MapleStory 2 – Basic Gathering & Crafting Professions

by Falagar / Articles, MapleStory 2 / 22 Aug 2018

Life Skills as it stands right now in KMS2 are rather simple. You can do all of them on one character, you are not gated by the amount of professions you want to do. Each gathering profession is linked with a crafting profession as it provides the materials for it. Crafting professions also use materials provided with other gathering professions besides the main one, but a smaller amount and only to craft certain things.

Mining – Smithing

Ranching – Handicrafts

Foraging – Alchemy

Farming – Cooking

For the gathering professions, each material has its own “stamina” that you exhaust daily as you gather it (Success Rate of gathering, once you reach Success Rate: None, you can’t gather any more of that material until the daily reset happens. It doesn’t seem to fully be the case for Ranching and Farming, as those are only doable in housing plots, and success rate in your house and other houses is separate. So once you exhaust all the gathering attempts in your own house, you will still be able to do some in other houses you visit, but much less than in your own).
For the crafting professions, it’s a limit of 1 000 crafts per day.

Mining and Foraging are the gathering professions that you do in the open world. In Life skill interface, when you select the node of your level, it will tell you which map it can be found on, as well as what materials you will receive. Pretty straightforward.

Ranching and Farming are the gathering professions that you do in-house. In order to do them, you just have to purchase corresponding nodes in the furnishing interface and place them down. New nodes are unlocked as you increase your gathering level.

Smithing is directly linked to Mining as it was mentioned above and is used to:

1. Refine materials obtained through mining (main leveling source).

2. Create various boosts for smithing and ranching (?).

3. Create gemstones and lumistones.

4. Create equipment (armor and weapons; temporary and permanent).

5. Create crystals for the gear transcendence.

Handicraft is directly linked to Ranching and is used to:

1. Refine materials obtained through ranching (main leveling source).

2. Create various boosts for handicraft and mining (?).

3. Create Music score sheets (5k; 20 uses).

4. Create equipment (accessory; combat and non-combat stats, temporary and permanent).

5. Create consumables to increase your defense.

Alchemy is directly linked to Foraging and is used to:

1. Refine materials obtained through foraging (main leveling source).

2. Create various boosts for alchemy and farming (?).

3. Create consumables to boost various stats.

4. Create Ground Mount Summoning Stone.

5. Create Air Mount Summoning Stone.

6. Create upgrading materials for lumistones.

7. Create a Gear Dye / Make-Up / Face Change / Skin Change / Hairstyle Voucher.

8. Create healing potions.

Cooking is directly linked to Farming and is used to:

1. Refine materials obtained through farming (main leveling source).

2. Create various boosts for cooking and foraging (?).

3. Create consumables to boost various stats.

4. Create health restoration food.

5. Create experience boost.

Keep in mind, this information is relevant for the current KMS2 version.

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.
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