Persona 4 "Need help" - General Discussion

#1 Posted by MrPilkington (627 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

I'm on 6/30 of the year and currently trying to do the dungeon where I have to save Rise. I'm having a really tough time with this dungeon, where's I'm clearly not prepared as well. I know I only have two more floors to go, but my health and SP are both so low that I may need to bow out and come back the next day. What is the deadline to finish the dungeon? Is it the end of the month? Does that mean that I would have to start all the way over in the month or what? Also, if someone could give me some general tips to prepare better and what social links I should really be investing in that would be much appreciated. I've noticed that I need to get the Hermit social link up so I don't have to spend 33,000 yen to heal.

#2 Posted by Venatio (4425 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

What difficulty are you on?

#3 Edited by mwng (787 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

@MrPilkington: Have you raised your party member slinks? They're invaluable if you're having trouble, free follow up attacks/status condition removal are great boons.

Also, apparently you have until the 9th of July to save Rise, so take your time and do a bit of grinding. Failure sends you back a week, not the whole month.

#4 Posted by MrPilkington (627 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

Normal

#5 Posted by TheManWithNoPlan (872 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

If I remember from the Endurance Run,you have until the next time rains to complete any dungeon.Check the weather forecast on the TV.Also,It's a Jrpg,so do a little grinding every once in a while.

#6 Posted by Dethfish (3370 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

@MrPilkington: If you want to fill your HP/SP up for free, leave the dungeon you're working on and go back to any of the previous ones. Then just grind on easy enemies until you get the HP/SP refill cards in shuffle time. I think you get shuffle time more often if you hit the enemies weaknesses but to conserve SP you should just hit triangle on everyone.

And if you want to have an easier time, just do some grinding. I did way too much grinding and after a certain point the game became a cake walk. So grind, but maybe don't over do it.

#7 Posted by StarvingGamer (5983 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

@Dethfish said:

@MrPilkington: If you want to fill your HP/SP up for free, leave the dungeon you're working on and go back to any of the previous ones. Then just grind on easy enemies until you get the HP/SP refill cards in shuffle time. I think you get shuffle time more often if you hit the enemies weaknesses but to conserve SP you should just hit triangle on everyone.
And if you want to have an easier time, just do some grinding. I did way too much grinding and after a certain point the game became a cake walk. So grind, but maybe don't over do it.

This is how I did it. Go back to Yukiko's castle and always try to get a sweep bonus at the cost of XP, money, or whatever because the rewards there are so low it doesn't really matter. You can easily Triangle your way through every encounter and by the time you reach the top floor you should be completely refilled.

#8 Posted by AgnosticJesus (367 posts) - 4 months, 5 days ago

You have until July 9 to save Rise. Whenever I getting my ass kicked in a dungeon I'd go back to the last dungeon cleared and grind through it in one in-game day. I'd suggest you do the same and then return to the floor you're on in Rise's dungeon.