Labor

This post will get you to a bigger understanding about labor in archeage


This kind of a system in gaming was really suprising when I found about it and learned how it worked. I've played so many mmorpg games that I can't even remember all of them by name and normally newly introduced systems are around combat/other gameplay for example cabals epic combo system.

TIME = LABOR = MONEY

Everything you do in archeage is connected to labor. Ofcourse you can go and kill mobs and go pvp, but you won't be getting any coins or items, that you would get in any other mmorpg game. From monsters you get coinpurses that you have to use labor to open 1 - 5 labor/purse atm, depending on the purse. From the purse you get a few silver and with a small chance some items.

Archeage is entirely about crafting, gathering and merchanting and everything you do takes labor if you wish to gather materials for your crafts you need to use labor, craft materials for crafting takes labor, want to buy items for crafting it takes labor.

Even the main money making things like fishing and traderunning take labor and alot, more about that later

The higher level stuff you do the more labor it takes.

LABOR CAPS AND HOW TO GAIN IT

There are two labor caps, for patrons the labor cap is 5000 and for normal user its 2000.

You can gain labor just by being patron, as a patron you get 10 labor every 5 minutes you are onlineand 5 labor every 5 minutes offline. As a normal user you only get 5 labor for being online.

You can also by worker's compensations from either marketplace or auction house, it will restore 1000 labor, but it has a 12 hour cooldown. Good thing about these potions is that the cooldown is locked for only character you use it on so you can literally pop max 8 labor potions daily while getting 2,8k labor just by being online 24/7.(check alts)