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Changes in Ambition of the Illuminus

2007-08-20T22:45:18Z

Roalith: /* New Features */

This page documents the differences between standard PSU and the [[Ambition of Illuminus]] expansion currently in Open Beta on JP.

A few things to note:
* This is a beta, so anything here is subject to change. This page will also list some specifically beta-only changes.
* English translations are not final and are subject to change as the US release nears.

== Balance Changes ==

* The synthesis success rate of weapons and armor as well as the chance of gaining a higher % on striking weapons have been increased.
* When synthing, Element Attribute rates of melee weapons and armors have been adjusted. It now appears to be possible to synth any even % between 10 and 50.
* Room Goods synthesis can no longer fail.
* S-Rank Grinders can now be synthed.
* When failing to grind a weapon, it is no longer destroyed. Instead, it is returned to you with no grinds. In addition on each fail the maximum amount of possible grinds will go down by one. Also each weapon will now display two numbers as a grind, with the left side number being the amount of current grinds on the weapon and the right side number being the maximum possible grinds for that weapon(example +2/+7 instead of just +2).
* Grinding success rates have been lowered.
* The chance of synthing high-grade grinders has been adjusted.
* Meseta droprate has been adjusted.
* S-Rank items can now drop.
* Drop rates for items of all ranks have been adjusted.
* Type stats have been adjusted.
* Weapon proficiencies and max PA levels have been adjusted (in general, types can use more weapons and with higher level PAs than before).
* Type level cap is now 20. PAs can now go up to level 50 (although only Acrotecher gets level 50 PAs, and they are Support Techs, everything else has an absolute upper cap of 40).
* TECHNICs have been adjusted.
* Dying, but then being revived without going back to the lobby no longer counts as a death, and thus doesn't affect final mission rank. However, if NPCs die and revive themselves this does count as a death.
* Several weapon types have different/faster animations when used with Acro-classes. Details are sketchy, but Acrofighters get a faster Twin Saber animation and Acrotechers get a faster Twin Dagger animation.

== Missions ==
=== Parum ===
* Planet's Scar C-S has been added. Available at the Holtes City Flyer Base on Parum. Takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features Grass Assassins!
* City of the Thunderbeasts C-S has been added. Available from the Old Rozenom City lobby and takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features the new enemy, Ghinoceros.
* The Old Rozenom lobby has been added.
* A new beach lobby has been added, available by talking to the CAST NPC or by completing City of the Thunderbeasts. It has a dressing room and unique music, and appears somewhat similar to ''Seaside'' from PSO.

=== Moatoob ===
* Cave of Ice C-S has been added. Available from the Vio Tonga lobby (the Ice Fields), takes place in the Galanigus Mine.
* Serpent's Awakening C-S has been added. Available from Galanigus Mine lobby and takes place there as well. The ancient beast, De Ro Le, was trapped in ice, but has been awakened by the SEED Virus being spread by the Illuminus. Defeat it!
* A Galanigus Mine lobby has been added, reached by beating Cave of Ice or by talking to the CAST NPC. Serpent's Awakening starts here.
* The Casino Volwayale has been added, available after beating Serpent's Awakening or by talking to the CAST NPC. Here you can use special Vol Coins to play on a giant roulette wheel or on the Vol Slots. You can get 100 coins per day for free, however these cannot be transferred or traded to other accounts. Did the Vol Brothers finally make good on their pledge to make it big in the world of the Rogues?

=== Neudaiz ===
* A Temple lobby has been added. Appears similar to Hakura Temple, but is peaceful and has pillars of water. Currently no missions either take you to the Temple lobby or from it, so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC.
* Mt. Ohtoku lobby has been added. Currently no missions lead to it so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC. There is an Oracle here who can tell your future.

== Items ==

* Stars are displayed differently. They are bunched up and instead of having one colour depending on rarity, they now show all the relevant rarity colours. The stars go like this: ★★★★★★★★★★★★ (this would be a 12* item)
* A 13* Item, the De Ro Le Kouro, is known to exist. The 13th star is white and is animated.
* Non-Crea 7* weapons are no longer standard to one manufacturer. Confirmed are:

** Tenora: Sword, Handgun, Machinegun, Twin Claw,
** Yohmei: Axe, Double Saber, Handgun, Laser Cannon, Spear(S-rank only), Twin Saber
** GRM: Grenade Launcher, Wand, Cards/Fans, Dagger, Twin Dagger, 1-6* Rod, 1-6* Longbow

* 4 new weapon types: Slicer, Photon Whip, Madoog, and Shadoog.

** Slicer: Right-handed melee-class weapon, with a medium range attack (note: the Slicer has Skills, not Bullets).

** Photon Whip: Right-handed melee weapon, capable of causing status effects.

** Madoog: Left-handed weapon. Can have two [[TECHNICs]] attached to it, and casts more quickly than a Wand, but has less PP and TP.

** Shadoog: Left-handed shooting weapon that fires automatically and needs no PP (PP is literally 0/0). Shadoogs have no PAs, and have fixed elements, like melee weapons. Shadoog shots can inflict status though:

*** Fire = Burn
*** Ice = Freeze
*** Lightning = Shock
*** Earth = Stun
*** Light = Sleep
*** Dark = Incapacitation

* Traps can now be synthed. In addition, Burn Trap EX is now available(Protranser only).
* GRM make Rods. The GRM 1* Rod is called Rod, whereas the Yohmei 1* Rods name on JP is Rodou. It remains to be seen what Rod will be known as on the US version (since Rodou became Rod).
* Some recovery items on the action palette now have different colours. Moon Atomizer is yellow, Antimate is blue.
* New Room Tickets, which allow access to 'advanced My Room functions', including:

** 'Free Layout' - in new rooms, you can talk to your PM to activate a grid, allowing you to put Room Goods anywhere in your room.
* Several items are now only available as Casino prizes (see below), including an old favourite: the Chainsawd.
* New weapons, including some from PSO.
* New hairstyles, clothing, and parts. These are not available when creating a character.
* 2 new SUV weapons have been added: Gigas Espada (ギガス・エスパダ ''Gigasu Esupada''), which summons a giant sword to swing at enemies, and Paradis Cataracte (パラディ・カタラクト ''Paradi Katarakuto'') which resembles the ''Heaven's Punishment'' special from ''PSO''.

== Monsters ==

* New monsters have been added, these include:
** Go Badira (ゴ・バジラ ''Go Bajira''), appears in Rozenom and acts like normal Badiras do. Fire-element usually, but in the second Rozenom mission it becomes Lightning like every other enemy.
** Par Sorza (パル・ソーザ ''Paru Sooza''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to Gaozorans. The Rod it carries determines which TECHNICs it uses, a blue Rod means Barta and Deband, whereas a Par Sorza with a brown Rod throws lightning bolts and casts [[Gizonde]]. Lightning-element.
** De Ro Le (ディー・ロレイ ''Dii Rorei''), is the boss of Serpent's Awakening, and an obvious homage to De Rol Le from PSO. A tricky boss with many powerful attacks in his arsenal, including lasers, ice attacks and shooting missles. Ice-element.
** Nava Rudda (ナヴァ・ルッダ ''Nava Rudda''), appears in Galanigus Mine and appears to be a reskin of Naval. Likely Earth-element naturally, but as the Galanigus Mine missions have all Ice and Earth respectively (and Naval Rudda appears in both), this isn't certain. Ice Nava Rudda can shoot Barta and freeze with their melee attack, Earth Nava Rudda can shoot Foie. Leader Nava Rudda can cast Shifta.
** Vanda Olga (ヴァンダ・オルガ ''Vanda Oruga'') are larger and more reptilian versions of the Vanda. They only appear in Serpent's Awakening, where all enemies are Earth so their natural element is unknown at this point. In their Earth incarnation, they can spit Foie and breath high-level Damfoie.
** Grass Assassin (グラス・アサッシン ''Gurasu Asasshin''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to its PSO incarnation. It can slash with its arms, spit mucus, and charge when low on health. Lightning-element.
** Ghinoceros (ガイノゼロス ''Gainozerosu''), are the bosses of City of the Thunderbeasts. They act similar to Kamatoze, but can jump and throw multiple lightning bolts.
* Some existing monsters appear in new elemental forms:
** Lightning Jarbas appear in City of the Thunderbeasts. They cast Retier and spit lightning bolts. They don't cast Megid.
** Lightning Shagreece and Distova appear in City of the Thunderbeasts, and seem little different from their normal versions.
** Ice Vanda appear in Cave of Ice, and cast Barta at range and Dambarta close up. Extremely dangerous.
** Ice Bul Buna appear in Cave of Ice. They can cast Barta.
** Ice Bil De Vears appear in Cave of Ice. They cast low level Gibarta at close range and Barta at distance. They also have all the usual Bil De Vear attacks, and are also buffed with Sword, Shield, Boot, and Staff monster effects.
** Earth Vanda appear in Serpent's Awakening, and cast Gidiga very often close up. They appear to have no ranged attack, and unlike other versions aggressively run up to players instead of keeping their distance.
** Earth Lapucha appear in Serpent's Awakening, they seem little different from their Ice incarnation.
** Earth Drua Gohra appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga instead of Foie from their mouth.
** Earth Jishagara appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga.

== Levels and Types ==

* New expert types: Acrofighter and Acrotecher. They have proficiency with one handed weapons. Currently they have no requirements.
** Acrofighter: Expert type skilled with one-handed weapons. With their exceedingly high reaction speed, they can wield a number of weapons easily. Proficient with Slicers and Shadoogs.
** Acrotecher: Expert type specializing in support. They have an exceedingly high reaction speed, and focus on TECHNICs in battle. Proficient with Photon Whips and Madoogs.
* Type level cap is now 20.
* PA levels have been modified, and certain classes have had their PA levels changed. Attack and Support TECHNICs are now considered seperate for the purposes of PA level caps.
* PAs for the Whip and Slicer have been added.
* For the purposes of PA caps, Offensive and Support TECHNICS are now considered seperate.

== New Features ==

* New 'Online Status' option available under the Community menu, this allows for flags to be set such as Looking For Party, Solo Player etc.
* Autorunning and the ability to follow party members are now available.
** Autorunning can be activated and deactivated by pressing R (or left on the gamepad).
** Following party members is activated by first pressing K (or down on a gamepad), this will generate a line showing who you will be following, so keep pressing K to cycle through nearby party members until you get the one you want to follow. Then press R (this replaces the autorun function). Note that you cannot follow NPCs or PMs.
* You can now warp to areas by talking to the CAST NPC, for free (only free during the beta). Yellow areas are expansion-only.
* Shop NPCs now offer you the option to send items from your inventory to your Shared Box (NOT your PM storage!) for 300 Meseta. Note that the Meseta covers all items sent, and you cannot exceed the item limit of your Shared Box.
*New search features that allow you to search by price and rarity among other things.
*New room Bulletin Board that allows users to leave comments as well as allows you to customize what your Partner Machine says in response to different things.
*Room jukebox to allow you to customize your room's background music by attaining music disks in-game.
*Item added to allow your PM to hold more items.
*The number of Photon Arts you can have at one time is still 36 but you will be able to convert learned Photon Arts back to disk form. These disks will be character-specific and will not be tradable, and will also have your PA level and experience saved on them. On relearning that same disk your skill will be where you left off at.

== Graphical ==

* Shadow Map setting is now available.
* Effects surrounding Skill PAs are now colour-coded depending on PA level.
** 1-10 = Green
** 11-20 = Blue
** 21-30 = Purple
** 31-40 = Red
** 41-50 = Gold

== Misc ==

* Expansion names are Yellow, similar to how PSOv2 and JP EPIV players had orange names.
* You can now see player's type and type level above their heads by cycling through name, ID number etc.
* The 'travelling from colony to planet' cutscene has gone.
* Different colour schemes for character create and login.
* New voices for character create.
* The HUD seems to have a slightly bolder font.
* When selecting hair and accessories, you select the hair style and then select the accessory from a seperate menu.
* When selecting missions, you first select the mission then the rank. Yellow missions are expansion-only.
* The mini-map now tracks party members who are off the map, by showing you their general direction relative to your own.
* New lobbies have a Female Beast NPC vendor instead of the usual CAST Male.

== Beta-only changes ==
These have been implemented to make testing easier, and will '''not''' be in the final release, most likely.

* New missions have 3x rare drop rate. Existing missions have 2x.
* 2x EXP compared to normal PSU.
* Acrofighter and Acrotecher have no type level requirements. They also level like basic classes instead of expert types.
* New A-Rank weapons and boards are sold in the NPC shops.
* More types can use weaponry from the new weapon categories.
* Elemental photons are now sold at NPC Shops.
* Lumilass changes are set to a low price.
* Character level cap is 120.
* There is no fee for warping to lobbies for which your party does not have permission.

== Bugs ==
* Completing a mission as a FO levels up your FO level to 30, but you get no stat upgrades.
* Acrotecher's DFP seems to drop dramatically upon levelling up.
* PA limits appear to be glitched, allowing characters to level PAs as high as their highest PA cap. Example: a type with level 20 Skills, level 10 Bullets, and level 40 Offensive and Support Techs can level ALL their PAs to 40 regardless of the PA type.

==What Hasn't Changed==
* The PA limit is still 36.
* Buff parties for levelling up buff TECHNICs still work.

==Past Update Information==
===April 12th===
====Missions====
* Deja Vu Forest C-S is being added. Available from the Clyez City Spaceport. Takes place in the Forest of Ragol, which now appears to be in a completely different dimension to the Gurhal System!
* Cascade Temple C-S is being added. Available from the COG Pavilion of Air (the Temple in Ohtoku City). You must defeat the Sinow Hidoki, which is causing destruction and terror!
* Sacred Beast C-S is being added. Available from the upper tier of the COG Pavilion of Air. Features the Alteras Goug, who has escaped from the COG, who were studying it. Defeat it!

====Clothes & Parts====
* New clothes are being added that are, in fact, costumes from ''PSO''!
** Male Clothes: HUmar clothes, RAmar clothes.
** Female Clothes: HUney clothes, FOney clothes.
** Male Parts: RAcast armor.
** Female Parts: HUcaseal armor.

====Reform Tickets & Room Goods====
* A new Reform Ticket, Natural Mat (ナチャラル・マット) is being made available at the Room Goods shop (2F, Guardians Colony), for those who identify with nature.
* A new Room Good, Sabote Chair (サボテチェア) is being added.

====New Weapons====
* New weapons are being added, including but not limited to Rappy Tippies (ラッピー・ティッピーズ), Holy Ray (ホーリーレイ) and Sato (シャト). They drop in the new Free Missions being added, though this may be beta only.

====Misc====
* The Casino Volwayale is getting new prizes.

Changes in Ambition of the Illuminus

2007-08-20T22:44:52Z

Roalith: /* New Features */

This page documents the differences between standard PSU and the [[Ambition of Illuminus]] expansion currently in Open Beta on JP.

A few things to note:
* This is a beta, so anything here is subject to change. This page will also list some specifically beta-only changes.
* English translations are not final and are subject to change as the US release nears.

== Balance Changes ==

* The synthesis success rate of weapons and armor as well as the chance of gaining a higher % on striking weapons have been increased.
* When synthing, Element Attribute rates of melee weapons and armors have been adjusted. It now appears to be possible to synth any even % between 10 and 50.
* Room Goods synthesis can no longer fail.
* S-Rank Grinders can now be synthed.
* When failing to grind a weapon, it is no longer destroyed. Instead, it is returned to you with no grinds. In addition on each fail the maximum amount of possible grinds will go down by one. Also each weapon will now display two numbers as a grind, with the left side number being the amount of current grinds on the weapon and the right side number being the maximum possible grinds for that weapon(example +2/+7 instead of just +2).
* Grinding success rates have been lowered.
* The chance of synthing high-grade grinders has been adjusted.
* Meseta droprate has been adjusted.
* S-Rank items can now drop.
* Drop rates for items of all ranks have been adjusted.
* Type stats have been adjusted.
* Weapon proficiencies and max PA levels have been adjusted (in general, types can use more weapons and with higher level PAs than before).
* Type level cap is now 20. PAs can now go up to level 50 (although only Acrotecher gets level 50 PAs, and they are Support Techs, everything else has an absolute upper cap of 40).
* TECHNICs have been adjusted.
* Dying, but then being revived without going back to the lobby no longer counts as a death, and thus doesn't affect final mission rank. However, if NPCs die and revive themselves this does count as a death.
* Several weapon types have different/faster animations when used with Acro-classes. Details are sketchy, but Acrofighters get a faster Twin Saber animation and Acrotechers get a faster Twin Dagger animation.

== Missions ==
=== Parum ===
* Planet's Scar C-S has been added. Available at the Holtes City Flyer Base on Parum. Takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features Grass Assassins!
* City of the Thunderbeasts C-S has been added. Available from the Old Rozenom City lobby and takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features the new enemy, Ghinoceros.
* The Old Rozenom lobby has been added.
* A new beach lobby has been added, available by talking to the CAST NPC or by completing City of the Thunderbeasts. It has a dressing room and unique music, and appears somewhat similar to ''Seaside'' from PSO.

=== Moatoob ===
* Cave of Ice C-S has been added. Available from the Vio Tonga lobby (the Ice Fields), takes place in the Galanigus Mine.
* Serpent's Awakening C-S has been added. Available from Galanigus Mine lobby and takes place there as well. The ancient beast, De Ro Le, was trapped in ice, but has been awakened by the SEED Virus being spread by the Illuminus. Defeat it!
* A Galanigus Mine lobby has been added, reached by beating Cave of Ice or by talking to the CAST NPC. Serpent's Awakening starts here.
* The Casino Volwayale has been added, available after beating Serpent's Awakening or by talking to the CAST NPC. Here you can use special Vol Coins to play on a giant roulette wheel or on the Vol Slots. You can get 100 coins per day for free, however these cannot be transferred or traded to other accounts. Did the Vol Brothers finally make good on their pledge to make it big in the world of the Rogues?

=== Neudaiz ===
* A Temple lobby has been added. Appears similar to Hakura Temple, but is peaceful and has pillars of water. Currently no missions either take you to the Temple lobby or from it, so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC.
* Mt. Ohtoku lobby has been added. Currently no missions lead to it so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC. There is an Oracle here who can tell your future.

== Items ==

* Stars are displayed differently. They are bunched up and instead of having one colour depending on rarity, they now show all the relevant rarity colours. The stars go like this: ★★★★★★★★★★★★ (this would be a 12* item)
* A 13* Item, the De Ro Le Kouro, is known to exist. The 13th star is white and is animated.
* Non-Crea 7* weapons are no longer standard to one manufacturer. Confirmed are:

** Tenora: Sword, Handgun, Machinegun, Twin Claw,
** Yohmei: Axe, Double Saber, Handgun, Laser Cannon, Spear(S-rank only), Twin Saber
** GRM: Grenade Launcher, Wand, Cards/Fans, Dagger, Twin Dagger, 1-6* Rod, 1-6* Longbow

* 4 new weapon types: Slicer, Photon Whip, Madoog, and Shadoog.

** Slicer: Right-handed melee-class weapon, with a medium range attack (note: the Slicer has Skills, not Bullets).

** Photon Whip: Right-handed melee weapon, capable of causing status effects.

** Madoog: Left-handed weapon. Can have two [[TECHNICs]] attached to it, and casts more quickly than a Wand, but has less PP and TP.

** Shadoog: Left-handed shooting weapon that fires automatically and needs no PP (PP is literally 0/0). Shadoogs have no PAs, and have fixed elements, like melee weapons. Shadoog shots can inflict status though:

*** Fire = Burn
*** Ice = Freeze
*** Lightning = Shock
*** Earth = Stun
*** Light = Sleep
*** Dark = Incapacitation

* Traps can now be synthed. In addition, Burn Trap EX is now available(Protranser only).
* GRM make Rods. The GRM 1* Rod is called Rod, whereas the Yohmei 1* Rods name on JP is Rodou. It remains to be seen what Rod will be known as on the US version (since Rodou became Rod).
* Some recovery items on the action palette now have different colours. Moon Atomizer is yellow, Antimate is blue.
* New Room Tickets, which allow access to 'advanced My Room functions', including:

** 'Free Layout' - in new rooms, you can talk to your PM to activate a grid, allowing you to put Room Goods anywhere in your room.
* Several items are now only available as Casino prizes (see below), including an old favourite: the Chainsawd.
* New weapons, including some from PSO.
* New hairstyles, clothing, and parts. These are not available when creating a character.
* 2 new SUV weapons have been added: Gigas Espada (ギガス・エスパダ ''Gigasu Esupada''), which summons a giant sword to swing at enemies, and Paradis Cataracte (パラディ・カタラクト ''Paradi Katarakuto'') which resembles the ''Heaven's Punishment'' special from ''PSO''.

== Monsters ==

* New monsters have been added, these include:
** Go Badira (ゴ・バジラ ''Go Bajira''), appears in Rozenom and acts like normal Badiras do. Fire-element usually, but in the second Rozenom mission it becomes Lightning like every other enemy.
** Par Sorza (パル・ソーザ ''Paru Sooza''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to Gaozorans. The Rod it carries determines which TECHNICs it uses, a blue Rod means Barta and Deband, whereas a Par Sorza with a brown Rod throws lightning bolts and casts [[Gizonde]]. Lightning-element.
** De Ro Le (ディー・ロレイ ''Dii Rorei''), is the boss of Serpent's Awakening, and an obvious homage to De Rol Le from PSO. A tricky boss with many powerful attacks in his arsenal, including lasers, ice attacks and shooting missles. Ice-element.
** Nava Rudda (ナヴァ・ルッダ ''Nava Rudda''), appears in Galanigus Mine and appears to be a reskin of Naval. Likely Earth-element naturally, but as the Galanigus Mine missions have all Ice and Earth respectively (and Naval Rudda appears in both), this isn't certain. Ice Nava Rudda can shoot Barta and freeze with their melee attack, Earth Nava Rudda can shoot Foie. Leader Nava Rudda can cast Shifta.
** Vanda Olga (ヴァンダ・オルガ ''Vanda Oruga'') are larger and more reptilian versions of the Vanda. They only appear in Serpent's Awakening, where all enemies are Earth so their natural element is unknown at this point. In their Earth incarnation, they can spit Foie and breath high-level Damfoie.
** Grass Assassin (グラス・アサッシン ''Gurasu Asasshin''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to its PSO incarnation. It can slash with its arms, spit mucus, and charge when low on health. Lightning-element.
** Ghinoceros (ガイノゼロス ''Gainozerosu''), are the bosses of City of the Thunderbeasts. They act similar to Kamatoze, but can jump and throw multiple lightning bolts.
* Some existing monsters appear in new elemental forms:
** Lightning Jarbas appear in City of the Thunderbeasts. They cast Retier and spit lightning bolts. They don't cast Megid.
** Lightning Shagreece and Distova appear in City of the Thunderbeasts, and seem little different from their normal versions.
** Ice Vanda appear in Cave of Ice, and cast Barta at range and Dambarta close up. Extremely dangerous.
** Ice Bul Buna appear in Cave of Ice. They can cast Barta.
** Ice Bil De Vears appear in Cave of Ice. They cast low level Gibarta at close range and Barta at distance. They also have all the usual Bil De Vear attacks, and are also buffed with Sword, Shield, Boot, and Staff monster effects.
** Earth Vanda appear in Serpent's Awakening, and cast Gidiga very often close up. They appear to have no ranged attack, and unlike other versions aggressively run up to players instead of keeping their distance.
** Earth Lapucha appear in Serpent's Awakening, they seem little different from their Ice incarnation.
** Earth Drua Gohra appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga instead of Foie from their mouth.
** Earth Jishagara appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga.

== Levels and Types ==

* New expert types: Acrofighter and Acrotecher. They have proficiency with one handed weapons. Currently they have no requirements.
** Acrofighter: Expert type skilled with one-handed weapons. With their exceedingly high reaction speed, they can wield a number of weapons easily. Proficient with Slicers and Shadoogs.
** Acrotecher: Expert type specializing in support. They have an exceedingly high reaction speed, and focus on TECHNICs in battle. Proficient with Photon Whips and Madoogs.
* Type level cap is now 20.
* PA levels have been modified, and certain classes have had their PA levels changed. Attack and Support TECHNICs are now considered seperate for the purposes of PA level caps.
* PAs for the Whip and Slicer have been added.
* For the purposes of PA caps, Offensive and Support TECHNICS are now considered seperate.

== New Features ==

* New 'Online Status' option available under the Community menu, this allows for flags to be set such as Looking For Party, Solo Player etc.
* Autorunning and the ability to follow party members are now available.
** Autorunning can be activated and deactivated by pressing R (or left on the gamepad).
** Following party members is activated by first pressing K (or down on a gamepad), this will generate a line showing who you will be following, so keep pressing K to cycle through nearby party members until you get the one you want to follow. Then press R (this replaces the autorun function). Note that you cannot follow NPCs or PMs.
* You can now warp to areas by talking to the CAST NPC, for free (only free during the beta). Yellow areas are expansion-only.
* Shop NPCs now offer you the option to send items from your inventory to your Shared Box (NOT your PM storage!) for 300 Meseta. Note that the Meseta covers all items sent, and you cannot exceed the item limit of your Shared Box.
*New search features that allow you to search by price and rarity among other things.
*New room Bulletin Board that allows users to leave comments as well as allows you to customize what your Partner Machine says in response to different things.
*Room jukebox to allow you to customize your room's background music by attaining music disks in-game.
*Item added to allow your PM to hold more items.
*The Photon Art limit is still 36 but you will be able to convert learned Photon Arts back to disk form. These disks will be character-specific and will not be tradable, and will also have your PA level and experience saved on them. On relearning that same disk your skill will be where you left off at.

== Graphical ==

* Shadow Map setting is now available.
* Effects surrounding Skill PAs are now colour-coded depending on PA level.
** 1-10 = Green
** 11-20 = Blue
** 21-30 = Purple
** 31-40 = Red
** 41-50 = Gold

== Misc ==

* Expansion names are Yellow, similar to how PSOv2 and JP EPIV players had orange names.
* You can now see player's type and type level above their heads by cycling through name, ID number etc.
* The 'travelling from colony to planet' cutscene has gone.
* Different colour schemes for character create and login.
* New voices for character create.
* The HUD seems to have a slightly bolder font.
* When selecting hair and accessories, you select the hair style and then select the accessory from a seperate menu.
* When selecting missions, you first select the mission then the rank. Yellow missions are expansion-only.
* The mini-map now tracks party members who are off the map, by showing you their general direction relative to your own.
* New lobbies have a Female Beast NPC vendor instead of the usual CAST Male.

== Beta-only changes ==
These have been implemented to make testing easier, and will '''not''' be in the final release, most likely.

* New missions have 3x rare drop rate. Existing missions have 2x.
* 2x EXP compared to normal PSU.
* Acrofighter and Acrotecher have no type level requirements. They also level like basic classes instead of expert types.
* New A-Rank weapons and boards are sold in the NPC shops.
* More types can use weaponry from the new weapon categories.
* Elemental photons are now sold at NPC Shops.
* Lumilass changes are set to a low price.
* Character level cap is 120.
* There is no fee for warping to lobbies for which your party does not have permission.

== Bugs ==
* Completing a mission as a FO levels up your FO level to 30, but you get no stat upgrades.
* Acrotecher's DFP seems to drop dramatically upon levelling up.
* PA limits appear to be glitched, allowing characters to level PAs as high as their highest PA cap. Example: a type with level 20 Skills, level 10 Bullets, and level 40 Offensive and Support Techs can level ALL their PAs to 40 regardless of the PA type.

==What Hasn't Changed==
* The PA limit is still 36.
* Buff parties for levelling up buff TECHNICs still work.

==Past Update Information==
===April 12th===
====Missions====
* Deja Vu Forest C-S is being added. Available from the Clyez City Spaceport. Takes place in the Forest of Ragol, which now appears to be in a completely different dimension to the Gurhal System!
* Cascade Temple C-S is being added. Available from the COG Pavilion of Air (the Temple in Ohtoku City). You must defeat the Sinow Hidoki, which is causing destruction and terror!
* Sacred Beast C-S is being added. Available from the upper tier of the COG Pavilion of Air. Features the Alteras Goug, who has escaped from the COG, who were studying it. Defeat it!

====Clothes & Parts====
* New clothes are being added that are, in fact, costumes from ''PSO''!
** Male Clothes: HUmar clothes, RAmar clothes.
** Female Clothes: HUney clothes, FOney clothes.
** Male Parts: RAcast armor.
** Female Parts: HUcaseal armor.

====Reform Tickets & Room Goods====
* A new Reform Ticket, Natural Mat (ナチャラル・マット) is being made available at the Room Goods shop (2F, Guardians Colony), for those who identify with nature.
* A new Room Good, Sabote Chair (サボテチェア) is being added.

====New Weapons====
* New weapons are being added, including but not limited to Rappy Tippies (ラッピー・ティッピーズ), Holy Ray (ホーリーレイ) and Sato (シャト). They drop in the new Free Missions being added, though this may be beta only.

====Misc====
* The Casino Volwayale is getting new prizes.

Changes in Ambition of the Illuminus

2007-08-20T22:41:47Z

Roalith: /* Graphical */

This page documents the differences between standard PSU and the [[Ambition of Illuminus]] expansion currently in Open Beta on JP.

A few things to note:
* This is a beta, so anything here is subject to change. This page will also list some specifically beta-only changes.
* English translations are not final and are subject to change as the US release nears.

== Balance Changes ==

* The synthesis success rate of weapons and armor as well as the chance of gaining a higher % on striking weapons have been increased.
* When synthing, Element Attribute rates of melee weapons and armors have been adjusted. It now appears to be possible to synth any even % between 10 and 50.
* Room Goods synthesis can no longer fail.
* S-Rank Grinders can now be synthed.
* When failing to grind a weapon, it is no longer destroyed. Instead, it is returned to you with no grinds. In addition on each fail the maximum amount of possible grinds will go down by one. Also each weapon will now display two numbers as a grind, with the left side number being the amount of current grinds on the weapon and the right side number being the maximum possible grinds for that weapon(example +2/+7 instead of just +2).
* Grinding success rates have been lowered.
* The chance of synthing high-grade grinders has been adjusted.
* Meseta droprate has been adjusted.
* S-Rank items can now drop.
* Drop rates for items of all ranks have been adjusted.
* Type stats have been adjusted.
* Weapon proficiencies and max PA levels have been adjusted (in general, types can use more weapons and with higher level PAs than before).
* Type level cap is now 20. PAs can now go up to level 50 (although only Acrotecher gets level 50 PAs, and they are Support Techs, everything else has an absolute upper cap of 40).
* TECHNICs have been adjusted.
* Dying, but then being revived without going back to the lobby no longer counts as a death, and thus doesn't affect final mission rank. However, if NPCs die and revive themselves this does count as a death.
* Several weapon types have different/faster animations when used with Acro-classes. Details are sketchy, but Acrofighters get a faster Twin Saber animation and Acrotechers get a faster Twin Dagger animation.

== Missions ==
=== Parum ===
* Planet's Scar C-S has been added. Available at the Holtes City Flyer Base on Parum. Takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features Grass Assassins!
* City of the Thunderbeasts C-S has been added. Available from the Old Rozenom City lobby and takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features the new enemy, Ghinoceros.
* The Old Rozenom lobby has been added.
* A new beach lobby has been added, available by talking to the CAST NPC or by completing City of the Thunderbeasts. It has a dressing room and unique music, and appears somewhat similar to ''Seaside'' from PSO.

=== Moatoob ===
* Cave of Ice C-S has been added. Available from the Vio Tonga lobby (the Ice Fields), takes place in the Galanigus Mine.
* Serpent's Awakening C-S has been added. Available from Galanigus Mine lobby and takes place there as well. The ancient beast, De Ro Le, was trapped in ice, but has been awakened by the SEED Virus being spread by the Illuminus. Defeat it!
* A Galanigus Mine lobby has been added, reached by beating Cave of Ice or by talking to the CAST NPC. Serpent's Awakening starts here.
* The Casino Volwayale has been added, available after beating Serpent's Awakening or by talking to the CAST NPC. Here you can use special Vol Coins to play on a giant roulette wheel or on the Vol Slots. You can get 100 coins per day for free, however these cannot be transferred or traded to other accounts. Did the Vol Brothers finally make good on their pledge to make it big in the world of the Rogues?

=== Neudaiz ===
* A Temple lobby has been added. Appears similar to Hakura Temple, but is peaceful and has pillars of water. Currently no missions either take you to the Temple lobby or from it, so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC.
* Mt. Ohtoku lobby has been added. Currently no missions lead to it so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC. There is an Oracle here who can tell your future.

== Items ==

* Stars are displayed differently. They are bunched up and instead of having one colour depending on rarity, they now show all the relevant rarity colours. The stars go like this: ★★★★★★★★★★★★ (this would be a 12* item)
* A 13* Item, the De Ro Le Kouro, is known to exist. The 13th star is white and is animated.
* Non-Crea 7* weapons are no longer standard to one manufacturer. Confirmed are:

** Tenora: Sword, Handgun, Machinegun, Twin Claw,
** Yohmei: Axe, Double Saber, Handgun, Laser Cannon, Spear(S-rank only), Twin Saber
** GRM: Grenade Launcher, Wand, Cards/Fans, Dagger, Twin Dagger, 1-6* Rod, 1-6* Longbow

* 4 new weapon types: Slicer, Photon Whip, Madoog, and Shadoog.

** Slicer: Right-handed melee-class weapon, with a medium range attack (note: the Slicer has Skills, not Bullets).

** Photon Whip: Right-handed melee weapon, capable of causing status effects.

** Madoog: Left-handed weapon. Can have two [[TECHNICs]] attached to it, and casts more quickly than a Wand, but has less PP and TP.

** Shadoog: Left-handed shooting weapon that fires automatically and needs no PP (PP is literally 0/0). Shadoogs have no PAs, and have fixed elements, like melee weapons. Shadoog shots can inflict status though:

*** Fire = Burn
*** Ice = Freeze
*** Lightning = Shock
*** Earth = Stun
*** Light = Sleep
*** Dark = Incapacitation

* Traps can now be synthed. In addition, Burn Trap EX is now available(Protranser only).
* GRM make Rods. The GRM 1* Rod is called Rod, whereas the Yohmei 1* Rods name on JP is Rodou. It remains to be seen what Rod will be known as on the US version (since Rodou became Rod).
* Some recovery items on the action palette now have different colours. Moon Atomizer is yellow, Antimate is blue.
* New Room Tickets, which allow access to 'advanced My Room functions', including:

** 'Free Layout' - in new rooms, you can talk to your PM to activate a grid, allowing you to put Room Goods anywhere in your room.
* Several items are now only available as Casino prizes (see below), including an old favourite: the Chainsawd.
* New weapons, including some from PSO.
* New hairstyles, clothing, and parts. These are not available when creating a character.
* 2 new SUV weapons have been added: Gigas Espada (ギガス・エスパダ ''Gigasu Esupada''), which summons a giant sword to swing at enemies, and Paradis Cataracte (パラディ・カタラクト ''Paradi Katarakuto'') which resembles the ''Heaven's Punishment'' special from ''PSO''.

== Monsters ==

* New monsters have been added, these include:
** Go Badira (ゴ・バジラ ''Go Bajira''), appears in Rozenom and acts like normal Badiras do. Fire-element usually, but in the second Rozenom mission it becomes Lightning like every other enemy.
** Par Sorza (パル・ソーザ ''Paru Sooza''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to Gaozorans. The Rod it carries determines which TECHNICs it uses, a blue Rod means Barta and Deband, whereas a Par Sorza with a brown Rod throws lightning bolts and casts [[Gizonde]]. Lightning-element.
** De Ro Le (ディー・ロレイ ''Dii Rorei''), is the boss of Serpent's Awakening, and an obvious homage to De Rol Le from PSO. A tricky boss with many powerful attacks in his arsenal, including lasers, ice attacks and shooting missles. Ice-element.
** Nava Rudda (ナヴァ・ルッダ ''Nava Rudda''), appears in Galanigus Mine and appears to be a reskin of Naval. Likely Earth-element naturally, but as the Galanigus Mine missions have all Ice and Earth respectively (and Naval Rudda appears in both), this isn't certain. Ice Nava Rudda can shoot Barta and freeze with their melee attack, Earth Nava Rudda can shoot Foie. Leader Nava Rudda can cast Shifta.
** Vanda Olga (ヴァンダ・オルガ ''Vanda Oruga'') are larger and more reptilian versions of the Vanda. They only appear in Serpent's Awakening, where all enemies are Earth so their natural element is unknown at this point. In their Earth incarnation, they can spit Foie and breath high-level Damfoie.
** Grass Assassin (グラス・アサッシン ''Gurasu Asasshin''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to its PSO incarnation. It can slash with its arms, spit mucus, and charge when low on health. Lightning-element.
** Ghinoceros (ガイノゼロス ''Gainozerosu''), are the bosses of City of the Thunderbeasts. They act similar to Kamatoze, but can jump and throw multiple lightning bolts.
* Some existing monsters appear in new elemental forms:
** Lightning Jarbas appear in City of the Thunderbeasts. They cast Retier and spit lightning bolts. They don't cast Megid.
** Lightning Shagreece and Distova appear in City of the Thunderbeasts, and seem little different from their normal versions.
** Ice Vanda appear in Cave of Ice, and cast Barta at range and Dambarta close up. Extremely dangerous.
** Ice Bul Buna appear in Cave of Ice. They can cast Barta.
** Ice Bil De Vears appear in Cave of Ice. They cast low level Gibarta at close range and Barta at distance. They also have all the usual Bil De Vear attacks, and are also buffed with Sword, Shield, Boot, and Staff monster effects.
** Earth Vanda appear in Serpent's Awakening, and cast Gidiga very often close up. They appear to have no ranged attack, and unlike other versions aggressively run up to players instead of keeping their distance.
** Earth Lapucha appear in Serpent's Awakening, they seem little different from their Ice incarnation.
** Earth Drua Gohra appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga instead of Foie from their mouth.
** Earth Jishagara appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga.

== Levels and Types ==

* New expert types: Acrofighter and Acrotecher. They have proficiency with one handed weapons. Currently they have no requirements.
** Acrofighter: Expert type skilled with one-handed weapons. With their exceedingly high reaction speed, they can wield a number of weapons easily. Proficient with Slicers and Shadoogs.
** Acrotecher: Expert type specializing in support. They have an exceedingly high reaction speed, and focus on TECHNICs in battle. Proficient with Photon Whips and Madoogs.
* Type level cap is now 20.
* PA levels have been modified, and certain classes have had their PA levels changed. Attack and Support TECHNICs are now considered seperate for the purposes of PA level caps.
* PAs for the Whip and Slicer have been added.
* For the purposes of PA caps, Offensive and Support TECHNICS are now considered seperate.

== New Features ==

* New 'Online Status' option available under the Community menu, this allows for flags to be set such as Looking For Party, Solo Player etc.
* Autorunning and the ability to follow party members are now available.
** Autorunning can be activated and deactivated by pressing R (or left on the gamepad).
** Following party members is activated by first pressing K (or down on a gamepad), this will generate a line showing who you will be following, so keep pressing K to cycle through nearby party members until you get the one you want to follow. Then press R (this replaces the autorun function). Note that you cannot follow NPCs or PMs.
* You can now warp to areas by talking to the CAST NPC, for free (only free during the beta). Yellow areas are expansion-only.
* Shop NPCs now offer you the option to send items from your inventory to your Shared Box (NOT your PM storage!) for 300 Meseta. Note that the Meseta covers all items sent, and you cannot exceed the item limit of your Shared Box.
*New search features that allow you to search by price and rarity among other things.
*New room Bulletin Board that allows users to leave comments as well as allows you to customize what your Partner Machine says in response to different things.
*Room jukebox to allow you to customize your room's background music by attaining music disks in-game.
*Item added to allow your PM to hold more items.

== Graphical ==

* Shadow Map setting is now available.
* Effects surrounding Skill PAs are now colour-coded depending on PA level.
** 1-10 = Green
** 11-20 = Blue
** 21-30 = Purple
** 31-40 = Red
** 41-50 = Gold

== Misc ==

* Expansion names are Yellow, similar to how PSOv2 and JP EPIV players had orange names.
* You can now see player's type and type level above their heads by cycling through name, ID number etc.
* The 'travelling from colony to planet' cutscene has gone.
* Different colour schemes for character create and login.
* New voices for character create.
* The HUD seems to have a slightly bolder font.
* When selecting hair and accessories, you select the hair style and then select the accessory from a seperate menu.
* When selecting missions, you first select the mission then the rank. Yellow missions are expansion-only.
* The mini-map now tracks party members who are off the map, by showing you their general direction relative to your own.
* New lobbies have a Female Beast NPC vendor instead of the usual CAST Male.

== Beta-only changes ==
These have been implemented to make testing easier, and will '''not''' be in the final release, most likely.

* New missions have 3x rare drop rate. Existing missions have 2x.
* 2x EXP compared to normal PSU.
* Acrofighter and Acrotecher have no type level requirements. They also level like basic classes instead of expert types.
* New A-Rank weapons and boards are sold in the NPC shops.
* More types can use weaponry from the new weapon categories.
* Elemental photons are now sold at NPC Shops.
* Lumilass changes are set to a low price.
* Character level cap is 120.
* There is no fee for warping to lobbies for which your party does not have permission.

== Bugs ==
* Completing a mission as a FO levels up your FO level to 30, but you get no stat upgrades.
* Acrotecher's DFP seems to drop dramatically upon levelling up.
* PA limits appear to be glitched, allowing characters to level PAs as high as their highest PA cap. Example: a type with level 20 Skills, level 10 Bullets, and level 40 Offensive and Support Techs can level ALL their PAs to 40 regardless of the PA type.

==What Hasn't Changed==
* The PA limit is still 36.
* Buff parties for levelling up buff TECHNICs still work.

==Past Update Information==
===April 12th===
====Missions====
* Deja Vu Forest C-S is being added. Available from the Clyez City Spaceport. Takes place in the Forest of Ragol, which now appears to be in a completely different dimension to the Gurhal System!
* Cascade Temple C-S is being added. Available from the COG Pavilion of Air (the Temple in Ohtoku City). You must defeat the Sinow Hidoki, which is causing destruction and terror!
* Sacred Beast C-S is being added. Available from the upper tier of the COG Pavilion of Air. Features the Alteras Goug, who has escaped from the COG, who were studying it. Defeat it!

====Clothes & Parts====
* New clothes are being added that are, in fact, costumes from ''PSO''!
** Male Clothes: HUmar clothes, RAmar clothes.
** Female Clothes: HUney clothes, FOney clothes.
** Male Parts: RAcast armor.
** Female Parts: HUcaseal armor.

====Reform Tickets & Room Goods====
* A new Reform Ticket, Natural Mat (ナチャラル・マット) is being made available at the Room Goods shop (2F, Guardians Colony), for those who identify with nature.
* A new Room Good, Sabote Chair (サボテチェア) is being added.

====New Weapons====
* New weapons are being added, including but not limited to Rappy Tippies (ラッピー・ティッピーズ), Holy Ray (ホーリーレイ) and Sato (シャト). They drop in the new Free Missions being added, though this may be beta only.

====Misc====
* The Casino Volwayale is getting new prizes.

Changes in Ambition of the Illuminus

2007-08-20T22:41:19Z

Roalith: /* New Features */

This page documents the differences between standard PSU and the [[Ambition of Illuminus]] expansion currently in Open Beta on JP.

A few things to note:
* This is a beta, so anything here is subject to change. This page will also list some specifically beta-only changes.
* English translations are not final and are subject to change as the US release nears.

== Balance Changes ==

* The synthesis success rate of weapons and armor as well as the chance of gaining a higher % on striking weapons have been increased.
* When synthing, Element Attribute rates of melee weapons and armors have been adjusted. It now appears to be possible to synth any even % between 10 and 50.
* Room Goods synthesis can no longer fail.
* S-Rank Grinders can now be synthed.
* When failing to grind a weapon, it is no longer destroyed. Instead, it is returned to you with no grinds. In addition on each fail the maximum amount of possible grinds will go down by one. Also each weapon will now display two numbers as a grind, with the left side number being the amount of current grinds on the weapon and the right side number being the maximum possible grinds for that weapon(example +2/+7 instead of just +2).
* Grinding success rates have been lowered.
* The chance of synthing high-grade grinders has been adjusted.
* Meseta droprate has been adjusted.
* S-Rank items can now drop.
* Drop rates for items of all ranks have been adjusted.
* Type stats have been adjusted.
* Weapon proficiencies and max PA levels have been adjusted (in general, types can use more weapons and with higher level PAs than before).
* Type level cap is now 20. PAs can now go up to level 50 (although only Acrotecher gets level 50 PAs, and they are Support Techs, everything else has an absolute upper cap of 40).
* TECHNICs have been adjusted.
* Dying, but then being revived without going back to the lobby no longer counts as a death, and thus doesn't affect final mission rank. However, if NPCs die and revive themselves this does count as a death.
* Several weapon types have different/faster animations when used with Acro-classes. Details are sketchy, but Acrofighters get a faster Twin Saber animation and Acrotechers get a faster Twin Dagger animation.

== Missions ==
=== Parum ===
* Planet's Scar C-S has been added. Available at the Holtes City Flyer Base on Parum. Takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features Grass Assassins!
* City of the Thunderbeasts C-S has been added. Available from the Old Rozenom City lobby and takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features the new enemy, Ghinoceros.
* The Old Rozenom lobby has been added.
* A new beach lobby has been added, available by talking to the CAST NPC or by completing City of the Thunderbeasts. It has a dressing room and unique music, and appears somewhat similar to ''Seaside'' from PSO.

=== Moatoob ===
* Cave of Ice C-S has been added. Available from the Vio Tonga lobby (the Ice Fields), takes place in the Galanigus Mine.
* Serpent's Awakening C-S has been added. Available from Galanigus Mine lobby and takes place there as well. The ancient beast, De Ro Le, was trapped in ice, but has been awakened by the SEED Virus being spread by the Illuminus. Defeat it!
* A Galanigus Mine lobby has been added, reached by beating Cave of Ice or by talking to the CAST NPC. Serpent's Awakening starts here.
* The Casino Volwayale has been added, available after beating Serpent's Awakening or by talking to the CAST NPC. Here you can use special Vol Coins to play on a giant roulette wheel or on the Vol Slots. You can get 100 coins per day for free, however these cannot be transferred or traded to other accounts. Did the Vol Brothers finally make good on their pledge to make it big in the world of the Rogues?

=== Neudaiz ===
* A Temple lobby has been added. Appears similar to Hakura Temple, but is peaceful and has pillars of water. Currently no missions either take you to the Temple lobby or from it, so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC.
* Mt. Ohtoku lobby has been added. Currently no missions lead to it so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC. There is an Oracle here who can tell your future.

== Items ==

* Stars are displayed differently. They are bunched up and instead of having one colour depending on rarity, they now show all the relevant rarity colours. The stars go like this: ★★★★★★★★★★★★ (this would be a 12* item)
* A 13* Item, the De Ro Le Kouro, is known to exist. The 13th star is white and is animated.
* Non-Crea 7* weapons are no longer standard to one manufacturer. Confirmed are:

** Tenora: Sword, Handgun, Machinegun, Twin Claw,
** Yohmei: Axe, Double Saber, Handgun, Laser Cannon, Spear(S-rank only), Twin Saber
** GRM: Grenade Launcher, Wand, Cards/Fans, Dagger, Twin Dagger, 1-6* Rod, 1-6* Longbow

* 4 new weapon types: Slicer, Photon Whip, Madoog, and Shadoog.

** Slicer: Right-handed melee-class weapon, with a medium range attack (note: the Slicer has Skills, not Bullets).

** Photon Whip: Right-handed melee weapon, capable of causing status effects.

** Madoog: Left-handed weapon. Can have two [[TECHNICs]] attached to it, and casts more quickly than a Wand, but has less PP and TP.

** Shadoog: Left-handed shooting weapon that fires automatically and needs no PP (PP is literally 0/0). Shadoogs have no PAs, and have fixed elements, like melee weapons. Shadoog shots can inflict status though:

*** Fire = Burn
*** Ice = Freeze
*** Lightning = Shock
*** Earth = Stun
*** Light = Sleep
*** Dark = Incapacitation

* Traps can now be synthed. In addition, Burn Trap EX is now available(Protranser only).
* GRM make Rods. The GRM 1* Rod is called Rod, whereas the Yohmei 1* Rods name on JP is Rodou. It remains to be seen what Rod will be known as on the US version (since Rodou became Rod).
* Some recovery items on the action palette now have different colours. Moon Atomizer is yellow, Antimate is blue.
* New Room Tickets, which allow access to 'advanced My Room functions', including:

** 'Free Layout' - in new rooms, you can talk to your PM to activate a grid, allowing you to put Room Goods anywhere in your room.
* Several items are now only available as Casino prizes (see below), including an old favourite: the Chainsawd.
* New weapons, including some from PSO.
* New hairstyles, clothing, and parts. These are not available when creating a character.
* 2 new SUV weapons have been added: Gigas Espada (ギガス・エスパダ ''Gigasu Esupada''), which summons a giant sword to swing at enemies, and Paradis Cataracte (パラディ・カタラクト ''Paradi Katarakuto'') which resembles the ''Heaven's Punishment'' special from ''PSO''.

== Monsters ==

* New monsters have been added, these include:
** Go Badira (ゴ・バジラ ''Go Bajira''), appears in Rozenom and acts like normal Badiras do. Fire-element usually, but in the second Rozenom mission it becomes Lightning like every other enemy.
** Par Sorza (パル・ソーザ ''Paru Sooza''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to Gaozorans. The Rod it carries determines which TECHNICs it uses, a blue Rod means Barta and Deband, whereas a Par Sorza with a brown Rod throws lightning bolts and casts [[Gizonde]]. Lightning-element.
** De Ro Le (ディー・ロレイ ''Dii Rorei''), is the boss of Serpent's Awakening, and an obvious homage to De Rol Le from PSO. A tricky boss with many powerful attacks in his arsenal, including lasers, ice attacks and shooting missles. Ice-element.
** Nava Rudda (ナヴァ・ルッダ ''Nava Rudda''), appears in Galanigus Mine and appears to be a reskin of Naval. Likely Earth-element naturally, but as the Galanigus Mine missions have all Ice and Earth respectively (and Naval Rudda appears in both), this isn't certain. Ice Nava Rudda can shoot Barta and freeze with their melee attack, Earth Nava Rudda can shoot Foie. Leader Nava Rudda can cast Shifta.
** Vanda Olga (ヴァンダ・オルガ ''Vanda Oruga'') are larger and more reptilian versions of the Vanda. They only appear in Serpent's Awakening, where all enemies are Earth so their natural element is unknown at this point. In their Earth incarnation, they can spit Foie and breath high-level Damfoie.
** Grass Assassin (グラス・アサッシン ''Gurasu Asasshin''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to its PSO incarnation. It can slash with its arms, spit mucus, and charge when low on health. Lightning-element.
** Ghinoceros (ガイノゼロス ''Gainozerosu''), are the bosses of City of the Thunderbeasts. They act similar to Kamatoze, but can jump and throw multiple lightning bolts.
* Some existing monsters appear in new elemental forms:
** Lightning Jarbas appear in City of the Thunderbeasts. They cast Retier and spit lightning bolts. They don't cast Megid.
** Lightning Shagreece and Distova appear in City of the Thunderbeasts, and seem little different from their normal versions.
** Ice Vanda appear in Cave of Ice, and cast Barta at range and Dambarta close up. Extremely dangerous.
** Ice Bul Buna appear in Cave of Ice. They can cast Barta.
** Ice Bil De Vears appear in Cave of Ice. They cast low level Gibarta at close range and Barta at distance. They also have all the usual Bil De Vear attacks, and are also buffed with Sword, Shield, Boot, and Staff monster effects.
** Earth Vanda appear in Serpent's Awakening, and cast Gidiga very often close up. They appear to have no ranged attack, and unlike other versions aggressively run up to players instead of keeping their distance.
** Earth Lapucha appear in Serpent's Awakening, they seem little different from their Ice incarnation.
** Earth Drua Gohra appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga instead of Foie from their mouth.
** Earth Jishagara appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga.

== Levels and Types ==

* New expert types: Acrofighter and Acrotecher. They have proficiency with one handed weapons. Currently they have no requirements.
** Acrofighter: Expert type skilled with one-handed weapons. With their exceedingly high reaction speed, they can wield a number of weapons easily. Proficient with Slicers and Shadoogs.
** Acrotecher: Expert type specializing in support. They have an exceedingly high reaction speed, and focus on TECHNICs in battle. Proficient with Photon Whips and Madoogs.
* Type level cap is now 20.
* PA levels have been modified, and certain classes have had their PA levels changed. Attack and Support TECHNICs are now considered seperate for the purposes of PA level caps.
* PAs for the Whip and Slicer have been added.
* For the purposes of PA caps, Offensive and Support TECHNICS are now considered seperate.

== New Features ==

* New 'Online Status' option available under the Community menu, this allows for flags to be set such as Looking For Party, Solo Player etc.
* Autorunning and the ability to follow party members are now available.
** Autorunning can be activated and deactivated by pressing R (or left on the gamepad).
** Following party members is activated by first pressing K (or down on a gamepad), this will generate a line showing who you will be following, so keep pressing K to cycle through nearby party members until you get the one you want to follow. Then press R (this replaces the autorun function). Note that you cannot follow NPCs or PMs.
* You can now warp to areas by talking to the CAST NPC, for free (only free during the beta). Yellow areas are expansion-only.
* Shop NPCs now offer you the option to send items from your inventory to your Shared Box (NOT your PM storage!) for 300 Meseta. Note that the Meseta covers all items sent, and you cannot exceed the item limit of your Shared Box.
*New search features that allow you to search by price and rarity among other things.
*New room Bulletin Board that allows users to leave comments as well as allows you to customize what your Partner Machine says in response to different things.
*Room jukebox to allow you to customize your room's background music by attaining music disks in-game.
*Item added to allow your PM to hold more items.

== Graphical ==

* Shadow Map setting is now available.
* Effects surrounding Skill PAs are now colour-coded depending on PA level.
** 1-10 = Green
** 11-20 = Blue
** 21-30 = Purple
** 31-40 = Red
** ??-?? = Gold

== Misc ==

* Expansion names are Yellow, similar to how PSOv2 and JP EPIV players had orange names.
* You can now see player's type and type level above their heads by cycling through name, ID number etc.
* The 'travelling from colony to planet' cutscene has gone.
* Different colour schemes for character create and login.
* New voices for character create.
* The HUD seems to have a slightly bolder font.
* When selecting hair and accessories, you select the hair style and then select the accessory from a seperate menu.
* When selecting missions, you first select the mission then the rank. Yellow missions are expansion-only.
* The mini-map now tracks party members who are off the map, by showing you their general direction relative to your own.
* New lobbies have a Female Beast NPC vendor instead of the usual CAST Male.

== Beta-only changes ==
These have been implemented to make testing easier, and will '''not''' be in the final release, most likely.

* New missions have 3x rare drop rate. Existing missions have 2x.
* 2x EXP compared to normal PSU.
* Acrofighter and Acrotecher have no type level requirements. They also level like basic classes instead of expert types.
* New A-Rank weapons and boards are sold in the NPC shops.
* More types can use weaponry from the new weapon categories.
* Elemental photons are now sold at NPC Shops.
* Lumilass changes are set to a low price.
* Character level cap is 120.
* There is no fee for warping to lobbies for which your party does not have permission.

== Bugs ==
* Completing a mission as a FO levels up your FO level to 30, but you get no stat upgrades.
* Acrotecher's DFP seems to drop dramatically upon levelling up.
* PA limits appear to be glitched, allowing characters to level PAs as high as their highest PA cap. Example: a type with level 20 Skills, level 10 Bullets, and level 40 Offensive and Support Techs can level ALL their PAs to 40 regardless of the PA type.

==What Hasn't Changed==
* The PA limit is still 36.
* Buff parties for levelling up buff TECHNICs still work.

==Past Update Information==
===April 12th===
====Missions====
* Deja Vu Forest C-S is being added. Available from the Clyez City Spaceport. Takes place in the Forest of Ragol, which now appears to be in a completely different dimension to the Gurhal System!
* Cascade Temple C-S is being added. Available from the COG Pavilion of Air (the Temple in Ohtoku City). You must defeat the Sinow Hidoki, which is causing destruction and terror!
* Sacred Beast C-S is being added. Available from the upper tier of the COG Pavilion of Air. Features the Alteras Goug, who has escaped from the COG, who were studying it. Defeat it!

====Clothes & Parts====
* New clothes are being added that are, in fact, costumes from ''PSO''!
** Male Clothes: HUmar clothes, RAmar clothes.
** Female Clothes: HUney clothes, FOney clothes.
** Male Parts: RAcast armor.
** Female Parts: HUcaseal armor.

====Reform Tickets & Room Goods====
* A new Reform Ticket, Natural Mat (ナチャラル・マット) is being made available at the Room Goods shop (2F, Guardians Colony), for those who identify with nature.
* A new Room Good, Sabote Chair (サボテチェア) is being added.

====New Weapons====
* New weapons are being added, including but not limited to Rappy Tippies (ラッピー・ティッピーズ), Holy Ray (ホーリーレイ) and Sato (シャト). They drop in the new Free Missions being added, though this may be beta only.

====Misc====
* The Casino Volwayale is getting new prizes.

Changes in Ambition of the Illuminus

2007-08-20T22:38:38Z

Roalith: /* Items */

This page documents the differences between standard PSU and the [[Ambition of Illuminus]] expansion currently in Open Beta on JP.

A few things to note:
* This is a beta, so anything here is subject to change. This page will also list some specifically beta-only changes.
* English translations are not final and are subject to change as the US release nears.

== Balance Changes ==

* The synthesis success rate of weapons and armor as well as the chance of gaining a higher % on striking weapons have been increased.
* When synthing, Element Attribute rates of melee weapons and armors have been adjusted. It now appears to be possible to synth any even % between 10 and 50.
* Room Goods synthesis can no longer fail.
* S-Rank Grinders can now be synthed.
* When failing to grind a weapon, it is no longer destroyed. Instead, it is returned to you with no grinds. In addition on each fail the maximum amount of possible grinds will go down by one. Also each weapon will now display two numbers as a grind, with the left side number being the amount of current grinds on the weapon and the right side number being the maximum possible grinds for that weapon(example +2/+7 instead of just +2).
* Grinding success rates have been lowered.
* The chance of synthing high-grade grinders has been adjusted.
* Meseta droprate has been adjusted.
* S-Rank items can now drop.
* Drop rates for items of all ranks have been adjusted.
* Type stats have been adjusted.
* Weapon proficiencies and max PA levels have been adjusted (in general, types can use more weapons and with higher level PAs than before).
* Type level cap is now 20. PAs can now go up to level 50 (although only Acrotecher gets level 50 PAs, and they are Support Techs, everything else has an absolute upper cap of 40).
* TECHNICs have been adjusted.
* Dying, but then being revived without going back to the lobby no longer counts as a death, and thus doesn't affect final mission rank. However, if NPCs die and revive themselves this does count as a death.
* Several weapon types have different/faster animations when used with Acro-classes. Details are sketchy, but Acrofighters get a faster Twin Saber animation and Acrotechers get a faster Twin Dagger animation.

== Missions ==
=== Parum ===
* Planet's Scar C-S has been added. Available at the Holtes City Flyer Base on Parum. Takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features Grass Assassins!
* City of the Thunderbeasts C-S has been added. Available from the Old Rozenom City lobby and takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features the new enemy, Ghinoceros.
* The Old Rozenom lobby has been added.
* A new beach lobby has been added, available by talking to the CAST NPC or by completing City of the Thunderbeasts. It has a dressing room and unique music, and appears somewhat similar to ''Seaside'' from PSO.

=== Moatoob ===
* Cave of Ice C-S has been added. Available from the Vio Tonga lobby (the Ice Fields), takes place in the Galanigus Mine.
* Serpent's Awakening C-S has been added. Available from Galanigus Mine lobby and takes place there as well. The ancient beast, De Ro Le, was trapped in ice, but has been awakened by the SEED Virus being spread by the Illuminus. Defeat it!
* A Galanigus Mine lobby has been added, reached by beating Cave of Ice or by talking to the CAST NPC. Serpent's Awakening starts here.
* The Casino Volwayale has been added, available after beating Serpent's Awakening or by talking to the CAST NPC. Here you can use special Vol Coins to play on a giant roulette wheel or on the Vol Slots. You can get 100 coins per day for free, however these cannot be transferred or traded to other accounts. Did the Vol Brothers finally make good on their pledge to make it big in the world of the Rogues?

=== Neudaiz ===
* A Temple lobby has been added. Appears similar to Hakura Temple, but is peaceful and has pillars of water. Currently no missions either take you to the Temple lobby or from it, so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC.
* Mt. Ohtoku lobby has been added. Currently no missions lead to it so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC. There is an Oracle here who can tell your future.

== Items ==

* Stars are displayed differently. They are bunched up and instead of having one colour depending on rarity, they now show all the relevant rarity colours. The stars go like this: ★★★★★★★★★★★★ (this would be a 12* item)
* A 13* Item, the De Ro Le Kouro, is known to exist. The 13th star is white and is animated.
* Non-Crea 7* weapons are no longer standard to one manufacturer. Confirmed are:

** Tenora: Sword, Handgun, Machinegun, Twin Claw,
** Yohmei: Axe, Double Saber, Handgun, Laser Cannon, Spear(S-rank only), Twin Saber
** GRM: Grenade Launcher, Wand, Cards/Fans, Dagger, Twin Dagger, 1-6* Rod, 1-6* Longbow

* 4 new weapon types: Slicer, Photon Whip, Madoog, and Shadoog.

** Slicer: Right-handed melee-class weapon, with a medium range attack (note: the Slicer has Skills, not Bullets).

** Photon Whip: Right-handed melee weapon, capable of causing status effects.

** Madoog: Left-handed weapon. Can have two [[TECHNICs]] attached to it, and casts more quickly than a Wand, but has less PP and TP.

** Shadoog: Left-handed shooting weapon that fires automatically and needs no PP (PP is literally 0/0). Shadoogs have no PAs, and have fixed elements, like melee weapons. Shadoog shots can inflict status though:

*** Fire = Burn
*** Ice = Freeze
*** Lightning = Shock
*** Earth = Stun
*** Light = Sleep
*** Dark = Incapacitation

* Traps can now be synthed. In addition, Burn Trap EX is now available(Protranser only).
* GRM make Rods. The GRM 1* Rod is called Rod, whereas the Yohmei 1* Rods name on JP is Rodou. It remains to be seen what Rod will be known as on the US version (since Rodou became Rod).
* Some recovery items on the action palette now have different colours. Moon Atomizer is yellow, Antimate is blue.
* New Room Tickets, which allow access to 'advanced My Room functions', including:

** 'Free Layout' - in new rooms, you can talk to your PM to activate a grid, allowing you to put Room Goods anywhere in your room.
* Several items are now only available as Casino prizes (see below), including an old favourite: the Chainsawd.
* New weapons, including some from PSO.
* New hairstyles, clothing, and parts. These are not available when creating a character.
* 2 new SUV weapons have been added: Gigas Espada (ギガス・エスパダ ''Gigasu Esupada''), which summons a giant sword to swing at enemies, and Paradis Cataracte (パラディ・カタラクト ''Paradi Katarakuto'') which resembles the ''Heaven's Punishment'' special from ''PSO''.

== Monsters ==

* New monsters have been added, these include:
** Go Badira (ゴ・バジラ ''Go Bajira''), appears in Rozenom and acts like normal Badiras do. Fire-element usually, but in the second Rozenom mission it becomes Lightning like every other enemy.
** Par Sorza (パル・ソーザ ''Paru Sooza''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to Gaozorans. The Rod it carries determines which TECHNICs it uses, a blue Rod means Barta and Deband, whereas a Par Sorza with a brown Rod throws lightning bolts and casts [[Gizonde]]. Lightning-element.
** De Ro Le (ディー・ロレイ ''Dii Rorei''), is the boss of Serpent's Awakening, and an obvious homage to De Rol Le from PSO. A tricky boss with many powerful attacks in his arsenal, including lasers, ice attacks and shooting missles. Ice-element.
** Nava Rudda (ナヴァ・ルッダ ''Nava Rudda''), appears in Galanigus Mine and appears to be a reskin of Naval. Likely Earth-element naturally, but as the Galanigus Mine missions have all Ice and Earth respectively (and Naval Rudda appears in both), this isn't certain. Ice Nava Rudda can shoot Barta and freeze with their melee attack, Earth Nava Rudda can shoot Foie. Leader Nava Rudda can cast Shifta.
** Vanda Olga (ヴァンダ・オルガ ''Vanda Oruga'') are larger and more reptilian versions of the Vanda. They only appear in Serpent's Awakening, where all enemies are Earth so their natural element is unknown at this point. In their Earth incarnation, they can spit Foie and breath high-level Damfoie.
** Grass Assassin (グラス・アサッシン ''Gurasu Asasshin''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to its PSO incarnation. It can slash with its arms, spit mucus, and charge when low on health. Lightning-element.
** Ghinoceros (ガイノゼロス ''Gainozerosu''), are the bosses of City of the Thunderbeasts. They act similar to Kamatoze, but can jump and throw multiple lightning bolts.
* Some existing monsters appear in new elemental forms:
** Lightning Jarbas appear in City of the Thunderbeasts. They cast Retier and spit lightning bolts. They don't cast Megid.
** Lightning Shagreece and Distova appear in City of the Thunderbeasts, and seem little different from their normal versions.
** Ice Vanda appear in Cave of Ice, and cast Barta at range and Dambarta close up. Extremely dangerous.
** Ice Bul Buna appear in Cave of Ice. They can cast Barta.
** Ice Bil De Vears appear in Cave of Ice. They cast low level Gibarta at close range and Barta at distance. They also have all the usual Bil De Vear attacks, and are also buffed with Sword, Shield, Boot, and Staff monster effects.
** Earth Vanda appear in Serpent's Awakening, and cast Gidiga very often close up. They appear to have no ranged attack, and unlike other versions aggressively run up to players instead of keeping their distance.
** Earth Lapucha appear in Serpent's Awakening, they seem little different from their Ice incarnation.
** Earth Drua Gohra appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga instead of Foie from their mouth.
** Earth Jishagara appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga.

== Levels and Types ==

* New expert types: Acrofighter and Acrotecher. They have proficiency with one handed weapons. Currently they have no requirements.
** Acrofighter: Expert type skilled with one-handed weapons. With their exceedingly high reaction speed, they can wield a number of weapons easily. Proficient with Slicers and Shadoogs.
** Acrotecher: Expert type specializing in support. They have an exceedingly high reaction speed, and focus on TECHNICs in battle. Proficient with Photon Whips and Madoogs.
* Type level cap is now 20.
* PA levels have been modified, and certain classes have had their PA levels changed. Attack and Support TECHNICs are now considered seperate for the purposes of PA level caps.
* PAs for the Whip and Slicer have been added.
* For the purposes of PA caps, Offensive and Support TECHNICS are now considered seperate.

== New Features ==

* New 'Online Status' option available under the Community menu, this allows for flags to be set such as Looking For Party, Solo Player etc.
* Autorunning and the ability to follow party members are now available.
** Autorunning can be activated and deactivated by pressing R (or left on the gamepad).
** Following party members is activated by first pressing K (or down on a gamepad), this will generate a line showing who you will be following, so keep pressing K to cycle through nearby party members until you get the one you want to follow. Then press R (this replaces the autorun function). Note that you cannot follow NPCs or PMs.
* You can now warp to areas by talking to the CAST NPC, for free (only free during the beta). Yellow areas are expansion-only.
* Shop NPCs now offer you the option to send items from your inventory to your Shared Box (NOT your PM storage!) for 300 Meseta. Note that the Meseta covers all items sent, and you cannot exceed the item limit of your Shared Box.

== Graphical ==

* Shadow Map setting is now available.
* Effects surrounding Skill PAs are now colour-coded depending on PA level.
** 1-10 = Green
** 11-20 = Blue
** 21-30 = Purple
** 31-40 = Red
** ??-?? = Gold

== Misc ==

* Expansion names are Yellow, similar to how PSOv2 and JP EPIV players had orange names.
* You can now see player's type and type level above their heads by cycling through name, ID number etc.
* The 'travelling from colony to planet' cutscene has gone.
* Different colour schemes for character create and login.
* New voices for character create.
* The HUD seems to have a slightly bolder font.
* When selecting hair and accessories, you select the hair style and then select the accessory from a seperate menu.
* When selecting missions, you first select the mission then the rank. Yellow missions are expansion-only.
* The mini-map now tracks party members who are off the map, by showing you their general direction relative to your own.
* New lobbies have a Female Beast NPC vendor instead of the usual CAST Male.

== Beta-only changes ==
These have been implemented to make testing easier, and will '''not''' be in the final release, most likely.

* New missions have 3x rare drop rate. Existing missions have 2x.
* 2x EXP compared to normal PSU.
* Acrofighter and Acrotecher have no type level requirements. They also level like basic classes instead of expert types.
* New A-Rank weapons and boards are sold in the NPC shops.
* More types can use weaponry from the new weapon categories.
* Elemental photons are now sold at NPC Shops.
* Lumilass changes are set to a low price.
* Character level cap is 120.
* There is no fee for warping to lobbies for which your party does not have permission.

== Bugs ==
* Completing a mission as a FO levels up your FO level to 30, but you get no stat upgrades.
* Acrotecher's DFP seems to drop dramatically upon levelling up.
* PA limits appear to be glitched, allowing characters to level PAs as high as their highest PA cap. Example: a type with level 20 Skills, level 10 Bullets, and level 40 Offensive and Support Techs can level ALL their PAs to 40 regardless of the PA type.

==What Hasn't Changed==
* The PA limit is still 36.
* Buff parties for levelling up buff TECHNICs still work.

==Past Update Information==
===April 12th===
====Missions====
* Deja Vu Forest C-S is being added. Available from the Clyez City Spaceport. Takes place in the Forest of Ragol, which now appears to be in a completely different dimension to the Gurhal System!
* Cascade Temple C-S is being added. Available from the COG Pavilion of Air (the Temple in Ohtoku City). You must defeat the Sinow Hidoki, which is causing destruction and terror!
* Sacred Beast C-S is being added. Available from the upper tier of the COG Pavilion of Air. Features the Alteras Goug, who has escaped from the COG, who were studying it. Defeat it!

====Clothes & Parts====
* New clothes are being added that are, in fact, costumes from ''PSO''!
** Male Clothes: HUmar clothes, RAmar clothes.
** Female Clothes: HUney clothes, FOney clothes.
** Male Parts: RAcast armor.
** Female Parts: HUcaseal armor.

====Reform Tickets & Room Goods====
* A new Reform Ticket, Natural Mat (ナチャラル・マット) is being made available at the Room Goods shop (2F, Guardians Colony), for those who identify with nature.
* A new Room Good, Sabote Chair (サボテチェア) is being added.

====New Weapons====
* New weapons are being added, including but not limited to Rappy Tippies (ラッピー・ティッピーズ), Holy Ray (ホーリーレイ) and Sato (シャト). They drop in the new Free Missions being added, though this may be beta only.

====Misc====
* The Casino Volwayale is getting new prizes.

Changes in Ambition of the Illuminus

2007-08-20T22:33:58Z

Roalith: /* Balance Changes */

This page documents the differences between standard PSU and the [[Ambition of Illuminus]] expansion currently in Open Beta on JP.

A few things to note:
* This is a beta, so anything here is subject to change. This page will also list some specifically beta-only changes.
* English translations are not final and are subject to change as the US release nears.

== Balance Changes ==

* The synthesis success rate of weapons and armor as well as the chance of gaining a higher % on striking weapons have been increased.
* When synthing, Element Attribute rates of melee weapons and armors have been adjusted. It now appears to be possible to synth any even % between 10 and 50.
* Room Goods synthesis can no longer fail.
* S-Rank Grinders can now be synthed.
* When failing to grind a weapon, it is no longer destroyed. Instead, it is returned to you with no grinds. In addition on each fail the maximum amount of possible grinds will go down by one. Also each weapon will now display two numbers as a grind, with the left side number being the amount of current grinds on the weapon and the right side number being the maximum possible grinds for that weapon(example +2/+7 instead of just +2).
* Grinding success rates have been lowered.
* The chance of synthing high-grade grinders has been adjusted.
* Meseta droprate has been adjusted.
* S-Rank items can now drop.
* Drop rates for items of all ranks have been adjusted.
* Type stats have been adjusted.
* Weapon proficiencies and max PA levels have been adjusted (in general, types can use more weapons and with higher level PAs than before).
* Type level cap is now 20. PAs can now go up to level 50 (although only Acrotecher gets level 50 PAs, and they are Support Techs, everything else has an absolute upper cap of 40).
* TECHNICs have been adjusted.
* Dying, but then being revived without going back to the lobby no longer counts as a death, and thus doesn't affect final mission rank. However, if NPCs die and revive themselves this does count as a death.
* Several weapon types have different/faster animations when used with Acro-classes. Details are sketchy, but Acrofighters get a faster Twin Saber animation and Acrotechers get a faster Twin Dagger animation.

== Missions ==
=== Parum ===
* Planet's Scar C-S has been added. Available at the Holtes City Flyer Base on Parum. Takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features Grass Assassins!
* City of the Thunderbeasts C-S has been added. Available from the Old Rozenom City lobby and takes place in the Rozenom Ruins. Features the new enemy, Ghinoceros.
* The Old Rozenom lobby has been added.
* A new beach lobby has been added, available by talking to the CAST NPC or by completing City of the Thunderbeasts. It has a dressing room and unique music, and appears somewhat similar to ''Seaside'' from PSO.

=== Moatoob ===
* Cave of Ice C-S has been added. Available from the Vio Tonga lobby (the Ice Fields), takes place in the Galanigus Mine.
* Serpent's Awakening C-S has been added. Available from Galanigus Mine lobby and takes place there as well. The ancient beast, De Ro Le, was trapped in ice, but has been awakened by the SEED Virus being spread by the Illuminus. Defeat it!
* A Galanigus Mine lobby has been added, reached by beating Cave of Ice or by talking to the CAST NPC. Serpent's Awakening starts here.
* The Casino Volwayale has been added, available after beating Serpent's Awakening or by talking to the CAST NPC. Here you can use special Vol Coins to play on a giant roulette wheel or on the Vol Slots. You can get 100 coins per day for free, however these cannot be transferred or traded to other accounts. Did the Vol Brothers finally make good on their pledge to make it big in the world of the Rogues?

=== Neudaiz ===
* A Temple lobby has been added. Appears similar to Hakura Temple, but is peaceful and has pillars of water. Currently no missions either take you to the Temple lobby or from it, so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC.
* Mt. Ohtoku lobby has been added. Currently no missions lead to it so it can only be accessed via the CAST NPC. There is an Oracle here who can tell your future.

== Items ==

* Stars are displayed differently. They are bunched up and instead of having one colour depending on rarity, they now show all the relevant rarity colours. The stars go like this: ★★★★★★★★★★★★ (this would be a 12* item)
* A 13* Item, the De Ro Le Kouro, is known to exist. The 13th star is white and is animated.
* Non-Crea 7* weapons are no longer standard to one manufacturer. Confirmed are:
** Tenora: Sword, Handgun, Machinegun, Twin Claw,
** Yohmei: Axe, Double Saber, Handgun, Laser Cannon, Spear(S-rank only), Twin Saber
** GRM: Grenade Launcher, Wand, Cards/Fans, Dagger, Twin Dagger, 1-6* Rod, 1-6* Longbow
* 4 new weapon types: Slicer, Photon Whip, Madoog, and Shadoog.
** Slicer: Right-handed melee-class weapon, with a medium range attack (note: the Slicer has Skills, not Bullets).
** Photon Whip: Right-handed melee weapon, capable of causing status effects.
** Madoog: Left-handed weapon. Can have two [[TECHNICs]] attached to it, and casts more quickly than a Wand, but has less PP and TP.
** Shadoog: Left-handed shooting weapon that fires automatically and needs no PP (PP is literally 0/0). Shadoogs have no PAs, and have fixed elements, like melee weapons. Shadoog shots can inflict status though:
*** Fire = Burn
*** Ice = Freeze
*** Lightning = Shock?
*** Earth = Stun
*** Light = Sleep
*** Dark = Incapacitation (instant death)
* Traps can now be synthed. In addition, Burn Trap EX is now available (Protranser only).
* GRM make Rods. The GRM 1* Rod is called Rod, whereas the Yohmei 1* Rods name on JP is Rodou. It remains to be seen what Rod will be known as on the US version (since Rodou became Rod).
* Some recovery items on the action palette now have different colours. Moon Atomizer is yellow, Antimate is blue.
* New Room Tickets, which allow access to 'advanced My Room functions', including:
** 'Free Layout' - in new rooms, you can talk to your PM to activate a grid, allowing you to put Room Goods anywhere in your room!
** Shop functions, such as a Bulletin Board and messages for your PM to say.
* Several items are now only available as Casino prizes (see below), including an old favourite: the Chainsawd.
* New weapons, including some from PSO.
* New hairstyles, clothing, and parts. These are not available when creating a character.
* 2 new SUV weapons have been added: Gigas Espada (ギガス・エスパダ ''Gigasu Esupada''), which summons a giant sword to swing at enemies, and Paradis Cataracte (パラディ・カタラクト ''Paradi Katarakuto'') which resembles the ''Heaven's Punishment'' special from ''PSO''.

== Monsters ==

* New monsters have been added, these include:
** Go Badira (ゴ・バジラ ''Go Bajira''), appears in Rozenom and acts like normal Badiras do. Fire-element usually, but in the second Rozenom mission it becomes Lightning like every other enemy.
** Par Sorza (パル・ソーザ ''Paru Sooza''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to Gaozorans. The Rod it carries determines which TECHNICs it uses, a blue Rod means Barta and Deband, whereas a Par Sorza with a brown Rod throws lightning bolts and casts [[Gizonde]]. Lightning-element.
** De Ro Le (ディー・ロレイ ''Dii Rorei''), is the boss of Serpent's Awakening, and an obvious homage to De Rol Le from PSO. A tricky boss with many powerful attacks in his arsenal, including lasers, ice attacks and shooting missles. Ice-element.
** Nava Rudda (ナヴァ・ルッダ ''Nava Rudda''), appears in Galanigus Mine and appears to be a reskin of Naval. Likely Earth-element naturally, but as the Galanigus Mine missions have all Ice and Earth respectively (and Naval Rudda appears in both), this isn't certain. Ice Nava Rudda can shoot Barta and freeze with their melee attack, Earth Nava Rudda can shoot Foie. Leader Nava Rudda can cast Shifta.
** Vanda Olga (ヴァンダ・オルガ ''Vanda Oruga'') are larger and more reptilian versions of the Vanda. They only appear in Serpent's Awakening, where all enemies are Earth so their natural element is unknown at this point. In their Earth incarnation, they can spit Foie and breath high-level Damfoie.
** Grass Assassin (グラス・アサッシン ''Gurasu Asasshin''), appears in Rozenom and acts similar to its PSO incarnation. It can slash with its arms, spit mucus, and charge when low on health. Lightning-element.
** Ghinoceros (ガイノゼロス ''Gainozerosu''), are the bosses of City of the Thunderbeasts. They act similar to Kamatoze, but can jump and throw multiple lightning bolts.
* Some existing monsters appear in new elemental forms:
** Lightning Jarbas appear in City of the Thunderbeasts. They cast Retier and spit lightning bolts. They don't cast Megid.
** Lightning Shagreece and Distova appear in City of the Thunderbeasts, and seem little different from their normal versions.
** Ice Vanda appear in Cave of Ice, and cast Barta at range and Dambarta close up. Extremely dangerous.
** Ice Bul Buna appear in Cave of Ice. They can cast Barta.
** Ice Bil De Vears appear in Cave of Ice. They cast low level Gibarta at close range and Barta at distance. They also have all the usual Bil De Vear attacks, and are also buffed with Sword, Shield, Boot, and Staff monster effects.
** Earth Vanda appear in Serpent's Awakening, and cast Gidiga very often close up. They appear to have no ranged attack, and unlike other versions aggressively run up to players instead of keeping their distance.
** Earth Lapucha appear in Serpent's Awakening, they seem little different from their Ice incarnation.
** Earth Drua Gohra appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga instead of Foie from their mouth.
** Earth Jishagara appear in Serpent's Awakening, and spit Diga.

== Levels and Types ==

* New expert types: Acrofighter and Acrotecher. They have proficiency with one handed weapons. Currently they have no requirements.
** Acrofighter: Expert type skilled with one-handed weapons. With their exceedingly high reaction speed, they can wield a number of weapons easily. Proficient with Slicers and Shadoogs.
** Acrotecher: Expert type specializing in support. They have an exceedingly high reaction speed, and focus on TECHNICs in battle. Proficient with Photon Whips and Madoogs.
* Type level cap is now 20.
* PA levels have been modified, and certain classes have had their PA levels changed. Attack and Support TECHNICs are now considered seperate for the purposes of PA level caps.
* PAs for the Whip and Slicer have been added.
* For the purposes of PA caps, Offensive and Support TECHNICS are now considered seperate.

== New Features ==

* New 'Online Status' option available under the Community menu, this allows for flags to be set such as Looking For Party, Solo Player etc.
* Autorunning and the ability to follow party members are now available.
** Autorunning can be activated and deactivated by pressing R (or left on the gamepad).
** Following party members is activated by first pressing K (or down on a gamepad), this will generate a line showing who you will be following, so keep pressing K to cycle through nearby party members until you get the one you want to follow. Then press R (this replaces the autorun function). Note that you cannot follow NPCs or PMs.
* You can now warp to areas by talking to the CAST NPC, for free (only free during the beta). Yellow areas are expansion-only.
* Shop NPCs now offer you the option to send items from your inventory to your Shared Box (NOT your PM storage!) for 300 Meseta. Note that the Meseta covers all items sent, and you cannot exceed the item limit of your Shared Box.

== Graphical ==

* Shadow Map setting is now available.
* Effects surrounding Skill PAs are now colour-coded depending on PA level.
** 1-10 = Green
** 11-20 = Blue
** 21-30 = Purple
** 31-40 = Red
** ??-?? = Gold

== Misc ==

* Expansion names are Yellow, similar to how PSOv2 and JP EPIV players had orange names.
* You can now see player's type and type level above their heads by cycling through name, ID number etc.
* The 'travelling from colony to planet' cutscene has gone.
* Different colour schemes for character create and login.
* New voices for character create.
* The HUD seems to have a slightly bolder font.
* When selecting hair and accessories, you select the hair style and then select the accessory from a seperate menu.
* When selecting missions, you first select the mission then the rank. Yellow missions are expansion-only.
* The mini-map now tracks party members who are off the map, by showing you their general direction relative to your own.
* New lobbies have a Female Beast NPC vendor instead of the usual CAST Male.

== Beta-only changes ==
These have been implemented to make testing easier, and will '''not''' be in the final release, most likely.

* New missions have 3x rare drop rate. Existing missions have 2x.
* 2x EXP compared to normal PSU.
* Acrofighter and Acrotecher have no type level requirements. They also level like basic classes instead of expert types.
* New A-Rank weapons and boards are sold in the NPC shops.
* More types can use weaponry from the new weapon categories.
* Elemental photons are now sold at NPC Shops.
* Lumilass changes are set to a low price.
* Character level cap is 120.
* There is no fee for warping to lobbies for which your party does not have permission.

== Bugs ==
* Completing a mission as a FO levels up your FO level to 30, but you get no stat upgrades.
* Acrotecher's DFP seems to drop dramatically upon levelling up.
* PA limits appear to be glitched, allowing characters to level PAs as high as their highest PA cap. Example: a type with level 20 Skills, level 10 Bullets, and level 40 Offensive and Support Techs can level ALL their PAs to 40 regardless of the PA type.

==What Hasn't Changed==
* The PA limit is still 36.
* Buff parties for levelling up buff TECHNICs still work.

==Past Update Information==
===April 12th===
====Missions====
* Deja Vu Forest C-S is being added. Available from the Clyez City Spaceport. Takes place in the Forest of Ragol, which now appears to be in a completely different dimension to the Gurhal System!
* Cascade Temple C-S is being added. Available from the COG Pavilion of Air (the Temple in Ohtoku City). You must defeat the Sinow Hidoki, which is causing destruction and terror!
* Sacred Beast C-S is being added. Available from the upper tier of the COG Pavilion of Air. Features the Alteras Goug, who has escaped from the COG, who were studying it. Defeat it!

====Clothes & Parts====
* New clothes are being added that are, in fact, costumes from ''PSO''!
** Male Clothes: HUmar clothes, RAmar clothes.
** Female Clothes: HUney clothes, FOney clothes.
** Male Parts: RAcast armor.
** Female Parts: HUcaseal armor.

====Reform Tickets & Room Goods====
* A new Reform Ticket, Natural Mat (ナチャラル・マット) is being made available at the Room Goods shop (2F, Guardians Colony), for those who identify with nature.
* A new Room Good, Sabote Chair (サボテチェア) is being added.

====New Weapons====
* New weapons are being added, including but not limited to Rappy Tippies (ラッピー・ティッピーズ), Holy Ray (ホーリーレイ) and Sato (シャト). They drop in the new Free Missions being added, though this may be beta only.

====Misc====
* The Casino Volwayale is getting new prizes.

Ambition of the Illuminus

2007-08-20T21:45:55Z

Roalith: /* Release Information */

== About ''Ambition of the Illuminus'' ==
[[Image:Ambition_of_illuminus.jpg|thumb|right|Ambition of the Illuminus]]
''Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus'' (ファンタシースターユニバース：イルミナスの野望 ''Phantasy Star Universe: Illuminus no Yabou'') is the upcoming expansion to SonicTeam's 2006 multi-player online RPG ''Phantasy Star Universe''. This article details all known facts about this upcoming game.

== Release Information ==
The PC and PlayStation 2 versions of ''Ambition of the Illuminus'' are scheduled to be released in Japan on September 27, 2007. A specific release date for the Xbox 360 version has not been set, however Sega has confirmed a Fall 2007 release for North America and a Winter 2008 release for Europe.

The PC and PlayStation 2 editions of ''Ambition of the Illuminus'' will be released on disc for sale in retail outlets just as the original game was. The Xbox 360 version, however will be released only on Xbox Live as downloadable content.

=== Network Trial Information ===
Japanese PC and PS2 users were able to participate in a free trial of ''Ambition of the Illuminus'' this Spring (PS2 users were required to log in to their accounts on a PC with ''PSU'' installed in order to play the trial). According to SonicTeam, the purpose behind this trial was to test connection and network stability as well as try out new in-game features. This trial ran from April 05 until April 26.

Participants in the trial were able to either start a brand new character or carry over their current character from ''PSU''. If a participant decided to carry over their current character, a copy of their character data was made to the servers specifically set up for the trial of ''Illuminus'' while the original character data remained on the main game servers. The reason for this being that no information, stats or items from the network trial would carry over to the original game. Following the close of the trial, all character data on the trial servers was wiped. At this point, anyone who decided to carry over their character data has returned to the original game where they left off.

==== ''PSO'' in ''PSU''? ====
Magazine scans and screenshots of the expansion have shown various ''Phantasy Star Online'' references, ranging from weapons such as the Durandal Repca and the Holy Ray, to screenshots showing a character in a HUmar outfit, fighting Rappies in what appears to be Lupus Silva (a.k.a. Forest 1). Currently, no detailed explanation has been given to explain these weapon, clothing and location references.

The ''Ambition of the Illuminus'' trial featured a mission called Deja Vu Forest (既視の樹林) which took place in the previously mentioned Lupus Silva look-alike, but the description was vague, only stating that the mission occurred in an alternate dimension.

== New Weapon Categories ==
Four new weapon categories have been revealed for this expansion, bringing the total up to an impressive 27 categories.

=== Photon Whip ===
Photon Whips (フォトンウィップ) are right-handed striking weapons capable of attacking multiple targets around the wielder. Vishi (ヴィシ) and Vishi Adan (ヴィシ・アダン) are two of the currently known Photon Whips.

=== Slicer ===
Slicers (スライサー) are right-handed ranged weapons capable of releasing blades of photon energy whch home in on their target. Hiken (ヒケン) and Shurahiken (シュラヒケン) are two Slicers which have been revealed so far.

=== Madoog ===
Madoogs (マドゥーグ) are left-handed TECHNIC-casting weapons. Despite greatly resembling MAGs from ''Phantasy Star Online'', they should not be confused with ''PSO'''s support partner. A maximum of two TECHNICs can be attached to a Madoog. Ten types of this weapon are currently known: Pit (ピット), Gipit (ギピット), Rapit (ラピット), Girapit (ギラピット), Gorapit (ゴラピット), Roggapit (ロッガピット), Pegi (ペギー), Sato (シャト), Soniti (ソニチ) and Dolly (ドリー).

=== Shadoog ===
Shadoogs (シャドゥーグ) are left-handed ranged weapons that automatically fire at enemies within range. All Shadoogs come with an elemental attribute tied to them, so it is not possible to link a Photon Art to the weapon. The element of a Shadoog determines which status effect it can inflict on the enemies it shoots. Eight types of this weapon are currently known: Duke (ドゥーク), Giduke (ギドゥーク), Raduke (ラドゥーク), Giraduke (ギラドゥーク), Goraduke (ゴラドゥーク), Roggaduke (ロッガドゥーク), Ebrozeek (エブロズィーク) and Flowduke (フラウドゥーク).

== New Weapons ==
The following table lists all of the currently-known weapons planned for ''Ambition of the Illuminus''. Please note that the English names given are not official localizations.

{| class="wikitable"
! [[JP Name]] !! [[EN Name]] !! [[Manufacturer]] !! [[Weapon]] !! [[Grade]] !! [[Rarity]]
|-
| ソダ・ハッゾ || Soda Hazzo || TENORA WORKS || Sword || A || 7★
|-
| チェインソード || Chain Sword || Kubara || Sword || A || 9★
|-
| ブレイバクル || Bravacle || Yohmei || Knuckles || A || 7★
|-
| ゲキツナアタ || Gekitsunata || Yohmei || Spear || S || -★
|-
| グングナアタ || Gungnata || -- || Spear || -- || -★
|-
| ライカソベラ || Raikasobera || -- || Double Saber || -- || -★
|-
| オウソベラ || Ohsobera || Yohmei || Double Saber || -- || -★
|-
| マトホノウ || Matohonou || Yohmei || Axe || A || 7★
|-
| リョウサベウド || Ryo-Sabeud || -- || Twin Saber || -- || -★
|-
| デュアルストリーム || Dual Stream || GRM || Twin Dagger || A || 7★
|-
| ラッピー・ティッピーズ || Rappy Tippies || Kubara || Twin Dagger || -- || -★
|-
| ネイクロー || Nei Claw || Kubara || Twin Claw || B || 6★
|-
| デュランダル・レプカ || Durandal Repca || Kubara || Saber || A || 7★
|-
| ラピッドストリーム || Rapid Stream || GRM || Dagger || A || 7★
|-
| ヴィシ || Vishi || TENORA WORKS || Photon Whip || A || 7★
|-
| ヴィシ・アダン || Vishi Adan || -- || Photon Whip || -- || -★
|-
| ヒケン || Hiken || Yohmei || Slicer || A || 7★
|-
| シュラヒケン || Shura-Hiken || -- || Slicer || - || -★
|-
| ハクツラホウ || Hakutsurahoh || Yohmei || Rifle || A || 7★
|-
| ホーリーレイ || Holy Ray || Kubara || Rifle || S || -★
|-
| マダム・ブレラ || Madam-Brella || -- || Shotgun || -- || -★
|-
| ヴァン・ブレラ || Van-Brella || -- || Shotgun || -- || -★
|-
| ロングボウ || Longbow || GRM || Bow || C || 1★
|-
| アロウシューター || Arrow Shooter || GRM || Bow || C || 2★
|-
| ティラールク || Tiralk || GRM || Bow || C || 3★
|-
| ボウゲンシー || Bowgency || GRM || Bow || B || 4★
|-
| ルムアルス || Rumuals || GRM || Bow || B || 5★
|-
| イズルーカ || Izuruka || GRM || Bow || B || 6★
|-
| コルトバズーカ || Koltobazooka || Kubara || Grenade Launcher|| B || 6★
|-
| ブラングレネード || Bran Grenade || GRM || Grenade Launcher|| A || 7★
|-
| コウハカノウ || Kouhakanoh || Yohmei || Laser Cannon || A || 7★
|-
| リョウビイムトル || Ryo-Beemtore || Yohmei || Twin Handgun || A || 7★
|-
| ビイムトル || Beemtore || Yohmei || Handgun || A || 7★
|-
| ヴァリスタ || Varista || Kubara || Handgun || A || -★
|-
| ルビーバレット || Ruby Bullet || Kubara || Handgun || A || 9★
|-
| ブドゥキ・マガナ || B'duki Magana || TENORA WORKS || Handgun || A || 7★
|-
| カードファンテ || Card Fante || GRM || Card || A || 7★
|-
| マッガ·スビナ || Magga S'bina || TENORA WORKS || Machinegun || A || 7★
|-
| ドゥーク || Duke || GRM || Shadoog || C || 1★
|-
| ギドゥーク || Gi-Duke || GRM || Shadoog || C || 2★
|-
| ラドゥーク || Ra-Duke || GRM || Shadoog || C || 3★
|-
| ギラドゥーク || Gira-Duke || GRM || Shadoog || B || 4★
|-
| ゴラドゥーク || Gora-Duke || GRM || Shadoog || B || 5★
|-
| ロッガドゥーク || Rogga-Duke || GRM || Shadoog || B || 6★
|-
| フラウドゥーク || Flow-Duke || -- || Shadoog || -- || -★
|-
| エブロズィーク || Ebrozeek || -- || Shadoog || -- || -★
|-
| ロッド || Rod || GRM || Staff || C || 1★
|-
| ヘリクセン || Helixen || GRM || Staff || C || 2★
|-
| リュシエール || Ryushiel || GRM || Staff || C || 3★
|-
| ストレーガ || Strayga || GRM || Staff || B || 4★
|-
| マルギーサ || Margeesa || GRM || Staff || B || 5★
|-
| ヴィエディーマ || Viedeema || GRM || Staff || B || 6★
|-
| プリースト || Priest || GRM || Wand || A || 7★
|-
| ピット || Pit || GRM || Madoog || C || 1★
|-
| ギピット || Gi-Pit || GRM || Madoog || C || 2★
|-
| ラピット || Ra-Pit || GRM || Madoog || C || 3★
|-
| ギラピット || Gira-Pit || GRM || Madoog || B || 4★
|-
| ゴラピット || Gora-Pit || GRM || Madoog || B || 5★
|-
| ロッガピット || Rogga-Pit || GRM || Madoog || B || 6★
|-
| シャト || Sato || Kubara || Madoog || A || 9★
|-
| ペギー || Pegi || -- || Madoog || -- || -★
|-
| ソニチ || Soniti || Kubara || Madoog || A || -★
|-
| ドリー || Dolly || -- || Madoog || -- || -★
|}

== New Types ==
Two new Types have been added to ''Ambition of the Illuminus'': Acrofighter and Acrotecher. More agile than any other Type, the Acro-classes specialize in naturally quick movements when using their respective type of Photon Art. (Acrofighters exhibit faster Skill movements while Acrotechers cast TECHNICs faster than any other Type.) Aside from the addition of these two Types, the Photon Art caps have been raised for everyone and TECHNICs have been split into attack and support categories. Now all PAs cap off at 40. (During the beta test, Acrotechers were able to level support TECHNICs to 50, however this has since been reduced to 40.)

{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan=2|   !! rowspan=2| Type Name !! colspan=3| Req. Type Lv. !! colspan=4| Photon Art Caps
|-
| align="center"| HU || align="center"| RA || align="center"| FO || align="center"| Skills || align="center"| Bullets || align="center"| Attack TECHNICs || align="center"| Support TECHNICs
|-
| rowspan=3|Basic Types
| Hunter || rowspan="3" colspan="3" align="center"|N/A ||align="center"| 20 ||align="center"| 10 ||align="center"| - ||align="center"| -
|-
| Ranger || align="center"| 10 || align="center"| 20 || align="center"| - || align="center"| -
|-
| Force || align="center"| 1 || align="center"| 10 || align="center"| 20 || align="center"| 20
|-
| rowspan=9|Expert Types
| Fighgunner || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| 3 || align="center"| - || align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| 30 ||align="center"| - ||align="center"| -
|-
| Guntecher || align="center"| - || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| 3 || align="center"| 10 ||align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| 20 ||align="center"| 30
|-
| Wartecher || align="center"| 3 || align="center"| - || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| 30 ||align="center"| 20 ||align="center"| 30 ||align="center"| 20
|-
| Fortefighter || align="center"| 10 || align="center"| - || align="center"| - || align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| 20 ||align="center"| - ||align="center"| -
|-
| Fortegunner || align="center"| - || align="center"| 10 || align="center"| - || align="center"| 20 ||align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| - ||align="center"| -
|-
| Fortetecher || align="center"| - || align="center"| - || align="center"| 10 || align="center"| 10 ||align="center"| 30 ||align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| 40
|-
| Protranser || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| - ||align="center"| -
|-
| Acrofighter || align="center"| 3 || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| - || align="center"| 40 ||align="center"| 30 ||align="center"| - ||align="center"| -
|-
| Acrotecher || align="center"| 3 || align="center"| - || align="center"| 5 || align="center"| 20 ||align="center"| 20 ||align="center"| 30 ||align="center"| 40
|}

== New Lobbies ==
Three new lobby areas have been revealed; one for each planet. Parum features the beach-front city of Paracabana, Neudaiz has a Gurhalistic shrine on Mt. Ohtoku and Moatoob has a Rappy-themed casino known as Casino Volyale. Aside from these main lobbies, there are a number of smaller mid-point lobbies which can be accessed in between different missions.

=== Paracabana Beach ===
--

=== Mt. Ohtoku ===
--

=== Casino Volyale ===
Collect your daily allowance of Vol Coins and gamble them on the casino's roulette table and various slot machines. You can use your winnings to exchange for special items.

== New Fields ==
Multiple new fields have been revealed for ''Ambition of the Illuminus''. Even though they were not all accessible in the trial version of the game, field names have been discovered at various mission counters across Gurhal.

=== Old Rozenom City (旧ローゼノム・シティ) ===
The ruined city of Rozenom lies to the southeast of Paracabana Beach on Parum. Details on exactly what caused the downfall of this once bustling city are currently unknown.

=== AMF Headquarters (同盟軍中央司令部) ===
This is the headquarters of the AMF, located in Holtes City.

=== Military Metronilia (軍用メトロニリア) ===
This area is said to be populated by infected AMF CASTs.

=== Saguraki Conservation District (サグラキ保護区) ===
A beautiful mountain trail on Neudaiz lined with blooming cherry trees.

=== Pavilion of Air (昇空殿) ===
This is the Ohtoku City headquarters of the Communion of Gurhal.

=== Habirao Restricted District (ハビラオ禁止区) ===
A mysterious forest filled with over-sized mushrooms. The air is teeming with incredibly high concentrations of photon energy.

=== Granigs Mine (グラニグス鉱山) ===
The icy caverns of Granigs Mine stretch out beneath Moatoob's Vio Tonga.

=== Il Carbo Base (イル・カーボ基地) ===
This is one of the AMF's bases located on Moatoob.

=== Forest (森林) ===
Accessed from the Clyez City space dock, this area is described as existing in another dimension. Players from ''Phantasy Star Online'' will recognize this area as Ragol's Lupus Silva, otherwise known as Forest 1. The area is complete with enemies such as the Booma and Gobooma and familiar scenery which includes Pioneer 2 and the Central Dome. Rappies also make an appearance, however they are now white in color and are known as Rappy Polleck.

=== Cave (洞窟) ===
Fans of ''Phantasy Star Online'' should recognize this area...

=== Mine (坑道) ===
It's No Man's Mines from ''Phantasy Star Online''.

== New Photon Arts ==
New Photon Arts will be added not only for the new weapons, but also for existing types. Here are the new Photon Arts that have been revealed so far.

{| class="wikitable"
! [[JP Name]] !! [[EN Name]] !! [[Rarity]] !! [[Weapon]] !! [[Description]]
|-
| チュウエイジトツシン || Chuuei Jitotsu-shin || -★ || Twin Claw || --
|-
| クロスハリケーン || Cross Hurricane || -★ || Twin Saber || --
|-
| ヴィッシ·グルッダ || Visshi Grudda || 1★ || Photon Whip || --
|-
| チッキョレンジン || Chikkyoren-jin || 1★ || Slicer || --
|-
| レンガチュウジンショウ || Renga Chuujin-shou || -★ || Twin Dagger || --
|}

== New SUV Weapons ==
CASTs will have access to multiple new SUV weapons. Here at the ones that have been revealed so far.

{| class="wikitable"
! [[JP Name]] !! [[EN Name]] !! [[Description]]
|-
| ギガス・エスパダ || Gigas Espada || Summons an enormous sword.
|-
| パラディ・カタラクト || Paradis Cataracte || A rain of death.
|-
| ギガス・ファウスト || Gigas Faust || Summons a mechanical fist.
|-
| ラピア・フリューゲ || Lapia Fluge || Cures, heals and revives all allies within its range.
|}

== New Room Goods and Redecoration Tickets ==
As opposed to the original game's strict layout for room decorations, ''Ambition of the Illuminus'' allows for much more freedom in where you can place trophies and items in your room. And to go along with all of the new items you can decorate your room with, there are a number of new redecoration tickets, allowing for an even more unique style.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0
! [[JP Name]] !! [[EN Name]] !! [[Rarity]] !! [[Description]]
|-
| ナチュラル・マット || Natural Mat || -★ || --
|-
| レッド・コート || Red Coat || -★ || --
|-
| ハッピー・スコア || Happy Score || -★ || --
|-
| オールド・フューチャー || Old Future || -★ || --
|-
| オリエント・ホワイト || Orient White || -★ || --
|}

== External Links ==
[http://illuminus.phantasystaruniverse.jp/ ''PSU: Ambition of the Illuminus'' Official Site] (Japanese)
[http://www.phantasystaruniverse.com/illuminus_info.php ''PSU: Ambition of the Illuminus'' page on the English Official Site]

Party Missions

2007-07-03T20:18:08Z

Roalith: /* Her Secret Mission */

{{Expansion}}
==Party Missions==
===Dagora City Guardians HQ===

====[[Bruce's Dungeon]]====
Bruce's Dungeon is a Party Mission for 2-5 players. The 6th slot is filled by [[Bruce Boyde]]. The objective of the mission is to escort Bruce to a computer terminal in the 2nd block of the area within 25 minutes. Should Bruce or any party member die, the mission will be abandoned ([[Scape Doll]]s cannot be used.) Any players leaving the party or the leader being switched will cause the mission to end. Bruce will follow the party leader and start fighting mobs close by. In order to navigate the dungeon, cooperation is needed as often one player needs to hold down a switch for the rest of the party to pass. Good teamwork and coordination is of the essence to achieve S ranks on the mission.
Enemies in the mission consist of [[Vanda]]s, [[Lapucha]]s, [[Kog Nadd]]s, and [[Bil De Vear]]s, normal and buffed varieties.

In order to achieve an S rank, all 91 monsters in the area must be slain. Also, the party must finish the escort mission within the following limits:

C: 7 minutes

B: 15 minutes

A: 20 minutes

In addition to the mission points an meseta awards, an S rank also results in one C, B, or A [[Grinder Base]] to be awarded based on the difficulty chosen.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0
|-
| rowspan=3|LV || rowspan=3|Req. LV || rowspan=3|[[Monster]] LV || colspan=8|Rank
|-
| colspan=2|S || colspan=2|A || colspan=2|B || colspan=2|C
|-
| Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points
|-
| C || 0 || 15~ || 1600 || 16 || 1200 || 12 || 800 || 8 || 0 || 0
|-
| B || 35 || 45~ || 7000 || 70 || 5250 || 53 || 3500 || 35 || 0 || 0
|-
| A || 60 || 85~ || 15000 || 150 || 11250 || 113 || 7500 || 75 || 0 || 0
|}

===Raffon Meadow: Lakeshore Park===
====Crimson Beast====
Crimson Beast is a party mission; however, it allows players to go solo. It doesn't forbid the use of scapedolls, the change of the party leader, or players leaving the party. It isn't a time trial either.

The objective of the mission is to kill a [[De Ragan]], but this time the player will have to go through the Raffon RELICS to reach the De Ragan's nest. On the first map of the plains the player will also have to face a [[Gol Dolva]].

A party of at least 3 members is required to achieve S rank, due to certain doors requiring 3 switches to be pressed simultaneously.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0
|-
| rowspan=3|LV || rowspan=3|Req. LV || rowspan=3|[[Monster]] LV || colspan=8|Rank
|-
| colspan=2|S || colspan=2|A || colspan=2|B || colspan=2|C
|-
| Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points
|-
| C || 0 || 15~ || 1100 || 12 || 750 || 8 || 350 || 4 || 0 || 0
|-
| B || 20 || 30~ || 3000 || 29 || 2050 || 19 || 1000 || 9 || 0 || 0
|-
| A || 30 || 45~ || 5800 || 53 || ? || ? || 1925 || 17 || 0 || 0
|-
| S || 50 || 70~ || 10975 || 97 || ? || ? || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| S2 || 60 || 85~ || 15800 || 138 || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|}
Members required for S rank: 3

===Ohtoku City Guardians HQ===
====Her Secret Mission====
A party mission for 2-4 players. Like Bruce's Dungeon the use of Scape Dolls, changing leader, leaving or joining the party will cause the mission to end. The aim is to collect as many samples (shiny sparky things) as possible within the time limit. There are a maximum of 20 samples to be found.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0
|-
| rowspan=3|LV || rowspan=3|Req. LV || rowspan=3|[[Monster]] LV || colspan=8|Rank
|-
| colspan=2|S || colspan=2|A || colspan=2|B || colspan=2|C
|-
| Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points
|-
| C || 0 || 15~ || 10000 || 100 || 7500 || 75 || 5000 || 50 || 2500 || 25
|-
| B || 35 || 45~ || 21000 || 210 || 15750 || 157 || 10500 || 105 || 5000 || 50
|-
| A || 60 || 85~ || 32000 || 320 || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|}

===Agata Islands: Sacred Grounds===
====The Eastern Peril====
The Eastern Peril is a soloable party mission. It doesn't forbid the use of scapedolls, the change of the party leader, or players leaving the party. It isn't a time trial either.

The objective of the mission is to kill an [[Onmagoug]].

S rank is only obtainable with at least 2 party members.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0
|-
| rowspan=3|LV || rowspan=3|Req. LV || rowspan=3|[[Monster]] LV || colspan=8|Rank
|-
| colspan=2|S || colspan=2|A || colspan=2|B || colspan=2|C
|-
| Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points
|-
| C || 0 || 15~ || 850 || 9 || 550 || 6 || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| B || 15 || 25~ || 2050 || 20 || 1350 || 13 || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| A || 30 || 35~ || 2900 || 27 || ? || ? || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| S || 40 || 50~ || 5500 || 51 || ? || ? || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|}
Members required for S rank: 2

====Forest Infiltration====
Forest Infiltration a soloable party mission. It doesn't forbid the use of scapedolls, the change of the party leader, or players leaving the party. It isn't a time trial either.

The objective of the mission is to kill an [[Adahna Degahna]]. While the boss battle is inside temple grounds, the whole mission is in the forest area.

S rank is obtainable with at least 2 party members, but there is one area than can only be accessed with a party of at least 5 members.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0
|-
| rowspan=3|LV || rowspan=3|Req. LV || rowspan=3|[[Monster]] LV || colspan=8|Rank
|-
| colspan=2|S || colspan=2|A || colspan=2|B || colspan=2|C
|-
| Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points || Meseta || Points
|-
| C || 0 || 15~ || ? || ? || 650 || 7 || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| B || 20 || 25~ || 2250 || 22 || 1500 || 14 || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| A || 35 || 40~ || 4600 || 43 || ? || ? || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| S || 50 || 60~ || 8350 || 75 || ? || ? || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|-
| S2 || 60 || 85~ || 13900 || 121 || ? || ? || ? || ? || 0 || 0
|}
Members required for S rank: 2

==External links==
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