Pirate Party Quest Guide

Pirate PQ is a level-70+ instanced party quest built around a single story: Lord Pirate has overrun the Bellflower herb fields, turned the flowers into hostile monsters, and dragged off their king, Wu Yang. Your job is to board his ship, fight through his crew, and free her before the ship sets sail.

On Zipangu the quest runs exactly as it should in GMS v117.2, so the mechanics described in any solid MapleStory party quest v117 reference apply here. The difference is the environment around it: 2x EXP, fair 1x meso and 1x drop rates, and a clean economy protected by our custom RustHS anti-cheat, so the rewards you earn are worth something.

Pirate PQ is a party effort, not a solo run. Pull together a crew before you head out, then have your party leader speak to the NPC at the Bellflower herb field to open the instance.

• ▸Level requirement: every member must be Level 70 or higher.
• ▸Party size: 3 to 6 players (the NPC will refuse a party under 3).
• ▸Where to start: the Bellflower herb field above Mu Lung / Herb Town. Talk to the Bellflower servant NPC there.
• ▸Who talks: only the party leader can start the run, and everyone must be standing on the entry map.
• ▸Open to all classes: Explorers, Cygnus Knights, Aran, Evan-era heroes, Mercedes, Phantom, Demon Slayer, Luminous, and Cannoneer are all welcome.

Once inside, you have a 20-minute timer to finish the whole run. The goal is simple to state and harder to do under pressure: punch through the sealed portals on the pirate ship, shut the door the pirate reinforcements pour through, and defeat Lord Pirate to rescue Wu Yang.

Lord Pirate has magically sealed the portal to the next area three times over, so you cannot simply walk past. Every seal is broken by feeding the NPC the right number of emblems your party collects from the pirates. Keep the whole crew together, focus the spawns, and do not let stragglers wander, the clock does not stop for anyone.

The run flows through several connected maps on the ship. Here is the order of business:

• ▸Clear the deck & boxes: at the start map, wipe the monsters and inspect the boxes scattered around the deck to flush out pirates hiding in them. Clear all of them to open the way forward.
• ▸Break the first seal: defeat the rushing pirates and collect Mark of the Rookie Pirate emblems (you need a stack of around 20). Hand them to the NPC to disarm the seal.
• ▸Push deeper: repeat the emblem-and-seal pattern as the pirates get tougher with each sealed portal.
• ▸Find the Old Metal Key: pirate reinforcements are endless until you close their door. Defeat pirates to find the Old Metal Key, then shut the door to stop the flow.
• ▸Beat Lord Pirate: in the final room, take down Lord Pirate himself. When he falls, Wu Yang is freed and the quest completes.

Clearing Pirate PQ pays out a solid EXP chunk that scales with your level, which on Zipangu is doubled by our 2x EXP rate, a meaningful push in the 70s. The headline prize, though, is the Lord Pirate Hat line. You do not get a finished hat from a single clear; you collect Lord Pirate Hat Fragments across many runs and trade them to the crafting NPC.

The hat comes in tiers, and each upgrade consumes your previous hat plus more fragments. Be aware that upgrading resets any potential rolled on the hat, so cube and star-force it only after you have the final tier you want.

• ▸Common Lord Pirate Hat: turn in roughly 100 Hat Fragments.
• ▸Average (upgraded) Lord Pirate Hat: one Common hat plus a larger fragment stack.
• ▸Acceptable (top-tier) Lord Pirate Hat: one Average hat plus a much larger fragment stack (around 1,000).
• ▸Bonus EXP on every successful rescue of Wu Yang.

Pirate PQ rewards efficiency over raw damage. A few habits separate clean clears from timer-outs:

• ▸Bring mobbing, not just single-target: the emblem stages spawn waves, so AoE clears them faster than burst.
• ▸Hold position at choke points so the pirate waves walk into your damage instead of scattering.
• ▸Don't leave the party mid-run: leaving the party warps you out of the instance and can strand your crew.
• ▸Class note: any v117 class works, but classes with strong line-clear (mages, Aran, Demon Slayer, Cannoneer) shine on the emblem maps. For job builds, prioritize your core mobbing skill first, then survivability, then your single-target line for the Lord Pirate fight.
• ▸Stock fragments: treat the hat as a long-term grind, run Pirate PQ repeatedly to bank Hat Fragments toward the upgraded tiers.

Pirate PQ is one of the better mid-level party quests in v117, and it sits alongside the rest of our rotation, Kerning PQ, Ludibrium PQ, Orbis PQ, Monster Carnival, and Romeo & Juliet PQ, plus the boss climb through Zakum, Horntail, Pink Bean, and the Black Mage storyline.

Zipangu is a free MapleStory v117.2 server with fair rates, a player-driven meso economy, and strictly no pay-to-win. Download the client, roll a character, hit Level 70, and bring a crew to rescue Wu Yang. Your Lord Pirate Hat is waiting.