Professions

Professions are skills that player characters can train and utilize throughout Brighter Shores. Players can gain experience to advance their profession level either by actively playing the game, or passively while the game is closed. Unlocking a new 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 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 items. There's also one global combat profession, the training of which allows players to attack new varieties of monsters and wield higher level weapons and armor that can be used in every episode.

List of professions

Episode		Name		Uses
	Global		Combat	Unlocks higher level monsters and gear for every episode.
	Hopeport		Chef	Cooking food items, which can be sold to the Head Chef or used in bounties.
			Fisher	Catching fish, which can be sold to the Fishmonger or used in Chef recipes.
			Forager	Gathering ingredients for potions, bait for passive Fisher activities, and monument pieces for repairing the Fallen Monument.
			Alchemist	Brewing potions.
	Hopeforest		Gatherer	Gathering items for potions, ingredients for the Chef profession, and bones for the Bonewright profession.
			Woodcutter	Gathering logs for the Carpentry profession, and accessing shortcuts in Hopeforest.
			Carpenter	Creating poles, staves and planks for the Bonewright, Blacksmith and Stonemason professions.
	Mine of Mantuban		Bonewright	Creates melee weapons, ranged weapons, and shields specific to Guardian.
			Miner	Mining minerals for use in the Blacksmith and Stonemason professions.
			Blacksmith	Creates melee weapons, ranged weapons, and shields specific to Cryoknight.
			Stonemason	Creates melee weapons, ranged weapons, and shields specific to Hammermage.
	Crenopolis		Detective	Apprehending thieves, completing investigations, unlocking crime den raids, and the Detect Aura spell.
			Leatherworker	Creating leathers from hides, which are used for the Armorer profession.
			Merchant	Completing bounties, unlock ventures to receive rare items for various recipes in other professions, and earn discounts at the Hide Stall.
	Stonemaw Hill		Builder	Builds
			Armorer	Creates armor
			Delver	Gathering earthen-themed ingredients for Alchemist and Chef, and bait for passive Fisher activities.

Legacy Professions

Episodic combat professions were merged with the combat rework on 6 March 2025. The leaderboards for the first four combat professions are viewable by clicking the "Show Legacy" button in-game.

Episode		Name		Uses
	Hopeport		Guard	Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the Hopeport area.
	Hopeforest		Scout	Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the Hopeforest area.
	Mine of Mantuban		Minefighter	Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the Mine of Mantuban area.
	Crenopolis		Watchperson	Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the Crenopolis area.
	Stonemaw Hill		Shieldbearer	Unlocks higher level monsters and gear in the Stonemaw Hill area.

Experience

Main article: 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

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 . Passive methods are unlocked by spending 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

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  Fisher, Forager, Chef

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  Woodcutter, Miner, Alchemist

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  Stonemason, Merchant, Blacksmith

See also

• Profession capes
• Skill node

Update history

This information has been manually compiled. Some updates may not be included yet.

• update 6 November 2024 (Update):
  • Added to game.