Lumberjacking

"Stand before a tree and gaze upward. Do you see leaves? Jagged limbs? Branches? The skilled lumberjack may gaze at the same tree and see buildings and towers and finely carved wooden goods."

Skill Use
Lumberjacking governs your ability to successfully harvest logs from trees scattered throughout the realm. In order to harvest wood from a tree, a Lumberjack requires a Hatchet equipped, and must use the Lumberjack special ability. A target will appear, and the player will need to select the tree they wish to harvest from.

At lower levels of Lumberjacking, trees provide plain wood logs. Continue using the Lumberjack special ability to raise the skill. As a character's skill in Lumberjacking improves, so does their chance of successfully harvesting different types of lumber from a tree.

Trees are designated a specific type of wood on spawn and the lumberjack will not know which type of wood it has until they successfully chop it and receive the logs.

Leveling Statistics
The below table shows the approximate numbers needed to harvest to hit GM Lumberjacking. This is from starting at 30 skill. Percentages will change if done at higher skill levels.

Damage Bonus
The Lumberjacking skill provides a damage bonus in PvE (against monsters only) when wielding axes.

The damage bonus is calculated using the following formulas:


 * Lumberjacking Skill < 100.0


 * Lumberjacking Skill = 100.0

GM Lumberjacking provides a +30% damage bonus against monsters.

Ancient Trees
Occasionally while chopping trees, a message will come up saying "You have found an Ancient Tree!"

Ancient trees yield twice as many logs (2 or 4 logs instead of 1 or 2 logs), but still no more kindling or apples than usual.