The Masked Carnivale

The Masked Carnivale is a series of solo combat challenges for Blue Mages that is unlocked as part of the Blue Mage Job Quests. Many battles are optional, but some are required to progress in job quests.

Unlock

• Complete quest: The Real Folk Blues
• Requirement: Level 50 Blue Mage
• Starting NPC: Maudlin Latool Ja in Ul'dah - Steps of Thal (X:12.5, Y:13.0)

How to Participate

Speak with the Celestium Attendant in Ul'dah - Steps of Thal (X:11.5 Y:13.2).

Stages

The Masked Carnivale is comprised of 32 stages in total. You can view a list of all available stages by speaking with the Celestium attendant. Stages do not need to be completed in numerical order. Many stages consist of multiple separate battles (Acts), although completing an Act does not grant a checkpoint. Note that dying will fail the duty and remove the player from the instance.

Be advised that once you begin a stage, you cannot register or remove active actions.

All stages are level synced and it is not possible to "unsync" any.

The first 25 stages are unlocked automatically, while subsequent stages are unlocked with further progression of blue mage job quests. Stages 26-30 requires Blue Scream of Death, Stage 31 requires Master of Mimicry, and Stage 32 requires A New Gold Standard.

Stages	Level	#	Standard Time	Ideal Time	Act 1	Act 2	Act 3	Gil	Seals	Tomestones
All's Well That Starts Well	50	1	0:30	0:20	Arena Slime Arena Dullahan			3000	50	40 poetics
Much Ado About Pudding	50	2	3:30	2:30	Arena Pudding Arena Marshmallow Arena Bavarois	Arena Gelato Arena Flan Arena Licorice		3000	50	40 poetics
Waiting for Golem	50	3	3:45	2:45	Zipacna			3000	50	40 poetics
Gentlemen Prefer Swords	50	4	3:30	2:35	Arena Bat Arena Wolf	Kreios		3000	50	40 poetics
The Threepenny Turtles	50	5	1:20	0:45	Brotherly Gil Turtle			3000	50	40 poetics
Eye Society	50	6	3:20	2:25	Arena Catoblepas Arena Mandragora	Arena Catoblepas Arena Mandragora Arena Eye		3000	50	40 poetics
A Chorus Slime	50	7	3:30	2:40	Ice Sprite Lava Slime	Ice Sprite Lava Slime	Lava Slime Gladiatorial Node	5000	100	80 poetics
Bomb-edy of Errors	50	8	3:45	2:45	Arena Snoll Arena Bomb	Arena Snoll Arena Progenitrix Arena Cherry Bomb		5000	100	80 poetics
To Kill a Mockingslime	50	9	4:45	3:30	Guimauve			5000	100	80 poetics
A Little Knight Music	50	10	4:30	3:10	Crom Dubh			5000	100	80 poetics
Some Like It Excruciatingly Hot	50	11	3:30	2:30	Arena Gas Bomb	Arena Gas Bomb		5000	100	80 poetics
The Plant-om of the Opera	50	12	4:30	3:10	Arena Roselet	Hydnora		5000	100	80 poetics
Beauty and a Beast	50	13	4:30	3:30	Arena Haagenti Arena Vodoriga	Carmilla		5000	100	80 poetics
Blobs in the Woods	50	14	3:00	2:30	Arena Jam	Arena Jam		5000	100	80 poetics
The Me Nobody Nodes	50	15	4:45	3:45	Bestial Node			5000	100	80 poetics
Sunset Bull-evard	50	16	4:30	3:30	Arena Cyclops	Tikbalang		5000	100	80 poetics
The Sword of Music	50	17	5:30	4:15	Right Claw Left Claw	Kreios		5000	100	80 poetics
Midsummer Night's Explosion	50	18	6:00	4:20	Arena Manticore Firesand Keg	Arena Manticore Firesand Keg		5000	100	80 poetics
On a Clear Day You Can Smell Forever	50	19	5:00	4:00	Reflective Rebekkah	Reflective Rebekkah		5000	100	80 poetics
Miss Typhon	50	20	6:00	5:10	Typhon	Ultros	Ultros Typhon	5000	100	80 poetics
Chimera on a Hot Tin Roof	50	21	4:15	3:15	Arena Imp	Apademak		5000	100	80 poetics
Here Comes the Boom	50	22	5:00	4:00	Arena Grenade	The Forefather		5000	100	80 poetics
Behemoths and Broomsticks	50	23	5:00	3:45	Kronprinz Behemoth			5000	100	80 poetics
Amazing Technicolor Pit Fiends	50	24	6:45	5:40	Arena Viking Arena Magus	Arena Scribe	Epilogi	5000	100	80 poetics
Dirty Rotten Azulmagia	50	25	8:45	7:15	Azulmagia (enemy)	Azulmagia (enemy)	Azulmagia (enemy)	10000	200	160 poetics
Papa Mia	60	26	5:00	4:00	Arena Mirrorknight	Papa Humbaba		5000	100	80 poetics
Lock up Your Snorters	60	27	4:00	2:20	Typhon			5000	100	80 poetics
Dangerous When Dead	60	28	6:00	5:00	Durinn			5000	100	80 poetics
Red, Fraught, and Blue	60	29	8:00	7:00	Shikigami of the Pyre	Shikigami of the Undertow		5000	100	80 poetics
The Catch of the Siegfried	60	30	7:30	6:30	Siegfried	Siegfried	Siegfried	10000	200	160 poetics
Anything Gogo's	70	31	7:40	6:50	Gogo, Master of Mimicry (boss)	Gogo, Master of Mimicry (boss)		10000	200	160 poetics
A Golden Opportunity (duty)	80	32	7:40	6:50	Goldor	Goldor		10000	200	160 poetics

Bonus List

Title	Description
Too Fast, Too Furious	Completed performance faster than the ideal time.
Slow and Steady	Completed performance faster than the standard time.
10 Ways to Die	Used ten or fewer unique spell types.
4 Ways to Die	Used four or fewer unique spell types.
Can't Touch This	Took zero damage.
Ain't Got Time to Bleed	Restored zero HP.
Modus Interruptus	Interrupted a target's spell casting.
A Walk in the Park	Refrained from using Sprint.
Mastery of Fire	Cast only fire- or unaspected spells.
Mastery of Water	Cast only water- or unaspected spells.
Mastery of Earth	Cast only earth- or unaspected spells.
Mastery of Wind	Cast only wind- or unaspected spells.
Mastery of Ice	Cast only ice- or unaspected spells.
Mastery of Lightning	Cast only lightning- or unaspected spells.
Elemental Mastery	Cast spells aspected to all six elements.
Total Mastery	Used actions aspected to all six elements and three damage types (blunt, piercing, slashing).
Enfeeble me Tender	Applied six or more unique enfeeblements.
Enfeeble me Tenderer	Applied nine or more unique enfeeblements.
Let's Get Physical	Used only physical-type actions.
Advanced Spellcasting	Cast only rank 4 or 5 spells.
Beginner Spellcasting	Cast only rank 1 or 2 spells.
Four-faced	Used four or more unique actions that are fired from the face.
One-trick Pony (Hidden)	Used one unique spell (Note: This will decrease score if it is activated)
Giant Slayer (Hidden)	Not interrupting King's Will three times throughout A Little Knight Music.
Trouble with Tentacles (Hidden)	Not killing any Tentacles in Act 3 of Miss Typhon.
Perfect Blue (Hidden)	Get the following challenges during Dirty Rotten Azulmagia: Can't Touch This, "Too Fast, Too Furious", Ain't Got Time to Bleed, and Total Mastery (If spells that change your HP are used - such as   Devour - this will prevent the achievement).
The Celestium's Finest (Hidden)	Get the following challenges during The Catch of the Siegfried: Total Mastery, Can't Touch This, "Too Fast, Too Furious", defeat all three shades on ACT 3 before defeating the original Sigfried (Standing on the electrified ground and briefly getting the Electrocution debuff will fail the feat).
Pure Azure (Hidden)	Get the following challenge during Anything Gogo's: "Too Fast, Too Furious", receiving one or more Vulnerability Up debuff will fail this feat.
Going for Gold (Hidden)	Get the following challenge during A Golden Opportunity: "Elemental Mastery" and "A Walk in the Park". Destroying the crystal in Act 2 will fail this feat.

Tips

• If the current bonus objectives allow it, then an instant-kill combo (  The Ram's Voice +   Ultravibration), or a pseudo-limit-break combo (  Off-guard +   Whistle +   Moon Flute +   Final Sting) can be used to clear stages quickly and easily.
  • Note that the latter combo results in your death, so damage the enemy a bit first to ensure the Final Sting hit will kill. Additionally, the "Brush with Death" debuff it applies will prevent you from using the combo again for 10 minutes.
  • If the enemy doesn't allow physical damage, then instead do   Toad Oil +   Peculiar Light +   Bristle +   Moon Flute +   Self-destruct.
• The "Enfeeble me Tender" and "Enfeeble me Tenderer" objectives count standard enfeeblements such as Stun, as well as unique enfeeblements such as   Addle, and unusual enfeeblements such as Bleed (from   Song of Torment) or Windburn (from   Feather Rain).
• The "Beginner Spellcasting" and "Advanced Spellcasting" objectives only count spells that are cast during the stage.
  • This means that   Aetheric Mimicry (a rank 4 spell) can be used before the stage to get the buff, without violating the "only rank 1 and 2" restriction of Beginner Spellcasting.
  • Role actions such as   Addle or   Sleep, which do not have a rank, also do not violate the requirements. Therefore, they can be used freely.
• The following spells count as "fired from the face" for the "Four-faced" objective:
  •   Flame Thrower
  •   Aqua Breath
  •   Glower
  •   Level 5 Petrify
  •   Flying Sardine
  •   Snort
  •   The Look
  •   Bad Breath
  •   Sticky Tongue
  •   Ink Jet
  •   Northerlies
  •   Electrogenesis
  •   Perpetual Ray
  •   Reflux
  •   Devour
  •   Blaze
  •   Mustard Bomb

Enemy Weaknesses

Many enemies that appear in the Masked Carnivale are weak to a particular element, which can be confirmed when viewing the list of stages. Use this to your advantage and set your actions accordingly.

The elemental weakness of enemies is also indicated by an icon above their display names.

Results

After completing a performance, your clear time, bonuses, and score are displayed.

Bonuses are awarded for fulfilling certain conditions and affect the score.

Weekly Targets

Weekly targets are available for certain performances, indicated with an icon.

There are three levels of difficulty for weekly targets:

• Novice (blue) - Only requires clearing the stage.
• Moderate (white) - Requires 1 objective in addition to clearing the stage.
• Advanced (gold) - Requires 2-3 objectives in addition to clearing the stage.

To view the conditions, select a performance with a weekly target, marked with an icon. This information can also be viewed in the Timers menu.

The weekly reset occurs every Tuesday at 8 a.m. GMT. The following list converts that for several time-zones and their respective daylight savings times (where applicable), though it is not all-encompassing.

Weekly reset time (on Tuesday)

Time Zone	U.S. Pacific	U.S. Eastern	Central Europe	Japan	Australia Eastern
Standard Time	12 a.m.	3 a.m.	9 a.m.	5 p.m.	6 p.m.
Daylight Savings Time	1 a.m.	4 a.m.	10 a.m.	—	7 p.m.

Weekly Rewards

Level	Gil	Allied Seal	Poetics Tomestones	Frequency
Novice	3,000	100	80	Weekly
Moderate	5,000	150	120	Weekly
Elite	10,000	300	240	Weekly

Weekly totals:

• 18,000
• 550
• 440

Weekly schedule

Weekly targets are not random - instead, there are 20 distinct pre-built weeks, which loop in order.

Notably, only stages 02 through 19 (excluding stage 05) are eligible to appear in weeklies. Most objectives can appear, with the exceptions of "Mastery of Ice", "Total Mastery", and hidden objectives.

Currently, it is week 15 (Dec 17, 08:00:00 AM GMT - Dec 24, 07:59:59 AM GMT)

• The numbering here uses the week of July 17 - 24, 2023 as a starting point (the first week following Patch 6.45). This is because the Masked Carnivale's weekly objectives directly correspond to the Blue Mage Log's weekly targets, and Patch 6.45 was the most recent update to the latter.

The schedule of objectives for the 20 weeks is as follows:

Week	Stages	Objectives
Week 1	11. Some Like It Excruciatingly Hot	-
	15. The Me Nobody Nodes	Mastery of Earth
	07. A Chorus Slime	Too Fast, Too Furious Can't Touch This Mastery of Wind
Week 2	14. Blobs in the Woods	-
	08. Bomb-edy of Errors	Beginner Spellcasting
	04. Gentlemen Prefer Swords	Enfeeble Me Tenderer Beginner Spellcasting
Week 3	07. A Chorus Slime	-
	03. Waiting for Golem	Mastery of Water
	18. Midsummer Night's Explosion	Too Fast, Too Furious Advanced Spellcasting
Week 4	13. Beauty and a Beast	-
	09. To Kill a Mockingslime	Enfeeble Me Tender
	03. Waiting for Golem	Ain't Got Time to Bleed A Walk in the Park 4 Ways to Die
Week 5	10. A Little Knight Music	-
	14. Blobs in the Woods	Ain't Got Time to Bleed
	08. Bomb-edy of Errors	Too Fast, Too Furious 4 Ways to Die Mastery of Water
Week 6	07. A Chorus Slime	-
	12. The Plant-om of the Opera	Slow and Steady
	17. The Sword of Music	10 Ways to Die Four-faced
Week 7	15. The Me Nobody Nodes	-
	07. A Chorus Slime	Advanced Spellcasting
	06. Eye Society	Ain't Got Time to Bleed A Walk in the Park Let's Get Physical
Week 8	06. Eye Society	-
	09. To Kill a Mockingslime	10 Ways to Die
	16. Sunset Bull-evard	Enfeeble Me Tender A Walk in the Park Four-faced
Week 9	11. Some Like It Excruciatingly Hot	-
	13. Beauty and a Beast	Mastery of Fire
	02. Much Ado About Pudding	Elemental Mastery 10 Ways to Die
Week 10	15. The Me Nobody Nodes	-
	04. Gentlemen Prefer Swords	Mastery of Lightning
	10. A Little Knight Music	Ain't Got Time to Bleed 10 Ways to Die Mastery of Fire
Week 11	06. Eye Society	-
	11. Some Like It Excruciatingly Hot	Advanced Spellcasting
	14. Blobs in the Woods	Too Fast, Too Furious Can't Touch This A Walk in the Park
Week 12	13. Beauty and a Beast	-
	17. The Sword of Music	Enfeeble Me Tender
	09. To Kill a Mockingslime	Elemental Mastery Modus Interruptus
Week 13	10. A Little Knight Music	-
	19. On a Clear Day You Can Smell Forever	Slow and Steady
	11. Some Like It Excruciatingly Hot	Too Fast, Too Furious A Walk in the Park Mastery of Lightning
Week 14	12. The Plant-om of the Opera	-
	02. Much Ado About Pudding	Too Fast, Too Furious
	15. The Me Nobody Nodes	Modus Interruptus A Walk in the Park Four-faced
Week 15	09. To Kill a Mockingslime	-
	06. Eye Society	Too Fast, Too Furious
	18. Midsummer Night's Explosion	Let's Get Physical A Walk in the Park
Week 16	12. The Plant-om of the Opera	-
	10. A Little Knight Music	4 Ways to Die
	19. On a Clear Day You Can Smell Forever	Too Fast, Too Furious 10 Ways to Die
Week 17	14. Blobs in the Woods	-
	16. Sunset Bull-evard	10 Ways to Die
	09. To Kill a Mockingslime	Slow and Steady Enfeeble Me Tenderer
Week 18	08. Bomb-edy of Errors	-
	18. Midsummer Night's Explosion	Slow and Steady
	13. Beauty and a Beast	Advanced Spellcasting Slow and Steady
Week 19	09. To Kill a Mockingslime	-
	11. Some Like It Excruciatingly Hot	Basic Spellcasting
	12. The Plant-om of the Opera	Too Fast, Too Furious 10 Ways to Die
Week 20	08. Bomb-edy of Errors	-
	13. Beauty and a Beast	Too Fast, Too Furious
	03. Waiting for Golem	Slow and Steady Enfeeble Me Tender

Achievements

The Masked Carnivale is associated with the following achievements:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
Smokin' I	5	Complete a single stage at the Masked Carnivale.	-	4.5
Smokin' II	5	Complete 5 stages at the Masked Carnivale.	-	4.5
Smokin' III	5	Complete 10 stages at the Masked Carnivale.	-	4.5
Smokin' IV	5	Complete 15 stages at the Masked Carnivale.	-	4.5
Smokin' V	5	Complete 20 stages at the Masked Carnivale.	-	4.5
Smokin' VI	5	Complete 25 stages at the Masked Carnivale.	Mask of the Blue	4.5
Smokin' VII	5	Complete 30 stages at the Masked Carnivale.	-	5.15
The Harder They Fall	10	Achieve the "Giant Slayer" feat at the Masked Carnivale.	-	4.5
Octopath Traveler	10	Achieve the "Trouble with Tentacles" feat at the Masked Carnivale.	-	4.5
Something Borrowed	10	Achieve the "Perfect Blue" feat at the Masked Carnivale.	Perfect Blue	4.5
None More Blue	10	Achieve the "The Celestium's Finest" feat at the Masked Carnivale.	Champion of the Blue	5.15
Violets Are Violet	10	Achieve the "Pure Azure" feat at the Masked Carnivale.	Of the Truest Blue	5.45
All That Glitters Is Blue	10	Achieve the “Going for Gold” feat at the Masked Carnivale.	Glitterier than Goldor	6.45