With the price of good gear steadily increasing as you progress, it’s unsurprising that a healthy supply of Gold can be vital during your Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined playthrough. Thankfully, however, there are a few ways you can go about earning it, beyond just the usual amount of Gold earned while playing through the story normally.
For the most part, this will involve battling lots of monsters or participating in mini-games, but if you’re really desperate to earn some extra funds, then there are a few settings and even an accessory you can equip to boost the rate at which you earn Gold. If you’re hoping to 100 percent the game, you’ll need to utilize at least one of these methods to unlock all items and get the Gold achievement.
Loot And Sell
In almost any game, one of the most common ways to earn extra funds is by selling items you no longer need. While playing through DQ7 Reimagined, you’ll regularly find pots, barrels, wardrobes, sparkles, and chests scattered throughout each region. Each of those items will typically contain something for you to collect, which you can then use in battles or sell for Gold.
Even if you have no reason to enter a specific room or building for story purposes, you should be exploring every inch of every region for loot, and you might even stumble on Tablet Fragments while you’re at it. Be sure to open things like chests and wardrobes, and destroy all barrels and pots you find lying around.
Most consumables won’t net you much Gold, but if you find yourself with an absurd stock, it can add up. That said, don’t get rid of anything you’re regularly using in battle, or anything that’s a rare find. The game will also typically warn you if you’re about to sell something that you may have no chance of finding again.
With that in mind, the majority of your loot sales should be coming from old gear. While you may not necessarily sell the item you’ve just looted from a chest, you can sell the item you just replaced. Ideally, you should try to revisit the local vendor when you wrap up a region so that you can unload old gear and have some Gold prepared for the next region.
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Play Lucky Panel
In line with the idea of selling things, there’s actually a way to farm gear to sell, some of which can go for a pretty penny. Once you’ve unlocked the Alltrades Abbey region, you’ll gain access to several new things to do, including the battle arena and Lucky Panel. Lucky Panel is a minigame that can be found in a Tavern in Pilgrim’s Perdition, and can be a great way to earn some significant prizes.
The idea of the game is simple: you’ll be shown several cards that will then be flipped and moved around so you can attempt to find all the matches. If you complete the puzzle, you’ll have the option to proceed to the next difficulty, where the items you just won will be exchanged for a chance at better items. You will only be allowed so many mistakes per puzzle, but they do carry over.
Once you start to reach higher levels, things will get tricky, so you may need to implement a bit of a cheat to continue your winning streak. The easiest way to do this is to record the cards before you flip them, and keep recording until it is time for you to guess. You can do this with your phone, which is probably the easiest, or by using your platform’s built-in recording software.
There are a few trophies tied to the Lucky Panel game, so even if you don’t opt for this method of farming for Gold, it may be worth doing it at least once to unlock the associated trophies/achievements.
Once you’ve finished recording, just use the video to select all the correct cards and then keep doing this for each level until you’ve won some incredible prizes that you can then sell, or use to replace your old gear, so you can sell that. You’ll be limited to how much you can play in a single day, but sleeping will reset the turns, so just head to the nearby inn, have a rest, and continue.
Battle Enemies
As for farming methods, the last and probably the most beneficial way to earn Gold is through battling. Every region will have at least one dungeon that is full of monsters, both in the past and present, where you can farm battles. You can do this in the overworld, too, but it may be more tedious since you won’t have quick access to an Angel Statue, whereas most dungeons have a few of them throughout.
If you’re still early on in the game, your options will be a bit more limited in terms of which enemies you should try to seek out, but if you’re in the late game, then Gem Slimes are going to be your best source. You can find these in a few dungeons that you’ll return to towards the end of the game, but the easiest place to find them is Burnmont, after you’ve battled the Demon King.
That said, the one thing you’ll want to keep in mind with this method is that you’ll also be increasing EXP by battling enemies. This isn’t as much of an issue if you wait until late-game, but if you’re continuously battling enemies to earn Gold early on, then you might find yourself overleveled for story-related content. This isn’t exactly a problem, but it may keep you from enjoying the game as intended.
Adjust Your Settings
Moving away from additional things you can intentionally go do in-game, there are actually a couple of ways to adjust how much Gold you’ll earn while playing the game as you normally would.
Not everyone is going to be willing to adapt these methods, but for those of you who don’t want to grind for Gold or simply want to speed things along, there is a setting you can adjust to increase the amount of Gold earned from battles.
To access this, open up your menu and tab over to the settings. Under ‘Difficulty Level’, you’ll see an option for ‘Gold Acquired’, which you can toggle to the ‘More’ option. This will increase the amount of Gold earned when battling enemies, which will help you build up your wealth just a little bit quicker.
There is an achievement/trophy tied to earning over 300,000 Gold in-game, so it may be worth turning this on for a bit just to unlock that achievement. You can check your progress at any point by referring to the Info tab in the main menu for an overview of your stats.
This setting can be changed at any point, so if you find that you don’t like the additional boost, you can turn it off. Additionally, if you are grinding battles and are worried about the EXP gain, you can adjust a setting here as well to have you temporarily gain less experience from battles so that you don’t become as overleveled, if you’d like.
Equip The Gold Golem Heart
The last thing you can do will unfortunately require you to spend some actual money to boost your in-game pockets. Along with the release of Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, you can also get the Jam-Packed Swag Bag DLC. The Jam-Packed Swag Bag is a small DLC that can be purchased for a couple of dollars and includes a few handy items to use throughout your playthrough.
It doesn’t contain any additional content, but one of the things it does include is a few Monster Hearts, one of which is the Gold Golem Heart. You can find the traditional Golem Heart item in-game, but this gold variant is specifically exclusive to this DLC. When equipped, it will increase the amount of Gold earned from battles by 50 percent.
This alone is already an incredible boost, but paired with the other setting adjustments and farming methods, you should be swimming in Gold in no time. That said, this is the only thing on this list that technically can’t be accessed without the purchase of additional content, so whether it is worth the extra money will be entirely up to you, as you can still earn plenty of Gold without it.
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