Maxing out all professions in Rune Slayers is a key step for boosting your stats, gaining useful passives, and increasing your luck by +1. Whether you’re focusing on alchemy, forging, combat, or any other profession, this guide breaks down the most efficient ways to level each one fast.
Understanding Professions and How They Work
When you join Rune Slayers, press Tab and open the Profession tab under your character overview. Initially, it will be empty until you start performing actions related to each profession:
- Forging: Chop down trees
- Combat: Fight mobs
- Mining: Mine ores
- Alchemy: Craft potions
- Herbalism: Collect herbs/items without tools
- Fishing: Use a fishing rod to fish
- Harvesting: Collect leaves or plants using a sickle
Each action grants profession-specific experience. Higher-tier materials yield more experience. As you level up, you unlock passives and bonuses—like faster chopping speed or more loot.
1. Forging
Goal: Max forging for 1.5x faster chopping and +150 max carry load.
Best Method:
- Use a Zer or Cobalt pickaxe (top-tier tools).
- Farm Palm Trees on the beach—second best for experience but abundant and near safe zones.
- Palm trees are also close to coconuts, helping your Herbalist profession simultaneously.
2. Herbalism
Goal: At max level, get a 50% chance to double loot from herbs.
Best Methods:
- Collect apples from apple trees without an axe for extra apples and more experience.
- Chop down apple trees to collect apples and get experience faster.
- Gather coconuts on the beach floor, which is safer and plentiful.
- Collect honey from hives (dangerous due to bees but gives decent exp).
- Leveling herbalism increases the chance for double loot, so keep harvesting often.
3. Fishing
Goal: At level 40, double the fish you reel in, 50% chance not to consume bait, and 1.5x fishing power at level 20.
Best Method:
- Buy a fishing rod from the NPC near Wayshshire docks and fish continuously.
- Manual fishing is necessary unless you use macros; autoclickers reset your rod.
4. Alchemy
Goal: Gain multiple potion benefits, like longer-lasting potions and effects that impact nearby allies.
Best Method:
- Kill Mandrekes near the farm for Mandre roots. With luck gear, you get more roots per kill.
- Collect Lumirooms mushrooms inside Mandre King’s cave (requires some Herbalism level for double loot chance).
- Craft Lesser Mana Potions (1 Lumiroom + 2 Mandre roots) in Wayshshire for decent alchemy experience.
5. Harvesting
Goal: At max, 100% more loot and 1.5x faster harvesting.
Best Method:
- Use a Zer or Cobalt sickle.
- Farm Cocoa Leaves near the beach, which are plentiful and easier to gather.
- Frost leaves give more experience but require traveling to the tundra and take longer to harvest.
6. Mining
Goal: Double rare ore drops, faster mining, and more drops at max level.
Best Method:
- Mine Zer Ores on Frog Island (more abundant and faster to mine).
- Cobalt ores give more exp but are rare and harder to farm in the tundra cave.
- Buy the Rocky Mountain Tonic from the Guild Tavern (1 silver 25 copper) to boost pickaxe power by 60 for 15 minutes.
7. Combat
Goal: +10% monster damage and +10% luck at max level.
Best Method:
- Regular gameplay will level combat naturally.
- For efficient farming, late-game players should kill mobs in Tundra (high exp) or the Beast Camp (lots of mobs close together).
Extra Tips
- All profession passives now work across all inventory slots but require grinding twice as much experience (use EXP potions to speed this up).
- Profession NPC quests scale with your level but can be slower and more annoying than just grinding the profession actions.
- Apple trees without axes can give more apples, so sometimes it’s better to collect instead of chop.
- Maxing professions not only gives passives and +1 luck but also boosts stats (+60 intelligence from Alchemy, for example).
- Consider using macros like TinyTask to automate repetitive tasks like mining or chopping. Always join low-population servers to avoid disruptions, and reset your character position to keep macros consistent.
Maxing professions in Rune Slayers takes time but brings valuable boosts to your character. Focus on the methods above to level each profession efficiently. Whether it’s chopping palm trees for forging or fishing nonstop, having a clear plan will make the grind smoother. Use luck-enhancing gear and potions to speed up progress, and consider macros for the most repetitive tasks. If you know other good methods or tricks, share them in the comments to help fellow players. Good luck maxing out your professions!