5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting Dragon Quest XI

Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting Dragon Quest XI

Combat Gets Much Harder Later in the Game

As you play through Dragon Quest XI, you’ll probably notice how easy combat seems, and this is true for a good 30-40 hours. You shouldn’t have much trouble for the first part of the game, and that’s intentional it seems. Dragon Quest XI has a slow build in difficulty, letting you learn the ins and outs of combat and which party builds you like best, before bumping up the difficulty.

At about the halfway point, a big event happens in the story, and from there combat gets quite a bit more difficult. This again happens late in the game, with combat and bosses especially getting incredibly difficult. So if you’re finding Dragon Quest XI a bit on the easy side, don’t worry. That’ll change as you keep going.