Mabinogi Life

Step-By-Step Beginner's Guide to Mabinogi

2008-02-01T06:26:57Z

1.Once you enter the town, talk to the old Town Mayor NPC (Duncan) standing by a house near a big tree. (Choose only the first left-most button in the dialog window for all conversations in the game unless stated.)

2.Open the Quest window and click on the yellow button. This yellow button is called the Complete button.

3.You will get the Rest skill quest immediately.

4.Talk to the Cloth NPC girl (Nora) standing outside the Inn (located directly south of the Mayor's house) until you see the Travel Diary. Click the 3rd option/keyword in your Travel Diary on the first page until you see a picture of a sitting Nora.

5.Open your Skill window. You should see a skill called Rest.

6.Click on the Use button in your Skill window.

7.Click the Get button in your Skill window. Now you have the Rest skill.

8.Open your Quest window and click on the Complete button to finish your Rest skill quest.

9.Now you are given a combat training quest which has 4 tasks.

10.Go to the Teacher NPC (Ranald) and talk to him. Ranald is situated at the west part of the town. You should get 25% of this quest completed after you talk to Ranald.

11.Keep hitting the punching poles at Ranald's training school until you see the words "Practice Completed". You should get 50% of this training quest completed now.

12.Open your Skill window and click the Get button for your Melee Combat Mastery skill. You should get 75% of this training quest completed.

13.Talk to the Teacher NPC (Ranald) again. This will finish the entire training quest.

14.Open your Quest window and click on the Complete button to finish your Combat skill quest.

15.In the middle of your training, you should get another quest to find 1 Small Green Gem.

16.To get a Small Green Gem, hit some barrels or lamp posts until they drop a Small Green Gem.

17.Once you get the gem, open your Quest window and click on the Complete button as usual.

18.Now you will be given a Gathering Axe Coupon.

19.Talk to the Teacher NPC (Ranald) one more time until you see the Travel Diary.

20.Select the 3rd option/keyword on the first page to get the Defence skill quest scroll.

21.At the same time, you will recieve a Full Ring Mail (Delivery) in your inventory. The Ring Mail is a delivery quest item and you cannot use it. If you accidentally cancel this delivery quest, throw away the Full Ring Mail in your inventory and goto Step 19 again.

22.Now head for the Weapon and Armor store located further down from the Inn.

23.Talk to the Blacksmith NPC (Ferghus) and the Full Ring Mail will disappear from your inventory. The Defence skill quest is now 50% completed.

24.Go back to the Teacher NPC (Ranald) and talk to him.

25.Open the Quest window and click on the Complete button. You've just finished the Defence skill quest. The Teacher NPC (Ranald) will pass you an Action! Defence Skill book.

26.Right click on the book and Read it.

27.Close the book and then select the left button (OK I want to Read the Book).

28.You character will now try to digest the contents of the book. If the character fails, repeat Step 26 until the Defence skill is understood. If the stamina is low or empty, just wait for a while until you have enough stamina to read the book again.

29.Open the Skill window and click on the Get button next to the Defence skill.

30.Go inside the building behind the Teacher NPC (Ranald). Talk to the red hair girl wearing a school uniform (Lassar) until you see your Travel Diary.

31.Click the 3rd option on the first page of the Travel Diary and you will get to see Smash skill in your Skill window.

32.To learn the Smash skill, go to the Blacksmith NPC (Ferghus) and talk to him again.

33.When you see your Travel Diary after talking to Ferghus, go to the last bookmark or page 4 and select the one and only option on that page. If you have spoken to some NPCs other than the ones I've mentioned before, you might see more than 1 options/keywords on this page. In this case, just click on every options you can find in the last few pages of your Travel Diary.

34.Check your inventory. You will find a new book called Easy Steps to Smash Skill.

35.Repeat Step 26 to 28 until Smash skill is understood.

36.Open your Skill window and click on the Get button next to the Smash skill.

37.Now head to the most southern part of the map and enter the next map below. Keep going south by following the path until you see the Wood Cutter NPC (Tracy) standing under a big tree. Do NOT attack the wolves you encounter on your way there.

38.You will be given a quest to gather firewoods while you are on the way to meet Tracy.

39.Talk to the Wood Cutter NPC (Tracy) and you get 50% of the quest completed. You will be given a Gathering Axe in exchange for the Coupon after you talked to Tracy.

40.Find some smaller trees and collect 10 Firewoods with your new axe.

41.Talk to the Wood Cutter NPC (Tracy) again after you have gathered enough Firewoods.

42.Open your Quest window and click on the Complete button.

43.A hunting quest will be given to you once you click on the Complete button. In this quest, you are required to kill 10 adult Brown Foxes near the Wood Cutter NPC (Tracy). By now, you should be at level 2.

Tips on hunting foxes: -Do NOT kill foxes if you have not learnt Defence skill yet. -Hotkey your Defence and Smash skills. -Keep a distance away from the fox after it has fallen from your punches and then quickly use Defence skill to block its incoming attack. -Attack immediately after you have blocked its attack. -Do NOT engage more than 1 fox at the same time. -Try NOT to get yourself surrounded by too many foxes. -Run away in a straight line if many foxes are attacking you. -Beware that all mobs can gain level like you players and when that happens, their HP will be full as well. -Rest when you're low on HP. -Eat the bread given to you at the start of the game if your stamina is low. -After killing 1 or 2 foxes, you should gain a level. Open your Skill window and advance your Melee Combat Mastery. Note that advancing a skill requires APs (Ability Points) and APs are harder to acquire as you increase in level. Therefore, it's wise to prioritize which skills to advance first. -If you have the Critical Hit skill available, get it as well. (Critical Hit skill is learnt automatically after killing mobs.)

44.After killing 10 adult Brown Foxes, open your Quest window and click on the Complete button.

45.Now you should be at least level 3 and have enough gold (at least 200) from the Wood Cutter NPC's quests to buy a Wooden Stick and a Gathering Knife. You will also notice 2 more new quests in your Quest window. One is a Wool collection quest and the other is a Weaving quest.

46.Return to the town and buy the Wooden Stick (100 gold) from the Blacksmith NPC (Ferghus). To purchase items from NPCs, you usually click on the 2nd button (when there are more than 1 button) in the dialog box. I'll let you figure out by yourself what the 3rd button actually does. Hint: It has something to do with your current equipment and money.

47.Now go find the Shepherd boy (Deian) standing near to a wooden cabin located at the far north-east part of the town. Talk to Deian.

48.After you've talk to Deian, you should see that one of the quest is now 50% completed. Yes, this is the Wool collection quest.

49.Talk to Shepherd boy (Deian) again and buy a Gathering Knife from him for 50 gold.

50.Equip your character with the Gathering Knife and click on a sheep to shave its Wool.

51.After you have fetched 20 Wools, return to the Shepherd boy (Deian) and talk to him.

52.Click on the Complete button in your Quest window now.

53.Upon completing the Wool collection quest, you will receive Wings of the Goddess and another hunting quest. This hunting quest is to get a Red Fox Evil Scroll from the Red Foxes located further up to the north-east of the Shepherd boy (Deian). Remember to equip your Wooden Stick before you fight the foxes. I'll leave this up to you to complete yourself because the scroll is a rare drop.

54.Next, head back to the town center and visit the cemetery (just above the Mayor's house) to gather as many Cobwebs as you can. Practice your combat skills against the White Spiders there at the same time.

55.After getting at least 10 Cobwebs, go to the Tailor shop in the town.

56.Talk to the Tailor NPC (Malcolm) and select the 3rd option on the first page of the Travel Diary to learn Weaving skill.

57.Before you start to weave, unequip all your weapons and leave you hands empty.

58.Click on the spinning wheel to use the Weaving skill.

59.Drop 5 Cobwebs into the Production Form and press the Start button.

60.Success rate is usually very low for weaving Cobwebs. You can weave sheep Wools instead but I have not tried it yet. (It's much faster to collect Cobwebs than to shave sheeps.) Keep repeating Step 58 to 59 until you successfully produce a Fine Yarn.

61.Once you get a Fine Yarn, you should see that your Weaving skill is 100% completed. You do not need to GET the Weaving skill because it requires AP, unless you are going to be a Tailor. Also note that you must weave the yard yourself because the quest does not recognize the yard if it is from someone else.

62.After you have made a Fine Yard, talk to the Tailor NPC (Malcolm) again to finish the Weaving quest.

63.Congratulation. You have just finished the beginner's guide. By now, you should have all the basic novice skills and figured out how to complete the rest of the quests in this game. Subsequent quests are for higher levels, e.g. Campfire, Dungeon, Legend of 3 Heroes quest (available in main server only) etc.

There are another type of temporary quests called Arbeits which are explained later below.

Other Quests

Explore Dunbarton quest: Find and talk to Manus in the second town called Dunbarton and get 500 Exp. You will get this quest after level 6.

Gift of Nao quest: Talk to Town Mayor (Duncan) and get another free Bread and 100 Exp. You will get this quest after level 8.

Campfire quest: 1.First talk to the Inn NPC (Piaras). 2.Select the 3rd option in the first page of Piaras' Travel Diary. 3.Then click on all the options until no more appears in the pages after the last tab. Note the system messages appearing. 4.Go to the Shepherd NPC (Deian). 5.Click on all the options in the pages after the last tab of Deian's Travel Diary until you receive a Hunting Quest. 6.This Hunting Quest from Deian is to kill 5 Gray Wolves within 1 game day. (If you cannot meet the deadline, cancel the Hunting Quest and repeat Step 4.) 7.After killing 5 Gray Wolves, talk to Deian again. 8.Complete the quest to receive a book called Campfire Manual and 5 Firewoods. 9.Read the book to learn the Campfire skill. 10.Use the skill and drop the 5 Firewoods to make a campfire. (You need to find an empty space to build the fire.) 11.Get Campfire skill to Rank 9.

Dungeon quest: This is a 3-part quest. 1.Talk to the Guard NPC (Trefor). 2.Go through the first dungeon (Albi?) once. You must open at least 1 Treasure Box after the Boss room. You can either do this alone or in a party. 3.Talk to Trefor one more time. Complete the quest to get 1 AP and 100 Exp.

Legend of 3 Heroes quest: This quest is only available in main server only. It is very complex and not suitable for beginners therefore we will not discuss the 3 Heroes quest in here.

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part-time jobs

2008-02-01T06:25:33Z

Note: Arbeits = part-time jobs

You trigger them by clicking on the 4th option in your Travel Diary when you talk to a NPC at certain time.

Once you accept an arbeit, the arbeit info will be reflected in your quest. A picture of the NPC who gave you the arbeit will be shown in the quest box as well.

Arbeits have a time limit of 9 game hours and will expire if you cannot complete them and/or report to the originating NPCs in time.

The amount of time left to complete an arbeit is shown on the top-right corner of your screen once you accepted it.

You are given 1 more minute (real-time) to rush back to the originating NPC with the quest 100% completed to collect your reward, when you see the words "Arbeit Report Time".

For collection quests, you can still claim 50% of the reward and exp if you can bring more than half the quantity of the items required for the quest back to the NPC before the arbeit expires. For example, you can get 180 gold and 50 exp if you return 3 out of 5 berries to the Grocery girl.

However, for delivery quests, you must usually complete all the requirements to get the rewards.

If you fail to complete an arbeit in time, the arbeit info with the NPC picture will be removed from the quest box automatically.

When you fail a delivery quest, the delivery item becomes useless and stays in your inventory.

Arbeits are only available in the day. I usually start to gather arbeit items at night.

Most NPCs, except for the Shepard boy (Deian), give random arbeits. Deian only offers 1 kind of arbeit.

You can only take one arbeit at a time.

Different NPCs offers arbeits at a different but fix time in the day.

Each NPC can only offer a limited number of arbeits to the player in a game day. Therefore, if there are too many players waiting for an arbeit, you might not be able to get one.

Arbeits pay higher on Tuesdays (Korean Time).

Guide to fast money for beginners

Tir Chonaill's Arbeits:

Here is how you get a decent amount of gold and exp quickly in 1 game day by doing an arbeit course in the newbie town known as Tir Chonaill. (However, I highly recommend you do the arbeit course in Dunbarton described further down in this section instead because arbeits in Dunbarton are mostly delivery quests and more straight forward to accomplish.)

Tir Chonaill During Night Time -Gather 10-20 Wools from sheeps. (You'll need a Gathering Knife or any bladed weapon to shave sheeps.) -Gather 5 berries by hitting bushes and trees with your bare hands if you still have the stamina and time. (This is not important anymore since CP1 makes it harder to get berry quests now.)

Tir Chonaill @ 9:00am (High Priority) -Go to the Potion shop/house north of the town. -Talk to the Potion NPC (Dilys) who sells potions inside the house. -Get and accept the arbeit from Dilys. -Her quests are:

1:Task: Collect 10 sheep Wools. Exp: +100 Reward: 225 gold

2.Task: Deliver potion to the Town Mayor (Duncan)/Teacher guy (Ranald)/Grocery girl (Caitin)/Shepherd boy (Deian). The destination is random, so it's best you remember the NPC names in town. Exp: +100 Reward: 90 gold

Time left: 9 hours.

-Talk to the Potion NPC (Dilys) again after you have 6 hours left for this arbeit. (Dilys will not reward you even if you finished her task before that time.) -When reporting an arbeit, just click on the first left-most button in the NPC dialog box. Don't click on the second button if you see one since it will bring you to a trading window. -If you cannot complete the delivery arbeit, throw away the potion in your inventory. This applies to all delivery items for delivery quests. -Try to complete the Potion NPC's arbeit as soon as possible and do the second wool arbeit. If you have no idea what is requested from you in this arbeit, cancel it and go to the Shepherd boy (Deian) by 10am so that you can proceed to the next arbeit.

Tir Chonaill @ 10:00am but before 3:00pm (Highest Priority) -Rush to the Shepherd boy (Deian) located in the far north-east part of the town, standing next to a wooden cabin. -Talk to Deian. -Accept the arbeit from him. -His one and only quest is:

Task: Collect 10 sheep Wools Exp: +100 Reward: 225 gold

Time left: 12 hours

-Immediately talk to Deian again if you have 10 wools already after you have 10 hours left to complete the arbeit.

Tir Chonaill @ 10:00am-11:30am (Low Priority) -Go to the Inn located directly south of the Mayor's house. -Talk to the Inn NPC (Piaras) inside. -Accept the arbeit from Piaras. -His quests are:

1.Task: Collect 10 Spikes Exp: +100 Reward: Around 100 gold

2.Task: Collect 10 Firewoods Exp: +100 Reward: Around 100 gold

3.Task: Collect some Branches (The Korean player told me she took this quest before.) Exp: Unknown Reward: Unknown

4.Task: Delivery quests. These quests usually require you to talk to the Cloth NPC (Nora) outside the Inn and then deliver a cake or a bottle of wine to the Grocery NPC (Caitin) or the Inn NPC (Piaras). Exp: +100 Reward: 90 gold

Time left: 9-6 hours

-Talk to the Inn NPC (Piaras) again to get your reward after you have collected the items. (If you are going to do the quests for the Inn guy, most likely you won't have enough time to get the Grocery NPC's quest at noon. Furthermore, it pays too little for so much work.)

Tir Chonaill @ 12:00pm Exactly (High Priority) -Go to the Grocery shop in town. -Talk to the Grocery NPC (Caitin) who sells food, e.g. bread, cheese, meat, etc. -Accept the arbeit from Caitin. -Her quests are:

1.Task: Collect 5 Berries by hitting bushes or trees. (I usually get this quest before CP1. Now it's rare to get this quest.) Exp: +100 Reward: 330 gold

2.Task: Collect 10 Barley (using a Sickle) and make 1 Barley Flour at the windmill. (You need to pay the little girl in front of the windmill, Alissa, to use it.) Exp: +100 Reward: 330 gold

3.Task: Collect 10 Wheat (using a Sickle) and make 1 Wheat Flour at the windmill. (You need to pay the little girl in front of the windmill, Alissa, to use it.) Exp: +100 Reward: 330 gold

4.Task: Deliver bread to the Potion NPC (Dilys) or Inn NPC (Piaras). Possible other random destinations. Exp: +100 Reward: 135 gold

Time left: 9 hours

-Talk to Caitin again after you have 7 hours left to get your reward once you have collected the items.

Tir Chonaill @ 12:00pm-3:00pm (Optional) -Go to the church which is in the west part of the town. -Talk to the Priestress (Endelyon) standing outside the church. -Accept the arbeit from Endelyon. -Her quests are:

1.Task: Collect 15 Eggs Exp: +100 Reward: 4 bottles of Blessing Water (Use Blessing Water on your equipment so that they do not drop off easily when you are killed in a fight. You equipment do not get damaged easily as well.)

2.Task: Collect 10 Barley (You'll need a Sickle to harvest in the fields.) Exp: +100 Reward: 4 bottles of Blessing Water

3.Task: Collect 10 Wheat (You'll need a Sickle for this as well.) Exp: +100 Reward: 4 bottles of Blessing Water

Time left: 9-4 hours

-Talk to the Priestress again after you have 5 hours left to get your reward once you have collected the items.

Tir Chonaill After 2:00pm -Go to the Blacksmith NPC (Ferghus). His weapon and armor store is located further down from the inn. -Talk to him and accept his arbeit.

1.Task: Deliver mail to random NPCs. (Make sure you have enough room in your invertory to accept this arbeit.) Exp: +100 Reward: ??? gold

Time left: <6 hours

-Talk to Ferghus again after you have delivered the mail to get your reward.

Tir Chonaill Before 4:00pm (The last possible available arbeit for the day.) -Go to the Tailor NPC (Malcolm). His shop is inside the town. -Talk to him and accept his arbeit.

1.Task: Deliver some clothes to the Grocery NPC (Caitin)/red hair girl (Lassar) and report back to the Tailor guy. The destination is random as well. Exp: +100 Reward: 90 gold

2.Task: Unknown. I guessed it is some job that requires you to make something. Anyone has information on his quests? Reward: >1000 gold

Time left: <3 hours

-The trick to complete most arbeits is to memorize certain Korean keywords like "Berry", "Wheat", "Barley", "Egg", and all the NPC names in the newbie town. -More info on arbeits can be found here http://letsmabinogi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sidejob.htm (in Japanese) -You can do up to 5 arbeits in 1 game day if you can organize your time and quest items properly. -If you are very lucky and encounter all the high paying arbeits, you can earn up to >800 gold in 1 game day. -Repeat the arbeits the next day until you get a decent amount of money to buy a Short Sword or Hammer since it is a good weapon for a novice.

Dunbarton's Arbeits:

Before you start to fill up your money bag, you may want to familiarize yourself with the names and pictures of the NPCs in the second town called Dunbarton here http://www.mabinogi.com/4th/2_info1_dunbarton.asp.

The following arbeits are arranged in such an order that you should be able to finish all of them easily (except for the tailoring and blessing water arbeits) if the server is not too populated.

Dunbarton During Night Time -Gather 10 Wools from sheeps in the west fields outside Dunbarton. (You'll need a Gathering Knife or any bladed weapon to shave sheeps.) -Gather 5 Berries by hitting trees with your bare hands if you still have the stamina and time.

Dunbarton @ 9:00am Exactly (Highest Priority) -Go to the Potion shop which is located in the south-eastern part of the town. -Talk to the Potion NPC (Manus) who sells potions inside the Potion shop. -Get and accept the arbeit from Manus. -His one and only quest is:

Task: Collect 10 sheep Wools. Exp: +100 Reward: 225 gold

Time left: 9 hours

-Talk to the Potion NPC (Manus) again after you have 6 hours left for this arbeit. (Manus will not reward you even if you finished his task before that time.) -When reporting an arbeit, as always, just click on the first left-most button in the NPC dialog box. Don't click on the second button if you see one since it will bring you to a trading window.

Dunbarton @ 10:00am-11:00am (High Priority) -Go to the Public Office (the biggest building in Dunbarton). -Talk to the office lady (Eavan) standing at the Public Office. -Accept the arbeit from Eavan. -Her quests are:

1.Task: Deliver Pearl Necklace to the Blacksmith NPC (Nerys) located in the south-eastern part of Dunbarton. Exp: +80 Reward: 110 gold

2.Task: Deliver Ginseng to the Potion NPC (Manus) also located in the south-eastern part of the town. Exp: +80 Reward: 110 gold

Time left: <8 hours

-Talk to Walter immediately again after you have finished the delivery to get your reward.

Dunbarton @ 9:30am-12:00pm (Highest Priority For Players With Tailoring Skill, Optional Otherwise) -Go inside the Clothing shop next to Walter. There is a spinning wheel outside the Clothing shop. -Talk to the funky NPC (Simon) in the Clothing shop. -Accept the arbeit from Simon. -His quests are:

1.Task: Deliver Suit or Dress to Manus, Nerys, Stewart or other random NPCs. Exp: +90 Reward: 90 gold

2.Task - For Tailors Only: Make a couple of Suits/Dresses/Caps. (All you need is Tailoring Skill and a Tailoring Kit, and then use the skill as per normal with the materials provided upon acceptance of the arbeit. You cannot use your own materials for making the quest items. Also make sure your inventory has enough space to accept the materials from Simon. If there are too many players doing arbeits at Dunbarton, you may want to skip the arbeits prior to this. For more details on Tailoring Skill, read the section on Doll up your character.) Exp: +150 Reward: >500 gold

Time left: 12-8 hours

-Talk to Simon immediately again after you have 7 hours left to get your reward once you have finished the delivery or tailoring. -Try to finish this arbeit as quickly as possible so that you won't miss the next important arbeit.

Dunbarton @ 12:00pm-2:00pm (Highest Priority) -Go to the Bakery shop between the Public Office and Walter. -Talk to the granny NPC (Glenis) who sells bread, cheese, meat etc. -Accept the arbeit from Glenis. -Her quests are:

1.Collect 5 bottles of Milk. (Bottles will be provided. Just go find a cow outside Dunbarton in the south-western/south fields. Equip a Bottle in your hand and click on the cow to milk it. This is probably the most anticipated arbeit for anyone in Dunbarton.) Exp: +100 Reward: 450 gold

2.Collect 5 Berries by hitting trees. Exp: +100 Reward: 330 gold

3.Deliver Large Cheese to Blacksmith NPC (Nerys). Exp: +100 Reward: 85 gold

4.Deliver Large Meat to Potion NPC (Manus). Exp: +100 Reward: 85 gold

5.Deliver a Piece of Cake to Bookstore NPC (Aeira) around the north-eastern part of town. Exp: +100 Reward: 85 gold

Time left: 9 hours

-Talk to Glenis again after you have 7 hours left to get your reward.

Dunbarton @ 12:00pm-3:00pm (Optional) -Go to the church which is in the north-west part of the town. -Talk to the Priestress (Kristell) standing outside the church. -Accept the arbeit from Kristell. -Her quests are:

2.Task: Collect 10 Potatoes with a Weeding Hoe. (Potato fields can be found north or south outside Dunbarton.) Exp: +100 Reward: 4 bottles of Blessing Water

Time left: 9-4 hours

-Talk to Kristell again after you have 5 hours left and get your reward once you have collected the items.

Dunbarton @ 2:00pm-4:00pm (High Priority) -Go to the bookstore around the north-east part of Dunbarton. -Talk to the Bookstore NPC (Aeira). -Accept the arbeit from Aeira. -Her quests are:

1.Task: Deliver Anthology to the Priestress (Kristell) located in the north-west part of the town. Exp: +80 Reward: 90 gold

2.Task: Deliver Ring to the old lady at the Bakery shop (Glenis). Exp: +80 Reward: 90 gold

Time left:

Cheapest Way To Learn Magic

2008-02-01T06:20:56Z

To learn offensive magic, speak to the red hair girl (Lassar) in the building behind the Teacher NPC (Ranald). Choose the 5th option in the first page of your Travel Diary when you talk to Lassar.

You need to pay 4000 gold first to learn magic. After you pay Lassar, you will not get Magic skills immediately. You have to attend her classes in the morning at 10:00-11:00am. Go to Lassar the next morning and click the same 5th option in your Travel Diary to take her lesson. You have to attend a total of 3 separate classes (including the one you attend when you pay 4000 gold) in order to get your first magic skill, which is Icebolt.

You don't need to buy any spell books from Lassar to learn Icebolt. To learn fireball and lightning magic, you'll need to pay another 4000 gold and 7000 gold respectively, and repeat the above steps again. The sequence of learning magic from Lassar is fixed, that is ice, fire and lastly lightning.

I recommend that mage users should acquire their skills as described above instead of buying books even if you don't need ice or fire magic. (It is not compulsory for you to GET all the spells before you can learn another.) You willl get INT after you learn the last magic from Lassar.

Heal is a support magic and as the name implies, it rejuvenates your health point but NOT heal your wounds. You need a skill called Firstaid to heal wounds which is discussed in the next section.

In order to get Heal skill, you need to buy a book called "Healing: The basic of sorcery" from Lassar and use it. It costs 9800 gold. By the way, books are non-transferable items.

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Doll up your character

2008-02-01T06:20:15Z

You can make your own clothes instead of buying them from the Tailor guy. To make your own clothes, you need to buy specific items from the Cloth girl (Nora) standing outside the Inn.

So far I only know how to make a Popo's Skirt. You will need:

-Tailoring Kit x 1 -Tailoring Manual (Popo's Skirt) x 1 -Cheap Cloth x 1 -Cheap Dye x 1 -Common Dye x 1

-Then equip the Tailoring Kit on your character's left hand first, then place the Tailoring Manual in the other hand. -Click on your Skill button and use the Tailoring skill. (You automatically get Tailoring skill once you equip the 2 items mentioned.) -Now place all the other items you just bougth in the Production Form and click on the start button.

You need a higher ranked Tailoring skill to make some other clothes.

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Hunting tactics with a sword

2008-02-01T06:17:55Z

White Spiders/Foxes/Raccoons (Easy): 1.Run up to a target and hit all you can before it falls to the ground (You can use smash instead if you think your Smash skill is stronger.) 2.Keep a distance from the target 3.Watch the target's reaction 4.If the target charges at you, keep running until it slows down or else do step 5 5.Use Defence skill and wait for the target to charge again (Defence skill takes time to activate.) 6.You will be able to block its attack with your defence and then hit it as hard as you can again 7.Repeat step 2

Wolves (Tricky): 1.Run up to a target. 2.Hit all you can before the target falls to the ground. 3.Use Defence and keep a distance from the target immediately. 4.Keep an eye on your target and see if it flashes (it is using a skill when it flashes). 5.If the target does not flash and rushes at you after it has fallen, it is using a normal attack. Your Defence skill should be able to block it. Once you defended, do step 1. 6.If the target flashes and rushes at you right after it has fallen, it is going to use Smash. Quickly cancel your Defence and hit the target. After you whack it, do step 3. 7.If the target flashes and starts to bark at you, go next to the target and wait. (Do not cancel your defence yet.) 8.If the target circles around you, try to get as close to it as possible. 9.When you are close to the target and it flashes, immediately cancel your Defence and do step 1. You must hit as soon as it flashes or else it can dodge your attacks. 10.If it uses normal attack, defend and do step 2.

Bears (Hard): 1.Before you attack a target, find the closest tree for cover 2.Run up to a target and hit all you can before it falls to the ground 3.Run towards that tree and hide behind it (This will interrupt its rush attack on you.) 4.Wait for the bear to use its Defence skill. 5.Repeat step 1 (I'm not sure about this part... I only played with a party when it comes to hunting bears. The other party members usually take advantage at this moment to hit the bear when it is caught behind the tree.)

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About Enchant Scrolls and Enchant Skill

2008-02-01T06:16:25Z

Enchant scrolls can alter your character's stats when you use them on your equipment e.g. shoes, sword, dress, etc.

There are different types/ranks of enchant scrolls which you can find throughout the game.

The higher the rank of the enchant scroll, the harder it will succeed in enchanting your equipment. If you failed to enchant an equipment, the durability of the equipment will reduce and in worse cases, you might even break your equipment, i.e. Durability: 0/0.

Enchant scrolls which are easiest to find are the ones from the chests in dungeons after you killed the boss. Before CP2, you can easily find enchant scrolls from wolves.

There are "good" scrolls and "bad" scrolls. The good ones consists of only blue text while the bad has red text. Use only those with blue text.

Enchant Skill can help to increase the success rate of using the enchant scrolls significantly. (80% success rate for F rank scrolls with Enchant Skill!!!)

To get Enchant Skill, you must first get hold of Magic Powder. Once you put the Magic Powder in your left hand, you'll automatically learn Enchant Skill.

There are two ways of getting Magic Powder. One way is to hunt for it in dungeons other than the newbie dungeon. The other way is to get someone else who has Enchant Skill already to make Magic Powder for you by Enchant Burning.

Ingredients for making Magic Powder by Enchant Burning are:

-Blessing Water x 1 -Mana Herb x 1 (Mana herbs are dropped by Will-O-Wisp) -Any enchanted item x 1 (e.g. Snake Hunter Popo's Skirt of Topaz dropped by wolves. An items is enchanted when you see blue or red text in the description.) -Campfire

When you burn the enchanted item in the campfire while having the blessing water and mana herb in your inventory, you will see an option called "Enchant Burning" (provided you have the Enchant Skill). Click the "Enchant Burning" button to make the Magic Powder.

There are 4 outcomes when you enchant burn:

(1) You get Magic Powder. (2) You get Magic Powder and Enchant Scroll(s). (3) You get Enchant Scroll(s). (4) You fail to enchant burn.

If you fail, you will get some EXP for burning the enchanted item instead. Whether you succeed or not, the blessing water and mana herb will be consumed.

The reason why we are using enchanted item to enchant burn is because this process can "reverse" the enchant property on the enchanted item back into an Enchant Scroll, which you can use it later on other equipment. (And don't forget, only use Enchant Scrolls with blue text.)

To use Enchant Skill, equip the Magic Powder in your left hand, place the Enchant Scroll in your right hand, and cast Enchant Skill to use the enchant scroll. Note the higher success rate displayed before using the enchant. After casting, if Enchant Skill is successful, the targeted item will be enchanted and the items in your hands will disappear. However, if Enchant Skill fails, you may or may not be able to re-use the Enchant Scroll again.

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Emoticons

2008-02-01T06:05:07Z

Emoticons you can type with ascii characters are these

Laugh: ^^ ^_^ :) :-)

Confused: @_@ @.@

Pain: *_*

Close eyes: -_-

Surprised: o_o o_O O_o

Wink: ^_- -_^ ;) ;-)

Doubt: ?_? ???

Another cute face(?): *^-^*

Shocked: O_O

Absurd: =_=

Play(?): =)

Alternatively you can use alt+Number to make faces.

alt+1: Laugh

alt+2: Anger

alt+3: Dull look

alt+5: Confused

alt+6: Pain

alt+8: Surprised

alt+9: Love

alt+0: Sad

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More useful hints&knowldeges for mabinogi

2008-01-31T16:08:52Z

2. Ways to defeat bear

1. Party... basically everybody use smash to beat the hell out of the bear...but you will need to take turns on getting titles...

If you are low level, usually bear is way too much for ya... the only way is to trap it...

2. If you have magic or long range, hit the bear once and then run behind a tree, practice until you get the hang of it.. so when the bear is stuck, just lower its hp and finish off with bare hand 3. Another way for warrior is just smash and run... bear usually wont catch you (cuz it's slow getting up after you smashed it)

Other useful Knowledges... 1 month in real life = 1 year in mabinogi 1 day in real life = 1 month in mabinogi 36 min in real life = 1 day in mabinogi

so you get 1 year older every month, some attributes, AP and taller (if you are less than 18)

Every morning, you can get part-time jobs like collecting berries, milk, finishing, eggs, wools, etc etc... (There is a limit on how many you can take... 1 at a time and there are usually limited spots for partime jobs everyday) also, the higher your part-time job lvl is, you can get better reward jobs

like real life, you will get hungry as you work and level... You have to eat food to restore that yellow bar... Hint: remember to[B] balance what you eat./B.. egg, meat and foods with high protein/fat will make you fatter (and more hp, str) and of course you can lose weight (and increase dex) by eating more fruits and veges

Hint: there are also books you can read in Mabinogi, some are guides and some actually give you bonus attributes

Hint: high lvl Dungeons give nice rewards

Hint: If you have questions, post them here!

That's all for now, new guides are coming soon~

Complete Mabinogi Guide for Dummies

2008-01-31T16:07:48Z

A lot of people have made newbie quest guides before, so I will skip those...

1. Complete Mabinogi Guide 4 Dummies

Easy&Fast Leveling and money (No skill required...)

For fast leveling, my skills of choice are Counterattack, Smash and Critical Hit. The goal is to kill a mob with 1-2 hits (finish off with counter), so that you will unlikely to get hurt and you can keep killing with max efficiency.

When you create your character, the higher your age is, the higher your basic attributes, but the drawback is that in the long run, high starting age (17) will have lower total attributes than low starting age (10).

First thing after birth, you should finished all the basic quests to get some skills, AP and you will learn the basics of Mabinogi. It should take 30-50min to get to level 10 just by doing the quests.

P.S. You can get extra 4STR 2WILL from taking combat classes at school.

After you are level 10, you should have enough money to buy a short sword. If you don't have enough money, just do some wool gathering quests at the pasture from the boy.

When you are equipped with better gears, go to south of the village and grind on gray wolves until level 18. (P.S. Defense aren't important at this point, try to get highest damage possible, remember we are aiming for 1 hit kill)

Level up your smash+critical, and other combat skills can be just F level for now. Try to lvl up smash as high as possible. 1Smash + 1 counter should always do the trick. Crit = 1 hit kill.

After level 18, you can grind at black wolf area (East of village) It might be tough to take down these black wolves due to that your equips still suck... But collect 10 black wolf scrolls quests give rly handsome rewards... Fastest way to earn money I heard...(Mobs sometimes drop scrolls, usually are for collect scrolls quests)

Just save the money for duel swords (looks smexy and it has highest dmg in the game I think) P.S. If duel swords aren't released in English Mabinogi yet, just get the best dmg weapon you can find...

Continue to grind at black wolves (good exp), but it should be much easier now... Next thing is save money for a good set of armors. Level until 30 here. ã€€ã€€ Grind at goblins and bone wolves at level 30+. Again you can collect their scrolls for money and exp. ã€€ã€€ For titles, choose defeat bear at age 10 or defeat bear with 1 hit...

For armors, use +4 ~ +6 def ã€€ã€€ The best shoes are +1 def +1 protection (can be purchased from npc)

Combat skills: mainly add crit, smash, windmill ã€€ Other skills aren't as useful ã€€ã€€ Magic Skills: healing (F) and ice (F, just for luring one more at a time) ã€€ã€€ Other skills: firstAid (needed for high lvl dungeon) Enchant add abilities to equips ã€€ã€€ Since we are using smash + counter combo... high damage is really important... but the good thing is that it doesn't require you to be good at fighting.

People use different combos, but I like smash+counter+windmill and then counter/smash

Also watch for skill counters... remember smash beats def normal beats smash def beats normal (it's like rock paper scissors)

or you can use counter to beat normal and smash long range/ magic + windmill to beat counter