My mag won't learn a 3rd photon blast

[Giraffe 0]

I have a level 192 Sato mag that still hasn't learned it's 3rd photon blast. I've tried leveling it on other characters of mine and another person, but no luck. I left it at level 192 because I don't want it to reach 200 without a 3rd photon blast. Has anyone else had this issue and/or know how to remedy the situation?

[JanenbaDMS 519]

I've never encountered this myself but hopefully you're able to get it sorted.  3rd photon blast activates at level 50 every time afaik so you should have had them long before it was even able to become a Sato

[Mylandra 76]

Almost all mags have a specific linear evolution path that leads to having only 2 photon blasts.

It doesn't happen because the third evolution isn't yielding a photon blast, but rather because the photon blast in question is the same as the one you received at the second evolution.

You can view the specifics below. Changing class and section id before evolving to get the photon blast you need is often recommended.

 

Force:

http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1238

Hunter:

http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1240

Ranger:

http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1241

 

As a sidenote, I'm not sure how many levels you raised on another character, but the evolutions starting at level 50 only trigger every level divisible by 5. In your case, only level 195 and 200 remains for evolution. Also, if you got a special evolution mag already, you're out of luck as they never evolve again regardless of stats/class/section id.

Some of the special evolution mags include:

Deva, Rukmin, Sato, Rati, Pushan, Bhima, Savitri, Dewari, Nidra and of course all of the mags you get using mag cells

By the way, special evolution mags never receive photon blasts upon evolving.

 

Edit: I just saw you have a sato which means the mag in question will sadly never receive a 3rd photon blast

Edited March 21, 2019 by Mylandra

[Giraffe 0]

I knew I would find a way to screw up my first special mag. Thanks for all the info Mylandra!

[Mylandra 76]

By the way, I'll add this here as reference since it's not an obvious mag evolution behavior :

On 9/2/2017 at 2:50 PM, Mylandra said:

Evolution at level 35 apparently never looks at the character class, but evolution at level 10 and 50 does. Thus, level 35 evolution stays in the same tree you got to at level 10. That sequence can finally be broken at 50 by swapping class and getting the evolution you need.

Hopefully this information prevents people from messing up their mags.