Blessed Hands or Growth 2

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On 7/11, the player can decide between purchasing the blessed hands accessory or a growth 2 skill card from the shopping channel. Which one do you think is better?

[Shinigami Miroku]

If you're on a new playthrough and need the MC to double up on healing (IIRC Yukiko gets it as her Rank 4 SL reward, which you should easily have by July) then definitely. Otherwise Growth 2 is better.

[bad_fur_day1]

Not sure what blessed hands does exactly but growth is one of the best skills.

[jacobtan]

Growth. Healing skills will be rendered obsolete once you get Mediarahan or Salvation, and these will always restore your HP to the max. You'll start accessing these skills by Oct/Nov or so, so any benefit from Blessed Hands will be rather short-lived. Even if you're short on healing via skills, you can still use the better healing items such as Macca Leaves. On the other hand, Growth 2 can be upgraded to Growth 3 via Shuffle Time, and it will be very useful when you need to train multiple personas.

[Freekill]

I would be really torn if both of them were a skill card.

But since Blessed Hands take up an accessory slot, it depends really if you have only bad accessories.

Growth 2 on the other hand can be passed via fusion, and that's always nice on my book.

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Originally posted by Shinigami Miroku:

If you're on a new playthrough and need the MC to double up on healing (IIRC Yukiko gets it as her Rank 4 SL reward, which you should easily have by July) then definitely. Otherwise Growth 2 is better.

Why would I need the MC to double up on healing?

Originally posted by bad_fur_day1:

Not sure what blessed hands does exactly but growth is one of the best skills.

Recovery magic x 1.5

Originally posted by jacobtan:

Growth. Healing skills will be rendered obsolete once you get Mediarahan or Salvation, and these will always restore your HP to the max. You'll start accessing these skills by Oct/Nov or so, so any benefit from Blessed Hands will be rather short-lived. Even if you're short on healing via skills, you can still use the better healing items such as Macca Leaves. On the other hand, Growth 2 can be upgraded to Growth 3 via Shuffle Time, and it will be very useful when you need to train multiple personas.

Ok, I'll go for growth. Some website says you can get the blessed hands accessory in locked chests in the void quest dungeon. Youthful wind can make blessed hands useful toward the end of the game.

Originally posted by Freekill:

I would be really torn if both of them were a skill card.

But since Blessed Hands take up an accessory slot, it depends really if you have only bad accessories.

Growth 2 on the other hand can be passed via fusion, and that's always nice on my book.

I don't think I would be torn because a lot of players create personae/demons that focus on dealing as much damage as possible.