I’m so used to playing final fantasy where at level 99 you hp is in the thousands. I just picked up this game for switch and I’m loving it.

You can use sylvando to accelerate spell the whole group before prepping up to insure you attack the metal slimes first. This will reduce slimes running away because you attack first or sometimes Eric will attack twice before the slimes can run.

Wow... At the beginning of the game I didn't realize how rare pep pops are

My method is: 1. Have your party as Sylvando, Erik, Jade and Rab 1. Enter a battle with a Malicious Hammerhood, they're weak and don't run away, and keep defending. If you're playing the Definitive Edition, increasing the battle speed to Ultra Fast helps this go by faster. As each character becomes Pepped, immediately switch them out for another character we are not using (Serena, Veronica, and Hendrik). If these characters become Pepped, it doesn't matter; just keep them Defending as well until you have Sylvando, Jade, Erik, and Rab Pepped. When the last of those characters becomes Pepped, switch them out to the Hero and have him use Pep Up. You should now have the Hero, Sylvando, Jade, Erik, and Rab all Pepped. Finish the battle. This step can take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes depending on how long it takes for the characters to become Pepped. If you don't feel like doing it this way, you could always blow a Pep Pop to Pep everyone instantly, but I recommend hanging onto them. End the battle 2. Switch your lineup to include the following party after the battle: the Hero, Erik, Sylvando, and Jade. SAVE YOUR GAME at the Campsite. DO NOT enter any other battles between where you are and the campsite to play it safe. 3. Enter any battle after you save your game. Immediately have Jade use the Pep Power Haulellujah. 4. Swap Erik out for Rab. 5. Have the Hero use Pep Up. 6. Have Sylvando use a Pep Pip on Jade. The enemies will have their turn, so wait for them to finish. 7. On the next turn, have Jade use the Pep Power Electro Light. This will change the enemies to either a group of Metal enemies, or a group of killer robots. If you get the group of robots, you'll need to finish the battle quickly, return to the title screen, reload your save, and start again from Step 3. If you get the group of Metals, proceed. The group of Metal enemies you encounter will depend on your party's average Level. 8. Switch Sylvando out to Erik immediately after Electro Light is used. 9. Have Rab immediately use the Pep Power Dirge of Dundrasil. If the Hero acts before Rab, you can have him throw out a Sword Dance or Falcon Slash in the off chance he lands a Critical, but there isn't a lot he'll be able to do otherwise to help. The Hero simply needs to be in the active party in order to use the Pep Power. Dirge of Dundrasil will put all of the Metal enemies to sleep, making them ripe for the slaughter. It's possible that this will miss on some of them, in which case, you should take out the ones that do not fall asleep first and hope they do not flee. If any do not fall asleep and flee, you should end the battle, reload, and start from Step 3. This is unlikely to happen often. 10. Switch the Hero out to Hendrik so he can use Hatchet Man (or Serena if she has a Spear equipped and can use Thunder Thrust). From here, use Lightning Thrust, Critical Claim, and Hatchet Man (or Serena's Thunder Thrust) to take out the Metals one by one. DO NOT use any other attacks! You need to use Critical Hit-only attacks, lest you wake them up. If for some reason any wake up prematurely or you miss too many times and some flee, you will need to end the battle, reload, and start from Step 3. Like the above step, this is unlikely to happen often. I managed to get to level 99 really quickly with all of my characters with this method!

I figured out this technique when leveling against bloody hands. At first, I was just using Haulellujah at the start of the fight to take advantage their "summon ally" skill when Sylvando and Jade pepped and thought to myself: "Wait... There is that one pep skill I can use now!"

Oh this is awesome! I laughed so hard when it worked on the first try! Went from 74 to 80! Nice vid! Thanks for sharing!

just bought this game and got to act 3. thanks for the guide. i appreciate you providing multiple methods because i like to grind early and don't have all this end game gear or money

The first method seems like it takes a lot of time to set up (and it does), but it absolutely pays off. Great job!

Holy cow. All my characters went from around level 74 to 81 on the first go. That was crazy..

Thank you so much for this version, I have been looking for other methods cause I haven't beat mordegon yet and I was struggling as I have not been able to rebuild Cobblestone yet so the defend method immediately paid off when I got a king and two small metal slimes! Thank you very much

For the first method, in the Champs Sauvage, around the northern camp, there're slimes that can multiply across the small bridge. I used them for farming. You don't need to heal, as they don't attack you, but you need to keep their number down. This will save you time so you don't have to look up healing in the menu everytime. The camp being next to you when you get the Hero, Jade, and Erik pepped up is great because you can go save, so you can save some time if the Hero, Jade, Sylvando Electro Light summons other monsters than the metal ones.

Great guide. Got all my characters to 99 and am ready to wipe out the post game.

before post game grinding in dundrasil is the best thing to do as before mordegon there is normal metal slimes and then ur pep for liquid metals and after mordegon there is vicious liquid metal slimes and ur pep for two of them and a regular king slime during post game u want the manglegrove whale way station for the hardy hands

Amazing, it worked perfectly! My characters went from 74 to 80, in one go fantastic! thank you

Once you get 110 Mini Medals for the complete journal, Max sells you Pep Pips for 10 medals. You can farm mini medals by stealing from Umbras in the Crypt of the Disciple's Trial.

Thanks for the walk through, this is my 3rd time using it so far.

I got 1,340,000 exp in one fight thanks to this method. A king metal slime showed up at the beginning and end with two liquid metal slimes. All died. It was glorious ... Try to use Sylvando to Accelerattle your group, that's all I've got to say.

I found one way that might be useful. visit The First Forest, and find malicious sprite bulb monsters. prepare your characters including hero, erick, jade and selena. as many are taught by friends on other youtube pages. Use defense often, while serena using accelerate to increase character agility. Don't worry about your enemies, because malicious bulb sprites heal more often than attack. When hero, erick and jade pep-up, use "halelujah" so that the experience gained is greater. After that, go back to using the previous method, "defend and accelerate". If hero, silvando and jade pep-up again, use Electro Light with the hope that the enemy you get is metal slime.

Thanks for the tips! 🤘

Great video, thanks a lot!

I also recommend you get Rab pepped up as well, he can send them all (or most) to sleep so they won't run away

I know I'm late to the party but I'd love to see grotto's reintroduced to DQXI in DQ9 it gave you a reason to play after Corvus, I also feel like DQ9 was way harder than DQXI dont get me wrong I like both games but DQ9 will take the cake as my favorite forever.

Went from 50 to 60 with all party members in ~40 minutes just defending and getting pepped up that way. Don't see a reason to get 125k tokens per pep pip tbh

Is it smart to have rab pepped up and use the hero to pep up to use the pep to sleep the slimes or does that take too long?

You can have Rab out also, if he peps up and you accelerate him he can put the slimes to sleep with his pep power

Do you have to unlock certain panels in Character Builder to get these pep powers?

very nice video man but ya don't forget about using acceletle with either serena or sylvando going forward

someone in the comments mentioned where to find king metal slimes. They are rare pops in a few places. The final fortress in chapter two was the most common place I found them. I'm only a bit into chapter 3 so no idea there outside the pep powers.

So what skills are needed to learn the Pep Power Halleluiah?

Best guide I've seen on KZfaq, thank you very much ;)

incredible. thanks for the video.

here's an update on my progres in lvl'ing with perfect kill of vicious metal king and 2x vicious liquid metal slime's. i hope this is helpfull for others ; getting exp from that particular monster combo is dependent on 2 things, 1st, its REGION DEPENDENT, since differend regions yield more or less exp from that same monster combo, and 2th ITS LVL DEPENDENT the higher my lvl is the more exp i get from that monster combo in same region, for example in dundrasil region (campsite) i got 333k exp beeing under lvl 60 now at lvl 72 i got several 100k more, while beeing at lvl 72 i got only 280k exp in Costa valor. i think im still early game story wise since i only unlock'd the flying whale option in story mode today, so for me dundrasil region yields the highest exp from the metal monster combo (i only took my results from all 3x monster kill successions.) (with right setup, and agilty increases this is rather easy since my ERIK mostly acts 2x before any monster can act), ok i hope this helps everyone together with ur amazing video

If you go to level three of that trial and go outside, start attacking the jumping guys (the ones you can ride) and there's a high chance of seeing a king metal slime

Most complete video on this matter, congrats and gj

I see a lot of people going to Slime Island to do this. I take it it doesn't matter where you are or what enemy you fight, it has no impact on your chances of getting metal slimes with Electro Light?

Your tips are really helping me out in my game.

I'm just going through my first play through of the game and don't have enough skill points to even get those abilities and definitely don't have all those pep abilities. Must be a lot further than where I am. I don't even think my characters are level 30 yet. And have all but like 2 orbs to get. Just got done with that place where you get the magic key.

Why did you choose that gryphon?

Just to be clear metal slimes are anywhere so you dont have to do this here, I recommend campsite zoom in for autosave reload if they ran away or robots comes out.

If anyone has trouble with slimes fleeing you can also wait for rab to pep up to use dirge of dundrasil which has a hundred percent chance of sending every monster to sleep

Where did you get the Hunter moon for Erik?

what i like to do is , hero , rab , sylvando and jade , and use the eletric light , and after i defended with both hero and jade and make sylvando , use electric light , after that its rabs turn and i use his pep skills that put even metal monsters to sleep so they dont run away , and if one is not sleep i target him first , but also dont forget to swap sylv for erik after using pep

When I go to the location griffons don't spawn. Is it a certain time only?

How do you get hallelujah and electrolyte?

Did they patch this? It's not longer a gryphon that comes from that spot it's a goblin

I love this game so much. They will have a hard time to top this entry.

Just imagine if we had this method in DQ8 lol this would've been a godsend to leveling up

Really thorough video. Thanks for all the work you put in!

I would see this game in the PS store all the time and told myself I wouldn’t play it because of the cartoonish nature… And here I am 200 hours later. What an AMAZING game! Glad I was wrong. Thanks for this video btw…as someone playing in 2023 it was super helpful!

You can use Jade's Multithrust with a liquid metal spear, she don't miss any hit

Which metal slimes appear is based on your level. If you're lvl 70+, you'll get the metal king slime and two metal bubble slimes. Also, if you pep up Jade the 2nd time with a pep pip, you'll get it back from the king slime's drop, so no need to farm pep pips. You only have to have the first one, which most people will have gotten a few by the time they get to the postgame. ALSO, pep up Rab beforehand and use Dirge of Dundrasil, you'll put them to sleep to lessen the chances of them running away. ALSO ALSO, Serena can use thunder lance, and character 8 can use Hatchet Man which both have a chance for critical hits (a little low, but better than nothing).

When the medal slimes pop up,I swap Sylvando with Serena because she got thunder thrust on her spear

I got 492,572 exp for killing 2 Metal King Slime and 1 Liquid Metal Slime. I encountered a Metal King Slime in the entrance of Fortress of Fear, I killed him first with Critical Claim, then I used Haulellujah. After that I waited for Jade to get pepped up again. Lucky that Sylvando is already pepped up so I just switched him in and used Electro Light. Another Metal King Slime and 2 Liquid Metal Slime showed up. I was able to kill the king and 1 liquid slime, the other ran away.

So the usual meta of "hunt metal slimes" :D And hit them as often and as critical as you can.

cool!

So I went to that sky town place where I got the flame, and touched the east plant, but i cannot enter the trial. Do I need to beat Calasmos first?

Guys i have no pep pip in the casino shop. Do I have to do something to get them in there?

I got the king slime + two small ones. Killed the king and 1 of the small and got only 250k exp, and yes I used the first pep up to increase exp. Any idea why?

How do i get Electro light and the bigger skilltree for Erik?

it would be nice if the pep up ability could be used on any party member instead of just the hero.

With sylvando you can use ladies first and give jade a free turn

Thanks

Holy moly ravioli... I did the metal slime strategy right after heliodor in the beginning of the game and just used Erik and Hero. I literally slaughtered everyone and breezed through the game!

Metal hands in the jungle is probly the best using few pep skills i think my best was 1 mil exp or so

I was doing this with the lips or whatever they were called in manglegrove I got bots literally like 4 times in a row

Tanks fa wootchin da wideo

This is great. Do you know if any skill panels in particular need to be unlocked for those two pep abilities?

I spent 2 hours trying this on PS4 today. Only leveled up from 58 to 63. A lot times the second pep skill can not be used saying there was not enough space. Maybe I was just unlucky...

I beat every trial at around level 70 and the final boss Calamos at lv 80 so I don't understand. Are you referring to if I was playing on Draconian mode?

i have a silly question, Does the king slime only appear if you use hallelujah? Also, does it appear based on level or based on what monster and where you fight it. Like must it be specifically a Vicious war gryphon? Thanks in advance for any help.

I shall not watch the video because I’m only in the beginning of act 2. But I will say that it is very easy to level up in Dragon Quest XI. I play this game on Nintendo Switch and I like to try to play it in both 3D and 2D, so when I switch from we say 2D to 3D I can choose the chapter I wanna play from, so if I want I can start the game from the beginning. The good thing is that I don’t lose my level or my equipment. (I only lose things that I need in the main story like the orbs or something like that) So I can play the main story again and again and get more and more experience points from enemies that I already have defeated before.

hello i did the first method, a battle with halleluja pep and then electro light pep, and got a vicious metal king slime and 2x vicious metal liquid slime's, and managed to kill them all 3 but i only got 297.652 expierence. how can this be so low exp? ( this was when i first arrived in battle ground looking for the ore for special sword story wise) any reason why my exp was so low? i did exact like in video, please help?

I one time wasted an hour maxing casino tokens on the rigged machines to find out they’re fake. Probably why Puerto Valor’s is closed, they don’t want you abusing it. Anyway, I’m looking for level up and seeds because level 45 isn’t enough for Jasper Unbound. He’s half one-hitting everyone.

Do I have to be a certain level to make the Metal King Slime appear when I use Electro Light? Also great and helpful video! I don't understand why there's some comments on here complaining.

The good ole “find a way to spawn metal king slimes then crit shot your way to 99” methof

That moment when you hit trial island

Killing machines every single time. I hate electro light so much. Also, I went to that area in the luminary trial and I am getting little gremlin guys in that spot and not gryphons.

I like the liquid metal slimes in the royal library . I slime is 7000

Do these methods work on the Switch? I am in the post game and I’m struggling against bosses I need to level up

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Have done this first method 4 times now & every single time all metal slimes have run away. At 20mins + per fight it’s just too long with, in my experience, zero reward. It needs a spell to stop enemies fleeing. Thanks for the tip but it just doesn’t work for me

Does anyone else not get the gryphon? I get the dancing troll dudes that inflict confuse in that spot.

You don't need to be max level to beat the true final boss. I did it around level 60-65. The sword of light, like some other equipment in the game, can be used as an item. By using it in the final boss fight as such, you debuff Calasmos, making him much easier to defeat. P.S. Even at level 99, Calasmos is still rather OP if you don't debuff him. Much more possible, but still a nail biter.

Well I'm against Kalasmos and I have to prepare myself before fighting. How am I suppose to go in this castle if I've already destroyed it after Mortegor's fight ???

Im lvl 70 why do i only get around 100-200k per fight? Even when i kill 3 slimes and 1 king 🙁

sad thing is there is no reason to get the top armor or weapons or highest level in DQ11, cause you can beat the game at lv 65ish (post game) I did and after that there is nothing left to play for once you beat the last final boss. It would be nice if they added DLC so you can import ur save file and actually put those weapons levels and armor you grinded for to good use.

Pep Up with Pep Pip say that three times fast.

Ok instead have rab in for his pep sleep and switch for Erick Hendrick and jade while they sleep boom all 3 done

Havent played this game but is there a reason to get to lvl 99? Most rpgs u dont have to.

There is 4th method as well and it's name is Save Wizard :)

UPDATE 10/25/18 - I have this method working. 1) I go to Dundrasil Region (Campsite) and enter a battle with Main, Sylvando, Erik and Jade. You need to have Main, Erik and Jade Pepped to cast Haulellujah. Once they get Pepped I switch them out to the back line, if Syl get Pepped just switch him out and save him for the 2nd Pep ability. 2) Once these 3 are Pepped I go to the campsite and save the game. 3) After save you need to initiate a battle with the green dragon, you should be able to see one wandering around near the campsite, for me as long as I initiate with the green dragon I have gotten metal slimes everytime, about 5 tries now I think. 4) Initiate battle with dragon and cast Haulellujah, once that is cast now you need to Pep up Sylvando, Main and Jade to use Electric Parade which turns the mobs into metal slimes. So defend and heal until they are Pepped up. I switch them out once they get Pepped again and have Serena cast Acceleratle with Erik in group so he can act as fast as possible once I cast Electro Light and he should be able to crit 2 of the 3 slimes. I tried to add my notes on what I am doing, hope this helps some folks.

My guess is that the first one works because metal enemies give the most exp without the boost from hero erik and jade

Bro I was mid 50’s going into this area but within 90 mins I’m now 80 hahaha

Clicked on this while being 20hrs into the game

Hey can't you just make the Pep thingy ?

Saying pep pops a hundred times is quite the talent.

I appreciate the work you put into this video, but I cannot grind like this lol. I'll just finish the main storyline and call it a day xD

When do you learn the pep powers electro light

I'm a beginner in this game I just got it... I hope I can get this good

in PC version that's an easy cake, haha