How to Beat Metal Slime and Locations

Metal Slime is one of the metal monsters in Dragon Quest Monsters 3: The Dark Prince. Learn to locations, where to farm, how to defeat, how to scout, and how to spawn Metal Slimes!

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Metal Slime Location and Spawn Probability

Appears in Middle Echelon of Each Circle

Spawn Probability is About 5%

Metal slimes appear at the Middle Echelon of each circle. The spawn rate, however, is very low at around 5% as verified by members of our strategy team.

While the spawn rate of the Metal King Slime increases after defeating the secret boss of the game, this does not seem to affect the spawn rate of the Metal Slime

Metal Slime Recommended Farming Route

Circle of Caprice (Middle Echelon) Recommended

Circle of Caprice (Middle Echelon)
Route 1 - ①	Route 1 - ②	Route 1 - ③
Route 2 - ①	Route 3 - ①②	Route 4 - ①
★ Recommended Method for Hunting Metal Slime
Head to Pierre's Hut in Circle of Caprice (Middle Echelon) Check route 1 (Red Route) Return to Pierre's hut and check route 2 (Blue Route) Return to Pierre's hut and check route 3 (Green Route) Head to House of Shifting Sands and check route 4 (Yellow Route) Head to a different circle to reset the monsters Return to step 1

If you want to defeat or obtain a Metal Slime, we recommend going to the Circle of Caprice (Middle Echelon) which has many spring points and is relatively close to the warp point.

How to Defeat Metal Slime

Use Overkilling Machine or Crafty Banger Repeatedly Save and Load to Restart Battle

Use Overkilling Machine or Monsters With Crafty Banger

Repeatedly Save and Load to Restart Battle

To easily defeat a Metal Slime, try dealing a lot of damage with the Overkilling Machine or monsters with the Crafty Banger trait. If it manages to escape, you can restart the battle by reloading a save file.

Recommended Monsters If Story is Unfinished

Monster	Recommended Skills and Talents
Archdemon	・Storm Chaser ・Wisdom Booster 1-4 You can defeat Metal Slimes with Crafy Banger trait.
Liquid Metal Slime	・Storm Chaser ・Wisdom Booster 1-4 You can defeat Metal Slimes with Crafy Banger trait.
Overkilling Machine	・Mercurial Thrust ・Attack Booster 1-4 You can easily defeat a Metal Slime with the Overkilling Machine. One of the strongest monsters that plays an active role in the story.

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Metal Slime Scouting Tips

Circle of Caprice (Upper Echelon) Scouting Tips
Easier to Scout if Attack or Wisdom is Over 300 Scout rate increases if you have Overkilling Machine Restart battles by saving and loading

Easier to Scout if Attack or Wisdom is Over 300

Metal Slimes have a high defense, so the success rate of scouting is very low. But in the case of Metal Slimes in the Circle of Caprice (Upper Echelon), the results showed that the scouting success rate starts to increase if you have monsters with attack or wisdom over 300.

If you don't have enough attack and wisdom stats, use skills such as Oomph or Ping.

Best Scouting Monsters

Scout Rate Increases With Overkilling Machine

For Metal Slimes, scouting them with an Overkilling Machine will have a higher scouting rate.

Monster	Recommended Skills and Talents
Overkilling Machine	・Specially high scout rate ・Top-class attack power ・Excellent monster to use in story
Gem Slime	・Wisdom ranks first among all characters
Cetacean Sorcerer	・Learns Ping at Lv.40 ・Best wisdom increase rate

Best Scouting Monsters

Restart battles by saving and loading

If you want to scout a metal slime, be sure to save before the battle just like when you want to defeat it. If it runs away, you can reload the save and start over.

Other scouting methods

Obtained as a Mini Medal Reward

Reward	No. of Medals
Metal Slime	10 Pieces
Liquid Metal Slime	30 Pieces
Metal King Slime	50 Pieces

You can receive metal monsters such as Metal Slimes as a reward depending on the number of mini medals you collect. For metal monsters, you can get Metal Slime with 10 pieces, Liquid Metal Slime with 30 pieces, and Metal King Slime with 50 pieces.

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How to Spawn More Metal Slime During Battle

Bring Metal Slime to an Area With No Monsters

To spawn more metal monsters, bring the Metal Slime to an area where there are no other monsters around before entering the battle. This is because if there are other monsters nearby, the number of Metal Slimes that appear will decrease as the surrounding monsters will join the Metal Slime's formation when a battle begins.

Defeat Surrounding Monsters First

If there are other monsters near the metal monster and you can't get enough distance even after chasing them, you can start the battle after dealing with the other monsters that are in the way. When fighting other monsters, metal monsters will disappear once the battle is over. But if you move away from them and wait a few seconds, they will respawn.

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