Dragon Quest 3 Remake: Complete Personality Guide

We all like to think we have a winning personality, one that makes us irresistible to the people we want to attract. Your personality determines a lot of your life, how you move through it, and so on. Well funnily enough, the exact same is true of Dragon Quest 3!

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In Dragon Quest 3 Remake, every character has a Personality of their own that determines a lot about them in conjunction with Job. You don't always have a direct hand in how these Personalities form though, and you might be wondering to what extent they actually affect the game. Well let's find out.

What Do Personalities Do?

In Dragon Quest 3 Remake, Personalities form the core of every character and how they grow. Personalities, on top of being a way of making characters feeling slightly more unique, changes your stat growth. Every Job has its own stat growth, while each Personality alters stat growth as well.

This means that, ideally, you want to match the Personality to the Job. For your companions, their Personality is randomly decided once you've finished creating them. As such, you have to just hope that their Personality fits the Job they're assigned.

However, this does allow you to make some truly diverse characters. A Mage with high Resilience from a Personality like Tough Cookie will still get decent Wisdom growth from being a Mage, but will then have much higher defence to actually survive a few hits.

The Personality a character gets can either be used to quickly raise their stats all in one direction, or to diversify them to make them more viable in multiple scenarios.

Can You Change Your Personality?

For your companions, their Personality is decided the moment they are created. For your own Hero, their Personality is determined by the Personality Quiz you take at the very beginning of the game, as well as by the actions you take while in the form of a monster. Try to answer honestly and act naturally to get a Personality befitting yourself.

But what if you don't like the Personality the games assigns you, for either yourself or your companions? Well thankfully, you're in luck! Though the options are frequently limited, you can change the Personality of everyone in your party, your own Hero included.

There are two primary ways of going about this. The first is books. Reading certain books, which are almost exclusively found in bookshelves across the world, will alter your Personality permanently. You cannot go back on this except by reading a book with the same Personality as you had before. Books are in limited supply as well, so only change your Personality permanently if you're confident in your choice.

The second method is much less permanent, though has a few extra caveats. Every character can equip two accessories in a Main and Sub slot. Certain accessories also change your Personality, but only when equipped in the Main slot. If equipped in the Sub slot, they only offer stat values. This lets you change your Personality with less commitment, though means you have to forsake more powerful accessories.

This does not apply to Cursed accessories, and they will trigger in both slots. These can be removed at a Church.

Every Personality And What Stats They Affect

There are a total of 46 different Personalities present in Dragon Quest 3 Remake. Plenty of them are similar to each other, having similar or outright identical effects. Some of this is just for a little bit of character differentiation, and some of it is more minute than you might expect.

Here's every Personality you can find in the game and which stats they affect.

Personality

Effect

Acrobat

Agility increases quickly.

Aristocrat

Luck increases extremely quickly, Wisdom increases slightly quicker, Resilience increases slowly.

Bat out of Hell

Agility increases extremely quickly.

Bodybuilder

Strength increases extremely quickly, Resilience increases slightly quicker.

Charmer

Stamina and Strength increase quickly.

Clown

Agility increases quickly, Wisdom and Luck increase slightly quicker.

Contrarian

Luck increases extremely quickly, Agility increases quickly, Strength and Stamina increase slowly.

Crybaby

Luck increases quickly, Wisdom increases slightly quicker, Resilience increases slowly.

Daredevil

Agility and Stamina increase quickly, Resilience increases slowly.

Daydreamer

Agility and Wisdom increase slightly quicker.

Drudge

Strength increases quickly, Resilience and Stamina increase slightly quicker.

Egghead

Wisdom increases quickly, Resilience increases slightly quicker.

Everyman

Every stat increases evenly.

Free Spirit

Resilience and Stamina increase slightly quicker, Agility increases slowly.

Genius

Wisdom increases extremely quickly, agility increases quickly.

Good Egg

All stats increase evenly.

Gourmand

Resilience increases extremely quickly, Strength and Stamina increase slightly quicker, Wisdom and Agility increase slowly.

Happy Camper

Luck increases extremely quickly.

Idealist

Resilience and Strength increase quickly, Luck increases slowly.

Ironclad

Resilience and Stamina increase extremely quickly.

Klutz

Agility increases quickly, Wisdom and Luck increase slowly.

Lazybones

Stamina increases quickly, Luck increases slightly quicker, Resilience and Wisdom increase slowly.

Lone Wolf

Resilience and Stamina increase quickly, Luck increases slowly.

Lout

Luck increases slightly quicker, Wisdom increases slowly.

Lucky Devil

Luck increases extremely quickly, Agility increases slightly quicker.

Meathead

Strength increases extremely quickly, Wisdom increases slowly.

Meddler

Stamina increases slightly quicker.

Mule

Resilience and Stamina increase quickly, Wisdom, Agility, and Luck increase slowly.

Narcissist

Agility increases slightly quicker.

Paper Tiger

Stamina increases quickly.

Paragon

Strength increases extremely quickly, Agility, Wisdom, and Luck increase slowly.

Plugger

Resilience and Stamina increase quickly, Luck increases slowly.

Scatterbrain

Agility increases quickly.

Shrinking Violet

Stamina increases quickly, Wisdom increases slightly quicker, Agility increases slowly.

Show-Off

Strength, Resilience, and Agility increase slightly quicker.

Slippery Devil

Wisdom increases quickly, Resilience and Agility increase slightly quicker.

Socialite

Wisdom and Luck increase slightly quicker.

Sore Loser

Agility and Stamina increase slightly quicker.

Spoilt Brat

Luck increases slightly quicker.

Straight Arrow

Stats increase evenly.

Tear-Away

Strength and Agility increase quickly.

Thug

Strength increases quickly, Resilience increases slightly quicker, Wisdom and Luck increase slowly.

Tough Cookie

Stamina and Resilience increase extremely quickly, Luck increases slowly.

Wimp

Wisdom and Luck increase quickly, Agility increases slowly.

Wit

Wisdom increases extremely quickly.

Vamp

Agility and Luck increase quickly, other stats increase evenly.

That's quite a few Personalities to choose from! The vast majority of them have accessories and books to change into them too, so even the Wimpiest character can become a real Tough Cookie with dedication.

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