Dragon Quest XI S How to Rig the Casino's Roulette Table - TheGamer
The casino is one of the Dragon Quest series' longest traditions, and while it's never been an integral part of any game's story it has consistently provided a fun distraction from fighting monsters and slaying primordial evils. But this does not apply to Dragon Quest XI. Not only are the casino's prizes incredibly expensive, but one of the story's side quests can only be completed by getting a jackpot in roulette.
This challenge is entirely luck-based and not the kind of luck you can win with a stat boost, which translates to endless hours spent save-scumming your adventure as you repeatedly toil over the roulette table as the ball keeps just barely missing that jackpot spot.
It's undoubtedly the most painful obstacle anyone can face when trying to fully complete Dragon Quest XI, but those of you who understandably wish to get the game's full experience without the full excruciation thankfully have this helpful guide to help you.
Unlike the other guides for this sort of thing on the internet that rushed out hasty speculation near the game's launch, the simple steps listed below come from four years of practical experience and rigorous theory-testing to give you results fast. It won't be quick and it won't be easy, but this is the definitive way to rig the casino's roulette table in Dragon Quest XI.
Get Stealing
Your jackpot winnings are proportionate to your stake and that means you need to bet casino tokens by the bucket-full to get the best rewards. But those tokens don't come cheap, so the first step is to grind up enough gold to make loads of maximum bets. There are a bunch of ways to earn money fast, but the quickest way is by stealing Devilry Drinkers. These powerful shields sell for a cushy 10,000 gold and you can farm them incredibly easily once you've reached the post-game.
Once you're ready to go, fly Cetacea in the flying Yggdrasil tree's direction. There will be a pillar of light directly behind it. Land here to access the First Forest - Whale Way Station. Most of the monsters here will be either Spawny Devils or Cyclowns, but you'll want to ignore them and head straight to the nearest clearing where you'll see a group of hula hooping demons called Hooper Dupers.
These guys all hold a Devilry Drinker so give Erik the Robber's Gloves and use Divide and then Half-Inch to steal them from the Hooper Dupers at the highest rate possible. The enhancements aren't necessary, but they will give you the best possible efficiency.
Get Gold
Regardless of your stealing rate, you should doubtlessly have numbers of Devilry Drinkers in the double digits in double time. All you have to do now is head to the nearest shop and sell those beelzebubian bucklers all at once. Make sure you don't keep any, as some may be in your party members' item lists or places you may not see in your equipment bag without filtering it by name. Casino tokens cost 20 gold a pop, so once you have enough money for around 10,000 of the little things, you're ready to go.
Get to the Casino
This may seem like the most obvious step in the world to some people, but it's important to make sure you don't end up in the wrong place and get confused. To be clear, the casino you want is the one found in Octagonia and not Puerto Valor. It's confusing how many players try to make their fortune at the latter establishment, because the high-rolling Octagonia casino will yield the highest profits and award the best items as prizes.
Get Slimy
The conversation rate of 20-1 is pretty, so even after all that farming, you'll probably still need a lot more tokens before you can get started. Thankfully, the casino lets you win some with an easy strategy that won't net you as much as a roulette jackpot, but will still get you on your way there.
If you've been farming long enough, you should be able to afford the Cheat Sheet, an item sold in the casino's token exchange shops that lets you track the odds of winning a roll at the nearby Slime Quest slot machines. Yes, you read that right. The casino not only lets you use an item that lets you cheat their machines, but they straight up sell it to you mere feet away from the very slots you can steal from with it.
You can get started simply by grabbing the sheet and making your way to the slots that take 100 gold coins per reel. Once you've sat down but before you've started your adventure with Goolysses, find and hit whichever button brings the Cheat Sheet up (this changes depending on the platform) to see a full breakdown of the odds. Do this with each of the machines one by one until you find the one that has the best chance of giving you Slime Time.
For those who don't know, this refers to a bonus you can get on the slots that will net you massive token bonuses, so max out your reels and send the little slime adventurer out on his gooey little quest and try to get Slime Time to activate. Even with the best odds in the house though, this may not happen right away, so be sure that you've saved your game before this step or else you might just find yourself losing all your tokens and running back to the First Forest Whale Way Station to frisk demons for Devilry Drinkers.
Once you're in Slime Time, you'll most likely be earning tokens faster than any other method in the game — other than winning the roulette jackpot, obviously — so seize the opportunity and keep going all-in on your lucky machine. In fact, it's very important that you do not leave the machine until Slime Time has ended. This can be annoying as it sometimes takes a while for the bonus to expire, but just stick with it and rake in those winnings. Once you're done, you'll be ready to move onto the next step.
Get Gambling
We're finally at the part where all the action happens — the action of watching a ball spin in a wheel and hoping it lands on your numbers, that is. Head to the casino's second floor and you'll find all the roulette tables, a large glass tube containing all the tokens you can win by getting a jackpot, and a bunny girl. This friendly woman will tell you the number of coins in the tube, but afterward she will either tell you nothing, or that she feels the jackpot will come soon, or that she's sure it's right about to happen.
Logic would have you think that your odds are at their best when you receive the third message and so do most guides online, but they are both wrong in this case. No causal link has been established between the bunny girl's words and the roulette results after years of trying and the anecdotal evidence supporting this theory is vastly outweighed by that which does not.
You also can't win by betting on every square, or even betting on most squares. If you put everything on red, black, even, or odd the game may let you win, but it will make sure you do not get the jackpot. The only way that has been confirmed to beat the odds and let you take the lot with relative ease is to place the maximum bet of 2,000 tokens on the numbers 12 and 14. Nobody is entirely sure why, but having a bet on these two numbers at once for every spin guarantees you a jackpot... eventually.
Stay Gambling
Even with this strategy, it will take you a lot of tries to pull this off, which is why getting lots of tokens before you hit the roulette tables is so important. Placing the maximum bet on both of the magic numbers means you'll be losing a total of 4,000 tokens for every spin you lose, and with 37 spaces on the wheel, that's bound to happen often even with this rigging strategy. And of course, you're not actually guaranteed to get the jackpot when the ball does land on 12 or 14, even though they have the highest chances.
Success with this method can come after as little as 10 minutes or as much as two hours, but either way, you'll probably be doing a lot of spins and going through a lot of tokens.
Luckily, you should have a really good buffer before by this point, but thankfully the game gives you an autosave whenever you enter the casino you can use to save scum after a failed run. This takes a lot of time though, so it's still recommended that you get yourself a heavy purse to help things go faster.
Get Rich
Once you've finally got that sweet, sweet jackpot it's time to pat yourself on the back, do a little celebration dance, and then spend your winnings. There are many prizes to choose from, but one of the first you should go for is the Gringham Whip since it's a strong weapon that can be alchemized into the Uber Gringham Whip, the strongest whip in the game.
But if you would rather give Veronica and Sylvando other weapons, you should go for the Metal King Helms for some extra protection or the two exclusive recipe books Your Very Own Aegis of Illusions and Uberswords Illustrated.
Best of all, in the enhanced version Dragon Quest XI S, you can get Baumren's Bell for a certain nostalgic steed who's able to summon enemies at will with a mighty roar. The only bad news is that you can't actually redeem your tokens for gold coins — that transaction is a one-way street. But it's not so bad, since those tokens are better spent on powerful consumable items like Elfin Elixirs and Pep Pips that are hard to come by otherwise. You also probably don't need much gold at this point either, but in either case, you've just cleared one of the game's most frustrating sidequests and obtained tons of goodies while doing it.
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