Summary

  • Dragon Quest 3 Remake makes grinding fun through rewarding boss battles.
  • Noteworthy bosses like Ripper of the Rift and Chiromancer challenge players.
  • Grand Dragon offers the ultimate challenge with a strict turn limit for achievement.

In 2024, Square Enix gave the HD-2D remake treatment to one of the company's greatest titles: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Quest 3. Though not as renownওed as Final Fantasy 7, at least outside of Japan, Dragon Quest 3 is a genre- and generation-defining game.

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If you've ever skipped out on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:JRPGs due to the grind, Dragon Quest 3 is one of the games that could change you𒅌r mind. The game makes grinding feel rewarding and fun, particularly because the bosses serve as such good incentive. Dragon Quest 3 isn't easy, but it makes you feel like you achieved something. Here are the bosses that gave u🍨s that feeling the most.

8 🌳 Ripper Of The Rift 𒐪

880 HP

Ripper of the Rift, a boss character, faces the party in Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake.

If you're familiar with Dragon Quest's trademark gameplay, you won't find Ripper of the Rift all that challenging. At worst, your mage or priest might ne🌳ed a resurrection after the battle.

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If you're new to the series, however, Ripper of the Rift serves as a rude awakening that this series is serious business when it comes to stats and levels. There's no shame in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:opening a guide with Dragon Quest. While ⛦Robbin 'O✃od, the boss preceding this one, is little more than a regular mook, Ripper of the Rift is your last call notice to get grinding.

7 Chiromancer 🍷

940 HP

The Chiromancer with a Madvlad in Dragon Quest 3 Remake.

Chiromancer wouldn't be a hard boss except for two qualifiers: only your hero alone i♒s allowed to face him, and he has a Madvlad next to him to act as a buffer for him and an annoyance for you.

If you've been using auto-battle options, you might want t🃏o disable them for this battle and input your orders by hand.

The Madvlad can stun you and reduce your 𝓰defence, rendering you helpless against the Chiromancer. The so🤪lution is to spam your Hero's Zap spells and equip accessories that raise your resistance to spells.

6 ꧑ Boss Troll

5,500 HP

The Boss Troll faces the party in Dragon Quest 3 Remake.

An impostor pret♈ending to be the king of Manoza, the Boss Troll is an annoying enemy due to his use of Fuddle and Kasap spells. These confuse your party and lower its defence, making the group ever more vulnerable to his club attack𓂃s. Your weaker units could succumb to a single hit.

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The right person for the job.

Dedicate your mage to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:using Kabuff in order to reverse the effects of Kasap. If you have a monster wrangler with you - one of the new classes in the remake - you can also use Attack Attacker to lower his stre✱ngth. Aside from that, it's up to your hero and warrior.

5 Garboyle

5,200 HP

Garboyle faces the party in Dragon Quest 3 Remake.

Garboyle's fight with you is a grudge match: the achievement says as much. Ten years ago, Garboyle had fought against the hero's father, Or﷽tega. For all his bluster, Garboyle knows Ortega had gotten the better of him. For this battle, you'll want your mage to cast Insulatle repeatedly to shield the party against Garboyle's fire-based attacks.

If you have any ♏accessories that prevent status ailments, particularly paralysis, this is a good time to equip them. Don't fo🌌rget the golden rule of Dragon Quest either: if you can't beat them, grind a bit and then beat them.

4 ♈ King Hydra ๊

5,800 HP

DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake king hydra in battle in zoma's citadel.

Before you fight Zoma, you'll face 𝓡a boss rush of sorts against the Soul of Baramos, the Bones of Baramos and this monstrosity. While the two preceding are fairly s✃traightforward, King Hydra is almost as hard to beat as Zoma himself.

This many-headed monstrosity loves to stun your party with its roar, and has a devastating physical attack. It takes multiple actions a turn. Better still, King Hydra was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:made even harder for the remake. The one mercy: King Hydra can be put to sleep. If i𓂃t had sleep resistance, it'd probably be the hardest 🐬boss before the post-game.

3 Zoma

8,300 HP

DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake zoma with a blue aura in the middle of battle.

The final boss as far as the story goes, Zoma is mercilesℱs in his attacks against you. At the start of the battle, he's shielded from your attacks: you have to use the Sphere of Light to make him vulnerable, and if you missed that little tidbit of info before, too bad.

Even once his shield is down, Zoma doesn't relent. He repeatedly casts Bounce, causing your spells to richochet off him🌺 and hurt your party, and nullifies all your buffs on seemingly every turn. Beating Zoma truly feels like an accomplishment.

2 Xenlon

22,700 HP

Xenlon faces the party in Dragon Quest 3 Remake.

Xenlon was first introduced in the SꦗNES version of Dragon Quest 3. While he has since been surpassed by the Grand Dragon in terms of being the definitive challenge, he's still the second-hardest boss in the game - particularly due to the time limit on beating him.

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If you beat Xenlon in a limited number of turns - the strictest being 15 - he won't get bored and leave the battle, and will grant you up to six wishe💙s in return. One of these wishes is ne👍cessary to get to Grand Dragon, the hardest boss in the game.

1 ♛ Grand Dragon

33,866 HP

Grand Dragon faces the party in Dragon Quest 3 Remake.

The ultimate challen🍎ge, first introduced in the GBC version of the game, Grand Dragon also has a turn limit if you want the Grand Medal achievement. Although it's 20 turns compared to Xenlon's 15, the achievement is hard to get because Grand Dragon has incredibly high HP. It's more than three times higher than in his 🧜Game Boy Color incarnation.

So high is his HP, in fact, that he doesn't have much ailment resistance. Unlike Zoma, you can use as many debuffs on G🍬rand Dragon as you want. You'll want the most effective ones to get the Grand Medal achievement.

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November 14, 2024
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🧔 November 14, 2024
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