PSO2 Item Translation Patch Phantasy Star Online 2

Alright folks, here it is at long last - The Item translation patch! You'll need to use the PSO2 Tweaker to get it/use it.

Open the new PSO2 Tweaker (available here: http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207248) and checkmark "Translate items".

Launch it with the PSO2 Tweaker, and the items should all be in english. There's bound to be some bugs and issues, so be sure to report them here!

Usage:

If you hold Control (Ctrl), it'll disable the translation as long as it's held. Also, if you Ctrl + C an item, it should still copy the JP text instead, so you can still search through shops! If you want the english text to be copied instead, hold control, tap shift once, then hit C and it'll copy the english text. :)

If you want to turn off the translation patch entirely, you can hit Ctrl + F1 to toggle, Ctrl + F2 to toggle the copy mode between english text and JP text, and Ctrl + F3 toggles search mode.

Please note that hitting Ctrl + F1 - F3 will trigger the shortcut if you have one saved in the first through third slots.

ALSO: You can now search for items by English names, sort of. Type the beginning (or whole word) of what you're looking for in english, and then hit "P. Search". It'll (by default) bring up the item in JP first, then english. Click it, and it'll post the JP + English in the bar. simply delete the "|" and the english part so only the JP is left and hit search!

Will I get banned?!:

As with any patch/modification/simply connecting to the server, there is no guarantee you will not get banned using this tool or the patches contained herein. You use this tool at your own risk, and as-is. Neither this tool, Arks-Layer, or PSOW or any affiliates are at fault if you do get banned. Thank you.

Credits:

Enjoy, and be sure to thank Raven0123, Variant, and arcnmx on the PSOW Forums for all their hard work! A big shout out to Cirnopedia for the translations as well! \o/ Also, a big thanks to MrTurkleton for giving us the idea (and some info!) in the first place!

Solo play in Phantasy Star Online 2

Soloing is a very inefficient way to grind to 60. If you're looking for people to run AQs and MPAs with, there's always Lobby 20. Mind you, lobby 20 isn't the best place to make a home for yourself but there's almost always something going on. Folks will be advertising AQ runs, TACOs of all difficulties and there will always be a party looking for extras when an EQ starts up.

What should you be doing with your money? That's a tough question. Depending on where you are financially, you can invest in the 9-star Unit set for your class and +10 and Affix them (add Abilities). If you can get into some AQs, you can pick up one of the 9-star crafting weapons (Ikutachi, Ishurai, Divlucan, etc.) that convert into 10-stars at the Shiny Stone shop and get your first 10-star weapon via crafting. You can also spend your meseta on EXP boosters to help reduce the intensity of the grind (though boosters come often enough through campaigns and rewards so chances are you already have tons of these).

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT USE ANY TRIBOOSTS UNTIL YOU START DOING AQ's! The reason for this is that enemy density in a fully-manned AQ is very high, so you can reap the maximum potential rewards from Triboosts and rare boosters.

And finally, if you're looking for a group to play with who are at your level, I encourage you to look for and join a team.

Wizard & Dragon Defense: Quick Walkthrough, Upgrades and Strategy Guide

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Phantasy Star Online 2 Southeast Asia in 2014

Phantasy Star Online 2 blasts off in Southeast Asia early 2014 ... This version of the game will come with localized environmental art and 

Phantasy Star Online 2 Coming to Southeast Asia in 2014


Six Southeast Asian (SEA) countries will soon be able to experience the world of Phantasy Star Online 2 (PSO2) as Asiasoft brings Japan’s biggest RPG to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. Sherman Tan, chairman of Asiasoft says:


Since its first conception in 1987 on Sega Master System, Phantasy Star has been one of the most renowned gaming franchises in the world. In PSO2, Sega has developed exciting, unique and polished online action RPG experience.On behalf of Asiasoft, we are proud to carry on the legacy of Phantasy Star franchise to the current generation of gamers and to provide the best online service for this exciting title in Southeast Asian countries.


Naoya Tsurumi , the president and the COO of Sega Corporation adds:

Asiasoft has an excellent track record in publishing online games in Southeast Asian countries and this partnership is in line with Sega’s aspiration to expand our PC online game portfolio. Sega and Asiasoft will be working closely together to provide the best PSO2 experience for users in Thailand, Singapore Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines by creating localized contents that will appeal to the market in said countries.


Sega’s Phantasy Star Online series has a legacy of 25 years and has been a popular franchise since its first release Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System in Japan. The fantasy setting that crosses magic and technology has always been a significant and remarkable feature of the franchise. Its first online installment, Phantasy Star Online (PSO), pioneered online RPG in Japan when it was first launched in 2005 and even received many awards including the 5th Japanese Game Awards. Seven years later, on July 2012, its successor, PSO2 for Windows PC was released in Japan. As of August 2013, PSO2 holds record-breaking numbers for having 2.5 million registered IDs and 107,000 concurrent users in Japan.

Aika Online Pran Guide

The perils of your long journey require the assistance of a devoted partner.
This companion should act not only as a reliable sidekick in battle, but also as a close friend.

The Pran fits both descriptions with ease as she casts helpful spells on you and grows to trust you over many interactions.

She is your fairy familiar!



Acquiring Your Pran

When your character reaches level 7 a quest becomes available to you at the Flour Mill.
Captain Cromwell has recognized your progress and directs you to the Pran Station in the Commercial District of Regenshin.
There, you're given another quest to prove your worth, where you need to kill Breeding Boars, Moguns and Kubaris.

After collecting the items from these mobs, the Pran Station NPC will give you the option of what affinity Pran you'd like to choose.
Pick carefully, as this will be your first companion in the game [types are outlined in the Skills section].

To complete this quest, you need to obtain essences from mobs.
-5x of the essence for the affinity you want
-2x of each of the other essences

Once you turn this quest in, you get to name and meet your Pran companion!

There are three main Element Attributes of Pran: Fire, Water and Wind. Different elements will give your pran different skills.Generally speaking:

Fire Pran will improve your attack,max HP
Water Pran will improve your defense, max MP
Wind Pran will improve your HP%MP recover speed and also decrease your cost of skill spelling.

Please note that it's just general conclusion. You could find at least 7 skills for your Pran.

Then How to choose the element of your Pran? Here is my advice:

Warrior: fire/water(1st choice/2nd choice)
Paladin: water/fire
Rifleman:fire/wind
Dual Gunner: fire/wind
Warlock: wind/fire
Cleric: water/wind

Tips:
1. The personality of your pran doesn't affect the skill
2. Pay attention to answer the Pran questions, which will increase the intimacy. (We got success rates problem when using Pran skill. High intimacy will improve the success rates.)

Different pran works differently. Choose your pran wisely ;)

Water Pran - Def buff. Suitable for Healer, Mage, Tanker
Wind Pran - Mp/Hp and Dodge. Suitable for Gunner.
Fire - Damage buff. Suitable for Mage, Nuker

Water Pran Each Skill Effect:
+ Increase all water skills damage
+ Increase water element resistance
+ Engulf armour with water aura, increase physical and magical defence within a certain amount of time
+ Exchange Daughter's state between fairy or human
+ Increase Max MP
+ Cast a shield that absorbs damage within a certain amount of time
+ Increase resistance against abnormal status

Fire Pran Each Skill Effect:
+ Increase all fire skills damage
+ Increase fire element resistance
+ Engulf armour with fire aura, increase physical and magical attack within a certain amount of time
+ Exchange Daughter's state between fairy or human
+ Increase Max HP
+ Uses wrath that deals damage to attacking enemy within a certain amount of time
+ Increase critical rate

Wind Pran Each Skill Effect:
+ Increase all wind skills damage
+ Increase wind element resistance
+ Engulf armour with wind aura, increase dodging rate within a certain amount of time
+ Exchange Daughter's state between fairy or human
+ Increase Max MP and HP
+ Reduces MP usage of skills within a certain amount of time
+ Increase regeneration rate of HP and MP

Please be aware that your Pran will grow hungry. You can get your pran food at the Pran store or any other merchant store out there. Please be reminded if you were to vend overnight, you can put your pran in the pran waiting station so that you do not have to spend money on the pran food ;)




Do not stave your Pran.
When the Hunger reaches a certain number, Pran will start showing
different action to notify you. When Pran can't stand the hunger
any longer, it will return to the Pran's nurture centre.

When they're in hunger:
- HP and MP no longer regen
- Skills would be unusable
- Returning to nurture centre

Please treat your Pran well and make sure that the Devotion level is high. The higher the devotion % is, the higher chance your Pran will not refuse your request when you want them to cast their skill buff

For those of you who are set on needing a certain personality, here is a table of the questions, and the answers, along with which personality they give points to.

Aika Pran Chat scoring

Keep in mind, from when you buy your pran, up to when it is a teenager, its personality is determined in this block. For each type of personality, there is a scale from 1 to 255. The highest once the pran becomes a teenager is the personality the pran will keep.

It doesn't matter which personality your pran has when it comes to being buffed etc, that all depends on your devotion.

Limitations

Pran are unique creatures raised by their masters, and as such an account is limited to only two pran for its three characters.
Each Pran also unique, with its own name just like the players that own it - meaning no two Pran are exactly alike! As long as you got your second Pran (which of your characters got it, is not relevant), automatically any Pran acquisition quest you have on any of your characters will be removed, and you cannot get any other Pran. But you can use the Pran Station to share them between all of your characters. It means if you create a new level 1 character, he/she can immediately go to Pran station and pick one of your stored Pran.




Do they grow up?
Yes, pran is designed to grow at different levels
Fairy -> Adolescent -> Teenager -> Adult
Adult is currently not opened
and Evolve levels are : Lv5 and Lv20 currently

Are there other pran personality? I mean only cute?
There are six different types of prans, different types of pran can effect pran's buff/skill beneficial values.
These types are : Cute(default), Intelligent, Sexy, Hyper, Corrupt, and Valiant
Different personality also effect their character voice and actions.

How do we get the personality we want?
Well, this is what this thread is about. But you can only alter the personality during Adolescent stage.
Each personality has a value of 0 to 255, and cute starts at 100.
Prans only change personality type once they are evolved into Teenager
(if one of the personality reaches 255 first/the highest one counts)
Once
pran evolves into teenager, only the main one will take effect
immediately, other personalities will have their values decreased by 30%

Is there anything about pran that we should know?
Yes,
when a pran is still at Adolescent stage, you can feed her anything you
want. But once you feed her too nutritiously at Teenage stage...they
will fatten
you don't want a tiny meat ball running with you do you? ;)

What food is the best for pran?
Pumpking Pie! it gives 8% food and only cost 150+tax!

STR Cabal Blader or DEX Cabal Blader STR vs DEX

Dex bladers are more for pve right? and str are more for PVP? Or maybe go even for pve/pvp?

Cabal Bladers have been dubbed as dual purpose killing machines, having the ability to both be good in PVP as well as PVE. This means that they can withstand one on one combat against other players and at the same time go head to head with mobs in dungeons and maps.

With this in mind, several players have created a myth about Bladers concerning stat distribution. It has already been a practice in Cabal that a Blader who prefers PVP should invest in a higher Str for higher attack and defense while one who enjoys killing mobs is to have a higher Dex for higher defense rate.



Throughout my gaming experience as a Cabal Blader, I have spent millions of alz (Cabal's in-game currency) buying extract potions as per advice of my friends and guildmates to "fix" my character's statistics. I have changed back and forth from being a so-called Dex-type to Str-type for countless times.

On my personal experience, I have proven that there is no difference whether you have a higher Dex or a higher Str.

First, take note of this Stat Distribution Variablity Table:



Based on the table, you can easily notice and realize that the attribute given is the same whatever statistic distribution you prefer. However, this will not be applicable for a Blader who, for whatever reason, actually decides to invest on Int (please DO NOT ever do this if you are a Blader).

As per the case of wearing an armor set against a martial set, it is best that one merely meets the requirement for the set.

As an example, here are my current stats at Level 144:

Str: 520
Int: 64
Dex: 550

With those stats, I can wear both the armor set and martial set (although I still need 3 stat points for my Int to use a +7 mithril blade or katana). It is also more than enough to withstand mobs and win PVPs. Obviously, it is because Str and Dex give the same attribute whichever way you put them.

Misconceptions are created by players themselves. Therefore, only players can clear them up and perhaps break a few myths surrounding the game.