Pro-tip: the line-up order matters.

[Honorable_D]

If you have the game on a SSD the loading screens are so fast you can't read the gameplay tips. So some of you may have been like me and not known that the order of your party members affects who gets attacked more often.

Put tanky characters first and then squishy characters last! So put Hero in 1 and someone like Veronica at 4.

[K4ever]

You may be onto something here. I have hero and veronica as 1st and 2nd characters, and I noticed they both get more hits than usual.

Thanks for the tip!

[dvoraen]

This has been a DQ staple since probably #2~ First ranks always are more likely to be attacked.

[GrandTickler]

dont need a ssd for that, im using a 5 year+ old 1tb potato hard drive and it loads in like 2 seconds lol.

edit: although im fairly new to this game still and didnt know this, isnt this tucked away in the ingame help windows somewhere as well?

[ByTheNumbers]

Hah. I never knew that was a thing. Just by default/habit, I tend to put the Hero and another martial character (hendrik, jade, etc) in the first two slots.

[solaris32]

Originally posted by ByTheNumbers:

Hah. I never knew that was a thing. Just by default/habit, I tend to put the Hero and another martial character (, , etc) in the first two slots.

Spoilers dude, like seriously.

[Your Soul]

Originally posted by solaris32:

Originally posted by ByTheNumbers:

Hah. I never knew that was a thing. Just by default/habit, I tend to put the Hero and another martial character (, , etc) in the first two slots.

Spoilers dude, like seriously.

She is on the cover art and everything though

[S N E E D]

Originally posted by Your soul:

Originally posted by solaris32:

Spoilers dude, like seriously.

She is on the cover art and everything though

Dood spoils like OMG seriously like WTFBBQ???

[Alamo Jack]

The opening trailer shows her as a companion, infact it shows basically the whole first half of the story.

[Honorable_D]

He is referring to Hendrik for Christ's sake. That is indeed a serious spoiler.

[LordBlade]

The line order weighs enemy attacks some. But you can still have fights where everyone attacks a certain character for some odd reason.
I've had battles where every enemy attacked the character in the 3rd slot all fight, without ever targeting someone else. :p

[Debrel]

DQ has also had enemies that break that rule, like monsters that target the character with the lowest HP etc.

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Todd Howard:

Originally posted by Your soul:

She is on the cover art and everything though

Dood spoils like OMG seriously like WTFBBQ???

I really don’t get why people make such a big deal out of spoilers. Does it really make you want to stop engaging with a story if you figure out where it’s going? Why can’t you just put it aside and enjoy the ride?

I mean, imagine if you were having sex and they say “I’m gonna ♥♥♥.” Do you stop and say “oh, wtf, man. Spoilers!”

[LordBlade]

For a lot of people, yes, it ruins thing. Many people are playing FOR THE STORY. So they don't want that spoiled.

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

For a lot of people, yes, it ruins thing. Many people are playing FOR THE STORY. So they don't want that spoiled.

I guess I’ll never really understand. I haven’t finished the game either but that spoiler doesn’t ruin the story for me - it just makes me more interested to pay close attention and see how it all unfolds.

Maybe it’s just a matter of perspective. By the way, spoiler alert, tomorrow is Friday.

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

I guess I’ll never really understand. I haven’t finished the game either but that spoiler doesn’t ruin the story for me - it just makes me more interested to pay close attention and see how it all unfolds.

That's fine. If you don't care, you can look up all the info you want. A lot of people do, which is why people use spoiler tags.

For many, it's like being told how a movie ends. They know the ending, so there's no point in watching it now.

For me it depends on the medium. For movies and books and such, yeah, I dispise spoilers, as they basically ruin the whole thing. It's like having a mystery and being told who the killer is right at the start. There's no mystery anymore then, so there's no point.

For games, it depends on the type of game. For RPG's, yeah, I don't like spoilers. I want to be able to sit back and enjoy the story as I play, as that's a huge part of the point of RPG's. If it's just something like a shooter or something, then I could care less, as I'm not playing those for story (the few times they have one).