How to Get Dragon Balls in Xenoverse 2: Fast Farming

You get Dragon Balls in Xenoverse 2 by defeating the Time Patrollers who show up inside Parallel Quests: each one drops two items when beaten, and the second has a chance to be a Dragon Ball. Gather all seven and you can summon Shenron at the Dragon Ball Pedestal in Conton City. That is the core loop, but which quests you farm, how you reset and which fixed sources you claim first decide whether it takes half an hour or an entire evening.

We checked this against the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 fan wiki's Wish, Patroller, Festival of Universes and Free Update pages and PowerPyx's Dragon Ball farming guide in November 2026.

How Dragon Balls Actually Drop

Many Parallel Quests contain an optional group of NPC Time Patrollers. They look like ordinary player characters (the game builds them from copies of real players' creations), and you challenge them by walking up and talking to them. According to the fan wiki, every patroller you defeat drops two items, and the second has a chance of being a Dragon Ball. When it happens you will see a "You Got: Key Item" style message at the bottom of the screen. PowerPyx sums up the drop table as three types: materials, equipment and key items, with the key items being the balls.

A few rules shape how the farm works:

• Each Dragon Ball is unique, and you can only carry one of each at a time, so duplicates are impossible.
• Dragon Balls are shared across your account. A ball found on one character can be used for a wish on another.
• Dragon Balls you pick up as a quest objective, such as in the Parallel Quest "Gotta Find That Dragon Ball!", do not count toward your own set.
• You can check progress under Bag, then Your Items List, then Important Items.

What You Need Before Farming

The most popular farming quest, Parallel Quest 04 "Prepare for the Attack of Saiyans!", unlocks after you clear Parallel Quest 03, according to PowerPyx. More farming options open as you unlock further Parallel Quests, and several of the quickest ones sit in the Namek and Ginyu Force range.

The bigger requirement is strength. The patrollers are random: the fan wiki warns that, apart from the first tutorial quest, they can be any level and carry any moveset a real player gave their character. That makes them dangerous early on. Use your scouter to read their levels before engaging, and take out the weakest ones first if the group is mixed. If a group outclasses you, it is often faster to leave and come back after a few more levels than to keep retrying. Our level cap guide explains how far your character can grow and what each step costs.

The Best Parallel Quests for Dragon Ball Farming

The fan wiki keeps a list of every Parallel Quest with a patroller group and notes which ones are quickest. The standouts:

• PQ 19 "Fierce Battle! Ginyu Force", PQ 31 "Let's Train" and PQ 34 "Return of Ginyu Force!": the patrollers are there at the very start, with no fights required first. If you get nothing, resetting is quick.
• PQ 04 and PQ 07 "Attack of the Saiyans": short overall clear times. PQ 04's group appears after you beat Krillin, Yamcha and Tien, and PQ 07's after Raditz and one Saibaman.
• PQ 23 "The Explosion of Namek": the patrollers spawn right after the Frieza fight.
• PQ 79 "Great Ape Festival": two separate patroller groups in one run, one at the pod landing area through the left gate and one at the end. The full clear is long, so if the first group gives nothing, the wiki suggests resetting rather than pushing to the end.
• PQ 99 "Frieza Race Revivified": also has two groups, but the second only appears if you beat the Masked Saiyan in under five minutes.

The wiki also recommends rotating between two or more of these quests rather than grinding one over and over, noting that players find drops thin out on back to back runs of the same quest. Treat that as community experience rather than a published rule, but rotating costs you nothing and keeps the grind less repetitive.

If you want the bigger picture on these side quests, our existing guide to Parallel Quest hidden conditions covers how the quests themselves are structured.

A Repeatable Farming Routine

PowerPyx's method on Parallel Quest 04 is the one most players start with, and it works both online and offline:

1. Start Parallel Quest 04.
2. Defeat the first three enemies as quickly as you can.
3. A portal opens and the patroller group spawns shortly after. Stay in the starting area and do not go through the portal yet.
4. Talk to the patrollers, fight them and watch the drop messages.
5. If one of them dropped a key item, finish the quest to keep it. If not, reset and repeat.

The author reports averaging about one Dragon Ball per three runs, roughly one every five minutes, and estimates 30 to 60 minutes for a full set.

One detail is worth knowing about the reset step. The fan wiki says choosing Retry or Return to Character Selection does not change the patrollers for that run: their appearance, stats and the items they carry stay the same. To get a fresh roll, the wiki says you need to either complete the quest or choose Return to Conton City before trying again. If you are seeing the same empty drops after a retry, that is the reason.

Fixed and Bonus Sources Worth Claiming

Random drops are not the only route. Before you start grinding, pick up the sources that cost little or nothing:

• Sanud at Orange Star High School. Once per character, you can challenge Sanud in front of the school and receive a Dragon Ball for beating their group, with no drop roll involved. With several characters, that adds up.
• Festival of Universes weekly rewards. In the past festivals, earning 3,500 Glory Points in certain weeks granted a full set of Dragon Balls as the weekly reward. In the 6th festival, that landed in weeks 2 and 5. Our Festival of Universes 2026 guide covers the current Final Festival that began on 30 October 2026.
• Sarasa's Dragon Ball Collection Service. The free update released on 21 May 2025 added a Namekian NPC named Sarasa at the Dragon Ball Pedestal who can help you summon Shenron in exchange for STP Medals.

The festival weeks that award Dragon Balls alternate with weeks that award other prizes, including the Zen-Oh Button, so a steady weekly effort during an event can pay out both. See our Zen-Oh Button guide for what that item does.

Summoning Shenron and Spending the Balls Well

Once all seven are in your bag, the game notifies you. Take them to the Dragon Ball Pedestal in Conton City to summon Shenron. Doing it the first time unlocks the trophy or achievement "I Summon You Forth: Shenron!", according to PowerPyx. Shenron offers eleven wishes at first, and Guru adds five more after you clear the Defend Planet Namek questline a second time; that Guru unlock has to be done on each character that wants the extra wishes.

Because collecting a set takes real time, it pays to plan wishes before you summon:

• Leveling between 80 and 95: the fan wiki notes that wishing for TP Medals (200 per wish) and paying Tosok for levels beats the direct level wishes in that range.
• Fixing a bad stat spread: "I want a second chance at life!" lets you reallocate your attributes, which pairs well with our attribute points guide.
• One time unlocks: some wishes, such as becoming a Super Saiyan God, can only be taken once, so grab those early.

For every wish and its result, see our existing Shenron and Guru wishes list.

Common Problems While Collecting

• No patrollers appeared. Not every Parallel Quest has them, and some spawn only after a gate or a specific fight. Check the quest list above for the trigger.
• The drop said "key item" but you only have six. You may have quit before completing the quest. Finish the run to bank the ball.
• The same ball keeps showing as owned. You can only hold one of each number, so a set fills in random order and the last ball or two often take longest.
• The patrollers are too strong. Their levels are random. Leave, return to Conton City and reroll the group, or come back later.

Skip the Seven Ball Hunt

If farming patrollers every time you want a wish sounds tedious, the store's God Mode CaC save lists The Infinite Dragon Balls as part of its item set, along with 99 of all items. It is a modded save for PS4 and PS5 only, applied directly to your profile, and it is not available for PC or Xbox. You need to own Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 already, because the page states that only the save is sold. Delivery, as described on the page, works through the PS4 or PS5 account handover details you submit at checkout.

The other Xenoverse 2 services are listed together on the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 hub.

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