Mabinogi Update: Dream

The dream update for Mabinogi comes with a few nifty little things: new character cards based on life skills (Master Chef and Treasure Hunter), new dungeons, new peaca dungeon boss, an event with daily free rebirths, permanent weekly free rebirths, free premium services for the event, a bunch of bug fixes, and a new mobile app for Mabinogi.

Whether or not this update will come to the US Mabinogi will be seen. Even if we don't get the daily rebirth event, I hope we get permanent weekly rebirths. That would be excellent!

Update July 17th:

In an interview the Mabi development team revealed a bit more about what the dream update is bringing. Some of the high points are: hacking compensation, explanations of the new character cards, revamping dungeons, revamping textures, Mabinogi smartphone app, iOS Mabinogi, archery renewal, and in the future a reworking of spirit weapons.

Hacking happens and it sucks a lot; the devs want to make it so that if you are hacked you can get your items and gold back so that you don't just lose everything. The goal is to improve your experience and this is a great step towards that.

The Master Chef card comes with r1 cooking, finally, and access to tons of new recipes and ingredients as well as a special new ability called festival foods. It looks like a lot of these new features are tied to the Master Chef card but the basics will be available to everyone.

The Treasure Hunter card gives bonuses for exploring Iria. Excavating will provide special, unique treasures and Treasure Hunters will even be able to restore artifacts. They may even be getting special drops from Iria dungeons.

Dungeons are out of date and everyone knows this. The current system for passes is limiting, boring, and makes people avoid dungeons when they can. The revamp will be using the Hard Mode system as a basis to improve dungeons as a whole.

A lot of old textures are still around and just sort of meshed with the newer ones. If you want an example just compare Lemona Moon Armor with Thames plate and you'll see a world of difference in texture quality. The revamp will be to update old graphics so that they fit more with the new look of Mabi.

The Mabinogi Smartphone app is a bit confusing and I'm worried that I read a mistranslation of it, so if this is wrong I'm going to change it asap, but it looks like there will be assist characters on smartphones that can play with normal players. This lets you help your friends and even yourself by playing on your smartphone on the go.

Macs are finally getting Mabinogi. Some people may rejoice and finally stop using bootcamp. =)

The limitation of archery has always been the miss chance and this has made archery very suicidal to use at times. Since the combat update will introduce a natural lucky evasion chance, archery would normally be severely nerfed from this, so the archery renewal looks to fix these balance issues and make the class more viable and fun.

At some point spirit weapons may be updated in some way, shape, or form. Even the devs have no clue how they will improve them just yet.

Have fun in Mabinogi everyone and I hope these updates are as exciting to you as they are to me! Look forward to guns, magic crafting, and a bunch of other skills in the next few weeks too.