Dragon Quest of the Stars tips

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As an accessible game for novices and experts, Dragon Quest of the Stars is self-explanatory game, but some parts of it require more finesse for a more productive approach. These are some suggestions for new players.

Single player

• Don't skip text at the beginning. The game over-explains things at the beginning, but those explanations are necessary to understand the mechanics. It makes the experience slow at first, but very soon you'll be able to excel at the game, much more faster and less painfully than if you were to skip the explanations.
• Play as much of the main story as you can before playing online. Not only does it helps with experience, you'll familiarize more easily with the game mechanics.
• Avoid selling weapons and armours above 2 Stars at the beginning. You might be tempted to gain easy money by selling rare equipment, but you should try first to get acquainted with the evolving and upgrading mechanics in order to make the game much more enjoyable and easy.
• Don't forget to access all free daily missions. They always give very useful stuff that you will regret not getting sooner, such as the Daily Tickets for the Battle God equipment.
• Change vocation as soon as you get to the Alltrades Abbey.
  • If one of the Lucky Chest Draws gave you a 5 Star weapon by that point, favor a profession that can use it better.
  • It's best to start with Warrior, Martial Artist or Sailor as their attack and defense excel above the other Vocations. Priest and Mage are good supporting Vocations that will prove immensely useful once you are able to access the Specialist Vocations, with Priest being the better choice if you don't get a powerful staff with rare Attack Spells at the beginning. Choose Mage if you do get a powerfull staff with rare Attack Spells.
  • Avoid Dancer and Ranger as your starter Vocations. While they are useful in normal missions, they are almost useless against bosses, particularly in online play and advanced story chapters. Their best use is for Specialist Vocations, so leave them alone until you are able to grind experience easily
• Once you unlock the Specialist Vocations, the best place to get experience without consuming food or keys is the Alltrades Temples for each Vocation. Put them to good use as they will allow you to easily grind experience.
  • In order to get the best use, try to have your three main characters with one of the three possible Vocations with bonus plus a partner Sage with Attack and Support Spells. For example, if you select the Superstar Temple, have one character be a Sailor, one a Dancer and one a Superstar, and each one will gain five times the normal experience while the partner Sage will be able to attack with powerful magic or cure and revive your characters. This way you'll easily be able to level up your characters in no time.
  • Be warned, some Specialist Temples are harder than others. Paladin, Pirate and Monster Master Temples in particular need to be treated with care and you must be prepared for their automatic counterattack after draining their health.
• Focus on obtaining any specialist vocation at Lv 50 before maxing out the basic base vocations. This is because when a character reaches that level with any specialist vocation, said character will gain the Discipline Badge, an skill that boosts EXP obtained until level 50 by 1.5x, which affects all vocations, meaning that you'll be able to quickly gain experience with all remaining vocations, basic or specialist. In conjunction with the Alltrades Temples tip to gain experience, you'll be able to quickly gain access to all specialist vocations much easier this way than if you were to max each basic vocation before upgrading to the specialist one.
• After reaching an specialist vocation at Lv 50, if you are satisfied with that specialist vocation, focus on maxing out the base vocation of said specialist vocation. The bonus that you get for maxing them out will make the specialist vocation even stronger. A Monster Master at Lv50 will be more powerful if the base Sailor and Ranger vocations are at Lv 99, and in turn said Monster Master will be more powerful at lower levels than those base vocations at their max level.
• Make sure you get a powerful Sage as a partner at the beginning. Sages with good spells are the most helpful vocation for difficult quests since they can cure your main characters as well as unleash the most powerful attacks. This is particularly important if you don't have a Sage as one of you main three characters.
• Besides Sage, try to get a partner that has a Metal or Liquid Metal weapon. Partner characters that have these weapons will prove invaluable when facing metal slimes and liquid slimes, which in turn will help to gain a lot of experience. Even if you manage to get a hold of one of these weapons, having multiple characters that can defeat metal slimes will make gaining experience more easily, particularly for limited-time events.
• Do not bother upgrading or evolving equipment below 4-star. While 1-star and 2-star are decent by themselves in regular quests, 3-star equipment trounces them badly and 4-star is far superior to 3-star. At the beginning of your adventure it's better to save your resources for the time when you get your hands on rare equipment, especially 5-star. So, save your Weapon and Armour Upgraders for the time when you get 5-star equipment and only evolve 4-star and 5-star equipment.
• While the best equipment is 5-star, 4-star items evolved and upgraded at max are very good options, so don't forget to max them and use them if you have them because 5-star equipment will be hard to come by.
• Be warned: the game is deeply unbalanced at higher difficulties, particularly evident in single-player mode. You'll find that Hero and Legendary quests in Story Events are inconsistent with the level they claim to be. For example, at Hero difficulty, Dragonlord from the Story Event Defeat the Dragonlord! (difficulty level 62) is far easier than Dragonlord in Guided by Rubiss's Light (difficulty level 54) despite the former being ranked at a higher level, and while you can engage the former with one of the basic vocations at a high level, the latter requires you to have an specialist vocation if you want to succeed without using gems to continue. Even some enemies within the regular story, like Cobrara are more difficult than they appear to be since they have special attacks that don't use the charge meter and that appear when enraged. You'll find that multiplayer is a far easier deal than single-player, so plan accordingly.

Multiplayer

• The best way to get rare and seasonal items is through multiplayer. This is because each player gets different rewards and at the end of the quest all players will be given a copy of what each other got. On top of that, playing with multiple players guarantees a certain amount of treasures as a party independent from what each player gets. Combining this with combo meals will give you access to the rare drops far more easily than in single player. Make use of this.
• In multiplayer, make us of Combo Meals. They are extremely helpful for hard battles and to get rare drops.
  • With each new event, five new types of slime food are introduced. Use them whenever possible as they provide the best Combo Meals
    • Metal Slime food adds only 3% extra experience per unit, but if all four players use one each, the Combo Meal will give 300% extra experience to all players, making it the very best way to gain experience in the game.
    • The effect of the other four types vary with the type of food, but, generally speaking, if each player uses a different type of slime food (Metal Slime food doesn't work for this) all get the best effect plus 60% Luck, making it the best Combo Meal for getting rare drops.
    • While using different slime food provides the most luck, if all four players use the same type, they'll get an special defensive bonus plus 30% Luck. This may not look like much, but these defensive combos are particularly useful for the main bosses of each event, very useful for Legendary and Hero difficulties.
• There are bots in online multiplayer. An easy way to identify them is that they never send messages, do not get their food ready and in mission only use the first attack that appears in their slots as soon as the bar is full. While they generally are overpowered, they aren't useful against bosses that require strategy, so, if you're looking for reliable partners in online multiplayer or are chasing for rare drops, be wary of them. However, as offline partners, they are useful.
• Online multiplayer is a great way to gain quick experience for vocations. Make use of this.
• Be polite and courteous. Respond to messages, acquiesce to the host desire for a combo meal and follow his instructions if he wants to attack with certain attacks since there are some mission that need to have a particular finish for a special reward.
• When you're hosting a mission, you don't need to disband the whole team if a member refuses to go for a Combo Meal. You can kick members out of the team with the loupe at the bottom of their profiles, which will normally show you their full profiles, but it also allows the host to kick misbehaved members before the start of a mission. This way you can keep the other members until a better partner appears.

Combo meals

The following are the currently known combo meals. The combo effects listed are additional to the accumulated effects of the individual foods using on them.

Dumpling

Slime Dumplings are mostly available during "Defeat the Dragonlord!" event quests.

• King Slime Dumpling
  Combo effect: Stun Resistance +90%, Luck +60
  • Slime Dumpling
  • Slime Sweet
  • Pizza Slime
  • Potato Slime
• Metal King Slime Cream
  Combo effect: +300% Experience
  • Metal Slime Cream
  • Metal Slime Cream
  • Metal Slime Cream
  • Metal Slime Cream
• 
  Combo effect: Fire breath damage -25%, Luck +30
  • Slime Dumpling
  • Slime Dumpling
  • Slime Dumpling
  • Slime Dumpling
• 
  Combo effect: Dark breath damage -25%, Luck +30
  • Slime Sweet
  • Slime Sweet
  • Slime Sweet
  • Slime Sweet
• 
  Combo effect: Sizz damage -40%, Luck +30
  • Pizza Slime
  • Pizza Slime
  • Pizza Slime
  • Pizza Slime
• 
  Combo effect: Dazzle resistance +90%, Luck +30
  • Potato Slime
  • Potato Slime
  • Potato Slime
  • Potato Slime

Ice Cream

Slime Creams are mostly available during "Defeat Malroth!" event quests.

• Gold King Slime Cream
  Combo effect: Defence Down Resistance +90%, Luck +60
  • Vanilla Slime Cream
  • Green Tea Slime Cream
  • Mint Slime Cream
  • Strawberry Slime Cream
• Metal King Slime Cream
  Combo effect: +300% Experience
  • Metal Slime Cream
  • Metal Slime Cream
  • Metal Slime Cream
  • Metal Slime Cream
• Vanilla King Slime Cream
  Combo effect: Fire breath damage -25%, Luck +30
  • Vanilla Slime Cream
  • Vanilla Slime Cream
  • Vanilla Slime Cream
  • Vanilla Slime Cream
• Green Tea King Slime Cream
  Combo effect: Bang damage -40%, Luck +30
  • Green Tea Slime Cream
  • Green Tea Slime Cream
  • Green Tea Slime Cream
  • Green Tea Slime Cream

Cake

• Golden King Slime Cake
  • Slime Cake
  • Chocolate Slime Cake
  • Whipped Slime Cake
  • Peach Slime Cake
• Metal King Slime Cake
  • Metal Slime Cake
  • Metal Slime Cake
  • Metal Slime Cake
  • Metal Slime Cake

Mochi

• Golden King Slime Mochi
  • White Slime Mochi
  • Red Slime Mochi
  • Soy Slime Mochi
  • Brown Slime Mochi
• Metal King Slime Mochi
  • Metal Slime Mochi
  • Metal Slime Mochi
  • Metal Slime Mochi
  • Metal Slime Mochi

Dango

• Golden King Slime Dango
  • Slime Dango
  • Sakura Slime Dango
  • Mugwort Slime Dango
  • Glazed Slime Dango
• Metal King Slime Dango
  • Metal Slime Dango
  • Metal Slime Dango
  • Metal Slime Dango
  • Metal Slime Dango

Rice Cake

• Golden King Slime Rice Cake
  • Slime Rice Cake
  • Anko Slime Rice Cake
  • Tsubuan Slime Rice Cake
  • White Bean Slime Rice Cake
• Metal King Slime Rice Cake
  • Metal Slime Rice Cake
  • Metal Slime Rice Cake
  • Metal Slime Rice Cake
  • Metal Slime Rice Cake

Juice

• Golden King Slime Juice
  Combo effect: Instant death resistance +60%, Luck +60
  • Slime Juice
  • Peach Slime Juice
  • Lime Slime Juice
  • Berry Slime Juice
• Metal King Slime Juice
  Combo effect: +300% Experience
  • Metal Slime Juice
  • Metal Slime Juice
  • Metal Slime Juice
  • Metal Slime Juice

Fries

• Golden King Slime Fries
  Combo effect: Defence down resistance +60%, Luck +60
  • Slime Fries
  • Chilli Slime Fries
  • Seaweed/Salt Slime Fries
  • Consomme Slime Fries
• King Slime Fries | Combo effect: Bang damage -20%, Luck +30
  • Slime Fries
  • Slime Fries
  • Slime Fries
  • Slime Fries
• Chilli King Slime Fries
  Combo effect: Zam damage -20%, Luck +30
  • Chilli Slime Fries
  • Chilli Slime Fries
  • Chilli Slime Fries
  • Chilli Slime Fries
• Seaweed/Salt King Slime Fries
  Combo effect: Magic attack power down Resistance +60%, Luck +30
  • Seaweed/Salt Slime Fries
  • Seaweed/Salt Slime Fries
  • Seaweed/Salt Slime Fries
  • Seaweed/Salt Slime Fries
• Consomme King Slime Fries
  Combo effect: Attack power down Resistance +60%, Luck +30
  • Consomme Slime Fries
  • Consomme Slime Fries
  • Consomme Slime Fries
  • Consomme Slime Fries
• Metal King Slime Fries
  Combo effect: +300% Experience
  • Metal Slime Fries
  • Metal Slime Fries
  • Metal Slime Fries
  • Metal Slime Fries

Equipment

• The best items are 5-star rated. They are mostly available through Lucky Chest Draws. Makes sure get ahold of them if when you get the chance.
• Rare 5-star equipment is available through Story Events. They are commemorative items from the original Dragon Quest games While at first they don't appear to be a powerful as the ones that can be obtained through Lucky Chest Draws, they are in fact some of the best stat wise once they are fully evolved and have the advantage of being more easily obtainable than the ones from the draws.
  • For 5-star equipment gotten through Story Events, you'll need 1 base item plus 26 individual items of the same type to max the stats through evolving them. It'll also cost you quite a bit, but the evolved item will be among the very best in the game stat-wise.