Sooni's guide, I know the person is here but the guides aren't, please reclaim them from me. Thanks.
Also, sidenote, needle is Spike in NA and a couple of other servers
[SIZE="5"]Introduction[/SIZE]
Right now, your living in the world of Fantasy world called Mabinogi, as Im sure most of you probably have thought about being able to make something. In Mabinogi this thought of yours can become a reality. In Mabinogi there is no specified jobs like all the other RPG games out there, instead Mabinogi provides you with certain set of skills that is needed for you to be able to make something. Such as collecting wool to make threads, making clothing, and mining to make ingots for you to create Weapons and Armours for your self to wear.
What im about to introduce to you is Potion Making, using your collected herbs to create potions for you to be able to help out others.
However, Potion making isn't all about making potions for you to be able to just heal your self, instead Potion also provides some main stream quest item "Water that hears ghosts" and "Spirit's Liquor" that is needed for you to fix your Ego, another one is probably "Poison Potion" you being able to put poison on your weapons, or when your poisoned you could help your self with "Antidote potion", or changing your fomor pass into something different the "Luck Potion" and lots of others.
[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="5"]Starting Off[/SIZE][/FONT]
Nightmare of The Practice Rank.
First off, getting Potion Making skill isn't as hard as you may think. Each towns assigned healers are selling "Potion Making Kit" and if you hold that in your hands you instantly know the skill "Potion Making" and you are already in your practice Rank.
However Practice Rank may prove harder then you may think from Practice Rank to F Rank you must either create Life potion 50, Mana potion 50, or Stamina potion 50, the likely chances are that of you creating one of these potions are 10%(if you have Making Mastery of Rank 6 20%) you have to take the chances of you doing this and create one of these potion, if you managed to create one you can use the skill properly now.
In order to create any potion you need a type of herb that could be collected through out dungeons in batches through the skill "Herbalism" or you have a pet that you could collect herbs off on them. Also many monsters through out the games have chances of dropping a herb too. However the likely chances are low but with the upcoming update "Aria" alot of monsters there drop herbs while your questing or hunting for certain items.
Also, Potion making is a life skill too depending on the weather and how much people you have in your party the chances of you creating certain potion highers by alot, and if you have people in your party with high ranked Potion Making the experiance you get off on a potion making highers by a little bit.
[SIZE="5"]Whats different about Potion Making[/SIZE]
If Potion making was different about something is that Potion making isnt effected by how much Dex or Int you have, they only take the extra bonus percentage of creating from a party and weather.
Potion Making percentages of creating is unusually low. In hands like Weaving or Refining they are effected by how much Dex you have, but differently from Potion making, Potion making has unusually low success rate, so you always want to make sure that you have enough materials.
[SIZE="5"]Ranking Up Tips[/SIZE]
[SIZE="3"]F Rank[/SIZE]
- This Rank isn't hard because theres experiance that comes off just by drinking Potions, however dont just start chugging all the potion you have, make sure that you use the potions efficiently, during Part Time Jobs, While fighting, or creating some type of item that requires mana. If you overwork your self and start chugging potions just because you want to train up fast you get the disadventage of "Potion Sickness or Potion Addiction", If you don't really care about this sickness and you are training mana potions, you could hold Wands and take off wants to to explode your mana and drink your mana potion to get experiance. You could forcefully train your character by pressing Ctrl + click.
[SIZE="3"]E Rank[/SIZE]
- The amount of experiance needed is increased by alot so there is alot more need of herbs then your last rank F. If you create all your mana potions first you can get experiance up to 80%. After this you should create Life and Stamina potions to fill up rest of your needed experiance.
[SIZE="3"]D Rank[/SIZE]
- Potion Making truly starts in D Rank, getting experiance isn't hard, but there is a need of incredibly large amount of Gold Herb. If you succesfully create Wound Remedy Potion, Life Potion, Mana Potion, your experiance in D Rank Potion Making should increase expodencially. Gold Herb aside if you succesfully create everything else listed in D Rank Potion Making exception of gold herbs you get up to 70% Experiance, and you can fill the last 30% with Gold Herb. However if you have Large amount of Gold Herbs there isnt much need for other herb usage, and Rank up becomes easier.
[SIZE="3"]C Rank[/SIZE]
- The amount of potions needed to create is increased by 20%. The training tip is that of same thing as D.
[SIZE="3"]B Rank[/SIZE]
- The challenge in this Rank is easier then C Rank and the time needed to rank up has decreased by alot. If you collected all the wound remedy potion you created so far you can drink 100 wound remedy potion to get up to 20%, and following D rank make sure to create Life, Mana potion first. and after that create everything except for those potions that contain Gold Herbs.
TIP: If you haven't done any of "Use Sunlight Herb to Make potion" the amount of "Succesfully Create a potion containing Gold herb" is 113 times. If you have lots of Gold Herb, Ranking up should become easier.
[SIZE="3"]A Rank[/SIZE]
- This is where it truly starts getting hard, White herbs are only found in 3rd Floor of Peaca dungeon or from your pets Herb Pig / Clover Cow / Clover Pig. Since the amount of experiance needed is 105.00, Create all potions containing White Herb, Gold Herb first and create all of Hp and MP mix potion. then finish off with either bloody herbs or sunlight herbs by filling up 1100 times of succesfully creating potion with blood or sunlight herbs. This is a incredibly hard rank to get.
[SIZE="3"]9 Rank[/SIZE]
- You can create potions with Mandrake Now, however the need of Gold Herb and White herb is still incredibly large.
[SIZE="3"]8 Rank[/SIZE]
- If you create all the potions containing Mandrake you should be able to get your exp to 35%, and fill up the rest of the experiance needed by creating whatever herbs you have left to create all the potions listed in the experiance table. same as 9 Rank there is a large amount of need for Gold Herb and White herb. If you create Wound Remedy potion you get experiance of both Gold Herb and Mana Herb, so you dont need to really create potions containing Sunlight Herbs.
TIP: if you mess around with poison herb you'll find out that you can mess around with alot of monsters.
[SIZE="3"]7 Rank[/SIZE]
- You don't need Sunlight Herbs anymore. Otherwise its same as 9 Rank and 8 Rank.
[SIZE="3"]6 Rank[/SIZE]
- Now you dont need Mana herbs anymore. Otherwise same as Rank 9,8,7. and Also incredibly large amount of herb is needed.
[SIZE="3"]5 Rank[/SIZE]
- OMG! Now you don't need White herbs anymore! Now you can create Antidote potions, Make sure to collect up lots of Antidote herbs because there isn't much available even in dungeons.
[SIZE="3"]4 Rank[/SIZE]
- Its same as 5 Rank, However the Amount of herbs you need is increased by whole alot more then what it used to be.
[SIZE="3"]3 ~ 1 Rank[/SIZE]
- Now you dont need to create Antidote Potion, instead you'll be training with Poison Potion instead. Your gonna be going back and forth to get lots of water.
[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="5"]Finishing Off[/SIZE][/FONT]
Potion making has always been a "loner" of all other Life Related skills, However the least usage of AP (From Rank F to 1 total AP needed is 29) and large amount of stat points (Int+35, Dex +8). the bad part about it is that its incredibly hard to train.
A powerful enchant "Needle"
Truthfully, Damage increasing "needle" enchant (5 Rank Enchant/Weapons only/Max damage increased by 10/ Potion Making A rank or higher) alot more users in KR mabinogi server has been getting Potion Making to A rank due to this fact, however there isnt really 1 person that is out there that create potions for the fun of it like me.
I introduced Herbalism in my other thread, like Herbalism has its own Marit Potion Making has a unique Marit that attracts some players due to the fact that some people like helping others and that you look cool because you collect herbs and create cool potions with them. Now think to your self, what would you say if some one said Thanks for you making potions for them, wont you be really happy? :D
This was a guide done by Sooni. PEACE!