In my head it is sounding just like PSO2 is"1-95" and NGS is"96-whatever", however, the levels"past" 95 won't work in Phantasy Star Online 2 Meseta. Or like if FFXIV Shadowbringers' 71-80 new abilities did not work in articles from previous expansions (that is how it operates now in cases unless you unsync). Although NGS seems to be adding a facet of"What if ShB needed a lot of new skills that substituted your 1-70 abilities that just worked in ShB content".

I am happy they put this information dump out. I'd anticipated most of the but was not quite sure about a few things (their wording made me wonder about outfits/clients/etc). You are going to be back at Lv1 in NG, and not all courses will be there at start. I meant it in a"we won't have access to our old skills until we go back to the OG PSO2 ships" sorta way. But my explanation was bad (and I'm not positive whether my new one below's any greater ).

It sounds like rather the midpoint between"hard reset with decorative transport" (like going from Secret Planet to SWL, which was a dumpster fire of a procedure ) and also"regular expansion" (such as BfA to Shadowlands, TBC to WotLK, Stormblood to Shadowbringers, etc). It's not quite like FFXIV Realm Reborn (like some people speculated when we first heard about it). Since the"old" areas continue to be part of the same game, and you can return and play them with all the pre-existing abilities/classes/etc. I am assuming people who want OG PSO2 cosmetics would still should earn/buy them in OG PSO2. If that's the case, we end up at something like current WoW (if you squint a little ).

"Old" content remains relevant for fashion purposes and also you are able to go level something in it, but the newest content created for the growth areas goes off the growth leveling (meaning in this situation, all-new/changed/different courses ). And the skills will be changed enough that a level-cap PSO2 character and a level-cap NGS character will feel and act largely differently, even if they share some of the exact same ability names/similar capability cartoons. (Compare just like a Wow Classic Paladin to a current BfA Paladin or buy PSO2 Meseta some thing ).