❌ Mistake #1: Ignoring the Main Story and Tasks

A lot of new players treat NGS like a pure “run around and grind mobs” ARPG and barely touch the story. Big mistake.

The main story and blue/yellow tasks are designed to slowly teach you the game, unlock systems, and hand out crucial rewards like EXP, gear and Battle Power. Official beginner guides even tell new ARKS to progress the main story whenever they’re unsure what to do next.

If you run off into high-level zones without doing your story:

• Your Battle Power will lag behind, so you get locked out of content
• You miss out on free support weapons and units from story/campaign rewards
• You end up confused about systems like augments, potentials, food, and towers

How to avoid it

• Always keep the main story quest moving until you hit a BP gate
• Clear easy side tasks in each town — they give EXP, Meseta, and tutorial rewards
• If you log in and feel lost, open your Task list and start from the top

Treat the story as your “spine” and everything else as side content you branch into when you feel like it.

📉 Mistake #2: Thinking “Level = Power” and Ignoring Battle Power

If you’re coming from other MMOs, you might think “I’m level 40, I’m strong now.” In NGS, that’s only half true.

Battle Power (BP) is the big number that controls what content you can enter and how strong you actually feel. It’s not just your level — it’s a mix of level, gear rarity, enhancement, units, and augments. Beginner guides and community tips hammer this constantly: if your BP is low, you will feel weak and get locked out of zones, even at a high level.

New players often:

• Hit level milestones but still can’t queue for new content
• Ignore units and augments, so their BP barely moves
• Try to brute force higher-BP zones and just get folded

How to avoid it

• Open your Character → Stats and actually look at your BP
• When you hit a BP wall, don’t just grind levels — instead:
• Enhance your main weapon and your 3 units
• Slot a few basic augments
• Make sure your gear rarity isn’t way below your current region

Think of BP as your “real level.” If it doesn’t go up, you’re not really progressing.

🪓 Mistake #3: Dumping Resources into Trash Weapons

Another classic: you drop a random 3★ or 4★ weapon early, like how it looks, and slam all your materials into enhancing it to +40… then an hour later the game hands you a much better series for free. Ouch.

Veteran players frequently warn beginners not to over-invest in early weapons and to focus upgrades on higher-rarity, up-to-date series and support gear. Some guides even recommend using specific +20 silver/gold Prim weapons as upgrade fodder to save Meseta instead of burning raw materials on bad gear.

Signs you’re wasting resources

• You fully upgraded a weapon you found in the first region, but you’re already in region 2 or 3
• Your weapon is much lower rarity than what people around you are using
• You constantly feel broke because you keep enhancing new random drops

How to avoid it

• Use whatever the story/campaign gives you — those weapons are designed as catch-up gear and are worth investing in for a while
• Only push a weapon high if:
• It’s a current or recent series for your region
• You actually like the gameplay of that class/weapon
• Use recommended upgrade fodder (like +20 silver/gold Prim) instead of tossing random low-value drops into the grinder

Invest smart once, instead of re-doing everything every few hours.

📚 Mistake #4: Ignoring Skill Cocoons and Towers (Free Skill Points!)

Skill cocoons and towers are those VR-style challenges on the map. A ton of players see them, think “I’ll do these later,” and then just… never do them.

That’s brutal, because cocoons and towers give skill points — which directly power up your class and affect your BP and performance. The GameFAQs veteran tip list literally calls them out as one of the biggest things new players should clear early.

If you skip them:

• You end up with half-finished skill trees
• Your class feels weird, weak, or “incomplete”
• You fall behind in BP compared to players who did them all

How to avoid it

• Whenever you unlock a new region, zoom out the map and mark all cocoons/towers
• Clear them gradually while leveling your class — don’t wait until the end
• If a cocoon feels too hard, come back when your gear is better; they’re meant to be beatable without being super sweaty

Fully clearing cocoons and towers in each region is one of the highest value time investments you can make as a new player.

🧬 Mistake #5: Using Random Hybrid Augments (or None at All)

Augments are those little extra stat lines on your weapons and units. Many new players ignore them completely or slap on random “whatever looks cool” hybrid ones.

Veteran posts are pretty blunt about it: augments are huge for BP and damage, and hybrid stat augments (like mixing ranged/tech/melee on the same item) are usually worse than focusing on your main attack type.

Common newbie problems:

• Running a melee class with tech or random hybrid augments
• Equipping any capsule they see without checking what it actually boosts
• Not putting any augments on early weapons/units, then wondering why BP is stuck

How to avoid it

• Figure out your class’ main damage type:
• Hunter/Fighter/Katana Braver/Soaring Blade Bouncer → Melee
• Ranger/Gunner/Bow Braver → Ranged
• Force/Techter/Waker/Jet Boots Bouncer → Tech
• Prioritize augments that boost only that damage type + maybe some HP or PP
• Even cheap, basic augments are way better than nothing — don’t wait for perfect EX capsules before slotting something

Augments are basically free stats. Ignoring them is like playing with one arm tied behind your back.

🪖 Mistake #6: Neglecting Armor and Basic Survivability

Weapon big, armor who cares… right? Yeah, no.

Guides about BP and progression constantly remind players that units (armor) and augments are a huge part of both survivability and Battle Power. If you only upgrade your weapon and leave your armor at low rarity +0 with no augments, you’re going to feel like you’re made out of wet paper.

New players often:

• Forget to change out starter or story armor for a long time
• Enhance their weapon to +40 but leave armor untouched
• Never add augments to units, even simple HP/def pieces

How to avoid it

• Always aim for a full set of 3 units at a similar rarity to your weapon
• Enhance each unit at least partway — you don’t need +max immediately, but +20–30 across all three units is a big power jump
• Drop a couple HP/def/PP augments onto your units early; extra survivability makes learning fights way less painful

Weapon = how hard you hit.

Armor = whether you actually stay alive long enough to hit anything.

🎭 Mistake #7: Playing 5 Classes at Once and Mastering None

NGS lets you freely change classes, and they all look flashy and fun. The trap is when new players try to level and gear a ton of classes at the same time right from the start.

Result:

• Every class feels weak because none of them are properly geared
• You never learn one class’ full kit, cancels, or defensive tools
• You spread Meseta, augments, and drops across too many builds

Beginner and veteran advice usually recommends picking one main class to focus on, especially early. You can level others later once you understand the systems and have better gear support.

How to avoid it

• Pick one main class you enjoy right now (Hunter, Braver or Ranger are comfy starters)
• Use a simple subclass that supports it, but don’t try to fully gear multiple mains at once
• Once your first main has:
• A good weapon
• Decent units
• Basic augments and skill points
• …then start experimenting with alts or second mains

One properly built class feels way better than five half-baked ones.

🍲 Mistake #8: Never Using Food, Buffs or Multi-Weapon Options

Food and buffs in NGS are surprisingly strong. Exploration sectors are literally designed for gathering food items that you cook for temporary boosts to damage, PP, and survivability.

At the same time, many players never touch multi-weapons, even though merging two weapons lets certain classes cover weaknesses and feel smoother in general.

Skipping both makes your life way harder than it needs to be.

Food mistakes

• Never eating before urgent quests or tough content
• Ignoring food NPCs and cooking systems entirely
• Forgetting that stat buffs from food stack with everything else

Multi-weapon mistakes

• Sticking to one weapon even when a second would clearly fix a gap (e.g., Rifle + Launcher, Katana + Bow)
• Not realizing multi-weapon lets you use both weapons’ PAs on one bar

How to avoid it

• Before any serious farm or boss session, grab a food buff — even simple recipes help
• Once you’re comfortable on a class, look up 1–2 popular multi-weapon pairings and try them (like Rifle+Launcher or Katana+Bow)
• Don’t overthink early multi-weapons — pick combos that feel natural and fun, not just “meta”

Mini buffs + flexible weapon setups = smoother gameplay across the board.

🤝 Mistake #9: Playing Completely Alone and Ignoring Alliances

You can play NGS solo… but the game is much, much better when you’re not doing everything by yourself.

New player threads constantly mention that NGS shines with co-op combat, alliances, and shared farming, especially in combat sectors and Urgent Quests.

If you stay solo forever:

• You farm PSE Bursts slower because there are fewer people to keep trials chaining
• Urgent Quests feel punishing and take longer
• You miss out on having veteran friends who can answer questions in 10 seconds instead of you Googling for an hour

How to avoid it

• Turn on Auto-join for parties in some combat sectors so you naturally group while farming
• Join an Alliance that looks active; even a small one is better than none
• Don’t be afraid to ask basic questions in chat — every veteran was clueless once

NGS is way more fun when you’re wiping with people instead of wiping alone.

💸 Mistake #10: Ignoring the Market and Throwing Away Valuable Drops

Final big one: a lot of new players treat every drop as either “equip” or “sell to NPC.” That’s how you accidentally vendor items worth millions of Meseta.

We already know the Personal Shop / player market exists and is accessed via NPCs/menus in towns. Common Meseta guides and veteran tips highlight that augment capsules, good Fixa weapons, event drops, and cosmetics can be extremely valuable if sold to other players instead of NPCs.

If you ignore the market:

• You stay broke even while playing a lot
• You miss out on easy millions from rare capsules or scratch cosmetics
• You can’t afford good gear or convenience items later

How to avoid it

• Whenever you get:
• A rare-looking capsule
• Gear with Fixa
• Cosmetics from scratches
• …search them in the Personal Shop and see what they’re worth
• Don’t pop a My Shop pass with an empty inventory; save it for when you’ve stacked a lot of potentially valuable items
• If you’re unsure, toss questionable items into storage until you can check prices calmly

You don’t have to become a hardcore trader, but at least stop selling potential jackpots for 1,000 Meseta.

🏁 Final Thoughts — Learn From Other People’s Pain, Not Your Own

Every NGS veteran has gone through a phase of:

• Over-upgrading trash weapons
• Ignoring cocoons and towers
• Running into content undergeared and getting deleted
• Vendor-trashing capsules or cosmetics worth insane amounts

The difference is that you don’t have to repeat all of that.

If you:

• Follow the main story and tasks instead of aimlessly grinding
• Respect Battle Power, skill points, augments and armor
• Focus on one main class, use food, and build at least one multi-weapon
• Join other players, touch the market, and think before selling drops

…you’ll feel like a veteran way faster than you think. Less time face-planting into bosses, more time actually enjoying the combat, exploring Halpha, and flexing your damage numbers.

Learn these 10 mistakes now, dodge them from day one, and your PSO2 NGS journey is going to be a lot smoother — and way more fun. ❌✨