Dragon Quest XI FASTEST WAY TO FARM XP / LEVEL UP

For This Method You Must Have:

-Critical Claim With Erik
-Thunder Thrust With Jade
-Pep Power Electro Light
-Pep Power Halellujah

[jpogioli]

Run around the Manglegrove Whale Station fighting the hands. They not only give a ton of experience on their own but often come with metal hands that give around 30K exp a piece. I went from lvl 60 to 95 in about 6 hours.

[rustochango]

Here's my trick. Same as this but a couple additions. Make sure Rab is pepped and accelerated. Once you do get the metal slimes use Rabs pep Dirge of Dundrasil to put the metal slimes to sleep. Increases your chances to kill more than one metal slime. I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.

[HuggNiceman]

Lightning Thrust for Jade is way better. Same ability, but with a way higher chance to crit.

[tazgamerplays]

I've been using the hardy hands to level when needed.

[nuiharime]

Chuck the meteorite bracer onto Erik, (It's in the dark lords castle for opening the red switch)
Boosts your agility by 100,
and you can always just use accelerate twice before using the pep skills.

[MrBiggest]

Best way to do this is instead of always defending, just go about the game story until hero, jade, eric, sylvando, rab are pepped up (switching out party line up 1 by 1 so the pep doesn’t go away). Then save the game. That way if you get the metal mechs, you can just reload game instead of wasting more time. It’s not worth doing untill these characters have the ability to increase pep rate

[MeteorG]

The metal slimes summoned by Electro Light are fixed, not based on luck - if you're in the postgame and are over level 70, you have a 100% chance of encountering a Metal King Slime.

[PokeNerd]

So I just tried this method out

*I got 400, 000+ EXP on my first attempt*

[SwitchBaka]

Just go in the mordegor 's castle you can find a lot of King Metal Slime and one shot them with erik you won 70000 k xp and you dont waste time doing pep up boost ( post game its good but not before )

[SlayerRunefrost]

You need LIGHTNING thrust not thunder thrust. Thunder has a like 60% chance of missing while lightning only has like a 30% chance of missing.😉

[AaronKetts]

I found fighting those blue things at the end of First Forest a good way, as they tend to do little damage and heal your party while you're trying to get pepped up. I also found Viscous Metal King Slimes here often in late game. This method gets you a lot of exp(400k - 700k) and roughly takes me 10-15 mins per run. Although If you have pep pips, once you've used Haulellujah, Jade should be the only member you need to pep twice(The Hero can pep himself), so use a pep pip. This'll reduce your time to about 10 mins :)

[torvurd]

Wow this works like a charm. First time I tried this (just now) I got a king metal slime and 2 liquids. Unfortunately I was 5 skill points away from Erik's crit. He got 2 rounds in and then the king and 1 liquid fled.... Jade also had a opportunity with Thunder Thrust but she missed 3 times in a row. Still got 87k exp though so well worth it.


Edit: I've done this 4 times now. Once I got killerbots, the other 3 times I had King Metal Slimes so not sure if they're really that rare or I'm just getting extremely lucky. only managed to kill 1 so far since Erik's turn is also depended on if he just had his turn before casting the pep power to summon the slimes. But the one I did kill together with a liquid gave me 300k exp and leveled all my people from 54 to 57.

[christopherbull]

This really helped. I’m training for the final boss so it will speed things up

[mustardpocket]

Honestly I this was the most helpful guide I found, most of the other places I went didn't show skill tree locations for the abilities so I was confused until now, thank you SO much

[joshuafreyman]

Metal slimes appear in certain areas in the game after specific story checkpoints, they just won't appear on the overworld map, you'll have to keep getting into random encounters until you find them. I recommend not worrying about your level too much until your into the post game (you'll be around Lv50 by the time you get to it), if you can beat the area boss then your fine. For post game grind spots, there are melty hands (hand metal slimes) in the side path of the volcano, regular metal slime kings in the battlefield and vicious metal slime kings in the third luminary trial. Hope this helps

[theceoofcookies]

2 things, at lvl 70+ metal slime kings are more common, so are liquid metal slimes, and your more common to get metal slimes using electro light in the outdoors rather than in a dungeon or inside

[Black.Clover]

People love story immersion but names their MC a stupid ass name. Lol I’ll never understand.

[eleven]

Method works great, spent the last 2 hours ish getting it down and grinding a bit... but my game crashed and I lost about 10 levels. Fml

[xenosaga]

Rab has a pep power dirge of dundrasil that can sleep metal slimes. It doesn't always work but it can help you get some more turns in before they escape. With metal slime swords and other metal slime weapons, even regular attacks can hit metal slimes. So, sword dance can do alot of damage to things while you're waiting for Erik's critical claim skill.

[ryrysunter]

I recently replayed this game after 2 ish years, and I'm at a point in the game where I'm able to do this farming XP trick. One thing I've only just thought of doing is if you have the Hero's Pep up ability, immediately use it and then Bench him. Then, in order, Jade, Erik, Sylvando, and Serena.

Jade and Erik will need to get pepped up first but it's good to also have Sylvando out to help increase his pep gauge so that when it comes to pepping up Jade and Hero again, Sylvando is already pepped up and ready to go. Then just use Hero's pep up ability and switch him out to whoever (preferrably Erik if he's not already out) and then just pep up Jade again.

I just thought I'd share this little bit of help with anyone who's new to the game even now and needs help with this XP Trick.