My Chie didn't make it through the fight, she did most of the damage for me, but I ran out of revival beads at the end there. That first boss fight was so thrilling near the end.
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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth |OT| -- No Dating, Just Dungeons
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My Chie didn't make it through the fight, she did most of the damage for me, but I ran out of revival beads at the end there. That first boss fight was so thrilling near the end.
Oh wow. These side-quests. LMAO.
Gotta check the other "strolls" out before going into the second labyrinth.
I'm also not sure how to do the fusions since (AFAIK) the Persona results don't show the new Persona's weaknesses to know if it'll help/hinder on a character's main Persona weaknesses.
Zen and Teddie's "trade off"/barter contest and Teddie obviously cheats with a bear-fur Cotton Candy stick.
Gotta check the other "strolls" out before going into the second labyrinth.
I'm also not sure how to do the fusions since (AFAIK) the Persona results don't show the new Persona's weaknesses to know if it'll help/hinder on a character's main Persona weaknesses.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
They don't affect the character's elemental resistances and weaknesses anymore.
CielTynave
Member
Just played for about 7 hours straight and finished the first dungeon. I'm actually finding this rather exhausting to play, going through the dungeons and fighting enemies just feels like a chore. I get the feeling that I'll probably just end up putting the difficulty down to safety for good at some point and just breeze through the rest.
Oh, really? So what is the point of fusions then? I already have two decent skills
Death Counter + Poison
Higher lvl subs give more HP and SP, and lvling Personas give you diminishing returns the higher you go. Plus better skills of course.
Sakura
Member
Hard mobs or annoying FOEs or what? I'm not sure if I want to jump in to Dungeon 3 or just start playing something else right now.
Just...dull. the enemies have high evasion, more of the same. I think my issue is nothing makes it stick out, I see why people are randomly burning out here.
Sakura
Member
The thing I don't really like is the running out of room for items mid dungeon. What's the point in having regenerating SP and HP thanks to sub-persona's after battle, if I have to keep leaving and coming back to get rid of my shit? If I still have full health and SP I want to keep exploring but noooo~
Though I guess it prevents me from wiping and losing 2 hours or something because I save every time I go back.
Though I guess it prevents me from wiping and losing 2 hours or something because I save every time I go back.
Sakura
Member
Yea. Now times that by a hundred. That's like a thousand fights or something.
Tribes of Trusty
Member
General enemy spoilers for the game :
Are really ALL the ennemies in the game weak to Hama/Mudo ? It's kind of spoiling the challenge imho :/
Chrono Helix
Member
I think it only casts that once when it loses half its health, but I can't confirm that.
Clapping even more so. I need a gif of that...
Not all of them are weak to hama/mudo, but very few seem to have resist or repel or null for that element, meaning hama and mudo are pretty strong, but in the early goings those spells cost more SP to cast than normal spells and have a higher chance to miss, so I guess that''s the trade off...
Xenoflare
Member
That's Marge's idea, wouldn't that make her the worst girl?
The 3rd labyrinth is great.
The 4th labyrinth...
The puzzles are breaking me. Not that it's a bad thing mind you.
On the other hand I'm finally down to 6 usable personas since the start of the game after going through and getting all the skill cards for the 2nd level ma- spells.
The 4th labyrinth...
The puzzles are breaking me. Not that it's a bad thing mind you.
On the other hand I'm finally down to 6 usable personas since the start of the game after going through and getting all the skill cards for the 2nd level ma- spells.
She's imitating Josuke Higashikata
So you're dissing Josuke Higashikata as well
Why the hell are you dissing Josuke Higashikata
I'm not sure whether it's intentional design or not, but none of the FOEs are impossible when you meet them... which opens up the avenue of just killing them to bypass puzzles. Granted some of them are now very hard without the right team, but it's possible to build a FOE killing team to bypass puzzles.
...yeah labyrinth 4 puzzles are mean.
...yeah labyrinth 4 puzzles are mean.
Sakura
Member
Yea when I was in the 4th floor of dungeon 2, I accidentally ran into one of those FOE's that move towards you when you move (you know what I mean) and I was like oh shit I'm screwed, but really it was such a push over. Just blocked it's physical moves, then let poison do all the work while my team just hung out.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
Guys, dungeon 3, floor 2 help:
I've turned on the lights and found the Lab Storage key, but I don't seem to be able to go anywhere else. The Lab Storage west side is blocked by an FOE that follows me around. Do I have to kill it to advance or what?
Xenoflare
Member
I think all of the FOEs I encountered has some sort of weakness to them. I never played EO that much (have EOU but never really touched it), so once I get the boosts rolling it's not that hard.
However I am usually drained of SP after a FOE fight, so I'd usually go back and heal, and then they respawn.
The reward is also a curse.... Having a stack of high level personas means no fusion is possible, the exp you gain from the fights is not that much too.
You don't ever have to kill any FOEs in dungeon 3.
Xenoflare
Member
Hell, I think all dungeons are meant to
go through avoiding all FOEs
Unless there is a request for it of course, and that usually happens when the dungeon is finished.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
So, what did I miss then? I can't find any other paths.
Edit: Muscled my way past the damn thing and
found the South Building key. Not sure how you're actually supposed to get around that FOE.
Are you talking about the rectangular room at grid C2?
Did you flip the fusebox in B2? That turns on lights in the storage room. The baby FOE treats lit squares as though they're solid and won't walk through them. From the spot where you trigger the FOE move clockwise around the light in the square east of you: N, E, E, S, S, W, W, N, W.
I killed one because I initially thought
I had to do it for a request
That battle was kind of super RNG because of its
paralysis attack that hits everyone... was too lazy to setup someone with with me patra and null paralysis.
But yeah, it wasn't worth it: EXP gain was kind of ass and the armor from the harvested material initially seems nice, but I'm still puzzled why this one enemy that hits the back and front rows is doing more damage to the back row equipped with the new armor.
That said, overall, I'm liking the 3rd labyrinth encounters a lot better since I'm actually still optimizing the encounters as opposed to using just one strategy over and over again like I was in the 2nd labyrinth.
If things go right, I should win each encounter in two turns (EDIT: actually, now that I think about it, maybe 3)... but it's not consistent so far because I'm sort of relying on RNG since
confuse magic seems to work somewhat well against enemies
Also, the rare P4 main sword I have is funny because
it does not actually seal magic consistently in this level anymore despite the fact that it has a super magic seal rating... so using it is kind of out.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
I tried luring it to the lights, but I guess I missed that it wasn't actually going through them. Thanks!
Early on I would sometimes go get a low-level persona to fuse them with, either by pulling from the compendium or dropping back to a previous area.
Later, though, I often (mechanics spoiler)
used them as sacrifices to quickly level personas I was using, wanted to fuse with more skills, or wanted skill cards from.
Yeah, when resources were scarce I kept going back to
ally 1 pain-eating, ally 2 with attack buffed death-counter in the same row, and ally 3 in the back doling out heal stone with others supporting/attacking.
link skills + passives that support them, because passives like the vanguard one with double link
Silence circle skill is saving my ass in the 3rd labyrinth - god, those magarula jerks.
I just tried taking on one of those FOEs in the horror dungeon. Is
life drain
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
put Aigis in the front row, the "better in back" thing is only because of characters using long range weapons.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Aigis is more useful in front IMO
I use Mitsuru in the back because she has a good magic stat. Between Aigis, P4MC, and Kanji in my party, I have enough physical power in the front row.
You have Yosuke as your avatar but you're not using him? For shame.
At the end of the second dungeon, I gotpaired with Teddie. He was so excited
I find it amusing the rabbit got paired with a bear.