well, had a windows 10 update yesterday and today when i went to play pso2...guess what happened? pso2 wont open. whatever...guess i will link my account to steam and see if that finally solves the problem. and to any newcomers to this 'incorrectly named' topic...windows 10 updates will break your pso2 install. that is a FACT.

@ZorokiHanuke this website is what i was using to find certain rewards. the rewards are listed after the first list so just scroll down. i had to unlock all of them so i made sure to complete the story as well as find the npcs who had client orders that would reward you their partner card. there are some on there that are not in NA yet though.

http://srpgp.supersanctuary.net/cirnopedia-test/partner_1.php

@ZorokiHanuke i definitely agree! i always bring them along when i do dailys, alliance quests, and advanced quests...they are perfect for that environment. i have even seen them used in Urgent Quests and as fast as urgents go down i dont really see it as a problem but somebody else might. some npcs even have really good rewards, like Io or Matoi and a few others that are unlocked from story missions.

@ZorokiHanuke correct. their usefulness in ultimate farms is very limited given how much dps and teamwork is needed. using moons, cure spamming, and damage output is something the npc's are severely lacking when compared to a real player.

thanks to @AndrlCh though for pointing out that we can correct that in our own party settings. someone earlier thought the option wasnt up yet in NA but apparently it was so this is good information to have.

i am just happy we have options because i was really beginning to give up on trying to farm due to this issue. i do wonder though, how efficient a farm would be if 3 friends each formed up a group of aux and joined each others farm run?

@AndrlCh woh! i was under the impression we would have to wait a bit longer for the option. this is great to know.

to anyone new to the thread, i have gone ahead and made some edits to reflect the community's points of view on this subject.

@Princesse-Jen sadly, it has been a mix of good and bad. today, for example, during a lillipa ultimate, someone was using a full group of auxilary. i was dreading how it was going to turn out but once the instance filled 12/12, the player telepiped and disbanded the auxiliaries and returned in order to free up the remaining spots, which filled very quickly. needless to say, that is about as perfect as it can get. my frustrations come from seeing how poor these events have gotten because of specific players.

@ZorokiHanuke some other nasty things i have seen in ultimates is players commenting on people using nox weapons. the whole point of ultimates is to farm nemesis or slave weapons so it never really bothered me. i was stuck using my elder rifle for a while until i could afford my nemesis. people have different play styles and most likely cant be grinding 10 hours a day or cant afford to buy one. those weapons are priced around 25 million for the base weapon and go to upwards of 130 million for a nicely augmented +35. some players wont be able to afford that.

@ZorokiHanuke nice post...and its good you had a positive experience when asked about removing your auxiliaries. i had 2 back to back instances in the same day where players left and it got really nasty. the first time, the player using auxiliaries died and the group of aux just stood there and all the real players walked up, did not raise, and spammed nasty symbol arts. i dropped a telepipe and everyone left. the second was also similar...players got angry, exchanged pleasantries in chat, and left.

@Qruis1210 i definitely look forward to that as an option!!!

I had hoped this trend would have stopped by now but an entire 12/12 left an Ultimate run the moment they realized a player was using a full squad of auxiliaries. Disable them from being used in Ultimate Quests ASAP. They do next to nothing during a farm. They also do NOT raise when players go down. I still don't know why players are still bringing them into a farm.

*edit I have made some edits to the thread as some good points of view and settings information has been shared by the community.

it happened again today...which is fine because it gave me a reason to finally delete all those duplicate downloads in the backup folder which amounted up to about 260Gb. now it is redownloading the game but this will most likely be the last time i bother trying to play anymore. perhaps by august when episode 4 hits we will see a better distribution method than this grossly incompetent deal with the microsoft store.