Best Accessories

This is a guide to the best accessories in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (DQM). Learn the best accessory for each strategy, each of their effects, and where you can find them.

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Best Accessories

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Accessories with Best Stats	Max MP Accessories	Comfort Accessories
Auto-Recovery Accessories	Elemental Accessories	Resistance Accessories

Accessories with Best Stats

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Mighty Amulet	Attack＋100 Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Stout Troll
Earthwyrm's Eye	Defence＋100 Bonus: Defence＋10	・Drop from metal dragon guarding the 4th Gate of the Circle of Caprice, Upper Echelon.
Meteorite Bracer	Agility＋100 Bonus: Agility＋10	・Monster Drop: Tantamount
Sock-It Locket	Wisdom＋100 Bonus: Wisdom＋10	・Monster Drop: Hocus-Poker ・Obtained from a Treasure Chest in (Circle of Conquest) Upper Echelon / Conqueror's Keep
Argon Ring	Attack＋30, Agility＋40, Max HP＋30 Bonus: Attack＋7, Agility＋7	・Monster Drop: Dragon Rider

When looking to boost your monsters' performance, look for accessories that can significantly boost their stats (such as those giving 100+ points).

Increasing a monster's stat can determine how much damage it deals or receives, or whether it will act first ahead of others. You will want these accessories on your best monsters!

Best Monsters Tier List

Best Max MP Accessories

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Ancient Ankh	Max MP＋30, MP Cost Reduction Bonus: Max MP＋10	・Monster Drop: Graven Idol

The Ancient Ankh not only increases maximum MP by a large amount, but it also reduces MP consumption by 3/4.

It is highly useful because it increases the amount of times monsters can cast spells! Great for main attackers and healers.

Witch's Brooches are Easy to Obtain

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Witch's Brooch	Max MP＋10, MP Cost Reduction Bonus: Max MP＋10	・Monster Drop: Togre ・Obtained from a Treasure Chest in (Circle of Indulgence) Upper Echelon / Battenburg

The Witch's Brooch is an excellent alternative for increasing maximum MP. It is also easy to obtain since you can find it as an item drop from Togres which can be found in the Cradle of Corruption Middle Echelon.

Best Comfort Accessories

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Trainee's Medal	Greatly increases the amount of experience gained.	・Win Exa Arena S rank
Trainee's Badge	Increases the amount of experience gained.	・Win Exa Arena B rank
Scavenger's Badge	Scavenger	・Win Endor Arena B rank
Gold Medal	Gold Up (L)	・Exchange 60 Mini Medals at the Medallist in Exa Arena
Scout's Badge	Improves the likelihood of a Show of Force succeeding Bonus: Scout's Honour	・Obtained from a Treasure Chest in (Circle of Conquest) Upper Echelon / Conqueror's Keep
Cupcake Cane	Gold Panner, Iota Experience, Rummager	・Obtained during the progress of (Circle of Indulgence) Middle Echelon.

The best accessories for comfort involve ways to make it easier for obtaining resource, such as experience gains and gold.

Most of these accessories are awarded at the arena, and are recommended to equip them to your monsters to get faster level-ups and resource collection.

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Best Auto-Recovery Accessories

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Care Ring	Max HP＋30, Defence＋30, Auto-Restora Bonus: Max HP＋10	・Monster Drop: Cureslime
Goddess Ring	Max MP＋30, Wisdom＋30, Auto-Cadabra Bonus: Max MP＋10	・Monster Drop: Angel Slime

Auto-recovery accessories are highly-valuable simply for their ability to recover the HP of the equipped monster regularly.

The above accessories are also selected since they provide good stat boosts!

Warrior's Ring and Priest's Ring

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Warrior's Ring	Attack＋10, Defence＋10, Auto-Restora Bonus: Max HP＋10	・Monster Drop: Mandrake Major
Priest's Ring	Wisdom＋10, Max MP＋10, Auto-Cadabra Bonus: Max MP＋10	・Monster Drop: Orc King

While the above accessories' stats are not as high as the Care Ring and Goddess Ring, they are good alternatives for having some form of auto-recovery in battle.

Best Elemental Accessories

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Asbestos Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Frizzer Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Dancing Flame
Waterproof Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Splisher Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Crabid
Aerofoil Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Woosher Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Missing Lynx
Concrete Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Cragger Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Sweaty Yeti
Blast-Proof Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Banger Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Archdemon
Anti-Freeze Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Cracker Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Freezing Fog
Rubber Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Zapper Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Wyrtoise
Mirror Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Sizzer Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Saccharine Sacksquatch
Glow-In-The-Dark Armband	Attack＋40, Crafty Zammer Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Grim Keeper

Elemental Accessories are primarily focused on exploiting a monster's elemental weakness and improving the overall damage of the equipped monster towards specific enemy types.

These accessories are great for physical attackers since not only do they give advantage against weaknesses, but they also add points to Attack.

Best Resistance Accessories

Accessory	Effect	How to Get
Ring of Clarity	Defence＋40, Clear Thinker Bonus: Wisdom＋10	・Monster Drop: Guaardvark
Full Moon Ring	Defence＋40, Fidget Bonus: Wisdom＋10	・Monster Drop: Skellyfish
Ring of Vigour	Defence＋40, Granite Chin Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Frolicker
Ring of Immunity	Defence＋40, Antioxidant Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: King Bubble Slime
Endure Ring	Defence＋40, Death Defier Bonus: Attack＋10	・Monster Drop: Calypso King
Rational Ring	Defence＋10, Clear Thinker Bonus: Defence＋10,Insomniac, Granite Chin	・Synthesized at the Tinkerer's Toolshop
Tingly Ring	Defence＋10, Fidget Bonus: Defence＋10, Antioxidant, Death Defier	・Synthesized at the Tinkerer's Toolshop

Resistance Accessories revolve around improving your equipped monster's resistance against certain elements. Generally, they also increase the equipped monster's Defense (like the above mentioned accessories boosting Defense by 10 points).

Be sure to find and collect them in case you need protection from specific elements in battle.

How to Equip Accessories

Equip from the Accessory Menu

Equip accessories to a monster by selecting them through the Accessories menu in Your Monsters. Do not forget to equip your accessories so be sure to check this menu from time to time!

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