Persona 3: The Monad block

How do you perform in it? I find myself always playing it differently from how I play in the rest of Tartarus. I feel like the Monad block is how I'm supposed to really perform. I sneak up on the enemy, catch em from behind. And I'm able to tell when I need to run, right from the start.

In the rest of Tartarus, I blow through everything, ignore the enemies, and if the stairs are right next to me, I go up em. Monad puts you more to the test granted. But there's also no fear of the reaper, even though it could still come.

regardless of level, I treat the high parts of tartarus like its a fight for survival. reason being it takes only one fuck up before a game over screen appears making you lose all the grinding you did.

I haven't spent much time in monad, on the NG+ I just make my party members run through tartarus and fight on their own and then help if they need it.

strategically speaking though, it would make a full complete game easier to accomplish because you're spending less time grinding.

Oh I was shameless with my monad block. As soon as I had access to it in my NG+ I immediately took Junpei and Yukari to level grind. By the time Akihiko joined, the two of them were 10+ levels ahead of him. And they would have been higher, had they not got murdered so many times....