Endurance Run: Persona 4 - Part 82

As much as i hate to backseat game, I just felt the need to drop some of my experiences from when I played the game (thanks to the ER, of course). Not sure if they've been mentioned before, but...

Man, when will they ever notice Incubus' giant... thing? I want to hear the commentary but every time they're about to make it or get it from the cards, they never do. Woe.

Ose looks fully awesome, in that 'my older brother who is in a metal band had it airbrushed onto his panel van' way.

Noice.

Death card would have made a fitting ending to the episode if you went for it.

You alright, Vinny? E3 catching up on your voice? Or did you spend the time between videos screaming at the top of your lungs?

I'll watch ep 81 again and see what stuff you guys found in the club that was lost. I assume the personas unique to the club area could still be found through fusing, and the items junk found anywhere, but hey just incase, you might want to go back someday and fight the... king?

I told you how to fuse a ghoul like 2 weeks ago! How could you forget?

Oh right, its you guys.

haha vinny said "samwell"

lol YoShitSune

Go Vinny, Go!

If I recall, Vinny and Jeff don't cast Hama and Mudo spells because when they first cast one of those it missed and they just assumed the spells have poor accuracy (plus they're costly). But in Persona 4 it's pretty accurate on enemies that have those weakness.

Is this correct? They are missing out on a lot of easy kills if true.

Ghouls a STRAIGHT UP G.........HE'S A REGULAR G REGULAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE

Vinny sounds like hell.  He should cast Mediarama on himself.

There are 2 Bosses in Void Quest. Killing Hand and Almighty Hand on the 7th floor ; and Shadow Mitsuo on the 10th floor. You need to beat the Killing and  Allmighty Hand to obtain the Orb of Darkness in the chest ,in which you fight them, to fight the next boss on the 10th floor.

Deadline is 12th August.

Boss Battle Killing Hand and Allmighty Hand
Suggested Level : 40

This is a pretty easy fight. The Killing Hand will, on occasion, summon an Almighty Hand. The Almighty Hand is basically a healing mule that is weak against wind attacks and has fairly low HP, which means Yosuke can help out a ton here.

All you need to do is pile on the attacks, kill the Allmighty Hand before its turn comes around and heal everyone up from time to time.

Boss Battle Shadow Mitsuo
Suggested Level: 43

The battle will be a long, hard fight. The basic gist of this fight is that Mitsuo's Shadow will summon a giant character sprite as a shell to protect itself. You must destroy the character sprite before you can damage Mitsuo's Shadow. However, Mitsuo's Shadow will re-make the sprite over time while he's vulnerable. If the sprite gets re-made, you'll have to destroy it again to continue damaging Mitsuo's Shadow.

A difficult twist to this fight is that this boss gets two actions per turn. The fight is relatively easy when facing the sprite, but can become maddeningly difficult when Mitsuo's Shadow starts attacking.You should , at very least, equip your Protagonist with a Bravery Vessel., or better accessory, because Mitsuo'S Shadow has a nasty habit of using Stagnant Air, Evil Touch (or Smile to inflict Fear status), followed by Ghastly Wail (instant death to party members suffering Fear status).Another nasty trick up its sleeve is that it will sometimes spam an elemental spell at everyone. If you have any character that are weak against the elemental it picks, you should switch them to manual control and have them guard until it starts rebuilding the sprite. The element it uses can be telegraphed by noting the type of shield it casts after the sprite is destroyed e.g. Red Wall - Maragion.

If a character gets knocked down by an attack, Mitsuo's Shadow will cast Megidola (Iron Maid, i mean heavy Allmighty spell) for its follow up attack.This combo can be deadly, especially if you switch to a persona that is weak against an element.

Mitsuo's shadow will attack for several turns before re-making the sprite, so during that time you have to inflict as much damage as you can to prevent it being created again. Make use of Rakunda and Mind charge to increase the damage which all you character can dish out. If you're successfull, the partially rebuilt sprite will be destroyed and Mitsuo's Shadow will be knocked down, allowing for an All-Out-Attack. the it will start trying to create the sprite again. Keep this up.

you could start thinking about raising Slink with Margaret as it involves a lot of fusing...sometime in the game don't be surprised if you will have to fuse a Neko Shogun again just to gain a level in that Slink so don't be so hasty as to reach a Black Frost just yet.and remember that you will have to save money to do that because of the constant fusing/summoning process...

Duuuuuudessss!!!

TEDDIE > CHIE!

You'll regret it when you've leveled up a useless Chie.

I heard that if you draw an upside-down Death card Chie will break up with you.

I know Chie's your girl and all, but at this point in the game Teddie is more useful to have around.  You guys KNOW this...search your feelings.

You ever wondered how a naked man with an owl head looks like?

Nice Picard reference, Jeff: "The line must be drawn Here!"

Is Makami Japanese for "tapeworm?"

It's our buddy Ghoul!!!!

I can't believe you guys fused a level 36 Virtue with those stats (and blue wall just around the corner). I mean, you guys were level 36 as well and you don't roll with a lot of strong personae.

Jeff  and Vinny check out the guides again, there are several new ones and the weekday guide now has everyone.

Woot! The Endurance Run recovers from an epic fail.

hai gaiz play dis game prefctly plz or ill make sarcasm comints bout how bad u r

the ghoul voice was hilarious

Entertaining as always! Keep it up!

Hey Jeff and Vinny. I'm not 100%, but I think with the books, if you "Glance" through that means you can choose a different book every time, but if you "Read Thoroughly" that means you'll read that book every time until you finish it. Basically a way to make stat grinding two seconds faster by eliminating the choice menu.

I might be way off, but that seems like it makes sense.

That Ghoul joke is never gonna die!
Also good call just starting from the beginning of the void quest you can rush through and fight the bonus boss in the strip club anytime. 

Ghoul... WITH A VENGEANCE! That was great. Any time you guys do impressions is awesome. Good comeback from yesterday too. I feel good things will happen if you can get your hands on a Black Frost. He's pretty useful.

At long last, Ghoul is rolling with the investigation team.

Using a GoHo-M is no big deal, but since you were on the first floor you could have just run out the front door to exit the dungeon. :)

Love the Ghoul stuff.

For the love of all that is holy go register your dudes!!!  It's been like 2 whole dungeons 20 some episodes and 4-5 trips to the velvet room and it's making me nervous.

Cool, glad you guys chose Void Quest. Good move.

JEFF AND VINNY'S SHIT LIST
1. Yukiko (annoying)
2. Drama Girl (drama queen)
3. Ai (bitch)
4. Two girls who work at the Junes (whores)
5. Teddie (super annoying (Teddie's a chick, right? Okay, never mind, he's cool))
5. Rise (super annoying)

Great run guys.  Glad to see the run is back on track.  Ghoul's always hilarious.  Since you guys are so stoked to get a Black Frost, maybe you should consider S-linking with the V-room chick.  Margaret I think her name was.  I'm not sure but she might give you discounts on pulling personas out of the compendium.  Far be it for me to give you guys advice though.  I'm merely a viewer and have yet to start my own run. Afterall my favorite thing about the runs is the fact that you guys are playing it mostly however the hell you want without listening to some of these crazies and their hardcore advice columns.  By that metric, it just goes to show you that this is truly a fantastic RPG where people can play it a multitude of ways and still are able to succeed.  Keep up the great work.

Guys, just TRY power charge + your strongest AoE physical attack for a few fights. Not only are you missing out on tons of useful skills, you will totally have to dump Chie for the rest of the game if all you are doing with her is casting low level ice spells.

Do you guys think that Vinny and Jeff should pay more attention to the physical skills? I mean, once you learn how to properly use them, they can be quite useful. For example, I took Chie all the way to the end of the game and somewhere around level 75 she learns God's Hand and that is an awesome skill. So this, or do you think they can manage with just their magic and the occasional regular physical attack?

EDIT: too underscore the usefulness of physical attacks, check out this excellent very short clip of Chie's God's Hand! It is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN9anIob3wM

Very minor spoiler in the video (only contextual; does not relate to the story).

Ghoul!!!

@Etelan - Yeah, I was thinking the same thing too. I hope they haven't lost too much progress by not registering.

I'll join the chorus rooting to add Teddie to the party. I fought through this dungeon with the A team and Yukiko's Media spell was completely useless in healing during the boss battle. Teddie came with Mediarama so he was perfect, except that he was underleveled because of lack of use and I had to grind for a extra couple hours to get his stats up.