B Tier

While these classes may not be the most impressive picks in your starting party, you may prefer them above the higher-tier picks depending on your play style.

Warrior

As the bread and butter pick for a physical attacker, the Warrior is in a slightly weird boat. It can equip a richer variety of weapons and armor compared to the Martial Artist, but that can put more of a strain on your gold reserves unless you want to forgo loading out your other party members. Its early game skills also aren’t especially impressive, as it takes quite a few levels for it to learn strong physical attacks. The Warrior does technically fulfill a tank role for your party, but frankly the Hero already does an admiral job of filling this void throughout the early game.

Should you eventually switch one of your classes into a Warrior later on? Sure, it’s a good class! Additionally, if you’re the type of player who always likes to level grind until you get all the best equipment before heading into a dungeon, then the Warrior will likely come out ahead of the Martial Artist. Otherwise, you may want to consider one of the higher-tier options above before picking a Warrior.

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Caption: A screenshot from Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake. A menu displays the Thief character class, which is seen wearing long white shorts and a yellow shirt.

Thief

I want to make one point abundantly clear: Thief is one of the most important classes in Dragon Quest III HD-2D. Its skills Nose for Treasure and Scoop are invaluable for finding hidden treasure, including the collectible Mini Medals scattered all throughout the game. Several hidden items have literally no visual clue for where they are unless you’re standing on top of them, so the Thief’s skills are essential for completionists. Additionally, Padfoot lowers the rate of random battles, which makes several dungeons in the game much more palatable.

So why not pick a Thief right off the bat? Long story short, it takes them a few levels to get these essential skills, and they are much stronger in battle if you let them inherit skills from another class. If you don’t mind using a weaker class in the early game of Dragon Quest III HD-2D and just want those key skills right away, then you should definitely start with a Thief. But for the smoothest play experience, just make Thief one of your first class changes instead.