Tarkov Skills: All Five Categories and How to Level Them

Build a stronger PMC without turning every raid into a workout

Character skills reward the things your PMC repeatedly does: moving with a load, searching equipment, handling weapons, eating provisions, and running the hideout. Their value is cumulative. Better stamina can make a crossing easier, faster magazine handling can shorten a vulnerable pause, and a required skill level can unlock the next hideout upgrade. You do not need elite skills to start playing effectively, but you do need to understand which actions advance the skill you actually want.

The most useful approach is to train alongside another objective. Give a lighter quest kit some room for loot, replenish supplies during a safe stop, and keep worthwhile crafts moving between sessions. Deliberate training becomes worthwhile when one named requirement is holding up your progression. Until then, a routine you can afford and repeat is more valuable than a spectacular experience gain followed by several raids spent replacing the lost equipment.

This guide was reviewed on September 17, 2026. The linked skill pages document baseline mechanics; seasonal modifiers, balance updates, and implementation bugs can alter individual results. The practical routines below are recommendations built around those mechanics, not measured promises of a particular number of levels per hour.

Separate character XP, skill points, and weapon mastery

Your PMC level and individual skill levels are different progression tracks. A large quest XP reward can raise your character level without giving an equivalent increase to Strength or Attention. Skill progress comes from eligible actions or an explicitly named skill reward. When a task asks for a particular skill, inspect that entry in the Skills tab rather than the experience total on the raid results screen.

The documented skill ceiling is level 51, called Elite. Reaching level 1 takes 10 skill points; the next level takes 20, then 30, continuing until the requirement reaches 100 points per level. Later levels keep that 100-point cost. Consequently, an early level can arrive quickly while the same amount of activity barely moves a mature skill. Temporary bonuses from consumables change your effective statistics without permanently awarding those levels.

Weapon mastery is another separate track, organized around weapons or related weapon families. It concerns familiarity and handling animations, while a combat skill such as DMRs covers a weapon class. Do not mistake a mastery milestone for the Bolt-action Rifles level required by a quest. Open the named track before choosing a weapon for training.

Which skills deserve your attention first?

Prioritize a concrete obstacle before a distant elite perk. If your next useful module is waiting on a skill requirement, plan around that threshold. Otherwise, movement and ordinary raid maintenance deserve the first attention because you perform them on almost every deployment. Your favorite weapon class will usually progress as you use it; an unfamiliar class may need deliberate scheduling when a quest names it.

The active skill catalog is organized into Physical, Mental, Combat, and Practical groups. Examples are summarized below. Older lists include removed entries such as Memory and Recoil Control, plus upcoming or possibly cut entries such as Field Medicine and faction-specific Special skills. Those lists are not evidence that every entry can currently be trained. In particular, do not select BEAR or USEC expecting a working faction skill tree.

Check seasonal modifiers before committing to a grind

A seasonal modifier can change the answer before you take a single training step. Inspect both the profile's global effects and your selected personal modifiers: these can affect starting levels, learning rates, or whether a skill can progress further. The ordinary skill curve below is the baseline, not a promise that every seasonal profile follows it without changes.

TarkovForge's Season 1 reference, for example, lists Average as fixing most skills at level 25, and Handyman as starting Crafting at Elite. Treat these as community-documented examples and confirm the active effect on your character. If a skill is deliberately locked or already capped, repeating its training action cannot solve the problem.

Separate choosing a seasonal modifier from earning an elite skill perk. They belong to different systems and can create very different priorities for otherwise identical players. Use /guides/season-1-kord-breach-guide for the wider season structure; here, first establish which skills your actual profile still needs and can develop.

Understand diminishing returns before planning a training loop

Repeated skill gains become less efficient within a raid. The skill bar's blue indicator marks an initial learning bonus, while a red indicator marks reduced gains. This is separate from your stamina bar: recovering enough stamina to sprint again does not automatically restore the skill's learning multiplier. You can still be physically ready to move while earning very little additional experience for that activity.

The baseline documented by the wiki starts at 129% learning speed before the first point, returns to 100% after it, and begins applying reductions after two points. A roughly 200-second interval without gaining points in that particular skill restores the ordinary learning rate, rather than the initial bonus. Community reports also describe this pause-based recovery. Treat those figures as a baseline to compare with the indicator on your own profile, especially when seasonal modifiers are active.

The useful lesson is to vary your work. A stop to check an objective, organize loot, or prepare for a fight can interrupt movement training naturally. Continually walking while overweight may keep training Strength, so that interval is not necessarily a break from the skill. Likewise, a shorter sprint followed immediately by another is not a fresh training session.

Do not route a raid around waiting beside a stopwatch. Leaving a good position, delaying a quest extraction, or repeatedly opening the skill menu can cost more than the extra points are worth. Use the indicator to explain a slowdown and then return to the raid's purpose. Several productive deployments are a better routine than one long session of increasingly inefficient repetitions.

Endurance: create room for movement before you collect loot

Endurance improves stamina and aspects of breath control. Its ordinary movement training comes from walking or sprinting while below the overweight threshold. The important variable is your current weight state, not a universal kilogram target copied from a video. A heavier starting kit can leave you training a different movement skill for most of the raid.

Check the complete kit after equipping armor, ammunition, medical supplies, and your backpack. If you are already overweight, first look for duplicated equipment: an unnecessary second weapon, ammunition well beyond the route's needs, or a bag chosen for capacity you cannot realistically use. Preserve the protection and supplies that make the objective survivable. Removing every useful item to meet an arbitrary weight target defeats the purpose.

A practical Endurance session can simply be the opening journey of a normal quest raid. Take a route with useful cover and move at a pace appropriate to nearby threats. Walk where you need to listen; sprint when crossing exposed ground calls for it. Training should follow those decisions. Once loot changes your weight state, accept that the remainder of the trip may develop Strength instead.

Strength: carry a useful load, then protect your ability to extract

Strength contributes to carrying capacity, movement, jumping, and throwing. Walking or sprinting while overweight develops it; throwable and melee use are additional documented sources. For most players, ordinary equipment and collected loot provide enough opportunities without buying a backpack full of training ballast. Check the weight indicator after major inventory changes so you know which state you are actually in.

There is an important difference between being heavy enough to train and being too burdened to fight or cross open ground comfortably. Extra mass is not an unlimited experience multiplier. Before taking another bulky weapon, consider the distance to extraction, the next exposed crossing, and whether you can discard it quickly. Loot that forces a dangerous recovery stop can make the whole trip less productive.

If a specific Strength requirement is close, plan a modest loot circuit with a clear exit and a load you can manage. Choose items you would genuinely keep or sell. Grenades are more useful when they help you disengage or pressure an enemy than when you throw them away for a small gain. Melee training is an especially poor reason to abandon a favorable shooting position.

A practical raid that develops both movement skills

Consider a PMC heading across Woods to complete an objective and collect supplies. Prepare a kit that can handle the expected encounters while leaving some capacity for loot. Your first priority after spawning is orientation: locate your route, account for nearby approaches, and identify the direction of an available exit. The opening movement is useful even if you never look at the skill menu.

At the objective or a defensible loot stop, search what you need and reassess the trip. A loaded backpack changes both the return journey and the training opportunity. If the route home now includes an awkward crossing, remove low-value weight before moving. Do not extend the route merely because the bag still has empty slots; space and carrying comfort are different limits.

This example is a planning pattern, not a fixed circuit. On Customs, nearby player traffic may justify abandoning a loot stop. In a short Factory raid, there may be little reason to spend time on movement training at all. Let the map determine the safe actions, and use the skills system to make those actions more productive.

Afterward, compare progress across a few similar raids rather than drawing conclusions from one unusual encounter. Record the skill level and fractional progress, starting weight state, and any relevant modifier. That small record is enough to reveal whether your preferred kit habitually neglects one of the movement skills.

Health, Vitality, and Stress Resistance are different jobs

Health advances indirectly: the wiki documents gains equal to a quarter of the points earned in Endurance, Strength, or Vitality. Its benefits include lower fracture chance and reduced energy and hydration consumption. Healing an injury is not the same thing as training Health directly. If Health is lagging, examine your broader physical progression before buying piles of medical supplies.

Vitality develops through taking damage and experiencing blood loss. Stress Resistance instead relates to low-health and pain conditions. Their triggers explain why a cautious player can reach a high PMC level with relatively low values in one of these skills. They also explain why treating every medical statistic as a single training target produces disappointing results.

Some power-leveling methods deliberately manufacture injuries. That can create skill progress, but it also consumes supplies, weakens your character, and creates opportunities for someone else to finish the raid. First check available task rewards and whether the requirement actually blocks something valuable today. During ordinary fights, survive and treat the injury promptly. Keeping a bleed or painful wound active solely for experience is a poor default for a quest run.

For treatment priorities and the differences between healing, stopping bleeding, and restoring destroyed body parts, use /guides/health-and-healing-explained alongside this guide.

Metabolism and Immunity: turn necessary consumption into progress

Metabolism advances when provisions restore missing energy or hydration in a raid. The amount restored matters; consuming an item at full resources is not equivalent to replenishing a genuine deficit. The wiki also warns that stash consumption can display an apparent skill increase without granting persistent Metabolism progress. Eat and drink during a defensible raid stop when your resource bars actually need it.

Pair food with enough water for its effects and your remaining route. A ration that reduces hydration can create a second problem if you packed no drink. Use supplies before exhaustion compromises the trip, and save enough for an unexpected delay. There is little value in entering a raid nearly empty simply to manufacture a larger refill.

Immunity has another trigger: enduring negative effects from eligible stimulants and provisions. Its documented experience depends on the duration of the negative-effect period and is credited when that period ends, with extraction ending the period early. An immediate glance after using an injector can therefore be misleading. Metabolism can shorten those negative effects, so two characters may not get identical results from the same item.

Treat Immunity as a secondary benefit of a consumable you already have a reason to use. Read the full effect list, including delayed penalties, before packing it. A training plan that repeatedly drains your supplies or leaves you compromised near extraction needs a stronger justification than a slowly moving progress bar.

Attention, Search, and Perception: make ordinary looting count

Attention develops through uncovering container contents and picking up loose loot, and it improves looting speed. Search also progresses through searching containers and bodies, with loose-loot pickup listed as another source. The two often advance during the same trip, but their effects are not interchangeable: the Search page specifically notes that its advertised ordinary speed bonus is not currently functioning, while Attention controls search speed. Search's elite perk allows two item containers to be searched simultaneously.

Perception's documented current effect concerns nearby loot detection, and collecting loot develops it. Do not read an old hearing-distance claim as a guarantee that a high-level character must detect an approaching opponent. Listening, movement noise, and your choice of position still demand attention independently of a skill tooltip.

For a useful looting routine, choose a handful of containers along an objective route and make the area defensible before opening them. Leave yourself somewhere to retreat when footsteps interrupt the search. A body in the middle of a doorway can be an attractive training opportunity and a terrible place to stop.

Select useful supplies and valuable items, then move on. Emptying every pocket of a poorly positioned corpse is rarely worth the extra exposure. When an Attention or Search threshold matters, increase the number of sensible looting opportunities across your raids rather than insisting on completing every search in one location.

Mag Drills: replenish ammunition during a safe pause

Mag Drills is the practical skill for checking magazines and loading or unloading ammunition during raids. It improves those handling actions and the information provided by magazine checks. It is distinct from the weapon-class skill that helps with reloading the weapon itself. Packing spare cartridges into an emptied magazine and swapping magazines in a rifle are related combat chores, but they do not mean the same thing for training.

The documented information milestones are useful before Elite: level 10 improves magazine checks to approximate counts, while level 20 provides exact counts. Some magazines already offer better estimates because of their construction, so the improvement you notice depends on what you use. Repacking in the stash does not substitute for the documented in-raid training actions.

After a fight, move into a position you can defend before consolidating ammunition. Keep a usable magazine ready and repack only what the next part of the route requires. This is a natural moment to progress Mag Drills, especially while teammates take turns watching approaches. Avoid unloading your entire ammunition supply just to create work; you may need to interrupt the process immediately.

Combat skills, weapon mastery, and choosing the right gun

Combat skills such as DMRs and Submachine Guns develop through relevant weapon use, including successful hits and documented reload or action-cycling activities. Their bonuses affect handling, including reload speed and recoil. A magnified optic does not change the weapon's class: a scoped DMR still trains DMRs, so it will not solve a Bolt-action Rifles requirement simply because you use it for distant shots.

Build familiarity around a small set of affordable weapons, then change class deliberately when an objective calls for it. Familiar controls, ammunition you can replenish, and a sight picture you understand are useful advantages while the numerical skill grows in the background. Before relying on repeated reloads as a dedicated training method, confirm that the relevant bar advances and watch for diminishing returns.

Throwables develops through grenade use. Troubleshooting develops when you clear weapon malfunctions. Covert Movement, a Practical skill, develops through sufficiently slow movement; the documented cue is the movement speaker indicator showing no bar. Each makes sense when the associated action serves the encounter. Do not bring a malfunction-prone gun just to manufacture repairs, or crawl across a dangerous approach because stealth training happens to be available.

Practice builds and handling in a suitable practice environment, then develop persistent skills through eligible progression activities. The old standalone Recoil Control skill was removed, so a historical recommendation to dump ammunition into the sky for that skill no longer describes a useful target.

Bolt-action Rifles: plan the requirement and the reward together

Older guides often call this skill Sniper Rifles. The current reference calls it Bolt-action Rifles and lists successful hits, reloading, and cycling the action as training activities. It also documents level 7 for Wet Job - Part 6 and level 10 for Psycho Sniper and Make an Impression. Match those names and numbers against the task on your active profile before committing to a dedicated grind.

A useful plan combines bolt-action tasks, ordinary engagements at suitable distances, and skill rewards you already intend to earn. Carry a weapon you can operate confidently and budget enough ammunition for the whole route. If you bring a second weapon for close encounters, account for its cost and weight. Protecting the quest attempt matters more than squeezing a few additional manual reloads into a dangerous position.

Mentor is a particularly clear example of reward planning: its reference page lists a payment of 50,000 euros for three Bolt-action Rifles levels. Using the baseline leveling curve, going from exactly level 7 to level 10 represents 270 points of manual progression; going from exactly level 9 to level 12 represents 300. Those are calculated examples with no partial progress, not an instruction to wait until level 9 in every case.

If claiming the reward now clears your actual blocker, the earlier unlock may be worth more than the extra points saved by waiting. Conversely, finishing another task that awards the same skill could reduce the need for an expensive payment. Read the whole reward list, total the remaining requirement, and choose the least disruptive combination.

Surgery: improve recovery without manufacturing injuries

Surgery progresses when you use a CMS or Surv12 kit to restore a destroyed body part. Its documented benefits include faster operations and a smaller penalty to that part's maximum health. Ordinary healing with a medkit is a different action. A surgical kit also does not replace the need to restore health afterward, so carry supplies for the complete treatment sequence.

After an engagement, decide whether you have enough cover and time to operate. A safer relocation can be worth more than beginning an operation immediately beside the body you just looted. Manage bleeding and urgent damage first, then repair what you need for the route ahead. A destroyed leg on a long walk and a damaged arm before another fight create different practical priorities.

Training Surgery by repeatedly arranging destroyed limbs uses time and kit charges that could support another objective. For most profiles, carry the correct equipment and take the gains when operations become necessary. The old Field Medicine entry is not a reason to expect every healing action to train a separate, fully implemented medical skill.

Repair skills and Intellect: put useful maintenance to work

Weapon Maintenance has a clear out-of-raid training route: repair weapons with a Weapon repair kit. Intellect also develops through kit-based weapon and armor repairs, as well as hideout crafting. Paying a trader for a repair is a different action; do not assume it trains the same skills as using your own kit. Charisma, discussed below, can benefit from trader services instead.

Light Vests and Heavy Vests develop through appropriate armor repairs with a Body armor repair kit and through durability damage to equipped armor. The armor material determines the relevant type, rather than simply the vest's visible weight or protection class. Consult the material of the insert or component being repaired when you are trying to understand which skill advanced.

Make the repair decision around the item first. Estimate whether the restored equipment is something you will use, whether replacing it makes more sense, and how much repair resource the action consumes. Skill progress can improve an already useful maintenance routine; it does not automatically make repairing every damaged item profitable.

The references describe repair enhancements that become available as the relevant skills develop. Treat these as a possible benefit, not a guaranteed outcome on your next repair. Intellect's page also flags its elite effects as nonfunctional, so an advertised elite perk should not be the sole reason to fund a long training project.

Charisma: useful discounts, not a replacement for trader reputation

Charisma receives progress through related mental skills and several service activities, including Scav Case use, insurance spending where available, and trader repairs. Its documented effects reduce certain service costs. That is different from earning the trader reputation required for loyalty levels. Repeated purchases do not turn Charisma into a substitute for quest progression; use /guides/trader-loyalty-guide when merchant access is the actual problem.

An unusual detail matters when comparing profiles: the Charisma reference explicitly lists shared progress between your PMC and Scav. Most Scav skills progress on the Scav character separately. A busy Scav routine can therefore create a misleading impression if you inspect only this exception and assume all your PMC skills are benefiting in the same way.

Let needed services and normal looting do most of the work. Spending solely to buy a small service discount later requires an unusually long payback period. If a task names Charisma, look at its exact threshold and your recent progress before adding another routine. The task Charisma Brings Success is documented at level 10, but that milestone does not make every expensive service an efficient purchase.

Crafting: alternate recipes and match production to your schedule

Crafting reduces production time for eligible hideout processes. Its training includes production time and a completion reward for alternating different recipes within the same module. Repeating the same recipe does not provide that alternating-recipe completion reward. The reference explicitly excludes Bitcoin Farm timing from Crafting's cyclic-production reduction, so raising the skill is not a general solution for faster bitcoins.

Think in pairs of useful recipes at one station. If the Workbench can make two products you need, alternate them when their costs are reasonable. Changing a recipe in another module is not the same as changing what that Workbench produces. Check each station's last completed job rather than assuming any variation anywhere in the hideout qualifies.

Choose short crafts when you will actually be available to collect and restart them. Before logging off, a longer useful job may fit your schedule better. A spreadsheet-perfect short craft is not productive for the hours it sits completed while you are asleep. Keeping production aligned with your visits usually matters more than squeezing out a tiny theoretical advantage.

Calculate the total cost of inputs and relevant operating resources, then compare it with the value of the output to you. A small loss might be acceptable for an urgently needed item or a near-term skill milestone, but label it a training expense. Do not count the same finished item as both equipment you keep and sale income. For the wider calculation, see /guides/hideout-crafting-and-profit.

Hideout Management: efficiency comes from operating the base

Hideout Management progresses through module upgrades, completed crafts, resource consumption, and Scav Case activity. Its benefits include stronger percentage bonuses from hideout zones and reduced fuel and filter consumption. It overlaps with Crafting because production can advance both skills, but the progression triggers and rewards are distinct. A change that helps one bar does not necessarily improve the other by the same amount.

The reference also identifies an exception to a common assumption: the Library does not increase Hideout Management's craft-completion point gain, despite its Practical classification. Keep that distinction in mind when comparing two sessions. A stronger Practical learning bonus is not proof that every hideout-related action will award a larger amount.

Operate the modules that fit your needs and finances. Fuel consumed while producing equipment or running another valuable facility supports several goals at once; fuel burned solely to move a skill bar needs its own budget. Before an expensive upgrade, consider how many future sessions will benefit. A late upgrade can be less valuable to a short-lived profile than to one you intend to play for months.

Elite Hideout Management adds capacity for resources and stored bitcoins. Increased coin storage means fewer missed collections, not automatically faster production. Evaluate convenience and production speed separately when deciding which upgrade or skill is worth pursuing.

Hideout facilities that support skill training

The Air Filtering Unit, Library, and upgraded Shooting Range are the main facilities to consider for learning bonuses. The documented base bonuses are 40% to Physical learning with an inserted FP-100 filter, 30% to Practical learning from the Library, and 10% to Combat learning from Shooting Range level 3. Hall of Fame can add a Combat learning bonus based on suitable displayed dogtags. These are learning modifiers, not direct increases to weapon damage or permanent free skill levels.

Read the facility's operating requirements and displayed bonus before each planned training session. Construction alone is not enough for a resource-dependent facility: an Air Filtering Unit needs a usable filter, and you should check the hideout's power state and active benefits. Also inspect any Defective Wall penalty. Leaving an unresolved penalty while buying more training resources can work against your intended improvement.

Purchase timing should follow use. A player doing many PMC raids has more opportunity to benefit from a Physical learning bonus than someone logging in mainly to collect crafts. Likewise, investing heavily in combat learning makes less sense immediately before a long break. Compare the facility's cost with the activities you will actually perform over your next several sessions.

Use the Gym as a short supplementary routine

The Gym provides Strength and Endurance progress through successful timing inputs. The hideout reference lists 60 energy and 60 hydration as the minimum to start; sessions consume both resources. Begin with enough supplies to recover afterward, especially if you intend to deploy immediately. A useful workout should not leave you distracted from preparing the next raid.

Muscle pain limits repeated training. Mild Muscle Pain reduces Gym skill gains by half; Severe Muscle Pain stops them. Both are documented as 24-hour effects. Read the active effect and remaining time instead of treating another set as automatically productive. These Gym restrictions are separate from the learning reduction you see while repeatedly training a skill during a raid.

Use the Gym when its gains are available, replenish what the session consumed, and move on. Failed timing inputs can cause an injury, so inspect your health before entering matchmaking. This is best treated as a compact habit between other activities. It will not replace the movement you do across repeated raids, and it should not become a reason to postpone the parts of Tarkov you wanted to play.

Track the skill milestones that unlock something useful

A milestone is a better training target than a vague wish to level everything faster. The table collects requirements documented on the linked individual skill pages. These are the skill components of the requirements, not complete construction or quest checklists. Materials, money, trader access, other modules, and task conditions may still be required. Your active task and hideout screens take precedence if a patch or profile modifier differs.

Choose one immediate target and one background target. For example, if a medical upgrade is waiting on Vitality while your normal kits already develop movement skills, note the precise gap and inspect any available rewards for that skill. Do not spend the entire evening on the easiest bar to raise while ignoring the one preventing the upgrade.

Elite perks: valuable goals with specific limitations

Elite perks can change how a character feels, but their wording needs careful reading. Elite Strength excludes weapons equipped in the sling and back slots from total character weight; it does not make the entire backpack weightless. Elite Metabolism prevents damage from dehydration and exhaustion, yet low resources can still affect stamina regeneration. Neither perk is permission to ignore extraction planning or supplies.

Elite Crafting permits two different items to be produced in the same zone simultaneously. That extra capacity is useful only if you can supply both jobs and have a reason to use their outputs. Elite Search's ability to search two item containers at once is convenient, but it cannot make an exposed corpse safe to loot.

Prioritize perks by the problem they solve in your routine. A frequent crafter may value production capacity more than a rarely used combat perk. Someone with a limited number of raids each week should usually prioritize the next reachable unlock. Avoid calculating a fixed completion date from another player's raid count: starting levels, rewards, modifiers, playstyle, and the time spent on each eligible action all differ.

A repeatable session plan for ordinary players

At the start of a session, decide what success looks like beyond skill XP: completing a task, securing materials, or replenishing your equipment budget. Select a kit for that objective and note any relevant weight or skill requirement. Start a useful craft if the timing fits, and use an available Gym session only if you can restore your condition before the raid.

During the raid, bundle maintenance into moments when the route already gives you a reason to stop. A secure room after a fight can accommodate treatment, magazine repacking, and a quick resource check. A quiet objective area may offer useful loot searches. If the situation becomes contested, abandon the maintenance plan immediately and keep the character ready to respond.

After the raid, check the skill you deliberately targeted and the result that justified the trip. A few points accompanied by completed objectives and retained equipment are a productive outcome. If the plan repeatedly loses money, adjust the loadout or objective before trying to buy more learning speed. Skill efficiency should include time spent recovering from failed attempts.

Review a small sample of comparable sessions, then change one variable at a time. Trying a lighter kit, another loot route, and a new stimulant simultaneously makes it difficult to identify what helped. Simple comparisons are enough to improve a routine without turning every deployment into a test.

When a skill seems stuck, diagnose the cause before grinding harder

Start by confirming the character and mode. Your Scav has separate progression for most skills, and practice raids do not save progression. Persistent PvE is distinct from practice even when a raid runs locally. If you have switched between profiles or game modes, compare the same character before assuming that points disappeared. Charisma's documented PMC/Scav sharing is an exception, not a general rule.

Next, inspect the action itself. Movement weight state determines which physical skill receives the ordinary movement gain. Metabolism needs resources actually restored in a raid. Mag Drills uses in-raid handling. Kit repairs and trader repairs have different training results. If you are examining a weapon mastery bar when the task requires a combat skill, even successful training can look irrelevant.

Finally, consider timing and modifiers. Some gains are credited after an action or effect period finishes. A red learning indicator explains reduced progress, and repeated crafts may miss the alternating-recipe reward. Reopen the skill screen after the action settles and compare fractional progress rather than waiting for a whole level notification.

If the result still does not match the documented behavior, record the mode, skill, action, active effects, and before-and-after values. That is more useful for checking a current bug report than repeating an expensive method for another hour. Finish the session with activities that still advance your objectives while you resolve the discrepancy.