Lumberjack Profession Guide Introduction
Lumberjack, one of the slowest/hardest gathering professions in the world of Dofus. I would like to start by saying that there definetly is no fast way to level this professions, so for all those who think they can do it in a few days or weeks should stop reading here unless they want to spend loads of time on this profession. Lumberjack gathers wood from forests, plains and pandala "jungles", lumberjacks can make planks from wood (x20 of type X wood for type X plank) used mainly in the Handyman profession or in some crafts, they can also make smithmagic shaving potions used to add durability points onto ethereal weapons. Mainly wood is used in smith and carver professions, also some other professions use it. I have seen numerous topics on people asking how to level it fast, well as I said there isn't one, you need to have patience and lots of free time, as you will mostly gain experience from chopping wood which can be extremely slow due to competition and slow spawn times. That is probably my main reason for writing this introductive guide which will give you tips and hints how to level lumberjack efficiently, I can say of experience that it is totally worth it.

Before getting into specifics, planning chopping routes is the best thing one can think of for efficient levelling (if you are for plain exp, plan routes with lumberjack workshops on them, thus allowing you to turn your wood into planks/smithmagic potions). These routes are also called "loops" usually routes made by players which start at one point and end in the same, doing a loop around a certain area. Most popular loops are the Astrub Forest (ash, chestnut, walnut, few oaks and maples, mainly for low levels), Milicluster Loop (area to the left of Milicluster zaap, ash, few chestnut), The Amakna Forest Loop (North from Sufokia Gate zaap / South from Milicluster zaap) and the Scaraleaf Plain / Jelly Peninsula Loop (ash, chestnut, walnut, oak, maple, few higher level trees). These are the most popular loops for lower level and higher level lumberjacks as how ever high you get in lumberjack you will have to cut lower level trees also to get most efficient experience. (I will include maps of these loops in the bottom of this post and also useful links to tree locations)

I can figure three ways to level lumberjack, 1) chop and destroy, 2) chop and craft, 3) chop and bank. 1) being the "fastest" way, but also wasting loads of good wood which can be sold, 2) pretty efficient way and probably the best if you want to level faster than using 3) in which you bank your wood to be used in other professions or to be sold. In the beginning I would suggesting making smithmagic potions from the wood you chop, but it does get very unefficient and wood costly in the later levels. I would suggest a combination of 2) and 3) depending what your intentions are, at this point I would like to remind this profession may take months to level to 100 depending how much you play. For me it took 2-3 weeks from 1-60 and about a month from 60-100 so in total 6-7 weeks and I chopped 7-15 hours a day non-stop, competition makes this profession hard, as well as slow respawn times compared to e.g. farmer.

The Levels
In the end of this post you can find maps of the loops, so when i refer to e.g. Eltneg Woods loop, you can find the map at the bottom

1-20
- Beginning levels, mainly cut ash and chestnut in the Astrub Forest area or Milicluster zaap area
- If those areas are crowded check the Amakna Forest Loop

20-40
- Early 20-30's Milicluster loop, Astrub Forest loop, Amakna Forest loop and Scaraleaf Plain loop are pretty good choices for ash, chestnut, walnut and oak with reasonably big spawns
- Would like to remind that walnut becomes even less efficient than cutting ash in the later levels, so does maple
- Maple may seem like a good option to cut, but it is pretty rare and will never be a tree you will grind on, although walnut and maple are good for money making

40-60
- Still the same loops as before, at 60 almost fully utilizing the Amakna forest loop as you can cut trees up to Wild Cherry
- I do not suggest to cut in Eltneg Woods as your level is revatively low and the cutting times are high
- How ever tempting it might seem to start cutting e.g. yew and wild cherry, they will not be good trees to level on due to rarity, respawn times, and cutting times
- At this point chestnut and oak are the best levelling trees as they have been until this point, occasionally checking the Aerdala Bamboo loop is a good idea

60-80
- Mid-levels, new trees, old-loops, at 80 you can fully utilize the Scaraleaf Plain loop and Porcos Terriotory, I suggest sticking into the same old loops, yielding best experience time/exp ratio and respawn times are faster
- Wild Cherry, Ebony, Charm/Hornbeam, Dark Bamboo, will never be good grinding places due to scarcity, competition, slow respawn times, although dark bamboo might be good to check every now and then
- Occasional Eltneg Loops become more efficient

80-90
- The hard levels, this is the time you should solely start cutting Bombu (Cania Massif) and Oliviolet (Sidimote Moor), these give the best experience/time ratio, I did not mention these earlier because they are mainly cut by higher levels and you wont be able to compete, also Amakna Forest and Scaraleaf Plain loops are still good exp
- Occasional Eltneg runs can be done

90-100
- Suggesting same as for 80-90
- Once you hit 100 you will be able to cut the most expensive tree in the game, Holy Bamboo (10kk/ea in Rosal)
- If you made it this far, congratulate yourself and start making money

Now I have to go sleep, I will include the loop pictures, extra tips and other info tomorrow

Hope you enjoyed reading my guide!

Sky

This is simply nonsense.
But nice guide though....

Nice guide, but now people are gonna steal trees from my routes. Usually i have to compete with 1-2 other people and then the occasional lvl 90 lumberjack who just need ash wood in my Minicluster route.

Support with facts or dont make claims, I have supported my oppinion with facts and that statement is thus valid. If you read the whole guide you will see that it indeed takes for ever to level, which makes it one of the slowest and hardest (other factors effecting it too). As I am a 100 lvl lumberjack myself I can tell you that from pure experience too.

I will try to get the loop maps and finish the guide by today.

Thanks for the guide, it really helps. Can't wait for the loop maps Btw, why don't you add this to the dofus wikia lj guide?

Good guide. I'm currently level 81 jack and used much of what's here instinctively.

I'd add that your lumberjack will be more productive coupled with other crafting professions. This gives you more incentive to endure the grind of hack hack hack hack...

I'd recommend jeweller first, but don't ignore carvers and even handyman (especially with a good miner).

Your statement that LJ is one of the slowest/hardest gathering jobs is nonsense because Hunter and Fisher are way more difficult. Since there is almost as much wood than cereals, LJ isn't that much mire difficult than farmer.

Dude, get a real life... This is supposed to be entertainment...

You must be joking. Have you ever tried both professions? Just take a look at Farmer recipes, and check out Wheatmeal flour. Now find a Lumberjack recipe that is as easy as the flour and yields the same experience. Oh wait, do not mind searching for it, because there are none.

Also, there is a huge difference between harvesting Hemp (for 45xp), which is all around the Dofus world, with very fast respawn time and Ebony (45 xp as well) that respawns way longer and is scarce. You definitely have no clue how hard Lumberjack is, the only gathering profession I found harder is Fisherman. But even Fisherman is more fun than chopping wood all day

Hey Skull glad to see you here. I chop only occasionally so I don't see you much on those loops
I just wanted to say..
1. a really nice guide (as someone's already mentioned, thinking lumberjacks choose these routes by instinct )
2. don't forget you'll need an alignment to add pandalas to your loops
3. start thinking about your future crafting profession before leveling lj. Why? Very easy. With necessary wood in the bank you'll level your "crafter" in no time. Just get aware of your future crafting profession and nice recipe
4. you can choose one route mostly suitable for your crafting profession and lj level. In such cases I just kept leaving my char in that route and occupied myself in something else in real life. Like cooking, some internet search or whatever you find interesting
5. i still don't like aggro Eltneg wood, so think about your char's level too

And I'm level 100 lumberjack, so I think I might give my opinion

And btw... PerunSSSS.. i find leveling professions sometimes more joyful/fun than leveling your character

Nyo (lj Kuro-Nezumi)

good guide shame i have no interest in lumberjack lol

I'm:
Lumberjack 100
Fisherman 100
Tailor 100
Handyman 100
and a bunch more ...
just to name a few of my Lvl100 professions.
I think i know what 'hard', 'long' or 'expensive' means...

This post has been edited by festering-pit: 9 Jan 2009, 02:59

Ofc, but 7-15 hours a day... that is too much... even for fun...

I am aware of this, Ak, but you cannot be serious when you compare farming to lumberjack.

I'd have to agree that LJ is MUCH harder than farmer.

I'm farmer lv100 and LJ87

Thank you for the great replies , i appreciated your comments and suggestion especially all lvl 100 LJ's (especially u kuro, friends help is unbeatable)

For the guy comparing farmer and lumberjack, you gotto be kidding me, as said before there is about 20 ebonies in the game (which have been found, some are not in wikia), and around +300 hemp alone in the cania fields area. To start with I levelled farmer and baker from 30-100 inside 3 days, it took me some 6 weeks to get lumberjack to 100 do not tell me which one is slower. Lumberjack is something which almost purely relies on experience gotten from cutting trees, on the other hand farmer can be lvled to 100 with flours, lumberjack does not have this kind of option. I am aware that fisherman is hard, but as I said ONE of the hardest/slowest.

perunSSSS, ive got a nice life and am very succesful in school, we have different ways of having fun and by getting to 100 LJ non-stop I showed great ambisioushness, hard work and patience.

Sorry for the delay on replies and updating but my school work are pushing all over me, I will have the loop maps, information on professions and hints + tips by tomorrow 24:00 GMT +2

About the loops, im not sure if I should post them as places would get over crowded, so Ill ask for your oppinions

Should I post the loop maps or not?
1) Yes, why?
2) No, why?

There is a third option - just send a message for those who need it.

Since no one have posted yet, i guess you can easily post the loop maps That also answers your question - i guess there are only a few players intrested in maps

I'd also have to say that Lumberjack and Farming are the two easiest professions for a non-subscribed player. Mining being the hardest.

- XXVI

Im talking about p2p players, 1-100, not f2p, 1-30

Dude, I'm a Level 100 Lumberjack, Fisherman and Hunter. (and farmer and alchemist >_>)
Hunter is MUCH easier than lumberjack, and unlike lumberjack there is a fast way to level it. lumberjack 4 slot recipe is just great. needs trunknid wood which you can't gather.
Fisherman and Lumberjack are close but all in all there is much less competition fishing than there is with lumberjacking even with the recent popularity of fishing. Lol.. just as much wood as cereals.. I don't know why I'm even arguing with you.

I'm currently working on getting my second fisher to 100, "cheated" my way to 40 by gutting the first fishermans fish by fishing in the right place at the right level and skipping the lower level ponds it's quite easy to level. atleast compared to lumberjack where you have to run all over the map.

Edit: oh and before anyone says you can just saw planks to get to level 40 lumberjack. you need only 36641 fish to level from 1-40 (which I sell for 900kk) but you need 732820 ash wood. which according to ash' average price would be nearly 17m worth of ash wood.

This post has been edited by LadyOfShadows: 18 Jan 2009, 14:14

1) I hope you were sarcastic in your post, otherwise:
are you stupid? NO 100 lvl LJ and Farmer would compare these professions. I am 99% sure that you do not have a 100 lvl lumberjack. 2) trunknid woods cost 5kk ea, it would cost tens of millions to use that recipy to level. Besides wtf are u talking about, hunter has loads of good recipies.

I have no idea why you infact are arguing with me about the amount of trees/cereals, because the numbers speak for me
Some exapmles:
lvl 1 - Wheat x2133 > Ash x566
lvl 60 - Malt x491 > Wild Cherry x29
lvl 70 - Hemp x637 > Ebony x19

Yeah theres the same amount of cereals and trees right?

uhhh dude she was aggreing with you XD

i put that there on purpose.

Edit: already had answered that question lol

This post has been edited by eotkodekff: 9 Mar 2009, 22:31

Getting closer to topic

About your question, Skull... To show or not the loop maps:
1. yes. it would be really helpful for lower leveled LJ's. As far as the topic is claimed to be a guide, it would be a significant part of the topic
2. no. i (personally) don't like lazy people. You have already pointed out main coordinates for the loops. If the person won't even look at other locations and just run on the spots you show him/her. A bit unfair

That is, my personal attitude is negative If someone contacts me ingame and asks for some tips on leveling lj and/or miner, we can have a nice conversation. Each of us can get some useful information. And trying to make other people give you the information you consume only makes me a bit angry. As much as "give me kamas", "give me free stuff", "don't do that", "cast that spell" and so on (you get the idea.. winking)

Nyo

Yeah I agree with that, I dont want to spoon feed people, instead I want them to experience and learn by theirselves (just poiting them into the right direction). I decided not to post the loop maps.

Good guide for sure; I basically had figured something similar out on my own - but EGADS! something has to be done about the limited number or recipes! I managed to level my Farmer noobishly to 60 before I realized I could make multi-slot flours that don't go into anything my girlfriend was baking with; that was really slow - but so much faster than lumberjacking!

The only thing about fishing I think makes it more tolerable is you get a sound effect when you finish fishing. So you can watch TV, read, draw or do anything other than stare at the screen waiting for the toon to finish fishing. That way you can mindlessly camp one map fishing away, without the urge to stick a fork in your neck.

Good guide man. lvl 100 lumberjack as well.

I personally cut bombu whenever I could and didn't wait. I would suggest trying to get as much as you can. I also went through eltneg wood from lvl 40 on. I kind of developed a pattern in which I'd go from eltneg first, perhaps bombu/oliviolet/dark bamboo (alignment in your favor needed), amakna forest and go down to scaraleaf plains there, and then finally go through eltneg wood again. Something of that pattern but I'm pretty sure everyone develops patterns once you keep doing this.

what about bombu and ovoilet? they were good exp for me.

Lumberjack seems much harder to me than farmer. Both are well worth it though.

Farmer lv100, Lumberjack lv97 (puff puff puff)

Bombu and oliviolet are good sources of experience too, but forest woods are more useful if you have proffs or want to sell them and as well many of the higher levelled lumberjacks cut those so it might be tough to find a spawn, but once you do then you can control it pretty well.

Excellent guide, this is sure to put many people on the path to high-level lumberjackdom.

I too have found that even though bombu and oliviolet give the best exp they are very far from being the best money-makers. This is why even though I have yet to reach 100 I still chop almost exclusively at Scaras.

Just wondering, is mining really easier than lumberjack? because it didnt seem that way to me when i had them both on an old character mining i got to like 13 in the time lumberjack took to get 30, just based on the fact that i couldnt find hardly ANY iron, with all the other people doing it, also, iron sells for like 15 times what ash does for a stack of 100, so that wouldnt make alot of sense that lj would be harder than miner.

Im not doubting that getting lj to 100 is hard, i got farming and it was a real drag, but it just seems to me that mining would be worse.

I'd say that's a pretty common experience. I found though that higher level ores are more easily found than higher level woods.

That means when your miner reachs lv80+ he has an easier time levelling on high ores. Try finding, say an elm tree (lv90 wood). There are like 4 in the game, and only a couple that are fairly easy to get to. Lv80 gold is pretty easy to find in fact.

Miners can also speed their levelling by making alloys. My miner did lv95 - lv100 in one afternoon strictly from making kriptonit, a 7 slot alloy recipe. Wish my lumberjack could do that.

This post has been edited by lazaustin: 8 May 2009, 18:49

Level 97.5 lumberjack. 1 month and 1 week into brand new server. Very time consuming. Playing 8+ hours a day to achieve this level. And I did bombu/oliviolet rarely levels 60-95 as there are too many low level lumberjacks. I purchased the [5,31] house and just use house potions to put wood in there. Best lumberjack house available IMO. I cut up feudala/jelly&scara/down from milicluster zaap(was also doing eltneg from rocky plains zaap for mainly walnut but stopped). Occasionally go to bombu/oliviolet now, mainly I just focus on mats for staff carver (walnut) and making sure I am the only one to get the 3 elm trees while I am on (Yea I know there are 6 but you tell me how to go to dark vlad/20+ maps of koalas or 9th room of crackler dungeon every 2+ hours for 3 trees...) Elm sells great. I am making 200,000k+ a day just on elm and I only have a 1-3 chop and with level 100 I will be making 3 times that. LJ FTW

Hehe sounds a lot like me when I still was lvling LJ gg keep going! Now imaging doing that on a crowded server where the competition is huge.

Miner is definetly easier in the later levels than LJ as you have stuff to make out of the ores, as for LJ rare wood shavings are too costly to be worth it.

Also for those who claim lumberjack being easier, for sure are low levels like 30, not 100 in both respective professions.
Thanks for all the positive comments =)

This post has been edited by eotkodekff: 14 May 2009, 15:24

u think it hard?i dont think so..maybe it hard for f2p but with ash wood only u can get 1mk in a day:O


u just need cut wood that give u money:D

a-chief-master^^

1mkin a day how??

Maybe if by chance some random person was buying that many ash wood sure... but it'd be a one time occurrance to make that much from ash wood so please shut up. I have been level 100 for quite a while now and am reaching 1mk XP and it is not *hard* to make 250kk+ a day off of wood but it requires dedication and being able to time spawns like elm/darkbamboo/bamboo/holybamboo.

Just got my lumberjack to lv100 this weekend.

All I can say is that fisherman is even harder....

BS!!! You forgot about Fisherman and Hunter. They kill your gaming time like waaam!

This post has been edited by Toodlez: 16 Jun 2009, 07:51

If only u know But nah. Doubt anyone reveal their secret of making kamas or everyone will be like rich busters, and those with the idea and secrets in the first place will not see daylight anymore, because their secret has been stolen by greedy kama farmers. WOTEVA, lulz!

You say tis a game, and experience belong to everyone, but nuh uh, experience belong to oneself, u must earn it yourself, not by having some experiences gamer tell you, and you do it. Ohhh n' be so proud that you found a kama making way, only to find it doesn't earn you as much kamas as other ppl still, cuz someone else got a secret way that you dont know that earn even more. And ya'll be keep searching, and waste your time doing so, rather than focus and earning your own experience in playing this hell of a good game.

just finished reading every last post in this thread... took almost as long as getting a lumber jack to lvl 100 (jp) but anyways your guide is good stuff. It's helpful and i'm glad you didn't include maps. People can figure that stuff out on their own. I would agree with most people however that scara/jellies is your best option from lvl 30-60ish (i'm not sure but it seems like it; i'm only lvl 32 LJ)

This is such a good guide, Can't count how many times I've had to use the search function to find it.

I have to disagree with hunter. I run gob dungeon a lot with my cra for souls, scrolling mats, and profession leveling drops. Having the hunter profession just gives me another drop to sell.