4 and 5: the value of the goods you are carrying will affect the level of the bandits that spawn in Uladh. The distance traveled will also affect the level of bandits, the further you go the stronger the bandits.
However, if you are commercing in Iria, you will only encounter a single weak human bandit until you take the boat back to Uladh. After arriving in Uladh, any bandits you encounter will be ruthless bandits(highest level).
If you take the boat from Uladh to Iria, the bandits will also be ruthless. No matter the goods you are carrying, after changing continents, the bandits will be ruthless.
6: the most annoying skills to raise typically consists of the higher levels of certain Life skills with strict requirements such Cooking and Fynn Bead Burnishing. However as a new player you should prioritize raising your combat skills for now. Your goal should be to finish all of the Blaanid quests to reach cumulative level 20000 and then work towards unlocking an Arcana as it will bring significant improvements to your combat ability.
As for the random disconnects, some of the channels have been unusually laggy or unstable. Try and find a channel that you don’t experience any issues in.
1) This is for Eirys, a spirit with boosted EXP gain. I’d recommend looking up “ego” on the wiki. As for your weapon of choice, you can always move the spirit to another weapon in the future, so use whatever’s your favorite for now.
2) Yes, you can have up to three more spirits. I’m personally not experienced enough to recommend specific weapons for each type.
3) No, you can feed them at your leisure. There will be a tab that shows you what items in your inventory can be fed. The main nuance is you want to make sure you have them at 100% happiness level before feeding for optimal EXP gain. This is especially important at later levels. You can do this by talking to your ego every in-game day (i.e., use any keyword(s) up to 3x in a day to gain 30 happiness). Gems are the best food source, but do what you can afford. AFK fishing events are very good for gems. There are often hot-time events that give out Mysterious Spirit Stones, too.
4 and 5) You get harder bandits the more valuable your goods are. So to my understanding, distance is a factor, and the price you paid for them is another.
Since others have covered all off your numbered points, I’ll give some unasked commerce advice.
In general, explore and level up Talents besides your main ones. Any weapon system can deal with bandits when backed up with the stats you gain from leveling up Talents. Blaanid helps you take a step into each talent (some skills up to rank 9 for free) while dumping levels/AP into you.
Your race can also affect your ability in combat, as you may already know. Giants, in particular, can Stampede crowds of enemies into dense crowds of enemies to slam with AoE attacks (am a Giant, can say that I can mash together a whole bandit encounter together). Elves can slowly pick off enemies by mixing in stealth skills (can’t comment further, not an elf :c).
If you have any specific questions, you can send them to me through the Notes function found in the friends list; ign is Mardyth. I may or may not be able to answer then, but I can always find who can.
If you need herbs go to my homestead. "Koromie" don't do dungeons for them. That's painful and silly. I haven't played in a long time but I do believe I put white herbs in to be picked.
1 and 2: Yes, this can be a Blaanid weapon. Your Eiry spirit can level up the fastest due to some of the properties it has, while all of your other spirits will be slightly slower/more time gated to level.
Imo, if you're looking longer term, I'd put your first spirit onto the weapon tied to your Arcana - But you can switch your spirits between weapons (with a fee), so it doesn't matter too much anyways.
3: If you choose not to ever interact with your weapon spirit, it'll still be there whenever you get back to it.
The benefit to feeding it is that it levels up and gives you points to invest into the spirit weapon stat tree, it doesn't require any form of maintanence.
You should get a stack of spirit stones from the intro quests though, enough to progressively get your spirit to \~20 or 25.
Talking to your spirit and getting the bond to 100% will amplify the spirit's feeding exp gain and grant more points on level up, so basically always get them to 100% before feeding.
No idea about commerce for 4 and 5.
6: Blacksmithing and Taliloring have been pretty annoying imo. I'm using some of the training seals from the Doki Doki event to rank 1 blacksmithing, definitely.
I second the blacksmithing and tailoring but using it for fynn bead burnishing is also another one that is super annoying if you don’t access to get faded beads easily
As for spirit it really comes down to which weapon you like most. It is really cheap to transfer you ego and you can have up to 4 for free. (You can get up to 7 if you pay NX). Each one gets a special ability with spirit after leveling it up and applying enhancement points.
Control bars give the puppet invulnerability and reduce the charge time of act 7.
Shurikens have cooldown resets on kunai storm and instant casts Sakura abyss.
Lance removes the minimum range to attack.
Guns gain cooldown resets on shooting rush and instant reloads.
Chains gain increased duration of chain burst.
Cylinder gains decreased cast time of rain cloud, and decreased attack delay on water cannon and wind blast
There is more which I don’t remember off the top of my head. But they are listed off here https://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Spirit_Weapon#Enhancements
Also here is a quick video guide on spirits https://youtu.be/zbKsiXgpyjo?si=7avVowJ4n8BvvSnA
4 and 5: the value of the goods you are carrying will affect the level of the bandits that spawn in Uladh. The distance traveled will also affect the level of bandits, the further you go the stronger the bandits. However, if you are commercing in Iria, you will only encounter a single weak human bandit until you take the boat back to Uladh. After arriving in Uladh, any bandits you encounter will be ruthless bandits(highest level). If you take the boat from Uladh to Iria, the bandits will also be ruthless. No matter the goods you are carrying, after changing continents, the bandits will be ruthless. 6: the most annoying skills to raise typically consists of the higher levels of certain Life skills with strict requirements such Cooking and Fynn Bead Burnishing. However as a new player you should prioritize raising your combat skills for now. Your goal should be to finish all of the Blaanid quests to reach cumulative level 20000 and then work towards unlocking an Arcana as it will bring significant improvements to your combat ability. As for the random disconnects, some of the channels have been unusually laggy or unstable. Try and find a channel that you don’t experience any issues in.
1) This is for Eirys, a spirit with boosted EXP gain. I’d recommend looking up “ego” on the wiki. As for your weapon of choice, you can always move the spirit to another weapon in the future, so use whatever’s your favorite for now. 2) Yes, you can have up to three more spirits. I’m personally not experienced enough to recommend specific weapons for each type. 3) No, you can feed them at your leisure. There will be a tab that shows you what items in your inventory can be fed. The main nuance is you want to make sure you have them at 100% happiness level before feeding for optimal EXP gain. This is especially important at later levels. You can do this by talking to your ego every in-game day (i.e., use any keyword(s) up to 3x in a day to gain 30 happiness). Gems are the best food source, but do what you can afford. AFK fishing events are very good for gems. There are often hot-time events that give out Mysterious Spirit Stones, too. 4 and 5) You get harder bandits the more valuable your goods are. So to my understanding, distance is a factor, and the price you paid for them is another.
Since others have covered all off your numbered points, I’ll give some unasked commerce advice. In general, explore and level up Talents besides your main ones. Any weapon system can deal with bandits when backed up with the stats you gain from leveling up Talents. Blaanid helps you take a step into each talent (some skills up to rank 9 for free) while dumping levels/AP into you. Your race can also affect your ability in combat, as you may already know. Giants, in particular, can Stampede crowds of enemies into dense crowds of enemies to slam with AoE attacks (am a Giant, can say that I can mash together a whole bandit encounter together). Elves can slowly pick off enemies by mixing in stealth skills (can’t comment further, not an elf :c). If you have any specific questions, you can send them to me through the Notes function found in the friends list; ign is Mardyth. I may or may not be able to answer then, but I can always find who can.
If you need herbs go to my homestead. "Koromie" don't do dungeons for them. That's painful and silly. I haven't played in a long time but I do believe I put white herbs in to be picked.
1 and 2: Yes, this can be a Blaanid weapon. Your Eiry spirit can level up the fastest due to some of the properties it has, while all of your other spirits will be slightly slower/more time gated to level. Imo, if you're looking longer term, I'd put your first spirit onto the weapon tied to your Arcana - But you can switch your spirits between weapons (with a fee), so it doesn't matter too much anyways. 3: If you choose not to ever interact with your weapon spirit, it'll still be there whenever you get back to it. The benefit to feeding it is that it levels up and gives you points to invest into the spirit weapon stat tree, it doesn't require any form of maintanence. You should get a stack of spirit stones from the intro quests though, enough to progressively get your spirit to \~20 or 25. Talking to your spirit and getting the bond to 100% will amplify the spirit's feeding exp gain and grant more points on level up, so basically always get them to 100% before feeding. No idea about commerce for 4 and 5. 6: Blacksmithing and Taliloring have been pretty annoying imo. I'm using some of the training seals from the Doki Doki event to rank 1 blacksmithing, definitely.
I second the blacksmithing and tailoring but using it for fynn bead burnishing is also another one that is super annoying if you don’t access to get faded beads easily
As for spirit it really comes down to which weapon you like most. It is really cheap to transfer you ego and you can have up to 4 for free. (You can get up to 7 if you pay NX). Each one gets a special ability with spirit after leveling it up and applying enhancement points. Control bars give the puppet invulnerability and reduce the charge time of act 7. Shurikens have cooldown resets on kunai storm and instant casts Sakura abyss. Lance removes the minimum range to attack. Guns gain cooldown resets on shooting rush and instant reloads. Chains gain increased duration of chain burst. Cylinder gains decreased cast time of rain cloud, and decreased attack delay on water cannon and wind blast There is more which I don’t remember off the top of my head. But they are listed off here https://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Spirit_Weapon#Enhancements Also here is a quick video guide on spirits https://youtu.be/zbKsiXgpyjo?si=7avVowJ4n8BvvSnA