• Create a camp at a central location for storage. This can be done with a campsite kit (one can be gotten through a quest early game; also craftable with the survival skill; also can be bought for around 225 gold at a general store vendor)
  
• Visit the farms near the cities to harvest raw ingredients for cooking, regularly
  
• Lots of raw ingredients can be found inside the Blackwood Marauders camps
  
• Go to forest and other easy areas with low lvl enemies to train your skills (e.g. with a rat)
  
• Use poisons on your weapon if you struggle with bosses
  
• Pay 5 gold in tavern to hear rumors
  
• Leafborn villages: remove curses here and enchant/buy enchantments
  
• Leafborn villages: they have a different currency called "polished stones". Try to collect it by selling food, medicine and general items. E.g. raw eggs give 2p and they can be easily collected on mountains and farms
  
• Mid-game: save enough money to buy the adamant armor from a city captain (the green guy). It is the best armor at that point
  
• Do not sell your gems (rubies and emeralds). Eventually, you will find a book "gemlight" that opens up the skill "gem refraction". This skill can be got at the study bench. For each ruby or emerald, you get +1 HP or +1 Stamina
  
• Equip a new weapon type (bow, sword, etc.) once, so that the corresponding mastery is unlocked. It helps you to compare different weapon abilities.
  
• Attack once without a weapon to unlock the mastery "Unarmed"
  
• All skills start with 15 levels as maximum. Except the ones that you chose in character creation which start with higher maximum levels
  
• When you level up (with wisdom), you can spend 1 point on a skill. This pushes the max level of the skill by +2
  
• Buy a lantern at the general store for 140 gold. It is definitely worth it for dark dungeons, trap detection and vision!
  
• Until you have a lantern, use a torch. It does the same thing but with less effectiveness
  
• You can buy a house in a city. Within a large city, it costs 5000 gold. It comes with a cooking station, 3 storages and 1 bed.
  
• Final reward chest from cave dungeons can contain a "scroll of technique" which unlocks a new abilitiy e.g. for axes.

• Food quests usually give more gold than the ingredients
  
• If you give the NPC a superb food, you will get a lot more gold (up to 850 gold, depending on the food item). Therefore, you should aim to push cooking early game and store superb food in your chest
  
• Same goes for potion quests. If you return with a potent potion instead of a normal one, then the reward will be much higher
  
• Buy and sell items at the specific vendors for best prices. The general store vendor pays about 50% less for items and demands more when you buy
  
• Buy resources from traveling traders (at the center of a city). They sell them cheaper than the standard vendors
  
• Fight bandits! They drop lots of items to repair and then sell for 500+ gold
  
• Fight desert worms in the desert biome. They regularly drop high level weapons that can be sold for lots of gold

You will need 19 levels to max everything (except careful hands; not really needed if you save/load before harvesting)

Everything in the list here respawns after a while. So keep visiting for refarming.

Plains:

• Nerine
  
• Liliweed
  
• Aloe Vera

Forest:

• Stipticus
  
• Stinkhorn (also found in gremlin dungeons)

Caves:

• Collered Earthstar
  
• Indigo Milkcap
  
• Pleated Inkcap

Caves (deep):

• Enchanting crystal
  
• Grenzite

Mountain

• Elweiss
  
• Feverfew

Desert

• Sandroot
  
• Sunblossom

You will need 19 levels to max everything.

You want to repair worn and broken items anyway --> gives around 10 xp each time
When you have "knowledge of quality" and "art of repair", then you can even "repair" normal items once. It gives around 7 xp each time

Get items from bandits, repair and then sell or recycle them
Get cheap, normal items for 20 gold from various vendors and "repair" them

You will need 24 levels to max everything. Focus and push this skill early game, so you can do all food quests for lots of gold.

This skill is straight forward: cook raw food to gain xp. An easy way to do it: farm lots eggs on mountains and simply boil them for xp. You can even sell these boiled eggs in a butcher shop for good money.

One of the three best skills in the game as

• it boosts your base damage with each level,
  
• it reduces the energy cost of all your abilities with each level and
  
• has a lot of useful abilities.

You can easily have 40+ levels into this. It is worth it.

Select it during character creation for additional levels. Also, you save around 500 gold by doing this because you won't need to buy the scroll.

Initially, get 1 point in "Expensive Swing" and afterwards 1 point in "Might Lunge". Use both all the time during combat to level up this skill pretty fast.

Same as the skill Warrapt, this is one of the best skills in the game with lots of valuable abilities.
You will want at least 29 level in this to get all important abilities.

Initially, get 3 levels on "Knights Challenge". Always use it in combat to level up this skill.
You can also put 1 level in "Stand Ground" to double the leveling progress

You will need 24 levels to max everything.

The skill is streight forward: brew potions to level up.

One easy way to do it: collect all items from gremlin dungeons. This means: mole meat, rotten food, rat tail, sludge moss, raw insect meat and stagnant water.
With these and the recipes "Da-Daa Doo", "Rat Sluck" and "Mudmilk", you will be able to craft tons of potions that give 18xp each.

The basic 15 levels are enough to max everything out (except "Hastened Study" which isn't really needed. You read fast enough).

This skill is straight forward: find or buy books and read them to level up.

You will need 17 levels to max everything out (except "Cauterize Wound" which is never useful).

You get lots of XP by using medicine like bandages, soothing balm and antidote.
If you want to speed it up, create medicine.

You do not need to put any focus points into this. 15 levels is enough for taking the major abilities.

Ideally, you pick this skill during character creation because the abilities under "Travel Fortitude" are extremely important for survival on the map. In this case, you will get an additional 4 levels for a maximum of 19 in this skill.

This skill levels naturally by travelling around the map.

You do not need to put any focus points into this. 15 levels is enough for taking the major abilities.

This skill can be easily leveled by gathering berries (e.g. strawberries on mountains)