You guys are still ranting over cradle? Sega doesn't listen to the minority over such trivial things so it's not going away. Every single game has a money printer of some sort at some point. Never seen any mmorpg with a player run economy that doesn't break and doesn't have ridiclious prices at some point. It's only a "problem" to a few people expecting the game to be handled how they want, oblivious to the fact that's never going to happen. It's comes down to a case of "When in Rome..." You can preach on your soap boxes all you want but the rest of the community is going to go with the path of least resistance, the same thing that happen in every online game.

Ran the last Easter UQ tonight for giggles. I ended up getting this odd little camo from the dragon? Not sure since it drops out of risk exploration/rainbow key. There's none up for sale in my ship so never seen it before.

Bullet Rays

Twin Machine Gun/Sword/Knuckles/Assault Rifle

Sword/Rifle share the same sheath

Sword

Rifle Neat detail is the rifle will "open up" slightly when un-sheathed

Twin Machine Gun/Kuckles share the same sheath

Twin Machine Gun

Knuckles

A rather weird if not unique camo due to the weapons it supports.

Cry cry cry. Don't do it if you don't like it. The vast majority don't care if it kills the affix market because there won't be one when NGS hits anyway. It wasn't nerfed in JP for any reason, it won't be nerfed here.

Error lies between keyboard and chair.

oh noes! Sega is providing drops from a new UQ to help players max out their gear and two weeks of affix boosting. The horror!

Just remove pvp all together in here. The vast marjority of mmorpgs are not setup to pvp. It's a tacked on system that is always a total mess. The game is 99% pve, play it for that. If you want pvp then play games spefically developed with it in mind. Mobas, fighting games, racers, the countles fps and tps games with tons of multiplayer maps. You want a mmorpg with decent pvp then try blade and soul but it still has it's problems.
The system for pso/psu/pso2 does not work for making a pvp mode that is ever going to work properly or have any semblance of balance.

Join a decent alliance and run MPA, problem solved. If you're going to pug then you deal with it. And with the LQ giving a link bonus of 200% it makes running stuff like Lament and Persona very good for leveling. If all you care about is your time on the UQ then MPA or get a recurit 12 people before the UQ to run for max level speed. The ability to do so is in game, has been game and remains in game. You're an idiot if you think expert match making is going to solve anything when it's just a title that anyone above the right level can be carried through.

Vertical progression is the standard because it works and works well. Pretty much every rpg does it. Even table top rpgs do it. It's a system that is tried and true. It's never going away. If you don't like it then play game genres that don't rely on it.

Despite the clutter you can see her stuff enough. Her audio clue is soft on purpose, it's a trap. Do the fight enough times and you should get a feel for what lines aren't her instant kill and what the animation build up to it is. There's actually a few seconds you have time to get away but you do have to be paying attention to when she moves and when there's a pause and which red circle around her it is. It's a git gud moment and for the most part you can still be rezed if you derp.