I can't say I ever modded. Oh wait, I did mod for like 3 days before I found out it was against Nexon's ToS and haven't touched mods since. I've gone on anti mod crusades before but the fact of the matter is, the game is unplayable for some people like you without using mods.
I never had problems running mabi though so I can't really related. I never did use mods that messed with the patcher though. I only touched text mods and zoom mods and found that they really didn't help any. At least I never noticed any tangeable difference.
You can't talk about mods here.
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