Unlockable: Mighty Armlet
You must get Rank D in the monster arena.

Babble Land
After you get the Godbird Soulstone, fly to the area overlooking the desert.
Tere you will find a lot of metabbles, sometimes as many as 8 in one battle.
Unfortunately, there are some other powerful monsters in that same region, so you need to use caution when babble hunting.

Defeating Metal Slimes
In the medical shop, buy the Holy Water. Go to battle with Metal Slime. Choose command item and use it on the Metal Slime. It will always do 1 damage. Do this 4 times for Metal Slimes when you are at levels 20 to 25.

Dancing monsters
Go to the battle records in the menu then choose the defeated monster list. Select any monster that you have defeated (for example, the Monster Slime). Press X button to make him wiggle and press Circle to make him do other things. Try doing this with all the other monsters.

Rare equipment
Save rare equipment early in the game. Do not get rid of items you do not know where to buy or make from alchemy, because you might not get them for a long time; and that will prevent you from making some of the better equipment early in the game.

Hit hero's head on the ceiling
Buy a Cheameara Wing and use it inside a building to see the hero

Mini Medal purchases
Give the listed number of Mini Medals to to Princess Minnie to receive the listed item.
28 Mini Medals: Fishnet Stockings
36 Mini Medals: Posh Waistcoat
45 Mini Medals: Staff of Divine Wrath
52 Mini Medals: Gold Nugget
60 Mini Medals: Meteroite Bracer
68 Mini Medals: Miracle Sword
75 Mini Medals: Sacred Armour
83 Mini Medals: Orichalcum
90 Mini Medals: Metal King Helmet
99 Mini Medals: Dangerous Bustier
110 Mini Medals: Flail of Destruction

Old equipment
If you get new equipment, do not be steadfast to sell the old. Some of that equipment can be used in the alchemy pot for better items.
For example, Bandit's Vest + Bandanna. It is not an overall great item to turn out, but it can be useful in the very beginning. Also, a normal Boomerang + Iron Nail = Reinforced Boomerang, which is one of the better boomerangs which can be acquired very early.

Final Fantasy 8 reference
Angelo shares the same name as Rinoa's dog in Final Fantasy 8.

Fighting Metal Slimes
The best way to kill Metal Slimes is to use attacks that inflict critical damage. The hero's Lightning thrust ability performs a critical attack on these enemies. Another method is to use Falcon Blades, which allows you to attack twice -- this theoretically doubles your chances of inflicting a critical blow.

Seeds
Keep seeds for a save point. If you only gain 1 for a stat, so you can reset. The seeds will be more wisely used. Also, use the seeds on characters that need the stat. For example, do not use a Strength seed on Yangus, or a Magic or Wisdom seed on Jessica. You can, but be warned -- some characters will be overall weaker if their weaknesses are not compensated.

Easy gold
Use the following trick to get easy gold on the Island Of The Temple Of Neos. Just southeast of Simpleton are Gold Brick monsters. They are best found on the southern half of the island, around the temple entrance. They are fairly common. They have about 100 HP and the drop about 726 in gold. Sometimes you can find multiple ones.

When you are trying to make money to buy items at the bazaar, go to the Isle of Neos. The enemies there are not too strong compared to you, and the battles should be easy. You will often encounter Gold Golems, which drop just over 700 gold each.

Use the following trick to earn more gold from Gold Golems. Gold Golems are found in the desert island of Neos, in the central ocean. They appear as single enemies or in groups of two, 3 and four.
They are also mixed in groups with other monsters. You will earn 54 experience points and 726 gold by defeating just one Gold Golem. They sometimes drop, or you can steal from them, Gold Bracers and Gold Rings. This trick only works if there is a combo of one or 2 Gold Golems and one to 3 Tap Devils together. This is also a risky tactic. Tap Devils have the ability to confuse members with their Fuddle Dance and kill team members with their Death Dance.
Start by killing any Gold Golems first. Allow the Tap Devils to cast the spell Kerplunk. If this is successful, they will revive the fallen Gold Golems, and the Tap Devil that cast it dies. Then. kill the Gold Golems again. You will earn double the experience and gold, as if there were 2 to 4 Gold Golems, instead of one or two.

Monster Arena awards
Get the listed rank at the Monster Arena to receive the
listed award.
Bardiche of Binding: Rank B
Bunny Suit: Rank F
Dragon Robe: Rank S
Hero Spear: Rank A
Mighty Armlet: Rank D
Ring of Clarity: Rank E
Saint's Ashes: Rank C
Strength Ring: Rank G
Call team ability for hero: Rank E
Hero Statue: Rank S
No entry fees: Rank S
Fight against your team option: Rank F
Second monster team: Rank B
Three more reserve monster slots: Rank D
Three more reserve monster slots: Rank G

Easy experience
To gain about 1,000 to 2,000 experience points early in the game, once Angelo asks you to check on the Abbot, go to the Ruined Abbey slightly north of there. Instead of flying through the dungeon, walk around until you encounter a Metal Slime. Metal Slimes will run usually on the 1st turn, but if not, try hitting it. Metal Slimes have low amount of HP and sometime appear in groups of two. Make sure your main character is equipped with a Boomerang -- if you fight 2 you can hit both of them. Have Yangus attack normally, and do the same with Jessica. Do not use spells, as they have no effect.
If you manage to kill the Metal Slime(s), you will be rewarded with about 1,000 to 2,000 experience points, and about 299 to 499 gold.
Repeat this as much as desired.

When Angelo asks you to check on the Abbot, go to the Ruined Abbey slightly north of there. Use Angelo's ring to open the entrance underground. Once there, be patient, as at 1st you will encounter regular enemies. After a few battles you should encounter a Metal Slime(s). They possess only 4 HP but are difficult to defeat because they either dodge or run away immediately. Once you encounter a slime or slimes (up to three), concentrate on only one of them, as it is difficult to kill one. To guarantee a kill, equip a sword with "The Hero", and you must know the ability "Metal Slash." With Yagus, just attack normally. Equip a whip for Jessica and you must know the ability "Twin Dragon Lash," which she will strike twice (and make it very likely to land at least one). It is best to train in the Ruined Abbey after you get Angelo, as he also knows the Metal Slash with a sword like "The Hero." Since the Metal Slime is metal, when you strike it with a Metal Slash technique it is likely to take 2 HP from the 4 HP that the Metal Slime posseses. When Jessica strikes, it is likely she will land at least one hit and take another HP from the Metal Slime. It is not not important if Yagus lands or not, because Angelo's Metal Slash (which can do up to 2 HP damage) will definitely hit. Thus, you have a guaranteed kill, giving you up to 1,000 or more experience points. Also, it is much faster to use Whistle by Yagus to get into battle much quicker, as the slime appears randomly. Additionally, standing in one location is slower -- try running around until the slimes do not appear for awhile.
When this happens, change locations and use Whistle.

Go to the area before Maella Abbey and run around until you get into a battle with at least one Dingaling. Kill anything besides the Dingaling(s). After only the Dingalings remain, psyche yourself up, heal, or use magic to raise your stats. Eventually, with a little patience, one of the Dingalings will call for backup. A Jargon will appear. If you are psyched up, use one person to kill the Jargon.
Leave the Dingalings alone, and continue to heal, psyche up, or use stat-raising magic. Do not kill any of the Dingalings. The more of them there are, the better the chance of them calling for backup.
Continue to attack only the Jargons and make sure you continue to psyche yourself up. it is important to kill the Jargons on the 1st turn, because they can cause heavy damage and blind your party. If more than one Jargon is called, try using Jessica's psyched up attack. It hits an entire group, and should kill any number of Jargons. When you get low on health, or feel that you have killed enough, simply kill the Dingalings; they are relatively weak.
Technically, you can get unlimited amounts of experience per battle.
However if you get to about Jargon p or Q, you should get about
1,000 experience points. This is very useful for the area. Make sure to equip your characters with lots of medical or strong herbs.

Metal Slimes in the Ruined Abbey (after you acquire Angelo's Templar ring) are worth about 1,300 experience points per kill; They also work rather well later in the game, but only until about level 22 to 25. Also, do not always wait until your characters are at a few HP/MP unless they have the Evac and Zoom spells. Fight the Dingaling squads who summon Jargons, and only kill the Jargons with Yangus and the Hero from psyching. This will give you some earlier experience than Metal Slimes, and the experience gained is more stable than trying to kill Metal Slimes.

In the room with the 2 treasure chests (one of which contains the magical key) in Trodain Castle, there is a creature called Liquid Metal Slime. Use Yangus' Whistle technique to try to encounter this enemy. It may take a while for you to encounter this creature. Once encountered, use Metal Slash for both Angelo and Hero and use Twin Dragon Whip Slash for Jessica to defeat it before it runs away. It is the same as the Metal Slime in the ruined Abbey, but it has about 10 HP and high vitality. If you managed to defeat it, you will gain 10,050 experience points.

Go to Castle Trodain and fight Liquid Metal Slimes. You will get 10,050 experience points for killing them. This is also a faster way of leveling up if you are over level 20.

Once you get the ship, press Square to access the world map. On the very bottom left of the map (southwest), at the very corner, there is an island that is not visible. Go there on your ship to find the island. Once you find the island that is not visible on the map, go there. On this island, it is very common to encounter a Liquid Metal Slime, unlike in Castle Trodain where it takes a very long time. Run around the entire island, as they appear much faster this way, rather then casting Whistle on the same spot. You will encounter this Liquid Metal Slime frequently, and if defeated you will receive over 10,000 experience points. *** Once you encounter the Liquid Metal Slime, use Metal Slash with the Hero and Angelo and Twin Dragon Slash with Jessica. Attack normally with Yagus. This place is not far from Neos, so it is recommended to 1st visit there as you will get access to cast Zoom to appear there after you trained on this secret island. Once refreshed, the sail is not that far off.
You can easily transport from Neos to this island and then cast Zoom to teleport for healing.

This trick requires the Godbird acquired later in the game. East of
Orkutsk and north of the tall tower is an elevated forest (non-snowy area). Every type of Metal Slime can be encountered here, including King Metal Slime. Metal Slimes appear very frequently. It can take awhile to encounter Liquid Metal Slimes and King Metal Slimes, but it is possible to get into a battle with one King Metal Slime surrounded by 6 Liquid Metal Slimes.

Babble Land
After you get the Godbird Soulstone, fly to the area overlooking the desert.
Tere you will find a lot of metabbles, sometimes as many as 8 in one battle.
Unfortunately, there are some other powerful monsters in that same region, so you need to use caution when babble hunting.

Thief's Key
In Farebury, go on top of the church (where the bell is located) and get the Thief's Key recipe. On the ship (just after you defeated the sea monster), search around to find the Bronze Knife. Chat to Trode to get the Alchemy Pot. Once you get to Peregrin Quay, go to the Inn and chat to the man with the black hood. He will chat to you about his days as a thief, then give an Iron Nail. Once you have acquired all the items, put those 2 items (Bronze Knife and Iron Nail) into the Alchemy Pot. Wait a while until it makes the Thief's Key.

Faster alchemy cook time
Alchemy cook time seems to be based on the number of steps taken. To speed up the process, begin a recipe in a town and run in place against a building or object. Corners seem to work best. Your recipe should be ready in a little less than 2 minutes.

Forge Liquid Metal Sword
Get the rusty sword from Trodain. Earn a slime crown by fighting metal slimes or King slimes. One slime crown is inside the well on the hilltop hut. The final ingredient, Orihalcum, is difficult to get with an external cheat device. The easiest source is to accrue 83 medallions and trade them to Minnie for the item.
Drop all 3 ingredients into the alchemy pot for the rare Liquid Metal Sword.

Forge Metal King Shield
You require the Ruinous Shield, Orihalum, and Saints Ash for this armor.
Purchase the Saints Ash from the Dragovian Village after clearing the game once (and do a game clear save, or you will want to defenestrate yourself after your PS2). The Orihalum is earned by collecting medals and trading enough of them to the island princess north of Peregin Quay. The Ruinous Shield may be found in the air-only part of the island where the Doulmagus was killed (at the mirror puzzle).

Determining item upgradability
When you are trying to figure out what items to sell to make extra money, unequip any item you have then go to the alchemy pot. Any item that is darkened cannot be used in the alchemy pot. Thus, you know that it is safe to sell. This is especially helpful after you make items and you are not sure if they can be upgraded again.

Forge Metal King Shield
You require the Ruinous Shield, Orihalum, and Saints Ash for this armor.
Purchase the Saints Ash from the Dragovian Village after clearing the game once (and do a game clear save, or you will want to defenestrate yourself after your PS2). The Orihalum is earned by collecting medals and trading enough of them to the island princess north of Peregin Quay. The Ruinous Shield may be found in the air-only part of the island where the Doulmagus was killed (at the mirror puzzle).

Unlockables
Unlockable: Bardiche of Binding
You must get Rank B at the Monster Arena.

Unlockable: Bunny Suit
You must get Rank F in the monster arena.

Unlockable: Dragon Robe
You must get Rank S in the Monster Arena.

Unlockable: Hero Spear
You must get Rank A in the Monster Arena.

Unlockable: Ring of Clarity
You must get Rank E in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Strength Ring
You must get Rank G in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Hero Statue
You must get Rank S in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Option To Fight Against Your Team
You must get Rank F in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Three Additional Reserve Monster Slots
You must get Rank D in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Rank S
You must get Rank A in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Three Additional Reserve Monster Slots
You must get Rank G in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Second Monster Team
You must get Rank B in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: No Entry Fees
You must get Rank S in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Call Team Ability For Hero
You must get Rank E in the Monster Arena.
Unlockable: Saint's Ashes
You must get Rank C in the Monster Arena.

Final Fantasy 9 reference
Alexandria is the name of the Castle where Princess Garnet used the summon to protect herself form Bahamut in Final Fantasy 9. In Dragon Quest 8, that is the name of the town where you meet Jessica.

King Metal Slime Hunting!
First of all you have to find the KMS by walking around.Whistling decreases the chance of finding a KMS by 50%.Once you've found one follow these steps to defeat it:

1.Cast acceleratle
2.Use the hero's Metal Slash
3.Use Yangus's Executioner
4.Use Angelo's Metal Slash or Multishot

Repeat these steps each round to kill it.With a little luck it won't flee on the first round giving you the chance to defeat it with Yangus's Executioner.If you're EXTREMELY lucky it won't flee on the second round which means KMS PWNAGE along with 30000 EXP

Post-Game Equipment
After defeating Rhapthorne and viewing the full ending, you will be shown a new place to travel to: an altar which can only be reached using the Godbird's Soulstone. Fly there, and be prepared for a massive dungeon and very powerful monsters.

Eventually, assuming you live, you will come upon a village that asks you to help them fight and defeat their Grand Elder. Doing so will advance your story and explain a few things, but that's not why you're here - the Elder's challenges are why you're here! From here on out, you can go back and fight the Grand Elder, and each time you win (and they will be tough!), you gain a piece of equipment only the Hero can use. Gaining the Dragovian Helmet and Dragovian Armor changes the Hero's appearance, and getting the Dragovian Sword (if you have the Liquid Metal Sword) will allow you to gain the Dragovian King Sword through alchemy.

It is recommended that the Hero should be at level 65 minimum. These battles will be insanely difficult otherwise.

Tip for dolmagus
Send out you monster team to fight dolmagus and u get a beter chance

Help for noobs
Always try to keep your whole party healthy if they die then they don't gain the XP and I'm level 35 and it costs about 300 gold per person, I know your thinking oh well at that level the money will just flow in well it does but it also flows out alot quicker, DONT SELL STUFF IN THE BEGINNING THINKING OH I WONT NEED IT BECAUSE YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED.

THE BEST SWORD
The best sword or liqued metal sword is make by combining rusty old sword slime king helmit and oriculum(cant thay find sothing easyer to spell)

PS2 Cheats for Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King cheat codes

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King cheats