Whatever you do MAKE SURE TO FINISH THE COUNCILOR ARCANA BEFORE THE END OF THE NOVEMBER ARC. Doing so unlocks (in my opinion) the best arc in the entire persona series.

Priority social links

Fortune: Once per day, you can pay to choose a social stat to boost. Any points you gain for the chosen stat that day will be increased by 50% (rounded down). Additionally, once per day, you can pay to choose a social link that's not ready to rank up yet, and immediately gain extra points for that link without spending time.

There are other abilities, too, but those two alone will easily save you about two weeks worth of time slots at least.

 

Temperance: On specific days, you will gain free time during class to work on social stats or other tasks. You will be able to do various minor activities such as cooking or crafting by spending money instead of time. Most importantly, once the link is maxed out, doing a dungeon run during the day will no longer take up your night slot as well.

Again, depending on how much you use it, this will save at least two weeks worth of time slots.

 

Chariot: Rank 7 will allow you to instantly kill any enemy that's 10+ levels lower than you simply by dashing at it on the field. This gives you all the EXP, Money, and Item rewards you would have got from the battle anyways, as well as the Persona you could have gotten by negotiating. Massively speeds up trips back through lower levels of the basic dungeon, and if you overlevel enough, can completely trivialize the main dungeons as well.

 

Sun, Star, and Moon also give fairly useful abilities.

 

Councillor is required in order to unlock most of the new content in Royal, however, NOT finishing Councillor is required in order to get the original endings. Whether that's worth it or not is up to you, but keep a back-up save in early November with Councillor at rank 8 just in case.

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Believe it or not, the subreddit has an "algorithm" -- not a hardcore day-by-day guide, but a collection of tips for raising stats AND general prioritizing suggestions like you asked for.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Persona5/s/qBb0PckMBT

If that's TL;DR there's this comment that lists a rough monthly set of priorities.

ALSO: you know Marie and her SL unlocking things right? Use the subreddit FAQ to learn which SL is the equivalent for Royal in allowing you to see additional content. will grant you access to additional stuff!

P4G's a lil infamous for all the early endings, but P5 is much easier to spot when you have an important choice (yes/no question) in lategame. You're a heavy completionist so you know using the matching Arcana helps etc, basically good luck and enjoy!

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There are. Though I don't think that their markers are any different from the other side quests. It would be nice if they had an indicator that this quest is specific to this party member. I almost got Yuffie for the date sequence my first playthrough because I hadn't done enough Tifa quests yet. Would have been nice to know which ones were Tifa ones cause I spent an awful lot of time searching them out. You could also use a guide that lists the quests according to character - though going that route could spoil something.

This is only an issue on first playthroughs. NewGame+ playthroughs keep track of what you've already done including relationship status info.

The green quests will each have a specific party member tied to it, their face will appear on the quest screen once you’ve accepted it I believe? Doing these, unlocking folios and using the synergy skills, as well as convos in the major towns will all increase relationship status

As far as I know there are a total of 36 side quests in this game. You get 7 side quests dedicated to each party member (Tifa/Aerith/Barrett/Yuffie/Red). That's already 35. The last one (Can't Stop Won't Stop) is hidden and only unlocks when all 35 are completed.

The main draw of the third awakening is the skill. I.e. 

Makoto's does Debilitate to all enemies for 45 SP.

Ryuji provides Charge for the whole team.

Futaba revives all teammates, heals everyone to full health, boosts everyone's attack, defense,  and agility, removes all status ailments, boosts everyone's critical rate...and maybe provides Charge and Concentrate. Not sure about that part.

Focus on Futaba and Sumire. Then any 3rd awakenings. The others are too far away. Iwai is probably fine since he’s nights only.

Depends on if you want to max confidants or have broken third awakening skills. Ann casts party-wide concentrate, morgana has multi target miracle punch, and haru has party-wide tetrakarn and makarakarn.

When you max them, yusuke has party-wide heat riser and futaba has a skill that combines the effects of salvation, samarecarm, heat riser, and rebellion for the whole party. The skill will also help party members who have been knocked down back on their feet so they can evade once more if more enemies are going to attack. The only catch is that its random when this skill comes out.

The 3rd awakening skills of ann(mind charges everyone),ryuji(power charges everyone) and makoto(debilitates every shadow) are goated asf, so go for thaf

It’s up to you, but remember, if you finish a confidant in the 3rd semester, you can also get their third awakening.

For example: say you get Futaba to level 10, she’ll get her second awakening, then you go manually talk to her after that, she’ll ask to talk and you can get her third awakening/ability.

Personally, I would prioritize the thieves (because the third awakening abilities are (mostly) insane), but if you don’t care about strength, then it’s up to you what you do. If you wanna finish some people’s stories then you should go for those rather than trying to make the strongest thing you can :)

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The secret bosses in chapters 2 and 4 are about as difficult to find as the chapter 1 secret boss. You should be able to find them without much help. 

The chapter 3 secret boss is a bit harder to find, but if you're playing through the game trying to find all the secrets, you'll probably be able to find it.

None of them are very esoteric. You might need to be willing to reload saves or even replay chapters to check things a bit more thoroughly.

There is one variation of a boss that is only playable in very very specific conditions and that is esoteric and unlikely to be found, but it's just a twist on an existing boss fight and doesn't really "count" for most folk.

it's absolutely possible but you'll need a lot of patience! (read further if you want a few small hints)

In my opinion, chapter 1's secret boss is actually the hardest to figure out on your own. You'll have to find 3 different broken key pieces. You're right, the shopkeeper will give you a hint along with one of the pieces. You'll have to explore a bit to find the other two :)

Chapter 2 is pretty straightforward as long as you pay attention to a certain special character. Find them and they'll give you directions on what to do.

Chapter 3 is easy to find but also the most challenging to actually get the required item to defeat the secret boss. You won't have to venture far out to find exactly where you need to be.

Chapter 4 is the easiest to find imo. It's the only secret boss I found on my own actually. A little backtracking will do you good!

and just so you know, 3 out of 4 bosses require a special item to find or defeat them, so keep a look out!

You'll basically just need to backtrack a bit for most of them.

Oh yeah, when you do the secret in Chapter 3, you should *pay careful attention to the dialogue you'll see there*. That's all I'm gonna say about that.