Professions

There are 4 professions, and each has its own level from 1 to 50. Every profession starts with a free tool (Mining: Pickaxe, Hunting: Skinning Knife, Herbalism: Sickle, Woods: Woodcutter's Axe), and you share one bag across all four. You can have one expedition running per profession, so up to 4 at the same time.

You pay Energy when the expedition leaves, then collect it once the time is up. Cancelling a trip that has not finished refunds the Energy you spent, up to the usual Energy ceiling. The price is worked out from your max Energy without the Energy Overflow Elixir, so drinking one does not make a trip dearer.

The materials you bring home are listed on the Crafting Materials page, where profession finds can also be converted, and a hurt character can recover with the potions the Apothecary brews.

Longer trips are cheaper per minute. Up to two hours the price rises evenly, and past that a long trip costs less than a straight line would, so an overnight send is affordable. Rewards grow in a straight line with the length of the trip.

Finds is how many items the trip turns up, before your bag trims it. If you find more than the bag holds, the best items are kept first and the lowest rarity is left behind. Gemstones and a Godshard Sliver never use bag room.

Besides materials, a collected trip pays Character XP at your current rank, in full. A trip with no mishap can also turn up a gold find (a 3% chance per hour of trip, at most 50%, worth 50% to 150% of the base below, scaled by inflation) and, more rarely, 1 to 3 Shadowgems (0.5% per hour of trip). These scale with your live rank, so they follow you back up the ladder after an Ascension.

A trip pays 1 profession XP per minute of its length, whatever happens on the way. Reaching level L+1 from level L costs 10 x L XP, and level 50 takes 12,250 XP in total. The top title is Grandmaster. Rarer finds open up as you level, and you unlock rarer tools, bags and oils at the same levels.

Epic materials start turning up a little earlier than epic crafting opens: from level 10, so you can stock up on the way to level 12.

A better tool finds more items per trip and shifts the odds toward rarer ones. A better bag lets you carry more of what you found. Tools are per profession and crafted at the Workshop at that profession's level; the bag is shared, and is gated on the highest level among your four professions.

• Rare: tool needs 5x Steel Ingot, 5x Wood Plank, 5x Leather; bag needs 5x Leather, 5x Cloth.
• Epic: tool needs 5x Shadowsteel, 8x Wood Plank, 8x Leather, 2x Bloodwood, 1x Shadowcat Pelt; bag needs 8x Leather, 8x Cloth, 5x Silverthread.
• Legendary: tool needs 5x Adamantite, 12x Wood Plank, 12x Leather, 3x Ironbark; bag needs 12x Leather, 12x Cloth, 5x Ghost Silk, 5x Wyrm Scale.
• Mythic: tool needs 3x Obsidian Heart, 16x Wood Plank, 16x Leather, 2x Heartwood of the Old Grove, 1x Nightmare Pelt; bag needs 16x Leather, 16x Cloth, 2x Shadowcat Pelt, 1x Nightmare Pelt.
• Divine: tool needs 5x Obsidian Heart, 20x Wood Plank, 20x Leather, 1x Godshard; bag needs 20x Leather, 20x Cloth, 1x Godshard.

Tools and bags also wear. Both lose durability on every collected trip, and a broken one stops helping until it is repaired: the best working tool or bag you own takes over, falling back to the free starter, which never wears.

Durability runs to 1,000, and a trip costs the tool and the bag 1 point per 6 minutes of its length, so a 1 hour trip costs 10. The repair price is the price of a fully broken item, scaled by how much is missing and by inflation, and it is a straight line: repairing in small pieces costs the same as one big repair. A Repair All button fixes every worn tool and bag in one payment.

Mining is safe. The other three can cost you health when you collect. A mishap never cuts the haul or the XP, but a trip with a mishap rolls no Godshard Sliver, no gold find and no Shadowgem find. The chance falls with every level down to a floor, and the HP lost is a share of your max HP that does not shrink with level. It can never take you below 1 HP.

Refining turns 3 raw finds of one kind into 1 refined crafting material, for a gold fee per batch set by the raw material's rarity. It needs no trip. Not every find can be refined: pelts, handle woods and most herbs are meant for tools or the Apothecary instead.

Every profession has one more rare find. Once a profession reaches level 35, a trip with no mishap has a 0.2% chance per hour of trip of turning up a Godshard Sliver, and refining 3 of them makes one Godshard.

Herbalism herbs brew potions at 50% off the Potion Shop price. This is the profession's own Apothecary, separate from the Stronghold building of the same name.

• Small potion: Herbalism level 5, 3x Nightshade per potion.
• Medium potion: Herbalism level 12, 4x Bloodthistle per potion.
• Large potion: Herbalism level 22, 5x Ghostcap per potion.

Weapon oils are the other product: 4 oils (Whetstone Oil, Ironbark Varnish, Lucky Balm, Venom Oil), each boosting one stat for 1 hour in four strengths. Tier changes the strength, never the length. Using a new oil replaces the one you have on.

Mining can turn up gemstones: each pull has an extra 10% chance of one. There are 48 of them, one family for each of the 8 combat stats at each of 6 rarities, and legendary and mythic stones are made 4 times likelier than the plain odds would give. Divine stones are never found, only combined.

Socket a stone into a piece of gear to add its stat. A stone can never be a higher rarity than the piece it goes into, and replacing a filled socket destroys the old stone. Gear that is listed for sale or in an escrow trade cannot be socketed.

At the Jeweler, 3 stones of the same family and rarity combine into 1 of the next rarity for a gold fee.