Life Skill Early Progression Help for Gear Slots / Gems
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This is a little guide on how to get started with Life Skill progression to support your character development via Gear Slot Refinement and Gem Crafting for socketing gems.
I can explain the follow-up steps as well if needed, but due to the current Server Runtime Restriction in the game, I am unsure how useful that information might be right now.
In general, I would suggest getting the gear slots to Level 5 and then continuing with gems. (Unless you hit a threshold where you can’t proceed with slots because there are no target farmable materials, of course.)
Life Skill Priority
- Mining
- Smelting
- Gemology
- Gem Crafting
- Artisan
PSA: Early Progression Note
In case that you have zero Starforge Crystals, skip to the Early Gem Progression section.
Before Anything
- Do the side quests for those five jobs.
- The necessary materials can be bought for about 20k Luno each (this should be doable).
Early Gear Guide
- Unlock Level 1 of Baru Mining and farm Baru Stone until you unlock another Mastery Coin (300 Stamina).
- Unlock Atze Ore Mining talent and farm the same amount of these. (You should end up with one additional Mastery Coin from this.)
- Unlock 1 level in Artisan for Burning Powder. We will come back here later when we are nearly done for Gem Wax. (WE DO NOT NEED BOTANY FOR THIS.)
- Buy about 10 Charcoal and create about 150 Powder. That should be plenty enough.
- If you do not have another two Mastery Coins, just go back Mining until you can unlock Stone Producing and Metal Producing.
- You don’t need to unlock Stone Forging yet, as this will only be needed for Accessory Slot Increase, which we won’t prioritize.
- Go back to the Smeltery and craft the upgrade material you need for your gear slots.
Total Stamina Needed (with no extra Mastery Coins): 1,400 Stamina + 20 Stamina used per final material.
Early Gem Progression
(Advised to do after gear upgrades, as the higher skill tiers are locked behind days of server runtime, at least at the moment.)
- Unlock the Gemology Talent depending on what your secondary stat for your class/subclass is:
- Ruby – Crit
- Sapphire – Haste
- Emerald – Mastery
- Diamond – Luck
- Gather gems until you have two more Life Skill Mastery points.
- Unlock Gem Wax Crafting in the Artisan tree.
- Buy 20 Resin from the Botany Exchange Shop.
- Craft about 150 Gem Wax (10x Wax Crafting).
- Unlock Gem Processing in Gem Crafting and craft your gems.
Stamina Needed (without extra coins): 800 Stamina + 20 Stamina per crafted Gem.
TOTAL Stamina: ~ 2600
