BTW, if you haven't realized it yet, the fortune teller is like the best confidant EV4R!~~~!1~~1!ONE

Affinity reading every day for whoever you need to progress is such a time saver. Luck reading for extra stat boosts. Money reading before you go into a palace/mementos....she has so many useful abilities. Forget what it's called but that other ability she has where she tells you what abilities a confidant has is kind of useless, though, considering the internetz.

Thanks, feel much better about not going for that now. Was so tempted to fuse up a Seth last night when I had the ability to.

I've made it up to the second palace and :love: this already. I am definitely not managing my time well though, I didn't know about the calling cards so I wasted a day just going from the throne room safe zone to the treasury. My social link is mostly still 1s and I have an overdue copy of Not The X Files that I haven't been able to return in two weeks because of exams, which I think I did really badly on because I studied an entire one time the night before. Ah, life.

I have not done anything with the fortune teller since the first rank... i will work on this

It was about the 2nd palace that i started notnusing my time like a teenager lol

I've already almost maxed my social stats. Got 5 charm, 4 everything else, but feel pretty close to hitting 5 on a couple of those. Luck readings for extra stat points ftw.

Same. Charm @5 rest 4s but knowledge and guts should max soon.

Just got the tower confidant so kindness should go fast

Tower confidant is good stuff all around.

I feel like Kindness takes the absolute longest amount of time. Feel like knowledge or proficiency will be my next to hit 5. Guts will prob be last at this rate, kinda have slacked off on it since I got to dauntless and made friends with the weapons dealer.

No spoilers but the top of the 3rd act...so good i can barely stand it

I take it that starts after Palace 5?

the date is





prob not a spoiler to say the date but just in case you felt differently.

Ah indeed. I'm still mid-September. Work obligations keeping me from enjoying my damn game lately. And my incessant need to grind also makes things take longer than necessary. In my mementos run the day before the Hawaii trip I ended up getting the twins all the way up to rank 8, left with 1.2 million yen, about 3-400k in treasures to sell, and had everyone other than Futaba at level 42+

What can I say, unlike most people, I enjoy grinding. When I set my grinding goal and then finally achieve it I feel like a freaking star.

Also, don't know if you are aware, but the confusion money trick everyone talks about on the interwebs works both ways. I haven't used it at all, but I had an enemy confuse Yusuke and he threw 57k Yen at them the next turn. I almost threw my controller through the TV out of shock/frustration.

I love grinding, I just havent felt compelled to grind levels for some reason. doesnt seem to play a big role in the combat really..60+ though. WIll prob finish the game in the 70s


The twins Ive stopped leveling. I missed a persona I need to craft one of theri requests (tier 6 I think) and im not using any online guides so I cant be arsed to go and hunt down every floor of momentos hoping to get lucky...

:O You NEED the twins level 10 ability. Allows you to fuse persona of any level above yours, for a price of course.

I gotta catch them all.

I remember 2 of my earliest super grind campaigns quite fondly.

I grinded out to level 99 in Chrono Trigger. That was the first. Just kept running through the Black Omen over and over and over again in one particular area until YAAAAS 99!!!~~~

The second, and probably most useful super grind I swear by, is grinding out enough levels early on in Final Fantasy 7 so that Barrett with a fire resist ring can somehow survive the Midgar Zolom's beta attack the first time you try to cross the swamp. Equip enemy skill material on him, suck that attack up, then escape and RRRUUUUNNNNNN. Heal up. You now have a single attack that carry you through like 2/3 of the game.

Just discovered the 3rd palace, feeling a lot better about my social link. Guts seem to be a priority stat though and I'm nowhere near where I feel I need to be on that. Still returning DVDs late but they always waive the fee. Is it actually possible to get billed for a late return?

I only rented 1 dvd because i was so late bringing it back lol

And i think all social stats are important. Youll need each maxed to max all confidants. Its when to max them thats the question...hard to pin that down on the first play through...kindness is def the hardest to max though imo.

Yeah I'm currently locked out of two confidants due to guts, one of them has been locked for a whole palace. I guess I mean it's a priority right now and kindness or intelligence will screw me over later. Made a bunch of lockpicks in the downtime because Ive been very inefficient with locked chests so my proficiency is alright at the very least.

Ryuiji and the gun shot if memory serves...think was palace 4 beofre i got the gun shop. Youve gotta have rank 4 for that. Tall order.

...wait was it Ann and not Ryuiji...

Gun Shop and Kawakami. I'm Rank 4 Ryuji and Rank 3 Ann, neither of them have locked me out yet (well, at least after Ann's initial unlock requirement).

Gun shop is Rank 4 Guts!? Fucking hell, I'd better get on those Big Bang Burgers and refillable coffees.

Kawakami is worth doing. Earlier the better. Gun shop is the most meh of them all imo...

Gun shop requires Rank 5 guts later on, Sojiro requires Rank 5 Kindness, the Shogi player requires rank 5 knowledge I think, Makota requires Rank 5 charm, can't remember who requires 5 proficiency. I've got all to 5 except guts at this point and it should be any day now.

I'm finished with Palace 5 other than the beating down the boss and stealing his lewt. Saved at the beginning of said palace right now on my way to take him out. Gonna run through and pick up some respawned treasures until I can catch one the jewel personas from there as it is the only one I didn't catch the first time I around. Kind of annoying, but the one time I managed to down one I forgot to catch it and went all out instead and killed it -_-'

Hate enemies whos only weakness is critical hit; so hard to get miracle punch to connect with any reliability.

Ive got rebellion on the same persona that has miracle punch +the passive that raises crit odds. 65% success rate for me.

I should probably be messing with fusion more but I am holding out for like 2 more in game weeks. I am extremely close to being able to do rank 9 and 10 of the twins (need to gain 2 more levels for rank 9, 4 for rank 10) and then I can fuse any persona I want other than the few still locked by confidants and the NG+ specific one. Saving up all my money because I imagine some of these fusions I am going to pull off are going to be hella expensive. Especially considering I plan on itemizing several of the high level ones and then prob have to summon a couple of them again for my line up.

To your palace 6 comment:

Beat what i assume is the boss btw....game is so good...will replay soon for sure for a completionist run... not done yet tho

There is a persona, and im not exaggerating, that is a penis in a wheel chair.

LOLOLOL WHAT

"You have the strength to penetrate this accursed darkness"

lol is it Mara? In SMT Nocture he was a giant erect penis with a ballsack.

The first mini-boss in this game is basically a bellend. I don't think anything tops the Immoral beast from Catherine though.

LOL yes, yes it is Mara.

Also Catherine was a great game and I wish more people experienced it. I remember the first time I saw the Immoral Beast......it was like......What in the literal F am I seeing right now!?

Lol yeah its mara

Immediately added this back to my bacjlog of games will do a ng+ and go for completion. Might take 3 months to get back to it but its in the rotation.

This was a real delight. 10/10

130hrs btw