Persona 4- I has SECRET laboratory yes. I am glad to be stuck back into the action as the summer hols were filled with working on SLinks as much as was humanely possible. I even cut out on doing my homework (until the game forced me to do it) and helping Nanako with hers. I is MONSTER. Her SLink was already maxxed! Oh well. Summer is a good time to work on Rise, I think I'll be able to max her this time before this run ends ^_^ I did use a week to help Yosuke at Junes. I probably shouldn't have done that, could have spent the time with other SLinks. At this point I have MAX Tower, Devil, Death, Nanako and Dojima. Yosuke's at L9 (yes I've been neglecting him!) and I've pushed Young Mother to L8. Should be able to add them to list of finished soon. I am worried about Ai, she didn't rank up during the summer and was below L5 before summer. Managed to push her to L5 since school has restarted though. It was the same with Saki's brother but I have him above L5 now because he's appeared more often than Ai >_>
Twink and tweaking wise I have shoes for Chie w/th counter physicals high odds. Equipped. Or she can opt for the slippers from fishing that add +2 to all stats. I dunno why she'd want to do that though. Teddie has the shiny Red Suit from fishing (+20% physical resist) and an overdose of new claws. Medium odds of various stati on Ted's claws too which is nice. It might just be me but it seems that rainy day drops become less rare as the game goes on with the enemies that drop them appearing in groups of five at once/with multiple groups of them in the dungeon.
I missed out on the Cute Assasin (I'm guessing either a Yosuke weapon or another fan for Yukiko) because I left the rest of my fishing to the last day and then Nanako was like WATERMELONS but overall I'm happy with all the tweaking from rainy drops/fishing/shopping show.
Still using Chie/Teddie/Yukiko =-)
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SO3 stuff-* I liked the within five minutes Sophia more than the Sophia that rejoins honestly. Casual!clothes Sophia is your typical speak what's on your mind girl and it's supposed to mimic banter between real life bf/gfs I think. To get your own back you can even tease her about the sweets she ate. That's great. Yeah I'll take the early game stuff over the more blatant Mary!Sue anyday.
* From the "now I'm actually used to the battle system" you've figured out how to cancel bonus % Yoshi I take it?
Good stuffs.
* General advice/tips/info -
- You can toggle spells for your AI to use on/off in the symbology menu. This is important because for when they have enough spells they will often as not go spam spell crazy casting random crappy spells when they could actually be doing something useful like using their more powerful battle spells or even healing/support. It's also not good for charas like Nel w/th crappy recovery times to start trying to cast spells smack bang in the middle of an enemy group >_>
Just pick and chose. YMMV but I usually do something like -
Fayt - All off.
Nel - All off. Except Healing depending on my team build/tactics. Or Healing/Thunder Flare
Adray - All offensive spells except Thunder Flare off. For the most part all healing/support on.
Sophia - Everything OFF - because she has a godawful casting time. Thunder Flare/Explosion/Stone Rain should be set to chain as battle skills and Adray is the better heal/support mage. If not Adray anyone -but- Sophia with Healing >_>
* Raise HP and MP w/th SP in the status section of the battle skills menu for your PC and HP/MP and Attack (governs how your AI uses cancel bonus, etc) for AI. You probably already know this but yeah.
* Complete maps and sell the bunnies for £?
Keep one bunny for the speed % but they don't stack.
* Use your £ from selling bunnies to buy the expensive overpowered Airyglyph weapons if you want. This could break disc 1 though depending. If breakage is your cup of tea though hell yeah!
* There is an armour for Nel in the Granah Hills that boosts her DEF significantly to the point where she takes 0 damage from enemies in the training facility. At least I think it was the Granah Hills armour and the set up might also need accessories that slightly boost DEF too. Symbol of Courage I think. It's been too long.
* Game BREAKING/money moves
Cliff - Hammer of MIGHT!
Nel - Whirlwind (SL4+), Ice Daggers
I'm not sure if Ice Daggers is pegged as game breaking exactly but it's certainly damn useful and considering Nel doesn't learn WW till L25 >_>
Fayt ... is complicated. He's really quite "meh" until L40 and Air RAID! There's Side KICK but that's still rather meh at least in comparison to the other characters. Fayt is quite awesme if you care to get into the complicated though with extended juggle combos using elemental blade skills w/th passives like Increase HP or Increase MP damage. Long O, Short X, X w/th Blazing Sword + Increase HP damage to hit weakness on a fire weak enemy for example. The damage can go through the roof when combining passives and hitting elemental weaknesses with the blades yeah.
Not going to cover the other characters yet because yeah.
That should do for now I think =-)
