Lumberjacking Mastery
One of the three gathering masteries. They share an identical perk structure and a single shared proc outcome roll — see also Mining and Skinning. Unlike the combat masteries, these level from harvesting rather than from kills. See Skill Masteries for the system itself.
| Requires | Lumberjacking at 90.0 |
| Taught by | Carpenter — 10,000 gold |
| Ultimate | Old Growth |
Perks
| Perk | Effect per level | At level 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Bountiful Timber | 2.5% chance to double the harvested amount | 20% chance |
| Sturdy Axe | 5% chance not to use up a hatchet use | 40% chance |
| Heartwood (template) | 1.5% chance to upgrade the wood one tier | 12% chance |
The doubled yield is magical surplus — it does not drain extra wood from the tree's bank, so Bountiful Timber is pure profit.
Heartwood only fires if your Lumberjacking skill is high enough for the upgraded tier. If it is not, nothing is wasted — the roll simply does not apply.
Ultimate — Old Growth
Fires on a successful chop at 0.4% per proc level (3.2% at level 8) — a little above Motherlode's rate. A chop is one to three swings of the hatchet where a mining action is a single swing, so a lumberjack rolls less often per hour; the higher rate keeps the ultimate, its mastery items and the rare coming at the miner's pace. When it fires, one outcome is rolled — it never fizzles:
| Outcome | Chance | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Triple yield | 62% | Three times the harvested amount |
| Tree upgrade | 20.5% | The whole tree upgrades one tier until it respawns. Falls back to triple yield if your skill is too low |
| Mastery Gem | 10% | Lumberjacking-matched |
| Mastery Soul | 5% | Lumberjacking-matched |
| Mastery Fragment | 2.5% | Lumberjacking-matched |
| Cart with Logs house addon | very rare | A separate pre-roll before the outcomes above. Placed in a house, facing chosen on placement |
Earning XP
Gathering masteries earn XP per successful harvest, scaled by material tier. The multipliers run 2 / 6 / 10 / 16 / 24 / 36 from Regular up to the rarest wood — chopping rare wood levels the mastery roughly 18× faster than chopping ordinary logs. Wood XP is then multiplied by 1.6 for the same reason the ultimate fires more often: a chop takes longer than a swing, and XP is paid per chop, so a lumberjack now levels the mastery at about the miner's pace per hour.
Suspected unattended (AFK) gatherers receive no mastery bonuses at all and earn no XP.
Related
- Lumberjacking — the skill itself
- Mining Mastery, Skinning Mastery — the other two
- Gathering Overview — veins, regions and luck
- Skill Masteries — XP, levelling and mastery items