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[BitchTits]

Okay, some of the design decisions in this game are terrible. Why not highlight where you need to go on the map

What?! Dragon Quest isn't really an exploration-heavy series, so take whatever exploration elements you can get, go look around!

 

[Oxx]

I flappin' love Stella.

 

[Eteric Rice]

Equipment do not show up in your bag so don't worry about it. Just select equipment when you go sell.

They're not in equipment either.

 

[Bentendo]

I flappin' love Stella.

I completely agree. Her music theme is really nice too (press select to hear it).

 

[rpmurphy]

They're not in equipment either.

Wat. Maybe a bug then? Hopefully you saved just before you made them. @_@

Edit:
By the way, anyone get the red slime loading screen yet? I've gotten it twice thus far and used it to pinch gold bars and brighten rocks in the Bowhole.

 

[GeekyDad]

Just gotten through this.

I like a lot of the strides this game has taken with gameplay, but it's sad that the story was so lacking. It's always been my favourite thing about DQ games(specifically V, VI & VIII).

I thoroughly enjoyed the story. It certainly wasn't ground-breaking, and the ending

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between Corvus and his lost love felt a bit rushed

, but overall, there were a ton of sweet moments throughout the game -- and post-game.

 

[Koomaster]

"When you walk up to a monster, if you approach it from behind, you can get the drops on it more often than not. Surprise!" ~ Stella

o____O

What does she mean here? Get the drops as in what the monster drops, or get the drop as in 'the enemy is too stunned to move' getting a free attack on it?

 

[Boney]

This is delicious! Reached the second town already. Loving it!

When do I get my party though?

 

[CoolS]

Bought this game yesterday and I love it! My first DQ

One question though: Ever since I have 4 partymembers, the game seems to suffer some framerate drops every now and then. Is that normal or is by DSi dying?

 

[Revolutionary]

One question though: Ever since I have 4 partymembers, the game seems to suffer some framerate drops every now and then. Is that normal or is by DSi dying?

It's normal, unfortunately. You'll just have to get used to it, unless you want to walk around with just 3 in your party or something.

 

[jaxword]

"When you walk up to a monster, if you approach it from behind, you can get the drops on it more often than not. Surprise!" ~ Stella

o____O

What does she mean here? Get the drops as in what the monster drops, or get the drop as in 'the enemy is too stunned to move' getting a free attack on it?

It's typical Stella mis-speaking and saying you'll get the DROP on the monsters, like more preemptive strikes.

 

[Reknoc]

This is delicious! Reached the second town already. Loving it!

When do I get my party though?

Right... NOW!

Well when the Inn gets set up at least.

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

So I've been playing this game a little while and I didn't realise until just now that you can get extra party members at the Inn. I defeated the Wight Knight single handedly because I didn't know that! Fun game so far though, although it's a shame to hear the story isn't going to be so great, I absolutely loved that about V.

 

[ULTROS!]

Currently at

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Uprover

so I'm currently near the end I guess.

Is there an easy way to make money instead of

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making lots of Ear Cozies and selling them

?

 

[PumpkinPie]

I'm gonna buy this game so fucking hard when I get paid on Thursday!

 

[Freyjadour]

Currently at

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Uprover

so I'm currently near the end I guess.

Is there an easy way to make money instead of

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making lots of Ear Cozies and selling them

?

As far as I know, that's the easiest way unless you get a Red Slime or two at the load screen and you want to go steal Gold Bars with a high-Deft Ranger. One of the downfalls of postgame unfortunately. I really like the ideas present, but another installment or two before they really iron out the kinks in the formula.

 

[ULTROS!]

As far as I know, that's the easiest way unless you get a Red Slime or two at the load screen and you want to go steal Gold Bars with a high-Deft Ranger. One of the downfalls of postgame unfortunately. I really like the ideas present, but another installment or two before they really iron out the kinks in the formula.

How does that work? That happened to me once.

 

[Freyjadour]

How does that work? That happened to me once.

Luck :lol :lol

 

[ULTROS!]

I mean what do the red slimes do? Do I need to touch them or anything?

 

[rpmurphy]

I mean what do the red slimes do? Do I need to touch them or anything?

They invisibly increase the luck factor so drop/steal rates are better.

 

[Freyjadour]

I mean what do the red slimes do? Do I need to touch them or anything?

When they just show up it means your luck factor is increased. Don't need to do anything, kind of like a roll of the dice at the load screen to see what your luck will be.

 

[Koomaster]

It's typical Stella mis-speaking and saying you'll get the DROP on the monsters, like more preemptive strikes.

That's what I was afraid of, was hoping she was telling me how to increase chances of monsters dropping their loot.

Edit: I got that red slime at start up the 2nd time ever I turned on the game and never again. I thought it was showing up because the game was taking a bit longer to load. If I had known then that it was lucky, I would have kept my DS in sleep mode. ¬___¬

 

[Eteric Rice]

Yay, killed the hoooot guy.

I suppose this means I'm close to the end, aye?

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

You found the story in VIII better than this ?
The characters were incredibly well designed (Yangus, Trode and Marcello were my favorites), but the main plot and villain were really bad. The second half especially felt rushed and lacked polish.

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Well it's not at the level of V(and there are very few games that are), but yes, I very much enjoyed it. The kingdom in mourning, dreamland, Dhoulmagus walking across the ocean, the abbey...the scenarios were good, and dhoulmagus kept things focused throughout. Loved it. I agree that the dark world stuff was pretty bad, but overall I found it a much more enjoyable story. Everything in IX is just so short, and it never really gives you a chance to care about any of the characters involved before the scenarios end. it's not a bad game by any means, but I certainly feel that neither the story nor the characters are as involving.

 

[bdouble]

So at what point can I change classes between the initial 6?

 

[Reknoc]

So at what point can I change classes between the initial 6?

As soon as you complete the quests for the advanced classes. 2 are available in Alltrades.

 

[YourMaster]

As soon as you complete the quests for the advanced classes. 2 are available in Alltrades.

That's not his question.

How to change classes:

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You get to Alltrades Abbey pretty soon after you get the initial 6 classes. There you can change vocations.

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Then you first have to enter a dungeon and beat a boss before you can actually do it.

 

[slaughterking]

I just completed my party and I only made female characters in addition to my male hero; they just seemed more fun to make and had better hair styles. And having a cute martial artist is sort of bad-ass.
And while I don't want to beat a dead horse I have to express my irritation with the slowdown. It's not terrible, but certainly a noticeable flaw in the otherwise outstanding presentation.

 

[Kinitari]

Yeah... can someone help me out here?

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So I just beat the boss at the first legacy map (I actually don't really know what a legacy map is) - anyway, Baramos went down, he was TOUGH, but I took him down. Forbearance + magic reflection is awesome. Anyhoo, at the end of the fight he gets back up and wants all 60,000xp from the fight. The hell would I give him the XP for? I assume there is a reason, can anyone tell me what it is?

 

[PataHikari]

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To level the boss up so you can get better maps and drops from him.

 

[Kinitari]

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To level the boss up so you can get better maps and drops from him.

Got ya, makes sense I guess - although all I got from it was a measly mini medal.

 

[Easystride]

Yeah... can someone help me out here?

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So I just beat the boss at the first legacy map (I actually don't really know what a legacy map is) - anyway, Baramos went down, he was TOUGH, but I took him down. Forbearance + magic reflection is awesome. Anyhoo, at the end of the fight he gets back up and wants all 60,000xp from the fight. The hell would I give him the XP for? I assume there is a reason, can anyone tell me what it is?

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He drops different loot and maps at different levels. Check out this bestiary that has info on each legacy boss's loot.

 

[JustAnotherOtaku]

Did an bit of grinding, some class changes and then beat Garth Goyle

When I changed classes from my initial ones to new ones, levelled them up a bit and went to revert back to my original class, I noticed that a third class, which I hadn't chosen yet, had increased in level. Does levelling some classes equal progression in others? (hope that makes sense! )

 

[Aeana]

Did an bit of grinding, some class changes and then beat Garth Goyle

When I changed classes from my initial ones to new ones, levelled them up a bit and went to revert back to my original class, I noticed that a third class, which I hadn't chosen yet, had increased in level. Does levelling some classes equal progression in others? (hope that makes sense! )

Nope... the only way that could have happened is if you just leveled that class and forgot about it.

 

[JustAnotherOtaku]

Nope... the only way that could have happened is if you just leveled that class and forgot about it.

Really? :/ Not sure what's going on then :lol

 

[Oxx]

I'm currently doing my first treasure map dungeon and I'm running low on MP. Can I warp out, recharge, and return? Or do I have to beat it in a single attempt?

 

[Kinitari]

I'm currently doing my first treasure map dungeon and I'm running low on MP. Can I warp out, recharge, and return? Or do I have to beat it in a single attempt?

Treasure maps will be there forever, and they never change in design - you can leave and come back - in fact you can fight the bosses on the maps over and over and over again. Just wait until you're high enough to get king metal slimes and higher on your maps.

 

[-Mikey-]

So, you can only find treasure maps in the post game content?

 

[Aeana]

So, you can only find treasure maps in the post game content?

No. You can get a few from quests during the regular game, and you can get more by beating them.

 

[Oxx]

Treasure maps will be there forever, and they never change in design - you can leave and come back - in fact you can fight the bosses on the maps over and over and over again. Just wait until you're high enough to get king metal slimes and higher on your maps.

Sweet. The boss handed me my first wipe-out even after I recharged, but at least I decided to deposit all my cash before heading back.

 

[Koomaster]

Yay, just beat the final boss today! Only took me 76 hours on my gameclock. Such a slowpoke. :lol

Now I'm following the post-game cookie trail and I'm already having problems with

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Souped up Llevianthan.

My question is, which class learns a full party heal spell and at what level. I'm definitely going to need it now. For the record my party consists of Warrior, Thief, Paladin, Ranger. My Paladin and Ranger have several levels in both Mage/Sage if those classes learn the spell I'm after.

 

[Aeana]

Yay, just beat the final boss today! Only took me 76 hours on my gameclock. Such a slowpoke. :lol

Now I'm following the post-game cookie trail and I'm already having problems with

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Souped up Llevianthan.

My question is, which class learns a full party heal spell and at what level. I'm definitely going to need it now. For the record my party consists of Warrior, Thief, Paladin, Ranger. My Paladin and Ranger have several levels in both Mage/Sage if those classes learn the spell I'm after.

Sage learns multiheal at 24. You could also max fans and do the quest for hustle dance.

 

[Koomaster]

Sage learns multiheal at 24. You could also max fans and do the quest for hustle dance.

Thanks! I think my Ranger is close to that level in her Sage category.

The final boss was almost easy compared to getting my whole team wiped within a few rounds of this dude.

 

[Stencil]

Just equipped my Swinedimples Blazer as instructed and was quite taken aback by my characters new appearance.

 

[Koomaster]

Just equipped my Swinedimples Blazer as instructed and was quite taken aback by my characters new appearance.

:lol What in the hell?! :lol

 

[grandjedi6]

It's normal, unfortunately. You'll just have to get used to it, unless you want to walk around with just 3 in your party or something.

That's what I've been doing :lol

Its not really because of the slowdown, I just haven't had any motivation or reason to create a 4th party member. I suppose this is eventually going to screw me over but right now I'm doing fine with 3 party-goers.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

Hey GAF
I picked up this game yesterday! I've never played a DQ game before, so here goes!

 

[botticus]

I just met

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Atlas

. I'm taking a break from treasure maps. :lol

I'd like to get Luminary before shelving this, but I'm starting to think that's not going to happen.

 

[steveovig]

Did an bit of grinding, some class changes and then beat Garth Goyle

When I changed classes from my initial ones to new ones, levelled them up a bit and went to revert back to my original class, I noticed that a third class, which I hadn't chosen yet, had increased in level. Does levelling some classes equal progression in others? (hope that makes sense! )

Damn, I got to Garth before finding the Abbot, lol! I guess I got some backtracking to do now!

 

[GeekyDad]

I just met

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Atlas

. I'm taking a break from treasure maps. :lol

I'd like to get Luminary before shelving this, but I'm starting to think that's not going to happen.

It's probably not worth the trouble, either. The unique skill is worth leveling up, I suppose, if you've already maxed out other, more worthwhile skills, but overall, I'm unimpressed by the luminary vocation, as well as the quest to get it.