Mabinogi is now down for maintenance! If all goes well we'll have G16 in 7 hours.

Patch notes:

• Generation 16: Macbeth Storyline is added.
• Fighter Destiny is added.
• New Skills: Knuckle Mastery, Chain Mastery, Back Step, Chain: Dash Punch, Chain: Charging Fist, Chain: Screw Uppercut, Chain: Somersault, Chain: Drop Kick, Chain: Pounding and Recovery.
• Counterattack loading time was reduced from 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
• Reforging effects for Martial Art Skills were added.
• Combo Card effects for Martial Art Skills were added.
• Moon Gates were adjusted to function similarly to Mana Tunnels in that you may go to any other Moon Gate at any given night rather than going to a specific Moon Gate, as it was previously.
  (You memorize all locations automatically, including Ceo Island.)
• Crag Cow of Defeat Crag Cow is more powerful and provides more EXP.
• Defeat the Shadow Warrior no longer provides gold and has a slight increase of EXP.
• New Area: Beach of Scathach.
• New Weapons: Sea Troll Club, Wild Troll Club.
• Knuckles are now equippable by all races.
• The damage of Knuckles can be increased by the Will stat.
• With a Knuckle equipped, the loading time of Counterattack is reduced to 0.3 seconds.
• New Knuckles: Brace Knuckle and Champion Knuckle.
• Meditation can be ranked to 8.

It is rumored that the Beauty Shop also gets released with this update, but this is not confirmed.

Edit: links

PS: Meant to say update in the title, accidently said maintenance. Derp on my part.

New in the update:

• giants
  female gets a new hairstyle
  female clothing set: lacedress
  male clothing sets: goth2, japan_gacha01
  new giant weapon: pumpkinrapier new sitting animation for with knuckles

• humans/elves
  female clothing set: lacedress
  male clothing set: goth2
  new weapons: knuckle01 and knuckle06

• universal
  beauty shop
  new login screen
  new hairstyle in rb menu (giant)
  new maps (for moongate traveling + the new area)

• misc
  files are updated to reflect the new content (i.e. skill.xml)

quick overview

PS: these are added but not stated in the patch notes, hence a seperate post.

Edit:
Note that the beauty shop may become pay-to-use in some way, there's a keyword added "BeautyShopeFreetrial".
There is also a new item called Pon, which is most likely what you pay the shop with.
(Credits to ryo for this, you know who you are)

Hell yes, thanks for the info, Im usually too lazy to look at patch notes

UPDATE FROM THE NEXON TEAM:

Please be advised that anyone running NOD32 anti-virus will more than likely receive a notice saying that Mabinogi has been detected as a virus. Do not have your anti-virus program delete this file as it will prevent you from playing the game. We are hoping to have a patch in the near future that will resolve this issue and will keep you updated on the status.

I think this means their new blackrobe-fix method is basically just sending info directly to them, which is considered malicious by some AV's.

On the upside, Mabinogi is opening soon.

EDIT: MABINOGI IS UP AND RUNNING

So... Still not here

EDIT: G16 is live.