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I remember once reading a discussion about this back when the Armor skills came out. Everyone was excited due to the new usefulness of what was considered one of Mabinogi's more less thought out concepts, armor.

In Generation 1, Heavy Armor would give 15 defense and 10 protection when fully upgraded. Compared to Light Armor which would give 7 and 8 if you include accessories. The differences were very slight and would get even slighter as enemy power increased and armor meant less and less. This was when Light and Heavy Armor Mastery came in.

The addition of Royal Knight Armor which can receive the Magic Armor Upgrades and Magic Armor Artisan was something that tipped the Heavy Armor and Light Armor Argument.

Heavy Armor Mastery is, through sheer defense, more powerful than Light Armor, but causes the wielder to lose a percentage of their dexterity at every rank except rank F. Many people circumvent this by wearing Royal Knight Armor while keeping Heavy Armor Mastery at rank F.

Light Armor Mastery loses to Heavy Armor Mastery in every way except for the dexterity reduction.

Now, our favorite average, mid-game player, Milletian, wants to find a good balance between survivability and damage. To that end he:

bought 1.45 million NX in order to reset his Artisan Upgrades and skill ranks.

has a sworn hatred of any Dragon Armor from either Langhuris or Bhafel, thus refusing to use them.

is willing to buy any gear necessary, made by his server's best crafter.

is probably still going to wear fashion clothes in most of his dungeons and shadow missions anyway.

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When trying to determine the best possible outcome, there are only a few viable options.

First is by leaving Heavy Armor Mastery at rank F and using Royal Knight Armor or something with a set bonus. This allows you to keep your dexterity while gaining some defense.

The second method is by doing the same as above, but using rank 1 Heavy Armor Mastery instead. This allows for much more defense at the price of dexterity, also allowing you to equip accessories.

The last is by using rank 1 Light Armor Mastery with Royal Diamond Leather Armor or Chinese Dragon Armor. This allows you to take advantage of a set bonuses, gaining armor while keeping dexterity.

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The first method using Royal Knight Armor will give you 34 defense, 22 protection, 3 magic defense and 2 magic protection. This will also give you 20% passive defense against melee and ranged attacks.

Using the Thames Set will give you 12 defense, 10 protection, no magic defense or magic protection, but will increase your Smash and Assault Slash damage.

This method will keep your dexterity, but you will still lose fighter skill damage. At rank 1 Chain Mastery this will result in a 20% damage reduction on Drop Kick and Pummel. You also can not use any accessories like the Purple Heart which will increase your base stats by 10 each or Drosera which will add more defense and protection.

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The second method using Royal Knight Armor will give you 53 defense, 31 protection, 13 magic defense and 7 magic protection. This will also give you 26% passive defense in melee and ranged.

Using Thames Set will give you 31 defense, 19 protection, 10 magic defense and 5 magic protection, while allowing your Smash and Assault Slash to deal more damage.

You will lose dexterity this way, which reduces all of your damage very slightly through lack of piercing. It also makes it unviable to use bows this way, and puppetry takes a hit to damage as well. Fighters will also lose their Chain 3 damage. This path is mainly chosen by melee users who don't need dexterity for their damage.

You can use accessories to add more defense and protection this way due to your higher ranking Heavy Armor Mastery. Purple Hearts will add to your damage with a slight bonus to defense. Droseras will add a more powerful defense bonus.

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The final method using Royal Diamond Leather Light Armor gives you 24 defense, 15 protection, 8 magic defense and 8 magic protection while allowing you to keep your dexterity and fighter damage. The only reason to follow this route is to keep your fighter damage high, as having rank F Heavy Armor Mastery with Royal Knight Armor is better in every way but that.

You can also use Chinese Dragon Armor which will give you increased attack speed for guns and Final Hitting, which will only give 19 defense, 11 protection, 8 magic defense and 3 magic protection. Again, the only reason to do this is for gun and Final Hit Speed.

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Each armor choice that is viable has different allures to them. As long as you have infinite funds but don't want to use Languhiris or Bhafel armor, there are choices you need to make. If you're using Light Armor for defense, the only reason to do so is because you're a fighter. If you're a gunner, you will want Attack Speed bonuses on your light armor.

If you want to be flexible with Heavy Armor, keeping it at rank F will allow you to keep dexterity for puppets and bows while having higher stats than light armor, at the cost of fighter damage and being unable to use accessories.

Otherwise, if you're only going for a melee, alchemy or magic class, ranking Heavy Armor Mastery to rank 1 could be desirable, which will allow you to use accessories and further increase your defense at the cost of dexterity.

In terms of making money through combat there are many options available. If you’re a mage around level 2000, constant shadow mission runs will be expensive for you due to mana costs. If you’re a puppeteer, you’re useless on raft, so it narrows it down.

Many Thunder mages go on rafting and get about 60-70 stars, enough for 5 Teeth Pattern Ankle Boots. They then sell those to the NPC for 4k each, making about 20k per 10 or so minute run.

Almost any class can run Battle for Taillteann 2 Hardmode quickly, finishing it from 2.5 - 7 minutes. Each run nets you around 18k in gold drops and 17k for completing the run. An ideal class for this would be the Puppeteer, who can Act 6 and Act 7 each wave. Running with a party helps with money making, as it increases run speed significantly.

Defeat the Fomor Commander 2 is a textbook money making mission for if you have a party helping you. Without a party though, I would say that Battle for Taillteann 2 is better.

I would spend my first 100k on a cheap weapon depending on my class. Beginner weapons cost 1g per point to repair. Hagi’s Shuriken offers speed and cheap repairs. This is especially true if you’re a mage, as repair costs will eat into your soul and profits.

For life, Holy Water is one of the best ways for a Life user to make money, and a good way for a combat user to save money. Weavers are also in high demand. Shearers and cobweb gatherers are can sell their thick and thin threads for a lot of money, able to make a few million in a single day if they’re diligent. It burns you out quickly though, or more people would do it. You’ll want to invest your first 100k into either Holy Water gathering tools (Weeding Hoes for Potatoes, Sickles for Wheat) or into gathering knives.

General Combat Money Making Tips:

Find a profitable money source for you. Battle for Taillteann II, Conflict, Defeat the Fomor Commander II, Shadow Cast City and Their Method are some easy ways to make money. Rafting and Rabbie Dungeon work as well. I know of a couple people who page hunt for their money, but I don’t recommend it unless you have an iron willpower. I’ve made 8m worth of items in a single day with less than 500k investment, but it takes a lot of work for results to start showing.

Find a super cheap item to use. Powerful items will take away from your profits quickly. A lot of people have a money-making weapon for general cheap repair purposes and an extremely powerful weapon of killing everything for dealing with powerful enemies.

Have Holy Water. This will save you a lot of money in the long run. If you’re not having your items blessed constantly, you’re losing money through repairs (if you’re not using a beginner item).

General Life Money Making Tips:

Gather Holy Water. Everyone needs it. Most people are too lazy to get it themselves. A few elite people would make more money doing missions than gathering holy water, so it’s actually unprofitable for them to gather Holy Water. You’ll end up not making too much money at first, but then getting almost two stacks of Holy Water every in game day. It’s also possible to do this in between combat runs or gathering wool and cobwebs.

I’ll have to break this question down into two parts. First off, you asked me why I am so cool, and while I initially did not know how to answer this, mathematical proofs often start by assuming that the opposite is true, that I am not cool, and starting from there. We immediately prove that wrong as it is currently around 50 degrees, which can be considered cool in some weathers, determining that I am cool due to the effects of weather and season, including temperature and humidity. It also leads to the implication that I am hot in the summer, fresh in the spring and mellow like the image of falling leaves in the autumn.

As for whether or not we can be friends, that is iffy. Looking at it from a global point of view, I have around 200 friends. Seeing as there are around 7 billion people in the world, the chance of us becoming friends is reduced to 0.0000029%. This chance goes up drastically as we take other factors into consideration. I assume that you play Mabinogi, which increases our chance of becoming friends. I, however, don’t have any friends on the most popular server that encompasses the majority of the Mabinogi population.

If you are in Alexina, I do not know any people. Going by past occurrences, our chance of friendship reduces to 0%, which is a shame, as you seem like a good person.

If you are in Ruairi, the chance increases to 1/x, where x is the number of people who have played Ruairi in the past four years.

If you play Mari, that increases to 3/y, y being the same as x but for Mari server.

Being in Tarlach will drastically increase our chances of becoming friends, as that is where a lot of them come from. I would imagine 90/z would be a good estimate. We assume x=y=z for the purposes of this calculation and that there are around 10000 active members.

In Ruairi, our chances of friendship are 0.01%. In Mari, 0.03%. However, in Tarlach, this comes to 0.9%.

Wow…I have to say I didn’t expect this question.

Many people are willing to help you out, but this person is helping you out because they consider you a friend. They don’t expect the favor to be returned.

Unless you owe a favor to Vito Corleone, and there are other non-mathematical problem associated with that.

If you really want to return the favor though, the best way to reciprocate this is by being a friend in return. Be kind to them. If it were me, that would be the greatest thing someone could do for me.

If you feel that it is not enough, try for simple thank you gifts; try things that you don’t need that they may want, or simple things that show you know the person.

It would only increase the chance of getting a very good result when you use Playing Instrument with a score scroll made by yourself at that rank.

If I understand bard correctly, your buff songs’ chance of getting a Perfect Play is directly based on what rank your Musical Knowledge, so higher is better.

I’d honestly just go with lightning to mitigate as much Thunder damage as possible, since Fireball is dodgeable. Thunder on the other hand, when it’s coming, it’s very hard to dodge.

The moment you hit Way of the Gun, Red not only becomes good, but amazing. If the question is what is good without Way of the Gun, Red is better past 300 or so damage. At 500 Str and Intelligence, Blue is better outside of Way of the Gun, but you lose so much damage in Way of the Gun that I would choose Red anyway.

Red guns also have the advantage of being usable in the late game, so you don’t have to change your guns upon getting stronger. Your gear will persist.

The newly released Treasure Hunter update gives people who wish to raise their exploration level a number of new ways to do so. One of the best (and buggiest) are the new Treasure Dungeons!

There are a few key bugs related to them. First and foremost, you must be a Treasure Hunter talent in order to access them at all. Whether this is a bug or intended is still on the table for debate. Secondly, when you click to enter a Treasure Dungeon, it resets the instance and creates a new one, a bug that would not be an issue if clicking on the Treasure Dungeon to enter it does not actually make the dungeon disappear as it's supposed to.

As a side note, you can also enter Treasure Dungeons found by other players as long as you are a Treasure Hunter yourself.

Now, Milletian managed to take advantage of these glitches by channel changing out of Treasure Dungeons in order to land on top of the discovered Treasure Dungeon and re-enter it. Because the Treasure Dungeon persists on the map for 6 minutes, he will be able to do it repeatedly.

With great use of the Firebolt skill, mastery of the Short-Term Memory and gratuitous use of the wiki to understand what every statue and riddle line means, he manages to clear the Treasure dungeon in 45 seconds (which is very possible).

He then uses 20 seconds to change channels to a different one, then back, taking him a minute to complete a run.

The end chest contains an average of 1.5 Rare Artifact Chests (pure guess, may be wrong). Each Rare Artifact Chest contains an average of 13,350 (13348, sample size of 25) (second try:14468, sample size of 47) Exploration Experience.

Milletian can enter the dungeon 6 times before it closes if he rushes, getting him 9 Rare Artifact Boxes (and quite a few Suntouched Shyllien).

If it takes him three minutes to find a Treasure Dungeon, in the next six minutes, he would have gotten 9 Rare Artifact Boxes. As a very average Milletian, his rewards would be equally average, leading to each Artifact Box containing an Ancient Coin with 13,350 Exploration Experience.

This allows him to get to level 20 Exploration within 10 minutes with 120,150 Exploration Experience. This is equal to approximately four Eweca Orb Gachapon, 1,134 kills on a Raft while spending all of your stars on Elephant Statues or finding 240 Artifacts in Cor.

Until the bug is fixed, Exploration can be finished extremely quickly through this method.

Notes:

Milletian is an average mid-game player who:

has rank 1 Firebolt, Magic Weapon Mastery, with high intelligence.

is rebirthed into Treasure Hunter.

is using a Chain Cast + 4 Savage Fire Wand.

memorized the first section of Solea in order to find easy Treasure Dungeons.