Elsword’s Best Profession (Ranked)

The Professions

One of the important steps in Elsword when creating and leveling up your character is choosing your profession. Those of you who don’t know the reason why, it’s because choosing the correct profession at the right time can contribute from mid to end game needs. 

These needs can consist of obtaining +11, +12, or +13 level enhancement on your main weapon , collecting the Gold Days Set accessories, or crafting consumables and selling them for ED (In-game currency) on the Board.

With professions, there are three types to choose from, Treasure Hunter, Blacksmith, and Alchemist. Each character can only pick one profession at a time and you are able to choose your profession when you reach level 40.

What are professions?

Professions are also ranked by levels, with a max of level 10. When reaching lvl 40, the Profession’s Tab will be accessible and you may choose one. If you wish to change your profession, you can by purchasing a Professions Change Ticket from the Item mall or from using your ED (In-game currency).

Treasure Hunter Profession

As a Treasure Hunter, you are able to obtain items from Treasure Chests in Dungeons. Destroy higher grade Treasure Chest to obtain more items and EXP. The higher the Treasure Hunter’s level, the more likely it is to drop items from these Chest. That being said, you are only allowed to destroy 500 Treasure Chest every week, so open them wisely. 

The types of chest you will run into are:

• Old Treasure Chest
• Wooden Treasure Chest
• Stone Treasure Chest
• Fancy Treasure Chest
• Radiant Treasure Chest.
• The contents you will find are:
• Ancient Silver Coin
• Ancient Gold Coin
• Ancient Diamond Coin
• Sturdy Mithril
• Condensed Elixr
• Gold Accessory Case
• ​          In order to obtain this case, your Treasure Hunter Profession must be at level 2. If you obtain this case, you can obtain one of the five different accessories from the Golden Days Set. The accessory that you get will be sealed and you will need to identify it. These accessories can be upgraded into the Primal Gold Set at any Accessory Merchant in towns using Ancient Silver Coin, Ancient Gold Coin, and Ancient Diamond Coin.

Mysterious El Sphere

The Mysterious El Sphere is another aspect of the Treasure Hunter Profession. It is a device that consumes either one Ancient Silver Coin, Ancient Gold Coin, or Ancient Diamond Coin to obtain EXP and one random item. Each time the device is used, it costs 100,000 ED (In-game currency).

There are the items that can be obtained randomly:

• Stella’s Powder Mix
• Whole Grain Flour
• Aqua
• Sturdy Mithril
• Ruve Herb
• Complete Recovery Potion
• Condensed Elixir
• Ancient Silver Coin
• Ancient Gold Coin
• Ancient Diamond Coin
• Ancient Silver Coin Random Cube
• Ancient Gold Coin Random Cube
• Ancient Diamond Coin Random Cube
• Ancient Medal of Proficiency Cube
• Ancient Medal of Greed Cube
• True Treasure Title

Reasons to choose this profession:

• Have the ability to obtain materials for your Blacksmith Profession
• The ability to obtain rare accessories
• Very cost effective
• The ability to make a profit by selling the items you obtain on the Board
• Overall The best Profession to have.

Blacksmith Profession

As a Blacksmith, you will obtain the ability to enhance equipment and receive new features, such as, Advanced Enhancement and Mysterious El Anvil. In order to receive EXP as a Blacksmith, you must perform several Advanced Enchantments or Mysterious El Anvil pulls.

Using the Advanced Enhancement will require Mithril for each enhancement and dismantle along with a small cost of ED (In-game currency). The amount of Mithril needed depends on the level enhancement of the equipment.

Advanced Enhancement is an improved version of the NPC’s enhancement function on equipment. It consumes Sturdy Mithril to reduce the amount of enhancement materials needed. A great feature you have as a Blacksmith is that Advanced Enhancement will prevent enhancement drops and resets without the cost of Blessed Fluorite Ores for enhancement levels, 4 to 5, 5 to 6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8, and 8 to 9.

You will need to use these enhancement materials to use Advanced Enhancement:

• Blessed Enhancement Stone - levels 1 to 13
• Blessed Fluorite Ore - levels 7 to 13
• Blessed Fluorite Crystal - levels 12 to 13
• Blessed Restoration Scroll - levels 6 to 13

Mysterious El Anvil

The Mysterious El Anvil allows the Blacksmith to create Blacksmith Hammers. You can use the Anvil once every 8 hours, which will consume 1000,000 ED (In-game currency) and produce one Blacksmith Hammer and Profession EXP. Using the Blacksmith Hammer during Advanced Enhancement will increase enhancement success rate by 2 times. However, it cannot be stacked with El’s Hammer.

The number of Blacksmith Hammers that can be checked only using the Advanced Enhancement Tab and Mysterious El Anvil Tab as a Blacksmith Hammers are not kept in your Inventory. 

As you level up your Blacksmith Profession level, the max amount of Blacksmith Hammers increase, but when you obtain the max amount of Blacksmith Hammers, you cannot obtain more until you’ve used one. When you reach Blacksmith level 10, you will be able to obtain 20 Blacksmith Hammers.

Reasons to choose this profession:

• Increased advance enhancement rate
• Free enhancement Hammers
• Cost effective

Alchemist Profession

As an Alchemist, you are able to use Alchemy to create useful items. In order to obtain EXP and level your profession, you must craft the exclusive items, and use the Mysterious El Flask.

Mysterious El Flask

The Mysterious El Flask is a device that can only be used by Alchemist. Players with this profession can consume five items to craft a random item. Any sellable item can be used as a consumable material for the El Flask, including equipment, accessories, and Special items. The chances of receiving useful items will increase as the total resale price of the consumed items increases.

Each use of the Flask will require 100 ED, 1,000 ED, 10,000 ED, 20,000 ED, or no ED cost. The ED cost is dependent on the total resale price of the consumed items.

List of Potential Items:

• Blessed Enhancement Stone
• Magic Stone
• Advanced Magic Stone
• Ancient Guardian Stone
• El Shard Mystery Solver
• Empty Orbs
• Wooden Spear
• El’s Essence
• Ancient Fossil Pill
• Blessed Potion
• Beginner’s Potion
• Beginner’s Mana Potion
• Advanced Mana Potion
• Premium Mana Potion
• Organic Apple
• Ancient Silver Coin
• Ancient Gold Coin
• Condensed Elicier
• Sturdy Mithril
• Fortifying Secret Potion
• Enlightening Secret Potion
• Complete Recovery Secret Potion
• Blessed Homunculus: Agility (Elixir)
• Blessed Homunculus: Extremity (Elixir)
• Blessed Homunculus: Moderation (Elixir)
• Blessed Homunculus: Overload (Elixir)
• Blessed Homunculus: Rage (Elixir)
• Alchemist’s Magic Stone [P. Defense Ignore] (Normal/Rare/Elite)
• Alchemist’s Magic Stone [M. Defense Ignore] (Normal/Rare/Elite)
• Alchemist’s Magic Stone [Drop Rate] (Normal/Rare/Elite)
• Ultime Truth Title

Reasons to choose this profession:

• The ability to craft mass amounts of MP and HP consumables for yourself.
• The ability to craft advanced magic enchantment stones

All im all, the best profession smackdown is Treasure Hunter. The reasons speak for themselves, as well as the players on all platforms praising the Treasure Hunter profession. Which one do you think is the best?

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