@Zeke Honestly it's more about skill and class than it's about gear, within reason of course. Klauz weapon isn't exactly hard to come by and there's always the option to swap to a different one. Most S-Augments are pretty affordable, especially since 4man TPD is very generous with them. You don't NEED the best in slot meta affixes on units, there's plenty of cheaper alternatives which are strong enough. You usually just end up trading defense and or are limited a single attack type. Lower defense can be overcome by well, playing better.

You also gotta keep in mind that you can always build a premade party to have Te buffs for 3 people(one person buffs and then changes class), Weak Bullet and someone applying Jellen for Phrase Decay. This already helps with the DPS requirements greatly. If you can beat, or at least come close to beating Depth 100 you will meet the DPS requirements for the EQ. D100 has 250m HP with a time limit of 15min, 4man has 1050m HP with a time limit of 22min( ~20min if you subtract downtime & cutscenes).

As mentioned before, it's mostly about knowing your class and becoming comfortable with the EQ. Stronger people in party can as well make up for lack of DPS from weaker players(gear wise). There is UQ Sodum which lets you practice majority of the UQ whenever you want, only leaving the unique phase which you need to learn "the hard way".

It's not an easy UQ, it's not meant to be one and hopefully stays as such. Camos will tank in prices within a week or two. Camos on JP went from costing you hundreds of millions or sometimes over a billion into a 500k-25m range in a span of ~2 weeks.

@Kittenboat It's definitely not for everyone, but it's a fun challenge worth trying a few times at least. Even more so if you're tired of the braindead UQs which are literally impossible to fail even if you try.

@Ryoga Yeah, it's not really an UQ you want to or even can pug, definitely not without expert matching which doesn't exist on Global. Pugging it is very unlikely on JP, it's not impossible but you have to get lucky and be matched with strong people who didn't have time to find a premade or are just trying their luck with pugs for the fun of it.

It doesn't help that majority of more competent people will indeed seek out their friends to form a premade which reduces your chances of getting a successful pug clear.

@Zeke The UQ is just a worse Craddle, there's little to no reason to even run it. Unless you really like MB4 for whatever reason.

If people are struggling with UH MB4 you're in for a treat in 13hours when the first scheduled Twisted with Hatred UQ is due.

@LightGamer2016 RWT/botting isn't really an issue on JP, it's much more prevalent on NA. The higher prices are due to JP's longer lifespan which means there's been more time for inflation which was recently accelerated due to UH Craddle. My only guess is that its some sort preparation for NGS, not to say I agree with it.

Title alone is pretty self explanatory. JP had Shop Pass removed from FUN scratch and to my knowledge added no alternatives. So if you did not stack up on the passes beforehand or do not have a premium you can't sell items anymore. Sneaky removal too, only "mention" of it was the expiration date on the FUN scratch catalog page, which to be honest no one checks because it hasn't been relevant for 8 years give or take.

Might wanna start stocking up on those passes just in case, while you still can.

UH Craddle is a good, consistent and much needed steady source of meseta. Prices will be unusually high for a while but the economy will stabilize eventually. The people who can keep up grinding billions of meseta through Craddle on a weekly basis are a very, very small minority. UH Craddle should stay as it is.

@MarshalTobias32 Honestly speaking he's not that much of a challenge. Say, the first ~100 floors while you're still learning and Masquerade is going through rapid changes can be challenging. However after that it quickly becomes an annoying daily chore. The next significant bump in challenge comes at 990-998, and of course 999 which is a challenge of its own because he will literally one shot you no matter what. Only death resist effects can save you from his hits. (Do keep in mind that you have 998 depths worth of no hit practice runs).

The main problem here is, once you reach depth ~100(?) the rate at which he goes through changes slows down to a crawl. It takes literally hundreds of depths for you to see any significant changes and by the time you reach those you already know the fight inside out. The new mechanic changes might get you a few times, but after that the fight returns back to being an annoying chore for the next few hundred depths.

@Albus-Rabbit That's pretty much it. It's a simple rule of supply and demand. If there has been no significant changes in the supply&demand large margin undercuts only have a short term impact on the item price, generally speaking. People who bothered to study PSO2 market at least a little bit can usually make a fairly accurate predictions, you don't even have to be a JP veteran to do this.

Let's say a someone wants to sell an item X for 1m. He goes to the market and finds out the price dropped to 600k, takes a screenshot and posts it alongside with a comment crying about undercutters ruining the market. If the item X was truly worth 1m the person would post the same screenshot but with a very different comment. Something along the lines of "Look at these idiots listing stuff for so cheap. Yoink, my meseta now! Time to relist these for 1m".

To stay on the topic. As someone who has played the JP version, NA always felt like a scummy cash grab to me with all the changes and dumb new additions such as Fresh Finds shop. NGS reveal and cosmetics carrying over pretty much confirmed this.