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...! posted:I've been replaying DQ8 and I'm struck by how archaic so many of its gameplay elements are, even for a PS2 game. Hell, even the Final Fantasy games were way better at these things going all the way back to the SNES games. They seem to be steadfastly rejecting QoL improvements of the time. I don't know if it's purely out of tradition or what, but they really should have fixed this dumb poo poo. If you're playing the 3ds version, the added a quick save option that's basically a normal save.
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Real hurthling! posted:Im at the god bird empyrea in the dark world and getting insanely owned. Im level 34. What lvl should i grind to? 45 and abuse the poo poo out of Yangus' Executioner skill. You're gonna want to stick with it and not leave, because once you beat her, you do a dungeon and get the airship.
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Apr 20, 2017 22:06
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Yeah, Psyche Up is really really good at breaking fights - if you can just keep Jessica alive for a few turns (can you have the first Timbrel of Tension by that point?) you can pretty much nuke anything down before the last few bosses that have Disruptive Wave. The only issue is that on the remake after like, maybe a boss or two post-Dhoulmagus everyone starts spamming their 'NO TENSION EVAAAAAAAAAAR' skill so it's really hard to make use of it by then. In Training posted:You don't need to grind to beat any boss in DQVIII, let alone 10+ levels Yeah, I was joking.  Maybe he should get a couple more levels, maybe not. I dunno. I don't even remember what level I was at that point.
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Apr 21, 2017 19:23
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Is there any good way to tell what enemies are weak to what spell in DQ8? Without the game telling me I'm doing extra damage, I'm real bad at noticing this stuff, as it turns out! Especially since it seems that spells aren't that impressive.
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Jun 17, 2017 18:49
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WELL gently caress I just lost like 14 hours of progress because I didn't realize that the quick saves only gave you one slot, and I saved a new game over my old one.
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Jun 19, 2017 21:32
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(DQ8) This might be totally wrong but I remember reading somewhere that intimidating enemies is a more reliable way of making them drop items compared to Steal Sickle. Is that accurate? And if so, how does it work, because I'm trying to scare off witches and I've got two level 19 guys, one 18 and one 17 and it's not really working.
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Jun 22, 2017 08:20
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Last Celebration posted:IIRC, the game checks when you'd get a drop by enemy group, so beating a Slime x6 mob means the same as clearing one. Intimidate makes it so the game checks by individual enemies, so yeah there's a big difference. So it's actually more helpful when the game is weird about grouping enemies then. Weird.
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Jun 22, 2017 16:44
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Decus posted:If you're on the 3DS version you're probably better off just checking in on the respawning chests though. They give rare drops at decent rates, just time gated to 1 a day or whatever. If you're doing it for enemy book completion I vaguely recall the PS2 version letting you intimidate but on 3DS it definitely won't register it at all--needs to be an actual drop. I'm just trying to get drops in general. Beyond Tales of Symphonia and Vesperia, I've never been assed enough to actually try and fill a bestiary. DLC already gave me a gold nugget early on (Like, Maella Abbey-ish) which I used to make a King Axe so why not try and get a devil tail earlier than usual too?
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Jun 22, 2017 22:53
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(DQ8) Help, I can't make a decision, should I go for claws or hammers for Morrie?
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Jul 1, 2017 04:31
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I'm nearly finished with DQ8 (Gotta beat true Rhapthorne but I gotta really set aside some time for that, what with the prologue with the staff taking forever) and I was thinking about getting, the other really good DS DQ game, 5. Couple question though. How many save files does the game give you and do your kids look any different based on who you marry?
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Jul 9, 2017 13:26
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Last Celebration posted:You get three Perfect.
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Jul 9, 2017 14:11
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Bigass Moth posted:It's lovely that dq8 has only two save slots. The real problem that sneaks up on you is that there's only one quick save slot. So, you better make sure you only save in churches, if you start a new playthrough!
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Jul 10, 2017 02:16
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Dhoulmagus is extremely mighty. When I beat him, Yangus and Angelo were dead, Eight didn't have Zing, and Jessica was barely keeping the two of them up with Caduceus. Eight was Oomphed and just keep Falcon Slashing and just barely managed to eke out a win with about 22 health between them.
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Jul 16, 2017 14:17
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Ludwig van Halen posted:I found some liquid metal slimes at trodain, but I haven't been able to beat any yet. I haven't been able to get two turns on them. Yangus doesn't have hatchet man and the hero doesn't have thunder thrust? You really wanna just use moves with a chance to crit and pray on them coming through.
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Jul 16, 2017 15:36
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Ludwig van Halen posted:Oh yeah, Yangus has Hatchet man. My player character hasn't specced into spears though Those are the only skills that're available to you that'll breeze past defense if they land right now. Just listed both since there was a chance you had them both. Anyway, keep using Hatchet Man to try and kill them.
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Jul 16, 2017 15:44
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Bigass Moth posted:Multiheal makes it much easier but you absolutely can beat him way before level 30. Raitzeno posted:Just make a Cheiron's Bow. So much faster than grinding to 30. Yes, it's possible to beat him at a lower level people. It's just easier if you're at a higher one. He found a strategy that works for him, let him live.
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Jul 17, 2017 17:12
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Real hurthling! posted:I had to grind until angelo got the party heal spell. That fight is brutal. I did have multiheal when that happened to me! Also, that was my second time fighting him when I decided to make new playthrough because I accidentally deleted like 14 hours of gameplay by using the quick save in another file. Heads up everyone, if you're on 3DS, you get two save files if you save at churches but only one if you use the quick save function. Don't use the latter without making a formal prayer save first! Learn from my mistake!
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Jul 17, 2017 18:07
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Just got DQ 5- oh poo poo a physical manual with colors on it!!!- haven't even started it yet, anything I should be aware of?
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Jul 22, 2017 19:29
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I have the DS version, I should've mentioned earlier.
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Jul 22, 2017 21:50
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Ofecks posted:Save often. About mid-way through the game you have a really big choice to make. It's been years since I played so I don't recall at what point exactly you want to make a save, so just save often and reset when the choice presents itself. Make 2 copies of that save and use each one for each choice. I know about the marriage thing, and I remember that there's a trial to marry some rich guy's daughter that it revolves around. Or something like that. I read this a long time ago and I remember some things but not everything. All I can definitely say is that it was real cute. :3
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Jul 23, 2017 02:15
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Ugh, V DS is far enough back that you actually need to use a church to find out how far away from a level up you are. 
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Jul 28, 2017 22:45
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Bigass Moth posted:I am going to be beyond pissed if they don't bring over the 3ds version. For XI?
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Jul 29, 2017 14:59
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Playing 5 DS. What do T' N T tickets do?
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Ojetor posted:They're used to play a board mini-game. There's several locations with different boards, first available one is in the basement of the first casino you come across, IIRC. drat, they give you them so early then! I'm trying to follow Pankraz after those thugs kidnapped the king's kid and I'm getting my rear end handed to me in those dungeons. I'm like level 11, what am I doing wrong? It's not like the sabercat listens to me every turn.
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Last Celebration posted:Load up on herbs and make sure you and Saber are equipped with the best things you can buy. The dungeon's not all that long but it is kinda confusing so you can end up spending more time there than you're meant to. gently caress, that's gonna be a rough grind.
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Okay, I got one more level, the Hero learned Midheal and I was able to complete the everything goes horribly wrong dungeon.
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What does Peep do? Am I supposed to be using that on every chest for more loot or something?
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Aug 7, 2017 01:03
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Bongo Bill posted:Peep reveals the contents of a chest before you open it. This is useful if you are paranoid about those enemies that disguise themselves as treasure chests. I wonder if that'll even turn into an issue or not. I just finally managed to get the Zenethian sword and I think I killed like 3 metal slimes going through it. Granted, I had to go back and forth trying to make progress inside it like over a dozen times.
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Yo, playing DQ 5 DS, any monsters I should be on the lookout for? I finally got a Slime Knight and just got the Great Sabercat again. I'm expecting that monsters fall off after you've got the full family together though.
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Aug 8, 2017 16:38
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Ooh, how should I be distributing seeds?
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Aug 8, 2017 16:59
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hostess with the Moltres posted:Since my name means lion in Hebrew, I wanted to name my DQ8 MC Leo or Leon since it's kind of like my name but not totally self inserty. Which is cooler? Leon
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I just beat DQ8 DS, I had no idea it checkpointed you after you used the staff on Rhapthorne to weaken him so I put it off for the longest time thinking I'd need a lot of time to knuckle down and focus on that. Do you really continue the game with it sending you back to before you beat him for the post game? I thought you'd be able to continue with Trodain uncursed and everything.
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DQ5 Okay, I'm starting to get annoyed. Trying to get up the tower where your wife gets taken to and I'm making no progress after a point. Is there anywhere to get better medicines or do alchemy or better weapons that I'm missing? I'm using a Slime Knight, Sabercat, and bad apple(?) the red one. The sabercat does like 70-80 damage a hit at this point. I'm about to just brute force it past those dragons and just get a bunch of herbs and magic waters and run through.
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(Dragon Quest 5) I looked at the wiki for a bit of info and after learning that you can't actually just buy magic water, I bought a whole mess of herbs and used those to keep me going throughout the tower. Now I'm in the third gen. Any money grinding or monster tips? I didn't know slime knights weren't that good but even if they don't have the best stats, having something else around to use fullheal isn't that bad a trade for a party space. Also, does anyone know if this glitch is still in the DS version? https://lparchive.org/Dragon-Quest-V/Update%2032/
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kirbysuperstar posted:From reading the original thread and glancing at TCRF - seemingly it's just a debug flag that someone managed to stumble upon. But no, it's only in that version. Both the DS and PS2 versions have their own debug menus if you're running some sort of cheat solution or emulator, though. drat, I knew it was too good to be true.
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I'm like 30 pages behind still but I've been having a pretty chill playthough on DQXI so far. Closest I came to wiping on a boss was because I went in without healing and it was the two Gryphons trying to nick the Red Orb. Everything else was pretty straightforward and easy. Also, I thought they'd changed their AI because before the Gallopolis boss I ran into two of the most aggressive Metal Slimes I've ever seen in a game. They just kept attacking and attacking and throwing Frizzes at me for 6 damage. Killing the two of them got me up to 15 or 16 for the boss and it was pretty chill thanks to that. Serena picked up Midheal and that was all I needed to keep me running. Haven't had any issues so far but I did opt to not make the game harder so I'm happy to not be getting bodied left and right every boss. Anyway, I've only played this and two other ones in the series 5- which I burned out on because I was trying to keep a save for each wife- and 8 which I actually did beat the main story of. How's 9? I've never really heard any talk on the series beyond on SA so I've got no idea how that one is. Granted, I don't really look around for people talking about Dragon Quest either though so I'm not saying that it's not popular or anything nuts like that.
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So this is the fabled transition from Act 1 to Act 2 people were referring too. Well, I've only played 5 and beaten 8 before this so this is a much more intense raising of the stakes than I've ever seen in the other ones, holy poo poo. I thought DQ8 spoilers Failing to save the Godbird's egg was bad but this is a whole magnitude of worse. That said, I was very sick of being the last one to wake up after every event though.
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Act 2 Wow, Clemps was right, this Jade section is the worst and I hate it. Why couldn't her scenario be her being a crazy hermit beating up cyclopses and snapping Iron Maiden necks for the ~however many months you were asleep~ instead?
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Last Celebration posted:I mean, we didn’t really need one to have the other though in that instance, and alll things considered Jade being an evil bunny girl is kind of the low point of Act 2, which says more about the high points like everything involving Sylvando, Hendrick being a total bro, Veronica and Serena, and even the grandpa/grandson not-Kamehameha, but still. Yeah, if you're not gonna do much with Act 2 Jade, I would've preferred if we had just kept finding Jockuleses and Dullahans embedded into cliff walls as it turns out that she'd been trying to regroup with everyone after the tree fell as well. Sure it wouldn't be spectacular but it's better than bunny girl against her will for monsters so I'd take it. Also whoever said it might've been right about her being a late addition or I'm doing stuff out of order, because I just went to Gallopolis and she just didn't exist at all in any of the cutscenes.
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Act 2 Me after running into Alizarin again and finding out I can't kill him yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPgSqFEmr8 Needless to say, I'm a little antsy about that.
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