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Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined (DQ7)

Tips and Tricks: Beginner's Guide to Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined (DQ7)

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This is a beginner's guide that teaches new players tips and tricks on how to beat Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined (DQ7). Check out some beginner tips for combat, exploration, and more here!

Beginner's Guide

Find and Collect Tablet Fragments

Green Fragment from Ballymolloy
Dragon Quest 7's story revolves around assembling tablets and travelling to islands in the past. Make sure that you explore every new area you visit so that you can collect new tablet fragments and unlock new islands to travel to.

How to Unlock New Islands

Save Seeds for Later

Seed of Magic
Like other main-line Dragon Quest games, you will come across stat-boosting seeds that you can use to make your party members stronger. It's recommended to save these first and only use them in the late game once your character builds have been optimized.

When and Who Should Use Seeds?

Adjust Difficulty Settings

Difficulty Settings
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined allows you to tweak multiple settings to adjust the game's difficulty level. If you're having a hard time or if you want to breeze through a section where you're over-levelled, you can adjust the difficulty to make the game less frustrating to deal with.

Best Difficulty Settings and Differences

Understand Character Stats

Character Stats
There are a ton of different stats in Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, and it can be confusing if you're not sure what each stat does. It's highly recommended to take some time to understand how each stat affects a character, so you don't mix up stats like Agility and Deftness, for example.

All Stats and Attributes Explained

Don't Speed Through Dialogue Choices

Give Patrick Maeve
While most dialogue options have no effect, some choices can grant you bonuses if you pick the correct responses. Make sure that you take time to read and select the best possible options instead of just mashing to get through a cutscene.

Do Dialogue Choices Matter?

Choose Your Beginner Vocations Wisely

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Upon completing the events at Alltrades Abbey and obtaining the Career Sphere, you can start switching to another vocation entirely.

It is best to note that your stats and skills will reset after choosing your first Beginner Vocation. Choose the vocation that best fits all your party members.

Best Starting Vocations

Collect All Keys

Ultimate Key Location

You can find keys used to unlock chests scattered throughout the world. It's important to collect these immediately, not to be barred from progressing the story or exploration.

List of All Keys and How to Get Them

Level Up and Earn EXP

Metal Slime Encounter

EXP is required for you to level up and defeat stronger bosses and seemingly difficult enemies. Metal Slimes are rare enemies that can give you abundant EXP once defeated.

Play the Lucky Panel Minigame

Lucky Panel

The Lucky Panel unlocks as soon as you get to Pilgrim's Perdition in the Alltrades Abbey Region.

You can earn rewards from Lucky Panels by flipping two matching cards with the same image. The better you score, the better the rewards.

Lucky Panel Guide: How to Farm Prizes

Collect Mini Medals

DQ7R - Mini Medal 77 Map

After speaking with the Attendant in Estard Castle for the first time, she will hand you a Medal Handbook, which shows the areas where you can find Mini Medals.

These medals can be exchanged for amazing prizes with the attendant upon reaching certain milestones.

All 100 Mini Medals Locations and Rewards

All Tips and Tricks

All Tips and Tricks Guides

General Guides
All Stats and Attributes Explained Best Difficulty Settings and Differences
How to Revive Party Members List of Status Effects
How to Change Shortcut Commands How to Get a Ship
How to Unlock New Islands How to Fast Travel
How to Reset Puzzles How to Check Enemy Weaknesses
How to Change Vocations How to Change Party Members During Battle
How to Control Party Members How to Get Worked Up and Use Let Loose
How to Transfer Demo Save Data How to Change Outfits and Costumes
Where to Get the Magic Carpet Battle System Explained
How to Open Locked Chests Where to Find Pike
All Alternate Island Endings Field Attack Guide
Frequently Asked Questions
When and Who Should Use Seeds? Is There Autosave?
Should You Give the Wooden Doll to Patrick? Does the Hero Have a Canon Name?
Do Dialogue Choices Matter? What Happens When You Die?
Can You Save Maeve? Are There Random Encounters?
When Can You Change Classes? Can You Talk to Animals in L'arca?
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All Stats and Attributes Explained
HP MP
Attack Agility
Resilience Strength
Magical Mending Magical Might
Defence Deftness
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