Summary
Items in RPGs serve many purposes; from healing you, to buffing you in battle, and sometimes even attacking your enemies.Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigishas a plethora of consumable items to choose from that can sometimes save you from a grisly fate in the right circumstances.
While you may be tempted to hold on to every item you come across like a dragon that hordes its treasure, you should resist that urge at all costs. These items are here to help you and be used, provided you keep these essentials on you at all times.
8Magatama
Persona 3: Reload’s combat system is all about exploiting enemy weaknesses to gain an advantage in battle. What happens if you aren’t carrying a persona with the right spell, or you don’t have the correct party member in your lineup? You use damaging items like Magatama, that’s what.
Magatama and gems are items that have a single-use spell stored inside them. you’re able to then use these items to exploit an enemy’s weakness whenever you want, in case you don’t have a suitable persona or party member, making them incredibly helpful and keeps your battle strategies flexible.
7Beads
Sometimes you need a lot of healing, and beads are your best bet. These simple items will restore your HP to full upon use, no questions asked. While there are other healing items that restore fixed amounts of HP, or a percentage, beads outperform them.
Beads also have a multi-target equivalent called bead chains. These items will restore the HP of your entire battle party to full when used, making them powerful tools to prevent an untimely game-over. Make sure to keep a few of these on-hand at all times.
6Amrita Gem
Status ailments are both a blessing and a curse; when you use them, they are fantastic spells for dealing with obnoxious enemies, but when used against you, they can be an absolute pain. Keeping ways to remove status ailments is a necessity.
Amrita gems offer you the ability to remove all forms of ailments on a single target without needing personas to do it for you. Amrita soda is the multi-target version of the amrita gem, and should also be valued for the same reasons.
5Revival Bead
Staying alive can be a hard thing to do. Maybe you got ambushed, or you weren’t prepared to face a certain boss, and it tore through your party like paper. Revival items, like the revival bead, are an indispensable part of your toolkit for those very moments.
Spells like recarm can be pretty SP intensive at times, especially in the early game, so items like revival beads can really help out in case something goes wrong. They are also fairly common items to find, so you will most likely have a bunch in no time at all.
4Attack/Magic Mirror
Magic mirrors are miraculous little items that can be both defensive and offensive tools. When you use one of these mirrors, you will reflect either a physical attack or a magic attack back at the enemy.
As long as you know what type of attack an enemy is likely to use, you can use the appropriate mirror to launch the attack right back at them. This will not only potentially damage your foe, but alsosave your party member from an attackin the process.
3Precious Egg
Just like beads, precious eggs are very powerful restorative items. Unlike beads, however, it is that they restore your SP to full, rather than your HP. This means more spells and persona skills for you to use, making them arguably better items.
While there are other, less potent SP restoring items, these eggs are the best of the best at doing this specific type of job. ensure to keep a few on you,especially for boss fights in the latter portions of the game, where you will undoubtedly be spamming high SP cost skills more frequently.
2Homunculus
Nobody likes dying to instant death spells like Mudoon and Hamaon. An unlucky hit from one of these spells could be an instant gameover and require you to get back lost progress. There is an item, however, that can spare you from this fate.
Homunculi are items that you keep on your person, but don’t use like regular consumables. Once you or a party member are hit with an instant death spell, the homunclus will automatically activate, taking the spell in your place. Always keep a few on you to avoid instant death.
1Soma
Looking for the ultimate healing item? Look no further, somas are the healing item that does everything. It can fully restore all your HP and SP in one go, making them incredibly valuable. Simple, yet incredibly effective.
While they are just single target items, a well-timed soma can mean the difference between victory and defeat if you patch up the right party member.They are a little more on the rarer side, however, so be careful with when you use them.
