Experience Guide

You are reading the Character Experience & Progression guide. In this guide, you will learn how to improve your character in the direction that best fits how you wish to play Eternal Fantasy Online.

Players, NPCs, and all other entities—mobs (see the Monsters or Beasts guide), dungeons, towns, etc.—all gain level advancement by obtaining experience points (XP).

Levels provide additional options in a world that allows you to play however you wish. You can focus on adventuring or spending your time exploring, gathering, crafting, building, cooking, gardening, and so much more.

The categories for level advancement are Weapons (per weapon type), Magic (per magic type), Utility (per skill), and Profession (per skill type).

Every level advancement adds to your overall level. The first 10 levels you obtain provide you with an attribute point each (see the Character Attributes guide).

Each level requires 10,000 experience to advance. This is a flat rate for subsequent levels. All skill trees can be advanced simply by using skills within that tree. The more Resource, Stamina, or Familiar Energy that is paid, the more experience is earned.

Skill Points

When you obtain 10,000 XP within a skill tree, your level within that skill tree increases by 1, and you receive 1 skill point (SP). A skill point can be used to unlock an unknown skill or increase the level of a known skill, making it better.

Profession skill points are a little different in that, by having a higher Profession level—for example, cooking—additional recipes are automatically provided. The skill point, then, is used to unlock premium recipes.

A premium recipe does two things: it allows you to gain access to a recipe at a lower level than otherwise possible, and it allows you to create the item at a higher quality than others, those who naturally learned the skill from their level.

Utility skills do not gain a skill point. The skill that levels will simply become more effective or efficient.

Weapon & Magic Skills

While the other skill trees are predominantly advanced by using skills, the Weapon and Magic skill trees are predominantly advanced by kill experience. When a mob dies, it releases semi-transparent rainbow cubes that meld with you or your weapon, providing XP.

Kill experience is split between party members—so long as they have an equipped weapon—as well as anyone else who contributed to the kill, even if they only did 1 damage.

You may have the experience split between equipped weapons (see the Weapons guide), which include any inactive, second-set weapons. You can direct all experience to one weapon, active or inactive. Or you can split the experience equally or unequally.

Since Weapon and Magic skill trees gain kill experience, they only earn half the Resource cost of a skill as experience. Using a dagger’s Backstab skill that costs 10 Resource will only award the dagger skill tree with 5 XP.

Utility & Profession Skills

The primary way to progress a Utility or Profession skill is by using it. While there are items, events, and hidden methods that may aid advancement, they are not common.

However, unlike Weapon and Magic skill trees, using a Utility skill will provide twice the Stamina cost as XP, and using a Profession skill will provide four times the Resource or Stamina cost as XP. This compensates for the cost of materials.

Skill Point Refund

You can, at any time, refund a skill point to lose the skill, skill level, or recipe and gain back 5,000 experience. This will not lower your reported level, but the experience will need to be made up before you can advance further.

Example: You are level 5 in cooking with 1,000/10,000 experience to your next level. If you refund a skill, you will have 6,000/10,000 experience toward your next skill point. However, you will need 4,000 XP to gain a skill point and another 10,000 XP to advance to level 6.

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