Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

Easy EXP

For easy experience, try to find metla slimes,(1000 expierience points) liquid metal slimes (10,000 expierience points) and metal king slimes (30,010 experience points!) This is the easiest way to level up at any point in the game. The easiest way to beat them is to use Yangus' Executioner and the Hero's lightning thrust. They both have a 50% change of killing any of those 3 enemies in one hit. Also, the metal king slime gives more experience points than ANY boss in the game, so it's worth the time trying to find and kill them.

Make money with the alchemy pot.

Well, here are some good combinations to make money.

Medicinal Herb + Medicinal Herb = Strong Medicine (Sold: 88)
Badana + Bandana = Turbant (Sold: 205)

Moonwort Bulb + Moonwort Bulb + Moonwort Bulb = Moon's Mercy (Sold: 308)
Fresh Milk + Rennet Powder + Rock Salt = Soft Cheese (Sold: 600)

Super saiyan hero

If you scyche hero all the way up to 100 he'll look like Gotten...off from dbz>

Easy beginning

I just started today and already found this out. When you start after your done doing everything your suposed to and before going out to get the crystal ball do this. Talk to the girl in up stairs in the inn. Not the girl sitting down but the other girl in the morning. She will give you hints where you can find money and other items. If you collect all of the stuff you get around 300 dollar and tons of stuff. Before you go to the cave I would say you should be level 5 it makes it soooo much easier. Also you can get a free copper sword (its usually 270) by going in the cave and instead of going to where the crystal ball is go straight and open the teasure chest and there it is

If you want to get 2 yggdrasil leaves from the girl at the bazzare in argonia this is what you got to do
Buy 1 then put it in the alchermy pot with holy water
Then buy another from the girl
Then take the 1 you put in the alchomy pot out
Then you will have 2.

Alchemy Pot Recipes

Result I tem 1 Item 2 Item 3
Agility Ring= Seed of Agility Prayer Ring
Amor Seco Essence= Strong Medicine Holy Water
Angel Cheese= Fresh Milk Premium Mould Yggdrasil Dew
Angel Robe= Flowing Dress Magical Skirt
Assassin's Dagger= Eagle Dagger Poison Needle
Bandit Axe=Thief's Key Battle Axe
Bandit Mail= Heavy Armor Bandit Axe Bandit's Grass Skirt
Blizzard Blade= Bastard Sword Cold Cheese Icicle Dirk
Boxer Shorts= Bandit's Grass Skirt Bandana
Bronze Armor =Chain Mail Bronze Shield
Bronze Helme=t Stone Hard Hat Bronze Knife Bronze Knife
Bronze Shield= Leather Shield Bronze Knife
Bunny Ears= Hairband Bunny Tail
Bunny Suit= Silk Bustier Bunny Tail
C-c-cool Cheese= Cold Cheese Premium Mould Dragon Dung
Catholicon Ring= Full Moon Ring Ring of Truth Ring of Immunity
Cheiron's Bow= Eros' Bow Power Shield
Chilly Cheese= Cool Cheese Waterweed Mould
Chimera Wing= Wing of Bat Wing of Bat
Chunky Cheese= Plain Cheese Magic Water
Cold Cheese= Chilly Cheese Waterweed Mould Waterweed Mould
Cool Cheese= Plain Cheese Waterweed Mould
Copper Sword= Bronze Knife Bronze Knife
Crimson Robe= Sage's Robe Nook Grass Magic Water
Cured Cheese= Fresh Milk Premium Mould Amor Seco Essence
Dancer's Mail= Dancer's Costume Silver Mail
Dark Robe= Cloak of Evasion Devil's Tail Wing of Bat
Demon Spear= Battle Fork Devil's Tail Poison Needle
Demon Whip= Scourge Whip Devil's Tail
Divine Bustier= Dangerous Bustier Shimmering Dress
Double-Edge Sword= Uber Double-Edge Devil's Tail
Dragon Mail= Silver Mail Dragon Scale Dragon Scale
Dragon Shield= Steel Shield Dragon Scale Dragon Scale
Dragon Slayer= Dragonsbane Mighty Armlet
Dragon Tail Whip= Snakeskin Whip Dragon Scale Dragon Scale
Dragovian King Sword= Liquid Metal Sword Dragovian Sword
Elevating Shoes= Fishnet Stockings Happy Hat
Elfin Elixer= Magic Water Yggdrasil Dew
Eros' Bow= Hunter's Bow Garter Belt
Falcon Knife= Slime Earrings Agility Ring Tough Guy Tattoo
Fallen Angel Rapier= Holy Silver Rapier Devil's Tail Wing of Bat
Feathered Cap= Leather Hat Chimera Wing
Flame Shield= Magic Shield Flametang Boomerang
Full Moon Ring= Gold Ring Poison Moth Knife
Fur Hood= Fur Poncho Feathered Cap
Fur Poncho= Magic Beast Hide Magic Beast Hide
Gigant Armor= Bandit Mail Mighty Armlet Mighty Armlet
Goddess Ring= Golden Tiara Recovery Ring Orichalcum
Goddess Shield= Thantos' Shield Saint's Ashes
Golden Axe= Iron Axe Gold Nugget
Golden Tiara= Silver Tiara Thinking Cap Gold Nugget
Greater Panacea Rose Root= Rose-Wort Lesser Panacea
Greater Panacea Special Medicine= Special Medicine Special Medicine
Hade's Helm= Mithril Helm Devil's Tail
Happy Hat= Feathered Cap Elevating Shoes
Hard Cheese= Plain Cheese Rock Salt
Hell Scythe= Hade's Helm Steel Scythe Poison Moth Knife
Hermes' Hat Feathered Cap Mercury's Bandana
Highly-Strung Cheese Super Spicy Cheese Cold Cheese Rock Salt
Holy Lance Long Spear Gold Rosary
Holy Silver Rapier Templar's Sword Holy Talisman
Holy Talisman Holy Water Gold Rosary Tough Guy Tattoo
Holy Water Amor Seco Essence Rock Salt
Hunter's Bow Short Bow Chain Whip
Hunter's Bow Strength Ring Cypress Stick Cypress Stick
Ice Shield Magic Shield Icicle Dirk
Imp Knife Assassin's Dagger Devil's Tail
Iron Axe Farmer's Scythe Farmer's Scythe
Iron Cuirass Iron Shield Iron Shield
Iron Lance Cypress Stick Dagger
Leather Armor Magic Beast Hide Wayferer's Clothes
Leather Dress Dancer's Costume Magic Beast Hide
Leather Kilt Leather Whip Bandana
Leather Kilt Magic Beast Hide Boxer Shorts
Leather Shield Pot Lid Magic Beast Hide
Leather Whip Devil's Tail Saint's Ashes
Lesser Panacea Special Medicine Special Medicine
Life Bracer Recovery Ring Gold Bracer
Liquid Metal Sword Rusty Old Sword Slime Crown Orichalcum
Long Spear Cypress Stick Cypress Stick Iron Lance
Magic Armor Full Plate Armor Prayer Ring Ruby of Protection
Magic Shield Steel Shield Ruby of Protection Prayer Ring
Magic Water Holy Water Seed of Magic
Magical Skirt Magical Mace Magical Hat Bandit's Grass Skirt
Magma Staff Wizard's Staff Rockbomb Shard
Megaton Hammer Uber War Hammer Conqueror's Axe Orichalcum
Mercury's Bandana Agility Ring Bandana
Mercury's Raiper Fallen Angel Rapier Mercury's Bandana Mercury'sBandana
Metal King Armor Liquid Metal Armor Slime Crown Orichalcum
Metal King Shield Ruinous Shield Saint's Ashes Orichalcum
Metal Wing Boomerang Razor Wing Boomerang Metal King Spear
Meteorite Bracer Agility Ring Agility Ring Orichalcum
Mighty Armlet Strength Ring Titan Belt
Mild Cheese Plain Chese Amor Seco Essence
Mirror Armor Silver Mail Mirror Shield Mirror Shield
Mithril Helm Hade's Helm Saint's Ashes
Moon Axe Golden Axe Slime Crown
Moon's Mercy Moonwort Bulb Moonwort Bulb Moonwort Bulb
Mystifying Mixture Holy Water Cowpat Wing of Bat
Mystifying Mixture Medicinal Herb Antidotal Herb Moonwort Bulb
Odin's Bow Cheiron's Bow Eros' Bow Great Bow
Phantom Mask Iron Headgear Dark Robe
Plain Cheese Fresh Milk Rennent Powder
Platinum Mail Zombie Mail Saint's Ashes
Pointy Hat Leather Hat Iron Nail
Power Shield Magic Shield Strength Ring Cured Cheese
Prayer Ring Seed of Magic Gold Ring
Premium Mold Red Mold Waterweed Mould Yggdrasil Leaf
Princess Robe Angel Robe Shimmering Dress Gold Rosary
Raging Bull Helmet Mithril Helm Cowpat Fresh Milk
Razor Wing Boomerang Edged Boomerang Steel Scythe Wing of Bat
Recovery Ring Prayer Ring Seed of Life
Reinforced Boomerang Boomerang Iron Nail
Ring of Awakening Dream Blade Gold Ring
Ring of Clarity Fallen Angel Rapier Gold Ring
Ring of Immunity Gold Ring Poison Needle
Ring of Truth Sandstorm Spear Gold Ring
Robe of Serenity Cloak of Evasion Boxer Shorts
Rose Root Medicinal Herb Medicinal Herb Medicinal Herb
Rose Root Strong Medicine Medicinal Herb
Rose-Wort Medicinal Herb Medicinal Herb Moonwort Bulb
Rose-Wort Strong Medicine Moonwort Bulb
Ruby of Protection Seed of Defense Prayer Ring
Ruinous Shield Metal King Shield Devil's Tail
Rusty Old Sword Liquid Metal Sword Mystifying Mixture Cowpat
Sage's Robe Scholar's Cap Magic Robe
Sage's Stone Gold Nugget Yggdrasil Dew Orichalcum
Saintless Shield Mirror Shield White Shield Holy Water
Sandstorm Spear Partisan Saint's Ashes
Scale Armor Leather Armor Dragon Scale
Scale Shield Leather Shield Dragon Scale
Scholar's Cap Magical Hat Scholar's Specs
Scholar's Specs Ring of Awakening Ring of Clarity Seed of Wisdom
Scorching Cheese Super Spicy Cheese Premium Mould Dragon Dung
Scourge Whip Demon Whip Saint's Ashes
Shamshir of Light Shimmering Dress Rune Staff Light Shield
Shimmering Dress Spangled Dress Ruby of Protection Gold Bracer
Silver Cuirass Iron Cuirass Silver Platter Silver Platter
Silver Shield Mirror Shield Amor Seco Essence Magic Water
Silver Tiara Coral Hairpin Silver Platter
Skull Helmet Sun Crown Devil's Tail
Skull Ring Sorceror's Ring Devil's Tail
Sledgehammer Giant Mallet Iron Helmet Iron Helmet
Snakeskin Whip Leather Whip Scale Shield
Soft Cheese Fresh Milk Rennent Powder Rock Salt
Sorceror's Ring Skull Ring Saint's Ashes Saint's Ashes
Special Antidote Antidotal Herb Antidotal Herb Medicinal Herb
Special Antidote Strong Antidote Medicinal Herb
Special Medicine Strong Medicine Strong Medicine
Spicy Cheese Plain Cheese Red Mould
Spiked Armor Magic Armor Edged Boomerang
Staff of Anti-Magic Wizard's Staff Rune Staff
Staff of Ressurection Rune Staff Life Bracer Yggdrasil Leaf
Stone Axe Stone Hard Hat Cypress Stick
Stone Hard Hat Stone Axe Pointy Hat
Strength Ring Seed of Strength Prayer Ring
Strong Antidote Antidotal Herb Medicinal Herb
Strong Medicine Medicinal Herb Medicinal Herb
Sun Crown Skull Helmet Saint's Ashes
Super Spicy Cheese Spicy Cheese Nook Grass
Super Spicy Cheese Spicy Cheese Red Mould Red Mould
Templar's Shield Templar's Uniform Iron Shield
Templar's Uniform Templar's Shield Wayferer's Clothes
Thantos' Shield Goddess Shield Devil's Tail
Thief's Key Bronze Knife Iron Nail
Thinking Cap Scholar's Cap Iron Headgear
Timbrel of Tension Sun Crown Magic Beast Hide Tough Guy Tattoo
Titan Belt Strength Ring Leather Kilt
Turban Bandana Bandana
Uber Double-Edge Double-Edge Sword Saint's Ashes Saint's Ashes
Uber Falcon Blade Falcon Blade Meteorite Bracer
Uber Miracle Sword Miracle Sword Life Bracer
Uber War Hammer War Hammer Mighty Armlet
Wayferer's Clothes Plain Clothes Plain Clothes
White Shield Iron Shield Silver Platter
White Shield Light Shield Fresh Milk Fresh Milk
Yggdrasil Dew Magic Water Yggdrasil Leaf
Zombie Mail Platinum Mail Devil's Tail
Zombie Mail Silver Mail Zombiesbane
Zombie Slayer Holy Talisman Zombiesbane

Easy exp

You will need godbirds soulstone for this , go west of the tower that had the baby of emperya captive at night. Theres a patch of land there then us whistle and you will encounter liquid metal slimes about after every 3 times you engage combat.

Timbrell of Tension and Sage`s stone

I think that these are most useful items in the game. First Timbrell of Tension. Items you need: sun crown, magic beast hide and tough guy tattoo. You can find magic beast hide in the Trodains castle or sometimes bullfinch can drop it. At Argonia you can buy tough guy tattoo. But the sun crown is the hardest item to make. First you need a skull helm and you can find it in the Dragonvian Trials. And then you need Saints Ashes. You can win this item at the Monster Arena or find it some treasure chests.
Timbrell of Tension = Sun Crown + Magic Beast Hide + Tough guy Tattoo

You can find Sage`s stone at the Black Citadel or make it:
Sage`s stone = Gold nugget + Orichalcum + Yggrassil dew

Angelo's best weapon

After Marta is killed you get the ultimate key and you can use this on the locked door in Trodain and in one of the chests is the Rusty old sword and if you kept the Slime crown from the slimes in the well you can mix it with a piece of Orichalcum which you can get in a barrel in troll maze then it should be,
Rusty Old Sword + Orichalcum + Slime Crown = Liquid Metal Sword

And thats Angelo's best weapon (and Jessica's best sword weapon)

A lot of Exp.

In order to gain exp. Quickly, go to black Citidel and fight the metal king slimes (very easy)
and you will gain about 30,000 exp each

BEATING EMPYREA

All right this will be very easy if you have kafrizzle with jessica. All you got to do is psyche up jessica all the way and used Kafrizzle and it will do more than 500 damage!
You would probably Beat it in 4 turns.

Argon Lizard

Start your turn with angelo kabuffing your team and with hero and yangus phsyching up. Then use jessica to increase the hero's and yangus's attack by oomph. Then when hero and yangus reach 50 atack with their best ability or magic or normal atack it doesnt matter.

DHOULMAGUS BEATING

First of all if you want to beat him your hero must be at lvl 30(HE MUST LEARN FULLHEAL) and had learned miracle slash. And yangus 29 and angelo lvl 27-29 (HE MUST LEARN FULL HEAL!) and jessica lvl 27-29.

Dhoulmagus has about ???1000???-???1600??? Health

In his first form:
Use your first turn send in your monster team to attack dhoulmagus. When dhoulmagus summons 2 dopplegangers and throws debris to your weakest character on his first turn I think , increase the party's defense(kabuff) and hero's offense (oomph)dont bother with sap fuddle etc. As the boss is immune to it. Dont attakc the clones just focus your attak on the real one .. Because hes the one that causes the bigger damage. Start increasing your tension every turn with the hero and yangus, once you reach 50 try atacking with your abilities, DO NOT ATACK NORMALLY AFTER SYCIN UP HE WILL DODGE IT, and use miracle slash every time wiht hero. And use your strongest ability atk of yangus. Dhoulmagus is a very hard boss so try making angelo the healer. And when dhoulmagus takes away your oomph keep jessica casting oomph. And if he takes away your kabuff don't bother leting angelo cast it again just simply use his full heal. Once you beat the real dhoulmags the other two are easy. Second form:
Just practically do the same thing above and youll be find remember your monster team! They would help alot. Hope this helps. AND I'm making a new topic about tips on bosses so they wont keep askin for help here.

Yangus' best weapon

First find the Conqueror's axe in the hill next Rydon's Tower (get soulbird to get there) then if you haven't already make the Uber War hammer with a War hammer + a mighty armlet then mix them in with a piece of Orichalcum, and BOOM you get the Megaton hammer A.K.A Yangus' best weapon

how to get Hero's best weapon

once you beat the Lord of the Dragovians you can do the Dragovian trials you can win a Dragovian sword then if you haven't already make the Liquid metal sword (this is also good for killing Liquid metal slimes) by mixing Rusty Old Sword + Orichalcum + Slime Crown in the alchemy pot and after that mix the Liquid metal sword in with the Dragovian sword and BOOM you got the Dragovian king sword A.K.A Hero's best weapon

Good trick for starters

Hi
I found a good way for starters to beat bosses
As soon as you get jesica give all her skill points to knife skill
She will learn toxic dagger after an amount of skill points
Every time you poison a boss he will lose a lot of hp in 1 turn you can have in down in 3 turns
Hope I helpt the newbies in this game

Ultrus The Ultra Slime

Find the 3 small slimes scattered across the world. Theres one by Trodain, one by the autumn chruch, and one near Empyychu. Now put them all in your monster team.

Sounds stupid right? WRONG! Now enter any rank you can in the monster arena. The 3 slimes will most likely merge into Ultrus the ultra slime.

I beat rank C, B, and A. Now I'm working on S. So when your stuck on a rank, just remember this cheat. Alos, after every moinster area battle, your slimes and Ultrus will be fully healed!

Secret level

There IS a level after Rhapthorne, and I will tell you where:
1:Use the Zoom spell to go to Baccarat.
2:Use the Godbird's Soulstone and fly where you found the tree of styx[the Glowing Tree]
3:On top of the mountain, there is a GIANT platform [FLY there] and land.
4:Up there, is a stele with a wierd symbol on it, hit X to activate a cut-scene.
5:Keep following the winding path to a gate.
6:And BOOM! A new area called the Dragovian Sanctuary.

Secret equipment

In Farebury, there is a well near Valentina's house. Hit X on it to jump down it. Open the chest and you will receive a leather shield.

And in the cave where you fight the giant lobster like creature, there is a slime bouncing in a fork in the path. Talk to him and say no. Walk down the path that hes on and go in the cave. Here you will receice a copper sword for free instead of paying your hard earned money in the weapon shop.

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