Topic: Dragon Quest 9: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

@pikmaniac: no, and @Zaphod Beeblebrox: He doesn't want me to "waste my money," and thinks that i should save up for an iPod Touch, but I want this game more. My old man loves games, but he isn't a serious gamer like me.

@labrat7 - Does he know a lot about the multiplayer? If he thinks it's like Pokémon or something, no wonder. If you both have it you can work together to get through harder parts of the game, even if it does feel a little like cheating. Also, even if he thinks an iPod Touch would be a better investment, as long as it's your money you should decide what you should spend it on. By the time you're done with DQIX (if you ever "complete" the game), you should have saved enough money to get an iPod Touch. Or a 3DS.

I get 15 bucks a month for allowance, so maybe in the next two months I can piece together enough to order it off Amazon. Thanks for convincing me, and i'll be back later to discuss with u guys!

I'll be driving about 100 miles to a Dragon Quest IX event in about 8 hours. What's awesome is I just so happened to grind out a new grotto that is useful for quests 118, 120, 129, 130 and has the first appearance of Metal King Slimes in my game, so I'll be passing that one out in tag mode later to help others out! I hope I get some good stuff too. =]

For some reason, I dunno if its the equipment, but my martial artist has a insanely high hit % rate on Metal enemies, so a few Fandango attacks on Metal King Slimes and its 30,000+ EXP per character. Once you find a Metal King Slime, your levels just skyrocket. I haven't changed vocations at all, I'm still running with high 80s-mid 90s Minstrel, Martial Artist, Priest and Mage team, but I'll revocate once I hit the level cap.

This game is fun. =]

That's fantastic! Hope you get some good gear!

Before you revocate, consider simply switching to a different trade. That way you can switch back to the level 99 trade whenever you need a high-level specialist. Revocation is, um, irrevocable. I'm not going to revocate anyone until I've got all their trades to 99. Then I'll revocate a character's least useful trade.

(Edit: deleted my potentially worthless guess about the martial artist)

You shouldn't wait that long to revocate one of your main character's classes. You don't have access to the highest rank dungeons until you revocate at least once.

Good point. It hasn't been a priority for me since I discovered (the hard way) that I had too much magic and not enough brawn to deal with the level 85 map I have already. Once I've finished correcting that problem I'll be ready for tougher maps.

The event went well even though we got there 45 minutes late...stupid traffic. Oh yea, the trim on my car fell off and I had to pull over to toss it in the trunk, lol, stupid car. Ended up driving about 200 miles today.

Its funny, when I finally got to the location, I was greeted by a bunch of familiar faces, former customers of my last job. They explained that 30+ people came, grabbed the map, goodies (a neat slime bag/backpack thing, pictures later), a few tags and left. They were really grateful for the map that I was sharing since they needed it for DLC quests and didn't have any luck grinding one out themselves.

About 30 minutes into the event, there was a contest held for the DQIX strategy guide, and I won, awesome! I was really disappointed though at the time because there was barely any new DQIX players showing up for me to tag and I waited there, at one point alone for an hour while everyone else went to lunch.

I barely squeaked by with enough unique tags to unlock all the areas in the Inn and since it was dead, chatted with the guy who was there and convinced him to share some of his maps. He ended up giving me 2 grottos, one with a floor of only Metal King Slimes and the legacy bosses from the assorted events, sweet!

All in all, it was a good day... save the issues with my car. I just got everyone in my party to level 99 and just revocated 1 of my characters today, he's now at level 33. I'll probably spend today with level grinding/revocating/change vocations..., well, later today. =]

So...I am at Upover and need to go to the top of Magmaroo alone. How do I do that?

@MERG: Easiest way... Zoom or Chimera Wing to the summit. =)

Zoom does indeed get me to the summit...but Greygnarl is telling me he sent word for me to come alone. How do I get him to talk to me?

Drop off your party members at the Quester's Rest (talk to Patty).

Thanks so much!!

When you drop them off, they keep all their armo(u)r and weapons (unless you remove them first) but they return the contents of their pockets (items and scrolls) to your bag. So when you pick them back up again, you'll need to redistribute anything you want them to be carrying.

I wonder if any new DLC came out.....
(Goes to check)

@sonic_brawler95 - New quests come out on Fridays.

Oh, well, I guess I got those quests from Friday then.

Yeah, and you'll have plenty of quests to party through, they're releasing them every friday for a year

If you already knew that, sorry.

I just asumed they came out on Monday, since thats usually thats how Nintendo goes, but thanks for clearing that up labrat. Also, don't forget the special characters for the inn that are from the old DQ games.