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    December 14, 2019

    Dragon Quest Sofia getting in the festive spirit by @kikumesango

    Sofia getting in the festive spirit by @kikumesango

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 05:14 AM PST

    Pretty good find at a local store. Both discs are flawless too, not a scratch on them

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 07:11 AM PST

    My family just got a 4K 65 inch tv, I felt almost obligated for this to be the first thing I see on it

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 04:21 PM PST

    Got a freeloader on my ship.

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:11 PM PST

    Question about XI (Switch) and Tickington

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 08:55 AM PST

    So I played the game all the way through in 2d and now I'm playing in 3d. I hear that the tickington quests are still in 2d so I have questions.

    Do I still find pastwords in 3d mode to use in 2d? Does switching to 2d mode for tickington work like regular switching (you start at the beginning of the current "chapter")?

    Is it worth doing?

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    I just for Dragin Quest yesterday and it really like it

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 08:50 AM PST

    What to expect from a full Draconian Quests run and how I still can not beat it. (LOTS OF SPOILERS)

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 08:47 AM PST

    Let me start off by saying I love this game to bits. I've platinumed it on PlayStation and I'm genuinely considering getting it again on switch for the extra content. I thought to myself "why not do a full draconian quest run, it will be a fun challenge..." Oh what a fool I was.

    The beginning of the game is possibly the worst part. Where every fight with a monster nine times out of ten ends with you dead. You have to pick and choose your fights very carefully and always make sure you're healed up, because if you go into a fight you're not 100% ready for you will die and lose your progress. Grinding is a slow process especially when it is just the hero and Erik running away from Heliodor. Every level counts and you have to grind to the absolute peak of which the game will let you in order to even attempt the boss fights needed for progression.

    Although nearly every encounter is a death trap the introduction of Serena and Veronica are a literal god send for grinding up levels and materials. Don't get me wrong the boss fights are still hard as nails (the Sand Scorpion fight was won with pure luck for me) but the game wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be during the middle part of the game.

    Most of the bosses weren't total pushovers, but due to the fact that your level was no longer hard capped by the area you were in (now that the world is open to you) you could grind to obscene levels then take on certain bosses as you saw fit. Only a few bosses from the first "gather orbs" part of the game really gave me trouble (Elysium Bird surprisingly and the Jorgo... I can't type that out the beast thing in Sniffleheim) and up until the beginning of act 2 the game was fairly easy.

    Act 2 was a horrible awakening for me though. Now that your party is in shatters you have to rebuild them once again with no one but you and Eight to take on the world. This was... difficult to say the least. The skeleton fight in the Heliodor castle must have taken me 70+ tries to beat. Getting Rab was a process, but with a healer I was able to get Slyv and a version of Erik I can't bring myself to call useless for a reason later in this run.

    With this team I went on to challenge Jade and her captor which was another especially horrible fight. Not only do you have to fight Jade and the Captor back to back, this fight has all kinds of status ailments and magic stealing attacks that it can be quite frustrating on top of having three turns. After you beat it though you get access to Jade and the pep power Electro Light which cuts down on grinding immensely, but in order to progress through the game and get back my boy Erik you have to get past the Big Boi Fish Daddy.

    Now let me tell you about Big Boi Fish Daddy, he is a bastard. I tried him so many times and I could not get past. He'd constantly kill my squad since I didn't have an actual healer and in the end it would be poor useless Erik against the boss. On one of my close battles with BBFD he wiped my party and Erik was all that was left. I lost hope instantly and just spammed attack for no reason... only to be met with a clutch critical hit which won the battle for us making useless Erik a champion of the people.

    I won that battle by pure luck, and the next boss I had to beat was even worse then BBFD. Erik's sister is a good character but in act 2 she's a c*nt of a boss. She resists physical attacks and without a dedicated magic attacker like Veronica your only real way to damage her is with Quadraslash or Sap + Unbridled Blade. It was a hard fight but after a lot of attempts I was able to squeak by again before beating her. Surprisingly the next boss the Boreal Serpent was a total pushover I beat him my first try without any level grinding post Erik's sister.

    After this fight you get access to the best and most useful character in all of Dragon Quest. This lovely lady is none other but Serenica as I usually called her. Let me tell you how much of a god send this character was to have back in my party. She could do literally everything and anything any magic user could do and it genuinely made me sad to get Veronica back at the cost of Serenica the Giga Chad of a wizard. After doing all of the fairly simple plot stuff in the game leading up to the end battle with Mordegen it was finally time to take on the bastard and his legions of darkness.

    And it was actually pretty easy. I was worried about the boss you face when you first land but he was easy mode and I was able to beat him first try. Jasper was honestly not what I thought he would be. The combination of Sap+attack buffed Erik+ a triple victimizer is an absolute god send which I didn't use often enough in my first play through of the game. The only downside to it is that it takes a while to set up and you can't rely on it as your only source of dps because of later game bosses being able to disrupt your buffs.

    After beating Jasper we faced off against Mordegen the biggest baddest bad guy of them all (until the other guy).... He was another fight that went very well in my favor and I beat him first try. To be fair I did a ton of prep before this battle though, and after the Jasper battle I went back out into the world and loaded up on any and every magic restoring consumable I could find knowing this two phase battle was going to be a haul. (Side note... thank god the casino shop doesn't count as technically shopping or else I probably wouldn't have made it through the run due to the huge boost in gear it gives you early in the game). The fight went well and all was good in the land with the evil wizard defeated.

    Now comes the worst part of the run... Act 3. I knew it would be hard, but god damn I did not realize how much I relied on the multi tool giga chad that was Serenica. Going back in time really messed with me when it came to bosses as I had to restructure my team around the fact that I can't have Serena hand out buffs and debuffs like a crack head handing out pamphlets in Times Square with Rab as a secondary heal bitch.

    My party was around level 65 when we finished Mordegen and I thought I'd be more than okay to take on Act 3 right out of the gate. We got stomped. The world is very open once you finish all of the story related stuff with going back in time so I was able to pick and choose what I wanted to take on first. What I found was that no matter where I went I was getting destroyed by every boss I tried to encounter with no hope for a special strategy or luck to win me the fight.

    After realizing this I came to the realization that I'm going to have to power level A LOT. What I would do is find a weak ish enemy to fight (I started with the red puppets in the portrait world because the old man is the easiest post game boss to beat.) and defend until I was able to use the pep power Hallelujah and then use Electro Light to attract metal slimes (keep in mind pep pips and pep pop are limited as I can't just throw millions of gold at Dirk in Cobblestone so I can get all of that. Sure I can get them at the casino in octagonia, but gambling takes a while and is too mindless even for me to grind). What this method would do is give me way more exp for metal slimes making me jump in level very very quickly thanks to the fact they can barely hurt me and Erik and Jade can sweep them easily. I grinded to about level 75 then started to slowly progress my way through the bosses. Whenever I got stuck I went right back to leveling up with the same method as before. I got through a fair amount of the bosses but with my party around low level 80s and still getting one shot by some of the bosses I knew I had to grind to max level if I wanted to beat the rest of the game.

    The grind was real, but out of it I was able to plan my fights so I could get some rare items as the Hallelujah Pep power also effects the monsters you fight before the slimes come in so you can get some of the rarer drops from monsters while grinding. One thing to consider when doing this method on full Draconian Quest Mode is that the metal slimes you fight to get exp are technically a lower monster than you according to the game and thus won't give you exp if you just kill them and the weaker monster you let hit you while you peped up. You have to do a lot of trial and error with what you fight to make sure you get the most exp out of each combo pep power as it takes a long time to set up.

    Eventually I made it to level 99 on each of my characters and now I was ready to take on the world once again. I thought it would be a walk in the park by now, but I was right but also wrong. Normal world side bosses were easy barely giving me any trouble with most of them going down in a few attempts. Once I decided to take on the post game challenges like the Harma Wheel and Durstans Trials things changed. The Wheel of Harma wasn't hard necessarily, but on the final trial it takes a lot of pre planning with pep ups and certain abilities but it's certainly possible. Durstan is a different story and here's where the run gets... complicated. All of the bosses save for the last one were easy enough at my level, but the last boss is... well impossible.

    The Pride boss is the second to last boss fight in the game and arguably harder the Calasmos (I didn't spell that right I know). He does a lot of area damage, can one shot any party member, can do away with your buffs, and to top it all off he gets to summon minions that know Thwack and can literally wipe your entire party. At this point in the game I have the best weapons and every skill for every character (no armor thanks to the Draconian Quests) and there is literally nothing I can do to brute force this boss. I even unlocked the extra skill trees for Hendriks and Sylv which I completely missed my first play through the game.

    I am truly stuck on this boss and what I am likely going to be reduced to is having to pep up my entire party then attempt to kill the boss in a few turns before he disruptive waves me. I'll likely have to grind for pep pips and pops as well so that way I'll be able to have multiple waves of pep power damage (double ultimate magic burst?)

    The worst part is that this boss is also the one thing holding me back from going after Calasmos because in order to get the best weapons in the game you have to beat Pride.

    This was originally going to be a post about asking for any suggestions on how to beat this unbeatable boss and it still is (I am open to any and every suggestion if you guys have any). But I also wanted to share my experience with people who may be thinking about going with this challenge. Also there is no "real guide" that I've found with full draconian quests active so I'm hoping that this can serve as a miniature guide on what to expect and how to win it over. If you read this far thanks for reading and hopefully I can post an update saying I've beaten the game officially with the modifiers on. Thanks!

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    Bought DQ1,2,and 3 on my switch last night.

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 02:46 AM PST

    No spoilers, just wanted to share this. First DQ was 7, fragments of the forgotten past on the 3DS. I love old school JRPGs (Chrono Trigger fans out there? My all time favorite JRPG!) Anyway time to save the realm!

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    Does anyone have a list of all the music that XI reused from previous games?

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 09:09 AM PST

    I know the battle music from IV is reused, and I think the castle theme from VI? I know there are a lot more, but I need help placing them.

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    [Random] It's surprisingly difficult to find DQ Christmas ornaments!

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 08:40 AM PST

    If anybody knows a good source for a slime ornament, please advise. They'd make such a great ornament, and I've only found a few homemade examples out there.

    It's too late this year, but maybe next year I'll purchase a bunch of teardrop-shaped ornaments, paint them as slimes, and offer them on Etsy.

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    End my misery (dq11 wheel of harma spoilers)

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 03:51 PM PST

    Any tips for my party? [DQ4]

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:13 PM PST

    Losing to Marquis de Leon. What do I do?

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 10:38 PM PST

    Where can I go to grind?

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    I finally did it, I have beaten my first mainline Dragon Quest game!

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:19 PM PST

    How do the casinos is DQXIS work?

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 07:23 AM PST

    I picked up Dragon Quest XI S for switch a few days ago and I love it. After playing some days playing I arrived at my first casino (which I was surprised off because I thought casinos weren't allowed in games) and tried it out immediately. I read through the manual of the slime game and after like 3 games I gave up because I didn't understand them. I tried out Poker after that and while I still don't understand everything and every combination, it was a lot more simple and I was able to get a few pretty good wins. However, since I still haven't understood everything, I was wondering if you could explain every casino game to me, since I didn't find any good guides on the internet. Thank you in advance

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    Thought I would do a Critical analysis of the black sheep second game

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 05:15 PM PST

    I started to speak as Sylvando with my friends and family..

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 11:20 AM PST

    Some got along with it but I was not invited to the Christmas party and dad wants to have a talk with me after the new year's eve.

    Don't try this at home or at all.

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    I broke a classic Dragon Quest Rule

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 06:16 PM PST

    In my first playthrough of DQ5 I named my son Erdrick how much trouble am I in for useing the Legendary Hero's Name.

    PS I named my daughter Zelda XD

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    Missing Treasure in DQ11

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 07:52 PM PST

    Missing Treasure in DQ11

    Hello! This is my first DQ game* and my first time to the subreddit! (*not counting getting nowhere in DQ1 as a kid)

    I'm in DQ11's post game, and I'm trying to find all of the treasures in every area.

    I'm at a complete loss for the Dundrasil region. I'm using a guide to find the items, and according to the map I've found them all, but Noah's Archive says I'm still missing one. I've double and triple checked each location just to be sure I'm not being stupid - as I've shown on the map. Yes, I've found the mini medal in the pot in northeast part of the Dundrasil ruins, and I've found the mini medal in the chest in the northwest area between Dundrasil and Octagonia (not pictured on the map).

    What else could I possibly be missing? I've confirmed that the items in the actual "Dundrasil Ruins" area (IE beyond the well) do NOT count towards the Dundrasil region; I've found all treasures in the ruins.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

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