Weapons

Weapons are basic equipment that are used to deal damage to or inflict status effects on the various monsters of Ragol.

Saber, one of PSO's many weapons

All weapons' damage is determined by the wielder's ATP stat regardless of the weapon's type (melee, ranged, or technique). Many weapons also provide a boost to MST to improve the power of techniques (e.g. wands), or a direct increase to the power of specific techniques (e.g. Psycho Wand). In order to equip a weapon, players must meet its stat requirement, needing a certain amount of either ATP, ATA or MST to do so.

Weapon types

There are 19 types of weapons in Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst, split into 3 categories of weapons: melee, ranged, and technique. In general, Hunters can equip all the melee weapons, Rangers can equip all the ranged weapons and Forces can equip all the technique weapons, but many weapon types can be worn by other classes, and certain weapons can only be equipped by specific classes (such as HUcast or RAmarl).

For weapon types that can be equipped by multiple classes, off-classes (e.g. Hunters and Handguns) can equip lower tier weaponry, whereas the higher tier weaponry is typically restricted to the class the weapon type is designed for. For example, Heaven Striker, an exceptionally powerful handgun, can only be equipped by Rangers, despite basic handguns being equippable by all classes.

Category	Type	Classes
Melee
	Sabers	HU	RA	FO
	Swords	HU	RA	FO
	Daggers	HU	RA	FO
	Partisans	HU	RA	FO
	Slicers	HU	RA	FO
	Double Sabers	HU	RA	FO
	Claws	HU	RA	FO
	Katanas	HU	RA	FO
	Twin Swords	HU	RA	FO
	Fists	HU	RA	FO
Ranged	Handguns	HU	RA	FO
	Rifles	HU	RA	FO
	Mechguns	HU	RA	FO
	Shots	HU	RA	FO
	Launchers	HU	RA	FO
Technique	Canes	HU	RA	FO
	Rods	HU	RA	FO
	Wands	HU	RA	FO
	Cards	HU	RA	FO

ES weapons

Main article: ES weapons

ES weapons, informally known as S-Rank weapons or S-Ranks, are a special category of weapon which encompass all the weapon types and a few extras, such as the Needle. They have the visual of a basic weapon with a brown photon. Unlike regular weapons, they have a few unique properties:

• Custom 8-character name (A-Z only)
• Cannot have any attributes
• Can have a custom special applied, which has no reduction regardless of weapon type.

They are obtained after the completion of Challenge Mode with an S-Rank rating, the choice of weapon depending on the episode cleared.

TypeM weapons

Main article: TypeM weapons

TypeM weapons are a special type of weapon introduced in Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst. They have the appearance of a basic weapon with a white photon, but many TypeM weapons have different animations than what is expected of them. For example, the weapon TypeDS/Rod uses a Double Saber animation with a Rod model.

There are 6 special TypeM weapons on Ephinea available only from events that come with a set amount of Hit and a set special:

• Charge TypeSL/Slicer with 25 Hit
• Charge TypeGU/Hand with 40 Hit
• Charge/Spirit/Berserk TypeGU/Mechgun with 35 Hit
• Charge/Spirit/Berserk TypeME/Mechgun with 40 Hit
• Charge/Spirit/Berserk TypeSH/Shot with 40 Hit
• Devil's TypeDS/Rod with 30 Hit

Grind

Grinding a weapon gives it an additional +2 ATP. All weapons have limits on how much they can be ground, and some weapons cannot be ground at all. A weapon's grind is shown next to its name with a + sign in front of it (e.g. Saber +3).

Monogrinders, Digrinders and Trigrinders are the three items that are used to add grind to weapons. They will add +1, +2 and +3 grind, respectively.

Special attacks

Almost every weapon can also potentially have a special attached to it, allowing that weapon to deal special types of damage or trigger status effects. These specials are random on common weapons, but are predetermined on all rare weapons; this can include a weapon not having a special attack at all. Some weapons even have special attacks that can't be found on any other weapon. Non-rare weapons with special attacks must be tekked for the special attack to affect enemies properly.

Specials must connect to the target before being able to apply their effect, so high ATA (Attack Accuracy) helps.

A monster's ESP stat reduces the activation chance for Freezing, Paralysis, and Confusion special attacks that hit it.

A monster's EDK stat reduces the activation chance for Instant Kill special attacks that hit it.

Anguish mode reduces the potency of special attack effects; monsters gain more EDK and ESP, are frozen, paralyzed, and confused for shorter periods of time, and are less susceptible to HP Cut special attacks.

The total formula to determine your special's chance to affect the target is:

• Chance = ((Activation chance * Reduced special) + Cast ultimate modifier - ESP/EDK)
• If Blizzard and on Ultimate, Chance = Min(Chance, 40)
• Final Chance = Chance * V501/V502 multiplier

List of special attacks

	Fire Damage		Freezing (Note)		Electric Damage
Rarity	Special Name	Damage	Special Name	Activation Rate	Special Name	Damage
1★	Heat	(Lv. - 1)/4 +40	Ice	32%	Shock	(Lv. - 1)/4 +40
2★	Fire	(Lv. - 1)/3 +60	Frost	48%	Thunder	(Lv. - 1)/3 +60
3★	Flame	(Lv. - 1)/2 +80	Freeze	64%	Storm	(Lv. - 1)/2 + 80
4★	Burning	(Lv. - 1) +100	Blizzard	80%	Tempest	(Lv. - 1) +100

	Paralysis		Confusion		Instant Kill
Rarity	Special Name	Activation Rate	Special Name	Activation Rate	Special Name	Activation Rate
1★	Bind	32%	Panic	28%	Dim	48%
2★	Hold	48%	Riot	44%	Shadow	66%
3★	Seize	64%	Havoc	60%	Dark	78%
4★	Arrest	80%	Chaos	76%	Hell	93%

	HP Steal (30/60/90/120 HP Max)		TP Steal (25/50/75/100 TP Max)		EXP Steal (80 EXP Max)
Rarity	Special Name	HP Drain	Special Name	TP Drain	Special Name	EXP Drain
1★	Draw	5%	Heart	3%	-	-
2★	Drain	9%	Mind	4%	Master's	8%
3★	Fill	13%	Soul	5%	Lord's	10%
4★	Gush	17%	Geist	6%	King's	12%

	Sacrificial Damage Increase		Enemy HP Cut (Activation Rate 50%)
Rarity	Special Name	Sacrifice	Special Name	HP Cut from Enemy
2★	Charge	200 Meseta	-	-
3★	Spirit	1/5 TP (≥10 TP needed)	Devil's	50% HP
4★	Berserk	1/4 HP (≥2 HP needed)	Demon's	75% HP

Special attack modifiers

Weapon reduction

See also: List of weapons with reduced specials

Weapons which are listed on the above page suffer reduction when using any type of special attack, with the exception of elemental damage (e.g. Burning) and sacrificial (e.g. Berserk) damage increases.

Weapon Type	Reduced By
Swords	1/2
Daggers	1/2
Partisans	1/2
Slicers	1/3
Mechguns	1/3
Shots	1/3

Android modification

In ultimate difficulty, androids receive modification to certain special attacks, listed below.

Special Type	Modification
Confusion	+30% base rate
Freeze	+30% base rate
Paralysis	+30% base rate
HP Steal	+30% base rate
EXP Steal	+30% stolen
Devil's	25% HP Cut
Demon's	45% HP Cut

Units

The units below also boost the final rates of Confusion, Freezing, Paralysis and Instant Kill special attacks. This does not apply to special effects from techniques.

Unit	Special Type	Boost
V501	Confusion	+50%
	Freezing	+50%
	Paralysis	+50%
	Instant Kill	+50%
V502	Confusion	+50%
	Freezing	+50%
	Paralysis	+50%
	Instant Kill	+100%

Distances and angles

All weapons possess two statistics: distances and angles. Simply put, they are the ranges of each weapon and determine the area that a weapon can strike in. They are split into two types, horizontal and vertical.

Horizontal

The horizontal distances and angles are the two variables which determine a weapon's forward reach and sideways reach. A weapon with a larger horizontal distance can reach further (e.g. Mechgun's 85 vs. Handgun's 170), while a weapon with a wider horizontal angle is able to reach enemies further to the side (e.g. Partisan's 40° vs Sword's 45°). A wide horizontal angle also gives many weapons "auto-aim", as the weapon's radius of attack will be very wide, similar to a shot-type weapon.

An example diagram of Sword's and Mechgun's horizontal reach

The diagram to the left showcases an example of two weapons with their horizontal distances and angles. The black line is the weapon's horizontal distance, while the red lines are the constraints set by the horizontal angles. As can be seen, Sword has a rather wide area of attack, but does not reach very far. On the contrary, Mechgun reaches much further but can only aim at enemies almost directly in the line of sight.

An example diagram showing how the vertical distances and angles interact

Vertical

The vertical distance refers to the vertical boundary at which a weapon can strike, while a vertical angle dictates the slope a projectile may take. An example of a large vertical angle is Heaven Striker's special attack, which can attack enemies directly above it. Note that launcher and card shots do not have large vertical angles, their shots simply have infinite vertical range.

The diagram on the right shows an example of the vertical distances and angles. The black lines show the vertical boundary, but the vertical angle determines (as indicated by the red line) the maximum slope of the projectile.