Community divide in Legacy servers

[Hoshijiro]

From my own experience,if u can speak japanese to a certain degree,and looking for a mixed jp+english environment or just a server with better latency,i would highly recommend transferring to tonberry. Compared to what i've heard about masamune,the jp community on tonberry tend to be much more open minded.

Yes,i did come across one or two jerks as group leaders who kicked "gaijin"s regardless of the fact that they could speak decent japanese;but most of the groups will accept english players as long as they can at least understand enough japanese to communicate,or even someone there to translate for them.

Apart from overcoming the language barrier,the thing is that u should prepare yourself before joining jp pugs if possible,since they have their own ways to deal with fights(i.e. garuda ex,turn 8) There r lots of blogs giving out strats about fights,and the most stable and efficient ones will become their orthodox methods within a month or so,even pugs can consistently down fights up to turn8 on tonberry now.

Personally I downed turn 8 and headed into turn 9 with a jp+eng mixed static early on after 2.2 launch on another account,although my schedule changed dramatically afterwards,forcing me to left that group,i can still down turn 8 with pugs every week on both accounts while squeezing some time to practice turn 9 a bit.

I cant say much about english groups on tonberry since i rarely join those,but there r also many turn 8 and beyond pugs hanging round in PF these days.