MabiPro: The Authentic Old-School Mabinogi Experience

The Darkener is a custom pet in Mabipro made in reference to Ralsei from the game Deltarune. Just like Ralsei in his original game, he is specialized in healing, and has access to rank 1 Healing on top of having a massive mana pool. However unlike Ralsei from the original game, he’s also incredibly tanky and difficult for most enemies to kill.


^{exhibit a) soft and fluffy boy}
Most pets in Mabinogi scale poorly in to the mid and late game, being relegated almost entirely for interrupts and squishy meat shields. The Darkener on the other hand, has enough defense and self-sustain to survive almost any encounter. Let’s have a quick look at what makes the Darkener so powerful.


Two immediately noticeable traits that help the Darkener with his survivability are his rapid base regeneration and his ability to equip gear (limited to humans, and his hat/clothing cannot be removed). The Darkener’s clothing is pre-enchanted with Heart-shaped on the element slot, giving him 15 defense from the start.


^{Ralsei is always fluffy, so this is permanently active}
Another benefit the Darkener has over other pets is that his Instinctive Reaction skill ranks up to rank 6, letting him frequently get the first hit against enemies in a clash.

Finally, he has a hidden passive Advanced Heavy Stander, with an activation rate of 35%. This means even if Ralsei loses first strike on clash, he is likely to ignore the hit and attack back. You can further enhance his ability to intercept attacks by giving him a shield with high heavy stander activation rates.

All of this combined lets him survive prolonged encounters with most dungeon enemies, shadow mission enemies up to hard and sometimes elite, and several rooms in raid, including the chamber of snakes. His internal health regeneration outpaces poison damage at around half way down, and then swiftly recovers to full once he is no longer poisoned.


^{He can tank literally every enemy in snake room}


To get your very own Darkener, you simply need to craft a Strange Key from the handicrafting skill. The recipe is shown below.


^{rank 8 handicrafting required to make}
Pure Crystals are dropped by Aonbharrs in Falias. You can actually just provide the materials and have any handicrafter make one for you, since the Odd Key is tradeable.


To take full advantage of the Darkener's defensive properties, we're going to gear him with as much Defense as possible. Due to skill limitations, most of his defensive enchants end up being Goblin. Suffix Goblins are commonly found in Black Herb. Prefix Goblins are rare and from gachapon, so you'll be collecting them slowly over time. Keep in mind that his hat and clothing are not removable, so we cannot enchant them.

His weapon can be anything, but since he also specializes in healing, I prefer to give him a healing wand. The Tikka Wood or Carpinus are both great options to conserve his mana use when casting heals and give a slight boost to his healing power. It also has a fairly wide splash radius which can help with multi aggro tanking. He deals almost no damage, so he doesn't need offensive enchants. Goblin enchants will do fine.

Pair his weapon with a Yggdrasil shield and upgrade it for maximum heavy stander pings. Bucket drops with Mossy pre-enchanted are fine, but the optimal build is Guardian Emperor-Arcana.


^{exhibit b) example build}
For main accessory, use a 2/2 puppet and enchant it with Goblin Clover. Try to see if you can find a cheap 3/2 Smokey Relic if possible.
For second accessory, a 3 defense X HP drosera with Goblin Clover works great.
Dragon Scale Gauntlets are the best handgear at 2/1, enchanted with Goblin Goblin.
Spika Silver Plate Boots are the easiest 2/1 greaves to get, enchanted with Goblin Goblin.
If you're lucky, you can find a Goblin Cruces Robe from gacha, giving your Darkener another point of defense.

By the way, a Darkener with an AI set to spam counter can be a great candidate to hold a Ludicrous. It makes him less tanky than holding a shield, but the Guardian summon may make up for it by adding another aggro-tank to the mix.

The Darkener is a very solid choice for using a Pet Training Kit on, as rolling extra ranks in Defense, Instinctive Reaction, Combat Mastery can help his surviveability.


You can visit Brenda in Taillteann with a fixed dye to change your Darkener's hat color.

Uhh, that's it for this section. Here's some random trivia.

- Sometimes the Darkener summons drop Wool on the ground. The item color for this Wool is black. This makes no sense because Ralsei's fur is actually white.
- Due to Ralsei's very pitiful Str and Max Attack, he's actually a really great candidate to smash Siren's gem out of her without killing her.
- Check out Soul's datamined details about the Darkener's skill growth, age gains, and level stat gains.
- Ralsei in Deltarune is the squishiest party member, so its kinda weird that he's so tanky in MabiPro.
- Check out this comically unpractical defense inflation screenshot.


^{i fed him shyla pots and iron goddess tea and held party heal}