What Party Should I Use? Dragon Quest 3 HD2D Remake

[@davidvinc]

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[@Mike__B]

The quick answer, use whatever you think is cool, and play it as such. There is no "best party" in the game, people just can't wrap their minds around that fact in games sometimes, "what party should I use?" "who should I marry?" "What toppings go best with vanilla ice cream?" Outside of maybe 4 Gadabouts there really isn't a bad party, and even the 4 Gad party can be done, it certainly can't be done in a traditional way, but it can be done.

[@RadConsoleGaming]

I wanted a non conventional party, so I went with a Monster Wrangler, Thief and Merchant. I turned the Thief into a Sage, and the Merchant into a Martial Artist. Currently having a blast during the endgame.

[@randomGuest869]

I did the same thing, except when I got to all trades abbey I turned my monster wrangler to a warrior, the thief to a martial artist to a priest for healing options and back to a martial artist for endgame. For my merchant, a mage then immediately a sage.

[@keithbeard5337]

That's the starting party I chose as well. Covers basically all utility options plus additional gold, items, and healing.

[@brianfairchild4665]

Same exact party and plan on doing the same!

[@blueslime1980]

My party... Chrono, Tidus, Lulu, Rosa!

[@pizzatime1901]

Nice pfp

[@Dr._Jazz]

My starting party on my current playthrough is Monster Wrangler, Thief, and... Gadabout. Sort of had your idea of the speedster approach but with a quick and easy Sage in my back pocket. Planning on going MW -> Martial Artist, Thief -> Merchant -> Warrior, and of course, Gadabout -> Sage. As an extra bonus, it's a good way to get all of the spells and abilities for that trophy! lol

[@MCastleberry1980]

Rolling with the thief, figher and monster wrangler is pretty fun. Just a group of ass kicking machines with a nice bit of healing from monster wrangler in a pinch.

[@teefa85]

I themed my party around a bunch of older game characters who were part of a crazy crossover universe my friends and I made up in the 90s and I continued to refine after everyone else got bored with the game. Which is why there's two Sages in the team...the "main" main characters consist of five people who have varying degrees of magic skill and one fighter. That and I love how my Martial Artists gets off Accelerate at the start of a big fight while the sages go for Kabuff and start Oomphing my hero.

[@crazzluz1702]

I love your content David! As a new Dragon Quest player (first one I played was XI) these little videos have been quite helpful!

[@davidvinc]

Glad I could help!

[@DHamblen]

I love the way you can change party compositions for each play through, it reminds me of the different party combinations I would do in FF-1

[@esaupalma8421]

My starting team is let my family pick lol My nephew was a getabout My sister was a thief My niece was priest Now I've turned my nephew into a a really fast and lucky sage My sister into a quick and strong monster rangler for rounding out the party a bit more My niece into a warrior to make a makeshift paladin for support

[@HamLover17]

Hero (Wit so leaned into the caster archetype) Priest -> Warrior after KaZing Monster Wrangler -> Martial Artist after 50 monsters collected Merchant -> Sage to get $ early game and access to Service Call My party is doing very well. I kinda wish I put Thief between Monster Wrangler and Martial Artist just to get those utility spells. Still a really effective character.

[@cloudstrife8]

Thank you as always. I plan to start this soon, but I need to finish Scarmonde 1st.

[@davidvinc]

You can do it!

[@ndep93]

Im in early game, currently have Hero, Thief, Monster Wrangler and Priest. Once I'm able, the Thief is changing to Martial Artist, MW to Sage, and Priest to Warrior.

[@85RedGuy]

Thief, monster w and merchant for me Extra gold and padfoot came in very handy Monster w has some healing too and busted monster pile-on

[@Winterwolf_Howler]

I don’t have the game yet, but plan on starting with monster w, thief, and merchant. Ending with turning the merchant into a sage, and possibly changing the thief into a martial artist.

[@TheAniMike3977]

for my party i went martial artist -> sage mage -> thief priest -> monster wrangler so far so good, and it's fun

[@Kriziken]

My starting party was Hero, Monster wrangler, priest and Gadabout. I too used the monster wrangler mostly for his heals. I was not expecting the gadabout to be so bad. I put the elevating shoes on him and changed as soon as i could.😅

[@Link-pr9id]

Ran Monster Wrangler (changed to sage), Martial Artist(sage) and Priest(warrior) and just destroying everything, baramos was a cake walk🤩 Wild side + kabuff/pile-on/anything really is just so strong! Everyone can do physical or magic so always prepared

[@joefishy3312]

I'm liking the party: Hero Monster wrangler > Martial artist (after recruiting 50 monsters) Thief > Sage (asap) Priest > Warrior (after learning all priest spells)

[@PaladinHideka]

Character1: Merchant (20) > Beastwrangler (50 Beasts) > Sage (40) > Martial Artist (60-80) > Thief (99) Character2: Beastwrangler (50 Beasts) > Sage (40) > Martial Artist (60-80) > Thief (99) Character3: cleric (23) > Thief 33 > Gadabout (45) > Sage (99) Character4 Post game: (seed farmer) Thief 99 This gives you 2 Falcon sword melees for 2x persecutter, a very fast and durable sage who can instantly sleep at the start of each fight for wildside + persecutter, and access to all spells on everyone, and paced so that you wont be sitting waiting for sage scrolls to become available. gets you treasure hunting, mobile inn/shop, and beast wrangling skills ASAP to maximize exploration. comfortably cleared the game on draconic quest using this route. you generally want to stop leveling your martial artists once you hit 400-500 strength. you will want to feed stamina/life seeds to character 3, and once you hit post game, the hero should be removed from your party once hes in the upper 70s while griding metalic slimes. you can instead bring a thief, give them the metal slime boomerang and let them help soak up extra seeds while you grind.

[@Thatdeadpenguy]

Getting crazy this time around and alternating between all ten classes like the game encourages you to. Almost makes the party feel like something out of DQIV onwards, where you get a constant stream of unique characters throughout the game.

[@Domanese]

I went with merchant, priest, and mage. The reason being, the merchant with socialite is a good soldier with the added boon of occasionally doubling your gold gains. Priest and Mages were self explanitory, with one giving me sweet heals and the other big bang attacks.

[@salvao0000]

This is my planned party comp including what level to change: 1. thief (lvl33 backdraft) --> warrior (lvl39 metalicker) --> martial artist (end result: 4 time crit MA w sword dance from warrior) 2. wrangler (50monsters) --> thief (lvl33 backdraft) --> sage (end result: fast af double hitting sage) 3. priest (lvl23 revive skill) --> (gadabout + merchant 20?) --> sage (lvl40) --> warrior (end result: paladin support that can heal at the end of the turn since it goes last) For 3rd party member thinking about adding Gadabout for his whistle skill (at lvl 13) and Merchant for his service call skill (at lvl 17). Figured they’re both fast to level and those are their only useful skills.

[@jameshamilton6381]

Gadabout, Merchant and Monster Wrangler are working really well together. I recently got to the pyramid however and the enemies' fire attacks are starting to hurt a little.

[@hurricanehaze4727]

I started with a merchant, thief, and monster wrangler. My plan is as follows. When my Monster Wrangler recruits 50 monsters switch to Fighter My Merchant switches to Gadabout unit they get the magic boost then becomes a Sage. My Thief will switch to Priest until learns revive spell then to Warrior.

[@Mr_Darren_Payne]

It's my first time playing 'Dragon Quest III' and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I don't know how long it'll take, but I'm going for: Thief > Merchant > Warrior Monster Wrangler > Mage > Martial Artist Priest > Gadabout > Sage

[@zulium]

I didn't get too flashy. Started with priest, thief and mage. Made my priest a warrior, my thief a martial artist and (I know it's redundant but) made my mage a sage. Tanky hard hitting healer, fast critical hitting fighter, and a blaster/back-up healer. Honestly I'd like to try monster wrangler or merchant next time I play, but it's going to be real hard to not start with a thief again. Nose for treasure, padfoot, access to whips and assassin stab are all so good!

[@Zephlo97]

I have started the game with my Hero in a versatile role of physical damage, magical damage and healing. A monster wrangler who gets all of my strength seeds who will become a martial artist. A priestest who will become a sage, an all utility merchant who will later become a thief

[@thequestingbunny]

I just beat Baramos last night, and here's the party I went with! Heroine, Monster Rangler, Priest turned Thief (once she learned every spell), and Goofoff turned Sage (I turned before doing Kidnapper's Cave). My husband calls my team the Walking Hospital. I haven't had a single party wipe yet.

[@rvfiasco]

Nice!! I have a Hero, Priest, Rang and Merchant as my main. My secondary is Thief, Gad and Monk. I have two Mages hanging out just coz. I just made it to the Abbey.

[@EPS5000]

On my first play through I did Hero, Monster Wrangler, Priest, and Mage (eventually changed Priest and Mage into Sages). I’m doing my second play through now, and I replaced MW with a Martial Artist.

[@zerokura]

If I get the game I think I want Marshal artists, monster wriggler and warrior so I can call it Let's get physical and play that one song lyrics each time am in battle.

[@diegoarmando5489]

I plan on going Priest - - -> Mage - - - -> Warrior, Merchant - - - - > Sage - - - -> MA, and Wrangler - - - -> Thief - - - -> MA/Warrior

[@louisdellalucca8969]

I’m rollin with Male Lone-Wolf Thief, Male Tough-Cookie Warrior, Female Vamp Monster Wrangler and a Paragon Male Hero

[@n1ktend091]

Rn, im running Hero, Thief, Priest and Martial artist. Thinking about turning the Priest into a sage, and martial artist into a monster wrangler.

[@Late_Night_Mega]

I plan on using fighter, monster wrangler, and priest.

[@jonforget]

Makes me sad that the Mage isn't used that much. So i went: Cleric to Mage Thief to Warrior Monster Wrangler to Gadabout

[@lukasfogel7892]

I'm running a monster wrangler, a merchant, and a priest. Everyone gets an aoe something or other so they absolutely dumpster mobs. In boss fights, I've got heals, buffs, debuffs and really good damage.

[@LucemFerre82]

One tip I can give is for the super boss, it helps alot if all three party members have the beast wrangler skill that attacks multiple times, the boss is pretty much immune to physical damage and most spells costs so much MP, but this skill does 400-500 dmg for 8 MP, it was the only way I could beat him but I was probably underleveled at about 45.

[@whitewolf3051]

Martial artist, mage, and priest are my set up all with vamp personality. Will be changing the martial artist to thief then to warrior, mage into sage, *not* sure about the priest.

[@deomalachite]

As someone who grew up with DQ3 and wanted to try something different in the remake, I went with Monster Wrangler, Thief, and Gadabout. Haven't yet decided if I'm turning my thief into a sage at the first opportunity (I will definitely be sage-ing the Gadabout).

[@TheDrewsperience]

My party build now is hero thief mage and priest. I plan to make thief a wrangler for quick physicality and then the priest is a sage for BW magic, mage will be turned into a fighter for crits and BM and then a sage. Hero is tough cookie personality for physicality

[@zibba1331]

Great video as always. Thanks! I went thief, priest, MW. Plan is to use the first WoW on the thief, and level the priest up to multiheal (or maybe even kazing) and then change to a martial artist. MW sticking around until the 2nd WoW, then going sage. We’ll see if that changes as i go. I’ve used the gadabout to make a sage before, and it just feels like such a waste. Lousy stats get halved, and no cool abilities unless i wait til very high level. Pass

[@TheTateful]

I think that if I did "The Long Haul" party that you mentioned, I'd wind up changing not the Warrior and Gadabout into Sages since it would open the door to do so early, and it would make for a quick healer (former Gadabout) and a slow healer (former Warrior) if I needed it in a pinch, and then I'd change the martial artist into a Warrior right before Baramos so I'd have a physical powerhouse for the rest of the game, and I'd start getting stuff like Sword Dance and Multislash by endgame.

[@mafiathedon6371]

I’m using fighter, merchant, and priest

[@freighttrainusa]

Maybe an interesting video would be to explain the buffs and debuffs and what attacks prevent what. I get a bit confused between whats a breath attack and whats normal magic for insualte vs barrier. Also just being able to use kabuff 3 times and so on. These small things people probably missed or dont understand.

[@Ajhmee]

Mon+Merch+Thief here. Because using spell based jobs is kind of boring since I used to play every version of the game. My Famicom party > Hero Priest Gadabout Gadabout > Hero Warrior Sage Sage SFC and GBA party > Hero Thief Gadabout Gadabout > Hero Sage Sage Sage (Boardgame gives Sage Destructiball so they can deal good damage) Mobile party > Hero Thief Gadabout Gadabout > Hero Fighter Sage Sage

[@TheNawaf258]

I’ll keep hero class for my party class thief for fast and stealing- priest for healing and defense support and finally mage

[@chaosamber7719]

You can never go wrong with the traditional party of the Warrior, Priest, and Mage, but I can easily see the merit in using unconventional classes My current party is Warrior, Priest, and Monster Wrangler. Planning to have the Priest become a Sage, and maybe the Warrior into a faster class like Thief or Martial Artist

[@marcus8258]

Thanks for the tips David. Helping me to enjoy the game better!😊

[@davidvinc]

Glad to hear it!

[@claycountryxwing10]

The thing is you can make an op party by giving them 3 jobs. Take all females and give them vamp as a personality. Then when you reach level 40+ on the 2nd jobs, give them the personality that will benefit their last job the most and make them level 1 again in the last job. With stats starting at 100+ By the time they reach level 40 again they will have extremely high stats and most likely be better than the hero. Then use all of those seeds to remove any weaker attributes.

[@JvsBobGaMeZ]

My first time playing dragon quest I based my party off of the main characters from konosuba I named the hero Kazuma I have a long blue haired priest named Aqua a short brown haired mage named Megumin and a long blonde haired warrior named Darkness heck I even have a short silver haired thief named Eris

[@Zezlemet]

...you know call it a hunch but I think you really like Dragon Quest 3 David something in my gut tells me so

[@leisuresuitlink]

For me, a huge bummer is that merchant can't get vamp as a starting personality because they level so quickly and are easy to respec ASAP, so I went two thieves and a monster wrangler to start. Then I'll rotate through the jobs and probably end with an all martial artist party with all / most of the spells and abilities. Maybe one fighter? I know I'll buy it on Steam once I finish it on Switch so I'll probably try a couple setups over the next couple of years.

[@sdpc9182]

😂😂😂 You named the Gadabout "Useless!" 😂😂😂😂

[@mobiasjoe2807]

It's so tempting to use a Gadabout and get them to Sage. But it sounds like a headache 😂

[@relentlessnexus8884]

Current party with warrior, thief and priest. Priest to sage once I unlock it, then thief to monster wrangler. Warrior no idea to what

[@Kazihirom]

Thief to priest or reversed is pretty great

[@leisuresuitlink]

Another banger, David. Rooting for you to get those final 10K subs!

[@davidvinc]

So close!

[@mschmalfeldt]

Thief > Sage Priest > Warrior Martial Artist

[@KensaiArsenal7]

I'm going to try Hero + Monster Wrangler > Sage + Mage > Warrior + Priest > Martial Artist

[@fluttermon2468]

I had so much fun with the game I decided to restart with a new party, lol. This game’s so addicting. My new starting team is Wrangler, Thief and Gadabout. I’m gonna change Thief into Fighter so that I can be extremely fast, have the random encounter repel, and better options for metal slime grinding😭😭 Also if you take requests can you make a video on where to find the best equipment for each class? Game8 doesn’t really have everything up to date as of yet.

[@alexanderb.c.6240]

I had no plans to buy this remake. All of your videos have me reminiscing over all the fun I used to have on the GBA version and now I know what I'm doing this weekend. Thanks for the great videos!

[@davidvinc]

Enjoy!

[@HybridAngelZero]

Loving all the DQ coverage. I'm probably gonna put way too much time into this game just trying job class combinations xD

[@genesisSOC]

I first played the iOS DQ3 a few years ago and my party was cleric, mage and thief since that's my fav party in most RPGs. But it was a massive struggle throughout the game, especially towards the end on bosses. Orochi and the final boss were particularly difficult and required good RNG. Looking back, I would replace thief with warrior since thief was nothing in combat.

[@nightwish1453]

that team in dq3 could work really well, but you definitely wanted to reclass the entire trio for it to pay off, thief has no business in the lategame as the dmg simply falls short by then so most simply see it as a sage candidate for that nice agility stat at base from thief, the mages can do an inverse and reclass into one of the physical classes warrior/mage, with this everyone can do some decent group heals and you have two characters who can sort out some buffing without being dependant on one character

[@chrisdixon7377]

I started with a martial artist, monster wrangler and a cleric and wrangled every monster i could find. Wild side + pile on is busted

[@AnthonySmith-bj9mo]

hi David

[@ancientrunekrp6895]

Got any tips for navigating the difficulty I'm struggling on just about everything and switched to dracky because some bosses were taking me down to 1 HP in a single turn.

[@__BlacklotuS__]

Addicted to this game rn on switch

[@regionalconflicts]

I'm trying Merchant, Thief, Monster Wrangler. Hopefully it isn't too rough in early game.

[@BruckerHouse]

I wanted to do a hero merchant thief and goof off but then ill miss the monster wrangler!!!! Its SO HARD TO PICK

[@VampirePrinceKRS]

I haven't fully decided on my party yet. I really like the Thief & Gadabout but I also really want to try the new Monster Wrangler. Dora the Merchant though shall get to be in HD2D glory & be able to go on the adventure all over again like her days on the Game Boy Color :) although the Pachisi board game mini game being taken out is gonna be extremely disappointing :/ those were my favorite things to do on the Game Boy

[@Flyzer309]

I love your content, you totally deserve 100k sub.❤

[@thesuperthingymabob8209]

I've got warrior, thief, mage atm Coming up on all trades soon but I'm kinda undecided on what I wanna switch them to Definitely need to pick up a healer, coming this far with hero heals has sucked lmao

[@blkwng]

Are the best weapons whips and boomerangs?

[@ceberuss_yt8266]

I started with Priest, MMangler and mage. I changed the priest to thief at level 23. Now the thief is at lvl 27, mmangler and mage both at lvl 30. Not sure what and when to do it. I still need monstermangler and thief abilities at the moment I think.

[@joyconboyasmr6499]

Mine is hero warrior monster wrangler and sage

[@tankatlus5797]

My current dq3 hd2d team are the hero who is now a cute kitty cat due to cat suit turning him into one and warrior and former mage turned sage and healing priest lady should i change my warrior and priest aka healer lady to different classes. I want to know the best party to have

[@barthedlund1429]

right now im trying monster wrangler, thief and mage, pretty fun so far, ill prob change my mage into a warrier later, not sure about the others

[@Superikemon]

Probably go with thief priest and mage

[@damcrac]

DQ3 doing good numbers for your quest to 100k. Good luck.

[@leonVKL]

How likely is it that DQ3 HD2 goes on sale for the switch?

[@MondoJohnny]

Ok I'm stubbornly determined to get the Gadabout that 40+ ability before changing to sage... Now how to go about it? I'm thinking I'll actually wait until later on and just not even use the gadabout until I have access to some metal slime grinding and then at least I'll have 3 very strong characters to prop them up. My starting party: Hero, Priest, Merchant, Thief. Early on seems like equipment makes more difference than anything and the thief and merchant can use whip and boomerang respectively. I think this ends up counting for a lot, and you can't underestimate the amount of extra coins the merchant gets you. Its often more than the default amount dropped. As for thief they are about as strong as any other fighter starting out and being able to steal a few leather hats or other basic pieces early on can help your purse as well, to say nothing of their useful status abilities! Oh and plus the merchant gets just ridiculous HP too, which helps out more than the few extra defense points another class might have. Really I think the merchant would stay end game viable if their equipment options didnt fall off so hard. I really like the class! So much of what you do in Dragon Quest is grinding and the merchant can speed this up for you. Later on you probably won't need gold as much when more equipment is found rather than bought but that's hours in.

[@slapttastic]

Dude your channel is awesome. Not to mention you pretty ripped man!

[@davidvinc]

I appreciate that!

[@rexmaskimus]

Thanks for all the DQIII content!

[@davidvinc]

Glad you like them!

[@MrAngrybaldguy]

I prefer 3x Gadabouts with Clown and Egghead personalities.

[@anonymityt2681]

Sometimes you just gotta mix it up hahaha

[@Spekor]

i'm running merchant, thief, martial artist yeah.. nothing survives long

[@eudiasneto]

Thanks for all these tips!!! ❤

[@HanaNoMaude]

One question I’ve had trouble getting an answer to - does the priest get a multi heal skill in this version? Would greatly appreciate if anyone knows! I want to change over to a tankier damage dealer but don’t want to jump ship too soon

[@davidvinc]

Yes

[@HanaNoMaude]

@ perfect, Ty!!

[@veghesther3204]

​yes BUT still requires to hit like LV 34 IN that class for it.

[@HanaNoMaude]

@ I saw some people saying 34-36 but couldn’t get confirmation. There’s a gamefaqs page that translates the remakes classes and the abilities they get/at what levels BUT it doesn’t include priests or mages for whatever reason

[@neogenesis7706]

What do i turn the monster wrangler into?

[@zerogold8717]

Gadabouts aren't worth it. I leveled one to 45 to get all of their abilities before switching to Sage. The Martial Artists, who also leveled Sage, do almost as much magic damage and hit for 2K+ with Double Up and Multifists (at level 40). There are 3 Words of Wisdom in this game so if you're going for power turn everyone into a Sage, hit 40, then go back to Martial Artist, Monster Wrangler, or Thief. If you have a late game Thief you get more stat seeds than you can keep up with.

[@ArtaxNOO]

How about 3 Sages?

[@TheInverseable]

Fighter mage goo off into fighter and double sage for life.

[@SimpleHealth83]

😊

[@aidou97]

Hey daddy ❤

[@sethtone8634]

i hate this game because i cant stop restarting it lol

[@aradicaldude]

The male class, all males.

[@whitewolf3051]

All females, including the hero, here.

[@Ray_Comments-yh5bw]

I really don't think you play these games. I'm 100% you played Dragon Quest 3 for sure, but the HD Remake? I'm also pretty sure you haven't played it even 1/4th of the way through. There isn't a tiptoe ability. It's Padfoot and it's used pretty frequently especially with party compositions you're recommending. Without it and without the Monster Wrangler, you can't get a whole set of content in the game. I know someone is going to say it was renamed, but I still think if you'd played the HD Remake you'd call it Padfoot in a video about this version of the game. A lot of your tips seem unnecessary even in Draconian mode. The Gadabout actually isn't that bad in this version. It's not "Maximum Possible Damage", but it's not bad. I think a lot of your tips are from earlier versions of the game and you were in a rush to just get a video out.

[@davidvinc]

Me: Literally shows footage of me fighting Metal Babbles in the Dark World You: YoU hAvEn'T pLaYeD iT!

[@Ray_Comments-yh5bw]

@@davidvinc So all of this in your video is your gameplay? I apologize. The character names are a big clue. Sorry.

[@MCastleberry1980]

I've seen him say padfoot in other videos. When there have been multiple versions of the game over the years sometimes you start mixing up terms lol I mean I still call Gadabout "Goof Off" because I am old and stubborn

[@Ray_Comments-yh5bw]

@@MCastleberry1980 That makes sense as well.

[@karl_boss]

How embarrassing