Dalthine posted... Who the fuck decided the damage numbers for techs in the original PSO? You have single target techniques that do only 1.5x the damage of ones that hit an entire room, but this isn't some turn based RPG where you get a random encounter or some shit where that number is meaningful. You get constant, multiple waves per room where you're lucky to see as few as three enemies at a time. Once you get past a certain point, it becomes almost meaningless to try to keep using simple techs.
On its own that wouldn't be so bad. "Why would you use Fire 1 when you have Fire 3?" Except you're finding upgrades for those simple techs all the way up to endgame! You get Fire 3.01 when you're on like Fire 1.05, and they both go up to .30 so you're still going further with them the whole time. Sure you might be able to get Fire 1.29 when you're finding Fire 3.24, but the .30 versions are equally rare across all offensive techs. Add on to that how they split up native tech bonuses based on class and why the fuck would you want to use the class that has a 30% bonus to simple techs over the one that has a 30% bonus to advanced ones?! You apply a 30% bonus to the 1.5x damage spell and you wind up at 1.95x damage which means it's still worse when there's as few as two possible targets!
That's not even getting into how horrible the stat balancing is. What the fuck is FOmarl supposed to do compared to FOmar? She's slightly (read: not by any meaningful amount) stronger in some few stats like HP, but he's higher than her in every other stat, and by notable amounts in offensive stats! Then on top of that, her only offensive boost is to Grants. Sure Grants is strong at a glance, but a hefty amount of the most dangerous enemies are completely immune to it! At least FOmar has intermediate techs to fall back on while still getting a bonus.
And that's not even getting into the absurdly useless stat line they built into the caseals. Really wish I could hear someone who worked on that try to explain some of the decisions or of they even looked at overall class balance.
You said anything. I decided to rant about PSO.
I remember my best friend was irritated because at first he was having to carry me. Once i got high level I was one shotting most everything not really giving him a chance foe much action. I was playing a male numan.