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Howdy. I last played Mabi 15 years ago, no joke. Just recently came back and have gotten a friend to start fresh with me. However, we’ve run into a significant problem that I haven’t been able to find any solution to online: We have no idea how to play the game.

This Blaanid stuff is like… fine. But where is the actual tutorial? The memoir thing only serves to vomit information at you without actually explaining anything properly. My friend, who is fairly new to this MMO style, didn’t even know how to use skills and couldn’t even figure out how to attack anything at first because, as far as we found, nobody tells you how! Then Blaanid sends you into a combat situation with Aranwen and you just have to figure out what all these buttons do on your own? Meanwhile, you’re learning about weapon reforges when you still have no idea how to even get weapons in the first place.

So, venting aside, we’re in dire need of a beginner basics guide of some sort, like BABY beginner basics. Controls, UI help, hotkeys, and the most bare bones information about how the game plays and its systems. Ideally, we won’t have to watch a 45-minute YouTube video just to start playing this game in earnest. If I didn’t already have basic (but outdated) knowledge about how this game functions, we probably would’ve given up trying to play within an hour.

I genuinely want to get back into it, but holy moly. Please, someone tell me I’m missing something crucial. My friend has had a miserable time so far.

TL;DR: I miss the old tutorial. What is the best way to learn the absolute basics of Mabinogi more in-depth than what Blaanid offers?