Today’s Rock Band release (a full Rush album) has been delayed somewhat, so I was back to fooling around in Persona 3 today.

I didn’t really get much done, though. I need to redo my set of personas to make sure I’ve got all of the attack types covered in the most powerful form possible, make sure I’ve got the right healing and recovery spells, match up with the social links I’m working on, cover as many defenses for enemy attacks as possible, and so on. My Lilim has served well, with all four elemental attacks on it, but it doesn’t have the more powerful versions available now and I’m starting to see more enemies without any elemental weaknesses.

It’s tough though, because getting the combination of skills you want on a persona often requires fusing lower personas. But…it’s random which skills from the personas get combined (you can keep retrying before committing the fusion, at least), some skills don’t show up until the persona gains some levels, which depends on how strong the social links are, some skills can’t be merged at all depending on the types being merged, it costs a fair bit to buy the personas for fusing, and so on, which makes getting what you want rather tricky. I can specialize more narrowly, rather than trying to get multiple skills onto a single persona, but there’s a limited number of persona slots, too. It’s going to take a fair bit of experimentation.

So far I’ve got a Titan that covers all three physical attack types very well. Now I’m trying to get a Take-Mikazuchi that adds another element to the electrical attacks it has natively, but haven’t found a good combination for it yet.