Does having a higher lvl persona on me nerf my exp?

[daddypigp99]

So I am in the first Palace now and just went through the tutorial of how to fuse personas and such. I was messing around in the different menus and saw it's possible to buy personas as well. There was a bunch of yellow named personas with high levels, like lvl 60+ etc that cost $0.

I picked up a lvl 65 one (Thanatos) and have it on me, although not equipped. I've been using my lvl 5 Chariot persona. However, I noticed I am only getting like 5-8exp per fight. Is that normal exp gains? Or is it nerfed because I have this high level persona?

Also, why was there so many free high level personas in the first place?

[Killance]

No.

Player exp and persona exp are separate. The only thing that affects experience gain is difficulty.

[Fyuun]

Persona 5 Royal Steam edition has not only P5R, but all DLCs ever released for P5 and P5R. All Personas who are "free" are just DLC content.

Don't worry, you can't destroy your experience if you accidentally bought one of the overpowered Personas. You can "overwrite" this overpowered Persona if you "catch" a Persona when all Persona slots are full. The Persona isn't lost, but you need to buy them back from the same person who gave it to you for free if you overwrite it.

But if you never use this Persona (you can chose which Persona your main character uses in the middle of the battle), it doesn't influence your combat at all.

[daddypigp99]

Originally posted by Fyuun:

Persona 5 Royal Steam edition has not only P5R, but all DLCs ever released for P5 and P5R. All Personas who are "free" are just DLC content.

Don't worry, you can't destroy your experience if you accidentally bought one of the overpowered Personas. You can "overwrite" this overpowered Persona if you "catch" a Persona when all Persona slots are full. The Persona isn't lost, but you need to buy them back from the same person who gave it to you for free if you overwrite it.

But if you never use this Persona (you can chose which Persona your main character uses in the middle of the battle), it doesn't influence your combat at all.

Ok good to know. So having it on me doesn't passively increase my characters damage, evasion or any type of combat related things then, correct?

It would only matter if I actually summoned the persona in battle, and then used 1 of its abilities on an enemy?

[woodhawk109]

No,

The free high level Persona are from old DLC. They are extremely broken and OP and probably should have been an option to disable them while still getting the other DLCs

Your character's stats is influenced by the currently equipped Persona. IF you equip Thanatos, his stats become your stats, same with his weaknesses. So yes, if you use Thanatos in the early game, you can basically solo the palace with just Joker

[MakiMaki]

Originally posted by Fyuun:

Don't worry, you can't destroy your experience if you accidentally bought one of the overpowered Personas. You can "overwrite" this overpowered Persona if you "catch" a Persona when all Persona slots are full. The Persona isn't lost, but you need to buy them back from the same person who gave it to you for free if you overwrite it.

You can also just outright get rid of Personas you don't want to have with you in the Persona menu (by pressing the "Options"-Button on PS4 controller).

Originally posted by woodhawk109:

They are extremely broken and OP and probably should have been an option to disable them while still getting the other DLCs

This might sound a bit cheeky, but the option is called "just not summoning them". :P DLC Personas are clearly marked by a different text colour and are the only ones that cost 0¥, so accidentally summoning one shouldn't be an issue :)

[daddypigp99]

On the topic of DLC stuff... Im guessing thats where I got all of these different necklaces and such that give like more money, or 15% exp boost etc. ?

Out of all the DLCs necklaces, which would be the most beneficial to use, but that isn't cheesy / game breaking / overpowered etc. like the personas are?

[The Drink]

Well if you want my take on it, I had beat it once on PS4 and for the first dungeon, the Camera Strap makes this part of the game a breeze. It works by giving you something like 3% HP AND 10 SP per turn on Ambush; the main way you'll be starting fights. In the early moments of the game where sp is vital and spells cast 3/4 sp a tick, this accessory is ridiculous. Other than that I used the 15% XP accessory. I'm not someone who optimizes games to a degree, but assuming you just want to equip and forget, I used those.