Monsters to fight or avoid in the overworld. There’s a time and a place for that, though. The monsters of Dragon Quest 11 respawn endlessly, and that means you’ll never run out of baddies to grind for XP and the occasional item. It’s a lot of work to explore every twist and turn, but the things you pick up are going to help you on your journey. There’s usually a treasure chest behind the main building in an area - this might be the only building in the wilds or the local leader’s house in a city. These will usually lead you to a treasure chest with a valuable goodie inside. But there are diverting paths and dead ends. Most areas are, to oversimplify it, a hallway - you’re there to get from Point A to Point B. You’ll often find chests in hard to reach or out of the way places. You’ll almost always find sparkly spots in each location (more on these below), but there’s usually more to discover. Since the game is a slow burn, there’s no rush, so you can poke around each of Erdrea’s areas that you get to explore. Settle in and enjoy the game at its own pace. Don’t fight that and don’t rush the experience too much. You don’t have to play like us, jumping every monster you see and trying to find every nook and cranny available, but even trying to mainline the story is still a long process. When you add in exploration and a few too many monster fights, you play for hours before you even add your first party member (and close to 10 before you add a third member).

The events of Dragon Quest 11 unfold slowly. Our 11 tips will help you find your way through the sprawling world of Erdrea and through the various mechanics of Dragon Quest 11. With such a long game, though, it can be a struggle to remember everything that’s going on and everything you can do. It’s a mix of grand scales and micromanagement (in a good way) that is just a whole lot to juggle all at once.Īs our first tip below says, Dragon Quest 11 is a slow burn, so you’re going to have a lot ( a lot) of time to get comfortable with its concepts. Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age is a turn-based Japanese role-playing game through and through, and that means it’s got a lot of conventions and mechanics common to the genre.

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