

I'm playing a RAmarl and I just hit level 101. I looked through the shop to find some weapons with hit% on them so I don't miss, but even using those I miss regularly and do basically no damage.

 

Is there some gear I'm missing like I can find on very hard or something that'd make it doable? Is there a solution to this without requiring help or gear from someone that's already level 200? Because I'm sorta trying to play mostly self-sufficiently.

 

Like what would recommended gear for me to find in order to be able to do Ultimate? I tried charge weapons but I'd need to find a charge weapon with a high hit%. So there's that I guess, but I don't think even that'd be much damage at this rate.

 

Firstly you can check , find a build you think will suit you. As a fresh player i would advise the adept plan.

 

 

 

Second : Mag is important will be most of your power raise to 200

 

Third : Devil/Demon weapons ,Frozen Shooter ,Spread Needle and a Hell Partisan these are your staple weapons . Unit V502 (couple pds trade)

 

Fourth @lv101 You can play story mode which is under single player mode (can unlock strange sightings easy to hunt frozen shooters just dont complete will lock else until all government  done just /lobby ) ,

 

         to unlock more story you do multiplayer government Quest (complete each zone Forest rewarded with hit weapon complete mines reward hit weapon ) these are lower health than multi player . EP4 single player Pioneer spirit here you can get 2 npc to help you , just dont let them die.

 

Experience is abit higher , again lower hp on enemy.

 

All ways keep shifta / deband up and Zalure on enemy , Jellen to stop damage taken

 

 Hope this helps.

 

Edited February 8 by ink

[theancientsam]

theres a lot to it. if you need help in game i could give you a few pointers... playing in ultimate is difficult because the monsters have boosted stats compared to vanilla so you are gonna want over 200 ATA to hit monsters in ep 1 and over 200 ata, plus hit on weapons to hit monsters in ep 2. ep2 is where you can grind out the most exp to lv up quickly as well. on ultima if you wanted to donate to the server (ultima does not have a monthly charge to play like the original pso did) you can add hit to your weapons (MAX 80 HIT) though i would only do this to the best items you have. also on ultima we have ultima exclusive weapons you cant find on other servers. i would save my DTs to add hit to stuff like that.

for basic starter ramarl i think id go for...

 

frozen shooter 30 hit or more (3pds?)

millie mariteau 40 hit or more / later you can upgrade to female exclusive millie faucillie (best mech gun for ramarl) (20 pd or so for the first wep but upgrading you will need an event item called stellar shard ( a shard probably costs like... idk 15 dts? 20 dts? or like 99 pd or 198 pd not sure exactly) you can farm durring an event, cant remember which event, but valentines event is coming soon.

bringer rifle 40 hit or more for demons/ rifle range (demons cuts enemy hp by 75%. demons has an activation rate of 50% so it will look like it misses a lot but when you land it it will do lots of damage. use this on enemies who have a lot of hp

slicer of finatic would also be good for demons, multiple enemies, but ramarl can use type  SH/shot demons later on which is super over powered  compared to the slicer but the slicer is still good if you can find a good one for cheap. youll want 40 hit or more.

arrest needle 40+ hit for now this would be your main mobbing tool for taking down lots of monsters quickly until you get a dark meteor (or if you swap to racast you can use Iron Faust)

 

outside of weapons and im sure i forgot something important...

you gonna want a lv 200 mag, and probably some heavenly/ arms units to max your ATA. ramarl has almost the highest ATA in the game which is gonna help you a lot, your weapons wont need as much hit as ...say a hunter or a force would. if you can get an armor called kroes sweater and equip it, you gain an additional 10 ata but i think you need to be lv 180 something to equip that.

so for units you will want something like (v101, h/arms, h/arms, h/arms) the goal is to max your ATA. if you can max your ATA with less than 3 h/arms then only use what you need. the number will be gold when maxed out

 

red ring will help also, at lv 150, equipping red ring will boost your ATA 20 over max, this is the only item that can do this and is used by 99% of players. there are also variations of red ring on this server called red ring costumes. my favorite for ramarl is franks costume (doubles range of your jellen and zalure) it will be like having glide divine on your head and the buff is always active as long as it is equipped. also gives you cute bunny ears which looks pretty good on ramarl. not so much on humar haha

 

any questions hmu

 

good luck HUNTER!

[overlordsabre]

Thanks for the advice, you two, I got a clear idea of what I should be aiming for now and what I'm missing.

[Booch138]

I’m roughly in the same boat (currently lvl 103), though this is not my first rodeo with the game. I’m currently stuck in that awkward in between of being able to handle everything in VH (except final form D Falz whom has a chance to one-shot me out of no where still hahahaha) but everything in Ultimate takes a while since my armor is a lil meh atm. Aforementioned “Hell” weapons def help. If you ever wanna group up and just clear content for leveling that’s all I’ve been doing :3 good luck friend!

Edited February 9 by Booch138

[Kotta]

1 hour ago, Booch138 said:

I’m roughly in the same boat (currently lvl 103), though this is not my first rodeo with the game. I’m currently stuck in that awkward in between of being able to handle everything in VH (except final form D Falz whom has a chance to one-shot me out of no where still hahahaha) but everything in Ultimate takes a while since my armor is a lil meh atm. Aforementioned “Hell” weapons def help. If you ever wanna group up and just clear content for leveling that’s all I’ve been doing :3 good luck friend!

What

Are you saying that Dark Falz deals over 500 damage with the swing attack on phase 3 In Very Hard Difficulty? O .o

[JanenbaDMS]

Might be Falz grants wrecking if they have very little ELT on armor?  I seem to recall it packing a lot more of a punch before you hit end game build wise.

[theancientsam]

ive made some new characters recently and here is what ive been using for armor. 

 lv 1 armor for males that gives high edk (dress plate)

and whatever is the best barrier at the blue shop focusing on RES (page 2 of the stats) 

i ignore dfp evp for this part of the game and just focus on hp materials, power materials etc

at lv 50 or 60 or so ill go back to the blue shop and look for divinity barrier this will give you resists like 27 30 27 60 0 with both equipped

yes 0 resistance to grants. however fighting falz has never been an issue for my character, hucast. perhaps because of higher hp he has. 

at least in very hard it shouldnt be an issue

if youre playing a female this wont work as she cant use dress plate. also females have lower hp... but dress plate and divinity barrier carries me to lv 150 where then i swap to samurai armor and ylvis costume. i like this set up because it has low lightning resist and when you fight gal gryphion the lightning will nock you down instead of multihitting you do death

 

in my strategy for making new characters. i solo ttfu until lv 90, ttf from 90-100 (usually with help) and then 100-200 cca or RT (with help or solo, with help is much faster.) the last toon i made, hucast, took about 36 hrs of game time to get from 1-200. it can be done faster than that too. to start out i get prepped first, i eat all my mats for my plan at lv 1, (115 pow 35 luck) equip pow mag (the end game mag for hucast is fine (3 182 15 0)) and equip as many units i can to increase power for hucast, if i was playing ranger i would boost ATA/ DEX instead because its much easier to equip big guns at lv 1 than big swords. id use (cent battle cent power cent power cent power) until i get to lv 100 hucast where i swap to (cent battle cent arms cent arms smartlink) and equip a serene swan. if playing hucast this should max your ata and youll be feeling pretty comfy in ep 2 as long as you dont get hit lol OR SHOCKED (NURF THE DAMN BROWN MONKEY HE IS THE BIGGEST THREAT IN EP2 XD) at lv 199 or 200 you can chaange the second cent arms to a free unit. most ppl use cure confuse but u can use whatever just dont forget smartlink centarms cent battle

 

on the other hand for racast if using a DEX mag 0 75 125 0 (fonewy melee mag) you can equip dark meteor lv 1 with only 2 cent arms i think. 2 or 3. giving you room for cent battle and 1 free unit (cent power maybe) using these strategies and weapons you can go through the lower difficulties in lightning speed. but if you dont have dark flow dark meteor i would just go as close to that as you can. perhaps for hu tjs/crim sword/ultima reaper/ master sword? and arrest needle/ iron faust for RA

 

also some low lv gear that carried me that i didnt expect (ULTIMA REAPER) you can equip this guy at lv 1 with my set up and its strong enough to one shot everything in normal so killing all the enemies in ttfu isnt too bad. also tjs is something you will be able to equip before dark flow (around lv 20? 30? i forget) if you have them, which also did a lot of carrying. the tjs special in the lower levels when your pb is really easy to increase is pretty awesome. also it seems like if you use tjs on a huge mob with 100 pb it can proc your mag again even though it depletes your pb. so if youre using tellisus /love rappy/ sonoti whatever/ you might get 30 seconds invunerablility just for blasting on the caves mobs or whatever. (also cool trick with tjs master sword, or pb drain weps: if you do  attack combo: normal normal special attack, with full pb, and swap weapons quickly to another weapon, you will be left with 60 pb instead of 0) so you can abuse your tjs and mag while you abuse the lower difficulty monsters 

 

to any hunters out there who dont have a good sword at all, try ultima reaper its not something to sleep on if you are struggling with mobs and dont have a good sword yet. and its relatively cheap if you arent looking for hit stats on the weapon. you wont need hit for these lower difficulties or stats so if you can find ultima reaper for a few pds it could be a great beat stick for a new player. this can also be used on fomarls and other classes so its pretty good to have one of these. also type mechs have a pretty low req for ata, youll be able to equip those around lv 30 or so without putting anyting into dex/ata. and it can do good damage to falz with berzerk on the lower difficulties. hits pretty hard. 

 

 

 

if anyone has some specific question or something i can help with lmk

 

ill be doing some cca/rt today (olga drops EXCALIBUR) if anyone wants to tag along and grind some exp

Edited February 10 by theancientsam

[JanenbaDMS]

For Ramarl/Racassy I usually just coast through with lvl1 frame until 112 then swap to Vampire Cloak.  Safety Heart at 123 then combine with Sweetheart at 131.  Magic Rock Heart Key is the combiner for all the heart stuff (if I remember right Love Heart provides big dfp buff if you're standing next to another player if they're male but I mostly solo so moot point)

 

Should be simple enough to party up during vday event or at the very least they'll be going for pretty cheap since they'll be easy to get.

 

To echo what folk were saying previously in terms of weapons, Frozen Shooter should be your go to.  Loads for sale for literally 1-2pds.  High hit not required since special is so busted.  Just remember to keep swapping it out as if you keep it equipped there is a chance to freeze you in place every couple of minutes or so (or wear a cure/freeze)

 

Bit of a timesink to unlock all the questlines in ep1 and ep4 to make bringers rifle with 50 hit but it isn't hard as you can do it on any difficulty.

 

Also v502 if you're using hell weapons for 100% boost to chance of insta kill!

 

Best thing I can say though is not to go full tilt with any of this.  Burnout is the biggest killer with PSO.  Pretty much everything is going to take time in the beginning.  Best of luck!

[Caniac]

If you see me on, I'm usually looking to run TTFs. Good for leveling, but also a red ring is a possible drop from falz and can five you a nice boost to everything. It requires level 150 to equip.

[theancientsam]

check this guys lv and time lol. this the guy im currently working on

 

 

speaking of sweetheart and safty heart btw. i looked on the wiki and sweetheart gives like 20 EDK which should be enough to survive the lv 3 megid in cca ultimate from gibbons. so for females it is a great choice. also i think safty heart gives a little more. it also has very high fire resist. you can max fire resists with... cent res i think. the only upside to this for cca would be the little fire traps wont hurt you and the sinows rafoie wont hurt you, but they dont do much damage anyway xD. on the other hand sweetheart saftyheart combo boosts atp if you are standing very near a male character. the more near you the more the buff is. i think its like 90 for 1 male, 150 for 2 males 200 for 3 males... maybe? but you gotta be like RIGHT on top of them for it to work. and most ppl think you're being weird and will run from you lmao!

 

on this newest character i decided to use my cent arms and serene swan on the falz fights, i would bring extra arms units so i could swap. it made the falz fight much faster in very hard difficulty 

Edited February 12 by theancientsam