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InPalia, you’ll be spending a lot of time honing skills like Mining, so you can make new tools, craft new items, and fulfill quests for the residents of Kilima Village. It takes a lot of experience points and time to level your skills up, but there is a system implemented to make the grind faster and easier: Focus.
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In this guide, we’ll explain what Focus is, what the Focus Bar is, and how utilizing it can help you max out your skills quickly and gain access to the best tools and unique rewards.
What Is The Focus Bar?
The Focus Bar, located in the top left of your screen, is the representation of how much Focus you currently have, andwhen it’s filled it gives you a bonus to the experience you gain after completing a skill task,such as mining a rock or crafting a piece of furniture. Having any amount of Focus in your Focus Bargives you a bonus of 30 percent experience pointstowards whatever skill you’re doing, and a full bar increases it further.
Focus will gradually deplete as you complete skill tasks, so you need to refill it periodically. Keeping your focus high means that you willgain skill points more often and level those skills faster, which in turn allows you to quickly unlock purchasable rewards from NPC skill shops once you reach the maximum level.
How To Gain Focus
Focus is gained byconsuming crops, foraged ingredients, and cooked food dishes. At the lowest level, ingredients like Mountain Morel mushrooms give five Focus per one eaten, whilecooking food dishes such as Grilled Meat or Ramenprovides a greater Focus gain.
Themore complicated the recipe is, the more Focus you’ll gain from it, and the easier it will be to keep your Focus Bar full.
ReachingGardening level eightunlocks the Preserves Jar from Badruu, which turns fruit and crops such as Potatoes and Carrots into Jam or Pickled versions.
Using the Preserves Jar isone method of obtaining large amounts of Focus-gaining foodswithout needing many cooking ingredients, as jams and pickled cropscan provide anywhere from 175 Focus to 375 Focusdepending on what you make.
One crop/fruit produces one pickled/jam jar, and while they take 30 minutes to be produced, youcan drop large amounts of either ingredient in and leave it to runwhile you do other things.
How To Increase Your Maximum Focus
Initially, you start with a maximum of 200 Focus, but bypraying and spending 100 Renown at the Dragon Statue at Maji’s Hollowyou can further increase your maximum Focus, as each prayer permanently increases your Focus by 50 points.
Your Renown caps out at 1,000, so it’s a good ideato regularly spend it on Focus upgradesif you aren’t spending it on Plot Expansion Writs at the Mayor’s Office.
How To Increase The Bonus Experience Percentage
Alongside increasing your maximum Focus, you can alsoincrease the experience bonus you receiveand further increase how quickly you’ll increase your skills and skill points. Similarly to visiting the Dragon Statue,you canvisit the Phoenix Statue where you begin the gameand commune with it for 100 Renown.
The statue is located at Phoenix Falls, across the bridge,and through the first open cavern on the right.Each communion will increase yourbonus percentage by five percent until you reach 50 percent, and after that, communions will then give you a two-and-a-half percent increase.
