I do need specific personas for certain Social Links in the early game. Can someone tell me which personas are the easiest to get at the early game of these Arcanas?

[Mestre999]

I recently bought Persona 3 Reload with everything included (Premium Edition with every DLC + Episode Aigis Expansion), and I'm glad I returned to this game.

Persona 3 Reload was the first Persona game I ever played, and I first played it on Xbox Game Pass.
At that time, I was only playing the base game (I got access to the Expansion thanks to game pass prizes, but it was before the final part of the package was released, Episode Aigis - The Answer).
I didn't have any DLC personas, so I could only play with what the game offered.
Since the Personas were so cool (and still are), I decided to follow a 100% guide to get all of them.

This was the guide: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps5/410283-persona-3-reload/faqs/81159
One of the best ones, because it helped me a lot before. I don't know exactly when I stopped playing the game on Game Pass, but I beat the Boss on 9/5 Saturday, so I believe I did stop playing at some point in September .

Even though I was following the guide with no mistakes, the grinding and such was tiring and boring sometimes, even playing at Peaceful difficulty, grinding normally was boring.
But I did something to cut corners that helped me a lot, way before 9/5.

I broke the early game by beating the Reaper at peaceful difficulty right in July (7/2).
I sacrificed 2 hours to beat the reaper at low-level state, but it was dam worthy.
Leveled Up instantly for me and my partners (those I had unlocked at that time), and whenever I needed Yen, I farmed his bloody buttons to always get max cash in-game (did this everytime time I went to Tartarus).
Even I got to Summon Satan and save it on the compendium by making a fusion between Qitian Dasheng and Garuda, which I got from Persona Cards delivered by the reaper :]

Having Max cash in-game simply gave me the safety that I'd be able to fusion personas with ease, no matter how many times I'd need to summon personas again.

But now that I'm back at the game, with my copy, and all back from the beginning, I realize it's gonna be a bore before I get to the same state as I was before on the Xbox Game Pass, specially getting to 7/2, which was the day the reaper was unlocked. Even at Peaceful, I'm still sure it's gonna take a while before I get to where I want to.

But I realised: Why don't I just make 1 persona of each necessary arcana, so I can remain ranking up the arcana levels when I do the social links until I get to 07/02, where I can beat the reaper again and cut corners as I did before?

I'm playing at Peaceful difficulty, so I can revive myself as many times as I want, and I get more money value when I sell loot and stuff. If I fight the Full-Moon bosses, I won't die from them, so I can beat them with no problem.
And I know I need one matching persona for each social link, so I can rank up my arcana levels.
So I'm fine on skipping persona fusions until I get to 07/02, as long as I do have personas that do rank up the arcana levels on the social links that I'll have to do of the guide. And I also won't die thanks to the infinite revivals, so I'll be fine handling enemies.
As long as I have enough Yen for summoning these personas, I'll be fine.

I'll share here the specific arcanas I need for the social links that I'll have to get through before 07/02:

|Fool|
|Magician|
|Priestess|
|Emperor|
|Hierophant|
|Chariot|
|Justice|
|Hermit|
|Fortune|
|Strength|
|Hanged|
|Death|
|Temperance|
|Moon|

I only need to have in the Compendium 1 of each, to have them whenever I need them for the social links.
And right now, I'm on day 04/22, which is the first time I'm fully able to explore more of the Tartarus, so I'm sure I won't be able to get one persona of each of the following arcana I need at this first run. But I'll try to get others on the other day that I go into Dark Hour (Which would be 5/24).

I can also summon for free only once the DLC's personas, like Arsene and Izanagi, so I don't have to completely make personas for the specific arcana's of social links, which can cut some corners for the social links-arcana ranks up and doesn't force me to make new personas's of each arcana I need.

Anyways, I'll be glad if anyone can share with me which are the easiest personas I can get for each Arcana I shared. This will save me lots of trouble.

Sorry if it's too long, but I needed to be detailed.

Any help is highly appreciated :)

[halohalopm]

I think you don't need Fool and Death to complete social link.

[Minty Boi]

Fool and Death are automatic and progress via story along with Judgement.

I use this site for pretty much all my Persona fusing.
https://aqiu384.github.io/megaten-fusion-tool/home
hope this helps