Board 8 > Anagram plays Persona 3 (spoilers)

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Fighting the boss, one piece revives the other. I hate when games do this.
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Anime knows its priorities
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It is completely infuriating to fight this boss, have Akihiko kill one piece, Junpei and Yukari both miss the second piece that would have died in one hit, and have it get revived. It's just complete nonsense.
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Poisonous flowers blooming, one in my garden and three in the opposite garden. I assume the three are Jesus, smart guy, and gothloli. The one in mine is probably Junpei, who's acted moody since he realized he'd be nothing without his persona.
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What do you get out of walking the dog? Is it a social link?
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Sometimes youll meet one of your social links on a walk and get closer to leveling their link (though it wont actually advance, so if you would have leveled it anyway next time its useless)
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Academics maxed during summer school, but I apparently still have to finish.
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Online Game social link: beated
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The nicknames they used in the MMO are based on Persona...2's (CMIIW) protagonists.
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Anagram posted...

And now there's a persona-using dog. I was wondering when we'd get the mascot character. Morgana joins right away in P5, and I know about the weird teddy bear thing in P4.

Koro-chan the best. I don't really think of him as the mascot character because I don't really feel P3 has one. But if we're counting Koromaru as one, he is by far the best one. In my last few P3 replays he was part of my ~FINAL TEAM~.

Anagram posted...

What do you get out of walking the dog? Is it a social link?

What LotM said. I just want to add that for the girl main character, he actually is!

Oh, also, if you haven't found out already, Koromaru is the one who has the red fountain pen you were looking for earlier.
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I will not stand for this Teddie slander in this topic.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Sometimes youll meet one of your social links on a walk and get closer to leveling their link (though it wont actually advance, so if you would have leveled it anyway next time its useless)

Thanks.

xp1337 posted...

Koro-chan the best. I don't really think of him as the mascot character because I don't really feel P3 has one. But if we're counting Koromaru as one, he is by far the best one. In my last few P3 replays he was part of my ~FINAL TEAM~.

I haven't used him yet, I've been trying to level Junpei, he's way behind.

pyresword posted...

I will not stand for this Teddie slander in this topic.

I'll see how he is when I play P4.
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Oh my god, it took until the boss of floor 98 for me to realize you can check the turn order.
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Having some difficulty with Natural Dancer, the floor 110 boss. It's got no weaknesses, can charm multiple people at once, and hits very hard.
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Anagram posted...

Having some difficulty with Natural Dancer, the floor 110 boss. It's got no weaknesses, can charm multiple people at once, and hits very hard.

Hmm... this is another tough-ish one. No easy solution, I think. Here's a couple of ideas, let me know if any of these sound like worth trying to you. If not I can keep thinking.

Idea 1 (Probably the most time intensive, but will take Charm off the board): I don't know if you've noticed, but some Persona when you fuse them they come with a Heart on them. It's random so that's why I don't know if you've seen it. This Heart turns into an item that you get after it gains some levels (specifically the level where it learns its last skill.) Some of these are meh, some of these are great. Right now though, you can probably get the Null Charm item.

If you fuse a Narcissus (Level 20 Lovers Persona) and it comes with a heart icon (I'd save scum to get it to appear) then level it to Level 25, that heart icon will become a Null Charm accessory. If you want to turbo troll, you can register it in the Compendium at Level 24 when it's close to levelling up, and then you can re-summon it to farm these accessories (the compendium saves the heart) as long as you don't overwrite it.

Idea 2 (Will help your MC - and let Yukari help damage - but I'm not sure of your level): If you're at Level 34 or higher, you can fuse a Magician Persona called Orobas. Key reasons why this helps. It nullifies all wind damage and also comes with a skill at Level 36 (but your Magician Link Bonus should take him past here so don't worry) called Wind Break that when used, sets the enemy resistance to Wind to Normal for 3 turns. That means you can use Wind (which Orobas has), Yukari can use wind magic, and if you have Magic Mirrors you can reflect his wind back at him for damage.

Idea 3 (If you have a lot of Magic Mirrors): The Mirror items are super useful. If you use these, you can stop his wind attacks or Sexy Dance (the all charm move) once per mirror. Reflecting his wind will have him null it (unless you have Wind Break like I mentioned above) and reflecting his charm will block it from hitting you. Of course, this relies on you having Magic Mirrors which are randomly found in Tartarus.

Idea 4 (YOLO, I've never tried this and it sounds to me like it wouldn't help, but...): You can only have one status ailment at a time, so in theory you could intentionally get inflicted with one to block charm. Like using Muscle Drinks to poison your characters. ...You'd be dealing with poison damage though and that might not be worth the extra damage.
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Thanks for the advice, xp. I'm at level 33 right now, for reference. I'm going to try once or twice more normally in an attempt to not use a lot of time on preparation, but I got my ass kicked so thoroughly I may have to take your suggestions.
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It would be really cool if allies knew to use dis-charm on you when you've been charmed.

Yep, sure would be neat.
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What tactics do you have them on?
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I am going to murder Yukari for using 50 HP healing items instead of her powerful magic spells for no reason, getting charmed, and healing the boss from near death to 40%

I am also going to murder Frank for getting charmed all the time and taking all control from me
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Just won. Took a ton of valuable items, too, and I had to fuse a persona immune to wind.

Peace___Frog posted...

What tactics do you have them on?

For this boss, Yukari was on support, Mitsuru and Akihiko were on assault.
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Ken overhears Akihiko talking to Shinjiro about a dead person named Miki from two years ago, thinks "it can't be," but I bet it's totally his sister or something. Also, I'm putting Ken as a possibility for the poisonous flower mentioned.
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Little girl social link: beated
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*Nozomi left, still holding his hamburger*

Thanks for clarifying that, game.
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And just like that, summer vacation is over, just like in real life. Junpei makes a date to meet with gothloli again, and it's 9/1. I don't even know how much more there is in this game, date-wise.
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So really intelligently, Junpei spills his guts about personas to gothloli. And I remember people saying he was better than Ryuji.
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By the way, this is a larger party than I expected.
Frank-Junpei-Yukari-Mitsuru-Akihiko-Koromaru-Aigis-Shinjiro-Ken
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Guess I've got no place to criticize Junpei. After being told the boss is associated with electricity, I brought Yukari and Aigis. I met with predictable results.

Also, are people still reading my topic?
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I'm still here.
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I'm enjoying the commentary. Game is admittedly a slow burn.
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I'm reading.

Anagram posted...

I don't even know how much more there is in this game, date-wise.

Do you want an actual answer to this?
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Sceptilesolar posted...

I'm enjoying the commentary. Game is admittedly a slow burn.

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KamikazePotato posted...

Do you want an actual answer to this?

No thanks, I was just musing. I know that P5 effectively ends at 12/25, so I'm assuming P3 ends around there or a bit after.
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Peace___Frog posted...

Sceptilesolar posted...

I'm enjoying the commentary. Game is admittedly a slow burn.

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Games that don't have the ability to skip cutscenes need to be punched. It took like five minutes to get back to the boss from my previous save because I had to talk to Mutatsu and go through a million years of cutscenes. At least give me a save spot during the night.
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What exactly does the shock status effect even do?
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Anagram posted...

What exactly does the shock status effect even do?

Evasion reduced to 0, physical attacks are guaranteed to crit.

Reg posted...

Evasion reduced to 0, physical attacks are guaranteed to crit.

Thanks. I should've known that already, though.
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Oh man, Chidori's voice acting is so bad.
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It must be pretty crazy going from 5 to 3 (though I haven't played 5).
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"I'll give the doc the right pills."

I can only imagine a doctor in a hospital being given mystery pills by a high schooler who dresses like a homeless man, then giving them to the patient.
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Shinji so good
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LeonhartFour posted...

Shinji so good

Eh, I never liked NGE very much.
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NGE Shinji > Persona 3 Shinji
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Anagram posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

Shinji so good

Eh, I never liked NGE very much.

Good man.
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pyresword posted...

NGE Shinji > Persona 3 Shinji

There aren't many characters NGE Shinji is better than, and P3 Shinji is certainly not one of them, not unless he spends the remainder of the game complaining.

He's also got a questionable voice actor, but I let it go because Fuuka is so much worse.
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I read that "in P4G you get heart-wrenching **** if you cheat on the girls," what does that mean exactly? I'm just curious.
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Oh, it's pretty similar to what happens in P5 on Valentine's Day if you dated multiple girls (although P4 manages to make you feel like even more of a jerk for doing it).
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P4 doesn't have the best bro Sojiro to cover for you when you do that, so it damn well should make you feel like more of a jerk.

Well, you don't get physically assaulted in P4G, at least.
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LeonhartFour posted...

Oh, it's pretty similar to what happens in P5 on Valentine's Day if you dated multiple girls (although P4 manages to make you feel like even more of a jerk for doing it).

Thanks.
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