this is the mental gymnastics that lifeskillers have to go through in order to convince themselves that they are stacking Heidelian paper

He pretty clearly said with Alchemy he's doing it to self-sustain his own elixir usage, and to generate ingredients he will actually use rather than just purely power-leveling like people typically do. The clips he showed were while leveling up his alchemy on a new account, you're not always going for the most efficient profit when you're just trying to level up quickly. But in this case specifically, he was making things he actually intends on utilizing in the future once he has higher mastery. I appreciate you giving real world advice to discourage new players from losing money (especially with the current state of Alchemy in the game), but it feels like it's only fair to at least let the guy get his thoughts and explanations out before you start trying to break down and disprove his "profit allegations."

Ill get to guru bartering one day and think "Barter late than never"

@jerryedwin6790

9 күн бұрын

stahp. XD

That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen.

Makes 3 bill cooking, spends 3 bill polishing alch stones

you always manage to make me laugh man, love the content

"Let him cook" 😂

Ty for the video m8

you gottta drift barter, only way to efficiently approach a post, i got a video on my channel that i did 3 years ago doing it with i think was an improved sailboat, now i do it with my carrack 😆, and if you time it well you can use breezy sails just before and complete the barter trade without even stopping heh

i was in barcode with this dude , he got banned when we mapped , started over from scratch and still got NA first guru 50 barter

@GrimLordKi

10 күн бұрын

Any mappers?

@LeChickenSan

10 күн бұрын

lmao, the maps incident

@KingJerbear

10 күн бұрын

What is "mapped?" Sorry I'm a casual PvE Andy

@vziiix2856

10 күн бұрын

@@KingJerbear There was an event at some point that new players joining a guild were given a afuaru map, spawning a chest that could be killed for rewards. Welp, Barcode was found to be abusing this feature. And thus making hundreds of accounts, inviting them, do the map, and kick the new member.

@GrimLordKi

10 күн бұрын

@@vziiix2856 Not only Bar Code, you had snake, black rose and a few other guilds participating.

Idk how the market situation is in NA. but in EU it's fairly easy to get 1b/hour from cooking with 2k mast and 1,7 sec timer while buying everything from the market (no gathering / hunting). It's not as good as grinding, and u're looking at having POs on 50+ items which u constantly gotta manage. Not alot of effort, but can become abit tedious. of course u're also bottlenecked by the fact that u can make certain meals faster than they sell. since i only cooked for profit for a long time, i used to do 5-6 different meals in order to never stock up too many in my storage. some examples of meals to make on EU for around 1b profit / hour: mediah, odylitta, organic feed, ham sandwich. mediah and ham sandwich selling slowly though. I could see some of these meals reaching 1,5b / profit if u buy materials when they are cheap and sell the meals when they are expensive. Point being. it's not as good as grinding. but u're definitely not loosing money on cooking if u know what u're doing.

i was wondering why spirit fumes tanked.

i lifeskill 2 bil per hour when i simple alchemy red fang-valor crystals

@bluesquadronlive

9 күн бұрын

Dear Chris Poli, I have the title of your next video ready

@BusterBosque

8 күн бұрын

Lmfao

If you gather everything (like me), and you have 2k mastery on alchemy and cooking(also, like me) you get a lot of profit. As you should know that every lifeskill is interconnected. If you want fast cash, grind. But if you want the hardmode while using your brain, do lifeskills.

This dude is what? Guru 50 Bartering! Hawk Tuah 😂😂😂

Let him cook? Yes🗿

honestly before blade quit, I probably watched all his stuff. He was a great guy and all the big investment things he did or showed were insane

can confirm manos is ruthless i hit the 14 pity on it XD but i have also made 10s of billions from clicking tet manos. i had good rng with tet manos for the most part

How many barter counts do you have for that master 12 rank, since you don't draught? xD

Tbh, stir fried vegetables is a pretty good way to make money. And it's super cheap/fast to do. All you need is the magical peppers from farming which if you're like me that turns off the game over night and only keeps it on during the day you can get 2x harvests daily. It's ok money you can do afk while working at home.

this guy need to play a game about boats no bdo xD

Life skill is a scam but we need ppl getting scam so we get the resources in the mp.

@lagginswag

9 күн бұрын

Not wrong lmao

I don't understand why he discourages processing/cooking/etc so consistently. If you're not actively grinding but not having an extended AFK, setting up a cooking/processing/alchemy queue is just free money. Yea if you're actually playing the game and wanna get stuff done, it's a waste of time and time you could be gathering more mats or something Cooking profits have dramatically dropped int he last 9 months when I look at bdolytics, though - its crazy

@Saiku

10 күн бұрын

Yup. Semi-afk crafting while cleaning the house or doing irl shit is a lot more money than afk fishing or not being logged in at all.

@bluesquadronlive

10 күн бұрын

Absolutely! I definitely explain that semiafk activities are different than active. And cooking is a great example of a semi afk activity that makes solid money. Sorry you got the wrong impression. I also go on to explain bartering is the best semi afk money if you are trying to break it down. Well said though yes!

@LoonyDoll

10 күн бұрын

@@bluesquadronlive Haha, fair enough - if I've gotten the wrong impression it's on me. I'm still going through the backlog where I'm sure I've missed something, and I commented around 18min in here (because you weren't in my feed a year ago when I took my last big break .___. )

You can make alchemy stones and horse riding (if they don't change it)

I tried cooking valencia meals with 2k mastery several times. So to make it fair, I didn't want to spend time on gathering things and putting smaller meals together but just bought everything from market to make sure that its a fair hourly profit/loss and I made 0-50m an hour depending on the time I did it 😂

@bluesquadronlive

10 күн бұрын

Ya so you gotta go out and get the mats yourself. If you do that and then do cooking semi-afk then it’s a great form of passive income but you cannot just write off the gathering and processing of the materials haha

@wisecherry

10 күн бұрын

@@bluesquadronlive Exactly, without gathering required mats yourself it is difficult to make a considerable profit from cooking alone. There are a few recipes that can make decent profit if you buy the required mats from central market, but such mats are always out of stock with too many preorders 😅

@Legion_Xll

9 күн бұрын

Pretty easy to get val meal to 500m/hour on bdolytics while buying all materials on the market. some sub meals u make urself, others u buy. no gathering or any of that. This is on EU though, no clue how the market is on NA in regards to cooking. But 0-50m seems crazy. Also. Val meal is not even close to being one of the most profitable meals to make when buying everything off the market. Atleast not on EU. And ofc I account for any materials that are not buyable from the market cuz of POs.

"with recent jetina pen accessory" 2021 video??

If you do the math on how much silver that mastery costs, and how much additional silver/hr that extra mastery nets you, it will take many MANY years for that gear to pay for itself. Lmfao also the original video is horrible advice. If you insist on doing alchemy stones, you can also upgrade them while training horses and processing. Ive been using that strat for years ( still no shining stone btw)

I am a pure life player, and only farmed about 600,000 monsters since 2017, including hunting and gathering animals and monsters that drop unlimited potions and compass. From 2017 to 2022, due to many reasons (I was working part-time while going to school at that time), I was basically hanging up. From 2023 to the present, in about one year and a half, I have accumulated more than 1 trillion assets purely relying on life skills (at TW server, often excessive competition leads to underpriced items). The main income comes from cooking and alchemy, and some income comes from hunting and gathering. Unlike the guy in the video, I never got into sailing gameplay because it was already nerfed by the time I started making money. With a proficiency of 2000, cooking can usually generate 0.8 to 1 billion per hour, profit margin of 70% to 200%. while alchemy can generate 0.5 to 1.5 billion, but there is usually a material bottleneck. This is where I spend a lot of time to optimize my pipeline such as - choosing the right items (some items have high profit margins but low turnover). - determining the right production scale (small scale production wastes more time, while large scale production can lead to Sluggish sales). - determine the appropriate sales strategy to achieve. - Plan production schedule (ensure there is no shortage of materials and production can be continued). The efficiency of hunting and gathering is about 1 billion per hour. In fact, the collection method can achieve 1.6 to 1.8 billion per hour, but that is a secret. Telling it will only prevent those who know from making money. I feel that players who started at the same time as me (from 2023) may not be able to reach this level (50 billion to 150 billion per month). So my experience proves the feasibility of pure life gameplay. People can get more than 740GS farming equipment, 2000 proficiency life equipment and some other combat equipment without farming.

@y_strikes2770

3 күн бұрын

Cap

this video is pre artifacts?

Fun fact, 99% of the people quit manos ehancing just before they hit a tet manos

Dude is drifting into barter ports…Of course he’s toxic 😂

nice thank

I'm artisan sailing as well, but post Life merger sadly.

1bil an hour on hunting? only if you get like 10 narcions and 5 stuffed heads every hour

thats nice i make 4b/h at dehkia ash but still cool.

cooking and alchemy fr give literally no money lol. Hunting isn’t bad tho, i average 1.3bil an hr over 30+ hrs at 1500 mastery. did it for a while before i got the pve gear to make similar silver

M8 ty for the video

Notice the 9K Pearls LOL.

@kiyoshi-rin2609

9 күн бұрын

I think he got a total Pearls of 15K LOL

Barcode was initialy a brazilian guild on SA, they got tired cuz they had no one at their pvp level and move to NA, but there are whales that buy all the accounts and gear when they move to NA, they also pay to ppl to grind while they are sleeping or offline.

@bluesquadronlive

9 күн бұрын

Barcode has been around in North America since server launch. You are thinking of a different group of people I think.

i wish you would have went to bdolytics to show the numbers on profits and losses, that would have made it clear for everyone how cooking is *1.5-3b/h* kek

I don't think there's any activity in BDO I despise more than bartering. Running pila fe scrolls is a respectable 2nd place. But it doesn't beat bartering.

@bluesquadronlive

9 күн бұрын

Relic scrolls are brutal

You always pen first try - that's how it goes

life skill is adopted child of bdo.

On EU we got someone in clarity whos got a solid 61 in barter xD

@bluesquadronlive

10 күн бұрын

Mother of god

@hermanpurnawan1091

10 күн бұрын

On sea/th I saw someone reach guru 65 barter one the first day after family lifeskill upadate

@kehakusuzumiya1473

10 күн бұрын

@@bluesquadronlive oh wait look up "core" in the adventurer search on eu hes 63 barter sry xD

But you not making only 1 elixir per turn so make it equal.

even with 2k masteries its hard to reach 800m/hour....

@eftheusempire

10 күн бұрын

You can literally do that just gathering wild grass and selling everything you get. If you agris and green thumb on. If you have 500+ energy anyway which lets be clear if you dont youre just lazy

@bluesquadronlive

10 күн бұрын

I think he means cooking/alchemy chief

yeah idk wtf he's doing lol. Maybe with like lion meat and exotic meats you can get a hand on but cooking blows.

Life skill... more like No Life skilling... I mean I play bdo and do life skill, especially bartering... holy crap man lmao.

Zenara is super og

Imagine being in barcode in 2024 go back to Uno

I think he means that he's making a combined 3b/hr doing both cooking and alchemy stones which is clearly still wrong, but still. He's cooking and polishing stones at the same time.

sorry but that zen guy is just straight toxic and i wanna say when he got banned for mapping most of lifeskilling discord actually celebrated please dont bring any more attention to toxic people like this

@sleepingsage

9 күн бұрын

This is objectively false. As someone who ran the Lifeskill Discord for years, I can confidently say that the number of people who consistently contributed high-quality, thorough information was less than the total number of my fingers and toes. Zen was one of them. Since then, I have changed my name from Grieve to my current one, so you might not recognize this name. Contrary to what you state, the majority of the Lifeskill Discord community did not "celebrate" when he got banned. Only a small, vocal minority of toxic people, who still talk about the incident to this day, four years later, reacted cackling like kids. Why do you allow him to live in your head rent free like this? It's time to move on. Despite the setback, he started fresh with a new account and still managed to pass you again. Stay salty 😂

@mo.584

9 күн бұрын

@@sleepingsage you dont even know who i am yet you talk about passing me and about me being salty.. either this is rage bait from zen's alt or just some random fanboi..either way tho, and thats also ignoring the fact that there are loads of screenshots of toxic chat history from this guy, idc about some random persons opinion on youtube ;)

@blueSquadron please stop telling people what to make on the market you have a lot of influence and are tanking markets/ ruining it.... Please give broad info as to not swing the markets...

1.5 second cook time? Lolololol you should not be cooking or doing alchemy until you can get a 1 sec cook/synth time this is basic. Also I make 30 bil every 2 weeks supplying the pvpers with their elixirs. If i sold the mats raw id only make around 10 bil. So not sure where youre getting this "losing money while doing alchemy" from. Did you forget the prices of blue elixirs skyrocketed? And yes I gather all my mats. All of them. I have like 14 alts parked at gathering spots lol. And before anyone says im a lifeskiller I grind roughly 8 hours a day. About to hit lvl 65. Wise Mans Blood isnt a usable elixir? It ISNT an elixir lmao. Its a material hahahaha. Imagine being dumb and buying stuff to make money

@pernodxd

10 күн бұрын

some recipes are more efficient to cook at higher time + higher mastery

@bluesquadronlive

10 күн бұрын

No one said wise man’s blood was an elixir in the context that it can be used as a consumable buff. As far as selling raw materials instead of doing cooking/alchemy it’s not worth arguing about but what I will say to reinforce what I stated in the video, the vast majority of players would make more money selling the raw materials than trying to make them into profitable meals or elixirs. It is designed this way as a trade off. You get exp but sacrifice some profit. This way super late game lifeskillers can in fact turn around a profit for doing these life skills. This is the way the game has been designed for a long time. I have also expressed that having 1 second cook time is quintessentially important to cooking in the past and in my cooking guide I put out earlier this year. Not sure why you are upset about that here, but if you have high enough mastery you can absolutely cook with the manos clothes on and a really good alchemy stone. You’ll have something like 1.2sec cook time but you get the 2k mastery with the clothes which is more than worth it!