I'm playing this series for the first time ever starting

Just play the game idiot.

>>379075067
Dumb stupidhead

I just used Orpheus and never found the need to switch. Orphy is bae.

Dont get attached. Just fuse and fuse and fuse. Levels and stats are what matter.

Do keep a black frost though.

Fuse the ones you have a stronger S.Link boost with and be sure to pass on the skills you like the most.
If you have a persona you can't fuse into something good then turn it into a weapon at the antiques shop

>>379075067
If you can't figure this shit out yourself you should just go play pokemon or something else more your speed

>>379075067
Just improvise as you go. You'll figure out what you need and what you don't.

>>379075067
itt: bait

>look at stats
>pick the personas with the highest number
>fuse the ones that are useless, especially if you have a high rank in that arcana

Wahla

>>379075472
>>379075187
>>379075139
gee so super very helpful thanks
>>379075291
>>379075323
Actually thanks for the real responses, how much attention should I pay to their resistances and stuff? Or should I try to grind and get like personas that are str or null against as many elements as possible?

>>379075686
I personally always got an arsenal of Personas that covered all elements, so I could always exploit weaknesses.

Null/repel/strong I only found useful against bosses. For that you don't know what you'll need until you fight the actual boss.

>>379075686
It really depends on your party, you should try and make personas that cover the gaps your team leaves.
Don't try to grind unless a Persona has a skill your really, REALLY want.
Remember to register your personas so that you don't lose their skills and stats after fusing them.
You should keep in mind your resistances and weaknesses and scan the enemies as much as possible, Fuuka tells you what types of attacks they have so you'll be able to know what Personas to use or not.

Pick the party members you like. Fuse Personas that aren't duplicate of your party member's skills coverage.

Make sure to have one Hama and Mudo Persona just in case. If you get trash Persona, use it as fusion fodder.

FUSING A PERSONA 7 DAYS BEFORE AND AFTER A FULL MOON INCREASES THE CHANCE OF A FUSION ENDING WITH A HEART ICON. Keep that in mind, it's all in caps. Heart icons are really good items after a Persona learn all of its skills.

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>>379075945
Oh I see. I'll get several grinded up then to cover my bases offensively and defensively. Thanks.

>>379076596
Don't grind dude

>>379076579
So I should keep resetting after fusions until I get heart icons? Any notable ones I should target?

>>379076596
>grind

>>379076882
What level are you?

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>>379075067
watch this webm and learn from it

>>379077105
30 just got to floor 85

I assume this somewhere along midway?

>>379077131
>mouse

>>379077432
I did it to emphasize the skills okay

>>379077351
Yeah, try fusing a narcissus to get his heart item, other than that there arent any worthwhile items near your level.
Remember to register him before he reaches level 24 so that you can get multiple ones.

>>379077351
That's about third of the way there. The final floor of Tartarus is something like 250.

>>379077974
Great tip. Thanks.

>>379078310
Well shit

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>>379075067
Choose whatever persona you want, to be honest I picked my favorite ones design wise. Try to have several persona with different roles (healer, buffer, mage, fighter, etc), thanks to skill cards and stats cards (you can purchase them at the antique shop), it'll be less of a hassle to build correct personas

Try to experiment a bit, you can follow a recipe guide to create a strong persona, but it'll be less fun right ?

>>379075067
The moves are what you should focus on, and there aren't THAT many of those at least.
Just checks if a dude's magic or strength and keep an eye on weaknesses.
Or just make what looks cool.

>>379078802
>skill cards

I dont think he is playing P3P

>>379078949
oh yeah, forgot there weren't skill card in P3:FES

I've never heard of anyone taking the personas themselves this seriously before. If that's how you enjoy games, power to you, I guess, but it's seriously not worth worrying about.

>>379076882
Personas that you should remember for Heart Icon free items.

Surt- Null Fire
Thor- Null Elec
Thanatos- Null Dark
Jatayu- Null Wind
Melchizedek- Null Light
Seiten Taisei- Null Pierce
Chernobog- Null Slash
Kohryu- Null Strike
Gabriel- Null Ice

The 2 big Persona that should standout for you immediately are Surt and Thor, who help Yukari and Mitsuru null their weaknesses completely if you give them those accessories. Surt should be the first one you get since he's like Level 50 and the Magician Arcana.

>playing a ten year old game when P5 is out

>>379080496
faggot

>>379079150
Speaking of FES, when you get the Tactic for Knock Down, keep it on forever. It forces every AI to setup an All-Out Attack. It takes a while before Knock Down is unlocked so Full Assault is the 2nd best thing till then.

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The sooner you get a multi physical attack the better
You can abuse crits with one

>>379081776
Using multi target spells doesn't give you one more unless you knock down every single enemy

>>379081956
Are you playing fes or portable?
Portable gives you a one more for each enemy you critical

>>379081956
He means multiple hit to one, 2x 3x etc.

>>379082095
Ah, got it my bad

>>379076882
Thor is a good one because he gives a nullify electric accessory.
That's good for aigis or yuckari

>>379075281
>orpheus the whole game
I'm not sure if that's retarded or impressive

Elizabeth in P3 (not FES so no Telos), Margaret in Golden, Demi-fiend in DDS, or Stephen in SMT:IV A. Who's the hardest fight in the franchise?

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>>379075067
>I'm playing this series for the first time ever and there is just too many pokemons
>I don't even know who to catch

>>379080496
>P5 was announced years ago
>Decided to play through P3 and P4 since people talked about how great those games were
>Barely made it through P3 without blowing my brains out from how mundane and boring it was
>Deleted P4 off my PC

Better I emulate one game and waste my time than drop money on it I guess.

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If you're going to take anything from this thread just pay attention to this dumb fuck:

1. Max social links as much as possible
2. Any personas you find in card drop just fuse and keep the ones with the largest level/most useful skills
3. Have every single element at your disposal(garu, zio, etc.)
4. Complete Elizabeths requests. I know, i fucking hate it too but the fucking idiots who made the game thought it was a fun enough feature to have it manditory to fuse certain personas. So do em

>>379082625
Just use your starter the whole time duh

unless its chicorita

>>379082625

>Play XY
>Get two starters
>Get gift Lucario
>Get gift Lapras
>Get forced legendary catch

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHO GOES IN SLOT 6?

>>379075067
Just have a diverse team that covers as many bases as possible. When levels star to lag behind, get something new. Simples.

>>379083189
the one with the coolest design, ice cream cone of course

>>379082951
>1. Max social links as much as possible
That's an awful way to play P3, he should just do the ones he likes.

>>379083675
If you don't like one you can always hold triangle to get through them in 3 seconds.

>>379080496
Faggots like you are why people in p5 threads

>>379083772
That's a waste of time too.
The game wasn't meant for you to do every S.Link in one run, you're supposed to take it at your pace and talk to people you like.

>>379084058
It's not even about doing all in one go. Certain s links can't be unlocked without reaching a certain point with another. If you have no other s links you'd like to do (and nothing else to do in general) then you might as well run through the bland one.

>>379075067
If something has learned all it's moves it's overdue to be fused.

Personas are deliberately much slower to level than party member because you're not meant to keep them around. Personas with a particularly good moveset or weakness chart may have enough utility to outlive their sagging levels for a while but most should just be fused when it's convenient.

>>379076596
You shouldn't have to grind. Personas level up fast at first but if you're using them past the point they have all their skills you're usually better off fusing them

>>379077351
Its 256 floors for the last teleporter and then a few floors more after that not counted.

>Pay attention to buffs
>Having an attack up or enemy defense down is always helpful if you encounter a tough enemy
>Most regular enemies have obvious weaknesses. IE metal cube is weak to lighting
>Fuck mudo and hama

>>379082998
Fuck off, Chikorita is the best starter ever
>>379082546
I don't know about Stephen, since I don't have a 3DS, but DemiFiend in DDS is fucking brutal; also, there's Satan as a secret boss in DDS2, and he's even worse

>>379085302

I've never heard of Satan being harder then Demi-fiend. Does everyone who fight him have the ring you get for beating Demi-fiend?

>>379084058
>>379083675
>horrible way to play p3
That's the RIGHT way. That way when you get near endgame or even near the middle every single persona you fuse will be buffed as fuck.
What else are you going to do anyways? Max your stats? It's possible max your stats and your S.Links in one run.

>>379085643
>That's the RIGHT way.
It's unnecessary dude, there's plenty of personas that are extremely redundant and similar, the game is made so that even if you don't have one strong arcana there's an alternative that's just as good as the other one.

By focusing on maxing every S.Link you take away the fun because you're spending time with characters you have no interest in, it's better to just talk to the people you like and spend your days doing stuff like playing at the arcade or upping your stats.

>it's possible
Only if you follow a strict as fuck guide that takes away all your freedom and leaves you without any choice whatsoever, taking away all the fun from the game

>>379082546
Is demifiend a bs fight that's partially luck that people say it is?

>>379086134

Some argue that it's everything bad about the Elizabeth fight multiplied by 3.

http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Demi-fiend

Crtl f to the digital devil saga section.

>love p3
>hate p4
will i like p5?

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>>379086982
Too much polish to hate it.

>>379075067
Improvise as you go. Just remember that having a lot of elements available to you is good, and fuse frequently to make sure your personas are decent levels. Don't get too attached to a single persona since you will always get more.

I've never felt like

>>379085539
The thing about Satan is that not only you HAVE to read a guide in order to beat him, but you also need something to keep track of his actions, his buffs, his debuffs, and his health

https://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/924460-shin-megami-tensei-digital-devil-saga-2/faqs/44308

just go to his section of the guide, and look for yourself

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>>379086121
I see. I get that enjoying the game comes first but it IS an rpg and the point of those is to get as powerful as possible.
I guess it's just up to OP and whether he sees the game more as a Social Sim or Jrpg.

>>379086982
its closer to p4 than it is to p3

But its also closer to p2

>>379087191
du du dadada

>>379075686
>gee so super very helpful thanks
You big fucking baby

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>>379087348

It really doesn't matter. Just keep flushing out the low level personas and replacing them with higher level ones.

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>>379082546
Lucifer in Desu1

>>379087818
Tyrants and/or the recarm trick make this fight easy anon. Its tough, but no where near as hard as the others

>>379087990
Without tyrant exploit

>>379075067
Sukunda, rakunda, tarunda, rakukaja, tarukaja, etc. are usually what you want to prioritize.

>>379086615
>Has an attack that one shots you no matter how high your stats are
>The only way to avoid it is to hope one of his demons use a skill to make you fall asleep
>It can miss

>>379088190
Unless you have Akihiko of course

>>379088252
Hence "usually". I personally have had a great time building around crits. MC, Akihiko, and Shinji are all pretty decent at landing them. I try to make sure MC is in great condition as much as possible and haven't upgraded my weapon past the bat that ups your crits, and I think I'm having Shinji use a mace with high crit? It's been a while since I played since Tyrone ran off with my PSP go.