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Dragon Quest 9 |OT| Last chance* to shine
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Oli said:
Make sure you spend your skill points on your main carefully, any other character can eventually be replaced if you mess it up too badly - as far as I know, your main cant. Class-specific skill trees are almost always a safe bet.
And holy shit!!!! I have TWO metal Medleys in one encounter, I haven't worked up the balls to actually attack yet - I am going to cross my fingers and hope that I can take them both out, I can't afford to do raining arrows, but I will try the maybe 1hit KO arrow shot.
Oli said:
Minstrel/Priest/Mage/Thief is what I went with.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22400527&postcount=2443 There is a helpful post on skills. Also, remember when you put 100 skill points into a weapon, you can use it across ALL classes for that character.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ds/937281-dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies/faqs/57178 There is a skill guide, but keep in mind it's Japanese and I wouldn't go there if you are super sensitive to minor spoilers like advanced jobs.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Armamentalist quest made me want to punch something. But I finally got it...after caving and giving all my peeps wizard ward.
QuiteWhittle
Member
Ugh, skill point grinding is so boring. Ugh.
Aeana said:
But it's so fuuuun! Haha, not so much. I've actually been spending hours making new alchemy recipes, grinding for that sword and such. One of my favorite parts of the game is getting new stuff, but I'm a loot whore at heart.
26 hours and I'm just now about to head to the
boat that crosses the ocean.
rpmurphy said:Do you re-encounter any of the main story bosses in optional or post-game stuff, or are they one time only? I just started doing Eye for Trouble on every monster and realized I should have gotten a thief earlier in the game.
What does Eye for Trouble do? I don't think you can steal from bosses, eitherway, unless Eye for Trouble does something special.
How important is a Thief? He seems more useful as a utility character than one for combat. I went with Minstrel/Priest/Mage/Martial Artist instead.
Would it be better to switch out the MA with a Thief?
Or is the stealing alone during combat worthwhile to have Thief over Martial Artist?
Would it be better to switch out the MA with a Thief?
Or is the stealing alone during combat worthwhile to have Thief over Martial Artist?
ScrabbleDude
Member
Pressing the R button in the alchemy pot screen will give you the stats of the items before you've created them.Gravijah said:
ScrabbleDude
Member
I find it more fun just to play. Do quests, maps, story, get ingredients for your pot. As long as I'm doing something the skill points seem to follow.QuiteWhittle said:
You don't really start alchemizing the stuff that requires lots of ingredients until later, so it's not really that important early on. However, in the completionist mindset, there is a thief skillHobbun said:
Eye for Trouble that adds information to your bestiary that you cannot get in other ways (I don't think), so if you're a completionist, you might want to get that skill up before you fight the first boss after you get party members
ExtraKr1spy
Banned
Love the game(all
)
-Anyone know if there's better armor for thieves than the ones that looks like the set the thief character in the book is wearing? I've got that set and it gives a good boost to agility but now newer towns I've visited have better Def armors but none with agility boosts.
-What stat should I build up to help with stealing? Drop rates are damn low and stealing doesn't seem much better :/
for someone who asked earlier
Eye for Trouble is like Scan from FF games. Gives more details on the enemy(Drops and more two page detail instead of one)
7 fyggs and just got to upover
-Anyone know if there's better armor for thieves than the ones that looks like the set the thief character in the book is wearing? I've got that set and it gives a good boost to agility but now newer towns I've visited have better Def armors but none with agility boosts.
-What stat should I build up to help with stealing? Drop rates are damn low and stealing doesn't seem much better :/
for someone who asked earlier
Eye for Trouble is like Scan from FF games. Gives more details on the enemy(Drops and more two page detail instead of one)
ScrabbleDude said:
Oooh, I didn't know that, thanks! Bad part is I was making stuff I didn't have the recipes for yet. :lol
Does anyone know which monster is between Dracky and Bag o'laughs? It's the only one I'm missing so far.
Hobbun said:
I always have my thief stealing, 24/7. Once you get half-inch (which is steal), you can use it on other jobs, so it is very useful.
What is the correct way of doing that quest?Gravijah said:
I went back to Stornway area to attack the Slime. Had one cast snooze so he won't run away while my main character eggs on my warrior (who has dragon slash) and that didn't work
Then I went to the area with the stackable Slimes (Alltrade?). Had my characters kill off the slimes so they won't stack together while my main character eggs on my warrior to raise the tension and that didn't work either D:<
Then I went to the area with the stackable Slimes (Alltrade?). Had my characters kill off the slimes so they won't stack together while my main character eggs on my warrior to raise the tension and that didn't work either D:<
I spoilered the whole thing because I didn't know which one could be a spoiler
ExtraKr1spy
Banned
srenity said:What is the correct way of doing that quest?
I went back to Stornway area to attack the Slime. Had one cast snooze so he won't run away while my main character eggs on my warrior (who has dragon slash) and that didn't work
Then I went to the area with the stackable Slimes (Alltrade?). Had my characters kill off the slimes so they won't stack together while my main character eggs on my warrior to raise the tension and that didn't work either D:<
I spoilered the whole thing because I didn't know which one could be a spoiler
I think it has to be the slimes outside Angels Falls.
I used War Cry(Terrify/freezes enemies) then used my main character to egg on my other character with Dragon Slash until she had 100 tension then let her use it on the next turn.
decoyplatypus
Member
I just completed (6/7 fygge spoilers)
, and the Zoom list is placing it in front of
, which I finished last night. Does the game allow you to do
first? Are you allowed to do any of the others out of order?
Batsureg
Swinedimples
Batsureg
Ohhhh, I didn't know tension can go over 50 because it said something about not being able go further, so I assumed the maximum amount of tension I can get was 50.ExtraKr1spy said:
Thanks ExtraKr1spy, botticus, and Gravijah!
@Gravijah: If you're still looking for monster #007 (between Dracky and Bag o' laughs), it's Bodkin Archer. Regular Haunts: Angel Falls and The Hexagon.
Freyjadour
Member
Don't grind Alchemy like I've been doingGravijah said:
. You end up with boring armor that's better than the legacy stuff Also, the Treasure Map bosses can and will clean the floor with you. Skill grinding may not be needed for the story, but that 80 hp in Paladin would be lovely on my poor paper Mage.
Pink Gorilla
Neo Member
The bow is a party trick?Bentendo said:
Edgeward said:
I finally got it! I was talking to the wrong person... I thought you were supposed to talk to the priest in the basement who explains how to equip the bow, and didn't realize you had to talk to the main guy upstairs (twice!). Thanks.
EDIT: Okay, I just realized that it's not a bow and arrow as I thought it was, so some of what I said may not have made any sense (such as "how to equip the bow").
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Freyjadour said:Don't grind Alchemy like I've been doing
Tell me about it. One of my peeps has been wearing that dumb slime helmet/armor for like 10 hours now.
srenity said:What is the correct way of doing that quest?
I went back to Stornway area to attack the Slime. Had one cast snooze so he won't run away while my main character eggs on my warrior (who has dragon slash) and that didn't work
Then I went to the area with the stackable Slimes (Alltrade?). Had my characters kill off the slimes so they won't stack together while my main character eggs on my warrior to raise the tension and that didn't work either D:<
I spoilered the whole thing because I didn't know which one could be a spoiler
Repost from earlier.
When I did it, it was super easy - here are the steps I took.
I used the slimes right outside the Abbey of Vocational change or whatevs.
I changed my main characters vocation to a low level one (I know this determines whether or not monsters will run from you on the field, and it looks like in battle as well).
When I encountered a group of slimes, I would have my Ranger snipe one or two of the slimes every round so they couldn't group up to a stack.
Had my main rallying my martial artists (who I changed into a warrior just for this occasion), while she psyched herself up.
I was lucky enough to do it all in one encounter, my martial artists as a warrior was slow enough to attack after the slime, so the slime would call for backup right before it died, my ranger would wait a turn until there were two slimes again before 'sniping' (it would kill the second slime before it had a chance to call for backup). I got all the way up to slime N (it would have been less, but I accidentally psyched up to 100 and used a regular attack, twice I think).
That's how I did it =p.
QuiteWhittle
Member
It's not as big a headache as it seems. People make it harder for themselves.ACE 1991 said:
For some reason, no one ever goes for the easier Angel Falls' slimes which, if they did, would make things alot easier.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Wow. Prayer ring is overpowered.
decoyplatypus
Member
For my money, Fuddle worked better than Snooze/War Cry on the gladiator quest. Fuddle hit nearly every time I tried it, and the slimes tended to become frozen to the spot for 3 turns without my having to touch them. I cleared the quest in about ten minutes of work. Maybe I was lucky.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
The gladiator quest isn't so bad. I did that one in like 5 minutes.
The armamentalist one is dumb though.
The armamentalist one is dumb though.