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Which proficiency should you level?

All 31 proficiencies and exactly what levelling each one improves.

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Every proficiency and every benefit it grants. Combat proficiencies share one shape, gathering another, crafting a third — which is the fastest way to see what levelling anything will do.

Soulmask has 31 proficiencies. Levelling one grants a fixed set of benefits, and which set you get depends entirely on what family the proficiency is in. There are 8 shapes.

Count	Proficiencies	What levelling it improves
10	Spinning, Construction, Alchemy, Woodworking, Cooking, Stonecutting, Smelting, Tanning, Grinding, Pottery	Yield, Speed, Material cost reduction
8	Whip, Hammer, Greatsword, Blade, Bow, Spear, Gauntlets, Dual Blades	Attack speed, Damage, Damage increase, Poise damage increase, Stamina cost reduction, Stamina damage increase
4	Mining, Harvesting, Logging, Slaughtering	Yield, Speed, Stamina cost, Tool durability
3	Armoursmithing, Weaponsmithing, Jewelcrafting	Maximum durability, Yield, Quality increase, Speed, Material cost reduction
1	Butchering	Yield, Speed
1	Furniture-making	Yield, Quality increase, Speed, Material cost reduction
1	Animal husbandry	Dung output, Egg output, Stamina cost, Wool / feather output
1	Farming	Speed

All proficiencies

Proficiency	Name in the game files	Family	Benefits
Alchemy	`LianJin`	crafting	3
Animal husbandry	`YangZhi`	husbandry	4
Armoursmithing	`JiaZhou`	equipment	5
Blade	`Dao`	combat	6
Bow	`Gong`	combat	6
Butchering	`PouJie`	processing	2
Capturing	`BuZhuo`	tribe	0
Construction	`JianZhu`	crafting	3
Cooking	`PengRen`	crafting	3
Dual Blades	`ShuangDao`	combat	6
Farming	`ZhongZhi`	husbandry	1
Furniture-making	`QiJu`	equipment	4
Gauntlets	`QuanTao`	combat	6
Greatsword	`DaJian`	combat	6
Grinding	`YanMo`	crafting	3
Hammer	`Chui`	combat	6
Harvesting	`CaiShou`	gathering	4
Jewelcrafting	`ZhuBao`	equipment	5
Logging	`FaMu`	gathering	4
Mining	`CaiKuang`	gathering	4
Pottery	`ZhiTao`	crafting	3
Shield	`DunPai`	combat	0
Slaughtering	`TuZai`	gathering	4
Smelting	`RongLian`	crafting	3
Spear	`Mao`	combat	6
Spinning	`FangZhi`	crafting	3
Stonecutting	`QieShi`	crafting	3
Tanning	`RouPi`	crafting	3
Weaponsmithing	`WuQi`	equipment	5
Whip	`Bian`	combat	6
Woodworking	`PaoMu`	crafting	3

Six benefit entries are deliberately unattributed. They carry no proficiency name as a prefix, so we do not file them under one. The likely owner is obvious to a reader and is not stated by the game, so it is shown as a candidate only. This is also why Shield shows no benefits in the table above: its two entries are damage reduction, and they are named Dun* rather than DunPai*.

Entry	Likely proficiency	Basis
`DunDamageDec`	Shield	name prefix only -- INFERENCE, not stated by the game
`DunTiLiDamageDec`	Shield	name prefix only -- INFERENCE, not stated by the game
`ZuoWuCaiJi`	Farming	name prefix only -- INFERENCE, not stated by the game
`ZuoWuFeiLiaoConsumeDec`	Farming	name prefix only -- INFERENCE, not stated by the game
`ZuoWuHPInc`	Farming	name prefix only -- INFERENCE, not stated by the game
`ZuoWuShuiFenConsumeDec`	Farming	name prefix only -- INFERENCE, not stated by the game