Does Luck Even Matter?

[Muffins2ya]

Ive heard of people gettin some good stuff with out any luck im not sure if its based on it or not like wen i get 3star etc etc ive been on here for ever now u think i would know this V_V oh yeah im trying to look for a repca board if tht matters

[Dhylec]

Photon fortune/Luck affects regular drop rates & grind success. It doesn't affect special drops or rare appearance.

[str898mustang]

on grinding, yes

everything else, no

[NDW]

Effects of Photon Fortune:
* Slightly increases success rate when grinding weapons.
* Increases enemy drop rate.

Although many of these are still widely believed by the general player base, none of the following are affected by Photon Fortune:
* Quality of drops
* Chance for super-rare items (such as S-rank weapon boards) to drop
* Item drops from boss boxes
* Synthing success rate or attribute percentage
* Rare spawn appearance rate
* Casino Voloyal slot machine odds
* Special drops such as Gugg Crown or Gaozoran Rod

Source: PSUPedia

[tadtwisted]

I find that when i have higher luck, like 3* when enemies drop meseta it usually is a bit more then normal. I dont know if thats true but for me at least it is

[Dhylec]

I find that when i have higher luck, like 3* when enemies drop meseta it usually is a bit more then normal. I dont know if thats true but for me at least it is

Yeah, meseta is that 'regular' or 'anything' drops I mentioned. You can see the difference if you kill a room on no luck & on 3* luck.

[TecherRamen]

Dont confuse Luck with Photon Fortune, theyre not the same thing

[euromyne]

Dont confuse Luck with Photon Fortune, theyre not the same thing

... what? Yes, they are.

[Falke]

Type luck into PSUpedia and when you see it links to Photon Fortune, come back and say you were wrong.

Are you thinking of the luck stat on PSO? There isn't a luck stat on PSU.

EDIT: Also on PSU at least, luck and Photon Fortune are the same. Obviously in real life this is not the case.

[Tetsaru]

Alright, those of you who don't like reading my posts should just move along, because I'm about to go on another rant of mine again...

Spoiler!

"Max luck" in PSU is just a gimmick - a lame excuse for Sonic Team to reward us when they fuck up or give us an event, something to supposedly get us excited. It doesn't really matter anyway, because they always jack up the drop rate during events anyway, and items that USED to be valuable suddenly flood the market and aren't worth shit anymore. This, in turn, causes power creep by becoming the new standard for stuff to equip, and then suddenly S rank items aren't so awesome and special anymore, especially when they're FUCKING SELLING FOR LESS THAN 100K SO NOOBS CAN EASILY BUY AND EQUIP THEM AT LOW LEVELS JUST FROM SPAMMING WHITE BEAST RUNS. Sonic Team's gaming design at it's finest, I tell ya... -_-

During non-event times, I've usually found items with all kinds of luck ratings, albeit usually when I least expect it. The only thing luck REALLY has helped me with (and only minutely) was with grind rates, farming synth materials, and rare maps. As far as specific drops, like Igg Crowns or Vijeri/Resists... you just need real bullshit luck for that. Really makes you feel like you earned something by having to constantly spam and zerg through the same mission over and over, instead of just doing a challenging quest or something ONCE for it... >_<