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I just started playing P4G over the weekend, and I'm loving it so far. I played the original Persona when it first came out but haven't touched any SMT games since then. A few questions: - Persona fusion is a bit confusing. How do I decide what to fuse? I've seen charts that tell how to determine what you get, but do I just fuse whatever will give me the highest level result, or are there specific skills I should go for? Do party member Persona upgrades only come from Social Links? - How many tries does a dungeon generally take early in the game? I just reached and defeated the knight miniboss in Yukiko's Castle in one night, then quickly ran out of HP and SP and didn't want to use up all my items. If I leave and go back in another day, do I start at the same place I left, or do I have to slog through the whole thing again? - Does Marie ever become a party member? Thanks!
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Feb 11, 2015 15:19
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Thanks for the answers. One other thing -- should I bother going into the TV world in between kidnappings (if it's even possible), or should I just stay out and build stats and social links? The game doesn't seem to give a whole lot of direction on what exactly to do when you're not rescuing someone.
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Feb 11, 2015 23:43
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I've gotten up the fourth (I guess? Rise's strip club) dungeon, and it has gotten to the point where a lot of the random monsters on higher floors are able to one-shot my party members. It's not even a matter of running out of SP - some of these things will just unleash a crazy 300 damage attack, and if I don't get a Player Advantage, I occasionally don't even get to take a turn before my MC dies. Really sucks when this happens seconds after finding a great piece of gear in a golden chest. I did full-clears of all the previous dungeons, but I haven't gone back and run them a second time. Is it really necessary to go back and grind up levels to proceed with the story?
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Feb 16, 2015 17:12
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MrAristocrates posted:What level are you? What Personas are you using? If you're not at least level 30 by the top floors you probably need more experience. I tried the sub-boss on the 8th floor, and it was going well until he got a lucky critical on my main character. I guess I can go back and run the Sauna again, but the experience seems kind of slow.
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Feb 16, 2015 17:26
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Stux posted:if you're fine until the 6th floor then level up around there, you don't have to go back to an older dungeon. also make sure your gear is up to par. I'll go try the bonus bosses. The Contrarian King kicked my rear end the first time I tried him (everything is fine until he randomly does Rampage), but I'm about ten levels higher now. Haven't tried a re-run of the bathhouse yet. How bad is that bonus boss?
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Feb 16, 2015 17:35
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MrAristocrates posted:Bonus boss is annoying because he spams Garula and Bufula, but he's weak to a bunch of stuff and drops a good weapon for Kanji. Nowhere near as bad as the king.
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Feb 16, 2015 20:01
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The Shortest Path posted:On my current playthrough (my first one in the new version of the game) on hard difficulty I was 34 on entering Rise's dungeon. I cleared both previous dungeons on their first available day and have never entered on other days to grind. Then again I also had Yosuke at rank 6 before starting Kanji's dungeon and had an overleveled Jack Frost carry the poo poo out of me. I'm playing on Normal. Jack Frost and King Frost are my go-to personas, and I have a few other to fill out extra needs (healing, big lightning, debuffs). My social links are pretty good. Yosuke is at 8; Chie and Yukiko are both 6. I haven't done anything with Kanji yet. I usually just avoid the treasure hands. I can rarely kill them before they escape, even when I lower their defense. Occasionally I can kill one or two when I use Chie's "everyone crits" skill (Revolution?). I'm not sure why my levels are so low. I check every corner of every level and fight every shadow other than the hands. I also try to full clear shuffle time when possible, although sometimes that involves taking "half exp" cards.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:33
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MrAristocrates posted:You should start Kanji as soon as you can, the event that unlocks it isn't available during summer vacation and he'll be woefully behind by then (he also learns one of his most useful skills at rank 6, for what it's worth). I spent way too much time working on the emotionally damaged drama club girl, because reasons.
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Feb 17, 2015 07:14
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Really Pants posted:That's right. Talk to the girl by the stairs on the 2nd floor of the class building, then talk to Kanji on the 1st floor of the practice building. I didn't finish leveling up Yumi before school ended.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:04
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I think I'm basically at the end of the game (just unlocked alternate Inaba). I know the game goes on for a bit after that, but is it all scripted events, or do you still have opportunities to run around, build s-links, and such? I ended up being one day short of finishing the Devil s-link and it really bummed me out. I'm missing a bunch of the other job-related ones and the sports club, too. (And Adachi's, but obviously it's too late for that one now.)
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Feb 26, 2015 22:25
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Poonerman posted:Haven't gotten a single distress call yet, and I've been online in every dungeon. I really used to enjoy it, too. I'm finishing up my first-ever playthrough, and I've had a great time with the game. It's amazing how much depth and detail they put into everything, especially the dialog (though it can be a bit long-winded -- no, Yosuke, you don't have to rehash what we just talked about five more times). I'll probably wait on New Game+ though. It sounds like there's very little that changes story-wise.
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Mar 2, 2015 05:49
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I looked up what that required, and it seemed ridiculous.
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Mar 12, 2015 05:37
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Poonerman posted:It's not really that bad. If you use every party member a decent amount and aren't ridiculously overpowered, you're bound to get it.
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Mar 12, 2015 14:34
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:chie is a failure of a party member Am I the only one who went with an all-girl party (including the MC in drag, of course) once Naoto became available?
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Mar 12, 2015 23:13
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