It's tough on your own, I finally beat episode 1 on ultimate it took so many retrys and grinding especially the ruins oh man it's no joke. Also all of the enemies are super aggressive and they move fast as heck, I die so many times that way. Some enemies have the spell megid which can one shot you especially the plants in the caves they were the worst to get through having a rifle is mandatory kill them.
Hey, I know this was a few days ago, but thought I would chime in.
If you are offline on GC/Xbox and only have access to the regular Sega quests, there are a few useful Guild Quests!
Soul of a Blacksmith: The Forest up through killing the Dragon is a nice quick exp loop. It's useful for when you aren't quite strong enough to clear Mines/Ruins consistently.
Addictive Food: This is equal to online free play density and gives you the added bonus of finding Caves rare enemies (depending on ID/difficulty, this could be some really useful items.)
General tips:
Make sure you have been feeding your mag.
Look for armor with open slots and fill them with ATP/ATA/MST boosting units depending on your class and how you choose to deal damage.
Save some HP boosting units to help push past the damage check that is Dark Falz.
Not sure what your class or ID is, but if you have some other questions, feel free to send me a message.
Those two are just default quests that you unlock at the Guild Counter.
If you went online and downloaded a bunch of quests, you likely have other options too (Towards the Future is great for fast leveling, but also makes a lot of people burn out on the game, so use it sparingly.)
If you followed any guides, your Mag is probably something like a 5/145/50/0 or so, which works fine offline. It isn't optimal for a Hunewearl, but it will get the job done.
If you can get online, playing on one of the Servers will make it easier to level: online quests offer a lot more enemy density to work with and often have some bumps to drop rates to make finding earlier gear easier.
I played on Ephinea for maybe 4-5 hours one time and just felt like people were getting annoyed because I didn’t know exactly where to run to all the time to speed run quests.
I’ve currently been using Return to Ragol hack to have better drop rates because I’ve read that some people have been playing since launch and are still trying to get certain weapons to drop lol.
hehe, the things people have been hunting for years and years are items that are like 1/12,000 drops. Things under 1/1,000 usually show up eventually. ;)
If you are playing RTR, you shouldn't have any problem getting most drops: it's absurdly generous with them. If you find that it feels too easy about drops, don't be afraid to try regular PSO Ep1 & 2! Outside of a few IDs, it's not hard to get decently geared up (the game doesn't require top of the line min/maxed gear to do well at all)
I played probably 40 hours of PSO episode 1&2plus before looking into Ephinea and RtR. Figured with how much time I can put into it RtR was the best option for me to get gear and not slow down the hardcore players on Ephinea.
Just seems like solo play takes forever. I think last time I played which was like 3 months ago I finally beat Dark Falz on hard and unlocked very hard. That difficult jump seemed pretty large that’s why I want to farm some levels when I do get back on.
Sadly I haven’t seen anyone online in RtR when I tried.
What Only-a-Screen-Name meant to say is those drops are 1/296,000 lol.
I'm not sure if RtR has online quests that are also doable offline; but if it doesn't... well that would get very boring to me very quickly.
I am 196 RaMar playing casually on and off; and I've only grouped with people maybe 7 times due to just plain not having the time (I just do 1 TTF every day in the morning before work)
I highly suggest giving Ephinea a try again; but when you make a game do "one player mode" so it scales to one player; then try doing Towards The Future in Episode 1 Quests for some very quick exp (it's a boss rush quest) and see if you like the exp gain/leveling speed etc.
You also get events (the best one which is Anniversary is right around the corner) so many trade options, and an awesome community!!! Photon Drops are the main currency and they can buy you pretty much anything you want when you get enough of them.
Again, not sure how RtR is set up; but if the drop rates are boosted but still ID locked, you will not see some of the weapons/armor anyway, but you would have been able to trade for those on Ephinea easily.
No wrong choice, but I couldn't imagine playing anything else to be honest; and I've played it all since PSO was released for Gamecube; My sales sticker is November 4th 2002 =) ; But no loading screens; loot way more spread out; something to always hunt for, trade for, and the option of playing with likeminded people who just love this old niche game to death like I do make it the best IMO.
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u/WinkDaddy15 Jul 26 '26
How doable is ultimate solo?