Plus Variants Guide: Accessories and Monsters

Plus variants are slightly stronger variants of accessories in Dragon Quest Monsters 3: The Dark Prince (DQM3). Read on to learn if there are any plus variant monsters, how to get plus variant accessories, is it worth prioritizing and more!

Is There A Plus Variant?

There Are No Plus Variant Monsters

There are no plus variant monsters in Dragon Quest Monsters 3: The Dark Prince. In earlier titles, it was possible to acquire plus variant monsters through synthesis, but it was abolished in this game.

There Are Plus Variant Accessories

Plus variant accessories can only be acquired through accessory synthesis in the Tinkerer's Toolbench in Rosehill. Synthesizing accessories does not stack the effects, but instead gives a chance to create a stronger accessory variant.

How to Get a Plus Variant Accessory

Synthesize at the Tinkerer's Toolbench

At the Tinkerer's Toolbench, you can synthesize accessories by selecting 5 accessories to combine. You have a chance to get 1 enhanced or Plus variant accessory after synthesis. Likewise, you must accept the risk that there is a possibility that the synthesis can fail and you lose the synthesized accessories.

Accessory Synthesis Guide: How to Get Better Accessories

Include the Desired Accessory

The plus variant will be selected among the chosen accessories used for synthesis. Be sure to include the desired accessory to have a chance of getting the desired plus variant accessory.

Best Accessories

Accessory Synthesis Summary

Hocus Pocus Rings can make accidents more likely to occur

By using Hocus Pocus Rings in your synthesis, you are more likely to encounter accidents in your synthesis. This is a risky way but potentially beneficial way to create more powerful accessories.

Is Accessory Synthesis Reversible?

You Can Start Over with Save and Load

Accessory synthesis can be reversed by loading a previous save before you tried synthesis. However once an accessory is synthesized, it cannot be undone.

Using the Same Material will yield the same result

While you can keep on retrying synthesis to try and produce a new accessory, if you use the same materials, the results will not change.

Change at least once material to produce new results

If you switch things up and change one material every time you attempt synthesis, the result will be different everytime. If you want to synthesize a plus variant accessory, trying many different combinations is highly recommended.

Is Accessory Synthesis Worth Prioritizing?

Not in General Story Playthrough

If you're looking to just casually play the game, it is not worth prioritizing accessory synthesis to produce plus variants. Collecting accessories will be time consuming and you will be better off training monsters or scouting even stronger monsters.

Worth It In Ranked PVP Arenas

While it is not completely important in a general playthrough, accessory synthesis does provide some advantange in the competitive PVP arena. It does not diminish the fact that you still have to train hard for stronger monsters, but having better accessories can give you an advantage.

Ranked Guide: How to Win in Ranked PVP

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