Highlights

  • Yggdrasil Dew: A common item that restores 100-120 HP to all allies, crucial for healing in boss fights and maintaining offensive play.
  • Antimagic Powder: Prevents enemies from using magic spells, forcing them to rely on physical abilities, useful against high-resistance monsters.
  • Rockbomb Shard: A powerful attack item that almost KO's opponents, its effectiveness depends on the target's resistance, helpful for defeating large monsters.

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince challenges players to become the king of Monsterkind as the antagonist, Psaro. They can complete this by teaming up with Monsters and fighting their way across the lands of Nadiria. Players can rely on their Monsters' strength and assist them by using items.

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Items can be found in the overworld, purchased from shops, or taken from defeated Monsters after fighting them. Battle items can change the stakes in a fight by boosting stats, healing, or harming opponents. If used correctly, players can quickly turn the tides in their favor, so here's a complete list of the best items to use during battles in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince.

5 Yggdrasil Dew

A Healing Substance

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Monsters will take damage as they fight, and once every party member's HP hits zero, Psaro loses. Players can have a Monster focused on healing to assist with this, or they can use an item like Yggdrasil Dew. Yggdrasil Dew restores 100 to 120 HP to all allies on the field.

It is a somewhat common item, and players can pick it up at most shops. Having a stock of healing items is imperative as the boss fights get harder. This way, players can have their Monsters stay offensive. Monsters can also learn Talents that increase their HP to boost their defense. It should also be noted that Yggdrasil Dew only restores HP; it doesn't heal status conditions like Poison or Sleep.

4 Antimagic Powder

Powder that Prevents Spells

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Antimagic Powder is a defensive item that affects opponents rather than allies. Monsters have Talents that decide what kind of attacks or actions they can use. Some Talents are spells and require magic to use. Antimagic Powder prevents one enemy from using magic spells.

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Magic Spells are usually powerful offensive abilities or support moves that heal status conditions and restore HP. Monsters under Antimagic Powder's effects will be forced to use only physical abilities. It will last for the entirety of a battle if it doesn't miss its target. This is especially useful for Monsters with a high resistance to physical attacks.

3 Yggdrasil Leaf

A Healing Plant Used in Medicine

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The Yggdrasil Leaf is another healing item. Players can use it in or out of battle to revive a fallen ally and restore a portion of its HP. Using Yggdrasil Leaf can be the difference between winning or losing a fight.

Players can use Yddgrasil Leaf and other healing items while their knocked-out Monsters are in the reserves to prolong a battle. Using an Yggdrasil Leaf means that players don't have to return to Rosehill Tower to heal up Monsters. However, an Yggdrasil Leaf only restores health, so players will still have to use other items for MP.

2 Bad Medicine

Medicine With a Range of Debilitating Effects

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All Monsters have a set number of stats that may fluctuate as they use Talents. These include Attack, Defense, Agility, and Wisdom. Bad Medicine can be used against opponents to lower a random set of stats at once. Lowering Attack and Agility prevents enemies from dealing tons of damage.

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Certain Monsters have higher resistance to its effects, but players can stack Bad Medicine if it lands multiple times against the same target. However, its hit rate seems to drop the more players use it. Still, when successful, it is a very efficient way to break down the defenses of Large Monsters and bosses.

1 Rockbomb Shard

Stone that Explodes When it Strikes its Target

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The Rockbomb Shard is one of the most powerful attack items in DQM: The Dark Prince. Players can use it against a single opponent to almost KO them, but the amount of damage it deals depends on the target's resistance to Instant Death. Its range can go from zero to 500+ damage, but it makes defeating Large Monsters in the wild a lot easier.

There's a chance it won't work depending on the enemy, but the payoff is immense when it does. Rockbomb Shard has a lower spawn rate and is less common at the early-game shops, but players can usually purchase it by visiting Fizzy's online shop at Rosehill Tower. They are also more likely to find it by defeating high-level Monsters.

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Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince

Franchise
Dragon Quest
Platform(s)
Switch
Publisher(s)
Square Enix
Genre(s)
JRPG
ESRB
E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Fantasy Violence, Mild Language