Basic Combat in Mabinogi

Counter in Mabinogi: Instead of doing defense activate counter, after the attack is done activate defense.

This tactic might be easier for those people that can't yet cancel defense skill quickly enough to counter a smash attack. Unless you have higher counter rank, doing defense is recommended since a full combo with your weapon(buy mabinogi gold) will probably do more damage than counter. Of course, if your defense doesnt block much damage, use counter.

Of course, the mobs will not always just come right after you when you finish your combo. Most Spiders only have the defense skill in game(Mabinogi powerleveling). So they might use it after you finish your combo or after you counter. As you should know, smash ignores the enemy defense mabinogi gold skill, so activate smash right after you see a spider doing a skill.

Wolves on the other hand have defense, counter and smash, so the "new" thing is counter and smash. When the wolf uses counter the best way is to windmill, you could also use a spell. When the wolf uses smash you can use a regular attack to counter it. Or if you have counter attack activated you can leave that on.