Sooni's guide, I know the person is here but the guides aren't, please reclaim them from me. Thanks.
INTRODUCTION
Im sure all of you have read one or two fantasy novels, then you should know of that one person that always collects rare type of herbs and making potions out of them, thinking into your fantasy memorie you may or may not think that may be facinating. However in Mabinogi this fantasy of yours can come true, however this isnt a direct type of you becoming that herb collecting potion making guy, instead Mabinogi affords you with Herbalore.
Herbalore is a Prequisite skill for Potion Making skill. So many players who tried to get only potion making up always ended up failing probably because they are lacking herbs because there isnt many sellers out there. Or if you just interested in this skill because you want to earn money through sales of Herbs.
[SIZE="4"]Lets start off with a basic explanation on how to get the skill Herbalore.[/SIZE]
To get Herbalore Skill
First off, this skill can be taught by each of the assigned healer in towns. If you have done part time job of Healer house at least 10 times, and be a little friendly to the healers you get a quest in order to learn "Herbalore" Properly through clicking " About Skills ".
The description on the Quest to get Herbalore is incredibly simple, Collect 1 Base Herb from a dungeon, however if you have Herb Pig/Clover Cow/Clover Pet, you can just collect a basic herb off your pet to finish this quest easily. If you have finished the quest you get a big white letters in front of your screen saying that you have understood "Herbalore" or you have gotten the skill Herbalore, and you now get the "hand" sign on those herbs you couldnt even click on.
Practice Rank - Try gathering Base herb, Gather a base herb. this is all there is to it. So you get into F rank faster then you can say WOW!
[SIZE="5"]Don't Get Dissapointed or Discouraged because you can't gather Herbs fast.[/SIZE]
If you do not have a certain rank Your herbs will look like this.
[SIZE="4"]Green Herb - Base Herb
Red Herb - Blood Herb
Yellow Herb - Sunlight Herb
Blue Herb - Mana Herb
White Herb - White Herb
Gold Herb - Gold Herb
Orange Herb - Mandrake
Cyan Herb - Antidote Herb
Purple Herb - Poison Herb[/SIZE]
[SIZE="5"]HERB COLLECTION[/SIZE]
Herb collecting can be done both Field and dungeons. However Fields only contain the basic herb " Base Herb ". If you want to collect this herb you can visit the following places i'll list.
[SIZE="4"]Tir Chonail's East Plains[/SIZE](Brown Dire Wolves live here)
[SIZE="4"]Dugald Isle forest[/SIZE] (Brown Bears, Red Bears live here)
[SIZE="4"]Dunbarten's Southern West Plains[/SIZE] (alot of different Bears live here),
[SIZE="4"]Gairech Hills Wester Field[/SIZE]* (Field Boss Ogre live here thanks Toric),
[SIZE="4"]Ceo Isle[/SIZE] (CAUTION: theres alot of Golems and Sprites that live here that will aggro even when you stand still!)
Upon finding a Herb room, a herb can be collected 5 times, and per floor 1 herb room is always there and 3 herb batch will always appear in a herb room.
Herb room's herbs can be always random it could be 3 Base herbs it could be a mix of Bloody Herb and Mana Herb. or it could be just all Mana herbs.
However for higher end Herbs such as Gold Herb, Mandrake, Antidote Herb, Poison herbs only higher leveled dungeons will always contain them.
[SIZE="5"]SKILL INFORMATION[/SIZE]
Of course this skill is like all the other skills out there, the higher your rank the faster you will collect and of course your chances of collecting a herb naturally goes up. However the higher your rank of Herbalore all of sudden you realize you collect herbs faster and more efficiently then anyone else trying to collect herbs! So you wont have problems of getting left behind in a dungeon as your Herbalore rank goes higher and higher.
[SIZE="5"]Dungeons NOT containing Herbs[/SIZE]
- Normal Alby Dungeon,
- Barri Dungeon (Normal, Lower, Advanced all included)
- Albey Dungeon*
- Baol Dungeon**
- Karu Forest Ancient Ruins***
- Maze Plain Ancient Ruins***
* This dungeon can be found while doing G1 Quests
** Baol Dungeon can be found while doing G3 Quest ( thanks again Toric )
*** Will come out with this month's update "Aria"
[SIZE="5"]Herbalore is a life skill too! [/SIZE]
- Herbalore is also effected by the Weather.
- A dungeon that reveals Sky such as Coil or Fiord dungeon will also be included on Weather.
- When Raining you can collect even more herbs.
[SIZE="5"]Potions and Herbs that exists in Erinn.[/SIZE]
Herbs are used to make potions(Duh). However they have different uses as well.
- Mana herbs are used for enchanters when taking a enchant scroll off a item. Sunlight Herbs are used for people who would like to Entrust Burning to Various Enchanters out there.
- Various Quests and Item Crafting.
- Fixing a Weapon with Ego inside them " Spirit's Liquor "
- For Main Stream quests items that need certain herbs to make.
[SIZE="5"]Problems while Herbaloring [/SIZE]
Probably the Most hardest part in Herbaloring is "White Herb".
White herb has some very important experiance through out Rank B through 6 and without this herb ranking up would prove very difficult. The reason why white herbs are so hard to gather is probably because they only appear in a incredibly hard dungeon " Peacca " 3rd floor only.
However theres a way now! Ever since 2005 of May Devcat accepted the fact that peacca is a incredibly hard dungeon and started releasing pets " Herb pig / Clover Cow / Clover Pig " and you could collect White Herbs off them. This being released the incredibly hard Herbalore could be trained by pet!. Users that wanted to rank up in Herbalore was forced to buy a Herb pig, there was one time when it was said "Herbalore without a pet is impossible" this is still being heard today. ( players in KR mabinogi still buy Herb pig in order to train herbalore )
[SIZE="5"]If you have a Herb Pig[/SIZE]
If you have a Herb Pig its a best idea to level them while they are in age between 1 ~ 2, because when pets are trained at their early years their mana capacity highers by alot. When they are old like 3 ~ max age. they wont have any mana gains upon lvl or they wont have any at all!. So its best of ideas to level your pet to 25 ~ 40 before they reach too high of age.
[SIZE="3"]TIP: Pets are affected when it rains! make sure to use your weather to your fullest adventage and take out that herb pig and start collecting herbs![/SIZE]
Herb pig and other various Collecting pets ARE effected by rain, just like any other life skills out there when it starts raining you can collect more / you have higher chance of succesfully making something and ect.
[SIZE="5"]Other Tips and Information [/SIZE]
Other tips i could give you is that many people think that the only way to get experiance in Herbalore is recklessly do limitless dungeon but remember that even when the herb batch is gone you can still get the fail experiance off empty herb batches through pressing down ALT and constantly clicking them, so if you lack the fail experiance be sure to use this advice to your fullest adventage.
[SIZE="5"]If your addicted to Herbaloring you just cant pass a Herb Batch[/SIZE]
Herbalore in the earlyer years used to be incredibly buggy and not to mention the AP usage for this skill. however over the years users constant reporting of bugs and glitches finally came to this phase which we have herbalore now. Remember to take it easy and slow when doing herbalore. it can become frustrating as you go up higher in ranks.
This was a guide to Herbalore Done by Sooni! PEACE!