How many enemies to fight?

[yoship]

Okay, so I have played JRPGS- but I'm not a core gamer, and new at Dragon Quest at that. I'm travelling from Cobblestone to Heliodor, and the region near the camp is just teeming with monsters- slimes, darkies, cruelcumbers, bunnycorns. And they respawn after a while, but it's difficult to keep track if they have. And some of them like bunnycorns are sometimes asleep!

So, how many of these guys should I pick fights with? After two or three times, the novelty kind of wears off. Or should I simply focus on exploring the region for goodies and move on? Now further ahead from the camp too are the same kinds of monsters- should I fight or avoid? Not sure how to go about it. Any tips?

Thanks. By the way, thoroughly enjoying the game.

[SiFi]

If that is your limit, you should get a refund. You will fight hundreds of battles.

[Nyphila]

I played the game avoiding almost all monsters, except those needed for quests/story, my advice would be to chose from 3 options that I've seen work for different people:

1: Fight everything you come across, to be overlevelled and overpowered, making the game a breeze
2: Fight 1 of every new monster you come across, to work towards 100%, keeping you more or less the same level as bosses, making it somewhat simple, but that might be best for newcomers
3: avoid everything, making you underlevelled, and having some tougher bosses fights later in the game (still not particularly hard mind you)


All in all, there is no "should" in DQXI, fight the amount you feel like. The key to enjoying DQ is not so much in the fighting, but in exploring every corners, talking to every NPC, breaking every pots, etc.

[Aphelium]

i'd say that you fight at least one of every monster in the game as you encounter them, if you picked the draconian quest of harder monsters fight everything that comes in your way of wherever you're going, you'll need it.

[yoship]

Originally posted by SiFi:

If that is your limit, you should get a refund. You will fight hundreds of battles.

The game's extraordinarily good. I'm merely enquiring about the correct way for adequate levelling.

[yoship]

Originally posted by Nyphila:

I played the game avoiding almost all monsters, except those needed for quests/story, my advice would be to chose from 3 options that I've seen work for different people:

1: Fight everything you come across, to be overlevelled and overpowered, making the game a breeze
2: Fight 1 of every new monster you come across, to work towards 100%, keeping you more or less the same level as bosses, making it somewhat simple, but that might be best for newcomers
3: avoid everything, making you underlevelled, and having some tougher bosses fights later in the game (still not particularly hard mind you)


All in all, there is no "should" in DQXI, fight the amount you feel like. The key to enjoying DQ is not so much in the fighting, but in exploring every corners, talking to every NPC, breaking every pots, etc.

Thanks, that was helpful. Then I'll not worry too much about the number of enemies I fight, my style will probably be a 1.5

Originally posted by Nyphila:

The key to enjoying DQ is not so much in the fighting, but in exploring every corners, talking to every NPC, breaking every pots, etc.

Edit: sounds like a great tip

[yoship]

Originally posted by Denam:

i'd say that you fight at least one of every monster in the game as you encounter them, if you picked the draconian quest of harder monsters fight everything that comes in your way of wherever you're going, you'll need it.

Appreciate it, I'm just in regular mode and having a blast. How about every kind of monster once in every new region- should be enough?

[Aphelium]

Originally posted by yoship:

Originally posted by Denam:

i'd say that you fight at least one of every monster in the game as you encounter them, if you picked the draconian quest of harder monsters fight everything that comes in your way of wherever you're going, you'll need it.

Appreciate it, I'm just in regular mode and having a blast. How about every kind of monster once in every new region- should be enough?

I'd say at least 1 of everything you see, tho take in account that some special monsters appear either on a certain time of the day or a specific weather condition.
But if you're on normal mode don't worry too much about it, there's so much thingies on the map cause its a semi open world game, and if you have to walk 3 km to fight a monster when the need of grind arises troy would burn.
Just play at your own pace, don't worry too much but don't ignore every monster you come across. If you find a hard boss and the need of grind arises then go a kill thingies.
Oh, and have fun, it's a very very good game. I'm at the post game and it has as many content as a lot of standalone games nowadays. So there's an extra point for it^^

[yoship]

Originally posted by Denam:

Originally posted by yoship:

Appreciate it, I'm just in regular mode and having a blast. How about every kind of monster once in every new region- should be enough?

I'd say at least 1 of everything you see, tho take in account that some special monsters appear either on a certain time of the day or a specific weather condition.
But if you're on normal mode don't worry too much about it, there's so much thingies on the map cause its a semi open world game, and if you have to walk 3 km to fight a monster when the need of grind arises troy would burn.
Just play at your own pace, don't worry too much but don't ignore every monster you come across. If you find a hard boss and the need of grind arises then go a kill thingies.
Oh, and have fun, it's a very very good game. I'm at the post game and it has as many content as a lot of standalone games nowadays. So there's an extra point for it^^

Awesome, thanks for a great reply. Looking forward to what lies ahead, it is clearly an exceptional game.

[GRIMREAPER ALVA]

Me personally, I picked the "Super hard Monsters" option in the Draconian quest so naturally I fight every single monster in a given area at least once. And even still, all the monsters pose a challenge and if not careful, they can KO my party. So that's my advice if you're playing on harder difficulty mode. But since you're playing on the normal default difficulty, don't worry about grinding / fighting the same monster multiple times in an area. You can just go with killing one monster type and moving on and it'll still give you some challenge without making you OP.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Nyphila:

1: Fight everything you come across, to be overlevelled and overpowered, making the game a breeze
2: Fight 1 of every new monster you come across, to work towards 100%, keeping you more or less the same level as bosses, making it somewhat simple, but that might be best for newcomers
3: avoid everything, making you underlevelled, and having some tougher bosses fights later in the game (still not particularly hard mind you)

I've found option 2 to be balanced if you aren't using any special rules. I haven't run into much trouble yet but I owuldn't say it's a cakewalk either.

[Aphelium]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

Originally posted by Nyphila:

1: Fight everything you come across, to be overlevelled and overpowered, making the game a breeze
2: Fight 1 of every new monster you come across, to work towards 100%, keeping you more or less the same level as bosses, making it somewhat simple, but that might be best for newcomers
3: avoid everything, making you underlevelled, and having some tougher bosses fights later in the game (still not particularly hard mind you)

I've found option 2 to be balanced if you aren't using any special rules. I haven't run into much trouble yet but I owuldn't say it's a cakewalk either.

Game get's a bit harder when you get the boat, so i'd say a 2.5 would be the best. Specially since mobs start to use more abilities and AOEs after that point, which can pretty much hurt your whole party or even kill someone if you're not carefull.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Denam:

Originally posted by TommyEV:

I've found option 2 to be balanced if you aren't using any special rules. I haven't run into much trouble yet but I owuldn't say it's a cakewalk either.

Game get's a bit harder when you get the boat, so i'd say a 2.5 would be the best. Specially since mobs start to use more abilities and AOEs after that point, which can pretty much hurt your whole party or even kill someone if you're not carefull.

Do you mean 1.5 then?

[Aphelium]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

Originally posted by Denam:

Game get's a bit harder when you get the boat, so i'd say a 2.5 would be the best. Specially since mobs start to use more abilities and AOEs after that point, which can pretty much hurt your whole party or even kill someone if you're not carefull.

Do you mean 1.5 then?

Correct, finger slipped :P

[yoship]

Originally posted by GrimReaper 𐌀𐌋𐠨𐌀:

Me personally, I picked the "Super hard Monsters" option in the Draconian quest so naturally I fight every single monster in a given area at least once. And even still, all the monsters pose a challenge and if not careful, they can KO my party. So that's my advice if you're playing on harder difficulty mode. But since you're playing on the normal default difficulty, don't worry about grinding / fighting the same monster multiple times in an area. You can just go with killing one monster type and moving on and it'll still give you some challenge without making you OP.

Excellent, that puts me at ease. Appreciate your suggestions. It seems just exploring a region for treasures will provide enough encounters that I shouldn't worry seeking any more on my own.

[yoship]

Originally posted by Spawk:

Originally posted by yoship:

Okay, so I have played JRPGS- but I'm not a core gamer, and new at Dragon Quest at that. I'm travelling from Cobblestone to Heliodor, and the region near the camp is just teeming with monsters- slimes, darkies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wol70cBLNd8

Ha ha, ok ok drackies :)