Understanding Tier 3 Personas
To unlock tier 3 personas for your party members, you need to interact with them during the third semester of the game. Even if their social link is maxed out, hanging out with them once more will trigger their third awakening. This is indicated by a "MAX!!!" card flickering like a rainbow, ensuring you don't miss any necessary interactions [1:4].
Skill Upgrades and Tokens
In New Game Plus (NG+), players can further upgrade their skills using + tokens. These upgrades enhance the abilities beyond their initial state, providing additional benefits such as increased damage or status effects. To achieve this, you may need to perform certain moves multiple times or grind in specific areas like the training arena [3:1]
[3:4]. While not all skills benefit equally from these upgrades, some can significantly enhance gameplay
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Experience Gain Mechanics
Experience gain in Persona 3: Reload can be complex due to anti-grind mechanics and experience splitting among party members. Experience points are distributed between characters and their personas, which might not match the displayed values after battles. Additionally, being over-leveled results in reduced experience gains, encouraging players to face stronger enemies for optimal leveling [5:1]
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Cheat Codes and Skill Cards
For those using cheat codes to unlock all personas in the compendium, it's important to note that these personas may lack skills initially. To remedy this, players can use cheats to acquire skill cards, allowing them to equip their personas with desired abilities [2:1].
Speed Enhancements
While not directly related to unlocking abilities, players interested in speeding up gameplay can explore options like hyper and hurry modes, or even external tools like Cheat Engine on PC for faster progression [4:2]
[4:3]. However, these methods come with risks and may affect the overall gaming experience.
title. idk how to unlock tier 3s for my party members. do i just have to hang out with them on the map, even though it says they're max? will that do it?
Yep. Hang out with them once and they’ll unlock them. Alternatively, their “MAX!!!” card will be flickering like a rainbow which can help you make sure you don’t need to talk to anyone else
I'm doing this now in my second run. I didn't get to do yuskue the first time because I failed to max him out before the new semester
Having maxed out all of them, I can personally say Yusuke's t3 skill was my favorite of them all. Lobster boy carried the team as support through the final boss and reaper fights.
You can also max him out during the 3rd semester and still get his 3rd awakening.
thanks!
Hello, I've been using a cwcheat to get all the personas in the compendium, but they have no skills. Help?
Don’t cheat
I've already beaten the game, just trying to beat it with cheats now.
Fuuka: gasp your cheating!
Use cheats to get skill cards.
Thanks!
Finishing up my 3rd New Game Plus play through and I JUST noticed this. All your skills can be upgraded even further with + tokens.
If you look at the pic I posted, the plus skills on the left kinda glow. The ones on the right are active but not upgraded. They do not glow.
omg me too i found this out literally only the other week on accident and then just let out the biggest groan of wow all my ng+ files are actually not at 100% and now i have to grind muspelheim even more for xp. good to know i'm not the only one tho hahaha
It took me 3 NG+ to naturally get materials to upgrade every single item. Having a little extra damage, stun or status definitely would have helped.
I believe this is available even in the base game, you just have to do the move a certain amount of times.
Go to the training arena and grind then there, it's the easiest way to do it Or do it on tanky enemies
I think he's talking about a ng+ feature where you can upgrade a already upgraded skill you can see some glow while some don't
Yup. Exactly.
I think they explain this at some point
Yeah I had it for like 2 or 3 of them, and figured it was just those 2 or 3 that were upgradable. Not ALL of them lol.
ive been playing the new dlc and i can beat all the bosses in around 10 mins (at 3x speed) so i have to just wait 7 minutes for the stage to end for stage completion and it sure would be nice to have more speed boosts with a debuff like +1x speed and 2x enemy hp and dmg upgrades
If you're in PC you can download Cheat Engine and run the game at x100 and pray your computer doesn't crash lol
With hyper and hurry modes enabled, it’s going to be difficult to do anything faster than 3x speed on top that.
Egg up your move speed, and you’ll start to rethink that pretty quickly.
How do you unlock 3x speed? I saw my friend can but I can't
i think you unlock it from doing the coop or atleast i got it around the same time they added the coop
It won't be fun, when you have to do something thats boring it gets better everytime and that's one of the reasons this game worked
How exactly does it work? I wanted to get to lvl 15 for a certain fusion before I end my grind for this calendar day in game, but the exp numbers don't seem to match what you get?
I was 168 EXP to next level, won a battle that said I got 90 EXP, then when I went to status it said I have 154 EXP to go?
Even if the EXP was split six ways between the three characters and three personas, that should be 15 EXP each instead of 14 EXP?
Is there something I missed?
I did a controlled experiment. Exp is split up between teammates/personas and isn’t really the same exp that is displayed. There’s other variables as well. If you’re over leveled you will get less exp. I tried solo running my MC to get him op like in P3P but it wasn’t working. The score would say 98exp gained but I only gained 23. Note my MC was 19 soloing floors 17-20ish floors. I stopped once I seen it didn’t work.
But fun recommendation! Try to get the toy bow! Rare monster can get enraged by it making grinding SUPER EASY for lvling 18-23ish. And don’t forget the fortune teller as well!
Will I get bonus XP if I’m under leveled?
I deleted previous comment since I did the experiment! Yesish? 👍. I did a run with Junpei lvl 23 and MC lvl 26 with no avaricious ring on a higher lvl floor (24-25 lvl) floor 66 so I can figure out the lvling. Junpei did gain 60exp more than MC. The leveling system seems to cap once you hit a threshold but you will still get exp regardless just not as much. If your characters are under leveled it will spike quickly! I noticed this since I like to do a single run through Tartar sauce lol and a second run if I’m not comfortable with my lvl (I beated P3P and I personally have PTSD from the final boss and 🫡 to those who beat P3 OG) But I would recommend always even though pricey but buy Avaricious Ring to help under lvled characters. You will want certain characters for your final boss fight that can buff and debuff so MC can use strong attacks or magic against the final boss! —take note: I’m playing on normal— This May variable with difficulty
I will say reaper is probably your best bet at exp farming but don’t fight one till your high enough lvl. They are extremely hard fights and you need to be already a high enough lvl to even think about it. Unless there is some exploit idk about
So I ran test. I got 39 exp at the end of battle, the MC, Yukari, and Junpei all got 6 exp while only the reason I used in battle got 13 exp. Not sure where the remaining 7 exp went though.
I also ran a test. I'm at the 3rd block where enemies still want to fight me and I'm not much over the enemy level. Did a test with just me and aigis. Got 941 xp and everyone (including fuuka) got 277. That leaves 110 xp going into the void. I'm not really sure what's happening
If it's like original I believe there is anti grind mechanics that reduce xp gain on lower level enemies.
It tries to always push you to equal or stronger enemies to get proper xp rates.
The original does not work like that, I just finished replaying P3P.
P3P isn’t the original. It’s the portable. The mechanics were different for both. I never played P3 but I did play P3P and the same way I got my MC op isn’t working for P3R
Lv difference between unit and averaged rnemy party also applies an ex multiplier. You get less if your level is higher
I've already picked up several different skills, some are at level 2, but I choose them and they just don't appear, besides that after lv 30 I can't level up my stats at the academy, even after the braker limit, I can only level up with Urahara's missions
Your sword isn’t out bro, and you can’t rise your stats above 30 in the gym/academy, and when you get your resurrection you have to activate it to use the resurrection abilities
I forgot to include there’s a max bind(skills you can have in your hotbar) you can switch skill by n or meditate and talking to your spirit
Oooohh, thanks I had no idea
A. Gym stat cap is 30, but you can get stars on your stats which act as exp multipliers for that stat
B. Your skills are probably in your inventory or you have too many skills and need to swap them out, press N to access inner world and change them, press the backpack icon to get them from your inventory
bro doesn't know the fundamentals of being an arrancar
Do not hybrid build
A bit late but the higher in your prog the more skills you can equip ie, before first release cap of 3 combat 1 support and 1 evasive, first release 4 combat skills 1 support 1 evasive, second release 5 combat skills 1 support and 1 evasive, you can sacrifice combat slots for more supports but it isn’t recommended
Trying to get agilao
You can also get a copy of the Agilao skill card from shuffle time on the Yabbashah floors, which makes sense as that's around the time you unlock Mothman (assuming that's why you need it)
It was a level 6 shuffle time skill card option, I got mine on floor 89, good luck.
What about Agidyne? Trying to work up Orpheus for mid-game usage.
I got you covered 😎👌 https://aqiu384.github.io/megaten-fusion-tool/p3r/skills
Yes, you can purchase them with materials you get from chests & items that shadow's drop from the antique shop next to the pharmacy. It doesn't unlock until about the 3rd block of Tartarus.
Well I still can’t get the specific cards I need, her selection is only so big.
Is there a way to expand it? Or do we not know yet?
I'll have to check, but I think the card selection expands as you progress through the game.
Nice, thanks
I've spent 5 fucking hours grinding Yabbashah for an agilao skill card and still can't get it
Did you ever get it? Because I'm on hour 7 and still nothing.
I got it after saving then reloading it popped after the second battle. Probably a coincidence really...
first time playing through and i saw that there are requirements to unlock the the third semester. is it something i have to do early on or will it become very apparent later?
You need to get rank 9 with a certain male confidant before the 18th of November.
God damn hope so. First time playing! And trynna have the best experience
Max the new Male confidant.
I'm slowly becoming convinced that Maruki may be one of the most beneficial confidants in the game so far. Just started getting into palace #4 last night and his confidant skills have helped me soooo much
Yea he has decent buffs and the increase to max sp dont hurt a bit
That’s it. Didn’t know why I couldn’t pick advanced locks. I pressed J.
Enjoy that roll! It's a game changer
Until the muscle memory from other games kick in and you just straight up roll into a crowd of zombies instead of crouching :D
i keep messing it up when im tryna parkour especially bc my mind goes to c when i wanna crouch and i just roll off the platform haha
Change your keybinds?
Same I was spamming buttons to go back to first person and it appeared 😂
I’m just finding this out?!
I was around that same playtime when I figured this out as well. Your not alone
So I’m replaying P5R. I am currently at Okumura’s palace.
My is level 44 and when I fuse new Persona’s they gain a shitload of experience which causes them to be really strong. Too strong. This happened in Futaba’s palace as well. I’m either one shotting enemies- or knocking them all down and doing all out attacks. I have access to really powerful spells such as Mabufudyne, Megidola, Concentrate, Charge and Diarahan. I don’t think I should have abilities that strong at the fifth palace. The enemies still use medium damage attacks.
It’s even worse during alarms:
For example I fused Kushinada at level 42. She ended up being level 47. I then did the Gallows once so I could get Psiodyne for the palace and Okumura boss, now she’s level 50.
Is it because of the arcana burst and the fact I actually payed attention to confidants this play through?
It’s the arcana burst perk you get from Igor. Personas gain exp. based on the arcana that they share with one your confidants, you usually get one level increase per every two ranks in a confidant. Also try playing on Hard if aren’t already, Merciless is technically easier and Normal is easier than Hard.
That explains why Kushinada was so powerful. My lovers confidant is rank 10.
I’ll do another NG on hard if I play it again. I never did NG+ though. Why did my stupid ass start a new new game?
Yeah it's definitely Arcana burst. Have you considered upping the game difficulty? Either way i've always considered p5 to be relatively easy, especially on NG+
that's just how the game is. you can avoid fights to stop leveling so much, or not go in with a full party for higher challenge. no AOA if you've only got joker.
Why is Arsene so weak considering he's Jokers main
How to unlock all new abilities in Persona 3: Reload
Unlocking New Abilities in Persona 3: Reload
Social Links: Building relationships with characters is crucial. Focus on maxing out Social Links, as they often unlock new abilities and enhance your Personas.
Leveling Up Personas: As you level up your Personas through combat and fusion, they will gain new skills. Experiment with different combinations in the Velvet Room to create stronger Personas with unique abilities.
Combat Skills: Participate in battles regularly to gain experience points. As your character levels up, you will unlock new skills and abilities automatically.
Skill Cards: Collect Skill Cards throughout the game. These can be used to teach your Personas new abilities, allowing for more customization.
Quests and Events: Complete side quests and participate in special events. Some quests may reward you with unique abilities or items that can enhance your skills.
New Game Plus: After completing the game, consider starting a New Game Plus. This mode often allows you to carry over abilities and unlock additional content.
Recommendation: Focus on balancing your time between combat and Social Links to maximize your ability unlocks. Prioritize characters that resonate with your playstyle to enhance your overall experience.
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