Life Skills

You can live here without swinging a sword. Four lines, level 5 cap each, grind by doing.

Gathering

  1. Lv1 Gloom Hollow herbs (Sunpetal)
  2. Lv2 Emberfall ore veins (Copper)
  3. Lv3 Skyshard wind crystals
  4. Lv4 Night herbs (Moonbloom)
  5. Lv5 Drowned Gallery kelp (raid-worthy mats)

— Veins respawn on dungeon re-entry — miners call it "the commute"

Crafting

  1. Lv1 Novice gear repairs, basic potions
  2. Lv2 Ember set patterns
  3. Lv3 Dyes (basic palette)
  4. Lv4 Verdant patterns, enhance materials
  5. Lv5 Night market patterns (rotating)

— Crafting dailies fund your enhancing habit. Ask a collapsed enhancer how that went

Fishing

  1. Lv1 Town pond (Breadfish, guaranteed)
  2. Lv2 Emberfall docks
  3. Lv3 Rare fish chance at night
  4. Lv4 Flooded manor interior (Duskfin)
  5. Lv5 Gallery waters — rumored boss fish "The Critic"

— The 3AM Moonfin story is on the Home page. It will be told forever

Cooking

  1. Lv1 HP buns ( everyone eats, nobody thanks)
  2. Lv2 MP tea line
  3. Lv3 Buff dishes (+5% ATK soup)
  4. Lv4 Night-vision soup (Moonbloom)
  5. Lv5 Feast platters (party-wide buffs)

— Feast platters sell out in world chat before raid nights. Cooks are the real economy

Material Map (what to farm where)

ZoneMaterialsTime
Gloom HollowSunpetalBark Fiberdayany
Sunken Chapel (outside)Chapel ReedDrowned Lilyanynight
Emberfall MinesCopper VeinEmber Dustanyany
Emberfall DocksDock FishMoonfin (rare)anynight
Skyshard TerraceWind CrystalZeph Featherdayany
Drowned GalleryGallery KelpFrame Splintersnightany
Gathering superstition

Gathering the same node 3 times in a row without moving "builds resonance" for better yields. Statistically identical to praying. Our gathering editor does it anyway and swears by the dopamine.

Which life skill first?? There are four and I am one person

Fishing. It is AFK-friendly, feeds Cooking, and the dock crowd will carry your dungeon questions. Gathering second when you can survive Emberfall.

— reply from dock regular [BreadfishEnjoyer]

On AFK fishing

Fishing is semi-AFK (press when the ! appears). Fully-AFK macros are a bannable offense per the launcher ToS. One guy tested this. Once. We miss him.