go to a grotto and fight Atlas until his HP is seven hundred or below, and then steal his titanic tincture.Ĭringle Coast - Cave on the island in the North/East corner of the world mapįound on a scrap of paper near Brian's Corpseīaramos's Map ( Legacy Boss Treasure Map)Ī scrap of paper you found on a corpse in a cave on an island off the Cringle Coast implores you to locate a sea captain who set off across the sea in search of a certain grotto. You can alchemise Special medicine before you come here with 2x Strong medicine.Ī boy you met at the lakeside tree on Newid Isle wants you to cure a sick cyclops. 1Īn explorer called Christopher Collapsus wants some special medicine to help him out of tight spot at the Height of Loneliness. The following quests give a treasure map as a reward for their completion. The 2 most famous maps traded via Tag Mode are the Masayuki map and the Locker map. This method of sharing treasure maps is also used for various Dragon Quest IX events in order to share maps. This map will be "copied", meaning the original player does not lose it by sharing it on Tag Mode. When entering Tag Mode, each player is able to choose a single treasure map which they possess to share with other games. Treasure maps can be received via Tag Mode with other copies of Dragon Quest IX. Methods to acquire maps Tag Mode See main article: Tag Mode This increases their strength in battle, and adjusts their treasure drops. The Legacy Bosses are unusual in that you can give them the EXP normally obtained from defeating them so they can level up. There are exactly 13 legacy boss maps in Dragon Quest IX. These maps are considered bonus material and are only received using Tag Mode, by completing specific quests, such as #151, and as item drops from certain other treasure map bosses. Legacy Boss maps are treasure maps which lead to grottoes/dungeons which contain only 1 floor holding a legacy boss from Dragon Quest I - VIII. See #Normal map generation mechanics for a full description of the normal map generation process. All normal maps which are not received via Tag Mode are randomly generated based on various criteria. This level is a measure of difficulty for the associated grotto. Each normal map is given a descriptive title which includes a level number. Normal treasure maps lead to grottos/dungesons which consist of a number of floors containing enemies and possibly treasure chests, as well as a boss in the final basement. The world map location of a map is permanent after it has been received by the player.įor images of some possible world map locations for each map, see List of treasure map grotto locations in Dragon Quest IX.įor a useful site with all possible world map locations, click here. ![]() However, activating the map again allows the player to re-activate the grotto. Once a map is put away, its grotto also disappears from the overworld. Pressing the 'A' button when this happens will cause the map's grotto to appear. When the map is activated, meaning it is in use and displayed on the top screen, the player will see an exclamation point above the hero's head on the bottom screen when they are in the correct location. To access a map's grotto, the player must find the location marked by the map on the overworld. However, maps shared using Tag Mode or by completing quests retain the same world map location. For almost all maps, the grotto location is randomly selected from all the possible world map locations. There is a fixed number of possible world map locations where a map's grotto can appear. The second and third items are directly correlated to the treasure map boss' item drops, including their drop percentage.Įach treasure maps displays a location on the world map that the player must find in order to access the map's grotto/dungeon. For legacy boss maps, the first item is a mini medal. On normal maps, the first item is always another normal treasure map. For all maps, the first item is always received 100% of the time. These items have increasing rareness and are listed as question marks until they have been received for the first time. ![]() A 3 item list of treasure drops received upon completion of the map.Name of the player who completed the map.Name of the original owner of the map, aka the player whose game originally generated the map. ![]()
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