BDO Life Skill Levels, Ranks, Fame, & Experience Chart

One benefit of gaining Life Skill Levels, is you get a payment of silver every day!

Learn how to calculate Life Fame below.

As you increase in Life Skill Levels, you will notice the colors of the grade change as shown above. As your account starts leveling past Skilled level, you will start earning a daily payment, depending upon the Life Skill Levels.

Press your P key to view all of your current Life Skill Levels. Click on the icon that looks like a pointed axe, “Life Info”. This will show all the available Life Skills that you can gain experience in and level up. The other tab labeled “Life Skill” that looks like a fish icon is used to view Life Mastery levels.

You are not limited as to which Life Skills you can level up, but you will soon find that there are professions that are much easier to level than others.

BDO Life Skills List

Below is a short summary, explaining each Life Skill. Click on the link to view a more detailed guide.

• Gathering – using an axe, hoe, tanning knife, butcher knife, fluid collector, pickaxe, empty bottle, shabby shovel, bare handed
• Processing – AFK chop, heat, dry, filter, shake, and grind resources into processed materials
• Cooking – AFK cook gathered material inside your residence on a Cooking Utensil
• Alchemy – AFK brew gathered material inside your residence on an Alchemy Tool
• Training – taming wild horses, AFK running horses on a loop, horse breeding
• Fishing – AFK fishing or active fishing via mini game
• Hunting – active hunting with a Matchlock and butchering the corpse with a Butcher Knife
• Trading – active or semi-AFK trading by buying or making trade goods and delivering them far away.
• Farming – planting seed in a rented fence and tending the crops
• Sailing – sailing quests, hunting sea monsters
• Barter – trade collected land goods to Barter NPC’s located on islands and ocean objects.

Life Skill Mastery

Life Skill Levels help to determine your “Life Skill Mastery”. Life Skill Mastery gives increasing benefits depending upon the level. Life Skill Mastery is a seperate buff and can be increased by items like Loggia clothes and accessory items.

• Processing Mastery: allows you to mass process multiple items at one time with a Processing Stone. Example: Mastery 150 gives 17 batches with one single Process.
• Gathering Mastery: increased item aquisition rate and aquisition quantity
  • +Common items (up to +400%)
  • +Special Items (up to +100%)
  • +Rare Items (up to +85%)
  • +Very Rare Items (up to +44.42%)
• Sailing Mastery: buffs your ship’s Acceleration, Speed, Turn, and Brake while sailing.
• Fishing Mastery: increased chance to catch red grade fish worth 1,000,000-100,000,000 silver each and Ancient Relic Crystal Shards.
• Hunting Mastery: +Chance of getting more items from butchering a mob. Sniper Rifle use and Sniper Accuracy. Use certain normal Matchlocks based upon Hunting Mastery, rather than Hunting Life Skill level. Gather rare materials to craft expensive and stackable trade items or furniture with buffs.
• Alchemy Mastery: increases items gained per craft and increases chance to get rare items depending on Mastery level. Earn more from Imperial Craft Delivery.
• Training Mastery: increases the chance to capture a wild horse, mount EXP gained, and the chance to obtain a higher tier horse from breeding or exchanging.
• Cooking Mastery: increases chance to obtain better food from cooking, the chance to activate mass cooking, and the opportunity to get Bonus Cooking quests. Earn more from Imperial Craft Delivery.

Life Skills Not Helped by Life Mastery

• Farming Mastery: Farming levels decreases the amount of Energy consumed during farming and speeds up Breeding, Harvesting, Pruning, and Killing Pests. (Life Mastery doesn’t improve farming activities at all.)
  
• Barter Mastery: Barter levels decrease Parley cost for each Barter. (Life Mastery doesn’t improve Barter at all.)
• Trading Mastery: Trading levels increase the type of trade items and bargain profits. (Life Mastery doesn’t improve Trading at all.)

Life Mastery Per Life Skill Level Chart

Includes Mastery rework from patch 2-23-22, which increased the Mastery of Apprentice 1 to Professional 10, but decreased Guru Mastery per level. See patch notes copy below.

Life Skill Levels Calculate Life Fame

Life Skill Experience per Level

The experience chart below shows the amount of EXP needed for each level of Life Skill.

Quick Life Skill Leveling

You can easily achieve the max Life Fame benefit by getting 10 Life Skills to Professional 1. Each skill that is at Professional 1 level gives +93 Life Fame.

Best Life Skills to Level:

• Gathering – Use Empty Water Bottles and AFK gather river water.
• Cooking – worker food or Cooking Byproducts
• RETIRED: You need 1,190,400 Cooking Exp to hit Professional 1, which is 5956 Taken Out Food (Taken out Food gives 1000 exp per turn in. So 1191 turn ins)
• Witch’s Delicacy – turn in 10 for 30k Cooking Exp. (You need 400 Witch’s Delicacy to get Professional 1 Cooking.)
• Note: Cooking and Life Skill Exp boosts do not work for turn ins.
• Sailing – main Sailing quest line gives Skilled 1 + complete Sailing Dailies
• Processing – processing cloth is light weight and gives good exp. (Flax, Cotton)
• Farming – dedicate several days to pruning crops from 10 Large fences. Uses 100 Contribution.
• Hunting – follow the Hunting quest line detailed in our Hunting Guide.

NOTE: You have to switch characters or channels for Life Fame to update after raising Life Skill Levels.

Patch Notes of Old Life Skill XP Changes:

Life Skill levels are now shared with family. Life Fame forumula was adjusted accordingly.

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Patch Notes – April 30th 2019 Source

• In order to alleviate the difference among Life Skill levels, the required EXP and obtained EXP have been readjusted for Hunting, Training, Farming, and Sailing.
  (However, Life Skill EXP obtained from quests will not change.)
  • We have decided to make adjustments for the 4 Life Skills above in order to alleviate the difference among Life Skills Levels. Therefore, we reduced required EXP for Sailing and increased obtainable EXP for Hunting, Training and Farming. We’ll bring our best to preserve the value of every Adventurer’s efforts.
    • Required EXP decreased – Sailing
    • Obtainable EXP increased – Hunting, Training, Farming, Sailing, Fishing, Trade
  • With the change of the obtainable and required EXP amount, Life Skill Level for Hunting, Training, Farming and Sailing will also increase proportional to the adjustment made.

Patch Notes – May 8th 2019: Source

• Life Skill Level has been expanded.
  • While there are adventurers who have reached the Guru level in certain Life Skills, there are also certain Life Skills where adventurers are remaining at a relatively lower level.
  • Last week, we adjusted the amount of EXP required for each Life Skill in order to adjust for the amount of effort put into each Life Skill.
  • Also, in order to provide a target goal for adventurers who have already reached the top level, we have expanded all Life Skill levels up to “Guru 50”.
  • Due to the increase in Life Skill levels, you can now receive more benefits from the higher levels, and we will also continue to provide various updates to enhance the Life Skill content.