Phantasy Star Online 2 - No, we don't sell XXX over XBL (Oh yeah, it's going Western 2013)

[Oninnaise]

Ship 4 is way more populated than Ship 2, but there are a lot less English speaking people. Or at least, they're not talking as openly as they are on 2. Like on 2 you would face problems finding people doing end-level quests (XQ's, Ult's) as most of the people don't do them. And if you get late for the Emergency Quests, it also can become a lot harder to find a full MPA.

As for my rant about English players and the Economy on Ship 2:
On PSO-World, the english fanforums you can find a lot of guides for classes and gear. The problem is, they're incredibly outdated. Telling you to get gear and abilities that's already fairly outdated (Tiam set, Vardha set, +60 atk) while you can get a lot better. Most of the english speaking people I played with would have similar sets or abilities, even at level 75 (which is the current max).
The problem this gives is that people doing Emergency Quests at the highest difficulty would do too little damage. This would get so ridiculous that doing these quests with 12 people would be 2-3x slower than doing one with 3-4 teammates. If you look on the forums, you can see people still often asking for help because they can't get enough damage while they've followed the guides. Averaging around 1500-2000 ATK of their class stat, while you can easily get 3-4K.
At first. Whenever I see people with lacking gear, I would try to help them on how they could improve. 9 out of 10 times i'd get a response in the direction of "You should stop tryharding, I just want to play for fun. Let me do what I want, etc". A pretty toxic response, as you would literally drag down 11 people just by not doing enough damage. And if half an MPA is filled those kinds of people... Good luck trying to finish it, then.
You can know it's really bad when everyone, including all the Japanese people on the ship avoid Block 30 because it's known that the worst of the worst keep, or at least used to keep meeting up there during Emergency Quests.

Now because nobody tries to get better affixes, or knows how to get better affixes. Almost nobody is selling the weapons or units that can help you upgrade them. And when someone does sell them, they usually get bought by a scalper to sell them for even higher prices. So if you want to get +120 ATK or higher, you're going to need to spend either A LOT of money or spend a lot of time grinding for the items. It's cost me about 60M to affix all my units. When I heard afterwards that on ship 4 I could do it for less than half the price, made me feel pretty bad.
Pretty much everything is also being sold a lot less on 2 than on other ships. Only things you really see being sold a lot on Ship 2 are costumes. Everyone thinks it's an easy way to get money without doing a single thing. A lot of people also seem to treat PSO2 as a dressup simulator.
Oh. And if you do choose to go for Ship 2 anyway, I would also avoid Block 1 and Block 30. Whenever I get sent to those blocks when I log in, I end up needing eye bleach. People always seem to be (E)RP-ing there in public chat.

I think I got the most important parts down. If anything's still unclear, feel free to ask.

[redBadger]

[QUOTE=Rainboo;49603044]Okay nigglets I'm downloading the JP client of the game since I don't really want to go back to SEA.

Anyone knows what proxy I can use for registration?

Also which ship is the most populated one like best one to stay in for endgame where the best people are lol[/QUOTE]

You don't need a proxy anymore since they removed the ISP ban.

[Sora3100]

[QUOTE=Fish_poke;49603330]Well, if you're launching through the Tweaker then you have access to the global IRC chat regardless.[/QUOTE]

That's PSO2Proxy, has nothing to do with the tweaker.

[Rainboo]

[QUOTE=redBadger;49603882]You don't need a proxy anymore since they removed the ISP ban.[/QUOTE]

When I try to register it says it's not available in my region. I suppose the ban is still in place for SEA users because playpark is hosting a server.

I guess I'll try VPNGate as Onii suggested.

[Onule]

EP4 is out!

[redBadger]

trying to get back into this game. I feel like my character is weak as shit, even though I had some decent gear.

if anyone playing on ship 2 and wouldn't mind giving me some pointers and info on what the best weapons/armor is, I would appreciate that. you can add me on steam

[Onule]

Quick Summoner review
The dog (Wanda) is the most reliable pet
Sari is decent at mobbing
Torim, the bird, supposedly the bossing pet, dies to a sneeze.

The class needs a major rework lol

[Oninnaise]

Yeah, Stances don't affect pet damage at all. Class seems kind of meh, and no effort to use.
Guess they've been too busy trying to shoehorn the Anime as canon to work on a proper class

[redBadger]

[QUOTE=Onii;49632498]Yeah, Stances don't affect pet damage at all. Class seems kind of meh, and no effort to use.
Guess they've been too busy trying to shoehorn the Anime as canon to work on a proper class[/QUOTE]

I still don't see where they've done that.

[Hruhf]

Yeah, and the story in ep4 is laughable so far from the fragments I comprehended while playing.

[Hruhf]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXMSAin3Mt4[/media]

Well, I'm stuck in a limbo between laughing so hard and actually looking forward to what the fight might be like.

[redBadger]

Wasted opportunity not having a huge darker Godzilla come out of the ocean

[Laika]

so ive been playing summoner and ive really been enjoying it the most out of all the classes ive played. however summoner has been really strong since ive been leveling with friends (to the point of them bitching about me 1 hitting everything and forcing me to nerf myself), but does summoner get shit late game in terms of damage? i havent bothered yet to get into minmaxing with candies (hell ive slapped some into there randomly because i have no idea what candy does what, probably shouldnt have done that since they need to be removed...), but it just seems that everyone shits on summoner and the only reason i could guess why is that its shit in the late game.

[Windy]

So, i havent really been known for paying attention to the story since it not being in english kinda makes it difficult but why are you fighting the god damn Yamoto?

[Sora3100]

[QUOTE=Furnost;50077999]so ive been playing summoner and ive really been enjoying it the most out of all the classes ive played. however summoner has been really strong since ive been leveling with friends (to the point of them bitching about me 1 hitting everything and forcing me to nerf myself), but does summoner get shit late game in terms of damage? i havent bothered yet to get into minmaxing with candies (hell ive slapped some into there randomly because i have no idea what candy does what, probably shouldnt have done that since they need to be removed...), but it just seems that everyone shits on summoner and the only reason i could guess why is that its shit in the late game.[/QUOTE]

From my experience, Su's damage doesn't seem to improve much from early game, so overall on harder difficulties it does get worse. (have you not heard of JP abandoning because of Su?)

[QUOTE=Highwind017;50078090]So, i havent really been known for paying attention to the story since it not being in english kinda makes it difficult but why are you fighting the god damn Yamoto?[/QUOTE]

We don't know yet as far as I know.

[Laika]

well i just got banned for no discernible reason...
been playing since beta, was fun while it lasted. i hope sega gets off their asses and brings it west soon

[Onule]

[QUOTE=Furnost;50103530]well i just got banned for no discernible reason...
been playing since beta, was fun while it lasted. i hope sega gets off their asses and brings it west soon[/QUOTE]

Code 816?
I still don't get why they won't let foreigners in, the game is made in such a way that you can have 500+ ms latency and still play fairly decent.

I'm reaching 1000 hours put into the game and I still fear that one day I'll be banned because LOL GAIJIN wwwwwwww

EDIT: Wait, I just checked pso2g, you used the tweaker's proxy didn't you?

[Laika]

if i didnt i wouldnt have been able to play at all

[redBadger]

There's no need for the proxy anymore since isps have been unbanned

[Laika]

people say that and then i try to login without the proxy and i get a 630

[Sora3100]

Can you access pso2.jp?
If you can, you don't need the proxy.

[Laika]

i can but anytime i tried to play the game without proxy id get 630, and when i used proxy i could play the game fine

[editline]10th April 2016[/editline]

it may have had nothing to do with being region blocked or whatever, but proxy was a solution that made me able to play the game so i wasnt about to argue

[Onule]

PSO2 IS FINALLY COMING TO THE WEST

ingame.
That was fucking predictable.
It's Vegas, you can fly around a most likely empty map just like Tokyo,
This is the boss
[media]https://twitter.com/GMcustom00/status/744555681336877056[/media]
I've officially given up the tiny amount of hope for this game to recover.

[Laika]

[QUOTE=Onule;50549614]PSO2 IS FINALLY COMING TO THE WEST

ingame.
That was fucking predictable.
It's Vegas, you can fly around a most likely empty map just like Tokyo,
This is the boss
[media]https://twitter.com/GMcustom00/status/744555681336877056[/media]
I've officially given up the tiny amount of hope for this game to recover.[/QUOTE]

that is fucking amazing

[Laika]

bit of a bump but is anyone still playing and not part of a team and is on ship 4? my friends and i team could use more people and everyone on 4 is jp

[Hruhf]

I still occasionally play. Very slowly leveling Hero on ship 6.