Guides

Dragon Quest XI – Skincare for the Fierce and Fabulous

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Location:  This quest can be found in Octagonia (after beating the main story quest here).

 

Objective: Collect some Mellow Vera near the Ruins of Dundrasil

 

 

Make your way to Dundrasil Region Campsite in front of the Ruins of Dundrasil. Start heading northwest past the horse bell following the cliff overlooking the river and you will eventually come to a little secluded area across from a cliff face with multiple waterfalls running down it. It is here you should find the Mellow Vera plant near a sleeping stone golem. Collect the Mellow Vera and return to the fighter in the Octagonia Tournament Reception area. Talk with him to hand over the plant and complete the quest.

 

 

Reward: The Dapper Chap

 

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Dragon Quest XI – Anything for Love

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Location:  This quest can be found in Puerto Valor.

Objective: Defeat a Coralossus and Collect a Piece of Floral Coral

To find the Coralossus, return to where you docked your ship along The Costa Valor and head south through a small rock tunnel. You should see the Coralossus laying down straight ahead on the beach when you exit the tunnel. Attack and defeat it to acquire the Floral Coral, then return to the tourist in Puerto Valor. Talk with him and hand over the Floral Coral to complete the quest.

Reward: Make a Whip-Roaring Success of Yourself

 

 

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Dragon Quest XI – Shiver Me Timbers!

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Location:  This quest can be found in Puerto Valor.

Objective: Defeat a Pack of Pirates near Gondolia and Collect some Proper Pepper

The easiest way to reach the pirates is to zoom (fast travel) to the Gondolia Sea, then sail to the island located directly to the northeast and dock there. Once on land, head for the southwestern part of the island to find the pirates. Defeat the band of pirates to collect the Proper Pepper from them. Zoom back to Puerto Valor and return to the Chef. Talk with him to hand over the Proper Pepper and complete the quest.

Reward: Sweet Stuff for Swindlers

 

 

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Dragon Quest XI – A Rush of Blood

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Location:  This quest can be found in Puerto Valor.

 

Objective(s):

  • Bring a Bunny Girl Outfit to the Old Man
    • Obtain the Down the Rabbithole Recipe
    • Craft the Bunny Girl Outfit

 

Obtain the Down the Rabbithole Recipe

Make your way over to the Casino in Puerto Valor and enter the building. The goal here is to obtain 500 Casino Tokens to trade in at the exchange counter for the Down the Rabbithole recipe. If you have the money, you can buy the 500 Casino Tokens for 10,000 gold. The other option is to buy as many Casino Tokens as you want and try to win the rest playing the slot machines or poker until you win the rest. When you get the 500 Casino Tokens, trade them in at the counter for the Down the Rabbithole recipe.

 

Craft the Bunny Girl Outfit

After you obtain the recipe for the bunny girl outfit, head to the campsite of your choice where you will need to craft the bunny ears, bunny suit, and fishnet stockings to meet the objective for the quest.

Forge Armour -> Hats -> Bunny Ears (Materials Required: 1 Cottontop, 1 Fine Fur)

Forge Armour -> Clothes -> Bunny Suit (Materials Required: 2 Narspicious, 2 Butterfly Wing, 1 Green Eye)

Forge Accessories -> Other Accessories -> Fishnet Stocking (Materials Required: 1 Farie Fluff, 1 Celestial Skin)

 

Bring a Bunny Girl Outfit to the Old Man

After crafting all three pieces of the bunny girl outfit, return to the old man on the beach at Puerto Valor and talk with him to complete the quest.

 

Reward: Garter

 

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Dragon Quest XI – Up Where They Walk

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Location:  This quest can be found in Nautica.

Objective: Find the Human Singer the Mermaid Used to Listen to

After talking with the mermaid, zoom (fast travel) to Gondolia and head to the grand stage. Facing the stage, turn left (east) and follow the path to the eastern lighthouse. You will find an old sailor with a beard and a blue cloak there. Talk to him and tell him about the music-loving mermaid. Agree to learn the song and head back to Nautica. Make your way back to the mermaid near the palace and talk with her. The quest will complete as soon as you are done serenading her.

Reward: Gracos’s Trident

 

 

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Gamer’s Log 007

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BLOG

What’s going on everyone? Chappie here with another Gamer’s Log. This week I added a new page to the blog titled “Playlist”. It will act as a roadmap of what content will be coming to the blog. You can check it out here for more specifics. Over the next couple days, I will be adding around eight more quests for Dragon Quest XI and working on some additional guides to go along with them. Now let’s talk about some games.

 

GAMES

With work being crazy this week and me being out of town this weekend, I didn’t get much game time. I was able to grind up most of my party in Octopath Traveler to level 45 with only H’aanit and Ophilia left. Once they both hit 45, I plan to start chapter 3 for each character and then make my way to chapter 4. I also was able to add another 10 hours to my Dragon Quest XI playthrough. This allowed me to get two more party members and progress a bit further in the story. The last thing for game news I had was that I decided to add my Spider-man opinion in this Gamer’s Log. I tried to write a full review, but when I got around to do it, I just couldn’t. Writing reviews formally like that is just something I don’t enjoy. Hence I decided to follow my original plans.

 

Marvel’s Spider-Man

So as of right now, Spider-man is currently my game of the year. It’s got everything I love in a game including a big open world to explore, plenty of bad guys to beat up, and a captivating story to follow. Combat is very smooth and fluid. It’s setup in a way to make it easy to chain a variety of attacks together. This includes punching, sliding, air attacks, web throws, and an assortment of tools fit for virtually any situation. When your done beating up baddies with your sick moves, you’ll probably find yourself getting lost in web-slinging from place to place. The game does a good job at making web-slinging feel natural. The way Spider-man moves while traveling around accurately depicts on how it would be in real life. I found myself missing locations often because I was so enthralled with web-slinging. Getting to the story, the game follows Peter Parker who’s been Spider-man for a number of years already. He’s working on juggling his life of crime-fighting with menial tasks such as paying bills and working a regular job. Over the course of the game, he finds himself face to face with the sinister six. I can’t really go into much more than that without spoiling the story, but I will say that the boss fights are really cool and something to look forward to.

 

When it comes to things I didn’t like, there wasn’t really too much that I had a problem with. Occasionally when trying to walk up walls, I just couldn’t get Spider-man to move where I wanted him. I had to stop moving and completely redirect the character to keep going on my way. The other minor thing that I got over was the token system. You get tokens by completing things in the world like stopping bad guys or taking pictures of famous landmarks. These tokens are required to upgrade tools and unlock suits. I felt that it was annoying that you had to do the challenge missions practically perfectly to fully unlock everything.

 

Putting everything together, Spider-man is definitely a game worth playing if you’re a Spider-man fan or just enjoy action adventure games. I was able to complete the game and get the platinum trophy in around 25 hours, meaning even those who have limited time can experience almost everything the game has to offer.

 

With that, this Gamer’s Log comes to a close. Catch you next time. Chappie signing off!

 

Guides

Dragon Quest XI – A Walk on the Wild Side

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Location: This quest can be found in Gallopolis

Objective: Use the Wild Slide Pep Power to Defeat a Spitzfire

*Note: I recommend officially getting the 5th party member before doing this quest.

 

In order to complete this quest, you will need to use the Wild Slide pep power while fighting a Spitzfire (located in the Celestial Sands North of Gallopolis). To use Wild Step, you will need to have the main character, Erik, and Serena’s pep powers activated at the same time. Doing this is a little tricky and can take awhile. The way I found the easiest was to keep fighting the prestidigiators in the image below (they can be found in the Celestial Sands near the Stonehenge like structure) until the pep powers for all three characters activate. They are really easy to manage and don’t deal too much damage making them ideal for our purposes. When the first character activates their pep power, immediately swap them out for the benched character to preserve their pep power. Then proceded fighting our black-robed friends until the second party member activates their pep power. When this happens, swap out this pep powered character for the other. Repeat this every turn swapping out one pep powered character for the other until the third party member activates their pep power (doing this didn’t cause my pep power to go away, but I can’t confirm that might happen). Then make your way to a sleeping Spitzfire and attack it to begin the fight. Use the Wild Slide right away then defeat the Spitzfire to complete the quest. For a quick win (with some luck) use Wild Slide on Erik with the Sleeper Hit and Persecutter abilities unlocked. Wild Charge allows the party member who used it to attack twice, so use the Sleeper Hit on the Spitzfire and hopefully, it will fall asleep. Follow that up with the Persecutter to deal 6x damage to a sleeping foe for massive damage. If it doesn’t kill the Spitzfire, it should be close to defeated. Return to the artist in Gallopolis and talk with him to complete the quest.

 

 

Reward: Furry Finery

 

Guides

Dragon Quest XI – A Cactus Cutlet to Die For

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Location: This quest can be found in Gallopolis.

Objective: Defeat a Golden Globe and Collect a Golden Globule.

The easiest place I found to encounter the Golden Globe was an area located directly east of the Gallopolis Region – South Campsite. Head to that campsite and camp there until night when the Cactiballs, which look like round cacti, come out to play (they can also be found during the day sleeping near a green cactus). Head east a short ways from the campsite to run into the Cactiballs. Keep battling them until a Golden Globe (Cactiball) shows up. If you defeat all the Cactiballs before encountering a gold one, return to the camp and stay until night to make the enemies respawn. Once you do run into the Golden Globe, take out any other enemies first as it has a higher resistance being metal. This will allow you to focus on the Golden Globe and defeat it to obtain the golden globule. Return to the tavern bar and talk with the man behind the counter to hand over the golden globule and complete the quest.

Reward: Trickster

 

 

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Gamer’s Log 006

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BLOG

Hey everyone, Chappie here with yet another Gamer’s Log. On the blog front, there isn’t really too much going on at the moment. I spent a lot of time on Spider-Man this weekend and decided not to make guides for it because I felt they weren’t really necessary (the game does a pretty good job of telling you where to go or what to collect). Another thing I started is a list of my favorite games of the year as well as finished my current backlog list that I will be adding to the blog later this week. It should give you an idea of what guides and future content will be coming in the future.

 

GAMES

On the game front, as I mentioned above, I spent the entire weekend playing Spider-Man and managed to platinum the game after around 30 hours of play time. I decided for this game specifically I wanted to do a full review which will be posted in the coming days. Going forward, I plan to pick up and beat Dragon Quest XI then move over to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in October. If there’s time, I will work in some minor games I’ve been playing on and off on the side as well.

 

Like I said, there wasn’t much going on this week bring this Gamer’s Log comes to close. Have a great week! Chappie, signing off!

 

Guides

Dragon Quest XI – Smiths and Sparkly Spots

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Location: This quest can be found in Hotto.

Objective: Collect a Few Lumps of Iron Ore

To find the lumps of iron ore, leave Hotto to arrive at the Hotto Steppe. There are two ore veins in the area that drop iron ore. Look at the maps below to see their location and make your way there. You should have enough ore to complete the quest after visiting both ore veins. Head back to the smith in Hotto and talk with him to hand over the ore and complete the quest.

Reward: I Heart Iron Arms (recipe book)