Magic Maze

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The Magic Maze (魔法の迷宮) is a mysterious place where a variety of bosses and enemies can be summoned and fought. It is the primary source of obtaining accessories, which are a very important aspect of a character's power growth.

How to Unlock

Ronde

To unlock the Magic Maze, you must first speak to Ronde (ロンデ) located outside the Mokomoko House in North Port Lendor (港町レンドア北). If If you are at least level 20, you will be able to accept Quest 121 from Ronde. Doing so will put you through a 'trial' run of the Magic Maze to see how it works. Once you finish, return to Ronde to clear the quest. You will now have access to the Mokomoko House and will receive the Magic Key (まほうのカギ) key item.

How to Enter the Magic Maze

There are two ways to enter the Magic Maze:

  • Using the Magic Key item from your Key Items.
  • Talking to Dorothy (ドロシー) inside the Mokomoko House.

If you enter via the Magic Key, you will be able to enter with other human players. However, you will not be able to bring your own AI companions and will be either matched with other random players or assigned random AI around your level. If you want to enter with your own AI companions, you must enter via Dorothy.

How It Works

Depending on how you enter the Magic Maze, its structure will differ.

If you enter via the Magic Key, the dungeon layout will be similar to how the 'trial' run functioned when you first accepted the quest. There will be multiple floors of enemies and a fixed boss at the end. However, you can offer a boss item at the center statue to fight a specific boss instead. That will be explained in the next section.

If you enter via Dorothy, you will need to be carrying at least one boss item to offer or else you cannot enter. That will be explained in the next section.

Boss Items

Boss items are special items that allow you to summon specific bosses in the Magic Maze to fight. Each boss has a specific accessory they drop as well. Boss items are offered at the central statue in the first room of the Magic Maze. When offering items to the statue, you are allowed to use up to four items of the same boss. Doing so will increase the amount of rewards the boss will drop by the number of additional items you offer past the first.

Boss items come in four different types: coins (コイン), medals (メダル), cards (カード), and tags (練習札). Coins, medals, and cards are essentially the same type of item in function, and tags are their own separate category.

  • Coins: Do not expire. Can be purchased from certain vendors and can be sold/traded to other players.
  • Medals: Do not expire. Cannot be sold or traded.
  • Cards: Do expire. Cannot be sold or traded.
  • Tags: Do not expire. Can be purchased from vendors for 100 G. Used for boss practice.

Coins, medals, and cards can all be offered at the same time so long as the summoned boss is the same among them. Tags must be offered alone, as they are simply a way to practice the boss and give no reward.

When you receive a boss card, its expiration time will start counting down. You can see how many hours the card has left in its description. Once a card is expired, it is useless and can be thrown away.

How to Get Boss Items

There are a variety of ways to get boss items:

  • Coin Shops: There is a Coin Shop located right inside the Mokomoko House (as well as the other minor towns) that sell a variety of boss coins. However, they will not have the newest bosses available to purchase.
  • Casino: The Casino has a variety of lower level boss cards to purchase with Casino Tokens. This is a good way to get some starting accessories without having to spend any Gold.
  • Events: Events that happen year round will most likely have boss medals and/or cards as rewards you can acquire by participating. Generally, these will be newer bosses, so it's wise to pick these up.
  • 10 Day: Every 10th of the month (in Japan), you can run into an NPC named Pu-chan (プーちゃん) inside the Magic Maze who will give you one free boss card. These include newer bosses, so make sure you don't forget to do this.

Offering Items

Once inside the Magic Maze, you will see a large statue in the middle of the first room. By examining this statue, a list of currently held items that you can offer will appear. Once a boss item is offered, only items of the same boss can be offered next. Each player can offer as many or as little as they want, but the limit will still be four items. However, there are a few types of items which do not follow this offering restriction:

  • Metal Slime/Liquid Metal/Metal King Coins & Gem Slime Medals: These items can be offered separately and do not need to match types. (For example, you can offer 1 Liquid Metal Coin and 1 Metal King Coin.) However, these are NOT considered boss items, and cannot be offered until a boss item is offered first. When offered, the associated enemies will appear in the room before the boss and must all be defeated to move on. These items also count towards the four item limit.
  • Substitution Coins: This can be offered in addition to four boss items and does not count towards the four item limit. In the event of a loss against the boss, the offered items will be retained. However, the Substitution Coin will be consumed even if you win the battle. If you're going against a boss you think you may lose against, it's a good idea to use one of these just in case.

Boss Rewards

If you successfully defeat a boss you offered items to summon, a number of red chests equal to the number of items offered will appear. (This means a maximum of four chests can appear as a reward.) These chests will contain either accessories or accessory shards. Duplicate accessories should be kept as they can synthesized together at the Accessory Shop in Verinard Castle Town (ヴェリナード城下町) to increase their power. Accessory shards can be restored into actual accessories in the Accessory Shop as well, provided you have enough.

Special Characters

There is a chance you will encounter a special character from past Dragon Quest games inside the Magic Maze. The chance is quite low, but can be increased with an item called Guidance Perfume (みちびきの香水). The easiest way to get this item is via the Casino with Casino Tokens. These are the characters that you can encounter, and what they do:

  • Robbin' 'Ood (カンダタ): He will give you random consumable items, a random amount of Gold, or a random amount of Mini Medals.
  • Fortune Teller Minea (占い師ミネア): Minea will pull a random Tarot that will give you a random beneficial battle buff. If the Tarot is right-side up, it will last 2 hours, otherwise it will last 1 hour. You will also asked to pull a random boss card in three different ways, with differing results based on your choice:
    • "Draw without thinking." (何も考えず引く): Any boss card.
    • "Draw with a calm mind." (おだやかな気持ちで引く): Any boss card except the newest 3.
    • "Draw passionately." (情熱を込めて引く): Any of the 3 newest boss cards.
  • Swordsman Terry (剣士テリー): You can give Terry one of your boss items (coin, medal, or card that is not expired) and he will fight the boss for you. The next time you see him (or by talking to Ronde in the Mokomoko House) you can receive the reward from the boss (either an accessory or accessory shards.) If you talk to Lizzie (ドランゴ), she will give you 3 Lottery Tickets (ふくびき券).
  • Merchant Torneko (商人トルネコ): Torneko will sell unique and rare items in his shop. However, you can only purchase one item each time you see him, so choose wisely.
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