Great update. I liked the slower-paced, old style combat of Mabinogi and hoped the newer classes would go back to the roots of Mabinogi combat, but this is good too. All the old skills should be updated to be similar in power/game-play style to the newer talents.

great update, except the shields part :(

its Peak asf now for EK changes in a few more months and Magic only playstyle wont be the norm due to insanely high clear times prob still will be insanely high but at least EK will be a bit faster in the coming months and this is just the start B)

I don't know that these are good decisions to change some of this stuff, not based on the actual statistic data, but based on the flawed descriptions of the developers of what they expect stats to change. In general, Smash was my goto opener and I will likely never break that habit, choosing to abandon mabinogi altogether if they force me to become a certain playstyle. That was where mabi always reeped the benefits of it's KRPG Make, you weren't forced into one class/weapon assignment. WoW and all other major MMORPGs do that; Mabi you just do what you want, or atleast, you did.

Also I'm of a dying religious dedication to using a guard cylinder as a shield...so don't tell me it's not possible.

So you've made lances actually viable and cool now....but elves still can't use them, and still don't have an alternative. We just get to miss out on even more skills. Great, thanks. how nice of you.