demosthenes
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Can someone explain affinity reading and how it works exactly?
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Persona 5 |OT2| Someone must have been helping you go to bed early. Talk!
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You pay 5000yen to get immediate free points put into that Confidant (I think about 2?). You can do this once a day. So let's say you need 4 points to get to the next rank up. Instead of spending a day hanging out with that person and not ranking up, you can do an Affinity Reading today and go hang out with someone else who is going to rank up. Then tomorrow you do another Affinity Reading and you can immediately rank that person up after that.
If you are checking the map for your available confidants and you see one listed but it doesn't say "Up!!", visit Chihaya for affinity reading, give her 5k, and she will make whatever confidant be ready to rank up. Can do once per day.
It's not immediate. It just seems that way sometimes because people are usually only lacking a point or two from ranking up, especially at lower ranks. There are times where you might need multiple Affinity Readings before it can rank up.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Ill have those 30 min extended youtube vids on repeat soon enough.
Dangansona
Member
What do you do about the enemy in Palace 5 that keeps casting magic reflect every turn that also reflects gun and physical damage? Is there any way out of this other than running?
demosthenes
Member
Got it. I thought it was the situation where it would auto actually rank up next time with them, thanks for the info!
Find a persona with makaran(sp?) break and use that.
cj_iwakura
Member
We should start considering OT3 titles.
Oh, I haven't yet had a case where it didn't go up immediately, interesting.
Ohya seems to be one that takes a few readings to rank up. Actually, most of the females require it at least once, most to necessitate gifts and make romance options seem less out of the blue.
I don't think there's any particular Confidant who -needs- multiple readings. It entirely depends on how many points you rack up on their events in general. If you always have a matching Persona in stock and give all the best answers, you probably won't ever need more than one Affinity Reading to progress in rank. If you have a few dud events in a row and got lazy with having matching Persona when doing them, it could create a minor roadblock later on where you might need more readings to progress. But honestly, I think it's worth just saying fuck it and doing non-rank-up hang outs later in the game, because if you invite them to nice places you can get gifts to place in your room!
There also isn't really anything else to do by the time you get to the later game. When you are at rank 4 or 5 with all the social stats, 90% of the activities become pointless, so you might as well just spend the days hanging out. I was doing it was people I had maxed to see what extra bits they had, and not even reloading to save the time.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
nah, Iwai took me 3 once, and I answered everything for max possible points while carrying the correct persona.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
I went in blind and was relatively good. If you want to get a lot of stuff in one playthrough, you should use a guide. Also prepare yourself for a long journey; it will take quite a awhile to complete.
BRSxIgnition
Member
Do Palaces in as few days as possible if you can and buy SP beverages from vending machines when available. (You can craft SP items through certain confidants later too.)
As for Conifdants, Star, Temperance, Sun, Tower, Strength, Hierophant, and Death are all super useful so don't ignore them.
That's about it.
You'll get Fool maxed in maybe 10-20 mins, then you'll have another 40 minutes of cutscenes and talking before you get to fuse anything again.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
You can just throw a weak spell at them, since the barrier breaks after one reflection.
demosthenes
Member
Trying to do reaper
in flu season.
How often does he show up with despair? Does anything influence it.
How often does he show up with despair? Does anything influence it.
Sequence Six
Member
I'm down for a Persona game with a Bubba Ho Tep aesthetic.
Just wait on the floor till he shows up and initiate battle. If he's not immediately despaired, run away and initiate battle again (he doesn't disappear).
There's no confirmation that it works, but I got him without despair like 7 times in a row, until I made a Black Ooze with a skill that raises ailment susceptibility on rainy days and I got him despaired first try after that (obviously it was raining that day).
demosthenes
Member
Yea I haven't seen him once I don't think. Do some demons get despair and not attack but some get despair and still attack?
I've been studying my words and shit!
cj_iwakura
Member
Marmaladefire
Member
Something about aesthetics, or letting Ryuji say fuck
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Late December spoiler
about how many hours remaining if I am about to take shido's treasure? I saved on the ship on that day.
Marmaladefire
Member
Depends on how many days are left before the deadline, but past that 7-12 hours.
I suggest just getting it done and focusing cleaning up confidants and stats afterwards.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
its the second to last day before the deadline
Money, Social stats, Items, Equipment, Persona Compendium etc.
You also retain all the perks you've gained from the confidants that you've maxed.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Persona 5 |OT3| Ryuji did nothing wrong.
BRSxIgnition
Member
Now that's just a flat out lie.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Persona 5 |OT3| Don't Fear the Reaper (during flu season)
Persona 5 |OT3| Mishima is a good boy
Persona 5 |OT3| Shivers from the Dessert
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Persona 5 |OT3| Mishima is a good boy
Persona 5 |OT3| Shivers from the Dessert
Persona 5 |OT3| [DELETED BY ADMIN]
cj_iwakura
Member
The last one is great.