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A comprehensive guide to hunting and whaling introduced with the Valencia patch.

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Intro to Hunting and Whaling

Hunting is new life skill that was expanded greatly with the Valencia update. Y'all can now hunt whales and crocodiles to level upward your hunting skill and impale Blue Whales to arts and crafts some of the all-time items in the game.

For hunting all you need is

• A Hunting Musket
• A Butcher Pocketknife (Effort to get a Lucky 1 if possible then you lot can get the all-time drops from butchering)
• A Fishing Boat

Leveling Hunting is unlike from other skills. You can level information technology up via a series of short one time quests and four repeatable daily quests. In addition, y'all can hunt whales and crocodiles to gain hunting skill also only you must be person to butcher the carcass to become the hunting XP.

Yous also need to use Hunting Muskets to kill the whales and crocodiles as normal weapons are rather ineffective. Muskets are unmarried shot weapons with a brusque reload time subsequently every shot. Equipping them will supersede your primary weapons and wearisome downwardly your motion speed. You cannot jump with Hunting Muskets as pressing space bar moves you into the crouching position that extends the range of your hunting musket.

Here is a great video from MaoMaoPrince demonstrating some of the concepts of Hunting and Whaling in a video format.

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Hunting Muskets

Practice Matchlock

The very basic i that you can utilize to consummate some of the hunting dailies tin be rented from various NPCs for 2 Contribution Points. It has just 10 durability so information technology needs to be repaired or returned and re-rent often.

Below is a short list of NPCs whom you can hire the Practise Matchlock from. You can just type Matchlock into the NPC window adjacent to your minimap to see who you can rent from bold you take run into the NPC before.

• Daphne DelLucci by Balenos Wood node
• Guild Manager Laiano Pietro in Velia
• General Goods Vendor Hessenvale in Western Guard Camp

Beginner Hunting Musket

Crafting

Crafting information technology requires a Level 1 Tool Workshop that tin can exist found in pretty much every metropolis. It takes 5-15 minutes for a worker to arts and crafts (depending on the worker speed).

• 1x Fir Timber (can be obtained from Treant Forest node by workers north of Trent)
• 4x Steel (Heating 20x Melted Iron Shard and 20x Coal)
• 1x Statuary Ingot (Heating 5x Melted Copper Shard and 5x Melted Tin Shard)
• 1x Black Stone Powder

Enhancement

There is no safe enhancement level, each enhancement level adds 300 more harm. Enchanting beyond +7 can cause it to lose an enhancement level when it fails.

Enhancement Level	0	1	2	three	4	v	half-dozen	7	8	9	x
Damage	+1500	+1800	+2100	+2400	+2700	+3000	+3300	+3600	+3900	+4200	+4500

Apprentice Hunting Musket

Requirement

You must be Hunting Beginner Level x to use the Amateur Hunting Musket.

Crafting

Crafting it requires a Level 2 Tool Workshop that tin be found in pretty much every urban center. It takes v-15 minutes for a worker to craft (depending on the worker speed).

• 1x Fir Timber (can exist obtained from Treant Forest node by workers north of Trent)
• 4x Steel (Heating 20x Melted Iron Shard and 20x Coal)
• 1x Brass Ingot (Heating 5x Melted Copper Shard and 5x Melted Zinc Shard)
• 3x Black Stone Powder

Enhancement

There is no safe enhancement level, each enhancement level adds 360 more damage. Enchanting beyond +vii can cause it to lose an enhancement level when it fails.

Enhancement Level	0	1	2	iii	iv	5	6	7	viii	ix	10
Damage	+1800	+2160	+2520	+2880	+3240	+3600	+3960	+4320	+4680	+5040	+5400

Skilled Hunting Musket

Requirement

You must be Hunting Apprentice Level 10 to use the Skilled Hunting Musket.

Crafting

Crafting it requires a Level two Tool Workshop that can be found in pretty much every city. It takes 5-15 minutes for a worker to craft (depending on the worker speed).

• 1x Fir Timber (can be obtained from Treant Woods node by workers n of Trent)
• 5x Steel (Heating 25x Melted Iron Shard and 25x Coal)
• 1x Argent Ingot (5x Melted Silver Shards, silver is a rare drop from transmission gathering if you are skilled 5+, tin also exist gathered manually)
• 5x Black Rock Pulverisation

Enhancement

At that place is no safe enhancement level, each enhancement level adds 420 more than damage. Enchanting beyond +7 can cause it to lose an enhancement level when it fails.

Enhancement Level	0	i	2	3	4	v	6	7	8	nine	10
Damage	+2100	+2520	+2940	+3360	+3780	+4200	+4620	+5040	+5460	+5880	6300

Professional Hunting Musket

Requirement

You must be Hunting Skilled Level 10 to employ the Professional Hunting Musket.

Crafting

It tin can exist only crafted in a Level three Tool Workshop which is found in most major cities and smaller cities like Epheria Port and Olvia.

• 1x Fir Timber (can be obtained from Treant Forest node past workers n of Trent)
• 5x Steel (Heating 25x Melted Iron Shard and 25x Coal)
• 1x Gold  Ingot (5x Melted Gilded Shards, aureate is a rare driblet from manual gathering if yous are skilled v+, tin can too exist gathered manually)
• 5x Blackness Stone Powder

Enhancement

There is no safe enhancement level, each enhancement level adds 480 more than impairment. Enchanting across +seven tin can cause it to lose an enhancement level when it fails.

Enhancement Level	0	1	2	3	iv	v	6	7	8	ix	x
Damage	+2400	+2880	+3360	+3840	+4320	+4800	+5280	+5760	+6240	+6270	+7200

Artisan Hunting Musket

Requirement

Yous must be Hunting Professional Level 10 to utilise the Artisan Hunting Musket.

Crafting

It tin be simply crafted in a Level 3 Tool Workshop which is found in most major cities and smaller cities like Epheria Port and Olvia.

• 1x Fir Timber (can be obtained from Treant Forest node by workers north of Trent)
• 5x Steel (Heating 25x Melted Iron Shard and 25x Coal)
• 1x Platinium  Ingot (5x Melted Platinum Shards, platinum is a rare driblet from manual gathering if y'all are skilled five+, tin can also be gathered manually or at a low rate from Abandoned Iron Mine- Zinc Node and Omar Lava Cavern  – Zinc Node)
• 10x Blackness Stone Powder

Enhancement

There is no safe enhancement level, each enhancement level adds 540 more than damage. Enchanting beyond +7 tin cause it to lose an enhancement level when it fails.

Enhancement Level	0	one	2	3	iv	five	6	7	viii	ix	10
Impairment	+2700	+3240	+3780	+4320	+4860	+5400	+5940	+6480	+7020	+7560	+8100

Quests

Once Quests

Hunting in the Forest of Seclusion – forty Amity with Hessenvale

Unlock this quest past gaining 40 Amity with Hessenvale, the Full general Appurtenances vendor in Western Guard Camp. You tin can either practise this via the amity minigame or by using F1 Greet control. Prepared to spend about 40 energy or more than if you are doing it this style (if the quest doesn't unlock immediately, you may need to increment your amity with her slightly over twoscore).

At present make certain to rent a Matchlock from the NPC and become to the quest area. Expect upward in the trees and shoot the owls upwardly in that location. They might be a chip difficult to run into.

Bee Hurts Farm – Gathering Beginner 5 & 10 Amity with Alfredo

To unlock this quest, you lot first need to talk to Arms Dealer Alfredo almost the Skill Teacher in Velia. You need to gain 10 amity with him. You tin can either do the amity minigame or simply use the F1 button almost him a couple times. Then he will give you the quest Daphne's Matchlock.

The quest should lead you to Daphne near Balenos Forest node. Talking to her and picking the Bee Hurts Farm quest will start this ane time hunting quest. Make sure to rent the burglarize from her for 2 contribution points. Go inside the quest area and shoot the beehives on the trees iii times to consummate this quest.

Shoot and Help – Level thirty+

This quest is also from Daphne DelLucci but to get it you must non take the Exercise Matchlock in your inventory. Regardless of who you rented it from, you lot tin can simply return to her and and so check her quest list for this quest (should announced at bottom of the list).

This quest is basically a repeat of the last quest with the aforementioned objectives just you lot likewise get a Beginner Hunting Burglarize every bit a reward. Remember to rent the rifle from Daphne later on you get the quest.

Hunting-Loving Hunter

Consummate Shoot and Help from Daphne and she will give y'all this quest in Velia. The quest will atomic number 82 you to the inn. You will need to talk to the Blackness-Robed Man and he volition mark the location of this hunter for you.

You will find Chuck Laurie once you arrive at the marked location. Completing this will unlock a daily from him.

Brothers at Lake Kaia

To get this quest, you must take finished the Hunting-Loving Hunter quest in a higher place and done the daily Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Similar a Bee! from Chuck Laurie. He will so requite you this quest to unlock another daily in Lake Kaia with his brother Leo Laurie.

Annoying Jellyfish (Level 50+)

Obtain this quest from Merio near Lake Kaia, y'all just need to be level 50.

Defeat iii Jellyfish in Lake Kaia, they are just floating in the water. You lot take to defeat them using your Practice matchlock, the regular muskets do non work.

Dailies

Those Seagulls! (Repeatable every 22 hour)

This daily is given by Crio at the Velia docks. To get this daily you must take a Practice Matchlock rented from the NPCs in your inventory.

You need to aim at the seagulls flying in the sky near the docks to complete this daily.

An Middle for an Eye (Repeatable Daily Reset)

Due west of Heidel is a small-scale cow farm with a villager that will requite you lot a daily The Cat that Swallowed the Canary to put upward a scarecrow. Finish that and he will give y'all this hunting daily.

Shoot a couple of the eagles flight overhead and they volition drop a feather for you to complete the daily.

Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee! (Repeatable Daily Reset)

Given by Chuck Laurie, you will need to finish the quest Shoot and Help and Hunting-Loving Hunter to unlock this daily.

Give him 10 weed and he will summon Witch'southward Deer near your location. Now you need to track it via the Monster icon on the minimap. Becareful to not go also close or the Witch'southward Deer volition run away. Once you lot get shut enough to encounter its nameplate, printing infinite to crouch down and fire your rifle.

Information technology will take a couple hits to finish the deer off so you lot will need to keep chasing it and hitting it.

An Epicurean Alligator (Repeatable Daily Reset)

Given past Leo Laurie, you will need to end the quest Brothers at Lake Kaia to unlock this daily. Hand him v Deer Meat to summon the gator. Deer Meat is given by Brothers at Lake Kaia as a reward. If yous demand more deer meat you lot can kill elks at Phoniel Motel just east of Lake Kaia.

The gator will swim around the island so information technology is very like shooting fish in a barrel to chase him downwards. Information technology just have a lot of shots to kill it. Once y'all killed him jump on the Balderdash Gator'due south corpse and then use the butcher knife to obtain its meat. Hand it in to complete the daily.

Hunting Humpback Whales

Hunting Humpback Whales is ane of the means to proceeds Hunting XP exterior dailies. At that place are whales out in the ocean north of the main state mass you can hunt down. They roam in specific regions marked with pink whale icons in the map below. Yous must have a fishing gunkhole, hunting musket, and a butchering knife. The hunting XP is looted off the dead whale when you butcher it so only 1 person tin get it (only the butcher get the hunting XP).  This activity can exist done solo at any level as the whales do not fight back.

Whales can be a bit hard to spot and so you need to keep an heart on the ocean. They also prove up equally monster icons on the minimap if you are close enough. They exercise take a feature water splashing that differs slightly from the regular splashing made past waves.

Once yous spot the whale yous need to get close and so equip your hunting musket to shoot it. Depending on your musket it may take quite a few hits to kill it. Retrieve to printing space when you are using the burglarize to crouch downward and shoot further.

Once the Whale is dead you need to swim to it and find a fashion up the corpse. Equip your butcher knife and printing R to butcher the corpse and collect the loot and hunting XP. Commonly yous will just get some hunting XP and Soft Whale Meat but there are chances to get Blackstones, Hard/Sharp Black Crystals.

Hunting Crocodiles

Crocodiles are a expert alternative to humpback whales if you do not have access to a gunkhole or don't have the patience for searching whales in the open. Freshwater Crocodiles tin be found in the shallow waters in north and s Lake Kaia simply SW of Calpheon. However, they are hotly contested and have a long respawn timer (~1 hour) and then they are not always bachelor (tin channel swap to lower pop channels for better chances). This activity can as well be done solo every bit the crocodiles practise not fight dorsum either but you may want to be close to Level 50 in level due to the catfish mobs there. Much similar the humpback whales, merely the butcher get the hunting XP, something to keep in mind if you are hunting in a political party or battling spawns with other players.

Ordinarily you can find 1-2 Freshwater Crocodiles in each of the lakes in Lake Kaia. I prefer the north lake myself equally at that place aren't every bit many annoying catfishman there (Level 45-50ish).

The all-time mode to run into if they are on your channel is to practice a quick browse on your minimap. Crocodiles show up on your minimap with monster icons so go to the center of the lake and practise a quick 360 scan with your minimap. To become feel for the kill you volition need to butcher the crocodile corpse after you lot killed information technology. Commonly you will only get some hunting XP and Crocodile Meat but there are chances to become Blackstones, Hard/Sharp Black Crystals.

Hunting Blueish Whales

Blue Whale is giant whale that spawns every few hours with a server message and requires multiple parties to take down. You will need a party with a designated fishing boat driver and multiple hunters equipped with the best hunting musket they can obtain at their skill level.

• Bring your best musket and extra muskets for backup increase you lot use up the durability of your best.
• Bring a butcher knife, lucky one if possible for best drops.

Only the pinnacle 5 parties that did the most damage to the Blue Whale go the ability to butcher the corpse and receive loot at the end. The loot is political party shared and then the boat driver does non take to worry nearly shooting the whale as long residuum of the party does their job. The Blueish Whale also have an enormous amount of wellness so expect to have an hour to kill it with few parties.

Locating the Blueish Whale

Once the Blue Whale spawns, your Hunting button almost the minimap will lit upward and you lot can hover over information technology to see a very rough location of the Blue Whale. Blue Whale volition spawn randomly 3 times a day per channel.

Hither is a map and route of the Blue Whale provided by Daum. The Blueish Whale will follow the route here and depending on which region the whale it is in, it will follow a different road.

• Scarlet line indicates the whales in Calpheon, yellow line indicates Balenos, and blue line indicates the whales in Mediah.

Boat Speed

The Blue Whale moves very fast so you will need a fast gunkhole to be able to keep up. Line-fishing Boat is the fastest gunkhole for the job and there are parts and skins you can put on to raise it even further. Run across this guide for making Fishing gunkhole parts/accessories.

The faster your boat is, the faster you tin get to the Blue Whale and being able to go along up with information technology to ensure your party does the maximum amount of damage.

• Fishing Gunkhole Prow – i% Motility Speed
• Equipping the Prow, Cargo Container and Decoration will give y'all two% movement speed as a set bonus.
• Equipping the Dark Thorn Fishing Boat Hull from Pearl Shop will give y'all an additional one% motility speed.

If the actress 4% movement speed isn't plenty for you, yous tin can enchant the Prow with Armor Blackstones to increase its movement speed value. A +10 Prow forth with other parts and skins would requite you a total of 9% more movement speed.

Enhancement Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	vii	viii	9	ten
Speed	+1%	+i.5%	+two%	+2.5%	+3%	+3.5%	+4%	+4.5%	+v%	+five.5%	+half dozen%

Instead of using the Prow, you can also purchase Totems of the Sea from fishing vendors at the various docks and upgrade that. It take the place of Prow so you tin can't utilise both at the same time. The totems require you to install that totem and then fish on your boat for the specific fish respective to your totem to level it up. Then if you brought Totem of the Sea [Amberjack] for instance, y'all will need to fish for Amberjack on your boat with the totem equipped in the boat interface (F2).

The Totems are much more time consuming to level up and yous will need to exist at a certain fishing rank to upgrade them to the next tier (Profession 1+ for the outset tier). All the same, they grant much more motion speed bonuses forth with other benefits. Once the totems accomplish fourscore% of the level, they can be upgraded using the totem button in your inventory with weapon blackstones to the side by side tier (tin fail and the totem lose some XP)

Totem	Old	Apparently	Hard	Refined	Resplendent	Sacred
Speed	ii%	iv%	6%	ten%	14%	18%
Angling Level for Upgrade	Prof 1	Artisan 1	Master 1	Master i	Main 1

Killing & Butchering the Whale

Attacking the Blue Whale is a bit tricky as it has a pretty tiny hitbox and yous can but striking it with your musket in one case you lot become close enough to it. To be eligible for a hit, you must aim at the red crosshairs that appear on the whale. It might be easier for some people aim at the tail when it flips downward. Brand sure you are not blocked past other players, pets, and parts of the transport as they tin blot your shots. Having attack speed and critical striking buffs can as well help with landing more and harder hits from your musket.

• Having +movement speed gear can aid yous swim faster and go back on the boat faster if you lot get knocked off.
• It is nevertheless debatable if wearing +luck or +accuracy gear has any effect.

If your boat get too close to the whale, it volition collide with the whale and terminate your boat. In addition, if your boat is nearly the whale when it turns, it can knock everyone merely the driver off the gunkhole. For faster turns on the fishing boat, use mouselook and press T (assuming y'all don't have a path gear up).

Your hunting musket will merely lose durability if it registers a hitting on the whale so y'all can employ this to keep track of the number of hits y'all scored on the Blue Whale.

Once the Blueish Whale is dead, the top 5 parties that did the virtually damage volition be allowed to bound on the carcass and loot it. In that location volition be a notification of the tiptop v parties and then you lot will know if your political party is one of them. Blueish Whale commonly drops Blue Whale Meat/Tendon/Oil to make some of the best nutrient/potions and some goodies like Blackstones, Difficult/Sharp Black Crystals but on rare occasions it will drop the Blue Whale Molar that can brand one of the best earrings in the game.

Hunting Fugitive Khalk

Fugitive Khalk is a giant flight bat that appears randomly twice a day per channel in the Calpheon and Mediah area. This hunting target was added with the Sept xiv patch.

Yous must hunt Khalk on horseback since he moves fast. Yet, he has a much shorter path and so it is easier to take hold of. You must equip your musket first earlier getting on the equus caballus for the proper animations to show up. Much like the Blue Whales, only the top 5 parties that deals the most impairment will receive the loot.

Here are some tips to brand your Khalk hunting experience more enjoyable.

• Bring carrots and a horse with a good speed. Your horse will take a beating from all the boars, cyclops running around chasing you lot and stamina runs out fast.
• Use the up arrow key to motility your camera angle every bit high as possible to reduce headaches trying to locate Khalk in the sky.

You get a new title for killing Khalk the kickoff time – Learning ABCs in Mounted Hunting.

Crafting

Hunter's Salad

You lot tin make this food using Soft Whale Meat that drops from regular Humpback Whales or Crocodile Meat. This dish requite you +thousand Hunting damage for 5/ten mins with a 30 min cooldown so you can utilize in one case or twice per Bluish Whale chase usually.

The recipe requires Cooking Apprentice Level 1 and the following materials

• 1x Soft Whale Meat or 1x Crocodile Meat
• 2x Vinegar
• 2x Dressing
• 5x Garlic

Whale Meat Salad

You demand Blueish Whale Meat from Blue Whales to make this dish and Cooking Skilled i (Professional person 1 if you want to proc the blue version). This salad will give you +10/15% Life skill XP for 75/90 min.

The recipe requires the following materials

• 1x Blue Whale Meat
• 6x Tomato/Paprika/Pumpkin/Cabbage/Olive
• 2x Dressing
• 3x Egg
• 4x Pepper

Steamed Whale Meat

This recipe also requires Cooking Skilled 1 (Professional ane if y'all want to proc the bluish version) and Blueish Whale Meat. It produces a dish that give +two/3 Harm Reduction and +8 Evasion for 75/90 min depending if you made the green or the blue version of the nutrient.

It needs the following materials.

• 1x Bluish Whale Meat
• 1x Honey Vino
• 4x Garlic
• 2x Salt
• 6x Mineral Water

Whale Tendon Potion

This is an alchemy recipe that requires Apprentice 1 (Skilled five if you want to proc the blueish version) and Blue Whale Tendon from the Blue Whales. Information technology recovers HP by 500/750 and MP/WP/SP past 300/500 depending if you have the greenish or the blue version of the potion.

To brand this, yous will need to place the following in the alchemy apparatus

• 1x Blue Whale Tendon
• 3x Medium HP Potion
• 3x Medium MP Potion
• 8x Purified Water

Whale Tendon Elixir

This is an alchemy recipe requires Skilled 1 in alchemy (Professional person i if you lot want to proc the yellow version) and Blue Whale Tendons from Blue Whales. It is one of the best defensive potions for sieges/node wars.It give +100/125 damage reduction for 20/30 seconds with a cooldown of ten minutes.

To make this yous will need the following

• 1x Blue Whale Tendon
• 1x Clown's Blood
• 12x Ash Sap
• 5x Purified Water
• 2x Clear Liquid Reagent

Perfume of Backbone

Alchemy recipe that requires Skilled ane and Blueish Whale Oil from Blue Whales. This makes an elixir that give all sorts of combat bonuses that lasts for twenty minutes with a 20 minute cooldown (substantially no cool down).

To make this you need the following

• 1x Blue Whale Oil
• 3x Trace of Violence
• 6x Bloody Tree Knot
• 4x Purified Water
• 2x Clear Liquid Reagent

Perfume of Swiftness

Alchemy recipe that requires Skilled i and Blue Whale Oil from Bluish Whales. This is a life skill version of the elixir granting +200 Weight Limit, +20% Life XP, +5 Attack Speed, +five Gathering Speed, and +5 Fishing Speed for 20 mins with 20 mins cooldown.

To brand it y'all will demand the post-obit

• 1x Blueish Whale Oil
• 4x Pulverization of Time
• 6x Everlasting Herb
• 4x Purified Water
• 2x Articulate Liquid Reagent

Khalk's Elixir

Alchemy recipe that requires Skilled 1 and Khalk's Skin from Avoiding Khalk. This Elixir grants a host of defensive abilities: All debuff resistance +10%, +xv Harm reduction, +100 Max HP, +five% Moving Speed for 20 mins with twenty infinitesimal cooldown.

To make it you volition demand the following

• 1x Avoiding Khalk'south Skin
• ?x Trace of Chaos (assumed to be four only not confirmed)
• ?10 White Cedar Sap (assumed to be 6 simply not confirmed)
• ?ten Purified Water (assumed to exist iv only non confirmed)
• ?x Oil of Abuse (assumed to be 2 but not confirmed)

Khalk'southward Fermented Vino

This is the perfect hunting food that lasts for 60/ninety minutes. Information technology give yous +7 to all attack, +i moving speed, +ten HP recovery, and + 700 hunting damage. Requires professional i in cooking to make.

To brand it you lot will demand the following

• 1x Fugitive Khalk'southward Horn
• 5x Dearest Wine
• 6x Date Palm
• 6x Leavening Agent
• 6x Sugar

Blueish Whale Tooth Earring

This molar earring is one of the best earrings in the game and one of the reason many players go Blueish Whale Hunting. You need to get the rare Bluish Whale Tooth drop off the Blue Whales and and then make this in any tier 3 Goldsmith. It grants v AP and +100 HP at base and +ii AP every enhancement level.

To make information technology you will need

• 1x Blue Whale Molar
• 1x Contumely Ingot
• 2x Polished Opal

Fugitive Khalk's Earring

This earring is an culling to the Blue Whale Molar earring but requires a rare drop off Fugitive Khalk. It grants 5 AP, +fifty Stamina/MP/WP/SP at base and so +2 AP at every enhancement level. Much like the Blue Whale Molar earring, it is as well crafted at a tier 3 Goldsmith.

To make information technology you will need

• 1x Fugitive Khalk'southward Shiny Hook
• 1x Contumely Ingot
• 1x Moonlight Opal

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