What skill should I learn?

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Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-05-01 14:22
I'm sorry for bringing up so many help threads of late...I feel I've hit a brick wall somehow when it comes to skill ranking in Mabinogi. I keep changing my mind because I can't believe in any of my decisions whenever I re-evaluate the usefulness of it.

I have 70+ AP, and about 10 more if I can push my level up to 50 within this RB. My skills listed here are unchanged. Everything that needs to be ranked, like windmill 1, refine 1, etc, has been ranked.

Lifeskills-wise, I was considering blacksmithing, but that requires too much dedication. My enchanting training is still not finished yet (and I count that as a lifeskill which I'll just give a little of my time whenever people need to get things enchanted), and all the skills that I was considering take up too much AP. Initially, I wanted to get Thunder to R6, and probably finish up FH and AR, but I have a few problems...
- Thunder - I don't spend too much time doing exploration and I can always get mana herbs at first stop. I can get to level 16-18 exploration in one day, which is fine to me. Rank 9 Thunder seems to be enough for me.
- FH - Too much AP, and I don't know how significant the damage increase will be at Rank 5. It feels like forever to get to R1.
- AR - I don't use this skill anymore after I've learnt Thunder. Thunder solves the rafting problem for me. AR and range in general is very troublesome to use with high latency, which is why I don't use it much anymore. Except for boss room in Ciar Adv whenever I go with friends. I can't solo or I'll just die a lot (and it's too slow).
I have figured out that my time will just go into making HW, both to sell and use, pushing exploration to 18-ish and then joining people in parties with high exp rates. I won't bother too much with lifeskills or other extremely difficult skills in the future. Blame it on enchant training, and I don't regret it.

I play mostly for fun and I'm not really interested in power, which is why I need to find a fun skill to learn that will also be useful and great for party play.

I'm intending to party alot in the future. I shall find a new guild with good people if random parties are too troublesome to find. I really dread to go back to the days of soloing missions.
MagitekKefka wrote on 2010-05-01 16:22

Synthesis and fragmentation are fun skills to mess around with.
EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-05-01 17:23

Well, since those are heavy AP skills, why don't you just save up the AP, do some of the more grindy skills, and when you have tons of extra AP, use them on those easy to rank skills.

That is what I am doing right now, I hoarding hundreds of AP because I don't know what to do with my AP.
Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-05-01 17:24

Quote from MagitekKefka;24530:
Synthesis and fragmentation are fun skills to mess around with.

Isn't it expensive to actually train up those skills?

I would like something that will be helpful in party battles.

@endless: that's what I'm thinking but it will be nice to have a low-AP skill that will be useful in battle. I was thinking about offensive alchemy like frozen blaze but I'm not sure what the freeze rates are like...
EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-05-01 17:27

Quote from Yogurticecream;24594:
Isn't it expensive to actually train up those skills?

I would like something that will be helpful in party battles.

@endless: that's what I'm thinking but it will be nice to have a low-AP skill that will be useful in battle. I was thinking about offensive alchemy like frozen blaze but I'm not sure what the freeze rates are like...

Yea, synthesis and fragmentation are expensive in terms of massive amount of materials required. Neither skill really do anything unless you invest even more money to use it. I see fragmentation as a way to help your life skills only if you have a lot of extra worthless stuff. I am not a fan of synthesis though.

According to Wiki, the freezing time is like 15 seconds for r1. It increases over the ranks it seems.
Monsters under freezing loses protection and defense as well. Seems like a nice support skill.

Also, it requires quite a bit of AP as well...
Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-05-01 17:59

The AP part is also what's keeping me from ranking it.
Other than that, it also requires water cannon which I'm not interested in.

I was also thinking of R9 or R6 sand burst to deal with beepers, but seems that you can't spam this skill continuously (5 times and the next is a 60 sec cooldown) and it's quite a waste of AP.
Though beepers are really annoying for most of us...
It was a real challenge for me, but not to some of the stronger players who seem to be able to take it down in a few magnum shots.
The monsters in that mission single-aggro fairly quickly as well, so I doubt I will have enough time to load sandburst to deal with beepers in the first place.
Just wishful thinking that I can probably buy some time for teammates with a skill like that.