[PSO: Blue Burst] Getting Started in Ultimate Mode

In today's video we revisit PSO: Blue Burst and look at what awaits players in the game's final difficulty, Ultimate mode. I'll go through how the game changes in this difficulty, explain a few strategies I use to make things easier and a basic overview of how the mid-end game of PSO works.

Just an admin note: When I talk about the sorcerers (at around 7mins), I'm referring to the visual differences. They do attack completely differently!

[Timestamps]
00:00 Intro
00:45 How to access Ultimate
05:00 Pioneer 2 changes
05:50 Changes on Ragol in Ultimate (Episode 1 Forest)
06:58 Enemy changes in Ultimate
07:53 Issues when entering Ultimate (particularly for Hunter)
09:16 Enemies causing new status effects
11:37 Changes in Episode 2 and Episode 4
14:55 Episode 1 boss changes
15:40 Damage grace period / How Jellen can make Ultimate harder
17:35 Drop Charts
18:00 Episode 1 Cave start / Importance of Section IDs in Ultimate
20:13 Enemy changes in Cave
20:55 Megid and why you should probably avoid it
23:37 How to deal with spawns of multiple Ob Lilies
24:05 Crimson Assassins
24:46 How to easily avoid floating traps
26:24 Why I use Mechguns as a Hunter
27:50 Photon Drops and why they're useful but irritating
29:26 What to do at 'end-game'
31:15 Using Episode 4 for EXP
32:25 Recommended gear for starting Ultimate
38:09 Outro


[Useful Links]
A guide I wrote years ago about Ultimate: https://www.pso-world.com/sections.ph...

Ephinea server: https://ephinea.pioneer2.net/

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[Schedule]
I upload on YouTube twice a week (usually mid-week and weekends). I don't stream currently, but this may change.

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