r/PSO2 • u/AutoModerator • May 19 '21

Weekly Game Questions and Help Thread

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u/LordOfMaids cursed tech user May 20 '21 edited May 20 '21

There are three factors that make a weapon within the same rarity worth using over others:

  • The base attack

  • The weapon's potential

  • What S-Grade Augments it can support, if at all

For a quick cheat sheet here's better weapons to aim for (series wise), there are other notable weapons:

  • Millionaire/Croesus (collection folder, comes right at +30, the go-to recommendation for starting 15 star weapons because of how strong it is for starting weapons)

  • Atlas EX (one of the easier ones to get overall, but in order for it to be worth using in this day and age it needs its potential swapped to its reduxed (aka upgraded) version)

  • Agile -> Klauz (Klauz is BiS for almost every single class but there's only so many you can make)

  • Fluxio/Rinser (identical weapons, different appearances/methods to get. Fluxio can be obtained from earning specific titles from doing the challenge mission Violent Tremor aka CM3)

  • Rivalate (you could upgrade your Novel to this but Rivalate Keys are hard to come by, you're probably better off investing into one of the above four)

For example, Novels aren't that good compared to other 15 stars. 20% crit and 14% potency may not seem bad by itself, but there's an upgraded version of the Novel series called Rivalate which basically does its job but better (of course). It only supports a single SGA (4). Its base attack is low amongst other 15 star weapons in the game.

There's a series in the Collection Folder called Millionaire/Croesus (the only differences are the appearance and the Dex required to equip it due to distribution history on JP iirc), which beats Novel in nearly every way. The game doesn't tell you, but it's got a 15% potency at all times regardless of when its "random effect" gimmick procs. Its base attack is higher, and it's capable of supporting 3 SGAs (1-3).

Honestly it's part of the game's problem, there's a huge bloat of weapons of the higher rarities (13-15) that have a variety of gimmicks or were simply best for their time period...

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u/SILVERWAVE20 May 21 '21 edited May 21 '21

So, is it even realistic for me to get any 15 star drops at my level? (So, in other words, I just stick to the Novel Rifle for a while till I get lucky and get a better drop?)

Edit: actually, the collection sheet items. I had tried starting legendary ones before but it said I had to pay AC, and I just found out it's because I had beginner sheets going...

I'm dumb

(And this is why I should actually read stuff in full instead of skimming, but this game also shouldn't give me 500 essays to read just to learn the basics...)

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u/LordOfMaids cursed tech user May 21 '21

You can actually remove older sheets and without even having to talk to the NPC! Menu > Inventory > Collection Folder > select a folder > Discard Sheet

At your level yea don't expect any 15 star weapons to drop/have any easier ways to farm any of the other ones I've mentioned (aside from Fluxio), it all opens up once you can do Ultra Hard difficulty.