Here you see (the new) me with a fierce-looking boar, tamed.  I would like to con­grat­u­late myself for pass­ing the hard­est part of Gen­er­a­tion 8’s main­strem quest of Mabinogi.

It all started with the sim­ple and stu­pid mis­take I made when I ended my long absence from the game.  The plan was to rebirth as a female and bor­row a Rac­coon Cub Wiz­ard Suit from a friend… but then I for­got the fact that the suit requires age 17 to wear; the tragedy ensues when I rebirthed to an 11-year-old loli.

Six weeks of wait­ing is too long.  Mean­while I did my part in spam­ming Karu parts dun­geons and got 3 –cp enchants, and finally a female light armor with the 4th –cp enchant from (the god-knows-how-many-good-stuff-he-has) friend.  Then I looked like on the screen­shot, in a set that I call my sadis­tic “train­ing” suit. :3

It is good to know that even for a char­ac­ter with 1400-ish CP, obtain­ing a 10-mil gold worth of Rac­coon Cub cloth­ing is not a neces­sity to train Ani­mal Tam­ing to Rank 9.  If I’d real­ize it ear­lier I am prob­a­bly done with G8 by now >.>  All you need is:

  • get to at least 1k cp (the less the bet­ter, of course)
  • four pieces of –cp equip­ments from karu’s parts dungeon
  • will­ing­ness to spend nx buy­ing 36 min­utes ten­der­ing pots
  • have large enough inven­tory and num­ber of pets (espe­cially fly­ing mounts) to reduce the time needed

The skill’s Rank F~C is triv­ial as it has no restric­tion on how strong mon­sters has to be com­pare to your char­ac­ter.  And to get to R9, all you need is to find two kinds of eas­ily tam­able mon­sters that can pro­vide you with “Nor­mal” and “Strong” train­ing.  Thanks to JP Mabi wiki, the idea of train­ing on Black-footed Taran­tula, com­bined with Ten­der­ing Potion, can be both Strong and Nor­mal to me.  Plus the loca­tion is very close to Cor and even closer, Herba Jun­gle Mana Tun­nel; so it is easy to refill baits.  Plus, the monster’s aggro range and detec­tion speed is very friendly so unless you stay within the Tam­ing skill’s range for a fairly long amount of time, the chances are you will not get aggro’d at all.

I used Tikka Wood Tam­ing Cane and Cour­cle Tam­ing Bait.  The cane is a reward from raft­ing and per­haps a col­lec­tion reward? … though it may be eas­ier to buy it from some­one else.  The bait is just the cheap­est kind in game, bought from Tupai in Cor vil­lage.  I did not try the other two rare baits since all those explo­ration col­lec­tion quests are so indis­crim­i­nately painful to do ;_;

Of course your 1000+ cp char­ac­ter is strong enough to fight and take hits from the Taran­tula.  Use pets to reduce mobs’ hp to about 10% and use mounts, prefer­ably fly­ing mounts to can­cel aggro, then you are all set to go.  Note that Rank A~9 train­ing asks for tam­ing “awful” mobs; ignore that and com­plete the rest of the train­ing which adds up to 100% exp needed to rank up.  Rank A is also the point which sig­nif­i­cant raise of tam­ing suc­cess can be observed both on the Taran­tula and Otters.

Any­way it looks like I can com­plete G8 before G9 comes out?  <3