Spears are a recurring type of weapon, appearing in every installment of the Dragon Quest franchise from the second game onwards. This weapon was originally used by Priests, but has since been a staple armament of Paladins and Warriors.
Beginning with the ninth entry in the series, Dragon Quest IX, Spears will always deal and additional 10% damage to members of the Beast family of monsters, regardless of other factors.
Spears are usually wielded with two hands, thusly usually barring the equipment of a Shield in the off hand, and due to both being pole-based melee weapons, they bear many similarities, both in their overall phisical appearance and in their similar manner of use, to the melee Staves used in martial arts.
Appearances[]
Dragon Quest II[]
Dragon Quest III[]
- Iron lance
- Holy lance
Dragon Quest IV[]
- Iron lance
- Holy lance
- Demon spear
Dragon Quest V[]
- Bamboo spear
- Storm spear
- Demon spear
Dragon Quest VI[]
- Bamboo spear
- Gracos's trident
- Demon spear
Dragon Quest VII[]
- Bamboo spear
- Iron lance
- Holy lance
- Demon spear
Dragon Quest VIII[]
Spears skills are exclusive to the Hero, and focus on multi-striking moves. The Thunder Thrust skill in particular, makes penetrating the defences of the Metal slimes-type enemies much easier. Despite being wielded with two hands, in Dragon Quest VIII this does not prevent the equipment of a Shield.
- Iron lance
- Long spear
- Holy lance
- Battle fork
- Partisan
- Sandstorm spear
- Demon spear
- Hero spear
- Metal king spear
Dragon Quest IX[]
Spear skills function similarly to how they did in VIII, but now are more specialized to be effective against Beast-class monsters.
- Bamboo lance
- Iron lance
- Steel lance
- Gigasteel lance
- Steel lance
- Long spear
- Celestial spear
- Holy lance
- Battle fork
- Trident
- Gracos's Trident
- Sandstorm spear
- Partisan
- Lightning lance
- Storm spear
- Demon spear
- Hero spear
- Metal slime spear
- Liquid metal spear
- Metal king spear
- Liquid metal spear
- Poker
- Stud poker
- Split-pot poker
- Red-hot poker
- Split-pot poker
- Stud poker
Dragon Quest XI[]
- Bronze lance
- Iron lance
- Steel lance
- Battle fork
- Jade's glaive
- Trident
- Gracos's trident
- Lightning lance
- Platinum lance
- Storm spear
- Demon spear
- Full fathom fork
- Paladin's lance
- Metal slime spear
- Liquid metal spear
- Seraph's spear
- Barbarous pole
- Sacred spear
- Metal king spear
- Heaven's talon
- Poker
- Straight poker
- Stud poker
- Split-pot poker
Other languages[]
| Other languages | |
| French | |
| German | Speere |
| Spanish | |
| Italian | Lance (plural of "Lancia") |
| Dutch | Unknown |
| Norwegian | Unknown |
| Greek | Unknown |
| Portuguese | Unknown |
| Russian | Unknown |
| Chinese | |
| Korean | |