08-03-2005, 10:06 PM
Here's something that's been bugging me for awhile: why does Shifta require so much more MST than the other support techs? Today I was playing around with a mag I've been raising recently, a high MIND mag specifically for helping my forces and female non-force characters use their tech disks earlier. The mag currently has a MIND level of 85 (side note: I think high MIND mags are overrated unless you're a FOnewearl; when comparing this mag to my FOnewm's 30-MIND Nidra, I saw only a slight difference in technique damage...).
So today I had the four characters who have been raising this mag - my FOnewm, RAmarl, HUnewearl and FOnewearl - meet up and use some of the disks I've been storing on them. My RAmarl has had a disk of Shifta 20 for quite a while now, and its requirement was 591 MST. I passed her a Deband 20 disk, and she could already use it - it was around 380 MST, IIRC. Now, what's the deal with this? One of them she can use instantly... the other she couldn't use without equipping four Angel/Mind++'s, the Akiko's Frying Pan (+30 MST), and the high-MIND mag (and leveling it up to 84 MIND, that just barely got her to 592). Now, unless I misread something, Deband, Jellen and Zalure disks all have the same requirement. What's with the 591 for Shifta? True, Shifta is one of the most useful support techs (IMO; Jellen being the other), but why does this mean it requires over 200 more MST at level 20? It's just weird, IMO.
Also, I'd like to know where I can find a decent chart of disk requirements. Both this site and PSOW claim that Deband and J/Z require the same MST as Shifta does (they say 592 for all of them at level 20), but that's not true... unless I'm using a rather screwed-up version of this game that lists Deband requirements too low... :S
[brag]Heh, I used about twenty different disks today between those four characters... since my FOnewm has a God/Technique, all his techs but Deband (29), J/Z (29) and Megid (22... :ermm: ) are top-level... not bad for level 92 eh?
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So today I had the four characters who have been raising this mag - my FOnewm, RAmarl, HUnewearl and FOnewearl - meet up and use some of the disks I've been storing on them. My RAmarl has had a disk of Shifta 20 for quite a while now, and its requirement was 591 MST. I passed her a Deband 20 disk, and she could already use it - it was around 380 MST, IIRC. Now, what's the deal with this? One of them she can use instantly... the other she couldn't use without equipping four Angel/Mind++'s, the Akiko's Frying Pan (+30 MST), and the high-MIND mag (and leveling it up to 84 MIND, that just barely got her to 592). Now, unless I misread something, Deband, Jellen and Zalure disks all have the same requirement. What's with the 591 for Shifta? True, Shifta is one of the most useful support techs (IMO; Jellen being the other), but why does this mean it requires over 200 more MST at level 20? It's just weird, IMO.
Also, I'd like to know where I can find a decent chart of disk requirements. Both this site and PSOW claim that Deband and J/Z require the same MST as Shifta does (they say 592 for all of them at level 20), but that's not true... unless I'm using a rather screwed-up version of this game that lists Deband requirements too low... :S
[brag]Heh, I used about twenty different disks today between those four characters... since my FOnewm has a God/Technique, all his techs but Deband (29), J/Z (29) and Megid (22... :ermm: ) are top-level... not bad for level 92 eh?
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