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Lets get a tips and tricks thread going that'll help out new and old players alike. Since Mabi is such a [S]buggy[/S] diverse game theres lots of dandy little things we can use towards our advantage to make our fantasy life easy as hell. This is the good stuff, everyone contribute and I'll try to update it as much as possible. This is not a guide by any means and some of this stuff might not be correct, if so just tell me and I'll fix it.
If there is a name in parentheses at the end of the tip it just means they are the one who contributed that particular one, consider repping them if you found the tip to be valuable.
[SIZE="4"]General:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER="Hotkeys/Pets"]
- Ctrl+clicking an item in your inventory will automatically use/open it, alternatively the same hotkey can be used to automatically buy an item from a shop
- Shift+click opens up the divide opinion when clicking on a multiple stacked item (Chaos')
- Shift+click on the mini map can link multiple destination points allowing you to auto navigate an area (Chaos')
- Shift+click a monster when a pet is summon will auto command the pet to attack it if you've set it under command mode (Chaos')
- Most AoE pets (pegasus, bone dragon, flame mare, etc.) also have a secondary AoE skill, hotkey them for extra survivability against multi-aggro
- On-screen hotkeys are able to de-summon your current pet if you tries to summon another one. Just to clarify, On screen hotkeys are hotkeys you see on screen, with an icon. Whereas off screen hotkeys will not de-summon pet, such as the likes of num pad keys. Application, for pet spammers, simply double click/double tap a chain of pet icon (H1111)
- Your pets have a personal shop search function. Right click them and click "Search Personal Shop" and type in the name of the item you are trying to find (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="Banking/Housing/Fees"]
- Housing brownies contracts (weaving, refine, etc )can store up to 600 materials inside them (each square can stack to 100) materials can be taken out even after the contract expires, just can't put anything back in. and the passes can also be stored in the bank, just don't ever press the dump button (Royale)
- If you hate paying 10% for gold transfer tax on items sold in your house, you can get an alt with 45 big gold bags, take out 2.25m from house and then purchase a worthless item in a shop in dunb. Of course, the item is listed by your second account. Only 2% tax is been charged, saving 8% (H1111)
- Each char increases your potential bank deposit by 5m, so a maximum of 15m on a free account with two assistent chars (H1111)
- If you owe a house and you let the house expired, it will create a check after subtracting a 5% creation fee compare to the 10% direct deposited from house to bank (Chaos')
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[SPOILER="Transportation"]
- Hot Springs Tickets for easy Iria Travel, provided it's daytime, if you used continent warp recently (Blassreiter)
- You can use your Avon feather like a Warp Imp. Pick a location you want to save and use your feather. Leave Avon via cont warp or other means. When you want to return to your saved location, have another player take you to Avon and use your own feather (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="etc."]
- The daily bonuses (enchant bonus, item rate bonus, etc) DO make a difference, plan accordingly so your activities coincide with the day's bonus
- Poisonous Mushroom Stew are the only? create-able item that can lower potion poisoning effect (Chaos')
- G18: Episode 7 escaping from elves/giant quest gives easy access to provocation walls, kill one guard to fail the mission and you're good to use them (abc33ker)
- The best place to gather nails for anything is at crossroads between Bangor, Port Ceann and the Sen Mag Housing Channel, the sign there seems to drop them the most often (Clarey)
- CP can be your worst enemy. When planning to work on a specific skill set such as melee, archery, or magic, try to make sure you rank any cp reliant skills before the ones that aren't cp reliant. By doing this you will knock the harder skills out of the way and it will just be a clean sweep when ranking the rest of your skills (Clarey) Slurp's note: This also ensures your CP doesn't get higher from having those easier skills ranked first
- You can advertise with a party sign for as long as you like without having to occasionally reopen the party. Simple create a new party with the desired message, change channels, return to the original channel, and you're all set. (Do no reopen the party when you return to the original channel. This trick is meant to help you advertise through the dialogue window) (cheese758)
The character card present on a newly created account or when your account lacks characters can be used to create a Druid character. The character will be given a Newbie Healing Wand, Newbie Ice Wand, and Newbie Potion Creation Kit. You get all skills associated with Druid at rank Novice, plus the tutorial quests for healing, medicine, and magic (and of course the usual combat one everyone gets), giving you all the skills those normally give you. Pretty nice amount of skills and stuff for a new player. It will likely be the same for the other Hero talents once they come out (Natural Harmonia Groupius)
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[SIZE="4"]Combat:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER=" "]- Using personas give invincibility frames (cheese758)
- Devil cry can easily kill Arch Lichs (Kyubey)
- In difficult dungeon boss rooms, utilizing range with a campfire can exponentially increase your damage while at the same time giving you a safe place to hide in case the boss aggro's you (Pureblooded)[/SPOILER]
[SIZE="4"]Dungeons/Shadow missions:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER="etc."]- Dungeon chest rewards have two unique drops: Primary and secondary. The former tends to have the prize items and is afforded to only one player as default while the latter is awarded to everyone else and tends to consist of mana herbs or magic powder (Kaeporo)
- If edern is stuck with life drain, mount your bone dragon, use devil's cry on it and desummon the pet. He should return to normal (Kyubey)
- For difficult dungeons, locking your equipment with 1 day seal scrolls can save yourself some holy water and the potentially lost piece of gear due to item decay (Pureblooded)
- When in missions where you have to sneak, you can spam click at your feet to shutter step faster (Clarey)[/SPOILER]
[SPOILER="Lord Missions"]
- When running Caverns lord missions, you can skip certain mobs, the monsters that are pre-spawned, such as the bats, crabs etc. can be skipped and you can finish the mission (Clarey)
- When running the Convoy lord mission, when the giant fire sprites spawn, they need to be the first thing dead, a single fireball from them can wipe all your wagons and end your mission right there (Clarey)
- When doing Belvast Hostage, you can skip the 3rd wave. Have all members of the party either destroy the barriers, walk around them, or squeeze through the crack between the left most one. Then have everyone stand on the corner of the circle while you talk to the NPC (cheese758)
- Killing most of your hostages (in belvast hostage) with dragon reduces the number of enemy spawns and will most likely also reduce the chance of them glitching. Use with caution as this can be a double edged sword (cheese758)
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[SIZE="4"]Commerce:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER=" "]- The commerce speed reforge speeds you up even if you're not on the mount. It works as long as you are in commerce mode (BecomeMeguca)
- Any life skill talent will tell you where the smuggler is and what the daily good is
- In need of ruthless bandit badges? take a cheap good and run around the map to get a bunch of bandit spawn points to appear, then cancel your commercing and start pursuing bandits (thank you nandattebayo for this beautiful tip) I found the best map to do this is on is tailltean
- When pursuing, bandits will not aggro you if you are on a mount
- Lovely potions spawn every 2 hours on the hour in tir chonaill and yield the best profit outside of daily goods
- Lead is an amazing limited item when it is the daily good, don't pass up on it
- You may have noticed after killing one spawn of bandits all the other spawn points go invisible, killing a nearby mob will sometimes allow the spawn points to reappear (doesn't work with pursuing)
- When training commerce mastery, sell the items in chunks to get more training exp. For example, if you know you will make 10k ducat profit, sell 1/2 the items for 5k profit at a time to get "earn 5000 ducats or more" twice (BecomeMeguca)
- When commercing with a group, coordinate your selling time, because if you are a second or two too slow, prices may dip. This is most noticeable with limited goods (Aubog007) [/SPOILER]
[SIZE="4"]Weapons:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER="Proficiency"]- For the most efficient bow proffing go to tir na nog with an 20+ year old elf and do this
- For fairly efficient non-bow proffing go to white dragon and just normal attack the dragon with auto-combat on, there will be enough people there so that you can do this in peace (good if you need something proffing after you've gotten your 8k contrib)
- Easy magic weapon proffing can be done by utilizing the mana tunnels and using heal multiple times next to them to save on mana pots and allow for healing training at the same time (Pureblooded)
- Cooking dungeon monsters all have very high cp (8800, which no way i should've known), great for melee profing since they have dumb AI, and Gewyas will usually draw all the aggro. Also good for skill training that does not require kills (H1111)
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[SPOILER="Ego Weapons"]
- Shop in Vales/Filia for ego food, if possible (Kaeporo)
- It's more efficient to feed your ego NPC items around 1.9k gold instead of items around 600~700 gold (Kaeporo)
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[SIZE="4"]Raids:[/SIZE]
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- If you have the sniper role for white dragon you don't actually need to hit the dragon/wyverns/slayers for the magnum shot requirements. Just spam magnum without aiming and you'll get the full contribution within minutes
- If in the medical role for white/black dragon, get a party feather and keep using it while in a one-man party, this gives you contribution without having to actually revive anyone (n02/howhurl)
- If you are using a ranged weapon, you can set your party finish rule to anyone finish then keep attacking a korsek/slayer that has a finish tag over it from a distance, it won't die until it despawns but you can still damage it and gain contribution points. This makes for super easy contribution
- Windmill resets every boss' AI (as far as I know), this is good and bad. Do not use windmill if the raid boss is not flying/running/etc. this is bad and will kill everyone
- Alternatively, windmill can be used to your advantage, on white/black dragon using windmill while theyre flying will bring them back down if used at the correct time. On prarie/desert dragon using windmill while the dragon is charging will cause it to automatically charge back if timed correctly
- Use paper airplanes to dodge a dragon's fireball
- No matter what raid you're doing, STICK WITH THE GROUP
- The speed buff from your commerce partner applies while in the raid boss zone, summon the commerce partner while proceeding towards the spawn point. It will despawn but you will still have the speed buff for a little bit (Cho)[/SPOILER]
[SIZE="4"]Daily Quests:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER=" "]- For the Hicca's Girlfriend daily quest you can obtain as many notes as you want by repeatedly talking to Hicca without talking to his mom the second time. This allows you to have enough notes to do the daily quest everyday without the need to bring along a 10-13 yo girl with you (brokenmouse)
- In the 4 man and 1 man quest to impress lezarro (Grandmaster) you can position your character so 95% of mobs will be stuck when they aggro you, obviously ranged enemies will still be able to hit you Shown Here As you can see, the lion is stuck aggrod on me while we all kill it
- For those doing GM Warrior quests: Snowfield Ogres count as requirement for "Hunt 50 ogres". Meaning spamming G18: episode 4 will fill up the requirement pretty fast (Airylin)
- For anyone spamming for adventurer seals, accepting most quest before the reset time (7AM PST [10AM EST] so at midnight PST/3AM) will 'save' the quest for that day. So if your low on time and have to head to bed, quickly grab all the daily quest and you can do them twice the following afternoon/night (Chaos')
- Mandolin's Request gives out adventure seals and can be done once a day, but the fish you receive as a reward can be opened and you can find things like wood boards, red/blue upgrade stones inside of them (Clarey)
- For the daily collection quests, if you get something thats a pain such as collect 50 iron ores/unknown ores, simply quit it then CC until you find a desirable quest such as collect 50 base herbs (BecomeMeguca)
- Daily dungeon quests only require that you touch the goddess statue at the end, not completing the whole dungeon. So theoretically, u can have 1 mule afk in peaca all week long with a bandaid as the drop at the end of the dungeon. Anyone that drops a bandaid in there and touches the exit statue will get a completion (BecomeMeguca)
- If you want to complete the daily peaca dungeon REALLY fast, have a mule with g11 or g12 peaca completing that will count as well for the daily (BecomeMeguca)[/SPOILER]
[SIZE="4"]Skills:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER="General"]
- Rank critical hit ASAP
-If you need to hit a big number of enemies based on CP, try Enemy Behind, hit all the orbs available and let them spawn up to 6 enemies. You might need a -CP gear. Else, try the 1st Hall at ToA (Paradise)
- Shock/Berserk can help you train Way of the gun by using it while spamming Way of the Gun in sulfur spider middle room (natteke/pureblooded)
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[SPOILER="Combat"]
- Windmill is still one of the first skills you should rank, it becomes quite the hassle to do it later (Clarey)
- Mirage missile can be trained easily in Enemy Behind See here
- Lingering darkness is also a great place to train charge. By charging at archers that are behind a barrier spike, it will prevent you from killing them allowing you to continuously charge at 2 archers until the sm times out (Chaos')
- Charge is much easier to rank if you activate a lower ranked Spellwalk while training (Kaeporo)
- You can train windmill in the final mission of G18: Episode 4. The mobs there spawn at one location, so after you clear the initial spot, you can just wm at the spawn point for windmill training (abc33kr)
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[SPOILER="Alchemy"]
- Water Alchemy and Fire Alchemy barely influence Water Cannon and Flame Burst damage. Hold off on those skills until much later (Kaeporo)
-To do more damage using Shock, change weapons to a tower cylinder right after using the skill, this will also make your training faster (Paradise)
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[SPOILER="Gunner"]
- Bullet Slide cancelling, learn it (Blassreiter)
- TNN is the most ideal way to train Shooting rush and bullet storm by trapping them behind a wall (Chaos')
- Barrier spike in EP 7 saga mission and provocation are the best way to spam grapple shot, flash launcher, bullet slide, and reload (Chaos')
- Way of the Gun and Final Hit (dual wield) will stun crystal golems if you attack non stop (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="Magic"]
- If you leave the shadow mission while being drained you'll be in life drain mode (losing hp constantly but never dying) until you switch channels, this can be used for easy healing and potion lore training (Kyubey)
- To unlock snap cast, use a chain cast 4 upgraded ice wand and spam ice bolt on foxes or raccoons (Pureblooded)
- Using any type of attack after using thunder will break the standby lock. This means you're free switch weapons and things you normally wouldn't be able to like thunder> focus fist without shyllien mana knuckle. But the buck doesn't stop there. You're free to do anything. This is especially effective against non pd mobs in 1vs1 situations, where thunder locks the enemy while you can say, fully charge a focus fist without getting interrupted (Johny)
- Using the flaming sword on avon to train healing/party healing. Evg + Pets + magic damage only, will do wonders too, the best part is that you can do this one near a sungate (Paradise)
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[SPOILER="Puppetry"]
- Most of puppetry (act 4, 6, 7) can be trained in Shadow Cast City with ease due to all the mobs being grouped together
- Raccoon area near the logging camps and the dire wolfs in osla trail are great ways to train puppet skill and fighter skills (Chaos')
- When connected to a puppet, shift clicking will move your character instead of the puppet
- Act 7 gets a triple hit after crisis if you have yourself or someone else summon a stun pet in the middle of act 7 firing (Aubog007)
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[SPOILER="Music"]
- If you want to train music buffs, try to train all of them at once (or at least 2 buffs). This way you can alternate the buffs to eliminate (or shorten) cooldown (H1111)
- If you want the Master Instrumentalist title, spam Barry's ptj for great successes with this technique. Take his ptj and immediately quit. Keep the score he gives you and do not play it because after you get 2 great success with the score, it becomes unusable. On the next day, take the ptj again. Now you have 2 scores. Play one of the scores until you get 2 great successes (the score becomes useless at the point so toss it). Equip the other score and play until either you have about 8-10 uses left or ptj time is almost up. It is important that you have at least 8-10 useless left because you will be using this score to obtain 2 more great successes for the ptj tomorrow. Rinse and repeat for the master title (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="Fighter"]
- You can use potion poison to get your will down to 0 for easy fighter skill training at white spiders, which is especially useful for rank 2 dropkick (abc33ker)
- If for some reason you got stuck while using fighter, try using focused fist. If for some reason that doesn't work mounting a pet should fix your character (Kyubey)
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[SIZE="4"]Life Skills:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER="General"]
- Canceling the mini-game when you're attempting to finish an item will NOT finish the item and you will lose your finish material (Chaos')
- When in a production party, ensure that all the members are NOT on mounts, if they are, they are taken out of the production bonus (Clarey)
- Get a luck set, huge gathering bonuses are your friend
- You still gain the gathering bonus when your partner is dead (and they don't gain any stress), so get to killing (again, don't revive people's dead partners)
- If you don't like the part time job you get, you can often change channels instead of accepting the job and possibly get a new one (Exception of Edern's part time job) (Clarey)
- When using part time jobs for training, you can also go onto alts on the same accounts and get extra part time jobs, and transfer the materials you get to the character you want them on, using the bank (Clarey)
- When producing through potion making, weaving, etc, if you uncheck the "Queue Items" box, you will turn all the material you have put into the production window into the desired product in 1 attempt. Note that this only gives 1 count of training exp and a fail will result in a huge loss of materials. Use with caution (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="Enchanting"]
- You can use pages from a skill book such as Fireball/Shock to easily get the successes required for enchanting
- For enchant training, buying the enchanted lutes from Briana and having a rank 1 enchanter burn them off and place them on tailoring kits can save time, space, and money (Pureblooded)
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[SPOILER="Tailor talent"]
- Getting one of those spinny things (I forget the name right now) for weaving in your homestead will prove to be an amazing investment, do it
- You can glitch the spiders in emain for maximum cobweb efficiency See Here
- If you have a wolf pet, you can summon it and make it Stay! next to a sheep so that they will aggro and stay still for easier sheering training/farming (Pureblooded)
- The general store ptj can be used to rank weaving all the way to rank 1 (not exclusively, but it will help with a huge chunk)
- Clothing ptj can be used to rank tailoring to rank 7
- Tailoring Dan ranks increase your success rate by 1% per rank (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="Carpentry talent"]
- Ascons ptj is fairly useful for handicrap, it won't help an extreme amount but I found it was of some use up until rank 5
- Keep in mind when you want to use Ascon's part time jobs for training handicraft, you get wood boards as rewards which you will need a LOT of later to continue ranking it, for beginner+intermediate jobs you get 1, and for advanced jobs you get 2, you also can get 5 average or 5 fine firewood which can be used in carpentry (Clarey)
- If you are tired of chopping wood for carpentry and would rather fight, get an alt account through G1, up to the final dungeon and fight with glas, take the goddess pass and leave, then come back with another character, have the alt drop someone in, the gargoles in the mission drop 1~5 pieces of firewood each and glas will continuously spawn them. There is no timelimit so you can sit around killing gargoles for firewood (Clarey)
- Rank handicraft before ranking production mastery, having a high production mastery will make it a lot harder to get fails then having high dexterity (Clarey)
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[SPOILER="Blacksmith talent"]
- Blacksmith ptj can be used to get blacksmithing to rank 9
- When working on Metallurgy the best place to do it, is the beach north of Cor, it is a decent size, and has a high spawn rate for metallurgy spots. They respawn quickly so you can literally sweep from one side to the other and back (Clarey)
- Blacksmithing Dan ranks increase your success rate by 1% per rank (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="Apothecary talent"]
- Fragging hp/sp potions yield large amount of mandrakes. If you are training for potion making, you can frag hp/sp potions for a near 100% return (abc33ker)
- For poison potions, they give a lot of water bottle if you frag them. So it's kinda nice if you pick up poison potions from cavern lord mission for 5 water bottles that only take up 1x1 space (abc33ker)
- When training herbalism in Solea, remember that all the hidden patches have a fixed location (in fact all hidden artifacts do). Activate Demi and find all the patches quickly and memorize their locations by matching them with landmarks. When you change channels, you can immediately find these patches with your L-rod (cheese758)
- Solea cave is split into two caverns. One connected to rano and one connected with physis [with the star mark in the middle]. If the first cave that connects to rano has gold herbs and poison herbs as a common herb patch, the second cave connected to physis will have mandrakes and antidote herbs appearing more commonly instead. [It changes daily?if im not mistake] (Chaos')
- Polar Hornets in Vales are a great source of white herbs. They behave like sulfur spiders so you can use fire alchemy to mass murder them (cheese758)
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[SPOILER="Shylien/Hillwen stuff"]
- Shylien and Hillwen part time job items are tradable (BecomeMeguca)
- The super large crystals in the hillwen mine and shyllien nature reserve both gives 2x training for rare mineralogy and shyllien ecology skill (Chaos')
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[SIZE="4"]Homestead:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER=" "]- You can get gathering bonuses on homestead stones, so put on your luck set
- If you are low on homestead stones you can go pursuing for bandits, each homestead pass contains two homestead stones
- Strawberry seeds will be the most effective seed to plant throughout your homestead growing career
- Try playing an instrument next to your crops, even at rank F the time reduction is extremely noticeable
- To get extra homestead stones, you can complete Madoc's request in Cobh, and get 2 by giving him 5 Large Nails (Clarey)
- Food kiosks yield 2.5k kons at 30 homestead stones (Froglord of DESTINY!!!)[/SPOILER]
[SIZE="4"]Exploration:[/SIZE]
[SPOILER=" "]- For some quick exploration EXP or gold, purchase a Fomor Fire Wand / Normal Fire Wand and prof it to get +4 Chain Cast on it, gather 8 Ice Elementals and place them on your equipment and rank your Firebolt to rank 5 and go Wyvern hunting. If you want to speed it up, get some goddess wings to teleport back to Calida. Doppleganger also helps if you got high stamina when it's off cooldown (Zey)
- Cor treasure chests/statues all dissapear on a fixed interval at the same time (BecomeMeguca)
- You can maid gather from cor statues to get up to 6 artifacts per statue found (BecomeMeguca)[/SPOILER]