I want to start playing Persona 3 and have a question.

[Pixelspeech]

Hello Escapist, new meat here!

I recently obtained Persona 3 (the regular one) and started last night with the introductions. I played Persona 4 before, but I never felt like I was playing that game right. I just maxed out my social links asap and then just produced new personas every time I offed a new boss, never training the ones I already had (Izanagi stayed level 8 all throughout the game).

What strategy would you suggest for making it through Persona 3 in regards to managing Personas?

 

[Pixelspeech]

Hello Escapist, new meat here!

I recently obtained Persona 3 (the regular one) and started last night with the introductions. I played Persona 4 before, but I never felt like I was playing that game right. I just maxed out my social links asap and then just produced new personas every time I offed a new boss, never training the ones I already had (Izanagi stayed level 8 all throughout the game).

What strategy would you suggest for making it through Persona 3 in regards to managing Personas?

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Welcome to the Escapist! Enjoy your stay, just remember to not go near the basement and to not go near miss Susan Arendt with anything resembling a donut.

Right, your question. Training persona's is very inefficient and the way you were managing your persona's in P4 is indeed the way to go; try to fuse persona's from the arcana's you've got a decent S. Link with and you'll be fine.

Grinding is pretty inefficnient as well. The difference in level between you and the enemy shadow is a huge factor in Exp calculation, so unless you can't beat a boss or something, grinding isn't necessary either, especially since I found P3 easier than P4.

Hope that helps!

 

[Pixelspeech]

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Thank you kindly for the advice, glad to know I am not too big of a screw-up. So your advice is just to keep doing what I did, but don't reserve days for grinding?

 

[Pixelspeech]

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Thank you!

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Thank you kindly for the advice, glad to know I am not too big of a screw-up. So your advice is just to keep doing what I did, but don't reserve days for grinding?

There's a huge difference in time management between P3 and P4, namely the fact that whereas in P4 you had to pick between S. Linking and dungeon crawling as a day consuming activity, P3 lets you do both on the same day.

Nighttime in P3 is Dungeon exploring time, and daytime is for Social Linking and Stat grinding. My recommended order of stat grinding would be Courage > Charm > Intelligence

Now off to exploring Tartarus with you!

 

[Pixelspeech]

Thank you kindly for the advice, glad to know I am not too big of a screw-up. So your advice is just to keep doing what I did, but don't reserve days for grinding?

There's a huge difference in time management between P3 and P4, namely the fact that whereas in P4 you had to pick between S. Linking and dungeon crawling as a day consuming activity, P3 lets you do both on the same day.

Nighttime in P3 is Dungeon exploring time, and daytime is for Social Linking and Stat grinding. My recommended order of stat grinding would be Courage > Charm > Intelligence

Now off to exploring Tartarus with you!

I shall not disappoint you!