Phantasy Star Online 2: NEW GENESIS brings us many cool-looking weapon series and more importantly, weapon camos and complete almatis.
Weapon Camos are looks that will work for one single weapon type.
Almatis will work for all weapon-types, or most of them. There is one “exception,” or maybe more of an “unusual distribution” of camos: the Obscura and Lumiere Almatis. These two seem almost like opposites; most weapons will have access to only one of the two Almati looks, as if they complete each other. There are only four weapons that can use either look, namely the Twin Daggers, Knuckles, Rods and Jet Boots.
What’s the deal with Color Variant Weapons?
Color Variants, or CV for short, are weapons camos or almatis that will not only recolor your weapon, but also change your Photon Arts attack color scheme. Depending on your class and the Photon Art itself, it may be very visible, or not so much (see examples further below)
In your loot or your inventory, weapons are identified with a star in the bottom right of their icon, like this:
Whereas Almatis and other variant camos will show it in the name, as shown in the ARK Badge exchange here:
Okay, so now you know what to look for. But would you pay more for a CV ? Is it really worth it? I like to say that pictures are worth a thousand words, so I’ll show you how a Color Variant affects Fear Eraser, one of my favourite Ranger spells!
As you can see, Color Variants are awesome and will distinguish your attacks from the others on the battlefield.
Not only that, but see that Theseus Almati CV? The recolor of the weapon is blue, but that beam is 100% not blue, but grey-white!
But you have this amazing non-CV camo you love!!!
You’ll get many non-Color Variant camos and almatis and most weapon camos look so cool! What if you want a Color Variant on your attacks but you want a non-CV camo?
They can actually be mixed and matched, to a point! Equipping a CV weapon under a non CV camo will keep the variant color for attacks. Note that it will not work if you have a CV camo and a non-CV weapon (to keep the non-CV attack colors, if you wanted that)
Worth Their Money
Color Variants are usually more costly in the Personal Shops (depending on rarity), and if you wondered what the fuss was all about, it’s not -just- about the weapon color itself.
It’s up to you to decide if it is a worthy investment! Color Variants will affect a lot of classes the same way it affects the Fear Eraser Beam, but not all classes have such flamboyant attacks, so it may be less worth it for different classes (looking at you, Force… technique colors are set in stone!)
What about Multi-Weapons?
All you need for your multi-weapon to be CV is the base weapon. If your base weapon is CV, the weapon you add into it will use the same color scheme. Don’t waste a good CV as material for a weapon fusion!
See also: Multi-Weapons in PSO2:NGS – How It Works + Fun combinations
Interested in Jazzing up your looks even more?
Take a look at these blog posts below to make full use of chat commands (costume-changes, anyone??) and if you’re unfamiliar with CAST parts color usage, I put the link to that too!
