Guide to MQSC

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Mount Qinkai Speed Clear, or (MQSC), is a fast luxon faction farm (FFF) which uses separated teams, usually pairs of smiter+600 tank, Spirit spammers, or multiple solo VoS Dervishs, in order to vanquish Mount Qinkai in Hard Mode from Aspenwood Gate. Faction reward is approximatively 10k and takes anywhere from 4 to 15 minutes, depending on the tactics and amount of players. This translates to an average of 40,000-100,000 Luxon Faction per hour depending on the team. MQSC with prepared teams is currently the quickest way to farm luxon faction, assuming you don't spend too much time building your team and do multiple runs in a row with the same team.

Main routes

Whilst the builds may sometimes vary, the three "routes" rarely change, as they are the shortest paths allowing to encounter all foes of a certain type of the map:

1. The first route is known as the Yeti Route. It follows the western side which is primarily composed of Yetis, with the exception of one or two Rot Wallows patrols (wallows are hostile to yetis).
2. The second route is known as the Beach Route or Naga Route. The route goes straight west and up the bridge then proceeds on toward the cascades and finally beckons to reach the beach of the Jade Sea (near the exit to Breaker Hollow). This route will come across all groups of Nagas of the map, and should only encounter nagas with the exception of one Wallow patrol right after the bridge. It is frequent that a dedicated member of the team (usually the "runner") aggro the furthest two nagas groups along with the group of Outcasts with the boss Kayali the Brave, as Outcasts and nagas are hostile to each other. Nagas usually win the fight and spare you a long fight against the boss if the two nagas groups are properly aggroed.
3. The third route is known as the Wallow route. It stands usually close to the center of the map. The Wallow team is in charge of killing any remaining group of Wallows (and sometimes the Island Guardian inside it) that are not on the two other routes.

Walkthrough

Leave from Aspenwood Gate (Luxon). All players must have 100g for the blessing at the shrine (150g if their kurzick faction is higher than their luxon faction).

Yeti Route

Follow the western part of the map and kill the several yetis. Go first for the ranger boss, then move north and defeat the ritualist boss. It is possible to also kill the nearby wallow patrol to lighten the job of the wallow team, but not advised if you can't protect from their knockdowns. Once everything is dead, head north towards the cave. You will encounter wallows fighting yetis at the entrance. Either ignore them if you can, or kill them (always focus on the wallows as their life stealing and knockdowns are troublesome). Enter the cave and kill all the yetis and their monk boss. If someone in team has the relevant quest, a warrior boss will also join the fight. Leave the grotto by the eastern exit and kill the last two-three groups of yetis.

None of the foes can remove enchantments. The yetis can knockdown with Yeti Smash if you're suffering from a condition (such as Weakness or Poison if you aggroed some wallows). The ritualists yetis use Pain (which transitively increases their aggro range) and Consume Soul, which is deadly to spirits, especially coming from the ritualist boss: Spirit spammers are not advised.

Beach Route

If having casters, remove any condition immediately if someone gets one, as the nagas can cause dazed. Go straight to the first naga group right before the bridge. When that group is killed, proceed to the wallow patrol past the bridge and defeat it. The wallows can knockdown and use a touch life-stealing skill: this is the runner's job to help reduce the troubles from those, using "Brace Yourself!" and "Can't Touch This!" (CTT) respectively. Follow the northern path and reach the lake. This is where the runner leaves to do its job separately. The beach team must kill all enemies in the lake. Be it runner or beach team, always go to the beach using the shortest path. If you go too far north, you may encounter oni pop-ups. There is a naga group as soon as you reach the beach. The runner will have to go through the group while the beach team must kill them. The runner must aggro both naga groups and Kayali's group so that by the time the team reaches the end of the beach only a handful of foes remains, most of which can be easily defeated.

Wallow Route

Go towards the Island Guardian but do not attack it before having killed the two patrolling groups of wallows to the east (the one on a lower height can be pulled with a bow). Wallows are dangerous foes, able to knockdown and steal life, while the guardian islands (specific to this route) are able to knockdown with Signet of Judgment and heal with Healing Seed, Healing Breeze and Divine Intervention. After the first Island Guardian is killed, move north and kill a second one, close to the entrance of the yeti cave. Then go east and kill the third one and its surrounding wallow patrols. The route ends when progressing toward the north again, at the point where you reach the lake. Here you'll find the fourth and last Island Guardian and two wallow patrols near it.

Oni pop-ups and charmable animals

It is possible, albeit not necessary, to kill Oni (see the spawning points on the map to the right) and charmable animals (such as Tigers) to further increase the total number of kills and therefore the faction earned. Killing charmable animals shouldn't be difficult, however killing Oni is another story.

Oni use Demonic Agility which allows them to always double strike, resulting in a very fast exhaustion of Spirit Bond's uses. Their Shadow Shroud elite is extremely bothersome, as it will prevent anyone to use any enchantment targeting an ally on the hexed member (this includes common skills such as Protective Spirit, Spirit Bond, Holy Wrath or Shield of Judgment). If utilizing any, it is therefore advised to precast those before engaging.

See also

• Build:Team - MQSC Luxon FFF Dervway
• Build:Team - MQSC Luxon FFF
• Build:Team - MQSC Luxon FFF Monkway
• Build:Team - MQSC Luxon FFF Ritway

Notes

• In between two runs, the group will usually go to Cavalon or to the guild hall (if all team members belong to the same alliance). Progression in the title is doubled only when faction is spent to unlock allegiance skills and/or donated to the guild/alliance. If other runs are going to happen, the team is brought back into the Luxon Aspenwood Gate.

Trivia

• Groups used to form in the European German districts, but as of today, it is formed in the American district and it's announced in all-chat, people's guild and alliance chats.
• The wallow team is the one which has seen the most variants. Such variants include a SoS and a tank with a build similar to the others and even a Hundred Blades monk. The new current rarely-used wallow team consists of a Monk and a Dervish Spiker.