Best Attributes For Each Vocation In Dragon Quest 3 Remake

HP is exactly what it sounds like. If you have HP, you’re alive. If you don’t have HP, you’re dead. HP is restored by resting at an Inn, with certain items, by certain spells, and when leveling up.

MP is the resource you use when you cast spells, or use abilities. Certain vocations are going to use a heavier amount of MP than others, but all of them are going to use some amount of it. MP is restored by resting at an Inn, with certain items, by certain spells, and when leveling up.

Attack increases the amount of damage your physical attacks do. It does not increase the damage that spells do. Damage is based on more than just attack; it also takes into account equipment, strength, and enemy defense.

The higher your defense, the less damage you’ll take from physical attacks. It does not decrease damage taken from spells

Strength increases the damage a character does with physical attacks. It combines with attack and your equipment when taking into account your physical attack damage.

Resilience works alongside defense and your equipment to decrease the damage you take from physical attacks.

The higher a character’s agility, the sooner they’ll take their turn in the turn order.

The more stamina a character has, the more their HP is going to increase when they level. Building a character with high stamina isn’t have an effect right away, but the effect will compound the more they level up.

Wisdom determines how much damage a spell deals. Alongside that, wisdom also functions similarly to stamina, but for MP instead of HP. The higher your wisdom, the more your MP is going to increase when you level up.

Luck is the most multi-faceted attribute. Luck comes into play both offensively and defensively: it determines your chances of gaining a critical hit, and it determines how likely you are to avoid getting hit with a negative status effect.

Increases the character’s strength by a small amount.

Increases a character’s resilience by a small amount.

Increases the character’s stamina by a small amount.

Increases the character’s wisdom by a small amount.

Increases the character’s luck by a small amount.

Tank

Resilience is needed to survive the big hits; it might not make a difference on the lighter attacks, but when your Warrior gets hit hard, Resilience is going to come in exponentially more beneficial.

Tank

Stamina will make a big difference in how much HP your Warrior is working with, and stacking stamina quickly will reap rewards sooner, because it will mean you’ve gotten big upgrades on your HP much sooner.

Tank/Damage

Luck is the attribute that’s good to upgrade either way. For a tank, you don’t want to be unable to control your character or have them unable to act at all. If that’s the case, they can’t defend their team. On the damage-dealing side of things, the higher the Warrior’s luck, the more often they’ll deal critical damage.

Damage

Strength is only going to come into play when you’re dealing damage as a Warrior. But, considering how high the single-target damage possibilities are for a Warrior, strength can end up playing a big factor.

Support

Wisdom will be important not for the extra spell damage but for the extra MP that it will net you over time. That extra MP is going to equal more healing and reviving allies, and more debuff spells you can cast.

Support

Luck will be a factor against enemies with negative status effects they can apply to your characters. For example, if a Priest is paralyzed for a couple of turns, it could put your entire party in a hole they can’t dig out of.

Damage

Mage’s are one of the most spell-focused class in the game; on turns when support isn’t needed, a Priest could simply defend and not use MP. But a Mage is relied on to deal damage, and they almost entirely do that with spells.

Damage

Agility is going to be a secondary priority for basically any vocation that focuses on it. But, for damage-dealing characters, if they can defeat the enemy before the enemy can act, then support characters won’t need to act as often.

Damage

Strength is going to improve the baseline damage of your attacks. This is going to help not just your normal attacks but your crit damage, too, because critical damage takes into account your base damage.

Damage

Luck is going to increase the chance of you getting a critical hit, and should be your focus with the Martial Artist, alongside strength.

Damage

Secondary to the other two attributes, Agility is going to help your Martial Artist attack before the enemy does, ideally defeating one of them before they get the chance.

Support/Damage

Wisdom is paramount regardless of what you’re looking to do with your Sage, because either way, they’re going to be casting spells.

Support

Luck is going to be much more beneficial when using the Sage as a support character, but that’s not to say there isn’t any value in it otherwise.

Damage

Agility is a bit of a coin toss, really. We’ve discussed why it’s good for a damaging character. Support-wise, on some turns, it would be better to make your move after the enemy deals damage so that your heal is used to its fullest, but sometimes, you need to heal a character before they get hit again. It can’t hurt to have some extra agility, though it should be prioritized behind Wisdom and Luck.

Don’t Get In The Way

Gadabout’s have high luck by default, so leaning into that accentuates one of their strengths. That luck stat won’t come in crucial if you turn them into a Sage, but it will help them avoid negative status effects.

Sage, Eventually

Getting a head start on a good amount of Wisdom cannot hurt as a Gadabout. Though your stats get halved when you transition into a Sage, it will still give you better footing to start with.

Don’t Get Killed

Considering a Gadabout oftentimes does whatever they’d like, they can end up getting themselves in a spot of trouble. If they’ve got high resilience, they will, at the very least, take less damage.

Don’t Get Killed

For the same reason as resilience, higher stamina means higher HP, which means dying less often.

Damage

Because Merchants don’t have particularly high attributes to begin with, you’re going to need to start with a foundation to make them useful in combat. Increasing their strength is going to increase their damage and make them a bit more potent on every turn.

Damage

The purpose of increasing a Merchant’s luck is to increase how often they deal critical damage. If they can do so semi-regularly, it’ll severely impact how valuable they are in a fight.

Damage

Because a Thief is likely going to be hitting multiple enemies on the same attack, their critical chances are going to roll multiple times on one turn. This is going to exponentially increase how many critical attacks you manage, and higher luck is going to provide extra value.

Damage

Strength will come in secondary to luck for the Thief, but extra strength is still going to increase your damage overall, and still has good value.

Damage

Starting with damage, strength is going to provide a lot of value for a Hero that isn’t primarily focused on support. If the Hero has a strong weapon and generally attacks with that weapon as opposed to spells/abilities, strength is the route to go.

Damage/Support

Going hand-in-hand with strength, luck is going to be great for a Hero focused on physical damage, particularly if the Hero is using a boomerang. Luck is also going to be beneficial if the Hero has any support responsibilities, because they cannot fulfill them while they unable to act.

Damage/Support

Heroes focused on dealing ability or spell damage are going to want to stack wisdom as much as possible. It’s going to enable you to use those abilities and spells much more often, and make them more potent. It’s also going to increase how often the Hero is able to provide support.

Any

Stamina is very useful in any regard, for the Hero. The Hero is generally going to be the most powerful character present, so ensuring they stay on their feet is going to improve your odds dramatically.

Any

Exactly like Stamina, higher resilience is going to keep the Hero alive longer. And the longer the Hero is alive, the better your chances of everyone getting out alive.