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Life Skills (Professions) & Life Energy + Crafting Life Skills in Lost Ark are essentially gathering professions that you can invest in and level up, which will result in obtaining better rewards and taking you less time. They will allow you to collect various materials and resources in the open world in order to either sell on the auction house for quite a bit of profit, especially in early launch as well as craft a variety of goodies, from potions to battle items all the way up to getting better ships and upgrading your stronghold, which we’ll get back to a bit later. Since I’ve mentioned gathering in the open world, keep in mind that resources on a map are finite so you will eventually meet some competitors which will definitely impact your ability to gather efficiently especially in early launch. The maps however usually have different layers available at the same time, available for you to switch up manually with this button near your minimap if you’d like to do so, if you’re in a crowded spot with life skill competitors, use that to your advantage, there is however a limit on how many times you can swap. You will have access to all six Life Skills from the beginning and you won’t be limited in which you want to use. However, all life skills leveling is done by using that specific life skill to gather materials, but you will be limited by something known as life skill energy. Using any Life Skill will consume your "Life Skill Energy" which is an account bound resource. This meter regenerates at a rate of about 4,000 energy per day, with a max cap of 10,500. Once you’re out of energy, you simply won’t be able to continue gathering materials until you replenish some energy, so try to never stay at the energy cap as you’re essentially losing out on potentially free gold. There are ways to restore life skill energy faster through specific potions, but they are usually obtained through rare crates or blue gems and gold, so they’re not easily obtainable. Having said that, since you’ll get better at your chosen life skills by gaining levels in them, it is usually recommended to pick the ones you’ll want to focus on to remain effective. All crafting will usually be done in your personal stronghold, but in order to be able to craft an item in the first place, you will need the recipe for it, but I’ll cover that a bit later. Life Skills Explained & Their Value Now allow me to quickly break them all down. Foraging Foraging Is all about gathering herbs and will always be a consistent money source, as it is used to craft potions and most battle items or consumables. Logging If you weren’t tired of chopping down trees in New world, here’s your second chance at it. By doing so you’ll obtain timber which is used for your Stronghold improvements as well as ship construction. It will most likely be very profitable early on but eventually will drop in price as the community has less things to build over time Mining will have you running around with your pickaxe which in turn will grant you Iron Ores. Those are used mostly for Stronghold improvements as well as for some life skill tools, which means that in general it will also be highly profitable early on but will have its value lowered over time Hunting will have you throwing axes at poor rabbits and other wild animals, those materials will then be used for some cooking stat buffs which will always be valuable, but we’ll get back to that. Fishing Will have you netflix and fish which will result in some cooking reagents as well as pearls if you’re lucky. Those can be worth a lot as they can be used in end game gear enhancements, especially if it’s widely unavailable on the market in early launch. Excavating will have you run around as Indiana Jones in open worlds areas in order to find secret maps or certain collectibles. You can even score a jackpot by having a very small chance in obtaining Tool Craft Kits which are required to level your life skill tools and are always extremely valuable and rare. While it is widely perceived as the most profitable life skill in the long term, it is usually subject to heavy player competition in open world areas . This results in your gathering runs lasting usually way longer than any other life skill, making a decent reward for your time commitment. Don’t forget to change map layers if the system allows you to when met with competition Leveling Life Skills, Minigames & Abilities Each Life Skill has its own level, and with each level you’ll increase your gathering proficiency. Awards from levels include increased gathering speed, better rewards, less tool durability loss as well as new gathering abilities and chances at activating a gathering mini game, which when done successfully, will result in even more rewards. Foraging Foraging will net you with golden fingers, a stackable buff which will increase your herb gathering speed Logging will allow you to kick down a tree in one swoop for more rewards or even sawing down a tree with a friend, making it faster while both of you will receive rewards, so invest in a friendly lumberjack buddy now Mining will allow you to detonate ores for more rewards, in order to maximize value from this, make sure to first hit a node then explode it afterwards or try exploding 2 nodes at a time if possible Hunting will allow you to place traps which will attract and summon greater wildlife forms Fishing will allow you to place down a fishing net, then come back after about 10 to 15 minutes for a mini game and extra rewards, making it the perfect netflix or alt tab profession Excavating will allow you to summon a puppy who will help you by sniffing out some treasures Life Skill Trade Tools As you’ve heard before, using a Life Skill requires a Life Skill Tool. These come in various rarities and can roll a random special effect when obtained. Life Skill Tools have a durability meter which depletes as you use the skill. You can repair your tools at the cost of silver, but each time you do, their max durability will lower by a small amount per repair. While it is possible to restore their max durability by re-sharpening them, doing so requires special crystals which are mostly obtained from blue gems which are by extension gold or repaired through consumables made in your stronghold, but generally isn’t worth doing unless you have a high quality tool, Once your tool is pretty damaged, you should simply buy a new green one from a vendor as higher grade tools for the most part only grant you higher grade location specific resources, but those are not used in high quantities and actually won’t be that valuable in the long run. Since all tools randomly generate traits upon acquisition, what you can do is simply buy green tools at an NPC until you roll Super Armor on them, a trait that will make your gathering life much more comfortable. Those items only cost 1500 silver a piece so it’s pretty cheap Life Skill Tips & Stronghold Farm -All profession nodes give a Common material as well as a chance for Uncommon and Rare materials. This chance increases with better quality tools and by having a higher life skill leve. The green Uncommon material depends on the node, while The blue Rare material is based on your location such as a specific region, but as mentioned before, you should be fine gathering most of the time with green trade tools. -The Archeology mini-game only gives good rewards if you succeed all three times. If you fail on the 1st or 2nd attempt, you can hit escape, and the next Archeology node that you uncover will have the mini-game for you to try again. -World Tree leaves and Platinum fields tickets are special collectibles and event entries which you can obtain from any profession node in the world, meaning that you cannot obtain those in your Stronghold Farm, I’ll cover those in a second. -And while I haven’t covered the stronghold yet, one of the things that you will be able to unlock in it is your own personal farm. Life materials gathered from there are entirely different from those in the world and are bound to you. They can be used for crafts but require their own recipe, meaning that you cannot mix and match materials from your farm and the world. Additionally, life skilling in your farm consumes more energy than if you were to do it in the open world but the yield isn’t bad as a result, the Idea is that it's a quick and easy way to use some of your life skill energy, just so that it doesn’t go over your cap. -Fishing is generally for those who want to earn gold but don’t want the stress of world node competition, as a result It is also significantly slower than other life skills in terms of energy consumption. Platinum Fields While doing life skills in the open world, you have a chance to obtain a platinum field entry ticket. The Platinum fields are a special life skill timed event that you can sign up to with a ticket, which will have you pick one of two maps. The manor map focuses on mining, logging and foraging while the garden map is all about fishing, excavating and hunting. While you can complete both solo, it is usually a lot better and easier to go into the manor map as a group of at least 3 players, as by teaming up and doing the objectives properly, you’ll be able to unlock an additional room of rewards which is unobtainable when playing solo, as in this mode, you’ll be trying to gather as many resources as possible before the timer runs out. For more in depth information and route guides on how to do it best in a group, I recommend Shandamon’s Platinum Fields video which I’ll link in the video description. https://youtu.be/e5vEeYzNTQs

I started playing on Karta last night around 7pm (EST) and was able to create multiple characters and play through the first few quests with no queue or lag at all. Hope that helps.