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Handicraft Ranking Guide (rev. 1 by kayDee on 07-24-21, 01:46 am)
Posted at 12-17-20, 04:22 am Link | #1
Because normally you'd use a general guide from live, but we have some custom recipes to make training a lot easier.
Why rank handicraft? Other than the fact that it gives dex, you can use handicraft to make gem powder, solar glory instruments, and unique pets exclusive to mabipro.
Tip 1: Immediately start Ascon's PTJ in Port Cobh to help you get free training materials. His intermediate and advanced PTJs can help you skip a lot of headaches, and he'll give you wood boards as a reward. For the purpose of ranking handicrafting, prioritize rewards wood board > average firewood > florins. If you plan on uncapping handicraft, switch to prioritizing florins over firewood.
Tip 2: When you want to tackle life skills, try to do it in merchant destiny when you rebirth to cut your material consumption in half.
Tip 3: If you can get your hands on it, a full body set of Scarecrow enchant can really help you fail recipes for training. It is actually unlikely you will finish success training before fail training, so if fails are necessary to finish the rank I recommend trying to fail as much as possible first before switching to a production party for success.
Tip 4: Try cross-training carpentry as you'll need lots of firewood and some average firewoods to train handicraft. Running Math Adv can be a change of pace if you want firewood as well, but it can get boring really fast. Beekeeping can also help you get some wax for alternative training options, or you can buy the wax from other players. Edit: As of the rank 5 uncap, fine wax is a valuable and mandatory material you should avoid wasting on training up to that point.
Rank F: Basically a free pass
Make lots of paper cranes. You do not need to make any rank D items.
Rank E: Still a free pass
Make more paper cranes. You still do not need to make rank D items.
Rank D: Not free anymore
Get all the paper cranes out of the way for the F items. For the E/D/C items, use handmade bandages. For rank B items, prioritize success. Ascon's part time job of Cross-Shaped Spars are free. Otherwise, Wyvern Ballista Bolts or Handicraft Kits are your best bet.
Rank C: Custom recipes to the rescue
For rank E and below, paper cranes continue to be your best friend. For rank D/C/B items, Magic Powder is the easiest, but Potion Concoction Kit is also fairly cheap. Remember that the type of gem you use for magic powder influences your success rate, so work accordingly. For rank A, Ascon will give you materials to make glue. I recommend making Campfire Kits. which are made with 3 branches and a torch stick (made with 2 branches and a bandage).
Rank B: Those campfire kits carry hard
For rank D and below, paper cranes! For rank C/B/A items, make Fine Handmade Bandages. For rank 9, campfire kits will continue to work. Ascon's Light Paper PTJ works as well.
Rank A: Let's go camping
For rank C or below, paper cranes! For rank B/A/9 items, make Fine Handmade Bandages. For rank 8, you will either have the choice of making Nao Costume Kits or a Camp Kit (5 average firewood, 9 common frabrics, 5 common leather straps, and 6 nails). Although Camp Kits are expensive to make, they are probably your best choice unless you have lots of wood boards saved up. Ascon may give you a break as well with his Light Thread PTJ.
Rank 9: I'm sick of camping
For rank B or below, paper cranes! For rank A/9/8 items, make Fine Handmade Bandages. For rank 7, you can either continue to make camp kits, or make Thicket Costume Kits. Ascon's Light Silk PTJ will give you training as well, but this is the last rank you'll get the big ticket exp training from Ascon.
Rank 8: Return of the campfire kit
For rank A or lower, paper cranes! For rank 9/8/7 items, its time to revisit the campfire kits. Don't worry about failing anymore as you can rank purely on success at this point, and failing is simply a bonus to avoid crafting higher tier items. For rank 6, make Poison Tip Wyvern Ballista Bolts. If you think you have the spare wood board (next and final rank requires about 15 to 20) and don't want to bother getting Wyvern claws, you can make Tree Costume Kits instead.
Rank 7: The unavoidable wood board use
For rank 9 or lower, paper cranes! For rank 8/7/6 items, the Finest Handmade Bolt is your cheapest option. Ascon should be able to help you skip making some of these. For your rank 5 item, you'll be making Sun Costume Kits.
Rank 6: You're done
You're done with vanilla handicraft content from classic Mabinogi. To continue, you'll be doing some custom content. Read the post below for more information.
The key to an easy rank 6 path is to carefully balance your use of firewood and wood boards. Be diligent with Ascon's PTJ for some free training and get as many wood boards from him as a reward.
Why rank handicraft? Other than the fact that it gives dex, you can use handicraft to make gem powder, solar glory instruments, and unique pets exclusive to mabipro.
Tip 1: Immediately start Ascon's PTJ in Port Cobh to help you get free training materials. His intermediate and advanced PTJs can help you skip a lot of headaches, and he'll give you wood boards as a reward. For the purpose of ranking handicrafting, prioritize rewards wood board > average firewood > florins. If you plan on uncapping handicraft, switch to prioritizing florins over firewood.
Tip 2: When you want to tackle life skills, try to do it in merchant destiny when you rebirth to cut your material consumption in half.
Tip 3: If you can get your hands on it, a full body set of Scarecrow enchant can really help you fail recipes for training. It is actually unlikely you will finish success training before fail training, so if fails are necessary to finish the rank I recommend trying to fail as much as possible first before switching to a production party for success.
Tip 4: Try cross-training carpentry as you'll need lots of firewood and some average firewoods to train handicraft. Running Math Adv can be a change of pace if you want firewood as well, but it can get boring really fast. Beekeeping can also help you get some wax for alternative training options, or you can buy the wax from other players. Edit: As of the rank 5 uncap, fine wax is a valuable and mandatory material you should avoid wasting on training up to that point.
Rank F: Basically a free pass
Make lots of paper cranes. You do not need to make any rank D items.
Rank E: Still a free pass
Make more paper cranes. You still do not need to make rank D items.
Rank D: Not free anymore
Get all the paper cranes out of the way for the F items. For the E/D/C items, use handmade bandages. For rank B items, prioritize success. Ascon's part time job of Cross-Shaped Spars are free. Otherwise, Wyvern Ballista Bolts or Handicraft Kits are your best bet.
Rank C: Custom recipes to the rescue
For rank E and below, paper cranes continue to be your best friend. For rank D/C/B items, Magic Powder is the easiest, but Potion Concoction Kit is also fairly cheap. Remember that the type of gem you use for magic powder influences your success rate, so work accordingly. For rank A, Ascon will give you materials to make glue. I recommend making Campfire Kits. which are made with 3 branches and a torch stick (made with 2 branches and a bandage).
Rank B: Those campfire kits carry hard
For rank D and below, paper cranes! For rank C/B/A items, make Fine Handmade Bandages. For rank 9, campfire kits will continue to work. Ascon's Light Paper PTJ works as well.
Rank A: Let's go camping
For rank C or below, paper cranes! For rank B/A/9 items, make Fine Handmade Bandages. For rank 8, you will either have the choice of making Nao Costume Kits or a Camp Kit (5 average firewood, 9 common frabrics, 5 common leather straps, and 6 nails). Although Camp Kits are expensive to make, they are probably your best choice unless you have lots of wood boards saved up. Ascon may give you a break as well with his Light Thread PTJ.
Rank 9: I'm sick of camping
For rank B or below, paper cranes! For rank A/9/8 items, make Fine Handmade Bandages. For rank 7, you can either continue to make camp kits, or make Thicket Costume Kits. Ascon's Light Silk PTJ will give you training as well, but this is the last rank you'll get the big ticket exp training from Ascon.
Rank 8: Return of the campfire kit
For rank A or lower, paper cranes! For rank 9/8/7 items, its time to revisit the campfire kits. Don't worry about failing anymore as you can rank purely on success at this point, and failing is simply a bonus to avoid crafting higher tier items. For rank 6, make Poison Tip Wyvern Ballista Bolts. If you think you have the spare wood board (next and final rank requires about 15 to 20) and don't want to bother getting Wyvern claws, you can make Tree Costume Kits instead.
Rank 7: The unavoidable wood board use
For rank 9 or lower, paper cranes! For rank 8/7/6 items, the Finest Handmade Bolt is your cheapest option. Ascon should be able to help you skip making some of these. For your rank 5 item, you'll be making Sun Costume Kits.
Rank 6: You're done
You're done with vanilla handicraft content from classic Mabinogi. To continue, you'll be doing some custom content. Read the post below for more information.
The key to an easy rank 6 path is to carefully balance your use of firewood and wood boards. Be diligent with Ascon's PTJ for some free training and get as many wood boards from him as a reward.
Handicraft Uncap Guide: Rank 5 and Rank 4
Only recommended for the strong of hearts, and those who have beekeeping ranked and an ample amount of Silver Florin Coins stocked up. If you decide to venture forth, I strongly suggest getting the ball rolling on both, making sure to stock as many Common Wax, Fine Wax, and Florins as possible. This will be a massive resource dump for what currently amounts to a benefit of 3 Dexterity per rank, and no other noticeable purpose.
Total Materials Required:
Full disclosure ahead. You will need a minimum of the following to complete these two ranks of handicraft, assuming you don't fail any 99% productions, and space out the materials perfectly between the two ranks. This is assuming you are on merchant destiny.
24 AP (10 AP for rank 5 and 14 AP for rank 4)
525 Silver Florin Coins (Advanced Handicraft Kit, Advanced Tools Guide for Handicraft, Timberman Z Construction Kit, 20 Cheap Timber, 5 Fine Timber)
30 Royal Drop (Handicrafting Wax Goods)
320 Fine Wax
600 Common Wax
70 Cheap Dyestuff
15 Holy Water
15 Iron Plate
70 Wood Board
315 Large Nails
235 Tough Thread
800 Wool
200 Common Fabric
400 Bandages
30 Common Finishing Thread
5 Cheap Silk
8 Glue (64 Garbage Herbs, 16 Jellyfish)
5 Holy Flame
Going from rank 6 to rank 5
Visit Melia in Blago Prairie and purchase the book "Handicrafting Wax Goods" from her for 30 Royal Drops. If you don't know what any of that means, read up on the Beekeeping guide linked in the post above. Beekeeping materials are mandatory for this rank, and although you don't necessarily need to source your own bee goods, you will be hard pressed to find anyone willing to give/sell you their valuable fine wax.
Moments after reading the book, you will receive your first quest. Completing the quest will give you the skill ranking book, which will automatically consume 10AP to increase your handicraft rank to 5. On top of doing the quest however, you must complete the first skill training requirement: Make a rank 4 or higher item (100 count). This is best accomplished by a combination of crafting 25 Tiger/Rabbit/Fox Doll Accessories or Tailoring Kit while under the merchant destiny. You will need to equip an Advanced Handicrafting Kit (sold by Madoc for 80 Florins) to be able to make these advanced handicraft items.
For starters, complete the quest to receive the skill ranking book. All wax items (other than the pencils) are useless, so vendor/drop/ego-feed them as you want. Out of the 35 Wax Pencils, 20 will be needed for the next quest, so you will only use 15 of them in this rank to make Tailoring Kits for the rank 4 item training requirement. For the next 10 items, you can either make more wax pencils and Tailoring Kits, or 10 Doll Accessories (Fox is the cheapest).
Once you have 100/100 on "Make a rank 4 or higher item", read the book to automatically consume 10 AP and become rank 5 Handicrafting.
Going from rank 5 to rank 4
Buy the "Advanced Tools Guide for Handicraft" from Madoc for 80 Florins and read it for your second handicrafting quest. Use the Wax Pencils you crafted in the previous rank to make the Tailoring Kits as needed, then follow down the list of production in the quest. In order to craft a Timberman Z Prototype, you need to equip the Timberman Z Construction Kit in the shield slot of your equipment along with the Advanced Handicraft Kit. The prototypes are pets that function for a limited time, and you'll need to replace their accessories with cheap or fine hearts to unpetrify them when they expire. You can trade away the prototypes, but they are only tradable once before becoming character bound. For the full Timberman Z, just toss the construction kit right in to the handicraft material slot and complete the quest.
You'll find that you are on 60/120 on the training requirement "Make a rank 3 or higher item", so you'll need to make an additional 15 dolls on top of the ones you've made in the quest. Afterwards, you can read the book to automatically consume 14 AP and become rank 4 Handicrafting.
Currently, there are no practical applications for uncapping your handicraft. It is tentatively speculated that these dolls will someday become possible to fragment, alleviating a big portion of the material grind. If you're not in a rush for 6 additional Dexterity, I would probably suggest waiting to tackle this task, or at least patiently farm up the materials over a long period of time.
Only recommended for the strong of hearts, and those who have beekeeping ranked and an ample amount of Silver Florin Coins stocked up. If you decide to venture forth, I strongly suggest getting the ball rolling on both, making sure to stock as many Common Wax, Fine Wax, and Florins as possible. This will be a massive resource dump for what currently amounts to a benefit of 3 Dexterity per rank, and no other noticeable purpose.
Total Materials Required:
Full disclosure ahead. You will need a minimum of the following to complete these two ranks of handicraft, assuming you don't fail any 99% productions, and space out the materials perfectly between the two ranks. This is assuming you are on merchant destiny.
24 AP (10 AP for rank 5 and 14 AP for rank 4)
525 Silver Florin Coins (Advanced Handicraft Kit, Advanced Tools Guide for Handicraft, Timberman Z Construction Kit, 20 Cheap Timber, 5 Fine Timber)
30 Royal Drop (Handicrafting Wax Goods)
320 Fine Wax
600 Common Wax
70 Cheap Dyestuff
15 Holy Water
15 Iron Plate
70 Wood Board
315 Large Nails
235 Tough Thread
800 Wool
200 Common Fabric
400 Bandages
30 Common Finishing Thread
5 Cheap Silk
8 Glue (64 Garbage Herbs, 16 Jellyfish)
5 Holy Flame
Going from rank 6 to rank 5
Visit Melia in Blago Prairie and purchase the book "Handicrafting Wax Goods" from her for 30 Royal Drops. If you don't know what any of that means, read up on the Beekeeping guide linked in the post above. Beekeeping materials are mandatory for this rank, and although you don't necessarily need to source your own bee goods, you will be hard pressed to find anyone willing to give/sell you their valuable fine wax.
Moments after reading the book, you will receive your first quest. Completing the quest will give you the skill ranking book, which will automatically consume 10AP to increase your handicraft rank to 5. On top of doing the quest however, you must complete the first skill training requirement: Make a rank 4 or higher item (100 count). This is best accomplished by a combination of crafting 25 Tiger/Rabbit/Fox Doll Accessories or Tailoring Kit while under the merchant destiny. You will need to equip an Advanced Handicrafting Kit (sold by Madoc for 80 Florins) to be able to make these advanced handicraft items.
For starters, complete the quest to receive the skill ranking book. All wax items (other than the pencils) are useless, so vendor/drop/ego-feed them as you want. Out of the 35 Wax Pencils, 20 will be needed for the next quest, so you will only use 15 of them in this rank to make Tailoring Kits for the rank 4 item training requirement. For the next 10 items, you can either make more wax pencils and Tailoring Kits, or 10 Doll Accessories (Fox is the cheapest).
Once you have 100/100 on "Make a rank 4 or higher item", read the book to automatically consume 10 AP and become rank 5 Handicrafting.
Going from rank 5 to rank 4
Buy the "Advanced Tools Guide for Handicraft" from Madoc for 80 Florins and read it for your second handicrafting quest. Use the Wax Pencils you crafted in the previous rank to make the Tailoring Kits as needed, then follow down the list of production in the quest. In order to craft a Timberman Z Prototype, you need to equip the Timberman Z Construction Kit in the shield slot of your equipment along with the Advanced Handicraft Kit. The prototypes are pets that function for a limited time, and you'll need to replace their accessories with cheap or fine hearts to unpetrify them when they expire. You can trade away the prototypes, but they are only tradable once before becoming character bound. For the full Timberman Z, just toss the construction kit right in to the handicraft material slot and complete the quest.
You'll find that you are on 60/120 on the training requirement "Make a rank 3 or higher item", so you'll need to make an additional 15 dolls on top of the ones you've made in the quest. Afterwards, you can read the book to automatically consume 14 AP and become rank 4 Handicrafting.
Currently, there are no practical applications for uncapping your handicraft. It is tentatively speculated that these dolls will someday become possible to fragment, alleviating a big portion of the material grind. If you're not in a rush for 6 additional Dexterity, I would probably suggest waiting to tackle this task, or at least patiently farm up the materials over a long period of time.
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