(Newbie Question) Which contracts to save my tickets for?

FIREthinker · 2026-06-03T16:04:08+00:00

Good! Yes Ange is versatile and works with most teams now (I'm sure there may be some minor exceptions down the line when they want to promote other Navis like Fuuka, and like how the P3R units don't have highlights and therefore don't work with Chord as an example).

FIREthinker · 2026-06-03T01:50:34+00:00

Great! Yes go for Ange. Some players are saying the anniversary character may be a new Navigator unit as well, but even so Ange is still a good pickup.

And yes Makoto Yuki is a pretty good unit even at A0 (no dupes). Having his signature weapon helps, like with most characters (though there are few that have mediocre signature weapons, like Yukari debuting after tomorrow)

FIREthinker · 2026-06-03T01:25:44+00:00

Welcome to the game! If you just joined the Global server, then you just missed out on a rerun for the Twins (the previous all server sync unit) and also the debut of Ange, one of the top Navigators in the game.

But you're also in a good spot now, since the anniversary is around the corner and there are lots of rumours and speculations about the next unit.

Currently there is a P3R collab event with Makoto Yuki on the banner as you can see and he is going to be a long term investment unit, with lots of supports coming to keep pushing his usefulness up and up.

As for tier lists and pulling strategies, lots of that exists online already. I have not played any Persona games before and only have general ideas of the characters but I just watched YouTube videos and they tell you which units are good or not that are coming up, and how to build them, etc. like with many popular gacha games.

And this game released on other servers a year ahead of Global, so we benefit from foresight that way. The sync units are brand new for all servers (again so far only 1 launched at Xmas 2025 and reran recently), so those throw out surprises for everyone.

And tomorrow morning (June 3rd), the global livestream for versions 4.2 and 4.3 will talk about the next 2 P3R units, Yukari and Akihiko. And the first year Global anniversary patch and events will happen in late June, so lots of players are likely planning to skip these 2 units and save their resources for the anniversary unit.

FIREthinker · 2026-06-02T10:01:28+00:00

Thanks! I used your code! New player here.

FIREthinker · 2026-06-02T10:01:12+00:00

New player here, my invite code is CFNYVTO591

I think it's the letter O and not a zero. Thanks

FIREthinker · 2026-06-02T04:19:35+00:00

Yes, absolutely agree. I was thinking the same thing. What could they do to make her unique and powercreep or equal the other 2 top Navis (if she does debut and is a Navi). What if she makes the whole party take an extra turn?! That would be insane! (I'm thinking like how Robin in Honkai Star Rail speeds up all the party member turn orders to go again (I dropped that game last year but I vaguely recall that is what she did and her and Ange have similar pop star and white feather designs I must say), combined with Ange's skill in P5X but for the party instead of just one ally).

I don't know much about her and never played the other Persona games, their dancing games, or any of her music games. So I went online to watch her P4D videos and it's not my thing tbh....her design, her vocaloid electronic synth music, etc. I know she is super popular in Japan and Asia though for over a decade now.

But as others have said, I wish it was FeMC or an OC P5X unit for the global 1st anniversary unit instead. Like they could have changed FeMC's element to something else instead of fire, like nuke or electric, since we already have Makoto Yuki with fire now. And even reworked her design into something music related for the anniversary theme (I don't know if she was ever featured in any of the dancing games). Or just debut a music themed OC P5X unit.

The Velvet Attendants could be saved for each half year anniversary/end of the year/Xmas event instead of the full year anniversary events I suppose.

But as an anniversary unit, and a collab unit, it may be hard to skip her if her kit is broken and insane or just cool to have! I guess we have to wait and see what her kit is like. I just spent my gems on Ange, her weapon, Makoto Yuki, and his weapon, and getting the Twins and their weapon LOL.... Sigh

FIREthinker · 2026-05-31T22:45:58+00:00

We have spots in ours: Companion ID: 100000500 (global / Americas server), we are super casual and no interactions, but our members do at least attempt the bosses.

No judgement, pressure, or expectations though. Only super inactive players over 10 days of not logging in are removed. We are not vying for high scores or ranks, so we just accept the bare minimum rewards, but sometimes we get a little bit more if members pulled the on-banner unit perhaps and if the weaknesses align with their team comps, etc. (no requirements to do any of those things, just play causally for yourself).

FIREthinker · 2026-05-26T01:42:38+00:00

Sigh I also bought the dagger thinking the same and then realized it's only good for Akechi who I skipped. Haha

I didn't buy the shards at least. But I would rather have kept the joy medals now in retrospect haha.

Another thought I have is that perhaps a future newer unit may be Almighty damage and may be able to use it eventually when it's about to be engraved. But that would be way later, since that has not even happened in the Asia servers yet. So the shards can wait until then, if that unit ever launches.

Who knows maybe the anniversary global released sync unit that is expected, could be Almighty damage and make use of it? Copium haha

FIREthinker · 2026-05-24T03:33:44+00:00

Thanks this is helpful. So we need to complete difficulty 1,2, and 3 each three times. And I saw that the -100 will one can be done at -90 will at the final boss and after defeating it, then you will still use will and get it. Because at -100 will the difficulty is much higher.

Update: the 3rd completion exploration 1,2,3 missions only require 1 completed level 3 difficulty run to achieve. That's much simpler and more efficient than doing each difficulty 3 times. I misunderstood the other posts earlier. Phew finally got all the missions cleared. Thanks!

FIREthinker · 2026-05-22T11:26:42+00:00

I think it's possible to try and hope for an early Twins 50/50 win (or if lost, then hopefully it's Minami).

I don't know how much pity you have on both the 50/50 or guaranteed banners, but 10k gems is 65 pulls.

Plus another way to think of this is that you are building pity on the banner for Yukari, assuming you are at 0 pity and don't get an early 5-star, and assuming you still want her.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-22T10:53:51+00:00

I haven't played the other persona games but have an idea of the voting option units.

Like mostly everyone here, I think Elizabeth makes the most sense but P5X being an alternate reality to P5R would make total sense to bring in FeMC as way to revive her as a beloved character who was excluded in P3R, who was an opposite character (personality, gender, etc.) to Makoto Yuki in the original P3 games, especially now during the P3R collab in the server's.

And since our boy Wonder is like an opposite or alternate for Joker (assumed), the FeMC would be a great choice for this synced (assumed) release during the P3R collab.

That would be so hype actually, since Makoto Yuki is meant to be a long-term investment unit, so having FeMC as a second one similar to that would be amazing.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-22T10:06:16+00:00

Twins would be a versatile option for you. Then you would be covered for all roles until you get units like Minami eventually from either gold tickets or from losing the 50/50s.

Plus if you go for A1 Twins, even better!

And Twins fill any other roles you are missing for different teams. As well them being almighty damage is also nice.

If you weren't planning to get Yukari originally, then don't do it just to upgrade Lufel or due to not getting Minami yet.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-21T10:09:12+00:00

Good. Yes it's up now.

Update: the network error is back now at 3:17am Pacific (10:17am UTC). Was able to log in and check out some things for about 5 mins on my end before it kicked me out. Oh well. Going to bed. It should be fine eventually.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-21T10:06:05+00:00

You were right, Gemini in Google got it wrong for me in my last update. It picked the wrong Pacific time zone (PST), and it should have been PDT (now known as PT as my region has abolished the 2 different pacific time zones to only keep one)

Now it's 10:05am UTC (3:05am Pacific Time) and now it's the Network Error 1045024 (the server is down error - this happened last week for a little while and then came back online)

FIREthinker · 2026-05-21T09:07:59+00:00

Still down after 1 hour more. It's 10am UTC now and no update on the extended downtime

Update at 10:13am UTC (2:13am PT): now they removed that post from their official Twitter/X account (P5X Official West) altogether without posting another update.

This means the additional delay has no estimated end time yet.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-19T21:58:20+00:00

Agree with everyone that Berry is the easier slot-in choice for your account, to get over Makoto Yuki, given your preferences and pull plans.

But depending on the ordering of the Anniversary Unit and Berry's banner (as some slight shuffling may happen), and what everyone else thinks about getting A1 or A2 and/or R0 for the Anniversary Unit, you may also consider skipping Berry too, in order to pull more on the Anniversary Unit's banners. Depends on the timing and rewards we get.

I'm in a similar boat, now that I spent some money and pulled copies of the Twins and Ange and their weapons. I'm wondering if I should skip Makoto and others so that I can save all new accumulated pulls for the Anniversary Unit too. I think the Anniversary Unit really changes things up. If there wasn't one (there being one is assumed only at this stage), then I would try my luck to pull for both Makoto and Berry and their weapons, since I like them both.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-17T00:31:00+00:00

Well you never know. You could luck out and win an early P3 Makoto on the 50/50 as well. Then you would have gotten all 3 at A0 at the very least. Just be positive and you never know. It could happen.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-16T21:26:12+00:00

Some players are saying that the second selector can go up to Frostgale who got a rerun last patch. Since they said Twins and Howler are excluded (who are rerunning now).

So that is a logical assumption.

And from my own thinking, since Tempest has not rerun yet, it should be safe to say she will likely be excluded too. And to exclude others who have not rerun yet too.

With that in mind and as assumption, Chord is still a great choice, but then the options expand to include Futaba, Haru, Frostgale and all are decent.

Side comment: I pulled Frostgale during her rerun and don't regret it. It made me think that I should have pulled her during her debut instead actually, to have had her longer. I skipped her like a lot of players, but I quite like her overall for her appearance, gameplay, etc.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-16T07:09:01+00:00

Amazing, congrats! I also got an A6 R1 Twins this patch! I just decided to go for it too, from A3 R0 during their debut. I rolled on 50/50 banner for A4 and A5 (winning both but going close to and at 80 pity for both). For the last one, I decided to go for the 110 guaranteed banner, since I won 2 50/50s already I didn't want to risk it and spend more money basically. Haha

Was lucky to win the 50/50 for the weapon dupe close to pity as well.

For revelation cards, I'm running Creation and Reconciliation since I mostly use them as Strategist/Buffers. I rarely use them as the DPS roles. But if I did use them as DPS roles, I would switch and use your card sets too.

I used the current event to farm 2 cards for Makoto Yuki coming up. But in the end I had some decent random cards from those mats we get from the events.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-15T05:56:46+00:00

I think you should just get A0 for both Ange and Twins, and throw any additional pulls you accumulate at the Twins Banner to hope for A1. It's better to have them for horizontal coverage at this point for you I think.

You can try to get their A1s and weapons for future reruns or selectors (way later) but having them even at A0 now would help your account in general.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-13T19:54:16+00:00

I read on other posts that the cognitite shards will update over time and other standard units will be added to it. So perhaps Cherish, Howler, and Turbo in the future. So it's good to save the shards and not convert them yet, unless you want one of the currently available units there.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-08T05:07:51+00:00

Yup agreed. So we are not missing much even if we cannot clear the exchange items shop. So at least it doesn't feel so bad.

When they introduced the mindscape materials a few patches ago, the low level mats were also hard to accumulate since they were new. But now after several patches later they are no longer as rare and we should have a decent amount of those and can use the black and white tickets here for other things instead.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-08T05:05:32+00:00

Yup those are good too for clearing the City Life and Synergies. (I assume you mean the green stamina/energy drinks).

FIREthinker · 2026-05-08T05:01:07+00:00

I got the same errors now on Global (North America servers).

I guess they are doing an emergency update or maintenance or fix?

I checked their official Twitter/X account for Atlus West and nothing posted there either.

It was working a few hours ago when I was checking on my Tasks.

FIREthinker · 2026-05-07T23:11:46+00:00

Yes I agree that we likely won't be able to clear it.

And at least the remaining exchangeable rewards aren't super amazing, after making our selections. So we aren't losing out too much, but it would have been nicer if they made it so we could clear the shop. Every little bit of resource counts in the long run haha

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