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Empress Might Lunar Dew Quest

Greetings,

I have a simple question regarding the Empress Might quest where you have to find 20 Lunar Dews. I have completely this task and gotten my Soul Driver to level 5 [max] on my Paladin some long time ago. However, I have been doing this quest for much longer on my Bowmaster using many drop buffs and I have yet to find a single drop going back and forth through the Male and Female desert bunny maps after about 3 hours now. Currently using Drop Buff, HS, 2x Drop card, Character Card, and Drop familiar. Does anyone else know if there's anything additional I can add besides drop gear? Also, did they change anything in this quest besides the map layout? Just wondering if anyone was able to complete this question recently. My Bowmaster is 210 but I don't think level matters.

If anyone has completed this quest as of recent, please list your process and time taken to complete it along with the drop buffs you've used.

Thanks.

April 27, 2015

19 Comments • Newest first

Danick

[quote=Traitor]For the skill depending on your class. This quest is the first part of a 6 part quest.

Warrior - Soul Driver
Mage - Flame Gear
Bowman - Windpierce
Thief - Vampire
Pirate - Sharkwave[/quote]

So it's useless for me ! Thanks.

Reply April 29, 2015
SheepPB

[url=http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-Lunar_Dews_complete-Other-Screen-231731.html]Here you go. My screen just got accepted and it shows what I did and how long it took.[/url]

Reply April 28, 2015
Traitor

[quote=epikkhighh]its also good if you are a casual player that levels at a slow pace. you get to wear equips 10 levels higher, cra set at 140, empress 130[/quote]

At the pace this quest takes, you're better off doing 1-2 RnJ PQs and you still won't be done with the quest already reaching that level after those PQs.

Edit:
I recorded all the times for each drop. The first one took the longest, it took about 3 hours to drop. I used all the drop buffs listed above.

3 hours in...
Start time: 2:00pm

-5:01pm
-5:05pm
-5:07pm
-5:32pm
-5:53pm
-6:18pm
-6:58pm
-7:37pm
-7:30pm
-7:45pm
-7:59pm
-8:07pm
-8:22pm
-9:09pm
-9:10pm
-9:12pm
-9:22pm
-9:22pm
-9:29pm
-10:14pm

[url=http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-Maturest___Empress_Might__Lunar_Dews_-Showoff-Screen-231739.html]Completion[/url]

Reply April 28, 2015 - edited
epikkhighh

its also good if you are a casual player that levels at a slow pace. you get to wear equips 10 levels higher, cra set at 140, empress 130

Reply April 28, 2015 - edited
Traitor

[quote=Danick]Sorry but why people are doing that quest ?[/quote]

For the skill depending on your class(Explorers only). This quest is the first part of a 6 part quest.

Warrior - Soul Driver
Mage - Flame Gear
Bowman - Wind Piercing
Thief - Vampire
Pirate - Sharkwave

Reply April 28, 2015 - edited
Danick

Sorry but why people are doing that quest ?

Reply April 28, 2015 - edited
epikkhighh

first map with white bunnies. i did it as a shadower, and the hyper + dark flare(?) skill was so helpful

Reply April 28, 2015 - edited
SheepPB

[quote=Traitor]Which map/mob did you guys hunt in?

Edit: None in 3 hours, then now just 3 within 5 minutes in the 2nd map with the darker bunnies. GG, still the same buffs without kishin. (thought I'd note it incase someone googles and stumbles upon this via google in the future) [/quote]

I used the 2nd map as I had said I killed Desert Rabbits(M).

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
hyperklutz

Dark bunnies, blue puffer fish?, blue snakes with flower cap, sand dwarfs, pandas, and peach monkies. To get my vampire to level 5. Not 100% about the order though. I just know i have familiars with vampirehell2, vampirehell3, vampirehell4 and vampirehell5.

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
Traitor

[quote=hyperklutz]With all the 2x events this month you can definitely finish and get your skill to level 5 with no problem. I had 60% in drop equips, wealth acquisition potion +10% drop, familiar, beast tamer cat mode +15% drop, 2x event and NL showdown. Finished and got my vampire to level 5 in a weekend. I didn't have kishin

I did buy a 2x coupon on the level 5 quest because the maps/mobs were horrid and I wanted it done that weekend.[/quote]

Which mob/map did you hunt in? I've finished this whole questline once before on my Paladin, just redoing another character This was when the quest was first released many years ago

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
hyperklutz

With all the 2x events this month you can definitely finish and get your skill to level 5 with no problem. I had 60% in drop equips, wealth acquisition potion +10% drop, familiar, beast tamer cat mode +15% drop, 2x event and NL showdown. Finished and got my vampire to level 5 in a weekend. I didn't have kishin

I did buy a 2x coupon on the level 5 quest because the maps/mobs were horrid and I wanted it done that weekend.

[edit] I did my lunar dews at the dark bunnies since the map was bigger, and by the time I mauled all the rabbits on the left, the right would spawn perfectly in time
That and cc a lot, right after I got a drop I cced and destroyed the map until something dropped.

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
Traitor

Which map/mob did you guys hunt in?

Edit: None in 3 hours, then now just 3 within 5 minutes in the 2nd map with the darker bunnies. GG, still the same buffs without kishin. (thought I'd note it incase someone googles and stumbles upon this via google in the future)

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
epikkhighh

do you have a kanna friend or a laptop with a second account that has a kanna 70+? kishin is super op. i managed to get 15 dews in 3 hours of : 2x event, spider, greed pendant, and a kanna mule.

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
SheepPB

I submitted a screen showing how long each Lunar Dew took and what drop enhancers I used, but Basil's "wonderful" cropping skills cut off the ends of the picture. I resubmitted the picture after editing it and will link the picture once it gets accepted.
I actually did not use any drop % gear. I used only Spider, Easter Egg buffs (not while using spider of course), 2x drop event, and Night Lord's Showdown skill (30% drop rate). I did NOT use Kishin at all during all of this.
Got first 7 in 100 minutes. <- First day [ 25 / 4 / 2015 ]
Got other 13 in 159 minutes. <- Second day. [ 26 / 4 / 2015]
Total time: 259 minutes.
I used Desert Rabbits(M) map only.
I did this recently so it's a recent drop rate comparison.

@ThaSavoury
There is actually another way. My way. I used absolutely no drop rate gear. I used what I mentioned above and nothing more.

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
Traitor

[quote=ThaSavoury]To answer your question, you just need as much %drop as you can get along with Kanna's Kishin for extra mob spawn. There's no other way.[/quote]

Yeah I figured. Which map did you use? The first or 2nd? Light or Dark mobs?

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
ThaSavoury

To answer your question, you just need as much %drop as you can get along with Kanna's Kishin for extra mob spawn. There's no other way.

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
sparksta

I used 80 - 100 % in drop equips, 2x drop coupons, and pig/spider familiar, and it took me around 6 hours for the lunar dews

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
ThaSavoury

I completed the the last 4 quests maxing out the skill over 1 month ago. It was during a 2x Event, I had a 2x Drop Coupon, Wolf Familiar, %drop gears, my bishops HS, Kishin for extra spawn. All of this made it pretty fast. Sometimes I would get 1-3 dews within just a few minutes & sometimes I would get 1 dew within like 15-20mins. But I literally finished the last 4 quests within 5 hours.

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited
cb000

I finished the entire questline a few days ago. Lunar Dews took about 8 hours using Wolf and 100% in drop gear, hunting Male Desert Rabbits very casually while typing on Skype. Think 1 hour of it was during a 2x event, during which I picked up 5 Dews. I got the last 5 within 30 minutes.

Guess with the low drop rate you're going to see very inconsistent intervals between drops.

Reply April 27, 2015 - edited