Life Skills
Life skills are one of the primary ways to obtain character progression materials for many of the endgame gear systems in Blue Protocol: Star Resonance. Unlike most MMOs, you’re free to pick up as many Life Skills as you like, level, craft and even complete weekly quests for them.
The limiting factor for Life Skills is
- Basic: Requires no and awards/crafts non-progression and power-based items. Grants minimal Life Skill XP.Focus
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- Focused: Requires a variable amount of per craft/collection, focuses on power and progression-based items and awards a large amount of Life Skill XP.Focus
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While you can progress all your Life Skills slowly through basic crafting/collecting or weekly quests, much of what you’ll want to do with them will be gated by
Outside of the usual 400 recovered per day, you can also recover 100
Life Skills are split into two categories: Crafting and Gathering, and while you can use and level all Life Skills at once, here is a breakdown of what they’re useful for and which are most important for increasing character power.
Crafting Skills
Smelting
Smelting is one of the strongest life skills to select for all players, as it allows you access to crafting your own Refinement materials, which you’ll need a lot of in all stages of the game. These can be acquired from other sources, but are most consistently available via self-crafting (If you don’t want to buy them). Check out our Gear & Upgrade Guide to learn more about refining.
| Item | Refines | Requires | Material | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mystery Metal | Weapons, Helmets, Armour |  | Baru Ore |
 | Fine Forgestone | Earrings, Necklaces, Gauntles, Shoes |  | Luna |
 | Radiant Stone | Rings, Bracelet (L), Bracelet (R), Charms |  | Azte Ore |
In addition to raw refining materials, you can also create mech shards, a special consumable capable of improving your odds of a successful refinement significantly. In the endgame, mech shards make all the difference and will be a key resource for players pushing high refinement levels, ensuring solid demand.
Smelting will also allow you to craft your own Strength-based armor and a specific array of metal-based weapons. This gear is no worse than the gear that may be obtained from other activities, but requires resources compared to a method like dungeons, which allows you to farm it infinitely for free. These are all of the slots you can craft with smelting:
- Helmet (STR)
- Armour (STR)
- Gloves (STR)
- Boots (STR)
- Lance (Wind Knight)
- Sword (Stormblade)
- Sword & Shield (Shield Knight)
- Glaive (Heavy Guardian)
When smelting, you’ll need resources from the Mineralogy and Artisanry Life Skills, making them good choices to also pick up.
Culinary
Culinary is one of two combat consumables focused Life Skills and can make a variety of food which provides substantial combat bonuses to those that dine on them. Food items and the buffs they provide are a mainstay for those looking to perform at a high level in endgame content, meaning if you’re not cooking with Culinary yourself, you’ll likely be buying off someone who is. Here is a breakdown of endgame foods and the buffs they can provide:
| Item | Buff 1 | Buff 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Meatfish Skewer Lv.3 | ATK +150 | |
 | Hearty Stewmix Lv.3 | MATK +150 | |
 | Painfly Lv.3 | ATK +120 | 10% DMG Vs Elite |
 | Shroomfish Stew Lv.3 | Armor +640 | -10% DMG Taken Vs Elite |
 | Astelpot Feast Lv3 | Stamina +1500 | |
 | Fruitocean Gelato Lv3 | HP/S +3500 | |
 | Seabreeze Special Lv3 | MATK +120 | 10% DMG Vs Elite |
Also of note is that Culinary is a Life Skill that makes use of upgrade chances when cooking, which allow you a shot at improving the rarity of the dish you’re making. Higher rarity dishes offer substantially more bonuses and are worth far more. e.g.
- Meatfish Skewer Lv.2 -> Lv3
- ATK +105 -> ATK +150
Culinary is also a source of the incredibly powerful Cheer-Up treat which allows the consumer to triple clear rewards from their next Chaotic Realm dungeon. A great time saver or efficiency boost for those progressing or chasing the best stats. Unfortunately crafting treats is anything but easy though as they require 14 of a rare material from Botany the Kiwi.
Note
Cheer-Up Treats will not allow you to bypass or multiply any weekly, daily or event cap rewards. All it does is grant you 3 times the standard infinitely repeatable rewards effectively allowing you to farm repeatable content faster.
Culinary resources come from a variety of places which are highly dependent on the dish you’re trying to make. You may need resources from the following just to name a few:
- Botany
- Hunting Monsters
- Fishing
- Vendors
While Culinary is always in demand the goods it produces are some of the few in the game that require
Gemcrafting
Gemcrafting like Smelting directly feeds into one of Blue Protocol: Star Resonances endgame gear systems Gem Embedding making it valuable, although not quite as valuable as Smelting as the amount of gems needed by players is significantly fewer and far more varied.
Gemcrafting allows you to cut raw gems of each of the four different colors into four different shapes with each colour and shape corresponding to different stats, here is what each means:
| Colour | Stat | |
|---|---|---|
 | Red | Crit Rate |
 | Yellow | Luck |
 | Green | Mastery |
 | Blue | Haste |
| Shape | Stat | |
|---|---|---|
 | Square | Stamina |
 | Pear | Intelligence |
 | Fancy | Agility |
 | Triangle | Strength |
Gems can also be crafted in different levels, with higher levels requiring more resources but having far greater stats. Gems may also be levelled up through the embedding system when being initially embedded, with each having a chance to upgrade one level and a small chance to upgrade two. This system encourages players to chase top gear to make multiple attempts per piece when embedding, improving demand for gems.
Gemcrafting also allows you to craft your own jewelry of all attribute types, making it a flexible choice regardless of which class/spec you’re thinking of playing. As with smelting, this gear is similarly no worse than gear from other sources of the same item level. Here are the gear slots you can acquire through gemcrafting:
- Earrings (STR/AGI/INT)
- Ring (STR/AGI/INT)
- Bracelet L (STR/AGI/INT)
- Bracelet R (STR/AGI/INT)
When gemcrafting, you’ll need resources from the Gemology and Artisanry Life Skills making them good choices to also pick up.
Weaving
Unlike other crafting Life Skills Weaving has limited access to crafts that directly boost or progress your characters power in a unique way. Instead, weaving specializes in spending its
| Colour | |
|---|---|
 | Yellow |
 | Red |
 | Purple |
 | Orange |
 | Green |
 | Cyan |
 | Blue |
One other benefit weaving has over other Life Skills is that it is the source of both Intelligence and Agility stat crafted main slot gear as well as Talismans of all three attributes. All at an equivalent rarity and level as other content:
- Helmet (INT/AGI)
- Armour (INT/AGI)
- Gloves (INT/AGI)
- Boots (INT/AGI)
- Talisman (INT/STR/AGI)
Outside of this, weaving also produces a whole host of more interesting cosmetics available for homestead decoration, cementing it as a worthwhile pursuit for “nice stuff” enjoyers.
Weaving sources the majority of its materials via the botany life skill, making it a good accompaniment if you plan to pursue tailoring more seriously and don’t wish to purchase materials from the trade house. Outside of Botany, you’ll also need materials from hunting animals and monsters, because how else are you getting leather?
Artisanry
Artisanry is a life skill primarily responsible for crafting components for other life skills to use, positioning it more as a supplementary pick-up than a main pursuit. The primary benefactors of Artisanry are smelting via Burning Powder and Gemcrafting through Gem Wax. If you’ve picked up either of them, Artisanry is a great compliment unless you want to be frequenting the trade house for every crafting session.
| Item | Used In | |
|---|---|---|
 | Burning Powder | Smelting |
 | Gem Wax | Gemcrafting |
Artisanry is also the source of the remaining craftable items, including the following weapons:
- Hoops (Verdant Oracle)
- Staves (Frost Mage)
- Guitars (Beat Performer)
- Bows (Marksman)
If investing in Gemcrafting or Smelting, we recommend picking up Artisanry for convenience, and hey, once it levels high enough over time, you’ll gain access to some awesome furniture for your homestead.
Alchemy
Alchemy is the second Life Skill that gains access to consumables, and thankfully, they stack with those produced by Culinary, allowing you to use one from each! Alchemy’s main products are Serums and Drops. Serums are offensive-based consumables, while Drops are defensive. In the endgame, you can expect competitive players to be running one or the other whenever content gets tough. As with food, both types of alchemy consumables come in a range of qualities that you have a chance of upgrading into each craft. Here are the stats you can expect from some of the highest.
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Serums and Drops come in each of the elements, meaning there is a consumable for every class and occasion.
| Item | Effect | |
|---|---|---|
 | Lightning Serum Lv3 | Thunder Strength +750 |
 | Lightning Drop Lv3 | Thunder Resistance +1950 |
Alchemy can also make healing consumables as well which can be used in a pinch to help out healers or keep you alive when none are present or available.
As for permanent power increases, Alchemy can craft Arcane and Knowledge conversion potions, which allow the user to convert Sigils and Advancement Tomes from one class or role to another at Milia in Asterleeds Pioneer Bureau. This is a big potential bonus for players with a stack of bound Sigils/Advancement Tomes of roles and classes they have no intention of playing and are unable to sell. With conversion potions, you can exchange them for your main and gain additional power.
On a less power-hungry note, Alchemy can also craft consumable toys that can be used to have some fun with friends. On top of this, you can also craft Dye Sprays, which allow you to change the color of furniture placeable in your homestead.
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Making toys does not require
, but crafting Dye Sprays does.Focus
The major ingredients for alchemy are elemental shards, which can be sourced from numerous locations, such as slaying World Bosses and elites in the overworld or the shard vendor Cuthbert in Asterleeds, just to name a few. In addition to shards, you’ll also need a wide array of materials from the Botany Life Skill, making it the natural accompaniment for Alchemy-focused players.
As with Culinary, it’s worth understanding that Alchemy's main product drops and serums are transferable via the homestead shared storage, allowing those sharing one to donate or exchange with each other.
Gathering
Mineralogy
Mineralogy is the process of heading out into the overworld to mine infinitely respawning nodes of your choice, which can be found in set locations using the track feature in the life skills mineralogy tab.
When spending
Mineralogy should definitely be on your radar if you’re planning on focusing on Smelting but is also a great choice as a
Botany
The Botany Life Skill will see you travelling the overworld picking herbs, fungus and fruits which similar to mineralogy nodes are infinitely respawning and can be tracked in the same fashion in the Botany Life Skill tab.
Botany harvested materials are used in the widest array of Life Skills but are most valued by Culinary, Alchemy and Weaving making it a high value pick-up for those interested in focusing on any of them. As with Mineralogy you’ll also have a chance at acquiring Engram Dust with every gather you perform.
In addition to the materials you expect to gain via Botany, when spending
Gemology
Gemology is the process of harvesting raw minerals from veins of gemstone found within infinitely respawning nodes around the open world. As is true with all gathering professions, you can track down these locations using the track feature.
Gemology is mostly a Life Skill for those looking to acquire the materials they need for Gemcrafting themselves or for those looking to convert