Persona 3 Reload - Priestess Full Moon Boss Fight (Merciless)

[@gren_3352]

When time was fast forwarding for the second time my heart skipped a beat

[@bobjoe4409]

I just had

[@SilverInterpolFire]

Honestly she was a perfect first boss. Plus i barely beat her with 3 seconds left 😅

[@gren_3352]

@@SilverInterpolFire I still dont know of it was scrippted or did I bearly manager to beat her

[@protontoad]

Just beat this boss myself the other day on Merciless at Level 10. Friend of mine and I were both simultaneously fighting it and updating each other, LOL I am incredibly satisfied with the difficulty of Merciless in this game so far because this was an incredible first boss. Hope the rest of the game is the same!

[@xlightlessx7778]

There was a run I legit had her one hit, but she froze Makoto and i got indecisive last minute. I can tell this is gonna be fun🫢

[@chartedhero1578]

In the original game, I had like 4 minutes to defeat the priestess. So when I went into this I laughed thinking 30 minutes was far too generous…oh how I was so wrong 2 minutes later

[@Beep841]

When I saw 30 minutes I thought they made it more forgiving for newer players and I kind of made me mad because I wanted a challenge She proceeded to use call of chaos twice and she even Gameovered me once

[@truewhissan]

​@@Beep841 I died 8 times because my first run is both minimum battles and Merciless. Why am I am masochist? That is a good question.

[@FindingCreatures]

Maybe I was under leveled or something but luckily I had Jack Frost.

[@angelsantos396]

X2 jack frost god

[@ApexGale]

merciless mode does NOT fuck around lol

[@renatomarchant3150]

Yes it does, not even one single hard fight in the entire game, this shit is like p5.

[@joecooking3275]

​@@renatomarchant3150SMT 3 nocturne player over here 😂.

[@Raydr62]

Reload is way harder then p5 lmao. p5 you can nearly 2 shot end game bosses with technicals@@renatomarchant3150

[@MiguelRPD]

Until you get Siegfred 😂

[@magsisgay]

@@renatomarchant3150lol you should try the mod xD you die in one hit most of the time haha

[@Beep841]

A tip for this boss is that it has a hidden weakness to fire. You can make a unicorn that nullifies ice, and has a fire attack. And maybe tarunda. The fusion is ara mitima and something else The strategy is have Junpei and M.C. Spam agi and have yukari spam media. Have M.C. use raunda or tarunda periodically. Use which ever or both depending if you value killing the boss faster or outlasting it.

[@Zrego]

In modern Persona games, physical skills tend to be dominant in terms of dealing damage (it seems to be the case for P3R too), that's why I didn't think of using magic attack lol.

[@Beep841]

@@Zrego My guy that’s late game stuff. In the early game it’s all about magic

[@Zrego]

@@Beep841 Nope, physical skills get boosts and amps in reload and can crit. Crit multiplier is 2x.

[@Beep841]

@@Zrego I stand corrected. Sorry most of my knowledge comes from P5R

[@Zrego]

@@Beep841 i look at the base powers in the Table ID themselves saying phys are higher. but yes for p5r phys is the meta early game, magic midgame, and phys again lategame.

[@Brown95P]

Real talk, I decided to recreate my very first run of P3 in this version, where I basically ignored all of Tartarus until I was forced to climb all of it in one go at the end, and A) I did not expect Mitsuru to scold me so harshly for ignoring Tartarus within the very first moon cycle, and B) I did *_NOT_* expect this boss to be carrying such a heavy-hitting all target magic attack. I was planning on spamming Tarukaja as Makoto, but that attack hit so hard even in Normal that I was basically pulling double healing duty with him and Yukari most of the fight, and I even had to use a revive item once still. I remember I had hard times with the later main bosses on my very first run due to how I went about it, but they didn't lie when they said they ramped up their difficulty in this version, geez...

[@Ains84]

I ended up beating her literally 8 seconds before the train crashed, crazy dopamine lvls.

[@LinkcarioX]

Doing a Orpheus only run on merciless made this boss rutheless. I got a game over once and barely made it on my second attempt with like 10 seconds left. I was hysterical.

[@ryanp7546]

Holy cow! P3 Reload has the most beautiful graphics, animation and movement I have ever seen in a game!

[@Edujs23]

Chill out a bit man

[@bluballs3329]

Man is actually blind.

[@YanDaMan263]

Settle down. Its the best looking Persona game to date sure, but its hardly the best graphics out of all games out there.

[@risk_limao]

cleared this yesterday. Hardest fight by far due to my own stupidity, arrogance, and stubbornness. Forgot to auto recover before fighting and was barely able to survive Ice Storm. Kept fighting it instead of healing because I was lazy

[@warnacokelat]

The first boss is always the hardest because you aren't sure what persona you should have.

[@Edujs23]

On persona game i find single target buffs to be so hard to use I honestly just stick wirh debuffs until i get multi target buffs

[@gren_3352]

Same thoughts ybt8l I Got to arqa and had to fight tartarus guardians there

[@Otaku03494]

Pretty accurate, yeah. Debuffing an enemy benefits everyone while buffing someone only benefits that one person.

[@januslee2556]

I realise despite not having wraknesses, this boss is weak to Agi. My omoikane with Agi inherited deal 70 dmg after defense down LOL

[@Kaijo-]

Good job man. I defeated the boss at level 10. But yeah Valkyrie would’ve made it a lot easier it seems lmao.

[@FallingStar1080]

I'm guessing the reason the path is blocked is to prevent players from being over leveled/overpowered for these battles

[@followertheleader]

This fight was not easy!

[@Zrego]

yes this fight was the very first fight i encountered a difficulty spike in merciless

[@gleam6370]

I beat it on merciless with 1 second remaining LMAO

[@patrickkwon3351]

When's the party member build video coming I love those

[@Alistair_7609]

been playing on hard and it seems really toned down compared to FES. just unlocked theurgia and it feels easier than normal used to. is merciless closer to FES hard? or is it harder?

[@Zrego]

slightly harder

[@Alistair_7609]

@@Zrego wish i chose merciless tbh, i could do it next playthrough, but its not really fun in ng+

[@gethlight7432]

Wow :0

[@minizminh]

What would happen if you fail to defeat the boss in time?

[@Brown95P]

You'd get to enjoy a nice and drawn-out game over screen, just to add that extra bit of salt on the wound. 🙃

[@ericx6969]

THERE A TIME LIMIT WTF LMFAO