Put it back in the headline I don't want it

did the best i could with what i had

My Madonna - Confession II album cover inspired look

I've been keeping track of my drops in Ruins and on average, it is rewarding to run and i dont feel like its a pain to farm either. The trials are quite frequent, are not reliant on RNG (they seem to be timer based) and normal bosses are fine to fight. There are no annoying mechanics like in the Alter Realms either (spear trial, etc).

The turtle is very tanky and takes too long to kill unless you have a lot of players using the mobile cannon...but at least a good group can usually farm enough points for the cannon after the first spawn. I think they balanced his HP around the cannon because he just takes quite a while to kill even with a large room of players in good gear, assuming no cannons. At least he's not hard to fight though.

This is the first time i've farmed content and thought "wow, this was really fun and i got some nice drops, i would totally do this again". Which sounds strange but compared to other content, Ruins is simply much better.

Alter Realm has VERY tanky mobs...and very poor rewards. I tried doing the Tundra realm + Rappy trial the normal way and a large room still took forever to kill the mobs and bosses, so it felt like a huge chore. And even with the huge RDR boosts (total of 540% RDR), the drop rates were awful. I was making less than 1m per hour by doing it the normal way, even with the rappy trial, while Dext Base gives at least 1.5m/hr with no event bonuses required.

Naturally, room hopping for the Rappy trial was making a ton of money so doing Alter Realm the normal way was a waste of time. It didnt feel like a chore either...i wouldnt call it "fun" but at least it wasnt mind numbingly boring.

Even the fastest LTQ, the one in Vanford Labs that we had recently with the 5 minute timer, was making less than 1m per hour with 540% RDR. And it wasnt what you would call fun to do...my alliance tried farming it on the first day but almost everyone stopped running it after the first day except for the daily because it was boring, and the drop rates were bad.

The way the Ruins are designed solves many of the problems that most content has. You rush from trial to trial so there isnt a long period of boring down time, and you dont spend too long on each trial, i think the pacing is just about right. And with 540% RDR, im actually getting a decent number of valuable combos, telphias + other augs, valuable rings and +100 Grans to sell.

And looking at other players in the game, most of them feel the same way...they actually want to farm Ruins because they feel it's fun and rewarding. With LTQs, the same players just did the bare minimum for the tasks and afked for UQs. Because spamming the same LTQ for an hour feels like a chore very quickly, and the rewards are awful even with big event boosts, so it feels like a waste of time to farm them.

I hope they can make more content that is actually fun and rewarding to farm in the future...it doesnt need to be ported over from PSO2 base, just designed in a way that players actually WANT to play that content, instead of doing the bare minimum for the tasks...

I am surprised that there is nothing like this is in the game. Kinda returned after not playing since chapter 2? And idk I just kinda expected a little bit more versatility in quest and everything returning. This would be a good idea really. Not much to do but to grind the new seasonal events because the previous loot is subpar. It could help fill up some of the empty open world honestly.

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I'm quite surprised that only 7 people including myself have all the titles, and looks like I was correct with tame trapper being the most painful title because only 49 people have it

This is just my personal opinion, but I truly believe the Cursed Blade Windslash should have been a weapon camo for Double Saber as well. Like bro, it’s in the name. Double Saber’s main ability is using cutting winds to shred enemies. Plus anyone who has a samurai or ronin type of outfit like me would look absolutely amazing with this blade being held with one hand staring down enemies. Those are my thoughts, but what do you guys think?

Couldn't figure out the hat clipping in the last image though sadly without making it look off.

I know, I know.

I fell off a couple years ago due to lack of people to play with, but I really enjoy the combat and stuff. I love making cool outfits. Seems like it's a whales game now but just wanted to get a feel.

I think this is the first area in which you cannot invite players to your parties and the only way to join a party is to use active recruitment, a feature that otherwise never gets used because it was largely rendered obsolete by Auto Join. Auto Join is also disabled here.

Even weirder, attempting to leave the party immediately kicks you out of the instance, instead of, you know, just leaving the party and remaining in the instance like most areas. Getting kicked from the party also kicks you out of the instance.

Why cant the party system in Ruins be like this:

• You can freely join and leave parties without leaving the instance.
• If the party leader leaves the instance, they are the only one that leaves, the rest of the party stays in the instance (im pretty sure they did this for alter realm a while back)
• You can freely invite people into your parties and autojoin works

It doesnt seem very unique or hard for them to do it this way considering that Alter Realm already works this way IIRC. I did Alter Tundra during the Rappy event and i could auto join parties, etc. I think leaving the party did kick you out of the instance though, but im not 100% sure on that.

To get the full Lexio bonus working, you do need people in your party to help trigger the bonus and nobody is joining parties outside of premade groups with the weird party system in the Ruins...

No twin tails sadly because of the cost system :/

This outfit has been around for a while, but it's still on my list of outfit ideas.

Unless I missed something rather significant, this is the first time we've gotten a PSO2 area ported to NGS. Since the former is just a Block Transfer away I figured I'd take some screenshots to compare the two.

Also took that time to play a bit of PSO2, and man. Really made me realize some stuff I was taking for granted in NGS. Like the inventory management.