Maplestory Carnival Party Quest

As many of you maplers out there know, there is an extremely good party quest available to all players between the levels of 31-50. This is the carnival party quest. Basically, during this "pq" (short for party quest), you form a team, and create a map by clicking on the npc (or non-player character). Then, a team with the same number of members, ranging anywhere from 2 to 6 people can challenge. Both teams kill monsters simultaneously, earning points for their team for every kill. After 10 minutes, the team with the highest number of cp (carnival points) wins the game.

First off, the rewards of the pq. Every pq has to have something good come out of it. Otherwise, no one would bother pqing. First off, you can collect maple coins that the monsters will drop as you kill them. You can talk to an npc to trade these coins in for weapons for any class. You trade in 7 coins for the weakest items available, all the way through 20 coins for the highest level weapons. Also, you can trade 50 coins in for the famed Spiegelmann Necklace. This necklace gives you around 27 magic and weapon defense. Also, it gives you at least +1 in strength, intelligence, dexterity, and luck. If you are lucky, you may end up with a +2 in one of the categories, or even +2 in 2 categories. If you get a +2 in one category, keep it, unless that category doesn't help your class; in which case, you sell it for up to 2 million, or trade with someone else who needs it and has the one you need. Also, the experience you earn from doing this pq is unbelievable! Not only do you get the experience from killing the monsters, but you also get reward experience for both winning and losing! There are ranks given to you based on how many points you managed to earn during the pq. The lowest rank that you should get if you actually do something is a C, which gets you 21,000 exp if you win, and 7,000 exp if you lose. Then comes B with 25,500 for winning and 8,500 for losing, and A with 30,000 for winning and 10,000 for losing.

Now, what you want to do is assemble your party. Rooms 1-4 are for 2-4 people parties, and rooms 5 and 6 are for 3-6 member parties. For the first 5 minutes or so, all you want to do is kill everything as fast as possible. They drop potions, so you have no need to fear death. Then, especially if the game is really close, you want to start buffing your monsters. Thats the most important thing, with the best buffs being cancel weapon/magic attack, depending on your opponents. Next is avoidability up, making your opponents miss a lot more. Final, everything else on the list if you have enough carnival points. I would recommend attack up and speed up as the next 2 best, allowing them to reach your enemies faster as well as dealing up to 100 damage more per hit. Also, while you are doing this, have someone else spam summon master chronos. These are most preferred because of their long range magic attack. Summon these unless they have a high level cleric, in which case the cleric could spam heal the master chronos to death. You can also summon rombots (the big dark gray robots with a bloctopus on their heads). I think that's what they are called...The problem is they are more expensive than master chronos, so you would need a LOT of carnival points to make this effective. Finally, if there are any carnival points left on your team, you should spend them stunning members of the other team. This way, they can't attack/destroy your buff towers, and with the increased attack power and speed, the chances are that they'll die!! MUAHAHAHA!!!

Anyways, that's the basic gist of the pq, as well as one effective strategy that I have seen implemented. This is because as soon as you summon the monster, it remains on the field, even if it's killed. It will just keep respawning. Also, summoning a lot of buff towers means that your opponents won't know which one does what, giving you an advantage because they will have to make it through your swarm of monsters in search of a tower that gives a certain buff. Also, every time someone dies, their team loses 10 carnival points, meaning your opponents will have less to use, and as you continue killing, continue using from this point on. Good luck with this awesome pq, and happy mapling!