Kerning PQ : Maple Story - Discussion

If you find it difficult to get into a Kerning party quest, here are a few tricks you can try.


* 1. CC (Change Channel) and try Channel 1. Most people think it is full and do not try. However most of the time it is empty.
* 2. Use the following trick when tracking a party in the same channel with other parties doing the same and competing to see who gets in first. There should be a command called "NPC Chat". Check to see which key it is assigned to by accessing the "Key Configuration". Get the party leader near Lakelis and hold the "NPC CHAT" key. The game will automatically and constantly click and unclick Lakelis until the PQ is empty. This trick works if you are in a rush to talk to any NPC.
* 3. When getting to the stage with cats or barrels, stop guessing combinations and approach it the logical way. Each platform or barrel is labeled in some way. This is a simple formula to try out all combinations.

* For example (cat level), get two party members on different platforms, and the third on any with a cat on it. If the combination is wrong, only the third person should move and go to another platform other than ones he or she has been on previously. When this is all done, tell the third person to go back to the first platform they were on, and the second person to do the same thing as the third person did. If all these combinations are still wrong, have the second person to go back to where they were in the first place, and have the first person to do what the second and third people did. If this is still wrong, then alternate the first and second person's "starting" platform. Keep doing this until you get the correct combination.
* For example (barrel level), have the three party members get on barrel 1-2-3 (top three ones). Have the person on barrel 3 move to barrel 4, then 5, then 6. Have them go back to barrel 3 and have the person on barrel 2 move to barrels 4, 5, and 6. If this does not work, have the people that were originally on barrels 2 and 3 go to barrels 4 and 5. The person on barrel 1 and barrel 4 will still stay while the person on barrel 5 will goes to barrel 6. If this still does not work, have the party members in this position: barrels 1, 5, and 6. If still incorrect, have the original people that were on barrels 2 and 3 go back to their starting barrels, and the person on barrel 1 go to barrels 4, 5, and 6. If this still does not work, then continue guessing, because that should have covered all possible combinations.
* The list of combinations (may be incomplete) is:

1-2-3
1-2-4
1-2-5
1-2-6
1-4-3
1-5-3
1-6-3
1-4-5
1-4-6
1-5-6
2-3-4
2-3-5
2-3-6
4-5-6
1-3-6

* 4. When you have reached the stage with ropes, it is usually one of these two combinations:

Top right, top left, bottom right
Top left, bottom left, bottom right
The party leader cannot be on these ropes. If it is not any of these combinations use logic as there are not too many different combinations.