Best Talents Tier List by Family

This is a list of the best talents in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (DQM3). Read ahead to see the best talents of each family, as well as guides on how to get them!

Best Talents Tier List

Best Talents Overall

Recommended Talents
Physical Talents	・ Hair Splitter ・ Nokturnus
Spell Talents	・ Perfect Speller ・ Nelgel The Netherfiend ・ Aamon ・ Impactor ・ Polariser ・ Zoma
Breath-Based Talents	・ Blow Hard ・ Fallen Angel Corvus ・ Barbarus
Recovery Talents	・ Mystic ・ Supreme Healer
Resistance Talents	・ Hard Warder ・ Holy Warder ・ Sparkling Warder ・Various talents dependent on your monster's weaknesses
Support Talents	・ Fluffy ・ Sage

The best talents in DQM3 are talents with access to top-level skills, as well as access to S-Rank unique monster skills.

Obtaining these talents will take some patience and dilligence, but each will be well worth the effort it takes to acquire them.

Best Physical Talents

Tier List
	・ Hair Splitter ・ Nokturnus
	・ Duelist ・ Uberkilling Machine ・ Estark ・ Lord Of The Dragovians
	・ Freezer Burner ・ Air Fryer ・ Freeze Popper ・ Storm Brewer

The best physical talents are the ones that allow you to learn the strongest physical traits, such as Hair Splitter and Nokturnus.

While it may take some time to acquire these talents, they are well worth the wait because they consist of various physical traits with high firepower.

How to Get Hair Splitter

Hair Splitter Talent Synthesis
Any Talent			x	Any Talent (Diff. from Talent 1)
Freezer Burner				Air Fryer
Air Fryer				Freeze Popper
Freeze Popper				Storm Brewer
Storm Brewer				Freezer Burner

Hair Splitter can be acquired by synthesizing monsters with maxed out talent points in the Freezer Burner, Air Fryer, Freeze Popper, or Storm Brewer talent trees.

Best Spell Talents

Tier List
	・ Perfect Speller ・ Nelgel The Netherfiend ・ Aamon ・ Zoma
	・ Malroth ・ Heretic ・ Impactor ・ Polariser ・ Baramos
	・ Calasmos ・ Walking Disaster ・ Sovereign

The best Spell Talents are the Perfect Speller and Nelgel The Netherfiend, since these talents grant access to multiple top-level spells.

There also plenty of unique skills for S-Rank monsters that allow you to learn top-level spells, granting you the advantage of choosing which elements and special skills you want to use.

Best Breath-Based Talents

Tier List
	・ Blow Hard ・ Fallen Angel Corvus ・ Barbarus ・ Zoma
	・ Bad Breather ・ Breath Worker ・ Wyrmhole Dragon
	・ Smart Blazer ・ Frosty Receptionist ・ Deep Breather ・ Lord Of The Dragovians ・ Blighter ・ Jasper Unbound ・ Respirator

The strongest breath-based talents are those that have access to Hellitosis and Ice Age.

If you're looking for more flexibility with some spells, consider going for Fallen Angel Corvus and Barbarus instead.

How to Get Blow Hard

Blow Hard Talent Synthesis
Any Talent			x	Any Talent (Diff. from Talent 1)
Smart Blazer				Frosty Receptionist
Frosty Receptionist				Deep Breather
Deep Breather				Smart Blazer

Blow Hard can be obtained by synthesizing monsters with maxed out Smart Blazer, Frosty Receptionist, and Deep Breather talent trees.

Best Recovery Talents

Tier List
	・ Mystic ・ Supreme Healer
	・ Cleric ・ Cure-All ・ Hargon
	・ The Almighty ・ Water Baby ・ Rainmaker ・ Sovereign ・ Dhoulmagus ・ Empath

The best recovery talents are the talents are Mystic and Supreme Healer, which both have access to the Kazing and Omniheal skills.

The talents Cleric and Cure-All are great placeholders as these have the skills Omniheal and Multiheal, drastically increasing the survivability of your monsters.

We recommend pairing this talents with monsters that have high wisdom attributes or Traits that increase the efficacy of heals.

Best Resistance Talents

Tier List
	・ Hard Warder ・ Holy Warder ・ Sparkling Warder
	・ Magma Shield ・ Glacier Shield ・ Chiaroscuro Shield ・ Tremor Shield ・ Fulgurite Shield
	・ Super Naturalist

The best resistance talents are the talents that can boost more than one resistance. In particular, Hard Warder, Holy Warder, and Sparkling Warder are talents that can boost multiple resistances.

The A-Tier is composed of talents that can increase your Max. HP in addition to your resistances, which further increases your monster's durability.

We also recommend tailoring your monster's resistances based on the species' weaknesses for maximum effect!

Best Support Talents

Tier List
	・ Fluffy ・ Sage
	・ Willing Helper ・ Smarty-Pants ・ Fortifier ・ Strong Speller
	・ Mouth Guard ・ Soothesayer ・ Taste Buddies

Fluffy and Saage are two of the best support talents since these skill sets provide access to various useful buffs, debuffs, and status ailment recovery.

We recommend pairing this talent with monsters that have the Bigger Upper trait to maximize the duration of active buffs!

Tier List Criteria

Tier List Criteria
	Talents rated in the S-Tier are comprised of either top-level skills, or unique, S-Rank Monster skills. What's more, these talents typically house multiples of said skills, allowing a single talent access to various useful skills.
	Talents in the A-Tier also contain top-level skills, but usually only have one or two as opposed to the talents in the S-Tier.
	Talents in the B-Tier are useful on their own, but can also be used as synthesis components to gain access to talents in the upper tiers, or placeholders as you grind your way to better talents.

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