BDO Life Skill Mastery Levels Explained (Black Desert Online)

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Life Skill Mastery gives added benefits to players who dedicate their time to leveling Life Skills. It became a part of BDO on 9-4-19. Below you will find how much Life Skill you need, in order to obtain the Life Mastery Level you desire.

For detailed guides on each Life Skill Mastery, skip to the bottom.

LIFE SKILL MASTERY

Life Skill Levels determine your Life Skill Mastery. Life Skill Mastery gives increasing benefits depending upon the level. Life Skill Mastery can also be increased by items like Loggia clothes, various tools, and accessory items.

• Processing Mastery: allows you to mass process multiple items at one time with a Processing Stone. Example: Master 3 gives 23 batches with one single Process.
• Gathering Mastery: increases items gathered via buffs to “acquisition rate and aquisition quantity” Aquisition Quantity is the chance you will gather more (Ex. 8 instead of 2). Aquisition Rate is the chance that you will proc an item from gathering.
• Sailing Mastery: buffs your ship’s Acceleration, Speed, Turn, and Brake while sailing.
• Fishing Mastery: increased chance to catch Orange 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 <Wild> mob. Sniper Rifle use and Sniper Accuracy. Use certain normal Matchlocks based upon Hunting Mastery, rather than Hunting Life Skill. Gather rare materials to craft expensive and stackable trade items or furntiure 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, the chance to obtain a higher tier horse from breeding or exchanging, and the chance for mounts to learn skills upon leveling.
• 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.

Detailed Life Mastery Guides

For a more detailed look into all the benefits of Life Skill Mastery, please view the guides below:

• Training Mastery
• Gathering Mastery
• Processing Mastery
• Sailing Mastery
• Hunting Mastery
• Fishing Mastery
• Alchemy Mastery
• Cooking Mastery

• Life Mastery Item Enhancement
• Loggia Gear & Accessories
• Black Gem Guide for Life Mastery Gear Enhancement