Beating Dholmagus

[RSL]

Yeah, I'm at that point now and a random battle on the way there killed me. I'm gonna have to level up, but now I'm finding it hard to get motivated to play the game knowing that's all I'll be doing.

[Ishin Ookami]

you have too pace yourself in this game, move slow enough that you create the best equipment possible, make it a point to explore every nook and cranney of every area for XP, Money, and treasure. tour area's with metel slimes while waiting for the alchemy pot to be done. Final Fantasy has always been the easier franchise, with equipment in battles being more important then levels traditionally, as well as having some overpowered spells and techniques to quicken the pace. DQ relies more on pacing, tactics, and a bit of luck. Move too fast, without the proper levels and equipment, and you end up in your situation where you have to spend the time you didnt spend prior levelling up, except you have too do it all at once.

Oh yah, and make sure that if any of your characters get down to less then half their hp, heal. trust me considering some of the numbers of monsters you can run into in this game, its neccessary.