BiS exists but is not mandatory. It is not relative. Just because somebody performs better with a different weapon than the stated BiS does not change meaning of the phrase. Honestly how is it difficult to understand this?

Uptime and staying alive is typically more important for higher overall damage output than raw numbers. A weapon that may give you the ability to maintain uptime without having to heal or prevents you from dying may be better for YOU in that specific situation but that doesn't make it Best in Slot. The concept is based around optimal play which is very rarely, if ever, even achieved.

If something works for you go nuts but don't expect other people not to question it. Tell them to piss off if you need but that doesn't mean the concept of optimisation isn't objective.

It was like 1-2 per week on JP. The 14* weapons drop rate got buffed in JP but they didn't buff stone drop rate ever.

@Knight-Raime Meme builds that aren't effective in clearing bosses don't really prove that point. JP has etolie which has damage balancer: a 70% damage reduction straight up but not everyone is playing etoile and not everyone is stacking defense for good reason. The point being made was that 'phaleg will only be fair once we get better gear' which is untrue if you cannot learn the boss. Yeah you probably could beat her with your eyes closed with maxed EP6 gear and etoile but the difference is that it's not mandatory. It's like claiming that you aren't supposed to play content until you completely trivialise it with numbers because in some cases even numbers will not save you.

That's not really relevant though. What part of phaleg in particular is bad game design? Regardless of if she is a enhanced version or not, we are also stronger than we were at the time and people are clearing it fine. If you cannot clear it but you want to then you need to get better at that fight full stop. It's not mandatory and there is no ranking in game for it so there is no problem if it isn't accessable.

Conflating Phaleg's challenge with buster having a stamina system and other obvious design flaws for content that they ACTIVELY promote is not really sensible.

I'm pretty sure none of the 14 stars for yamato have ever dropped which makes me feel like an oopsy has been made. Especially considering we have been getting like back to back yamatos all week, it might be worth looking into. Mother/Deus/PD/TD4 weapons were stupid having their original release drop rates of 1-2 per week but at least that's some indication they exist. Not a single yamato 14 star (Akatsuki, Cuvelle Windea, Jupiter Tullus) has been seen on global.

Considering this is an action game, the numbers argument doesn't really hold weight. Even with the best gear in the game in JP, you cannot tank more than 3 hits because that is the point, you aren't supposed to make any mistakes since her tells are super obvious and it's a short fight. If you were required to fight her for like 10 minutes+ and she 1 shot you it would be obnoxious yes.

PSO2 is casual. You can technically get BiS by not doing a single PA because all content where gear/progression is involved is 12 bumrush content. Expert requirement does not change what content can be done and might simply make a fight that takes 15 minutes take 5 minutes.

It's not good to leech but most content is designed in a way that you cannot fail if you simply use the max amount of players. Nobody has to learn or do anything and should be able to enjoy the game their own way. The only thing I would say in regard to this is that in more intimate encounters such as 4 man rematches you should try to be considerate of your own ability and not hold others back/fail the quest for them. Most people aren't trying to be bad and phaleg doesn't reflect on most of the content at all.

It's all muscle memory.

It's content in the game. You either do it or your don't. The main reason to do it is the gratification you get from doing it: whether that is the stargems, the 'bragging rights' or the fun from trying hard. PSO2 is a casual game with a somewhat indepth combat system and you can theoretically reach the maximum level of gear by just afking in 12 man fights/explorations and buying scratch tickets to make money.

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@PrinceBrightstar Is Weak Point Damage more effective than the PA boost? I'm hovering just around the limit for an S rank as Partisan HU/FI. I'm only at around +200 on affixes (+100 from food) but I don't think it should take 4 mins longer unless Guilty Break is just that much better for closing to Gemini's weak points. I'm getting two maxed out rotations on PD every round outside of the eye (one Volkraptor kill) so I doubt it's on that part.

Shifta EX drink (or premium if you can get it) is the best drink for this fight. The only things that are considered a weak point are gemini's tongue, PD's glowing core, the eye that appears on his chest/face and his actual face. You spend 80% of the fight hitting everything that isn't that. PA damage boost is 10% damage while the shifta EX drink is 50% base attack increase (that comes to around 13% damage).