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Staltran
Jan 3, 2013

Fallen Rib

Twelve by Pies posted:

I guess that makes sense, even if it's confusing. It would be weird to change Joker's Persona's stats after he equipped it.

So uh, goddamn, Alice's Die For Me! is absolutely useless on Merciless. Cast it about twelve times on a dark weak enemy before they actually died. Level might be part of the chances to hit, I would assume, and every Shadow at this point in the game is level 99 while my Alice is only 92.

I do appreciate Alice has a special Showtime unique to her.

Huh, either you got really unlucky or something weird is going on. I'm pretty sure my Alice was only 93 for a long time and Die For Me usually only took about 1-3 tries against enemies weak to curse, maybe a couple tries more if they had health bars.

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Staltran
Jan 3, 2013

Fallen Rib

Ytlaya posted:

A tip for anyone else who ran into the same issue - the "make it to location without increasing security level" requests can be easily done if you just shoot any risky enemies with your gun. At first I thought that the only way you could fight enemies without increasing security level was to ambush them, leading to some frustration for the Shinjuku one.

edit: Is it just me or are Charge/Concentrate not very good in this? It seems like the only thing they might be useful for is casting the top-level magics, since prior to that magic costs roughly the same amount of SP as Concentrate/Charge. In the original games they were a bigger deal because of things being turn-based.

Some of those quests are still pretty annoying on merciless, since the jail's security will go up immediately if an enemy notices you instead of only if they start the fight before you shoot them. E.g. in Sapporo you need to watch the dots on the minimap to know when it's safe to move/slide to the next roof.

To make things worse I'm pretty sure charge/concentrate stack additively instead of multiplicatively with weaknesses and technicals. So just casting the spell twice will often do more damage. Alice gets concentrate in her combos though, so that's nice for saving sp. i don't think anyone gets free charge, but I still used it a lot just because I had a persona with charge next to Yoshitsune and my only healing was Salvation on Metatron several more button presses away.

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