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Items: A Thorough Look
Hi. I'm Tolinar. Mabinogi is a world with a vast array of things to own. Let's look at some of them.
An ITEM is an object that can be picked up and held in the inventory. Items come in a few flavors.
This guide will teach primarily about Non-Cash Shop items.
-- TYPES OF ITEMS --
EQUIPMENTS are items that can be applied to a character's equipment slots. There are several types of equipment.
USABLE ITEMS can be used from the inventory for an effect. There are subcategories of usable items, too.
SUPPLIES can be gathered for crafting and making other items. They can be very useful.
SKILL ITEMS are designed for use with a skill. Without that skill, the item is not very useful.
QUEST ITEMS should be collected to make progress on a quest. A common example is the Fomor Scroll.
MISCELLANEOUS items may be of use... I wonder how?
About Equipments
The HEAD, LEFT and RIGHT HANDS, GLOVES, BODY, FEET, ACCESSORY and CAPE can all be equipped with one ITEM.
In addition, you can equip a second set of items for the LEFT and RIGHT hands. You can switch between this alternate set by pressing W or using the "I / II" switches on the inventory page, above the hand slots.
Some items will fill both Hand Slots. These items are said to be 2-HANDED And some will fill both hands, but can still allow you to hold certain types of items in your off hand. These are LOADABLE items. They include bows and instruments.
Most equipment has DURABILITY. When the equipment DURABILITY wears down to 0, it's useless and it needs to be repaired or sold, or burned.
Most equipment has proficiency, and can be UPGRADED. To upgrade an equipment, you must raise the proficiency. Then spend the proficiency, along with some gold, and an expert will make an item better! Who is the expert to improve your equipment, you ask? Think about who sold you the item, and who probably knows that item the very best.
EQUIPMENT TYPE: WEAPONS
WEAPONS are items designed to hurt the enemy. You can use weapons to improve your damage or change your style of attack.
Every weapon has several principle values. Balance, Minimum and Maximum Damage, added chance to critical, and added chance to wound are some common things on weapons. Weapons can be enchanted by an enchantment scroll, this will cause even more effects to be added to your character when you are holding the weapon. Enchantments vary greatly, so see what you can find.
If you are looking for a good weapon, check with a blacksmith. Remember to examine the Damage Range - the difference between minimum and maximum damages. Consider the price range, and whether the weapon suits your play style. Here's some info on notable weapons.
Daggers are great for getting the drop on enemies, they are quick weapons, but can lack damage. They are good as a secondary weapon for a player who uses, say a Bow or Magic. In a pinch you can switch to your dagger and rush the foe, and since a dagger is such a quick weapon, you will be more likely to hit first! You will also land a lot of Critical Hits with a dagger. If you focus on the "Critical Hit" skill, a dagger can be a lethal tool. Otherwise, you should probably rely on another weapon to do the bulk of your damage.
The Longsword is a slow weapon, but it still swings three times. Its damage is pretty good. This can be handy if you are used to hitting three times. You can use the pace of your hits to hold the enemy back, and get the extra damage.
The Two-Handed Sword is really.slow and it only hits twice, but it's a very powerful weapon. If you have spare money, you should consider one of these. It's probably the strongest weapon for pure damage in the game at this time, though people whisper of more powerful weapons on the way...
Bows are a whole 'nother class of weapon. They hit at a distance... but they might miss, too. Short bows are good, but they break quickly, and a Composite bow is considered a slower, but more damaging, type of bow.
Shields are special types of weapons. To use a shield, you must equip a 1-handed weapon. Then you can hold a shield in the off hand. Shields help with blocking arrows, making that dangerous type of foe less difficult, especially if you use the Defense skill. They will increase your overall defense and make you harder to knock down and hold back. If you have a free hand, you might consider a cheap one, or you could get a more expensive shield! Some tools can even be used as a shield... Though, this can be a waste if they get broken, and they aren't really as good for blocking.
Some tools and miscellaneous items can also be used as weapons. They may not be very effective, though.
There is a distant rumor that weapons can hold powerful spirits, called EGO spirits. Not much is known about this yet, but if you speak to the Ego Spirit in your starter sword, Eiry, she might be able to tell you a little bit.
EQUIPMENT TYPE: TOOLS
TOOLS are items for your HANDS, specifically designed for a certain task. Various tasks and skills need a certain something to get it done right. In some cases a substitute could be used (You might shear a sheep with your sword... if you really HAD to... but it would get dull!) Usually you will want to have the right tool for the job. Tools can be bought at a variety of places...
A shearing dagger is a good idea for shearing sheep. Check with a blacksmith or a shepard to get one.
You'll need an Axe to cut wood, and a Gathering Axe works best. Any good blacksmith should have one.
To harvest wheat, grain, and other tall growing plants, you need a Sickle. Check with a blacksmith.
To gather a low-growing plant like a potato, you need a Weeding Hoe. The blacksmith may have it.
To milk a cow or get water from a water-source, you need an Empty Jar. Try checking a big-city variety store for one!
To use the Tailoring skill, you must have a Tailoring Kit. Try talking to a tailor or maybe an innkeeper (they tend to do a lot of sewing) A Tailoring Kit is LOADABLE, and you will need to load a BLUEPRINT for the item you want to make. Without a blueprint, you have no project to start!
To use the Potionmaking skill, will require a Potionmaking Kit, and you should check with a healer to get one of those.
To use the Play Instrument Skill, you must have an instrument. Any instrument will do, the skill works equally well with any instrument you can find. Instruments are LOADABLE with a music scroll, and you'll play the song written on it, but if you don't have a scroll, you will play whatever song is in your heart at the moment! Poetic, huh?
To use the Cooking skill, you must have one-or-more SPECIFIC tools for the recipe you want to make! You may need a cooking table, a chef's knife, a dough rolling pin, a pot, or more!
To use the Blacksmithing skill, you will need a Blacksmith's hammer. You also must be standing at a Blacksmith's Forge that is working. A Blacksmith hammer is LOADABLE and you will need a BLUEPRINT for the item you want to make. Without the blueprint, you don't have a project to make!
To spin Silk thread, you must have specially oiled Weaving gloves. They can't be repaired and wear out quickly. It's a very special tool that goes on your GLOVE slot, instead of held in the hand.
As the game progresses and new and exciting skills and tasks appear, expect there to be new tools to accompany them!
EQUIPMENT TYPE: ARMORS and CLOTHING
Ah, the old question: Fashion or defense?
Tailored cloth tends to be somewhat giving, although it can look really stylish. However, a finely hammered piece of armor will be drab and metallic, but it might save your life.
The choice of which you prefer is yours. Cloth or armor can be applied to nearly every other slot on the character. Cloth comes in a wide variety of colors. That variety gets even bigger on Mondays! If you are looking for something colorful, remember the shops will carry new goods starting at midnight.
The two good qualities of armor are: It will keep you alive in some fights, and it wears out slowly. And it can also make you look tough. Yeah, that's three good qualities. Armor can be very expensive, but wearing a lot of armor may significantly reduce the damage you take, especially if you upgrade it.
About upgrades - once you upgrade an armor or clothing, it has been fitted custom for you, and you won't be able to trade it any more! Upgrade items you plan to keep a long, long time and keep them in good repair!
Expensive clothing and armor is a status symbol. Who can't help but stare at the dazzling chromatic metal and the rich, bold patterns and colors? Plus, it can be enchanted. A suit of enchanted clothing can seriously help your game!
EQUIPMENT: ACCESSORIES?
Where are those accessories? They don't seem to be in the game yet! Rings, and pendants, and perfect accents... oh my. How could you get such fine items? Well, you might try doing something amazing, or you might recieve something like it on a very special occasion.
About Usable Items
If you right-click some items, the word "USE" appears on the list! Usable items, how wonderful and useful. What are they good for? Well, you've got your FOOD, your POTIONS, your SCROLLS and BOOKS, and your ETC. ITEMS.
USABLE ITEMS: FOOD
Eating is important in Mabinogi! You are given some bread early on. When you notice your stamina bar going totally black at one end, don't ignore it! You're hungry, and the best remedy is to eat! When you are hungry, your Stamina recovers slowly, and you will get tired easily. This is bad for work-day life and in combat as well.
You are given some loaves of bread by Nao when you start the game, but you don't need to eat them right away. Eating when you are full is a waste and you'll just get FAT. You can tell if you're hungry if part of your stamina meter is totally black. If half your meter is blackened, you are STARVING - eat soon! CTRL+K will eat a piece of food from your inventory, if you have one.
Eating can be good for you too. Eating well-cooked food can apply stat bonuses to your character for a time! And if the food's ... really, really good... well... you might be in for a surprise.
But even boring food is good for your body! The diet you choose to eat will improve certain stats over time. Just keep eating when you're hungry and eventually you will notice both your body shape changing, and your stats slowly growing! Awesome! These changes happen faster when you are young, so newbies should watch their diet carefully, or you'll end up like Lorna did that one time!
If you're hungry and you want a good meal, but can't afford to eat at a restaurant, you might try hitting bushes or trees and see if you can find BERRIES. They not only slim you down, but they raise a lot of stats! Your DEX and INT will improve. You might also try to get an EGG from a chicken, but these can make you kind-of fat. With a Weeding Hoe you can get POTATOES. Monsters may drop food when you defeat them - don't rats like CHEESE? And if you keep a sharp eye on nearby trees, maybe you can spot APPLES.
Of course, if your friend is offering you a fine Fruit Salad and you need a meal, you would be silly to refuse! Even a Cheese Bread is better than going hungry, and these foods can raise your stats permanently too! If you never want to go hungry again, master the COOKING skill or get to know some skilled chefs!
Just be careful not to get fat!
USABLE ITEMS: POTIONS
Let's face it. A life of combat is rough. You will be battered, exhausted, downright spent at the end of the day.
And sometimes, you'll feel like that, right in the middle of it. What to do?
Potions can instantly recover your worn-down stats. Drinking a potion will recover your HP, MP, or STAMINA. Type 'H' at any time to drink a HP Potion. 'J' will put back an MP potion. And 'K' will drink a stamina potion!
Potions come in varying strengths. There's 10, 30, and 50 recovery potions. You can even make stronger potions if you're talented at potion making. The potion making skill uses herbs to make potions, by using a potion making kit. Those herbs can be found all around some dungeons.
Although the boost from a potion is a great way to get the edge in a fight, you should be cautious of overusing them! Potion sickness will strongly reduce your stats, and make you pathetic in combat! If you get potion-sick, you'll have no choice but to wait for the effects to wear off or visit a physician, so use with prudence!
USABLE ITEMS: SCROLLS AND BOOKS
Scrolls and books can be read... sort of.
Some scrolls are inscribed with music. If you can read Mabinogi-music, you might read a scroll to see what it says. (hmm. I wonder if anyone could ever really understand a song just by reading the MML.)
Other scrolls are inscribed with MAGIC. These are enchantment scrolls. Right-clicking them and selecting "USE" will attempt to apply them to an equipment of your choice. It might succeed... giving your equip a powerful magic. Or it might fail... and seriously damage the equipment, destroying itself in the process. If you know the enchanting skill and you have some Magic Powder, you might be able to preserve an enchantment scroll even through a failure, but you can bet that equipment you want to enchant will still get ripped up if you make a mistake. So it's better to try to enchant something early. Nothing is as sad as breaking a weapon you're really familiar with, just because you messed up an enchantment.
Reading BOOKS can be especially beneficial! By reading, you can advance your skills or learn new ones. Reading can also reveal some secrets of the game, or make you more familiar with parts of the game world. If you try to read a book and it says something like "The page you are trying to visit cannot be found" - then that book hasn't been written yet. Just wait a litlte bit and try again later to read it =P Some books can even raise your stats! To get a benefit from a book, try to do Advanced Reading. If you succeed, your character will advance!
FOMOR SCROLLS are actually QUEST ITEMS. They are scrolls poisoned with Dark Magic, used to control the wild creatures and beings that become the evil followers of Fomor. You can't read them, and even if you could, you wouldn't want to. They are NOT usable.
USABLE ITEMS: ETC. ITEMS
There are a few other general usable items! They may be odd, but they can be really useful! Don't neglect them!
Phoenix Feathers revive downed teammates and other players. Use the feather, then click on the dead player with the feather above his head (who is waiting to be brought back to life) When you use a Phoenix Feather, two good things happen: 1 - The person you revive doesn't lose any experience at all, and 2 - You GAIN experience! You can level up by reviving fallen players! The stronger the player you save, the more EXP you will get. Teamwork FTW.
Wings can take you back to the last town you just visited. Please note, they do not take you to any one specific town... but the town you visited last. Wings do NOT record a specific town! Please avoid this common newbie mistake! If you buy a wing in Tir Chonail, and you go into Dun Barton to do some things, and then try to wing back to Tir Chonail... you will waste your wing and won't go anywhere -- because your wing changed to Dun Barton the moment you stepped into the town! Use Wings to return to town quickly when the field or dungeon is playing a bit too roughly - discretion is the better part of valor - or when you are loaded up with goods, or finished doing what you were doing.
Rumors spread of Elemental materials that might make your weapon take on a new elemental attribute. Can you find it?
Who knows what other usable items you might stumble upon in Mabinogi? The game is seemingly without limits! When all else fails, try reading the item description to figure out how it's used.
About Supplies
Who knows how you might stumble across these. Perhaps a few cobwebs strewn on the ground... A goblin drops a piece of leather... an herb in a treasure chest. What are they? Are they all just junk? No...
They are SUPPLIES for crafting!
Supplies break down into specific skill categories: Weaving, Tailoring, Refining, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Enchanting, Potion Making.
SUPPLIES: WEAVING
Raw Weaving supplies include Cobwebs, Leather, and Wool.
Complex Weaving supplies include Fine Silk Thread and Coarse wool thread.
Cobwebs are gathered from spiders. Watch some spiders, and keep your distance, if a spider is alerted to you he won't make cobwebs. White ones are easily distracted and other spiders may attack you... Once the spider has spun some cobwebs, run up and grab them, then try to get away without being noticed. Cobwebs can be spun into fine silk thread, a complex weaving supply.
Wool can be sheared from sheeps. As long as the sheep doesn't move, wool gathering is 100% successful. You just need an edge to do it with, and a shearing dagger is best. Wool spins down into Coarse wool thread, a weaving supply.
Leather must be cut, with a blade. Leather can be gathered from goblins and other monsters. Try Ciar Dungeon if you need leather - Ciar Beginner if you are just starting. Leather can be cut into Leather Straps, a Tailoring and Blacksmithing supply.
Fine Silk thread is obtained by weaving. You need special gloves to spin the silk, an unusual tool. This can be spun into varying qualities of silk fabric, a tailoring supply.
Coarse thread is obtained by weaving. You can make various grades of cloth, a tailoring supply.
Braids can also be weaved, They are a blacksmithing and tailoring supply.
SUPPLIES: TAILORING
Tailoring requires various amounts of Silk and Cloth, as well as various qualities. You can get these through weaving.
In addition, finishing threads are a Tailoring supply that put the finishing touches on an item.
More complex patterns may have surprising needs.
SUPPLIES: REFINING
Raw ore is the stuff of Refining. Copper, Steel, Silver and Gold.
These ores are smelted down into Ingots, and plates, the core supply for Blacksmithing.
SUPPLIES: BLACKSMITHING
Blacksmithing uses the plates and ingots from refining. The finishing items really vary, from firewood for handles to weaving and tailoring supplies for hilts and cloth parts, and any number of other elements.
SUPPLIES: COOKING
Cooking uses a number of supplies like salt, pepper, oil, flour, and other things that can't be eaten raw, but you can get at a grocery store and you can cook good things with. What specific items do you need? Well, maybe you should find a recipe! I've even heard you may have to cook an ingredient up, then use that ingredient to make a better dish!
SUPPLIES: ENCHANTING
Enchanting uses the Magic Powders that you occasionally find. That is the main supply, as well as Enchantment Scrolls.
SUPPLIES: POTION MAKING
Various types of Herbs are used by Potion Making, as well as Base Potion. Base Potion is available at most healers' houses, but you will need Herbs to brew up anything really good.
SKILL ITEMS
Some skills, mundane or amazing, need an item to be used. It seems like the material exists, just to be used for the skill.. they go hand in hand, don't they?
To make a fire using the Campfire skill, you'll need Firewood. Try using a gathering Axe on a tree.
To use first aid, you're going to need Bandages. The skill can remove wounds. You can buy them from a healer's house... but maybe there is another way to make Bandages, if you search long and hard.
To use the Compose skill and write a piece of music for an instrument, you need a Music Scroll. Check at a general store.
To use Ranged attacks, you'll need Arrows. Try a blacksmith.
Simple!
About Quest Items
Quest items come in a few different types. Some are QUEST SCROLLS, some are COLLECTION items, others are KEY items, and a few are PASS items.
QUEST ITEMS: QUEST SCROLLS
These items can be bought from various merchants. Every quest scroll has a mission. Simply having the scroll is enough for collection scrolls. If you are using a Party scroll, you must set it to be the current Party Quest. It's easily done through the Party Menu. When the quest is complete, use the Quest Screen to cash it in, just like any other quest. The scroll will vanish, and you get your reward. Fabulous! Some quests have a time limit, so be aware.
QUEST ITEMS: COLLECTION ITEMS
Various items can be collected up and turned in for quest rewards!
Fomor scrolls are the most common type of collection item. Kill the monsters, get the scrolls, turn them in. Way to cleanse the world of evil! You must find an NPC selling a Quest Scroll for the particular type of Fomor Scroll you have collected. You need a bunch of a single type - a little of everything won't do at all.
Gems of varying sizes and colors can be turned in from a Quest scroll. What else could they be used for? I wonder.
Nails might be useful for Part-Time jobs, if you should find some.
QUEST ITEMS: KEY ITEMS
You might find this at the end of a dungeon, in a chest.Or maybe an NPC has it. There's really only one thing to do with it - the story makes it so obvious what it is used for! The effort, the item, and the completion. Oh, yes. It's so familiar. Many part-time jobs will have you ferrying Key Items around. Lots of Quest dungeons will end with a Key Item.
QUEST ITEMS: PASS ITEMS
Pass items are one of the coolest type of Quest item. Used on the correct dungeon altar, you gain access to a special place. You might get a quest Pass from an NPC. This will let you into a special dungeon. These tend to have more money, and be better places to play in - but you usually just get to go once! You can also get beginner passes to make a dungeon easier. Ask Trefor for Beginner passes to Alby. Ranald will have Beginner passes to Ciar. But these aren't the only type of Pass you can find! Be wary, though. With the exception of the Beginner pass, the Passes represent a challenge. Even if the pass says "Basic Fomor Pass" - that's still a special challenge, a dungeon riddled with evil! I recommend; Don't go alone into a Special Pass dungeon. Share your good luck and the challenge with friends or other players! This will not only spread happiness, but it might make it easier to survive a very tough situation. Definitely, don't just wander in because you got the pass from some spider! Pass dungeons can be fun, but they can also be really hard! Challenge passes expire after a few hours, so muster the stout and make an attempt while time remains!
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Sometimes in Mabinogi you will find something that doesn't make any sense.
A dried up fish bone... what is it? Maybe someone failed really badly at cooking. Can you eat it? You probably shouldn't.
A giant potato, golden apple, or golden egg - my, how lucky. But should you eat it, or sell it? Or what?
But part of the great fun of Mabinogi is figuring out the puzzle! What is this fantastic item? How is it used? Is an NPC looking for it? Or did a player drop it because they didn't want it? This list sure isn't exhaustive, by any means! An apple is an apple - unless it's an orange? As new worlds open up, new items will come with them in every shape and size.
OTHER ITEM FACTS
Here's some item oddities.
Item colors come in a variety, even if you can't equip that item. Talk about sense of style; I wonder if anyone has a color-coordinated inventory!
Some books can be equipped. Fancy that. You're a scholar! It doesn't seem to do anything, but it does make you look smart!
Robes can be worn in the Cape Slot, and you can put the hood up or down.
Cash Shop items are rumored to do amazing things, and could be a lot more powerful than a mundane item - or something wild and totally different!
Almost any item in the game can be BURNED for EXP, if you don't want it any more. You may not get much, but as your level rises, it increases your EXP gain from burning things.
AND WHAT ELSE...
oh yes, GOLD.
You can hold 1000 gold per slot in your inventory, or up to 10,000 in a 2x2 slot.
And what could you possibly use that gold for?
BUYING ALL THE OTHER ITEMS IN THIS GUIDE, of course!
Good luck with your fantasy life!
~Tolinar, Apprentice Sage
