Monster Carnival
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The Monster Carnival (Carnival Party Quest - CPQ for short) is the main source of experience points for most Maplers level 30-50. Although originally intended by Wizet to be a strategy Party Quest (PQ), today it is mostly composed of TW (Trade Wins) and FW (Free Wins). CPQ is accessed by talking to Spiegelmann in most major towns, or through the dimensional Mirror. Prizes are also claimed by trading Maple Coins by talking with Spiegelmann.
How it works is there are two teams, Blue and Red. Each team has monsters only they can kill and appear semi see-through to the other team. There are 6 rooms, with 1 and 2 being the same, 3 and 4 the same, and 5 and 6 the same. The two teams don't have any 'mutual' monsters with the exception of the robos you start with in rooms 5 and 6. After killing monsters, you gain Carnival Points (CP) for yourself and your team. The monsters spawn after awhile. Rooms 1-4 is for 2-4 members per team, while 5-6 is for 3-6 members per team. The number of members on each team must be equal and the average level must not have a difference greater than 10 levels.
Items are unusable in the CPQ but potions are dropped quite commonly by all monsters. Some of the potions are very powerful potions such as whole party power elixir, and cube of darkness, which casues darkness to the other team. The catch is though, that the instant you pick the item up, it is used up. It does not appear in your inventory, however some people have been able to hack some of the items out of CPQ. One example that I saw is someone had a cube of darkness and dropped it outside but that's illegal so don't do it!!
The CP you gain for yourself is usable only by you to summon monsters, summon protectors for monsters, or cast spells on opponents. The CP of your team is to determine who wins the round.
Here's the exp after you finish a PQ:
0-49CP = Rank D (Win 7.5k exp loss 1k exp) 50-249 = Rank C (win 21.5k exp loss 7k exp) 250-499 = Rank B (win 25.5k exp loss 8.5k exp) 500cp+ (win 30k exp loss 10k exp)
Here are the summons that can be used through using up CP:
MONSTERS:
Brown Teddy 7 F1
Bloctopus 7 F2
Ratz 8 F3
Chronos 8 F4
Toy Trojan 9 F5
Tick-Tock 9 F6
Robo 10 F7
King Bloctopus (wrong name in-game, it's actually King Block Golem) 11 F8
Master Chronos 12 F9
Rombot* 22 / 30 F10
*Rombots cost 22CP to summon in certain cases and 30 in other cases. There are currently unidentified conditions that determine which of the two CPs will occur.
SKILLS:
Darkness (Party) 17 F1
Weakness (Party) 19 F2
Curse (Party) 12 F3
Poisoned (Party) 19 F4
Slow (Party) 16 F5
Seal (1 person) 14 F6
Stun (1 person) 22 F7
Cancel Buff (1 person) 18 F8
PROTECTORS:
Power UP 17 F1
Guard UP 16 F2
Magic UP 17 F3
Shield UP 16 F4
Accuracy UP 13 F5
Avoidability UP 16 F6
Speed UP 12 F7
Cancel Weapon Attack 35 F8
Cancel Magic Attack 35 F9
Skills are only temporary, monsters are permanent and do respawn, while protectors are up until you destroy them. When summoned, a pillar with a blue/red gem on top appears somewhere on the map. Hit it with a regular attack a certain amount of times for it to be destoyed, thus anulling the protector.
There are also items that cause some status problems or increase your CP. They are as follows:
Carnival Point 1 (blue) Increases Carnival Point by 1.
Carnival Point 2 (red) Increases Carnival Point by 2.
Carnival Point 3 (purple)Increases Carnival Point by 3.
Party Mana Elixir Recovers 300 MP for all members of your party.
Party Elixir Recovers 50% of HP and MP for all members of your party.
Party Power Elixir Recovers all HP and HP for all members of your party.
Party All Cure Potion Cures any abnormal state affecting any members of your party.
Mini Cube of Darkness One of the members in the opposing party will be inflicted a random abnormal state.
Cube of Darkness Everyone in the opposing party will be inflicted a random abnormal state.
Stunner One of the members of the opposing party will be stunned.
On top of that, there is the elusive and most sought after item: the maple coin. It is a yellow coin with a red maple leaf in the middle and it is used to trade for items. All stats are randomly generated and here is the prize list:
* Spiegelmann's Necklace - 50 Maple Coins *it gives +1 to all stats, 30 DEF, 30 MG DEF, 3 slots
* Spiegelmann's Marble - 40 Maple Coins *60% chance, only usable on Spiegelmann's Necklace. Gives +30HP and +30MP.
Weapon for Warriors:
* Cutlus - 7 Maple Coins
* Lionheart - 7 Maple Coins
* Traus - 10 Maple Coins
* Zard - 10 Maple Coins
* Jeweled Katar - 20 Maple Coins
* Lion's Fang - 20 Maple Coins
* Dankke - 7 Maple Coins
* Niam - 7 Maple Coins
* Blue Counter - 10 Maple Coins
* Sabretooth - 10 Maple Coins
* Buck - 20 Maple Coins
* The Rising - 20 Maple Coins
* Heavy Hammer - 7 Maple Coins
* Sledgehammer - 7 Maple Coins
* Jacker - 10 Maple Coins
* Titan - 10 Maple Coins
* Knuckle Mace - 20 Maple Coins
* Golden Mole - 20 Maple Coins
* Nakamaki - 7 Maple Coins
* Axe Pole Arm - 7 Maple Coins
* Zeco - 10 Maple Coins
* Crescent Polearm - 10 Maple Coins
* The Nine Dragons - 20 Maple Coins
* Serpent's Tongue - 20 Maple Coins
Weapon for Magicians:
* Wizard Wand - 7 Maple Coins
* Petal Staff - 7 Maple Coins
* Crystal Wand - 10 Maple Coins
* Hall Staff - 10 Maple Coins
* Arc Staff - 20 Maple Coins
* Cromi - 20 Maple Coins
Weapon for Bowmen:
* Red Viper - 7 Maple Coins
* Vaulter 2000 - 10 Maple Coins
* Olympus - 20 Maple Coins
* Heckler - 7 Maple Coins
* Silver Crow - 10 Maple Coins
* Rower - 20 Maple Coins
Weapon for Thieves:
* Dark Guardian - 7 Maple Coins
* Dark Avarice - 10 Maple Coins
* Dark Slain - 20 Maple Coins
* Gephart - 7 Maple Coins
* Bazlud - 10 Maple Coins
* Dragon Toenail - 10 Maple Coins
* Sai - 20 Maple Coins
* Shinkita - 20 Maple Coins
Weapon for Pirates:
* Silver Maiden - 7 Maple Coins
* Neozard - 10 Maple Coins
* Fury Claw - 20 Maple Coins
* Shooting Star - 7 Maple Coins
* Lunar Shooter - 10 Maple Coins
* Mr. Rasfelt - 20 Maple Coins
Sometimes it still does happen that people actually compete in CPQ and it depends greatly on team members' abilities, but also on strategy. Always listen to your party leader unless there is someone more knowledgeable than he/she is and you agree mutually to listen to that person. Summon things based on level, damage, and class of the opposing team's members.
TW (trade wins) is the most common. Basically, you agree with people on it (generally with friends to prevent getting scammed. For the records I do not believe you can report these scams) and find a free channel with the room you want open. Then, go into it and one team wins first an the other team wins next. People will usually say fff or fff100. fff means Fight for first, which means whoever wins first wins first and other team wins next. fff100 means first to 100 cp.If someone says no summons, be courteous and don't summon. It's proper etiqutte.
The most common scenario for TW is room 3/4 with max trojans and speed. Other common ones are 3/4 max rombots with or without speed, or 5/6 max rombots with or without speed. It goes for FW below too.
FW (Free wins) is what happens when you have a friend who is willing to give you free wins or you buy free wins from someone. If a friend is giving you free wins, make sure he has two computers or a friend or something who is helping him give you free wins. If they are only one 1 person giving you the wins, then they are most likely recruiting some random person who is going to be sucked in to believing it's tw when really it's fw for you. This is bad and don't do it.
Another free win is when you buy it from someone for usually around 500k each from the world I'm from. This will usually include the other person recruiting someone and scamming them, like I mentioned above and is not good but many rich Maplers who are bored of CPQ just do it. I do not support this but I have done this before.
That's all you need to know to get started! Remember, the #1 rule is to have fun! =)
Guide written by Petizh
