Dragon Quest VIII - Metal Slime Dos and Don'ts

Just some random gameplay after popping Dragon Quest 8 back in my PS2 for the first time in years. Just gives you an idea of what to do and what NOT to do when tracking down those elusive Metal Slimes. Effort pays off, especially when you bag a KING Metal Slime, as shown here.

[@minionsannh]

that metal king stayed for 5 straight turns lol... what is this sorcery

[@wielderofthesacredsabre7926]

Metal king slimes will more often than not try to kill you

[@wielderofthesacredsabre7926]

+Sam Classen they try not to flee

[@chrissikes9902]

YES. TEACH ME YOUER WIZARDRY!

[@starvoltnexus3139]

@@wielderofthesacredsabre7926 Then why do they keep taking off for me

[@Animebryan2]

The proper way to kill these things: Equip everyone with Meteorite Bracers [AGL +50] (you get 1 freebie from Princess Minnie but you'll need to use 3 Orichalcums [out of 6 in the game] & 6 Agility Rings [Pickham Casino]). Equip Hero with Mercury's Bandana for another AGL +15. Equip Angelo with either a Falcon Blade or Liquid Metal Sword. Perform the following: Hero-Lightning Thrust (50% Crit.), Yangus-Executioner (50% Crit.), Jessica-Acceleratle (every turn) & Angelo- either Falcon Blade + Metal Slash/Falcon Slash or Liquid Metal Sword + Falcon Slash. Best to fight them in Dragon Graveyard so Bellzebubs can resurrect them over & over.

[@MrMarket1987]

Late reply, but I would earnestly discourage the Meteorite Bracers. They are incredibly hard to justify making over the other items you could make with the Orihalcum you get normally, or are otherwise incredibly difficult to get more of them by rare orihalcum drops and steals from a post-game foe. More so since the agility of Liquid and Metal King slimes are abnormally high (in fact, only Jessica with a Meteorite Bracer could surpass the Metal King Slime by a mere few points... at max level). The way Agility actually works in the game is increase the odds of who goes first between the highest and lowest numbers as well as dodge ratio the higher it goes; It's rarely a guarantee unless the differences are massive. You're just as well off casting Acceleratle with or without the one free MB you get on Jessica to let her help the others speed up and have better success at hitting potential survivors first, or using the Timbrel of Tension if you made one to help Angelo and maybe the hero with their falcon metal slashes, who have the high potential to off a Liquid Metal Slime with a single tension boost between the two.

[@TheLunarLegend]

Do: Thunder thrust, executioner, pray. Don't: Everything else.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

TheLunarLegend Acceleratle helps too.

[@MCsonic537]

@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 and metal slash.

[@quanghuyvu2649]

Metal Slash is also an awful option It can't guarantee a kill

[@og-ru6oc]

@@quanghuyvu2649 still the best option for Angelo's second turn, doesn't matter what it does or doesn't guarantee

[@starvoltnexus3139]

Needle rain is actually really good for dealing with the regular metal slimes but yeah what are you doing should know with these metal Boogers is throat everything the game teaches you about monsters and G or PG leveling systems and pray to heaven Youve killed one or two

[@godlessandlovingit]

killing a king metal slime must feel like winning the lottery

[@satibel]

+godlessandlovingit the dragon catacombs has guys that resurrect with the metal slimes, I had 3 of them with one slime, so I killed it 4 times , the joy

[@super56333]

oh boy, then it would mean i have won the lottery hundreds of times

[@badatgames3687]

use a spear and use the move lightning thrust. gives you about 1 in 3 chance to kill it instantly

[@gabrielred6785]

Also "Executioner", from the Axe branch gives the same effect :)

[@XainArchives]

Except it's easier to kill these, than winning the fucking lottery (bingo)

[@azelasmoment]

From my experience, the best way to defeat metals in this game is to have Hero in spears, Yangus in axes, Jessica in whips, and Angelo in either swords or bows. For Hero and Yangus, Lightning Thrust and Executioner really help speed up the process, since they both ignore defense. For Jessica, just use Twin Dragon Lash. Lastly, for Angelo, do Metal Slash if you have him on swords or Multishot if you have him on bows. That's how I handled metals back when I played it a lot.

[@joshlawless2718]

Wait until its almost night or day, there is a moment in which your shadow will move faster to fit the new light source, exactly in that moment use WHISTLE with yangus, and get a way higher chance to get king metal slimes or metal babbles. When you end a fight, waste not time! use whistle as soon as possible again before your shadow stops moving! you will get lots of experience that way!

[@marluxia18ify]

They look so adorable those metal slimes

[@nuiharime3410]

Don't: Do anything this video shows you. Do: Use Accelerate and either Thunder Thrust or Hatchet man for critical hits.

[@Nyrufa]

Just to save everybody time: Metal Slimes are completely immune to offensive magic. Don't even bother trying to cast offensive spells on them. Second of all, use abilities that are either specifically designed for metal enemies (such as metal slash), or use abilities which perform multiple attacks in the same turn. Metal Slimes have extremely high defense and unless your score a critical hit, you will only inflict 1 or 2 points of damage a hit. Luckily, they have extremely low HP, with normal slimes having 3 to 4, and liquid ones having about 5 to 6. Metal King Slimes only have 7, so you can take them out pretty quickly, assuming they don't run away.

[@hardtimes2597]

Almost everything right. In this game, and as it is showed in the video, King metal slime has 17hp, liquid has 6hp and metal slime has 4hp (this value doesn't change from one monster to another one). Unfortunately, normal physical attacks doesn't work in the majority of the cases and, if they do, they won't deal more than 1 hp, except when they are dealt with the liquid metal sword. Thanks :)

[@SamsaraRevolves]

Back in the days of Dragon Warrior 4 there was a spell called "BeDragon." This was really good for taking down metal slimes and babbles. I don't remember if Metal Kings existed in that game or not though.

[@MrVariant]

They exist. Right by the final battle. Helped to get insulatle fast for those ridiculous forms Psaro had. Flipping Taloon's money with chapter 3 prep and buying stock/casino tokens does help get liquid metal armor faster. Do feel dq8 forces certain builds, like clubs suck though yangus can use fisticuffs decently. Of course hero needs courage and to avoid boomerang boosting as it tapers off after the first dungeon. Staffs help Jessica (after getting the best twin dragon lash the vid showed) and Angelo a ton for magic resistance.

[@albertomanica983]

This video came out on 24 March 2010 in that day I was turning 5 lol (And I had dragon quest VIII for the ps2 also)

[@halla1rw]

I've got the 3ds remake and I have Angelo doing Needle Rain, Hero doing multi thrust with Demon Spear (can kill the slime instantly), Red doing Fan Dango, and Jessica on Acceleratle. It's quite a bit amount of hits with all this :)

[@coldtail05]

Thunder thrust + Executioner with accelerate is the fastest. (Still by chance) If your lucky to get 2 rounds for metal king slime, you can use timbrel for Jessica and Yangus + 2 Metal Slash for hero and Angelo provided they are equipped with falcon blade (gives two hits with each attack).

[@luoSateretaE]

omg where are ur 1-hit skills?

[@clemm84]

I know that the hero and yangus both have a technique that ignores defence. Those are really your best bet against Liquid metal slimes and metal king slimes. It's too long and too risky to try to take them down 1 or 2 HP at a time. They'll most likely run away. Regular metal slimes have much lower HP and can be taken down in numerous ways. Metal slash, falcon slash, whips, boomerangs, all work well against them.

[@plottwist3364]

Psyche up does great for angelo , if you have one of the falcon blade and the metal slash: rank 5 you one shot the metal slimes, rank 20 you almost one shot the mercury slimes every time and 50 can one shot the MKS (still a risk to deal 15pv), if it stays that long

[@Ext3rmin8or]

For Liquid Metal Slimes it means they have to not flee for 3 turns. For Metal King Slimes they have to not flee for 5 turns. Usually they flee right away.

[@damabofito]

Do: -kill them as quickly as possible with lightning thrust and executioner -use acceleratle with jessica -falcon blade and metal slash -pray that they don't run away Don't: -use magic on them -let them escape

[@joshlawless2718]

Also, the best way to kill them is by using: 1) The critical attacks with yangus (axe). 2) Critical attack with hero (spear) (also works Uber falcon sword + Falcon attack) 3) Uber falcon sword + Falcon attack with angelo 4) Accelerate with Jessica.

[@antoniocarrillomontalban8767]

you don't have a idea to play this videogame

[@megagrey]

@Warcraft3Fann Oh, I'm sorry. Was the stuff I had on my FIRST AND ONLY playthrough of the game not up to your ideas of perfection? My deepest apologies.

[@lamusicadelblas]

Did you really use magic attacks on them? 🤦‍♂️

[@muhammadalif7198]

Ikr, I cringed a lot when the hero uses spell 🤦🏻‍♀️, should be juat lightning thrust and Executioner. Jessica casting acceleratele and angelo using basic attack hoping for critical hit.

[@Celtalian]

metal slimes so rewarding. yeah, guys. just have a character with really high speed deal physical damage. at least thats how i did it in FF4. alena with one of those speed rings from the casina. pure metal ownage. and now theres metal slash....

[@giuseppedaddona639]

Where Is this Place full of metal Slime???

[@D1rtyWhite]

@TheGidzor what blue means towns and red dungeons?

[@BladeDevil]

It's a miracle the King stayed as long as he did. Prob was too busy laughing at how shitty of a job u were doing at killing him to run away.

[@TimelordR]

That's the very spot i went to for hunting Metal-type slime monsters, once i got Ramia the holy bird.

[@NightFox501]

Well if you have a spear I've found that using lightning thrust is a perfect way of !-hit Ko'ing a metal slime

[@xxRAPisgayxx]

What's the first one you've played? Just wondering.

[@riverclankitten]

Your so lucky that the metal king slime stayed as long as it did

[@joshlawless2718]

I almost forgot... BE IN THE SAME LOCATION AS THE VIDEO. I think its called slime hill? perhaps my memory is failing, who knows. And you need empyrea to get there.

[@TommyRobinsond20]

That is what people would expect from a video with this name, yes

[@breaking4me]

where do you find King metal slimes?

[@goldenfreddy-gj5wy]

Metal Slimes usually flee before i even attempt to attack.

[@antord2258]

can someone tell me why there is not any metal slimes here for me?

[@Ext3rmin8or]

Back when I had the game before I sold my ps2 I got my party to lvl99, approx 250 hours played on that file lol.

[@ZombieKillerThe]

Metal Slime Family: Metal Slime, Metal Medleys, Liquid Metal Slime, Metal King Slimes and Platinum King Jewels are all for xp o Gem Slime is for gold Don't use any spell on them or lets them escape :) Do use moves with high ciritical rate (often these will be 100% ciritical but have 50/50 chance of hitting) since ciritical hit kill them stright away, if not this use a weapon/skill that damage the slime if the move hit e.g. metal slash or metal king sword, if not this ether fight them :)

[@megagrey]

@RealmEternal Because a video with 'Do and DON'Ts' in the title was bound be picture-perfect.

[@megagrey]

Does this guy have any reading comprehension skills? A title with "Dos and Don'ts" in it, a video showing what NOT to do against Metal Slimes, hmmmmmmm......

[@cdwarrior6582]

I love and hate metal slimes. Magic just doesn’t work on them, and they tend to have absurd dodging capabilities if you aren’t using metal slash with a sword. On the other hand if you pull it off, you gain the power of gods.

[@Dragonite33]

Spears and Axes. swords are basically asking for a flee lol

[@D1rtyWhite]

any1 know what the blue and red dots on the world map mean?

[@opal77]

In Dragon Warrior Monsters they are "Metal King" and "Metabble"... I miss the game so much, I wonder if I should pick up the main games... If I remember well enough, basically metaly, metabble, metal king, and gold slime are not affected by anything other than physical moves.... in other words... the attack command, and things like, rain slash XD I wouldent know move names for the main games though, since I've only ever played the GBC games.

[@rudrickloche1700]

In Dragon Warrior 7, Evil Slash from Warrior class was a definite must have fer Metal Slime battles. CRITICAL er MISS, it was the way ta go fer leveling as fast as possible.

[@NecroVMX]

The sound on this only comes through on one channel, you had me thinking one of my speakers broke :P PS. Get Skype so you can appear on the VMX show. Don't "look into it" just get it :P

[@megagrey]

It was also only my second DQ game, with the first being a dirt-cheap copy of the original when I was a wee lad. I'll be getting to DQ4 soon, and will make DAMN SURE to bag some metal slimes the 'right' way.

[@SseriousGgamer3]

This whole video was a DONT.

[@megagrey]

@Zuul030 That's why I popped it in again. I stopped short of those trials and wanted to refamiliarize myself with the game so I could fix that.

[@joshlawless2718]

I have killed hundreds of those. I used to have a video on my older channel which i lost because i forgot my email and password, but the key to track those dodgy king metal slimes is this:

[@Yato_q]

my left ear enjoyed this

[@masakiv]

@ megagrey - Sure, some people haven't heard of Dragon Quest, but YOU should know that magic doesn't work on metal slimes.

[@ToroFox]

Not going to explain anything? Just going to assume that people are just going to follow along easily.

[@gatecruor9292]

From my own experiance iv noticed you can use liquid metal sword with falcon slash and you can deal up to 4 damage with angelo over just using metal slash. The rest of the ideas are already here Sides from another point of view...spears on the hero can deal potentually far more damage than swords can on bosses Just from the damage on the metal king spear least thats what iv currently figured and also currently as of now working to test. =) I just dont think swords are ever worth it on the hero sides 9 points for one skill and thats dragon slash. Dragon slash + 100 tension+dragon slayer on post game boss = Dead post game boss =3

[@megagrey]

Which is why I posted the video, fuckups be damned.

[@megagrey]

@ienjoysleeping Recently we switched from broadband to DSL in my apartment to cut costs, and I've yet to get my PS3 and Wii online with the new service. Don't really know if I even can, I'm not tech savvy.

[@coolarikboy1]

where is this place plz :D ?

[@joshlawless2718]

This is a trick that you wont find anywhere else... and you heard it here, by a random guy that discovered it years ago and was too lazy to post it. :)

[@PJ_Wendigo]

best video ever

[@smeefporkgood7790]

Do’s and don’ts... don’t cast offensive spells. Do cast accelerate and spam lightning thrust and executioner.

[@starvoltnexus3139]

Where are You?!

[@TwilightPrince123]

Funny, I'm hunting these fellas now so I can finish the Dragovian Trials. Executioner + Lightning Thrust + Accelerate = Best way to take 'em down, at least for me. Too bad Angelo doesn't have as much use as the others do...so I just use Multishot with him.

[@Ext3rmin8or]

I don't understand why you use Metal slash when you could just have Hero/Yangus use Lightning/Thunder Thrust/Hatchet Man/Executioner

[@keithpierce84]

Kinda sucks that the slimes always run away before the battle even starts

[@megagrey]

Did I ever claim that this video was to show a perfect, surefire way to kill a KMS?

[@julie13771]

fasteest way to kill a MKS is by having yangus use executioner with axes and having hero use lightning strike (or thunder strike) jessica use twin dragonlash and angelo use metal slask thats how i bagged over 300 MKS,MBS,and MS

[@TwilightPrince123]

@NecroVMX Really now? Never knew that.

[@nitram5463]

People are still commenting on this video. I love dq8 btw, A LOT

[@kieru0046]

Where is this location

[@adaml7432]

+isaiah calloway It's on Howlwind Hill in the Arcadia region. You need the Godbird's Soulstone to access the area.

[@kieru0046]

+Adam L thanks alot 😊

[@AndrioCelos]

Liquid metal slimes aren't really that hard to kill when you can do four points of damage in one attack.

[@megagrey]

@MrJunko1997 There are some people here in my country that have never heard of Dragon Quest, so I'd wager some DON'T know.

[@Andrew242424wow]

@julie13771 i agree but i think jessica should use accelerate :3

[@D1rtyWhite]

@TheGidzor oh i always assumed it was completing the monster list for that area, thanks!!!

[@PeeOfSanity]

"Grey-X" must be one of the corniest names xD

[@megagrey]

Because I was supposed to know that on my first and only playthrough.

[@adamant26otk]

DOS AND DONTS tells me you'll show both good and bad, I only saw bad

[@TwilightPrince123]

Oh, almost forgot...damn! How the hell did you get so lucky that the Metal King Slime stayed so f***ing long?!

[@Ext3rmin8or]

then those people will have a very hard and frustrating time trying to kill liquid metal slimes/metal king slimes

[@NecroVMX]

@TwilightPrince123 Each round they don't run, it decreases the chance that they will run. So if they dont' run in the first 3 rounds or so, they tend to stick around.

[@DaegdaGames]

have yangus use executioner ... axe skill.... have hero use his spear skill ( the one that has the same effect as yangus executioner ) angelofalcon blade with falcon slash jessica twin dragon lash that is your best bet to baggin you a BUNCH of these bad boys its not realistic to assume they will stay more than 2 rounds

[@Celtalian]

DQ4 is SO FUCKING AWESOME. tell me, what are the best songs in an mmorpg in your opinion? battle and overworld themes? well DQ4 has alot of those. just such a beautiful game. enjoy my friend. and thanks for the video. :)

[@Smurfbite06]

I like the music

[@oliviayancey5]

Rip headphone users.

[@lealta1481]

Metal slash and falcon blade should work together..it's bs they don't

[@grambortino]

But they do? Did the 3DS version change this?

[@Tyson199614]

I do not think that is a really good reason because I knew that and I have only played through the game one time as well. I still liked the video though since it was an interesting way to do it. Also it is Metal King Slime not King Metal Slime(:

[@TheBoredomOtaku]

okay thats lucky if you encounter 6 metal bubble and 1 king metal slimes in one battle. most i get in that area is maybe 2 bubble slimes and 3 metals slimes that flee D:

[@megagrey]

@Zuul030 Well, once I'm done playing the RPG I need to finish for the next Gaming Theatre (SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT), I'll definitely go finish that.

[@adamant26otk]

Oh yeah, im so hurted by your comment xD Thanks anyway, It's been a long time since i laughed this hard XD

[@megagrey]

@ienjoysleeping That's like saying a Belmont with a whip is interesting. :P

[@megagrey]

The NES version of the original. The damn cart was ubiquitous back in my day, practically handed out FOR FREE.

[@megagrey]

Accept criticism for what? Daring to upload a video from the almighty Dragon Quest series that dares to show any gameplay that's not picture-perfect? They can say whatever crap they want, and I can tell them to kiss my ass.

[@Ext3rmin8or]

Hey, that's 10 Call of Duty campaigns

[@OrangeLover121]

they are immune to spells silly

[@Celtalian]

im sorry i meant rpg, not mmorpg. been playing to many mmo's XD. fml

[@finalfantasy3001]

Ohh I have a don't 4 u (which y'all probably know) DO NOT RUN AWAY

[@rule8744]

i spent hour to find them but in the past i was lvl 99

[@megagrey]

I'm sorry but this commentor is a dumbass for expecting perfection from a first playthrough of what is only the second DQ game I've played.

[@HadesImmortalArmy]

yea but you can kill normal mobs very well without :P after gaining some lvls i now have those skills myself (lvl 52 atm -_-)

[@miguelicuscus]

Most of them escaped.

[@Alexwtstn]

+Sgt. Savidge Me too ! :D

[@teragram38crows49]

So slow.... I've seen ink dry faster than this. Very informative though.

[@salm6331]

Wtf you doing running around. Use whistle

[@megagrey]

I only played for about 80 hours, heh.

[@Tyson199614]

Alright well good luck (: