Editing Professions

[[File:Professions icon.png|left|64px]]
'''Professions''' are skills that [[player character]]s can train and utilize throughout [[Brighter Shores]]. Players can gain [[experience]] to advance their profession level either by actively playing the game, or [[Passive activities|passively]] while the game is closed. Unlocking a new [[Episodes|episode]] also unlocks a new set of professions, which can typically only be trained within that episode.

As the name suggests, most professions can be used as a way to earn [[Coins|money]], though they have a variety of other uses, including fulfilling [[quest]] requirements, gathering resources to use in other professions, or processing raw materials into [[Item|items]]. Each episode also has one [[combat]] profession, the training of which allows players to attack new varieties of [[monsters]] and wield higher level [[weapons]] and [[armor]] in its respective episode.

==List of professions==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" | Episode
! colspan="2" | Name
! class="unsortable" | Uses
|-
| data-sort-value="1" {{Plinkt|Hopeport|pic=Hopeport episode icon|rowspan=5|size=30|border=no}}
|{{Plinkt|Guard|pic=Guard icon|size=36|border=no}}
| Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the [[Hopeport]] area.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Chef|pic=Chef icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Cooking [[food]] items, which can be sold to the [[Head Chef]] or used in [[bounties]].
|-
|{{Plinkt|Fisher|pic=Fisher icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Catching [[fish]], which can be sold to the [[Fishmonger]] or used in [[Chef]] recipes.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Forager|pic=Forager icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Gathering ingredients for [[potion]]s, bait for passive [[Fisher]] activities, and monument pieces for repairing the [[Fallen Monument]]. 
|-
|{{Plinkt|Alchemist|pic=Alchemist icon|size=32|border=no}}
|Brewing [[potion]]s.
|-
| data-sort-value="2" {{Plinkt|Hopeforest|pic=Hopeforest episode icon|rowspan=4|size=30|border=no}}
|{{Plinkt|Scout|pic=Scout icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the [[Hopeforest]] area.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Gatherer|pic=Gatherer icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Gathering items for [[potion]]s, ingredients for the [[Chef]] profession, and [[bones]] for the [[Bonewright]] profession.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Woodcutter|pic=Woodcutter icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Gathering logs for the [[Carpentry]] profession, and accessing shortcuts in [[Hopeforest]].
|-
|{{Plinkt|Carpenter|pic=Carpenter icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Creating poles, staves and planks for the [[Bonewright]], [[Blacksmith]] and [[Stonemason]] professions.
|-
| data-sort-value="3" {{Plinkt|Mine of Mantuban|pic=Mine of Mantuban episode icon|rowspan=5|size=30|border=no}}
|{{Plinkt|Minefighter|pic=Minefighter icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the [[Mine of Mantuban]] area.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Bonewright|pic=Bonewright icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Creates melee weapons, ranged weapons, and shields specific to [[Guardian]].
|-
|{{Plinkt|Miner|pic=Miner icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Mining [[mineral]]s for use in the [[Blacksmith]] and [[Stonemason]] professions.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Blacksmith|pic=Blacksmith icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Creates melee weapons, ranged weapons, and shields specific to [[Cryoknight]].
|-
|{{Plinkt|Stonemason|pic=Stonemason icon|size=30|border=no}}
|Creates melee weapons, ranged weapons, and shields specific to [[Hammermage]].
|-
| data-sort-value="4" {{Plinkt|Crenopolis|txt=Crenopolis|pic=Crenopolis episode icon|rowspan=4|size=30|border=no}}
|{{Plinkt|Watchperson|pic=Watchperson icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the [[Crenopolis]] area. 
|-
|{{Plinkt|Detective|pic=Detective icon|size=32|border=no}}
|Apprehending thieves, completing [[bounties|investigations]], unlocking [[crime den raids]], and the [[Detect Aura]] spell.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Leatherworker|pic=Leatherworker icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Creating leathers from hides, which are used for the [[Armorer]] profession.
|-
|{{Plinkt|Merchant|pic=Merchant icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Completing bounties, unlock [[ventures]] to receive rare items for various recipes in other professions, and earn discounts at the [[Hide Stall]].
|- class="table-na" style="text-align:left" ;
| data-sort-value="5" {{Plinkt|Stonemaw Hill|pic=Stonemaw Hill episode icon|rowspan=4|size=30|border=no}}
|{{Plinkt|Shieldbearer|pic=Shieldbearer icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the [[Stonemaw Hill]] area.
|- class="table-na" style="text-align:left" ;
|{{Plinkt|Builder|pic=Builder icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Builds
|- class="table-na" style="text-align:left" ;
|{{Plinkt|Armorer|pic=Armorer icon|size=36|border=no}}
|Creates armor 
|- class="table-na" style="text-align:left" ;
|{{Plinkt|Unknown Gathering|pic=Unknown Gathering icon|size=36|border=no}} {{Tooltip|unofficial name}}
|Gathering earthen-themed ingredients for [[Alchemist]] and [[Chef]], and bait for passive [[Fisher]] activities.
|}
{{Tooltip text
|name = unofficial name
|content = '''The name of this content is unofficial.'''<br><br>While this content appears in the game, no official name for it is known. The name serves as a placeholder until the actual name becomes known.
}}

==Experience==
{{Main|Experience}}
Note: Knowledge Points will always provide the player with 25% (1/4) of the base experience needed to level up at that current level. This will also scale with each level the player gains. Once a player reaches level 200 in a given skill, due to the increase in experience required to level, knowledge points used for experience in that skill will be reduced to 6.25% of the base experience needed to level up, as they retain their scaling from level 20-200.

==Passive training==
{{Hatnote|Main article: [[Passive activities]]}}
Players can continue to perform certain profession-related activities while logged out of the game. Activities eligible for passive training are marked with a moon icon [[File:Passive small icon.png|18px]]. Passive methods are unlocked by spending [[Knowledge|knowledge points]] after reaching the required level for that activity.

The amount of time one can spend training passively is limited to 24 hours, or by the number of input items in the player's [[backpack]] (approximately one hour per item). It has been observed that passive training methods scale down in experience at a rate dependent on the gap a player's level is above the method, roughly at a rate of one quarter once a new passive method is unlocked, and by one sixteenth once the player has gained level 200 in a given profession.

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="160">
File:Professions preview 1.jpg|Fisher, Forager, Chef
File:Professions preview 2.jpg|Woodcutter, Miner, Alchemist
File:Professions preview 3.jpg|Stonemason, Merchant, Blacksmith
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Profession capes]]
*[[:Category:Skill nodes|Skill node]]

==Update history==
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*{{UL|update=2024-11-06|date=6 November 2024}}
**Professions were included in the first public early-access release of the game.}}
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