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!

Well let’s find out.

DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake the hero standing on a cliff by a waterfall.

What Do Personalities Do?

In Dragon Quest 3 Remake, Personalities form the core of every character and how they grow.

Every Job has its own stat growth, whileeach Personality alters stat growthas well.

Art of the Monster Wrangler class, Slime, and Bunicorn with a cropped screenshot from Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D.

This means that, ideally, you want tomatch 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.

DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake the hero being given the Paragon personality after a quiz.

Can You Change Your Personality?

For your companions, their Personality is decided the moment they are created.

venture to answer honestly and act naturally to get a Personality befitting yourself.

Arus talking to the sky at the beginning of the Dragon Quest 3 remake.

Well thankfully, you’re in luck!

There are two primary ways of going about this.

The second method is much less permanent, though has a few extra caveats.

Triple-A Games

Every character can equip two accessories in a Main and Sub slot.

Certain accessories also change your Personality, butonly when equipped in the Main slot.

If equipped in the Sub slot, they only offer stat values.

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

This lets you change your Personality with less commitment, though means you have toforsake more powerful accessories.

This does not apply to Cursed accessories, and they will trigger in both slots.

These can be removed at a Church.

Plenty of them are similar to each other, having similar or outright identical effects.

Here’s every Personality you’re able to find in the game andwhich 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

Scatterbrain

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!

Wonder how being a raging narcissist will help me on my quest…