Welcome to the world of Tarisland, where crafting and professions play a major role in your journey. For all the new players diving into this MMO adventure, understanding the basics of professions early on will set you up for success. This guide breaks down everything you need to know—from unlocking professions to mastering specializations—in a simple and clear way.

Let’s jump straight into it.

Unlocking Your First Profession

The good news is that you don’t have to go out of your way to unlock professions. Just follow the main quest line. Around level 18, you’ll automatically unlock your first side quest related to professions. It’s a natural progression point in the story, so just focus on leveling up and enjoying the gameplay until you see the side quest “Learn Profession” pop up on your right-hand quest tracker.

At this point, you’ll get to choose your first profession. There are four major professions to pick from:

• Forge
• Jewelry
• Tailor
• Alchemist

For example, you could choose Jewelry to craft powerful gems and rings—essential items later on for both gearing up and making money.

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Learning and Gathering Basics

Once you pick a profession, a tutorial quest line will guide you through the essentials. It teaches you how to gather materials and craft your first pieces of gear or items. You’ll gather base materials from the open world, and then use them in the crafting menu to create items.

Crafting is straightforward: as long as you have the required materials and enough resources, just press the Craft button.

However, you’ll need two things to craft:

• Silver Coins: Earned through questing, selling gear, and general gameplay.
• Vigor: This is your crafting “energy” resource, consumed when gathering, crafting, and refining.

Managing Vigor: The Key to Efficient Crafting

One of the most important tips for new players: never let your Vigor reach full capacity (300 points). If it does, any additional Vigor regeneration gets wasted. Always make sure you’re actively using Vigor by gathering, crafting, or refining to maximize your daily progression.

You’ll notice your Vigor slowly drains every time you craft or gather. Be mindful of it and plan your crafting activities accordingly.

Proficiency and Daily Progression

At the top of your crafting interface, you’ll see your Proficiency. This tracks your experience and skill level within your chosen profession. On Day 1, you’ll mainly be able to craft basic items like Elemental Yellow Crystals and a Sonata Necklace.

As you progress into Day 2 and beyond, you’ll unlock the ability to craft rings and even Tier 1 chest pieces. Understanding this slow unlock process is key: Day 1 is about learning, and Day 2 is about capitalizing on your profession’s potential.

Crafting for Profit: Auction House and Trading

Now here’s where crafting becomes even more exciting: Tarisland features an auction house. Accessed via the little hammer icon, the trade area lets players sell crafted items for gold or silver.

This creates a strong ecosystem where free-to-play players can make serious gold by crafting and selling valuable items, while spenders buy these goods to enhance their characters. It’s a win-win, fostering a healthy server economy.

Overview of Professions

Each profession has unique benefits, tailored to different playstyles:

• Alchemist: Craft potions, mixtures, and crucial runes. A highly useful profession especially later in the game.
• Tailor: Create gear and bags. Bags will likely be in high demand—a smart pick for free-to-play players aiming for steady gold.
• Jewelry: Focuses on crafting gems (like Ruby, Sapphire, and Topaz) needed for high-end crafting and gear enhancement.
• Forge: Specializes in weapons, armor, bombs, and cardiac boosters (which increase HP after resurrection—great for dungeons).

The beauty of Tarisland’s system is flexibility: you can switch professions at any time if you’re unhappy with your current choice. There’s no heavy penalty or irreversible lock-in.

Server Profession Balance

Each server displays a breakdown showing how many players have chosen each profession. This transparency helps you make strategic decisions—for example, if very few people pick Tailor, that might be a more profitable market niche to enter.

Specializations: Taking Your Craft Further

After leveling your profession a bit, you’ll unlock a Specialization quest. Specializations allow you to tailor your profession efforts based on your playstyle for that day.

You can specialize in:

• Collection Master: Focused on gathering, increasing yield and chances of obtaining rare crystals. Best for mass-gathering days.
• Processing Master: Reduces Vigor costs when refining materials and offers chances to upgrade crafted items (like turning Tier 2 gems into Tier 3 gems—a big money-maker).
• Crafting Master: Reduces Vigor costs when crafting high-gear-score items and refunds resources at a decent rate.

Every specialization shares the bonus of a 3-minute Vigor recovery reduction, giving you a faster energy refill rate across the board.

Specialization Trees

Once you pick your specialization, you’ll get access to a Specialization Tree. Here you invest points earned through crafting activities to unlock further benefits:

• Reducing Vigor costs
• Improving resource yield
• Unlocking better crafting recipes

At higher levels, you’ll need to meet milestones (like level 40 and specific numbers of invested points) to reach intermediate and advanced specialization tiers.

Final Tips for New Crafters

• Stay active with your Vigor: Never let it cap.
• Understand daily progression: Day 1 is for learning; Day 2 and beyond open real opportunities.
• Think strategically about your profession: What’s in demand? What’s underpopulated?
• Use specializations smartly: Adapt them daily to maximize your gains.
• Keep an eye on the trade area: It’s your gateway to free-to-play success.

Tarisland offers one of the most rewarding crafting experiences seen in an MMO in years, and if you approach it wisely, you can set yourself up for both character progression and economic dominance.

Happy crafting, and see you in Tarisland!