Mabinogi

Finding me

Characters

• Merchant (Wise)
  • Commerce Mastery (1): Increases the reward for hauling goods to places they're in demand. Useless if you don't know what you're doing, very useful if you do.
    
  • Gold Strike (4): A very strange combat skill known among bankers, which takes advantage of the density and weight of gold to turn coins into a combination of shot put and fragmentation grenade. Intended for rich people who can't be bothered to learn to defend themselves, and would rather just throw money at all their problems. As it's been convenient to learn, and its damage isn't based on a character's power level, this is my usual go-to when I need a ranged "assassination" technique.
    
• Adventurer (Apprentice)
  • Rest (E): Improved health and stamina regeneration while resting. Can somewhat ameliorate hunger. Unlike healing potions and spells, enough rest can substitute for actual first aid.
  • Transformation Mastery (B): Shapechange into any species you know well enough and use the base physical abilities of your new form. Provides minor enhancements based on the skill and your form. At the highest ranks, can also copy NPCs.
• Close Combat (Apprentice)
  • Combat Mastery (9): Increased melee damage across all forms of close combat and health.
    
  • Defense (B): Active blocking. Offers some protection against ranged attacks and can help break up enemy attack chains.
  • Evasion (E): Occasionally allows precisely timed movements to avoid some ranged attacks and spells. If you can get the timing down, and if nothing hits you while you're doing it, and if you're lucky.
    
  • Counterattack (8): Stamina-draining, immobile state in which opponent's attacks can be perfectly parried and partially turned against them. Cheapest to use when fighting unarmed, good against normal and Smash melee attacks.
  • Smash (7): Heavy, slow attack. Good for knockdowns if you can get it off, and can penetrate opponent's use of Defense. Also good as an opening shot against enemies with advanced skills which let them break up your attack chains.
    
  • Critical Hit (8): Extra damage when getting one off. Synergizes well with Gold Strike - merchants have Luck as their main statistic.
    
  • Windmill (C): Area of effect melee attack (when unarmed includes sweeps). Can hit multiple targets, targets your character doesn't even know are there, and can't be Countered. Tricky to train, though, and very tricky timing for its best uses. There are a very few things out there which can only be fought effectively using this, as well.
    
  • Assault Slash (C): Further hurting enemies which are currently knocked down. Good distance-closer, as well.
  • Blunt Mastery (B): Extra damage when using a blunt weapon. (Combat while transformed counts as this rather than unarmed combat, due to the tool you need equipped to transform.)
• Martial Arts (Novice)
  • Knuckle Mastery (7): Increased damage and balance (resistance/recovery from attack and knockdown) while fighting "unarmed". (Yes, the game uses "knuckles" to ensure you still need a weapon. You don't need a good or expensive weapon, though.) This combat type works best for extensive punishing of a single opponent, at close range.
    
• Mage (Amateur)
  • Magic Mastery (A): Increased facility with spells and attunement to mana.
  • Icebolt (B): Throws fast shards of ice with significant kinetic impact and penetrating power. Can store multiple charges of this spell, so can be used to stop enemy charges or temporarily keep a foe off balance.
  • Ice Mastery (D): Increased percentage of effectiveness with ice-based spells.
  • Lightning Mastery (F): Increased percentage of effectiveness with lightning-based spells.
  • Lightning Bolt (F): Throws ball lightning which can be adjusted (by repeated casting) to divide its charge among multiple targets. Unpredictable. Can also trigger the same spell as held by a nearby ally, allowing synergy with other casters.
  • Fire Mastery (D): Increased percentage of effectiveness with fire-based spells.
  • Firebolt (C): Throws a fireball. Not mana-efficient due to needing to maintain and physically move the fire. The spell can be held (and its power increased with repeated casting) until used or mental focus is lost.