BDO Cooking Mastery Guide & Quests: Life Mastery Series

Press P key > Fish icon (Life Skill tab) to view your Cooking Mastery.

To view how Life Skill levels effect Life Mastery, please view our Life Mastery Levels Chart. 

Cooking Mastery FTW!

Chefs get your chopping knives sharpened! Cooking Mastery adds many nice benefits for those who have spent countless hours leveling the Cooking Life Skill. With high Cooking Mastery and Life Mastery levels, you can really speed up your cooking and potentially earn much more than you used to.

Cooking Mastery Buffs Per Level

Cooking Mastery buffs begin early on. You will start to see Mass Cooking once every 10 Cooks.

Thank you to bdocodex.com for data!

Cooking Mastery Gear

There are many items you can obtain that will buff your Cooking Mastery or Life Mastery level. Manos gear is the best, but also extremely expensive to enhance.

• Loggia Gear  (sold by Camellia Loggia <Seed Vendor> for 1 million Silver at Loggia Farm)
• Geranoa Gear (sold by the <Material Vendor> Geranoa in Calpheon City for 10 million Silver)
• Manos Gear (Processing > Manufacture of rare ingredients.)

 Cook’s Clothes:

• Loggia Cook’s Clothes: Cooking Mastery +3 (up to +280 for PEN), Movement Speed +1 to +3
• Roroju Cook’s Clothes: Cooking Mastery +4 (up to +330 for PEN), Movement Speed +1 to +3
•  Manos Cook’s Clothes Cooking Mastery +5 (up to +400 for PEN), Movement Speed +1 to +3

 Loggia Cook’s Clothes

Equips to Top, Gloves, Shoes, Helmet.

Item Effect 
Cooking Mastery +3 (up to +280 for PEN)
Movement Speed +1 to +3

+1 to +15 Enhancement: – Black Gem

PRI to PEN Enhancement:– Concentrated Magical Black Gem

Can be enhanced up to +5 without failure

Obtained By:

•  Marketplace: +0 to PEN
• Camellia Loggia in Loggia Farm for 1,000,000 Silver or Zaaira in Velia for 1,500,000 Silver

Cooking Mastery Clothes Comparison

Life Mastery Gear Enhancement

Life Mastery clothes and accessories can be improved by enhancement, using Black Gems crafted from Black Gem Fragments.

• Life Mastery gear can be upgraded to PEN (V)
• Enhancement levels increase the Life Mastery given
• Life Mastery gear enhancement with Black Gems does not use the traditional Failstack system. Enhancement Chance is always a set amount no matter how much you fail.
• Enhancement with Black Gems “have a higher success rate than the previous enhancement methods.” (70% PRI, 40% DUO, 30% TRI for greed grade.) Although it seems from player reports that RNG is a-foot!

SOURCES & ADDITIONAL INFO

• bdocodex.com Loggia’s info, data searches, and Cooking Mastery page.

Cooking Mastery Patch Notes

All patch notes below are copied from the official website. View Source

• Cooking Mastery system was added.
  • Cooking Mastery is proportionate to Cooking level, therefore increases together by a certain amount, and can also increase by equipping Mastery gear.
  • Even if the Cooking level is low, you can increase the efficiency of Cooking by equipping gear which increases Mastery.
  • If you equip Mastery gear while your Cooking level is high, then your Cooking efficiency will be even better.
  • Added a feature which allows Mass Cooking when Cooking level is high or Mastery is high.
• What is Mass Cooking?
  • It’s a feature which activates at a certain chance depending on the Mastery when cooking with 10 or more ingredients being prepared on the Cooking Utensil. When this occurs, you can obtain 10 of the results for cooking 10 times at once.
  • Mass Cooking is not activated when you cook with a quantity that is less than 10.
  • When Mass Cooking is activated, the durability of the Cooking Utensil decreases by 1.
  • You can obtain the following additional effects when Cooking Mastery is increased.
  • You can sell the Cooking Box at a higher price when delivering it through Imperial Delivery.
  • The chances of obtaining better food (with better effects) will increase.
  • The chances of obtaining basic food and more effective food with higher stats will increase.
    • For example, if you were to cook a meal 1 time which is set to produce a 1–4 meals randomly depending on the Cooking level, then you will be guaranteed to get 4 depending on the chances which increase according to the Mastery value. Therefore, this will allow you to get more.
• The details of the effects which apply as Cooing Mastery increases is like the following.
  • Up to 100% increased chance of activating Mass Cooking.
  • Up to 61.1% increased chance of obtaining the maximum value of basic food.
  • Up to 19.3% increased chance of obtaining more effective food.
  • Up to 61.1% increased chance of obtaining the maximum value for more effective food.
  • Up to 144.9% increased bonus when carrying out Imperial Delivery for Cooking Box.

• Added new Cooking Bonus Quests, which you have a certain chance to accept depending on your Cooking level.
  • Cooking Bonus Quests are quests in which you cook certain food and deliver it to an NPC. Once completed, you can obtain a certain amount of Cooking Ingredients.
  • Once your Cooking level reaches a certain level, then you will have a certain chance to obtain a quest when cooking food. 

• You cannot accept the quest if you already accepted the maximum amount of quests you can accept.
• After completing the quest, you can immediately accept it again. Once a Cooking Bonus Quest is in progress, you cannot accept other Cooking Bonus Quests.
• The [Bonus] Cooking for Heidelian Soldiers I quests are 3 random quests which can be completed from Cruhorn Wyrmsbane. You can receive 500 of High-Quality Pepper or High-Quality Onion as rewards.
• The [Bonus] Cooking for the Calpheon Slums I quests are 3 random quests which can be completed from Giovan Grolin. You can receive 1,000 Eggs or Milk as rewards.

•  New food were added.
  • New food, which can increase all Life Skill Masteries for a certain period of time, have been added.

• New Life Skill items which can be conveniently purchased through NPC shops were added.
  • Loggia Fisher’s Clothes
  • Loggia Sailor’s Clothes
  • Loggia Hunter’s Clothes
  • Loggia Alchemist’s Clothes
  • Loggia Cook’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Hoe
  • Loggia Trainer’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Gatherer’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Craftsman’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Lumbering Axe
  • Loggia’s Fluid Collector
  • Loggia’s Tanning Knife
  • Loggia’s Butcher Knife
  • Loggia’s Pickaxe
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Lake
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Vitality
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Energy
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Sun
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Wind
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Lava
  • Loggia’s Necklace
  • Loggia’s Earrings
  • Loggia’s Ring
  • Loggia’s Belt
  • Loggia’s Riding Crop
  • Loggia’s life tools and Processing Stones can be purchased from Camellia Loggia in Loggia Farm for 1,000,000 silvers or from Zaaira in Velia for 1,500,000 silvers.
  • Loggia’s Accessories increase all Life Skill Masteries.

•  Added items which can enhance Life Skill Mastery items.
  • – You can enhance Life Skill Mastery items up to PEN (V), and the higher the enhancement level, the more the Mastery will increase.
  • – Life Skill Mastery clothes can be enhanced up to +5 without failure.
  • – Green grade Mastery gear can be purchased from the NPC shop. Also, you can easily enhance them by using the Black Gem and Concentrated Magical Black Gem.
  • – When enhancing with the Black Gem, the enhancement will not be affected by the enhancement chance increase and Valks’ chance increase you already had before.
  • – When you fail an enhancement attempt while using the Black Gem, the enhancement chance increase value will not increase.
  • – When you succeed an enhancement attempt while using the Black Gem, the enhancement chance increase value will not reset.
  • – Enhancement attempts using the Black Gem have a higher success rate than the previous enhancement methods.
  • – You have a low chance to obtain Black Gems by butchering monsters you Hunt.
• You can obtain the Black Gem Fragment through the following Gathering activities.
  • Mining, Barehanded Gathering (excluding Golem gathering), Hoe Gathering, Fluid/Blood Collecting, Tanning, Butchering, Lumbering.
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Darkness x250, Translucent Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Bloody Tree Knot x10, Deer Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Flame x250, Mud Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Spirit’s Leaf x10, Fox Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Crevice x250, Red Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Monk’s Branch x10, Pig Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Earth x250, Green Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Old Tree Bark x10, Weasel Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Time x250, Black Gem x10, Fire Horn x1, Polished Opal x10, Wolf Blood x100
• You can obtain 1 Black Gem through Simple Alchemy of Black Gem Fragment x1, Black Stone (Weapon) x1, Black Stone (Armor)
• You can obtain 10 Black Gems through Simple Alchemy of Black Gem Fragment x10, Black Stone (Weapon) x10, Black Stone (Armor) x10, Black Stone Powder x1
• You can obtain 1 Concentrated Magical Black Gem through Simple Alchemy of Black Gem x5, Sharp Black Crystal Shard x1, Hard Black Crystal Shard x1
• Please note that currently Farming Mastery and Trading Mastery systems are not available. Although the values of Farming Mastery and Trading Mastery are shown on the new Mastery UI, found under My Information (P), these values do not have any effect due to the fact that there are no contents that are directly affected by these values at the moment.

Patch Notes 10th September 2019

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• New Blue grade Mastery equipment and items have been added.

  • Crio Fisher’s Clothes

  • Srulk Sailor’s Clothes

  • Robeau Hunter’s Clothes

  • Gorgath Alchemist’s Clothes

  • Roroju Cook’s Clothes

  • Izaro’s Training Clothes

  • Carta’s Gatherer’s Clothes

  • Carta’s Craftsman’s Clothes

  • Dostter’s Steel Hoe

  • Dostter’s Steel Lumbering Axe

  • Dostter’s Steel Fluid Collector

  • Dostter’s Steel Tanning Knife

  • Dostter’s Steel Butcher Knife

  • Dostter’s Steel Pickaxe

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Lake

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Vitality

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Energy

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Sun

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Wind

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Lava

  • Izaro’s Riding Crop

  • Geranoa Necklace

  • Geranoa Earring

  • Geranoa Ring

  • Geranoa Belt

• Newly added Blue grade Mastery items can be purchased from NPCs.

• Blue grade Mastery outfits and Geranoa accessories can be purchased from the following NPCs:

  • Geranoa of Calpheon for 10 million Silver.

  • Zaaira of Velia for 15 million Silver.

• Techthon’s Processing Stones can be purchased from the following NPCs for 10 million Silver.

  • Heidel: Techthon

  • Calpheon: Geranoa

  • Ahib Conflict Zone: Marutuba

  • Duvencrune: Hughol

• Dostter’s Steel gathering tools can be purchased from the following NPCs for 10 million Silver.

  • Calpheon: Geranoa

  • Duvencrune: Derjeen

• Techthon’s Processing Stones and Dostter’s Steel gathering tools can be purchased from the following NPCs for 15 million Silver.

  • Velia: Zaaira

• Izaro’s Riding Crop is available for purchase from Izaro of Heidel, Zaaira of Velia, and Geranoa of Calpheon, and is also available from stable keepers who have the Amity shop function.

• The above items can be enhanced from +1 to +15 with Black Stone (Weapon) and requires Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) from PRI and above.

• The above items will receive Enhancement Chance +1 when you fail enhancement at +8 and above.

• Enhancement is affected by your Enhancement Chance, which is reset once you are successful with an enhancement.

• You will lose 1 enhancement level when you fail enhancement at DUO and above.

• For the Life Skill Mastery patch notes,  please click <HERE>.