Word, do you just cancel your sub in between updates or?
I just got to the (I assume) halfway point of 5.3 and hot damn, the story is out of control. Starting to understand why you said this was one of the best DQs - it's really good!
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I just got to the (I assume) halfway point of 5.3 and hot damn, the story is out of control. Starting to understand why you said this was one of the best DQs - it's really good!
Yeah, for DQX I just buy a month of sub and once that lapses I only renew if I'm still playing.
5.x story was pretty great, I'm really curious how they'll end the story and what is going to be the theme for the next expansion.
OK so looks like I'm just barely not going to make it, but I at least got to 5.4 (finished 5.3 last night). Ending spoilers but
wow at that whole lady wolf reveal? she's...new, right? pretty crazy to have an entirely new/important character show up like that out of the blue? was genuinely surprised. i love her design, too!
I finished Version 3 yesterday, and I have to say I really, really liked it. My favorite part for now.
Special mention to the art direction, the level design and some pretty fun boss fights.
The story had its up and down, but there were some great moments especially thanks to the sometime impressive cut-scenes.
Now to finish a couple of side quests then Version 4, which I feel I'll not like as much judging from what little I saw of the trailers and screenshots but maybe I'll be proven wrong.
Special mention to the art direction, the level design and some pretty fun boss fights.
The story had its up and down, but there were some great moments especially thanks to the sometime impressive cut-scenes.
Now to finish a couple of side quests then Version 4, which I feel I'll not like as much judging from what little I saw of the trailers and screenshots but maybe I'll be proven wrong.
With this:
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And this released:
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Don't know a lick of Japanese but I guess now might be the time for me to finally try this? I don't have any hope of DQX: Offline releasing over here so I figure I might aswell try.
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And this released:
Dragon Quest X Online in English?! | DQXClarity Showcase
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Don't know a lick of Japanese but I guess now might be the time for me to finally try this? I don't have any hope of DQX: Offline releasing over here so I figure I might aswell try.
I'm pretty certain one of the biggest reason why X Offline has been green-lit in the first place was to find a way to release the game internationally. There would be little point in remaking it while it's still ongoing otherwise. I think a worldwide release announcement is to be expected eventually (not like there was a "no plans" warning with this one, right?).
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It's nice that someone else has picked up on those projects since the stuff I made years ago quit working. The person I made them for is no longer playing and so I had no real reason to work on it anymore, and people apparently relied on it since I get so many messages about it.
The UI translation proof of concept I did was never sustainable, and honestly it doesn't look like the way they're doing it is much better. The primary concern is that DQ10 can tell when you're fooling around in the memory space and will sometimes give warnings about it. I managed to bypass it but it's a bit of a gamble.
The UI translation proof of concept I did was never sustainable, and honestly it doesn't look like the way they're doing it is much better. The primary concern is that DQ10 can tell when you're fooling around in the memory space and will sometimes give warnings about it. I managed to bypass it but it's a bit of a gamble.
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Trying to get more play in while I have nothing else to play. I'm reaching the point in version 3 where me being a scrub and not having good gear or really contributing to the party in any meaningful way is starting to become a hindrance. I guess I have to actually step up my game now. And also figure out what's changed with skill points since I last paid attention.
The new skill system is much more friendly for the user, iirc if you do all the 5? vocation quests you get straight up 100 points in each tree and you can use the points you get by leveling to spec above 100 (I think the total number of skill points you get is much higher than what you had before).
As for gear, what I wrote earlier in the thread still stands - check which lv 100+ armor set you want to aim for (from what I've seen higher level doesn't mean it's better, they specialize in different aspects), and try to grab it through the maze island. If you have a lot of genki time accumulated you can probably get a bunch of items to enter the maze.
Regarding the weapon, doing a few rounds of the base defense activity should net you enough mats to make whichever weapon you want (or it might even drop for you).
The wiki page I linked has a schedule for different enemy types, since each group has an increased chance for some kind of drop.
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I'm going to try the defense force for the first time today. I had been avoiding it because I don't want to let people down, but a guy released a really helpful video that gave me a good feel for what's going on in there and how to not disrupt the more experiened players, so I feel more confident.
I personally focused on buffs and summons as the Death Master/Magic Knights, but speaking from very shallow experience, you often fail those things and I think everyone's used to that.
Second half of 5.5 done. I was surprised to see that the last few bosses didn't have difficulty level selection - I thought they started adding those day 1 with this expansion. If anyone finds those fights hard (and doesn't have hundreds of tiny medals to exchange for ygg dews), I read that they're supposed to add easy mode in August.
I somehow beat all of those fights on my first try, but as usual I was mostly dying and healing my NPCs (who were also dying left and right) with items.
As much as I love the story in DQX and find the battle system interesting (especially compared to EQ clones), I'm not a fan of harder encounters...
Either way, my feelings on the story in this patch are mixed.
That said, I remember really enjoying 5.4, and the first half of 5.5 - the expansion as a whole was pretty good and I'm excited for 6.0.
I somehow beat all of those fights on my first try, but as usual I was mostly dying and healing my NPCs (who were also dying left and right) with items.
As much as I love the story in DQX and find the battle system interesting (especially compared to EQ clones), I'm not a fan of harder encounters...
Either way, my feelings on the story in this patch are mixed.
It had some strong moments like everything around the Yushka fight, but the genki dama ending kind of fell flat.
I got through most of the game as a warrior with support priest + mage + (random other attacker, usually a gladiator). The AI is pretty good about healing and has the benefit of not being able to panic in tight situations (heh) so I found that worked well. I've since switched to maining 魔剣士 cause it has some great high damage attacks but I've also been eyeballing resistances since late 4.x because the battles starting getting challenging.
You'll want to raise those skill point caps ASAP if you haven't already. That stuff comes in pretty handy as the difficulty heats up.
You'll want to raise those skill point caps ASAP if you haven't already. That stuff comes in pretty handy as the difficulty heats up.
I've been using a paladin, summoner (whatever they are called here), and a oriest combo for my npcs and the main problem are multihit/super strong attacks which just instantly kill me… I have fairly good gear etc., so no ulidea what more I could do aside from matching all resistances to every fight.
That one and the last boss were definitely the worst fights. Setting a summoner to いのちだいじに might help, since you'll have an untargettable (I think) summon which can heal and resurrect. In my party I had 3 members who can res (including me with items) if you count the summon, so if someone died they would get raised instantly. I also found that spamming ygg dew is not a bad idea. All in all my strategy was focusing on surviving rather than dealing damage in all those end patch fights.
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I finished version 3, and I think the final boss convinced me to give another class a shot. It suddenly had FF14 style movement and I found it really difficult to find places to stand so I could heal the group. I enjoy doing the healing, but I find that I am just a little too slow a lot of the time. I've played most of the classes to level 50 or so at least, but I have yet to unlock the most recent classes (summoner, demon knight). I'm also wondering if I might like to do more with fortune teller. Not really sure what I want to do right now.
Good tips, thanks. Yeah I figured I'm gonna need to try and have two healers, so I'm at least not spending 90% of the fight reviving ppl. I'm gonna get to 120 first and then try again. Were you using your 魔剣士?
I did all the class quests with every class and out of all of them, the ones I enjoyed most are monster master and fortune teller, but in terms of raw potential / aid in getting through the game, the demon swordsman has been great because it has a fairly strong attack that hits all enemies and is easy to spam, plus when the demon gauge gets full and you use it, all your demon-based attacks just wreck everything in sight. It's a little OP but I imagine it'd make ver 4 a lot easier to manage.
Yeah, I was playing as 魔剣. A lot of me activating my limit break/veil and dying before I could even move (since the animation is long).
Oh neat, reminds me I never finished DQ7 3DS in English. It's cool to see official terms for some of this stuff. DQ11S had some terms for DQ10 races and locations and such too.
You mean the 160-200 skills, right? I think this guide provides a good explanation. I usually just go by "recommended" for each category.
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Maaaan I miss that. It was so nice and zippy getting around the world before version 4, hah. If you don't use them already, highly recommend the バシルーラ girls in レンドア and/or メギストリス for jumping to specific out of the way locations. Even after getting the mega zoomstone in ver. 3 I still use them all the time.
Ver 4 is where they dropped the Wii (and in 2017 they made that version unplayable), so it's kind of like Stormblood in XIV where PS3 got cut off.
Wii U next! (Unless that already happened)
Patch notes mention 8月上旬, so you won't have to wait long. I still recommend having a summoner set to healing, since it gives you another res if necessary and one that can't die.
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About halfway through 4.2 now, and I'm really enjoying version 4 much more than version 3 so far. I can't really put my finger on it exactly, but something about the particular roteness of version 3 didn't really do it for me. Although I did like a couple of the stories, especially the darkness tribe part.
I also spent some time trying to build out the cathedral armor set; I just need two more parts of that to get the set bonus. I've done a combination of Zelmere and white chest grinding, but I don't want to do too much of that. I certainly feel much more useful as a summoner in the defense force, although someone did yell at me for summoning kakaron and I'm not quite sure why. I thought that would be helpful. Perhaps I'll summon one of the damager genmas next time.
I also spent some time trying to build out the cathedral armor set; I just need two more parts of that to get the set bonus. I've done a combination of Zelmere and white chest grinding, but I don't want to do too much of that. I certainly feel much more useful as a summoner in the defense force, although someone did yell at me for summoning kakaron and I'm not quite sure why. I thought that would be helpful. Perhaps I'll summon one of the damager genmas next time.
I feel like healing is less important than damage dealing, since most fights (at least those I was a part of) would usually get to really close in the last part.
I really need to get back to progressing on the main story. On 4.4. I'm pretty much doing everything *except* story content—got my level 120 martial artist with mostly maxed out stat accessories now. Took forever to get stats maxed out on most of the accessories since accessory fusing is pure RNG. Been pumping XP into battlemaster too. I figure since I put so much time getting good gear for martial artist I should pick a second class like battlemaster where I can use the same gear.
I haven't messed too much with accessory stuff (apart from simple fusing) - know of any good guides? I should spend some time trying to improve my gear