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Trying to play persona 3 fes
| Maxing all social link without a guide is almost impossible. Just rank up s.link that you like/you think give the most useful persona.
Some s.link unlocks other s.link, so if you do the first one late, you'll have less time for the unlocked one.
Persona usage follows SMT demon usage. You fuse them, level them up for a bit, and then move on to a higher level/better persona. Because after several levels, leveling up a persona takes so much xp, you'd rather fuse a new one.
| Shadows lose interest at you if you climb up some sort of stairs or go to pause menu. Kinda cheaty, it's up to you to ignore/exploit.
The game kinda force you to go to the highest floor possible (until the game told you the next floor is barricaded). So if you reach that, you should be fine until the story move on. But if (to avoid spoiler) by the designated time, you still haven't reach it you'd be forced to clear it in one day.
It has been years, sorry if I remember stuff wrong
| Oh nvm, they lose interest if you go to stairs, not to menu. Menu is used to change their direction before they spot you.
| Oh one more, try to pass on good skill to personas.
For example, you are about to fuse a persona that's weak to fire. One of the persona that you use as the fusion material has anti-fire/repel fire/ absorb fire. Try to pass that skill to the new demon by canceling the fusion and reselect the material again.
| Try to reach the highest floor of tartaruz you can in a single run. It's not time efficient to keep visiting tartarus every night. Also only go when you don't have something else to do that night.
| New to the series (p5 scrub here), and I'm getting dicked by this fucking sleeping table mini boss. This bitch's one shotting my whole team on hard and I'm forced to grind :c
Guess I relied too much on type null and resists...
| >>315185 yeah I don't like grinding at all so I end up getting by with much less xp everytime. Actually same shit happened in p5, though it was the final boss. I had to go up 20+ lvl 'cause my Arahabaki/makarakarn strat wasn't doing shit against almighty skills
| >>314894 Also if you hit a shocked foe with any physical attacks (slice, strike, pierce) you will get a guaranteed critical. Since shock ailment doesn't disappear after an all-out attack you can basically farm them until the foe recovers.
So yeah zio's pretty good
| I actually hated the dungeon in this game, because it's always the same and gets boring fast, except for the boss dungeons
| >>314894 there is no correct way to play if you're not going for 100% completion. just go through the game
>>315256 dungeon design in jrpgs is pretty weak in general
| Conserve SP by using physical attacks. I find this less viable in P5 bc it's risky, but in P3 surviving long stretches is important.
Exploit weakness and all-out attack whenever possible. Downing all is better than dealing strong expensive skills (e.g use Mazio instead of, heck, Ziodyne).
For stats/s.links, just do what's natural. Don't sweat it, but don't like, study for a whole week in a row.
| I played Persona 2 last year for the first time with no guide. It was really fun but I feel like I missed out on half the game. Playing 5 with a guide and relaxing a lot more. Towards the end playing it my own way.
| >>317436 Persona 2 is a wildly different game though. It's not as well designed to discover things yourself.
But hey, you do you
| Good to know 3 can be played like a normal game
| may i know if i should play fes or the psp version
| >>318796 psp have you click on jpegs instead of moving in town. But, you can play not-canon femc, your call. Either way I would check out psp ost on YouTube since femc got some sick tracks
| >>318796
What gurl above me said.
If I may add:
FES has a "second chapter". A continuation of the main story. However, it cuts the school life aspect. Basically, it is just a normal RPG; you spend most of your time in dungeon, beat the boss, get a bit of story, dungeon crawling again, repeat.
Now, the PSP version don't have that, but you get to directly control your party member (they are AI in FES). Also, if you want to play as a girl, there's that.
| wtf I maxed out all social links and beat the game just fine multiple times without any guide. I miss the times when people used to just play to find out what works best.
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| Can you guys give me like some general tips cause I don't know if I'm fusing the right personas or spending my time with npcs/stat upgrading correctly. Does the game punish you for not being efficient with the stuff you do in school/town or not really. I'm not too far into the game but I'm enjoying the dungeon far more than the life simulator part tbh