How to maximize your Character Through Pot Poisening: Infinite Knight and Mana Master

• Archibald wrote on 2010-04-14 10:59
  Hello Zyrus from Alexina Here. Today's guide is on Pot poisening and its benefits/drawbacks and how it can make your gameplay stronger and better.
  
  Now as we all know Mabinogi is a game without specific classes, but we tend to play a specific class anyways due to our personal style. I am a mage, who also likes alchemy and some melee.
  
  Pot Poisening: A state in which you acheive from using (AKA spamming) pots. Those can be HP/Stam/MP or combination of them.
  
  The following are the effects of using these pots after your pot poisened:
  
  HP pots: -int, -will
  Stam Pots: -will
  Mana Pots: -Str
  
  Each stage of pot poisening will increase the efficacy of the pot.
  
  Stage 1: It feels like the potion works better than before :100%-130% efficacy
  Stage 2: This potion is effective! : 130% efficacy
  Stage 3: This potion is clearly effective, but it feels weird somehow : 130%-160% efficacy
  Stage 4: The potion has some side effects 160% efficacy (officially pot poisened)
  Stage 5: The potion worked as it should, but it had some bad side-effects too: 160%-200% efficacy
  Stage 6: Anymore of this potion is dangerous: 200-300% efiicacy.
  
  Ok now that we know the basics where do we go from here?
  
  Tragic Hero Enchant Build (credit goes to MisterYuri) The Tragic Hero - Mabinogi Guru Forums
  
  The strongest melee/range usaged of pot poisening is a human character who is a Dark Knight (BK,DK,CK, Infra). You can extend your transformation (and all the bonus str or dex) for a unlimited amount of time. I called this Infinite Knight. Since you will be spamming pots to keep your transformation going you will get into pot poisening fairly fast.
  
  Using the enchants and setup from the Tragic Hero Build(and your transformation skills) you will outpower any other melee character in game in terms of max damage for simular skill sets. If you should get a dex roll and want to range you may want to make a MAX damage and critical enchanted set for that Infinite Knight.
  
  Reccommended Intermediate range set: Fox Wild Boar
  
  2 access = +14 max potential
  Clothes, Gloves, Boots, =+21 max potential
  Stiff Wild Boar tailcap =+3 max potential +10% crit
  Stiff/Lizard Raven LB =+8 max +10% crit (you can swap your favorite range weapon)
  +46 max damage potential and +20% crit
  
  
  
  Recommended Adv Range set :
  
  Light Armor - Ancient Darkness = +27 Max potential
  Gloves - Wooden Needle Elegant = +12 Max +11% Crit
  Boots - Diamond Raven = +14 Max Potential
  Helm -Stiff Wild Boar =+3 Max Potential +10% Crit
  Accessory - Diamond Wild Boar = +9 Max potential
  Weapon - Lizard/stiff Revolver Crossbow or Lizard/stiff Spike LB (or your choice)
  
  +65 Max damage potential and 31% crit + weapon max (Spike +14 Revolver +18)
  
  The Mana Master
  
  Now for all you mages out there Pot poisening creates a incredible advantage over other builds.
  
  At the deepest level (stage 6)of pot poisening you get 300% efficacy for each mana pot. This means that a MP 100 is now a MP 300!!!! Here is how to use this to your advatage.
  
  1. Spamm stam 30 pots from the healers until deep into pot poisening.
  
  2. Keep stacks of stam pots in your inventory to use if you fall out of stage 6 poisening.
  
  3. Do not even put HP pots into your inventory. Hp pots decrease INT state and therefore will reduce your magic damage dramatically.
  
  4. Use mana shield as your HP bar. Keep this on constantly as you run dungeon/mission. Keeping it full should be easy with 1 or 2 pots at most.
  
  5. Use elementals to your advantage. If your running a shadow mission enchant yourself with ALL fire elementals. This will reduce the damage you take (against that precious mana pool) to almost nothing and elementals do not affect the damage of your spells (mage advatage over other builds).
  
  6. Wear a mana reduction set. To get this you need 10% mana reduction. The best way is Karis Shoes, Magic Shool Uniform, and Broad Brim Feather Hat.
  
  7. Place all mana increasing enchants that you can (Willo Wisp is a easy one to get and use).
  
  8. Upgrade a shield fully. Beholder or dragon shield recommended, but Kite or Hetero Shield will do just fine.
  
  9. Cap mana shield and get your int to 300 as fast as possible (not as hard as it sounds). Mana is not only your attack but your life now. With 300 int and r6 mana shield you take about 33-40 damage per 100 damage given. Thats better than defense.
  
  10. Use pets to heal yourself imbetween rooms if you get hit into your HP bar. NO HP pots.
  
  11. Alchemy skills as backup are your friend. Learn barrier spikes to r1 and you can hide behind them while you charge those magics. Since Alchemy damage is not calculated by stats being poisened all the time does not matter.
  
  12. Think about ranking defense. More def = more mana not used as HP.
  
  13. Don't bother trying to melee anything...you have -100% str. Melee is only a delay tactic for Mana Master.
  
  
  A stack of MP 100 = 3k mana which 2-3 stacks would last most players even through the harder dungeons solo.
  
  
  Hope you enjoyed my guide on maximizing your characters through pot poisening with the Inifinate Knight and Mana Master Builds.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-04-14 13:37
  Do you really need to mana pot poison yourself to survive harder dungeons with r6 mana shield and a bunch of mana? r6 mana shield drastically reduces a lot of damage already.
  
  I see the purpose of major HP pot spam is for longer DK and triggering Tragic (and maybe Avenger), but what is the advantage of purposely putting yourself as pot poison under mana pots? You argue for defense yet you wear light clothing for Mana Reduction? Wouldn't Heavy Armor with shield be better for tanking? Bolts don't really work too well in the harder dungeon, so you are forced to use a wand for Adv Magic. Might as well use a shield with it.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-04-14 15:02
  You mana pot poisen because it gives you 3x the mana efficacy for the mana pots. You are using your mana pool as your HP so extra def helps but having more mana is better. Who uses normal bolts in adv dungeons anyways. This is mostly for the Thunder/IS/Fireball user. Since adv magic takes so much MP. Also side reason: In shadow missions if you did what I said and use fire elemental on everything its better to wear clothes and get those 2 extra fire enchants giving you 50% bonus to your def since they are same element attacking. My example of this is my def set with over 50 def and 16 prot takes exactly the same or more damage in shadows that my 36 def/6 prot set with full fire(I have r1 Def). Additionally I get 24 more MP from the accessories I use.
• Zid wrote on 2010-04-14 16:20

  Quote from Archibald;2412:

  HP pots: -dex, -will
  Stam Pots: -will
  Mana Pots: -Str

  
  
  Just want to point out HP Potions reduce Intelligence instead of Dexterity.
  
  Everything else seems fine. Might want to keep your editing tools handy for when Blaze comes out, seeing how it eats MP and that the first part of it uses Strength.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-04-14 16:23
  Thanks fixed in top thread.
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-04-14 17:35
  If misteryuri is inactive someone should post the tragic hero guide here to link to it, links to mabiguru will not work in the near future.
• Taran wrote on 2010-04-15 05:17

  Quote from ;:

  
  Great Pot poison Information
• December wrote on 2010-04-15 13:04
  Even with 300%, infinite knight sounds... costly...
• fathippo wrote on 2010-04-15 13:12
  Cool, nice guide, I might try this out sometime :O
• Archibald wrote on 2010-04-15 13:26
  Yes it is costly to run a dungeon in Infinite Knight form. The difference is being able to run dungeons you normally couldn't solo (Glowing Karu, Siren HM, or othere dungeons for more intermediate players). Think about this. A glowing Karu dungeon for me takes about 40-45 mins in Infinite Knight. Costs about 100k in HP pots. But if I get a Explore 3 drop (plus about 40-50k in gold drops). I have made back my expense by 10. If i run this 4 times on tuesday I normally get 1-3 explore 3 pages and 2-3 diamond enchants. Average cashflow per week is about 2.4 Mil vs the cost of about 300-400k in pots from using this(You can use this in other rare drop dungeons too).
  
  Side benefit to this is that at the same time you just got over level 60 (if soloing).