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Voting closed: January 14, 2012, 06:17:21 pm

[Girlinhat]

I haven't played in while and I can't honestly say I have much interest. I still kept an eye on the updates and events, but haven't found all that much interesting stuff for a while. The only thing that could make me hop back in is if others are planning/doing something that is more interesting than the day-to-day grinding. Not that I have any time to play right now... but in a month or so, possibly.

Well, not much else to do except grind up.  The grind isn't terrible though.  I've got a goal for dungeon runs, would be nice to make guild parties to wade through the dungeons in pursuit of epic loot (compared to mundane loot).

In particular, there's demon weapons out, which take max rank crafting and max level boss loot to construct and wield.  Fun stuff.

[majikero]

Those things are so far out of our reach I think they're only there to bring the old hats back. That, or give people something to do.

[SirAaronIII]

No way we can reach those within any decent amount of time. Give us a couple years and force us to play and we might, though.


Wait, I probably shouldn't be handing out ideas like that.

[Girlinhat]

Those things are so far out of our reach I think they're only there to bring the old hats back. That, or give people something to do.

...there are always people playing.  They're raising the bar a little, giving higher tier options.  It's something to strive for.

I mean, yes, it's 'giving people something to do' but that's how games work.  If you're not doing something you're not playing

[majikero]

If your interested, the event clothes are dirt cheap right now. I need to dump all the umbrellas though.

[MadMalkavian]

I play on Alexina but whenever I play there is a one in two chance that when I close out the game my computer will crash because my video card is not up to par with Mabinogi. I'll keep an eye out for you guys if I see you but I might not be on until I manage to get a better video card or a new computer.

[SirAaronIII]

Bump for extreme dragon raid.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There was an update today that laid the groundwork for the new generation (Shamala part 3, aka G18). Reportedly, every Friday at 6:00 PM PST they'll be adding a full-length Generation quest series. If you've been not playing because of the lack of story, now's a pretty decent time to start. There will also be a Hot Time every Friday to celebrate the episode release, including one tomorrow at.. 6:00 PM PST. Though they aren't saying what they'll give, based off precedent it's probably a generous amount of AP _{and/or a Gangnam Style dance action}. Details can be found here.

About the dragon picture, that's part of the new Field Quest system in which a Black Dragon (it'll probably be more than just Black Dragons later on but for now) spawns every day realtime and sticks around for 50 minutes, and it's up to us lame Milletians to destroy it. It looks like you get 10 AP the first time, so it's a good idea to go at least once for the experience. Nobody's killed either of the 2 that have spawned so far, but if you strong men come back maybe we'll get lower than 56% of its HP. The rewards (that we'll never see without more help) can be found here.

For people who haven't made a Mabinogi character before, now's a good time to do so because Nexon's offering a New Players package that includes an item bag (everybody has inventory+ so it's good), a dye ampoule, a magic carpet, and some clothes. Details can be found here.

And lastly, there's a Rock Paper Scissors event in which you get a ticket every 5/10 (I'm not sure) minutes and can receive various bonuses for winning 3, 6, and 12 times. Winning 3 times will get you 1.3x life skill EXP for the rest of the day, 6 will get you double combat exp for the day, and 12 will allow you to do a daily Shadow Mission again for maximum EXP. The real prize is a perfect skill reset at 150 wins, which is easy to get if you have friends willing to let you win (like me!!!). The only downside is they just pop into your inventory without you asking, so have 3 open squares. Nexon's exact words can be found here.

There have also been a bunch of new places added in various Iria regions. There were also a bunch of field boss changes that aren't really important other than that they have even more HP than they used to because people were totally hunting them too much and it had to be harder. Exploration levels have also been uncapped from 25 to 30.

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Iria Update:
Hillwen Mine added north of Physis
Unfrozen Lake added near Whirlpool Mark in Physis
Silva Forest may now be accessed in Physis.
Temple Ruins added to Muyu Desert in Rano.
Dragon Remains added to Muyu Desert in Rano.
Longa Oasis added to Longa Desert in Connous.
Shyllien Nature Reserve added near Lizard Mark in Connous.

This is but a taste of the things to come with the new Gs. These place will probably most assuredly be important later. Details can be found here.

[Seriyu]

Also worth mentioning is a new moveset; guns, are coming along. As far as I can tell from mabidata screenshots you harvest the materials for making guns from purple plants and also giant purple rabbits with a magic wand. I'm normally one to not call things out as "not fitting" especially in a game as casual as mabinogi, but that is REALLY WIERD. I'll still do it and probably like it though.

EDIT: Oh, also, for those that don't know the EXP curve has been shallowed (is that a word) GREATLY so AP comes a lot faster. You'll still totally hit a grindy slump before the week is up but it's more then 20 AP a week without heavy grinding. Up to like, 50 I'd say, even.

[Girlinhat]

Ah yes, field boss hunting!  I remember the few times I tried to hunt the dragon...  The basic goal to getting it done was massive HP potions.  If you've got more than 50% health, and a single hit takes you down to negatives, you will never K.O. but instead go Deadly.  Thus you can tank any hit if you have low maximum HP and chug a potion immediately!  Hope you like potion sickness!

On that note, my homestead still has enormous herb gardens and I have a Clover Gnu.  Being able to pump out ~20 HP potions per day from homestead alone can get prepared for field bosses pretty quickly...

Also looking forward to guns.  I'll DEFINITELY be taking the 'single massive rifle' route - but I know I'll be outdone by giants being able to equip hand cannons.  I haven't heard this from anywhere, but mark my words they'll have one!  And all the elves will cry as they lose their spot as 'topped ranged dps'.

We have a Steam group:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Dwarfnogi

It's open to the public and as needed we can post announcements to alert people when we've got enough people to make a decent party.

[krisslanza]

Pretty sure Guns scale to your INT, as they use Mana Bullets. And are guns akimbo, from what I've seen. Revolvers, I think.

[Girlinhat]

Pretty sure Guns scale to your INT, as they use Mana Bullets. And are guns akimbo, from what I've seen. Revolvers, I think.

The only ones listed on the wiki are.  But I'll be betting they come out with rifles and maybe single-hands.  Be interesting to see players with a gun and shield...

INT scaling would certainly be interesting!  I can do that too, being an archer+mage.

Of course, this also sounds pretty similar to Cylinders, when you think about what things they might be able to do...

[majikero]

REALLY?! Finally! More INT for me.

[Girlinhat]

Also gonna remind people, I've still got high-ranked Crash Shot.  Gaining levels off rafting is a breeze for anyone who wants to leech!

[Seriyu]

Yeah, the dark dragon field boss thing is more like a very simple raid, tough monsters called raptors spawn around him, and regen pretty heavily. Archers have a use, you HAVE to injure them to kill them, basically. The dragon himself is a basic field boss "toss yourself at it until you die, revive, repeat" affair, but the raptors will multi onto anyone attacking it I think, so you need several people to hold off the raptors too. Luckily at any given time there are about 100 people around.

EDIT: Also I'm in the steam chat if anyone has questions to ask/wants to just yak. My steam name is now "A shrieking cloud of bats" so.

[Girlinhat]

Luckily I also have incredible wound potential!  I need to start working on an overpowered shortbow - they have more Wound than longbows.

Ideally I'd LOVE to have that demon bow.  It's literally got better stats than any other bows combined.  More wound and crit than shortbows, more range than the wing bow, and more damage than longbows.  However, you need perfect carpentry and a bit of refining to actually make the thing, as well as perfect archery to be able to use it!  My carpentry's pretty high, and archery is my main damage so it's always raising, but still...