3 Button Mode
PSO2 features two distinct control schemes for using your pet/weapon in combat -
2 Button Mode, and 3 Button mode. In either control scheme,
press or hold shift to switch between the front palette and back palette.
For reasons listed below, it’s
highly recommended that you use 3 Button Mode.
2 Button Mode:
Only allows you to use 3 out of your pet’s 5 PAs.
Synchro doesn’t have access to Dan or Kyaku,
so you can’t recall it from the fight or provide
it invincibility frames.
3 Button Mode:
Your pet has access to all 5 PAs!
This means you can recall Synchro with Dan
and prevent it from taking damage with Kyaku.
Equipping a Pet to Multiple Takts
Most pets are cool with only using one Takt, but
some pets can really benefit from having access to the potentials of multiple takts.
The reason this is useful is because of buffs that are lost upon switching pets -
things like Synchro and Redran's personalities, or Steady parfaits.
By building your weapon palette in this way, you can switch takts to meet the current occasion, without
switching pets and gutting your key damage buffs.
Backup Pets
While other classes’ weapon’s can’t die, yours sure can.
A great goal to strive for on Summoner is one of each pet, but once you’ve got that down,
there are a few pets worth doubling up on so you're never caught out with a palette of dead pets in combat.
Maron is a clear candidate to get extra copies of, since it's guaranteed to die
when you throw it at something. Many bosses which
feature attacks that quickly build Maron will repeat these attacks two or three times a quest.
Once Maron’s down, it’s down for 60s, so having a second Maron ready can be useful.
It’s worth having a second
Synchro because it’s got garbage defense and HP.
Having a backup Synchro allows you to bring two Synchros into a boss fight,
so if the first dies you aren’t stuck without damage for a whole minute.
Having multiple copies of one pet also gives you the option of
multiple candy box setups!
Maybe you want two main Synchros, and a third with Light & Dark Parfait. Or a Steady Parfait and non Steady Parfait Jinga.
Finally, having a backup of almost any pet you use frequently can be useful. Don't neglect how
powerful it can be to have extra copies of pets - this is a big difference between average Summoners
and those who go the extra mile.
Building Weapon Palettes
Summoner weapon palettes differ a
lot depending on what quest you're doing -
and it's important to be able to select the right pets for the job.
Take the Emergency Quest
Incarnation of Knowledge (Luther) as an example:
Since it's a bossing quest that features some opportunities to build Maron Strike,
we'll include
Synchro (two of them, because Synchro is squishy) as our main DPS pet,
with a
Maron to activate its personality and take advantage
of Maron Strike opportunities.
And since Loser sometimes leaves the arena, we'll include
Aero
to pre-charge Spiral as Loser comes back into range.
You can of course get away with a generic weapon palette
that works kinda okay for everything, but you'll be much
more effective as a Summoner if you start building weapon
palettes on a quest by quest basis like this.
Sets
Once you've built a setup for a quest that you're happy with, you can save it as a set that you can instantly swap to.
Just go to
Bea, select
My Sets, and save your
current setup to an empty slot - this includes your Weapon Palette, Subpalette, Mag, Rings, Units - everything.
You can switch to your set at any time with the
/ms command -
/ms1 for your first set, /ms2 for the next, etc.
