Do you enjoy building early game personas?

[Chopsteak]

I was curious if there were any players that liked to build up early game personas they were fans of or if players are just interested in building the more powerful endgame personas?

I am a fan of Jack Frost and Pyro Jack (Jack O Lantern) so I like to try and build them up with end game skills and pump up their stats.

Jack Frost
Diamond Dust
Concentrate
Spell Master
Single-Target Boost
Drain Fire
Ice Boost
Ice Amp
Freeze Boost

Pyro Jack
Inferno
Concentrate
Heat Riser
Spell Master
Drain Ice
Single-Target Boost
Fire Boost
Fire Amp

I know it is not optimal in the slightest to do this, but does anyone else find it fun to do? Are there any early personas you like to keep for the long haul?

[Hanzo]

If you try to have those personas I would suggest you to create support persona that has
Concentrate and Heat Riser, so it wouldn't take your slots with it. Ideally you want something that doesn't have weaknesses to have
Spell Master
Concentrate
Debiliate
Salvation (or any other heal)

I don't really think that Heat Riser is good. I would use Matarukaja for better effect (you could always ask Navi to use her skill to have raku/suku kajas)

[Chopsteak]

Originally posted by Hanzo:

If you try to have those personas I would suggest you to create support persona that has
Concentrate and Heat Riser, so it wouldn't take your slots with it. Ideally you want something that doesn't have weaknesses to have
Spell Master
Concentrate
Debiliate
Salvation (or any other heal)

I don't really think that Heat Riser is good. I would use Matarukaja for better effect (you could always ask Navi to use her skill to have raku/suku kajas)

I normally like just building those two just for fun but never really know what would be the absolute best way.

I appreciate the advice, it makes me want to try and find a more optimal way of building them and figure out what kind of crazy team I can build around those two.

[Lynfinity]

Does Sati count? Not exactly an early-game Persona, but level 29 is still pretty early, methinks.

Her build is still WIP, but when everything is said and done, it should look like this:
- Brave Blade
- Agidyne
- Slash Amp
- Fire Amp
- Apt Pupil
- Single-Target Boost
- Enduring Soul
- Drain Ice

Transferring skills that cannot be obtained via Skill Cards is too late at this point, I've spent too much incenses on her. As of right now, she's at level 52, end of October, and her stats are higher than what most end-game Personas have by default:

STR 61
MAG 76
END 44
AGI 64
LUCK 43

[Chopsteak]

Originally posted by Lynfinity:

Does Sati count? Not exactly an early-game Persona, but level 29 is still pretty early, methinks.

Her build is still WIP, but when everything is said and done, it should look like this:
- Brave Blade
- Agidyne
- Slash Amp
- Fire Amp
- Apt Pupil
- Single-Target Boost
- Enduring Soul
- Drain Ice

Transferring skills that cannot be obtained via Skill Cards is too late at this point, I've spent too much incenses on her. As of right now, she's at level 52, end of October, and her stats are higher than what most end-game Personas have by default:

STR 61
MAG 76
END 44
AGI 64
LUCK 43

Yes Sati counts. I always think it is cool when players come up with interesting builds to use personas that aren't the typical endgame, high level choices like Messiah, Lucifer, Shiva, Metatron etc. It might not be the most optimal way to play but, damn is it cool to see the dedication players can put into a lower level person to keep them usable throughout the course of the game.

I feel you on the too late for skills that are not attached to cards, the stats I pumped into Jack Frost and Pyro Jack would be wasted if I were to try and refuse them now, have to find a different solution for tweaking their skills.

Thanks for sharing your build.

[Arisato]

I consider building fire Angel for NG+ since there there are not many fire personas I like.

[Hymnos]

Is there a faster way to raise Persona stats?

[Chopsteak]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Is there a faster way to raise Persona stats?

What I have been doing is on a new game + is equipping Jack Frost and ignoring everything and just going to the arcade day and night daily. Doing this everyday helps to raise the stats St, Ma, and Ag. Unfortunately the arcade does not boost En or Lu. I have also been using the stock of stat booster cards saved up to dump onto Jack Frost.

Other than the arcade, stat boosting cards you can find or trade at the antique shop I am not really sure of a faster way to boost stats. There were a couple major arcana cards you could get during shuffle time to boost stats and the link episodes with Ryoji also gave a stat boost to currently equipped persona.

Currently I have a level 46 Jack Frost with St 99, Ma 99, En 58, Ag 99 and Lu 73. I have to speed back through the story now to get access to the antique shop to try and help quickly boost En and Lu.

Originally posted by Arisato:

I consider building fire Angel for NG+ since there there are not many fire personas I like.

You should go for it! There is something really satisfying about building a persona you like.

[Arisato]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Is there a faster way to raise Persona stats?

Arcade for str agi magic. Everything else use incense.

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by Arisato:

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Is there a faster way to raise Persona stats?

Arcade for str agi magic. Everything else use incense.

Yea, its kinda suck when doing arcade or injecting incense are the only way to raise persona stats, they should add sacrifice fusion feature like in P5R to raise persona stats much faster

[Arisato]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Originally posted by Arisato:

Arcade for str agi magic. Everything else use incense.

Yea, its kinda suck when doing arcade or injecting incense are the only way to raise persona stats, they should add sacrifice fusion feature like in P5R to raise persona stats much faster

If you have tons of money go to Escapade and buy lots of onyx, topaz and amethyst. Trade all of that for incense 2. You can also buy diamond and opal for incense 3 on the last day iirc but that is way too expensive.

[redkoala]

I like to farm all out attack shuffles and I'm kinda lazy, so I've kept Hu Pao with all the basic single target skills (zio etc) and a High Pixie with the multi target versions so I can hit targets with just enough weakness to guarantee an AOA. Other than those two, I've traded up with actual builds while trying to fill out the compendium.

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by Arisato:

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Yea, its kinda suck when doing arcade or injecting incense are the only way to raise persona stats, they should add sacrifice fusion feature like in P5R to raise persona stats much faster

If you have tons of money go to Escapade and buy lots of onyx, topaz and amethyst. Trade all of that for incense 2. You can also buy diamond and opal for incense 3 on the last day iirc but that is way too expensive.

Oh hey I never thought of that, thx bruh

[Endora]

I really-really hate insta-kill, so in P3P I have a lvl 99 Neko Shogun (wich have default null dark and null light) with all stats maximized. Here I didn't try to do it yet because I'm using a prevent-death acessory, but it seems it's something to do next.

[Chopsteak]

Originally posted by Endora:

I really-really hate insta-kill, so in P3P I have a lvl 99 Neko Shogun (wich have default null dark and null light) with all stats maximized. Here I didn't try to do it yet because I'm using a prevent-death acessory, but it seems it's something to do next.

Now that is awesome. Neko Shogun for the long haul.

[Chopsteak]

Originally posted by Arisato:

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Yea, its kinda suck when doing arcade or injecting incense are the only way to raise persona stats, they should add sacrifice fusion feature like in P5R to raise persona stats much faster

If you have tons of money go to Escapade and buy lots of onyx, topaz and amethyst. Trade all of that for incense 2. You can also buy diamond and opal for incense 3 on the last day iirc but that is way too expensive.

Now that is a good idea.