MabiPro: The Authentic Old-School Mabinogi Experience

Hi,

As magic is a really difficult set to start with, while trying to remember some things from pre-Gen things earlier I stumbled upon these :

http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Beginner%27s_Wooden_Lightning_Wand

Never knew they were a thing back then either or I don't remember seeing one at least. I'd like to know if that'd be worth including, as wands are expansive things to start with (for new players, since for us, the Tara event and the x2 to gold make them easily accessible). Even only for logic purposes, it always bothered me that no matter how strong a mage you were, you'd still be using the same wand after such a long time. It'd make a transition from being an apprentice mage to being a full-fledged mage (or a mage with enough money !).

I'm cutting it a bit short, sorry, but I don't really know what I could say in addition to that, plus I'm quite busy and tired atm, I'm not sure if these items are already on MabiPro or not as it seems they were out way before G13. Let me know please !

Have a good time dear Milletians !

I would like to point out that the wand you linked to was a gatcha only wand (that also costs more to repair). Also, there is absolutely NO need for a beginner to use wands. Wands are only needed for intermediate magics. I will agree that more items is good though. By time you have the int magic skills you will have more than enough gold to purchase a wand.

I see they were only gacha, but it could "feel" right to include them as an accessible item for beginner mages, couldn't it ?
You don't "have to" use a wand as a mage before using int magic, that's right but it's also not their only use. They allow you to use meditation while moving, they also can be upgraded to reduce mana consumption/cast speed, to slightly increase damage and to use chaincasting.
I understand upgrades such as these wouldn't be worth doing on a beginner wand but being able to use meditation while moving is already nice. It could also become not upgradable but as a counterpart, have other buffs, like a slight decrease to casting time/mana consumption, a very slight buff to mana and int, for example. Nothing great enough to justify using them over normal wands and their upgraded versions. Just something to help making you more of a mage at the beginning, as beginners, mages are better off using melee skills than spells which quite a sad thing to watch. With a simple Gladius and Smash (don't take things too deeply, other topics are here to debate about that) early on you can already oneshot many early mobs, while Icebolt that you get for free on this server (I don't really like "earning" all these skills right off the bat tho...) can't even compare for a very, very long time. At that time, you won't be a beginner anymore.

I'm not saying these wands should correct this difference tho ! They'd be way too broken if it did. The problem's elsewhere, I strayed from my point please don't pay too much attention to all this.
These wands could help beginner mages feel like they're really training in magic and get something of doing it. They could "help" a bit by giving the buffs I talked about earlier, slight buffs justifying a low cost so they can stay affordable for early mages (it could even be given as reward for completing Lassar's training ? No idea if this can be easily implemented, maybe a new quest related to the training completion then ?) but not strong enough to overlook the investment in a true wand.
Maybe something like Mana Consumption -4%, Max Mana +5, Int +2 ? As I can't seem to add a reduction to cast speed without it being too controversial (since a low buff won't matter and a high buff isn't desirable for this beg wand).