Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 notes #7


Battle Menu:
When you go into battle, you are told to pick an action. Actions are:

Fight:
Starts the battle right away.

Command:
Lets you tell your monsters individually whether to attack, defend, increase tension, or use one of the action skills (attack magic or healing) they have learned, and which enemy to aim at.

Strategy:
Lets you tell your party monsters whether to attack full out, heal when necessary, or try to conserve MP.

Scout:
Try to scout one of the enemy monsters.

Item:
Lets you use a battle item. Battle items include HP or MP recovery, buffs and debuffs, tension increasers, scouting meats, or rocks you can throw for 1-2 damage each.

Ride:
Lets you pick which monster you want to ride in battle, or to dismount. Riding a monster boosts its stats a little. If the monster you are riding is defeated, you are unable to take any actions other than fight or run for 2-3 rounds.

Escape:
Try to run away from the current battle. May or may not succeed at any given time.

As you progress through the game, you'll be given the ability to double the battle speed. This just cuts down the time for the animation sequences. Press the R button.

Also, you will eventually get the ability to use "Auto", where the screen will turn black, and the game runs automatically until either you win the battle, or one of your monsters is defeated. This is also selected with the R button.

R button:
Sequences from Normal, x2 Speed, Auto, to Normal again.

Y Button:
Move party members between the primary and secondary parties. This allows you to pick a replacement if someone on your front line is about to die, or if you need to put a magic user on the front line of a bunch of fighters.

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Accessories Shop Menu:

When all the Nocho-ra reach Central, and you have power turned on to the building, you can start making accessories. Queenie, the female to the left of King, asks you to bring her specific found and drop items. Doing so will unlock higher level accessories in the shop. Options in the Accessories Shop menu get unlocked as you go through the game:

Make Accessory:
This gives you a list of accessories you currently know how to make, and whether you have enough materials to make them. The rarer materials, like orbs and Madulite, are monster drops, and can take hundreds of battles to just get one of them, even if you've equipped the "Item Boost Large" accessory on your party members. To make an accessory, scroll through the list and press A on the desired one. This will expend the required items as indicated by the recipe.

Break Up Accessory:
Recovers the rare component of the accessory so it can be reused. The recovered component will be shown as you go through the list. Select the desired accessory, press A, and confirm you want to break it up.

Make Star:
Each accessory can be configured to hold up to three seals. These seal slots are called "Stars." Some accessories you find in Stealth Boxes, or you get from King in exchange for coins, automatically come with one or two stars. You can have up to three stars per accessory. This works just like creating an accessory.

Make Seal:
Each accessory can be configured to hold up to three seals. You can use drop and found items to create a desired seal, such as a small amount of protection against fire attacks, or small boosts in overcoming enemy resistance to fire. Works just like the process for creating an accessory.

Break Up Seal:
Recovers the rare component of the seal so it can be reused. The recovered component will be shown as you go through the list. Select the desired seal, press A, and confirm you want to break it up.

Assign a Seal to an Accessory:
Once you've created the seal, you can assign it to an empty star on an accessory. Go through the list of accessories, press A, then go through the list of seals, and press A.

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Slime Challenge:

The Slime Challenge in the Central building lets you try to compete against three NPCs to see who can round up and drag the most slimes to their goal point in the allotted time. The first time you play the game, you have to go through a long, boring tutorial. After that, you need to pick a ride monster, and the level you want to play at (you start with only Rank C). When you pick a ride monster, you are shown its ratings in terms of how many stars for speed, defense, etc. I've never beaten Rank SS, and I really dislike playing this game. No strategy to offer.

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Queenie's Accessory Item Quests:

Queenie is the female Nocho-ra standing to the left of King. She'll ask for a specific found or drop item. When you give it to her, she'll give some items to you and create new accessories that can be made in the Accessories shop.

Need to find:
1: 4 Marokku Dirt
2: 2 Hana no Mitsu
3: 1 Fushigina DoroDoro (Mysterious Mud)
4: 2 Kouri no Jumoku (Ice Shrubs)
5: 4 Small Fossils
6: 1 Madulite
7: 1 Red Orb
8: 1 Kagayaki

Everything else can be found pretty easily, but Kagayaki reportedly can only be found rarely in a black chest on a high cliff in the area at the left side of the enemy hideout in the Chapter 1 field. Also maybe from the B1 Disk System, but (at the time I write this) I can't confirm that. The rewards for Kagayaki are some other rare items used for making accessories.

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Scout Master Q Quests:

1: Put a monster with healing in your party (breed a Drakky with a Doroid to get a Mage Drakky).
2: Put a Priest Knight in your party (scout from the Undead Garden).
3: Put monsters from four different slime families in your party.
4: Put an Elder Dragon in your party (breed a Gamegon with a Lizardman).
5: Put a "mutated" monster in your party (keep hunting the same monster until it gets angry and turns black, then scout it).
6: Have a monster in your party that is Rank+25 or higher.
7: Have a Ganesha Evil in your party (scout from the cyborg tower).
8: Have a monster with the DefUp+2 skill in your party (find a monster that has DefUp+1, max its skill points, then breed it to get the DefUp+2 skill).
9: Have a cyborg slime in your party (from the volcano island, yellow frame structure).
10: Have a Rank+50 or higher monster in your party.
11: Have a Dark Nebula in your party (can be bred, or obtained from the Disk System quest disks).
Breeding a Dark Nebula:
Breed a Baron Knight with a Red Fighter to make an Akatsuki Shogun.
Breed the Akatsuki Shogun with a Pikki to make a Black Bridegroom (黒き花婿).
Breed a Metal Slime with a Goldman to get a Slime Gold.
Breed a Metal Dragon with a Slime Gold to make a Mekaburn.
Breed the Mekaburn with the Black Bridegroom

12: Have a Moonlight General (月夜の将) in your party.
Breeding a Moonlight General:
Breed an Akatsuki Shogun (see Quest #11) with Beautiful Swordswoman Oren to make the General.
Oren is hard to breed for, and it may be better if you win it from the Disk System quests.

13: Have a Rank+100 monster in your party.
14: Have a Belmud (破戒王ベルムド) equipped with the Master Fencer (剣豪) skill.
Breed a Leon Byuburo (scout from the world map) with the Moonlight General to make a Belmud.
To get the Master Fencer skill, buy two Soldier Skills (戦士) from the skill shop and assign them to two different monsters. Max their skill point assignments, then breed those two monsters to get an offspring with Master Fencer. Bring the offspring to level 10, and breed it with Belmud to create another Belmud with the Master Fencer skill selected.

15: Have Zelodorado (魔元帥ゼルドラド) in your party. Now, this one can literally take weeks to breed. Just win it from the B1 Disk System quests.

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