On most of the "boss fight" government quests, you can pick up a one-time-per-difficulty-per-character reward by speaking to the principal/chief's assistant before you turn in the quest for completion. Most of them are kind of average by the time you get to them, but some stuff like 40% Hit...
That quest isn't around anymore, by the quest author's request. If you're just looking for Mericarols, I think the usual alternate quest is Phantasmal World 4 up until the third or fifth floor and recreate after that. If you're not a fan of recreating quests rapidly, Phantasmal World 1 is...
Decided it was time to make something of some of the mags in my bank and decided to try using this to make a 12/0/0/188 Mind mag. Around mag level 30 it looked like it wouldn't be able to hit level 35 without getting that 13th Defense level, so I got curious about how badly I messed up. One...