Profession

TERA in its current state has five professions a character can dive into, These are:

(after December 2018 Fishing-Crafting-Gathering patch)
 * Alchemy
 * Smelting
 * Processing
 * Etching
 * Cooking

TERA crafting is mainly focused on producing materials for enchanting gear, although there are few useful items in most professions. Cooking is specialized in producing foods that provide temporary buffs.

Recipes
In order to progress in a profession all that you need to do is craft using the recipes the character knows.

These recipes need to be purchased from specialized merchants in the cities (Creation workshop in Velika, chamber of Artisans in Allemantheia, Kaiator), or found as rewards of certain dungeons, worth noting that the recipes available on the merchants are not the full set of recipes available. (is this currently correct or is everything on merchants?)

Artisan and Master
Once you have acquired 500 skillpoints in any of the professions you become eligible to take a test to become an Artisan on that profession.This test involves Crafting/Refining a number of items in order ot build up progress towards the goal.There is no time limit for this nor are you required to do the entire test in one go but all the costs associated with this test fall onto the player, so they are required to gather/purchase all the materials.

Once the Test is complete the character officially becomes an Artisan on the chosen profession and is now able to use Artisan Level recipes and continue to gain skill points in order to progress towards Master, where a similar test takes place, only with artisan level requirements.

Keep in mind : each character is only able to gain Artisan/Master in a single profession so consider your choice carefully, thought if you do feel the need to change profession you can acquire a Revival Fruit, which when used will reset your Artisan/master profession back to right before you go for the test.Be warned though that doing so causes your character to " forget" any artisan/master Recipes they knew in that profession (This can be extremely expensive or force the player to lose otherwise exclusive recipes so its recommended that if you have the need for another profession, its best to have it on another character).

Some specific end game recipes (ie: Ambush/Starfall) dont have a skill requirement for their components, instead requiring that you have both the appropriate recipe and the materials required.