New player life skill

[bronze stump]

I've been thinking on touching life sooner because mostly I'm grinding mid end content. But recently I also kinda want to chill out and relax . So my thinking is to get on life skill. I pretty much gets the basic idea of life skill as I'm veteran at it at other games etc. The question is should i make new character for life skill or just go with it on my main? What will be the consequences or advantages if I choose it at my main? When can i start to see profit? Is it still worth it nowadays?

[fickle beacon]

i recommend to have atleast one lifeskill alt - you can split lifeskill also on diffrent chars - but really dont do it on the same char you grind / pvp

in the time you dont grind you can just swap to your lifeskill and do diffrent stuff without leaving the spot

[remote robin]

The downside of using your main grinder for life skills are the different buffs and some of them can be extremely long lasting like 10 hours. So you might feel the need to be stuck at life skilling or vice versa, if you char has buffs one way or the other.

[bronze stump]

Thank you for the answer!

[bronze stump]

Oh you were right about the buffs, why I couldn't think of that! Thank you

[fickle beacon]

let me go into dungeon with my 20% lifeskill buff

[bronze stump]

Damn right haha

[fickle beacon]

but yeah buffs also a thing - and depend how much char slots you want to use for lifeskill -you can split it very good without running much arround

shai as example is nice for alchemy, processing and cooking bcs of the extra weight passive she has

Corsair is nice for sailing / bartering bcs of the 1% bonus

having a fisher sure you need again might a char with soem inventory slots - but over time from events you get more than enough and you dont need to go extra always to the spot too

same if you want to hunt in LomL - you never need to leave that area

[bronze stump]

Oh so it best to split lifeskills classes between characters?

[remote robin]

If you plan to do all life skills, some classes are better for different stuff. Same for grinding. Shai is great for more stationary life skills. Striker and Musa are great hunters and gatherers because of passive crit chance and good mobility skills

[fickle beacon]

just if yo uwant - some ppl just have a full life skil lchar

[bronze stump]

Character slot really limited for me now as i have created 4 for boss alt

[fickle beacon]

i personally have all char slots so i just splitting it so i just can swap arround

like for my fences - i have there a char and just swapign to gather the stuff - plant it and leave again the char

i mean you dont need to do it like me - i have all chars slots ovber the years - you can just start for now with one char and you dotn need to do for nonw every lifeskill

i ahve that system qalso just for 2 years now - before that i had everyone on my main

[bronze stump]

By definition of great, i suppose they have passive skill to helps them shine in life skill?

[bronze stump]

Damn hahaha

[fickle beacon]

on normal hunting classes with crit passive are a bit better bcs it also counts for the matchlock damage

[bronze stump]

Wow i didn't know that

[fickle beacon]

classes with dashes like musa are nice for gathering - corsair for the sailing part
tamer should get a buff for training but i think they still havnt put that into thje game

[remote robin]

More or less yeah. You can most certainly do life skills on any char if you want to. Nothing is stopping you. But for example for hunting you want the higher crit chance to get more crits, cause you can't use combat skills that well to get crit chance buffs all the time. Or well you can, but its tedious AF! And for gathering, you run from plant to plant, tree to tree, and so on. So fast and precise movement certainly helps with that, like on Striker and Musa. Mystic and Maehwa works too, but they don't have as high passive crit chance buffs as Striker and Musa.

Shai is thought to be the meta class for life skilling, cause it has the weight passive and it also starts with Professional 1 gathering and alchemy if I remember correctly. But the movement on Shai is attrocious. At least in my opinion, so I'd more or less avoid using for gathering. Also Shai is so darn small that she drowns in small puddles and can't use a Guru hunting skill that well I've heard.

[fickle beacon]

shai need to be max size for hunting - bcs the aiming is scruffed if she is not

[bronze stump]

Truee... I mean I don't hate shai but i don't like it

[finite girder]

Shai is good for stationary lifeskills

But for movement based ones

Like gathering or hunting musa/manhwa/striker etc

[remote robin]

Yah. Shai has its uses for sure, but the hopping around makes my head hurt, if you move around in combat stance

[bronze stump]

This just reminds me of lalafell..

[finite girder]

I currently use shai only for cooking/processing/alchemy and sometimes fishing

[fickle beacon]

i use my main still for processing bcs i have there the processing cloths from market - gathering i use diffrent chars
hunting also my main and shai
shai also for cooking and alchemy
fishing i just use a warrior
farming a dk - but that doesnt matter also like fishing with class

but i'm not a tryhard at all i just chill

[bronze stump]

Thanks for all of the responses

Can i expect profit as early as low level already?

[remote robin]

With hunting you can get decent profit pretty fast if you can get some decent life skill accs to get your mastery to 400 if I remember right. But with others its a bit iffy, cause bartering takes a long while to get profitable and gathering is usually done to get materials for other stuff like cooking or alchemy or possible workshop crafting.

From cooking you pretty much get the most silver from Imperial Cooking deliveries, and you want Guru cooking for the best value boxes for it. Alchemy isn't profitable no matter what you do pretty much 😂

[fickle beacon]

isnt hunting at LomL most profit?

sorry i havent done it yet

[remote robin]

Well that's better profit for sure, but you need Artisan skill level to be able to use the sniper if I remember right

While with regular matchlocks you just need high enough mastery, except for the Master Matchlock, which requires master skill level if I remember correctly

LoML hunting can be absolutely busted for sure cause it drop the LoML crystals fairly often which sells for nice silver

[bronze stump]

Honestly I'm enjoying Hunting as I've experienced it during quest or offin boss etc

I might create one just for hunting i guess aha

[bronze stump]

Wait, really??

[remote robin]

Artisan 10 needed for Master Matchlock and the Marni Sniper for LoML. Just checked

[finite girder]

Sniper hunting is the best profit for investment

Because mastery does not affect rare drops

So until you reach the high mastery brackets sniper hunting beats other hunting spots

[bronze stump]

How long thats going to take to reach Artisan Hunt ? XD

[finite girder]

Took me 1.5h to reach master 2

[remote robin]

I remember people saying they made like 2 bil/h when LoML was started because it dropped the crystal which can be rather slow and annoying to get otherwise

[finite girder]

Which is above artisan 10

[bronze stump]

I'm good if it within less than 100hr

[bronze stump]

Oh wowww

[finite girder]

Artisan 10 is very quick

[remote robin]

Did you level up on your own or did you get power leveled on it?

[finite girder]

Myself

At grass rhinos

With current event

Try to do it with current event

[bronze stump]

Wait, someone can powerlevel us to for hunting?

[finite girder]

So within 2d

Also Yh I didn’t know you can get powerlevelled for it

But what I had was like 400% life exp buffs active

[remote robin]

Yeah. Basically a more experienced hunter does the killing faster and you go butcher the killed mobs and you get the xp from it

From what I've seen, geared hunters kill hunting mobs faster than you can gather them 😂

[finite girder]

I also bought TRI manos Hunter clothes (because only manos has exp buff the other like loggia doesn’t )

[bronze stump]

Wait , so we get exp mostly from butchering? Not the kill ? Also isn't that consider as Gathering xp?

[finite girder]

You ONLY get exp

From butchering

[remote robin]

You don't get any gathering xp if you butcher hunted targets

[finite girder]

If you don’t butcher the hunted animal you get 0 exp

[bronze stump]

Eh... i swear i level up my hunt before while doing some sort of quest without any butcher

[finite girder]

Then you gathered

It’s a little confusing

[remote robin]

Quests are different cause they can give whatever xp as the quest rewards

[finite girder]

But basically mobs with <wild> or <sensitive>

Are hunting mobs

And can only be killed with matchlock or sniper rifle

(Can use Normal damage but takes 100x the time)

[bronze stump]

Yeah i tried the lioness at valencia before not knowing its a hunt mob XD

Took me 10mins to kill

[finite girder]

https://www.blackdesertfoundry.com/hunting-guide/

Grass rhinos is still the best spot for levelling

[bronze stump]

Niceee

I want more characters slot tho haha, I'm the type to play a lot of characters if the games involve a lot of classes

[finite girder]

But try to have as many buffs as possible and try to powerlevel before current event goes in <2 days

Because with the event it’s 50% life exp, + 30% if you drop the amber

And also there’s a daily from liana you can collect when you complete it giving 25% hunting exp for 30m

[bronze stump]

I've been stacking my life buffs item honestly all the time i just doing grind

[bronze stump]

I think I'm aware of this by accidentally haha

Do you all think there going to be characters slots sale coming on this MT soon since season coupon will be sent out?

[remote robin]

Probably after patch, aka when the buffs goes away, because a "new" season is starting

[bronze stump]

I don't mind about slow leveling too honestly, i just want more character slot XD

[remote robin]

You get a free char slot every 50 days with loyalties

[bronze stump]

But people say its better to take other things like weight limit, fairy petal, storage etc first so i dont know

Im willing to spend pearl on character slot only if it is on sale

[remote robin]

Well if you don't mind spending money, nothing wrong with that. Its not like char slots are that expensive. But you could also get a lot of weight and other stuff instead of the char slots, which you could have gotten for free with time and patience.

[bronze stump]

Yea xD

I wouldn't think much for character slot if they initially start with 10 honestly haha

Just a question out of this topic, if i were limited to 3 boss alt as for now, which 3 bosses should i drop it to?

[remote robin]

Garmoth, Vell and probably Nouver

Or maybe Offin if you want to eventually go for T10 horses.

[finite girder]

Vell can be a lvl 1 alt, garmoth also I believe just need to be able to land 1 hit

Nouver needs an actual alt that can do damage to reach the threshold for loot