Party Questing: ME FIRST!

When PQing, I occasionally run into these kind of players:They always expect to get exactly what they want, every time. For instance, this last time I quested, this chick “AngieIsDah1″ was in our party. First of all, she just plain sucked at jumping. Then, she kept going “OH I was here first… Ldr didn’t u see I was here first?” I mean, on STAGE TWO she was complaining because someone else was on ‘her’ rope. It happens a lot, and generally someone will move in a second or two, but neither would budge. She kept going on about how she was there first, so I told her to get down and did it myself for the rest of the PQ. She then continued to complain about the fact that I made her sit out. Reaalllly ANNOYING.

Let me tell you now guys, it’s called a party quest for a reason. During a party quest, the 4 (or 2,3,5,or 6 depending on what quest you are doing) players need to learn to work as one unit. Granted, there are a few aspects that are very hard to get people to work together on, such as looting the squishy shoes or who gets to kill neckis, etc, but in the parts like the first stage, players need to help each other get cupons.

Now that my rant is done, here are a few more pointers for Party Questing:

Stage 1
When you first get in and read your question, tell the rest of the party what number you got. Ex: if the riddle was what level a player gets the Magician job advancement (8), then, in party chat, simply type “8.”

If you got the question about how much SP you get opon leveling (3), or some other low number, then don’t just get your pass and sit there, go back and help out!

Stage 2
Pick a rope, any rope. It doesn’t really matter which one. If someone jumps onto the rope you’re on, move. It takes less time than arguing with them, and it’s not worth proving a point over. Once everyone’s on a rope, move in a clockwise position. Ex: People are positioned on the two bottom ropes and the top left rope. The combo is wrong, so the person on the top left rope moves over to the top right. Wrong again. The bottom left person then moves to the top left so that the two top ropes and the bottom right is occupied. If this is still wrong, then the bottom right person moves to bottom left. This is, of course, the last combination and must be right if the others were wrong.

Stage 3
Get on a platform that has either 1, 2, or 3 kittens. Once again, it really doesn’t matter, because this stage is easy as heck. If you’re on the third plat, it goes like this: 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4. If you’re on plat 2, it goes 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3. If you’re on plat 1, just stay there until they tell you to go to 2!

Stage 4
Oh noes! The cursed barrels! Calm down people, it’s REALLY not that hard. Just go in logical numerical order: 123, 124, 125, 126, 134, 135, 136, 137, etc… If you’re not sure, just watch how other people do it. Once you get the hang of it, it’s really easy.

Stage 5 (Last)
There’s really not much to tell here… There are 3 platforms that span the entire map, 10 monsters (3 Cursed Eyes on the first plat when you first jump down, 6 Jr. Neckis, and the Kingslime) that drop passes. Only the leader picks them up, and if you’re the leader, I suggest not picking them up until all the monsters are dead. This way, in the off chance you do die, you won’t have any of the passes and then can pass leadership to another player and allow the rest of the party to get their bonuses!

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