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Endurance Run

Endurance Run: Persona 4 - Part 86

Be cool, my babies.

Vinny and Jeff sit down and take a crack at the latest game in the Shin Megami Tensei series. Will they make it through the entire game?

Jun. 15 2009

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

265 Comments

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Edited By CactusWolf

Wow.

This page is up a bit early.

Also, here's me avoiding tacking on "FIRST!" in an obnoxious manner.

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Edited By ipenguini

Damn youWordsgohere (if thats your real name)!!!! I wanted "First!!! ownd biatches!!! YIP!"

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Edited By Colin

Very early indeed.

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God damn it, even when I go 2 episodes into the future I still can't be first.

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ha i made it to the future hopefully they released persona 5.

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Edited By baba2

We're already getting close to part 100.
It doesn't seem long ago that we were amping up to 50. How time flies.

Another behind the scenes for that one please Dave!

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Edited By skrutop

@9:00 - and that's been endurance run.  See you tomorrow!

So Vinny, I think you'll do a lot better if you STOP DYING!!!

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The FUTURE!!

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TIME PARADOX!

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Their not going to be happy when they realise they missed the floor 7 mini-boss. Can't wait for Monday to come.

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So...who brought the wait food this time?
And none of that capsule machine food!

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Ha, i love how we are able to drop comments before there is even anything to comment on!

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FOURTEENTH!!1!

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Wow, I finally caught up from Part 15 in the past week.  I can't wait to see a super new episode for the first time.

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@Jeffmoocow said:
" Wow, I finally caught up from Part 15 in the past week.  I can't wait to see a super new episode for the first time. "
Dude, that's like 30-35 hours of ER, where did you get the time?
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@fresh816: spice cake for everyone!
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I'm taking bets that it will be around 10am PST / 6pm GMT

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@PeasForFees said:
" I'm taking bets that it will be around 10am PST / 6pm GMT "
I say 7am PST.
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@Trilleong said:
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@PeasForFees said:
" I'm taking bets that it will be around 10am PST / 6pm GMT "
I say 7am PST. "
3pm GMT, just to cover the bases
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It usually goes up around 11:30 - midnight here (Aus east coast). Just a sec, I'll change that to US time... Aha! 9:30 - 10:00 EST

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Its Up

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They go up at 6am PST.

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nice first battle, guys!

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Only 20 min :(

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wow get wrecked haha

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haha at least you didn't lose an hour

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What a depressing episode.

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Jeremy_x said:
" nice first battle, guys! "
Yeah, they actually did pretty well. Take that, doubters ;-)
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Cut off early?
Heading in again.. "we should probably...." and then it cuts. :(

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Edited By Turambar

Oh god wow.  I...wow...

Well...at least now you can go back to floor 7 and kill the mid boss while lvling up a little at the same time...

Oh, and lastly, this dungeon only has 9 floors iirc, so you're almost there!

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Ya now we just gotta wait for tomorrow for something to happen.

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I'm thinking you should use Tentarafoo with Yosuke - you've hardly used that skill at all but it would obviously be really useful if it hits.  Probably worth the SP for difficult enemies such as these babies.  In any case the fire from Yukiko should win the battle pretty quickly, you just have to get that far and make sure you use the opportunity to pile on.

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Geeze.  Start from level 1.  If you don't gain levels and just try to barely kill these dudes you are going to die a lot.  I've fought the boss of this dungeon twice with my A-team at level 45 and I haven't beaten him (though I got really close).  Grind and fuse, try to keep some personas at your level.

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This video shows the importance of getting the player advantage as often as possible. Just wait a few seconds for the shadow to turn around so you can sneak up behind and get 4 free turns.

I never grinded a single time in my playthrough, all you really need is player advantages on regular enemies and they are cake.

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LOL, that was pretty rough guys...

But know that you cannot do the "all in" attacks if Charlie has a stat ailment that makes you lose control of him (ie rage, confusion)

I suggest putting in a persona that is strong against physical on this floor, like your Neko Shogun since the enemies (so far) have been physical hard hitters.

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Man, babies are a lot more dangerous than I was lead to believe.

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Those babies are freaky.

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That was pretty funny. Good job, Yosuke.

Oh yeah, party members can't take mortal blows on AoE attacks.

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I can only think that maybe you guys have some items that do fire to all and you could use those if Chie or Yosuke are up first. That or vanish ball whenever you see those babies.

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@chronix said:
" Geeze.  Start from level 1.  If you don't gain levels and just try to barely kill these dudes you are going to die a lot.  I've fought the boss of this dungeon twice with my A-team at level 45 and I haven't beaten him (though I got really close).  Grind and fuse, try to keep some personas at your level. "
I don't think the answer is to grind.  All they have to do is use items to cure ailments and they're good.  And if they try to get the player advantage, they'll be good.  Grinding is always a last resort kind of thing.
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Great episode, good work on getting slaughtered by babies.

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You also could've used Yukiko's Maragion, rather than Maragi to attack the babies.  Also, if you need to attack someone with an elemental spell but aren't on the right person, an item that does the same type of damage (like those Firecrackers you've picked up) can critical just as well.

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jeff: knowing nothing about this game has gone awesome for us!

maybe its time to learn some things about the game?

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Saving after fusing is always a good idea.

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Haha kinda awesome episode :)

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Well, nothing really to say.  When you're under leveled it's just all that more important to get the preemptive attack.  Spend the 10 seconds to wait until its back is turned to you will save you lots of SP and/or chances from death.

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Worst Episode ever.

Not only did you guys sound like you could care less but you played horribly.

You had a persona in that had a low defence to physical attacks, you wasted yosukes turn on a light physical attack (that missed) when you could of used tenterafoo to confuse all foes. Instead of using items to unconfuse charlie or heal him, you took a roll on MAYBE the babies being weak to fire and you got lucky.

Not to be a dick but you need to start playing smart vinny and if you feel threatened of charlies death HEAL HIM or get the hell out of the fight.

You guys also sounded tired as all hell, i know you might think we DEMAND an episode each day but i say if you guys are tired and not in the mood, then play another day and come back with high spirit and a long episode.


Just my two cents, i still love you guys :3

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You guys need to go back in floor 7 and fight the mini-boss

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@King9999: I think they need to grind a little because they have spent too many floors just barely squeezing by enemies.  Those babies took them from full health and with like 2 of their attacks the entire team was in critical condition (2 confused, everyone with less than half health).  There is only so much you can do about managing status effects like dizzy and confused, and it even if they can beat a group of 5 of those guys, they might see 5 more groups throughout the floor. 

One suggestion I have for them is to never bolt for the stairs and explore every floor.  That way you will get experience or bail out and try again next time, plus you'll never miss chests with good items in them.

Also at the store in the real world, make sure you have several of each of those items for curing status effects and use them before you spend SP on the same task.  (Though I personally would use SP if I only had a couple left and save those for boss battles). 

I've grinded a lot but that is because of personal preference, I like making things easier for me down the road.  I don't think it is explicitly necessary but when you cheat yourself out of experience (eg bolt for the stairs) you are going to be in a lot of trouble when these large groups of relatively strong enemies destroy you with a few attacks.