Mabinogi Renovation Update

• Kaeporo wrote on 2014-11-07 10:12

  Greetings to all Mabinogi Users.
  
  This is the Mabinogi Director Kim Woo-jin
  
  It has been a long time to greet you again since the 10th Anniversary Fantasy Party.
  
  By reading all suggestions and notices in the Mabinogi homepage and other community websites, the Mabinogi development team has looked thoroughly into all suggestions, notices, and complaints about the currently existing bugs, issues and content problems, along with suggestions for revamps in regards to weapons, combat system, and gaps between race/talent , and about lag issues, bugs, and abnormal shutdown of the game client.
  
  We have been concerned for a very long time about what direction to take in order have the players of Mabinogi enjoy the game more by reading everyone's various suggestions.
  
  Today I would like to notify everyone after a long time of thought and concerns, about the introduction and important parts of the November Update, and what kind updates we will be having in the future.
  
  Mabinogi, known as the most free style game, have many talents and skills.
  As time went on through our service, new skills and talents were implemented, which increased reliance towards certain skills while the others were not relied upon due to them being more weaker than the other, which were very disappointing to many. It was also seen that only few certain skill sets were being used in dungeons and shadow missions.
  
  As a character's level became higher and stronger, new environment for it were needed, but we have seen that players would have a difficult for players to catch up towards such new environment in terms of certain contents such as difficulty and rewards, which seems to have made the current situation that more effective and specific contents were more focused upon by the players.
  
  So after many thoughts and brainstorming, the Development Team has decided to revamp the Mabinogi's current contents and system through the "Mabinogi Renovation Project".
  
  With the announcing of this project, "Close Combat" talent will be revamped in the upcoming update.
  This update's goal is to increase the reliability and decrease the hurdle.
  Skills that fall in attack power and speed will be increased, and things that limit a skill's usage will be decreased.
  The Close Combat talent's skills that pertain to the points stated above will be focused upon and will be majorly revamped upon.
  
  The points stated above will be implemented in the Test Server on November 7th, where Balance tests and bug modifications will be done, and the update will be finally implemented in mid-November.
  
  As a follow-up, in order to deal with the Game's environment and bugs, we will be having the
  "Grand Bug Eradication" Update at the end of November.
  
  The "Grand Bug Eradication" update's goal is to deal with several bugs that appeared from a long time ago towards the recent ones in several aspects, and several lag issues and abnormal movements will also be repaired.
  However some issues may take a long period of time to repair.
  
  We apologize for this inconvenience and hope for your understanding.
  
  We know that a single update will not satisfy all users.
  That is why the Development Team has planned to make this update as a start to apply several reforms towards the currently existing Mabinogi system and contents thoroughly.
  
  We hope for more of everyone's love and interest towards the game in the future as the incoming updates are applied.
  
  Thank you very much.
  
  -Mabinogi Director Kim Woo-Jin-

  
  
  Translated by Mepphis.
  
  Renovation Update
  
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• Darkboy132 wrote on 2014-11-07 10:16

  With the announcing of this project, "Close Combat" talent will be revamped in the upcoming update.

  
  
  Get rid of Smash invulnerability frames. Make Defense skill better. Make Counterattack better. Uncap Evasion. Then I'll be happy with Close Combat.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2014-11-07 10:34

  Quote from Darkboy132;1253435:

  Get rid of Smash invulnerability frames. Make Defense skill better. Make Counterattack better. Uncap Evasion. Then I'll be happy with Close Combat.

  
  
  Needs much more improvement than that.
• Oberynn wrote on 2014-11-07 10:50
  Pretty lame changes.
  From what I could google translate, smash has a chance (40% elf, 50% human, 60% giant) to:
  Swords: bleed effect every 5 seconds.
  Blunts: Cancel magic/alchemy for 12 seconds.
  Axes: Lower def/prot for 16 seconds.
  
  Final hit buffed a bit, giant full swing gets 5 second CD and charge/assault slash now have splash.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2014-11-07 11:20

  Quote from Oberynn;1253438:

  Pretty lame changes.
  From what I could google translate, smash has a chance (40% elf, 50% human, 60% giant) to:
  Swords: bleed effect every 5 seconds.
  Blunts: Cancel magic/alchemy for 12 seconds.
  Axes: Lower def/prot for 16 seconds.
  
  Final hit buffed a bit, giant full swing gets 5 second CD and charge/assault slash now have splash.

  
  
  While minor, at least they're moving in the right direction.
  
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  - Smash now has a chance (40% Elf, 50% Human, 60% Giant) to:
  
  Swords: Cause bleeding damage every 5 seconds
  Blunts: Silence Magic/Alchemy for 12 seconds
  Axes: Reduce DEF/PROT for 16 seconds.
  
  - Final Hit now increases attack speed and damage while activated.
  - Assault Slash now deals AOE damage with Swords/Axes/Blunt Weapons while mounted.
  - Giant Full Swing now has a 5 second cooldown.
  - Stomp is activated instantly and has increased range and damage.
  
  [video=youtube;-nvMlu2N80U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nvMlu2N80U[/video]
  
  

  [Image: http://media.tumblr.com/0f6544a5cf444233c0255135b89e0108/tumblr_inline_mkugrkMo1P1qz4rgp.png]
• Yoru wrote on 2014-11-07 11:52
  Would scythe trigger any of those effect?
• Kaeporo wrote on 2014-11-07 11:59

  Quote from Yoru;1253440:

  Would scythe trigger any of those effect?

  
  
  As it stands, no. Scythes lack a mastery skill.
• Aisunix wrote on 2014-11-07 12:25

  Quote from Kaeporo;1253439:

  While minor, at least they're moving in the right direction.
  
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  - Smash now has a chance (40% Elf, 50% Human, 60% Giant) to:
  
  Swords: Cause bleeding damage every 5 seconds
  Blunts: Silence Magic/Alchemy for 12 seconds
  Axes: Reduce DEF/PROT for 16 seconds.
  
  - Final Hit now increases attack speed and damage while activated.
  - Assault Slash now deals AOE damage with Swords/Axes/Blunt Weapons while mounted.
  - Giant Full Swing now has a 5 second cooldown.
  - Stomp is activated instantly and has increased range and damage.
  
  [video=youtube;-nvMlu2N80U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nvMlu2N80U[/video]
  
  

  [Image: http://media.tumblr.com/0f6544a5cf444233c0255135b89e0108/tumblr_inline_mkugrkMo1P1qz4rgp.png]

  
  
  Is that the new Final Hit speed for sure? I don't know if it was patched or not, but I have some videos of back in December of 2013 where my friend showed me a glitch that let you hit people at an extremely fast rate. The attack speed of that person in the video is really similar to the one I have. If the 3 seconds before that video started were shown then I would be able to tell if it was the same thing or not, but the puppet snare around the person makes me think they're just using the same thing my friend and I did back then.
  
  Also, I don't really know much about the test server, but the characters are wiped periodically right? I don't know how easy it is to get your CP up on the test sever, but there are quite a few people with 3k+ CP standing around that are also blinged out with some fancy fashion items. If that video is just the glitch then I hope the real revamp isn't underwhelming, but if that's really the new Final Hit speed then daaaaaaamn, I wonder how quickly I could kill my dura on Merrow.
  
  With a name like the Mabinogi Renovation Update, I hope this update can really fix up the various issues that have been slowly piling up over the years. Hopefully they put more time into both old and new content rather than skills :(
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-11-07 12:52
  Hot Damn, well this is good to hear that they are finally doing something after being dormant for 3 months.
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-11-07 13:03
  I really hope this is only a small first step in a huge project. From the sound of this it really looks like they now want to focus on fixing/modernizing existing stuff instead of tossing useless new stuff at us. If that's the case I hope one of the future steps in their plan is modernization of the client-side of things (game engine a priority, followed by graphics). A shiny new game engine would also mean a new client, and a lot less bugs and crashes.
• Kenero wrote on 2014-11-07 14:03
  It seems it will be a busy day.
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2014-11-07 17:17

  Quote from Kaeporo;1253439:

  - Assault Slash now deals AOE damage with Swords/Axes/Blunt Weapons while mounted.

  
  
  Huh? What?
  
  Also, does Smash splash also have the chance to debuff? Can enemy smash do debuffs?
• Xeno wrote on 2014-11-07 17:24
  I'm really excited about this Grand Bug Eradication update. I really hope they fix a lot of the problems in the game, it is GREAT to hear the current director seems to understand the state of the game and wants to work towards improving it. Very nice.
• Tyskiyomy wrote on 2014-11-07 17:26
  Huh, interesting first I read up about some changes with vindy in the Paradise update and now Mabi too. I like this!
  :whoops:
• Bunny wrote on 2014-11-07 18:05
  [FONT="Arial"]LF>Archery aiming speed increase for all skills
  
  Because who the hell has time to miss nowadays? And it's super slow.
  
  Nice to see that they're working on something, though.[/FONT]