Sparkling monsters
Sparkling monsters are monsters that glimmer faintly on the status screen and enjoy slightly higher power compared to their plainer peers.
Appearances[edit]
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince[edit]
A sparkling monster is identical to a normal counter party except for an icon in the lower left-hand corner of it's profile picture, and that the upper limit of one of it's stats being raised by 100 points. Which stat receives this boost is random and cannot be influenced by the player in any way, but will stack with the effects of traits such as Wisdom Booster et al.
Sparkling monsters are randomly created via the normal synthesis method and appear at a fixed 5% chance. It is possible for the player to reroll a synthesis in order to guaruntee a sparkling monster by turning off the autosave feature, Zooming to the altar of amalgamation, and manually saving prior to performing the fusion. If the resulting monster isn't sparkling, the save file can be loaded again and the process repeated.
Version 1.0.6 update patch[edit]
As of the patch released on April 18th, 2024 the boosted-stat of a sparkling monster is now noted on the status screen with the same purple icon used for the monster's portrait. In addition, Fizzy now sells items that can bestow the sparkling status to a monster and these are divided by the specific stat a player wants to raise.
In the same patch, monster synthesis has been adjusted to that a parent with the sparkling status now has a much greater chance of passing that trait on to the resulting monster.
