Overview
This guide is for those who are considerably new to mabinogi, and are in need of some of that shiny shiny gold.This is mainly intended for players who are not using a life talent, because it is indeed only the bare basics guide.However view it either way, because some things here are just worth knowing.
The Many Choices and the things you will need
I would like to start off by saying, in this guide there will NOT be any sure fire way to make thousands and thousands of gold in no time flat. I say that because, this is a guide for beginners, and some of this stuff will actually be IMPOSSIBLE if you are no longer new.
The things you might need:
Patience, Brains, and occaisonally a natural level of skill
plus a bit of starting cash for some of this that you will have to scrounge up.
Included in this guide will be only a few small options to get your shiny object fixation in this huge and wondourusly complicated game but none-the-less, it is the little things that add up, Remember that.
the 3 different categories that I will cover are:
Hunting,
Crafting,
and grinding,
Now I have said this is a beginner guide so almost everything will seem pretty basic and more often then not boring, but I will throw in a few things for when you get higher level.
Hunting! (and lots of looting)
This one might seem common knowledge at first but, I was surprised at how often people in this game just do NOT loot the ruined corpses of their enemies.
YOU KILLED IT, so take advantage of what you can.
First things first, know what is worth the inventory space.
oh ya and, YOU DON’T GET LOOT FOR FIGHTING WITHOUT A WEAPON
You might not have ran into this problem yet, but inventory space is a major concern for players of ANY level so if you are really really new, try to save up for an inventory bag(3750 gold?) and a 50k gold pouch(9,860 gold?). because after awhile YOU WILL REALLY NEED IT.
Now, it is time to talk about
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- Common/expensive Fomor scrolls: Fomor scrolls are what any common enemy/dungeon monster drop that can be picked up and traded in with a collection quest. What you will need to remember is that some scrolls are easier to get then others, and thus some are worth more than others.
However, I believe you should only collect the scrolls of monsters that you KNOW you will be fighting frequently. So far my only exception to this that I have made is mimic fomor scrolls, Why? because those demon chests are pretty common no matter what dungeon you dive in. And !! every 10 of them bags you 6,000 gold!!An example of collecting common enemy scrolls would be, if you are still in tir and are just beating the pulp out of brown foxes. For whatever your reason, just collect their scrolls and for every 10 you get you can buy the collection quest from duncan and earn 760 gold on the side.
So if you find yourself fighting the same monsters over and over, then collect their scrolls, and earn a little treat for yourself.
- Potions: Believe it or not those little potions that the weakest of rats drop that only give you 10 HP are actually worth 25 gold a piece. I make a habit of collecting them and just selling them to the NPC shops because they can fit 20 in a stack, and they are also good for those resting times after intense fighting. for every stack of 20 you sell you get 500 gold.
As for MP and stamina potions, they are a bit more rare but sadly, all mana potions are extremely cheap and might not even be worth keeping, if not to feed your pet when it runs out of mana while healing you. However the stamina potions are usually worth the same as HP potions with only a slight variation at certain levels.
And remember the stronger the potion the more money you can make, just do try to keep some for yourself alright? You can’t spend your gold if you are dead.
- GOLD: PICK UP GOLD, seriously you would not believe the amount of money I have made just by picking up gold that lazy adventurers left on the ground after killing an enemy. Who cares if it is just 11 gold, those little amounts add up pretty quick. Plus starting this habit early on will net you a ton of money when you fight tougher monsters.
(For example, if you are more advanced and considerably stronger later on, when you get to Tir-Na-Nog the graveyard is full of zombies! these things are actually pretty hard to kill because their attacks have almost a 100% wounding rate, {means you can’t just chug potions and keep fighting} But don’t worry it isn’t so bad, zombies are slow and clumsy. And the only skill they know how to use is counter-attack. So feel free to spam that windmill, just be careful of their melee range! Zombies do not drop fomor scrolls sadly, but they try to make up for it by dropping huge amounts of raw gold. It is sometimes hard to get them to drop any gold at all, but when they do, they can pay out anywhere from 100~980 gold WITHOUT a lucky bonus.)
Dabbling in the crafts
Now, I have said previously that this guide was made for combat users in mind and not the master crafters in the life talents. But bear with me while I explain something I have started to do.
For this little tidbit, it requires a bit of money before hand. But don’t worry you can earn your money back in no time flat.
A gathering axe (can be bought from ferghus and repaired!)
A Handicraft kit (can be bought from malcolm)
Plenty of patience
considerable inventory space
and The handicraft skill (can be obtained through the book on handicrafts)
I am not sure where to buy the book in tir, but I know for a fact aeira at the bookstore in dunbarton sells it. I know someone bought it from tir before so if you find it let me know and I will try to add it to the guide.
Now, if your only purpose for using the handicraft skill is to make money, then the only thing you should have to build is
This is because the only thing you need to make a rolling pin, is 2 pieces of firewood that you can cut from any tree. Now, if you have ever tried to just sell firewood before, you will know it isn’t worth the time because they only net 2 gold a piece. BUT if you turn those 2 pieces into a rolling pin instead, 4 gold turns into 256 gold.
Firewood stacks up to 10 pieces in a 1×3 grid allowing the potential of 5 potential pins per stack, the rolling pins do NOT stack and take up a 1×2 grid each. You will start out with just above a 50% chance to make a rolling pin at rank F handicraft which should be plenty for your purposes so you really don’t need to put any ap into it if you don’t want to.
The handicraft kit should last for a LONG time, so you really don’t need to worry about it. But if you plan to keep doing handicraft beyond these pins, feel free to bless your kit with holywater. Eventually you can just make more kits with your Kit Lol it has a durability of about 15
As for the gathering axe, it is best to think of this as DISPOSABLE with only a max durability of 6, this axe won’t last long. Do not bless it, would be a total waste of holy water in my opinion. You can repair the axe at ferghus to save money(18 gold for 100%repair), but if the durability becomes too low, just sell it back to him and buy a new one, they don’t cost much.
Quest grinding, (Exp Now for music haters!)
This is quite easily the most patience testing method you can get and I will not go into much detail with it. (if I can, I tend to ramble so bear with me either way)
Quest grinding in and of itself, is normally done by higher ranked players, because some of the best quests for it, are shadow missions.
However I have discovered a way for either extremely new players or people who have never taken the time to learn bard skills to earn a small bit of gold and decent experience at an amazing rate.
When you first pick up a musical instrument you are given a quest called something something Enduring melody. I don’t know the real name of the quest because I am really not a bard in any form. This quest will have you talk to ysolte in the bard camp at abb neagh. She will send you to fight a total of 10 bandits in 3-4 waves. Every one of them you kill has a 100% chance to drop an HP 10 potion (if you use a weapon, NO BARE HANDS). Now you know what to do with those potions, Pick ’em up!
The quest requires you to use the dischord skill on the bandits, SO DON’T DO IT. you will still win the mission and get the experience but when you talk to ysolte again, she will say you have failed. Oh well, that just means you can do it again! every time you repeat this quest you can walk away with around 3,570 experience and 250 gold in potions per attempt.
Now at first this sounds better for grinding experience, and you would be right. In fact, if you are strong enough to kill all of these enemies in 1 hit you can complete a round of this mission once a minute.
So that adds up to 35,700 exp and 2,500 gold in potions every 10 minutes.!.!.!
This quest can be repeated an infinite number of times as long as you never use the dischord skill on bandits. For safe measure don’t use it on bandits outside of the mission either.
Sadly you can not sell the potions in the bard camp because ysolte is the only shopkeeper there and she won’t let you access it until you beat the quest so plan your inventory accordingly.
The not so honourable mention, Commerce
I thought I should include my thoughts on this extremely misleading activity because many of you might rant about why I didn’t include it in such a comprehensive guide.
To put it simply, Commerce is a lie.
When you first start out, you can get a whopping 300 ducats from the merchant, per commerce trip with this amount, you might get about 50 gold.
The time wasted commercing is not worth the pocket change you get tossed your way, in my opinion anyways.
Commerce is best used to earn ungodly amounts of experience. Not Gold.
If you want to be a professional merchant, feel free to pursue it, but I do not reccomend it to beginners. And when other people tell someone to commerce as their first suggestion to earn gold, I would rather punch that person in the face and walk away then keep talking to them. This is a common feeling for me as well, because I hear this reccommended ALL THE TIME. It is irritating, go kill stuff, it is much more fun. Plus, believe it or not you are less likely to die. because if you are just starting out, then you won’t be very tough, and as soon as commerce starts to earn you real money. Those bandits will rip you to shreds without remorse.
If you decide to do commerce anyways, I wish good luck to you, your damage will be cut in half during a fight so at least save yourself some time. Equip a pair of knuckles and do the first part of that quest to get an easy 3,300 ducat kick start.