Slayerj
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1. With the help of mana preservation stones, you can save up to 300 (max) mp by switching off a wand. This is still not all that great and as Fruttie said, people want damage over healing, even more so because we get up to 5 full heal Nao revives that also bless our gear.
2.Smash gets much stronger with a 2h as stated before and is slightly stronger with dual swords than without, while the true meta that is WM gets a great damage increase with 2 swords. Shields greatly help with the defense skill, but even in 1v1 scenarios you might never really use this skill as dealing 250% dmg for 10% of your health on a foe in .8 seconds at a large range > defending what could easily hit a massive amount even through your shield.
3. Always get WM first, no question. Magic mastery and Meditation are a must, and after that you might want to get the music skills for low ap cost +5 int every rank. They're a pain to get in some cases but worth it. They'll also open the path of magic music for you which, while very lacking, can give you a "eh, I'll afk with this playing" MP healing song.
4. Extra enchants. That's really it. In some specific settings you can make yourself completely immune to a single element but you won't use this often.
5. Refine coupled with Metallurgy, though once normal ores are buffed, you might not have to do that. Then weaving. From there, anything. With weaving, don't dedicate your life to it or you'll burn out really hard.
6. That's the best part of mabi. Besides a few things here and there that did their best to, in my opinion, ruin the system, everything has the same stats, so you can really just fashion your gear. Clothes have 2 def 0 prot, light armor is 4 def 1 prot, and heavy is 6 def 2 prot. Most have the option to be crafted too which increase these a bit along side their durability. Though, at this time, not everything is craft-able, so pick wisely if you're not going just for fashion reasons. (Hopefully sometime in the not so distant future, we'll get fashion tab)