Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
PillowKnight said:
Oh, I just heard so many thing with my friends I just started grinding like crazy to make sure that I beat him the first time around.
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Oh, I just heard so many thing with my friends I just started grinding like crazy to make sure that I beat him the first time around.
:lol
Hours Left
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Good to know. Well, I better get started. (It's like Magical Starsign all over again!)creid said:
Well past 30 hours today and my 1000 battle victory mark. I switched my main lvl 31 minstrel over to a warrior (up to 22) and now to Armamentalist (currently 17) for some skill and ability point farming. That allowed me to finish up the sword line and get some of the nice abilities from the Fource line.
At this point I can't decide if I want my main to stick with Armamentalist for the buffs/debuffs or switch him over to a Paladin which I hear is a stronger class overall. I still have a warrior who's 33 who's done nothing but Courage line and Shield line (so still weapon agnostic) who could slide nicely into the Paladin role OR could slide into being a shield wearing Gladiator once I max it out.
It's one of the things I love about this game; how you can build these custom characters and really personalize your party to your liking. I can tell it's going to keep my busy for awhile!
At this point I can't decide if I want my main to stick with Armamentalist for the buffs/debuffs or switch him over to a Paladin which I hear is a stronger class overall. I still have a warrior who's 33 who's done nothing but Courage line and Shield line (so still weapon agnostic) who could slide nicely into the Paladin role OR could slide into being a shield wearing Gladiator once I max it out.
It's one of the things I love about this game; how you can build these custom characters and really personalize your party to your liking. I can tell it's going to keep my busy for awhile!
You can download save files from the internet (some of which have crazy maps to give away), load them to a R4, and tag them with a second DS. My brother and I did this (which is apparently why I got Angelo's gloves). It's less cheating than hacking the game, because real players on the internet donated their saves.Gunloc said:
We could arrange for local meetups, so anyone with an R4 can give out unique tags. If some has an R4 and wants tags, they would have to hand their real cart (or their R4) to one of the people in the meetup.
If you put the saves on your flashcard, you can duplicate your ROM 30 times onto the card and change saves by loading different games. I don't have space on my card for 30x DQIX, so I wouldn't be able to give out 30 unique tags in a single meet, but I could probably give out a dozen.
I'm in Vancouver, BTW.
People could also meet up to lend gamesharks. And afterwards, you could play multiplayer.
Hours Left
Member
I think I've resigned myself to do things the hard way. I'm already in the middle of my third new game. (I'm going to do around five a day.)
Hopefully I can convince some more of my friends to pick up the game and truncate the process.
Hopefully I can convince some more of my friends to pick up the game and truncate the process.
Hcoregamer00 said:
I just fought the boss with a party around lvl 35-39 and got absolutely destroyed and quit the game
I was mainly using skill points to get stat bonuses and was doing quite well through every boss until the very very end one, for my lvl and skills, he's just exponentially harder than the previous bosses between healing itself for 500hp and casting an area of attack spell that does 150+ damage per person.RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Going to my Best Buy tomorrow for the DQIX event. I'm hoping some people show up (I'm in CT, so I'm kinda doubtful.)
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Docpan said:
Metal Slash is probably your best bet. Otherwise, yeah a lot of it is just sheer luck. :/
RurouniZel said:
I haven't messed around too much with the treasure map stuff in DQIX, but if I just go ahead and set my DS to tag mode (which I activate at the Pub area, right?), then walk into Best Buy to browse whatever, I'll get something special for doing so? Just trying to understand what this gets me.
Or do I need to actually whip it out and play with other people? I'm not trying to be seen as a nerd in public, no offense.
Trojita
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inner-G said:
I heard it's 65 feet.
Docpan said:
You just set your Dragon Quest IX game to canvassing mode and then you can close the system and put it in your pocket. The game will tag with other people while it's in this standby mode. The nintendo rep will have their own ds game canvassing with a map attached to the profile which you will get.
Hours Left
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You have to be careful though, I've had my two DS systems sitting right next to each other and sometimes it can take up to 30 seconds before the tags register.Trojita said:
My brother was just mentioning that if you put 58 skill points into Spears, you get an attack that will hit 50% of the time, but when it hits it will always hit critical. So on average, you should be able to kill a metal anything in two shots.Docpan said:
Once you tag three people though, your DS will get "clogged" and you'll have to take it out of your pocket, open in up, leave tag mode, leave the Inn (or walk to another room), go back into the Inn, re-enter tag mode, then close it and stuff it in your pocket again.Trojita said:
If there are people in the store, you might just tag them and get clogged, and not be able to tag the NOA cart or get the special map. Also, when you are clogged, nobody else can benefit by getting a tag from you.
So yeah, you will have to whip it out every now and then. If you connect to 30 people then you get free stuff in your basement and more rare clothes from your guests. You pretty much can't nerd out and play multiplayer though, because tag mode won't work while you're playing, so if you play multiplayer you will miss chances to tag people.
Hours Left
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Critical hits can miss in this game though, so it's not quite a 50/50 chance for metal hunting.ruby_onix said:
Johnlenham
Member
Keep getting shitty maps and no drops from treasure hunting :/ must have killed 5-6 bosses yesterday lunchtime!
ScrabbleDude
Member
Haven't seen anyone else mention it....Hatchet Man is a great axe skill that hits critical when it hits. Whether it connects is based on Deftness. I use it with a Ranger and almost never miss when attacking liquid metal slimes.Docpan said:
BriareosGAF
Member
My liquid metal slime strategy:
- minstrel with falcon sword + falcon slash for four chances at hit or just metal slash for two
- warrior with spear + multithrust + goddess ring to keep replenishing mp for four chances to hit
- martial artist with claws + flailing nails for four chances to hit
- priest looking bored and pretty
Everyone has at least lvl 26 in thief for deftness bonus. I'd say I could beat 85% of them this way.
- minstrel with falcon sword + falcon slash for four chances at hit or just metal slash for two
- warrior with spear + multithrust + goddess ring to keep replenishing mp for four chances to hit
- martial artist with claws + flailing nails for four chances to hit
- priest looking bored and pretty
Everyone has at least lvl 26 in thief for deftness bonus. I'd say I could beat 85% of them this way.
Zigg, I play on my original cart while my brother is playing with a TTDS. Which is easier for us to exchange saves? I'm not sure how to do it using my original cart though, seems complicated. I use Mac.
Edit: I have two games but my brother prefers TTDS to store all his games. He hates carrying a lot of carts with him. (Willing to take a pic to prove it :] )
Edit: I have two games but my brother prefers TTDS to store all his games. He hates carrying a lot of carts with him. (Willing to take a pic to prove it :] )
Is this intentional?
Warning, Aquila spoiler.
http://i35.tinypic.com/b71ilv.jpg
EDIT:
I haven't had time to post, but I would like to thank zigg for the map and the couple free tags. I suppose I could share the map in the future, but I would need to beat it first. I'll post when I have done so in case someone would like to have it.
Warning, Aquila spoiler.
http://i35.tinypic.com/b71ilv.jpg
EDIT:
I haven't had time to post, but I would like to thank zigg for the map and the couple free tags. I suppose I could share the map in the future, but I would need to beat it first. I'll post when I have done so in case someone would like to have it.
Socreges said:
Hahahahaha erm, no, not at all. I can't even limit myself to just *thinking* about the game for only an hour a day right now, much less an hour of playtime. I find myself laying down to try to go to sleep at night and still plotting my next character advancement step and wondering what's going to be on the DQVC in the morning. It's pretty consuming, honestly.
At this point I haven't touched my PS3 in nearly a week and games I thought I was very enthusiastic about starting and/or finishing aren't looking so good stacked up against the juggernaut that is DQIX. So much fun!
Echoes said:
The .sav file is probably a little easier on you, since it's just a matter of taking the card out and copying it on/off. To get a save on/off the original card you need a tool like savsender (I'm not recommending the NDS Backup Tool anymore, it seems pretty prone to network problems.)
There is a tutorial here, though on a Mac you won't have SavReceiver; you do have netcat though (at least, my wife's Snow Leopard does!) Open a terminal and do
nc -l -p 1234 > savefile.sav
to back up and
nc -l -p 1234 < savefile.sav
to restore (assumes file named "savefile.sav" and port 1234)
If you get a 64k file from the back up step you're probably good to go.
How to 99% guarantee a LMS kill:
1. Give the Martial Artist Manual and a [Über] Falcon Blade to your metal slasher, preferably not your hero.
2. Boost your metal slasher to 100 tension using Psyche Up and/or Egg On, preferably both. Or 50 tension is enough if your hero can do Egg On before your metal slasher makes his/her turn.
3. End the battle with tension in tact.
4. In the next battle your metal slasher will start at 50 tension (20 if you had it at 50 last battle) and should typically hit about 4-8 damage. With the Falcon Blade that's 8-16 damage that should kill a LMS, unless in the rare case that you miss. You can have your hero do Egg On once more if you want to get to 100 tension, but usually it's not necessary.
That's basically my strategy. With my other 2 party members doing Hatchet Man and Thunder Thrust, it's pretty easy hunting.
By the way guys, anyone in the Chicago area going to Mitsuwa Marketplace for the Obon Festival today? I'm going there after the Best Buy event and gonna try some canvassing there.
1. Give the Martial Artist Manual and a [Über] Falcon Blade to your metal slasher, preferably not your hero.
2. Boost your metal slasher to 100 tension using Psyche Up and/or Egg On, preferably both. Or 50 tension is enough if your hero can do Egg On before your metal slasher makes his/her turn.
3. End the battle with tension in tact.
4. In the next battle your metal slasher will start at 50 tension (20 if you had it at 50 last battle) and should typically hit about 4-8 damage. With the Falcon Blade that's 8-16 damage that should kill a LMS, unless in the rare case that you miss. You can have your hero do Egg On once more if you want to get to 100 tension, but usually it's not necessary.
That's basically my strategy. With my other 2 party members doing Hatchet Man and Thunder Thrust, it's pretty easy hunting.
By the way guys, anyone in the Chicago area going to Mitsuwa Marketplace for the Obon Festival today? I'm going there after the Best Buy event and gonna try some canvassing there.
turnbuckle
Member
:lolSocreges said:
No.
This is a game I should've avoided, but I love Dragon Quest too much to do that. An hour isn't enough to go through a couple grottoes and beat up on
Baramos
It's like Dragon Quest meets loot whore game. 2 of my favorite types of games rolled into one awesome package. The fact that it's portable just kills my chances of <1 hour limit even more.
rpmurphy said:
That's a very effective strategy, but if you do the same thing using metal licker you'll have amazing results too
Gameboy415
Member
I'm off to Best Buy for the free map and stuff!
Anyone else going today?
12-4PM today ONLY, list of participating stores is here:
http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US//en_US/images/abn/2010/tg/cat/35370_DQIX.pdf
Anyone else going today?
12-4PM today ONLY, list of participating stores is here:
http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US//en_US/images/abn/2010/tg/cat/35370_DQIX.pdf
turnbuckle
Member
Gameboy415 said:
Yup, friend and I are going.
vagabondarts
Member
I'm not going to the best buy event today because the closest participating store is like an hour away... oh well. have fun, I want to hear how everyones events go!
ExtraKr1spy
Banned
Headed tot he Chula Vista, CA event in about 2 hours.
I'm also hoping it starts earlier/12 on the dot. Wanna get in get the map and look around for a few minutes to gather more tags and get out. Might enter a contest if they have one and its not a random chance of winning.
I'm also hoping it starts earlier/12 on the dot. Wanna get in get the map and look around for a few minutes to gather more tags and get out. Might enter a contest if they have one and its not a random chance of winning.
Human_Shield
Member
Heading to the Valparaiso, IN BB shortly. I'll probably be the only one there...
Human_Shield
Member
Yeah, no swag for me. The rep won't give any out unless you buy the game here, today (Boo). And sure enough, I'm the only one here.