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Easy Gold
Go to the island of The Temple of Neos. You can find many Gold Brick Monsters southeast of Simpleton Town located on the southern part of the island. Walk around the entrence of the temple and you will run into groups of Gold Brick Monsters that drop about 100 experience points and about 750 gold pieces each.
Go to the Casino in Bacarrat. You can buy Prayer Rings in the casino for 1,000 tokens, which you can win by playing the games. The rings sell for 1,500 gold pieces. The sale price of Prayer Rings never goes down, unlike items created by alchemy, so you can consistently make large sums of money selling the items.
Faster Alchemy Cook Time
In "Dragon Quest 8," alchemy is used to create and enhance useful in game items. The time it takes for an item to be created is based on the number of steps forward your character takes. To speed up item creation time, run in place by directing your character toward a house or a wall. Your character will not move forward, and so will not get into any battles, but will continue to process the item being created. It should take about two minutes running in place to create any item.
Heavenly King Sword
The Heavenly King Sword is the most powerful sword in the game. To create this item, you must use the alchemy pot. Combine a Rusty Old Sword, Gospel Ring and Slime crown. Rusty Old Sword items are commonly found items in the game and found in most early dungeons. To find a Slime Crown, defeat go behind the Bar in Tyran Gully and look in the barrels. Inside you will find a Slime Crown. You can earn a Gospel Ring by locating and defeating all 295 special monsters scattered around the game world. After they have been defeated open the "Defeated Monster List." A sound effect will play, telling you all the monsters have been defeated. The Gospel Ring will now be inside your items bag.
Further Game Hints and Walkthroughs
GameWinners.com, a website dedicated to video game cheats, news and reviews, has an extensive list of game hints and cheats specifically for "Dragon Quest 8," including how to combine items to create rare and powerful weapons and potions; how to get easy experience; and the locations of metal slimes. GameFAQs has many in-depth FAQs for "Dragon Quest 8," including an Alchemy List that will show you how to combine found items in the game, how best to level up your game characters, how to find and beat metal slimes and the locations of monsters for the Monster Arena.
Evermynd.com (see Resources) has a comprehensive "Dragon Quest 8" walkthrough that will allow you to easily find the next location you are headed to and will give you a strategy to directly complete the game.