Bless Unleashed

Wolf? Lion? Crescent Moon? Pricey, rare. Let's look at Livelihood Blessings. You'll need them first, though. FruitofPassion has a guide for getting these to begin with, under the Bountiful Blessings solutions. So what do you do once you have them, and how much of that doing needs doing? That's what I've been figuring out, at any rate, since again, the combat blessings are expensive to max out, and higher grade stuff for them is also rare (hence the expensive). So we're going to divert from the path of the hunter to the path of the gatherer. Mostly. And remember - these Blessings aren't for decoration. Wear them where appropriate. You may feel inclined to level a combat blessing, and I'd more than recommend it. I'm very happy with my wolf mage. But several million star seeds, per combat blessing, when pricing can be all over the place and stock is very limited... it's unsafe to expect to be able to max one out fully.

As a foreword, I'd like to mention that Paetion and Teleos are not just locked behind dailies, but resource gathering for items to fulfill the dailies + some modicum of levels in all relevant crafting skills; Forging/Shaping/Enchanting/Alchemy/Cooking (Teleos is Alchemy, Paetion is the other four). The ability to max any of the five following blessings is greatly expedited (or, only made possible) by progressing a few good steps into the story, or at least doing a lot of exploring and gathering (former preferred, getting oneshot by dinosaurs while chopping a tree would lose its luster pretty fast). So keep that in mind. You can also buy the items for say, the Paetion dailies, for example - if it asks for a crafted item that can be listed on the store (helmet, food, etc.) you can just buy that item to complete the daily, actual crafting effort and materials disregarded (alternatively, buying materials). But the market will be of little help on its own most of the time for stuff like that. Bring friends.

1. Touch of Lily'anthes
Annoying. Like the fishing blessing, your only constraint is the hours available for you to put into getting
Breaths. But unlike the fishing blessing, spawn rates for this are dismal. I read that they used to be much
better. Absolute best advice I can give for this one is to farm higher rank gatherables though. The
minibosses that spawn from gathering points aren't too hard, but as with anything, exercise caution. Loot
isn't locked to just the player who spawns the miniboss, so really bring friends for this one. More bodies looting and fighting could make this infinitely easier, easier than Syrania even. Maybe. Don't quote me on that. Try and vary your gathering regions somewhat, to have ample stuff for any Paetion dailies that might demand the resources, if you go that route. Supposedly low tier gather stuff has 0% chance to spawn them, though, so stay relatively high up on the gatherables list to be safe.

2. Touch of Paetion
As mentioned previously, expect a lot of boss killing, resource gathering, and crafting leveling. You get four
dailies per day. All four can be discovered as early as you decide to venture into Sperios (the last story
location with a daily). Venturing to Sperios early with the Blessing in hand is a good idea - cooking is the
daily in Sperios and it can be powerleveled very early and easily. For others, you'd need various amounts of
resources from areas you'll need to explore well before being ready for them. You can buy these, but it's
for naught if you buy items to powerlevel that you could just gather yourself, only to find you're locked
behind a daily that requires higher level items that the market doesn't sell, boss stuff especially. Expect
most of your progress on this one to be very late or more likely after the story, yet still difficult. Four
dailies sounds like a lot, but Paetion demands a lot of Breaths and some of these dailies are expensive
suckers. Expect a reality of 2-3 dailies a day at most unless you're seriously working hard or get lucky with cheaper dailies.

3. Touch of Baraka
This one is very late into the story, practically the end, and also runs on dailies. You'll be asked to perform a
tame. If you've done the 5 tamings for the Blessing itself, you can probably fathom what 30 more will be
like. Use the calls from the mount shop and tame what it asks. Maybe if you're lucky you'll get a mount or
two along the way. Obviously will mention it again; wear the relevant Blessing for relevant activities. A few
% doesn't sound like a huge difference but this isn't known for being quick and easy.

4. Touch of Syrania
So this one is fishing. All fishing, all the time. You fish, and pull up either a Dented or Luxurious Chest.
These have a VERY high chance to contain the relevant Breath. Actual fish are irrelevant. If you don't have it
giving you the RS directional prompts (it instead asks you to release the reel), you can let it go, because it
won't help you. Try and fish only in the little 'pools', and I don't think bait mattered for the chests but I
SEEMED to have better luck with Special Cut Pieces, which you should be making anyways to level
Cooking. Further upgrades or better equipment also aren't very mission critical. If you can get the blessing
at all (I needed some rod and line upgrades to get the Cigar Wrasse to begin with), you're geared more
than well enough to finish it. More may make it easier though. Some fishing intermittently required for Paetion/Teleos dailies; for that reason, vary your fishing locations (ocean, lakes, etc.) Keep half
an eye on the Fishing Competition in the menu too. More rewards for the same amount of effort never
hurt anyone.

5. Touch of Teleos
This one is nice and easy. Singular daily from Foy in Sperios. Like Baraka you're looking at 30 days for the
entire Blessing. These are all alchemy based, but you'll have little problem leveling alchemy. You can
head to Sperios early with the Blessing in hand to start making relatively early progress. Too early and you
may need to buy an item or have a few riskier gathers, but it's little trouble compared to Paetion's tasks.

Listing Breath values and required days to max a Blessing out. A few of the following values are unknown. Going off what I can find online for now as I'm just starting out myself. Will update as I go.

UPGRADE TIERS
Lily'anthes: 5 -> 9 -> ? -> 17 (x2)
Paetion: 4 -> 8 -> 12 -> 16 (x3)
Baraka: 3 -> 6 -> 9 -> 12 (x1)
Syrania: 2 -> 3 -> 6 -> 9 (x3)
Teleos: 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 (x2) + 10 (for Regular Customer which maxes out at Lvl. 2)

TOTAL BREATH COUNT
Lily'anthes: ? (can be grinded)
Paetion: 120 (minimum of 30 days to complete but good luck with that)
Baraka: 30 (minimum of 30 days to complete)
Syrania: 60 (can be grinded)
Teleos: 30 (minimum of 30 days to complete)

EDIT: Sep 22 - Seems like my guide is outdated. Things have changed quite a bit. I no longer play so I cannot update this guide, but if anyone else would like to create their own guide, I'd be happy to redirect there from here.

EDIT: New update makes BE significantly easier to get, and SC a bit easier.

See my other guide for getting the 5 blessings for more details.

Cost of upgrading blessings:
Mark of the Wolf - 10 SP
Lionheart Legacy - 10 SP
Crescent Moon - 25 SP
Nightwind - 25 SP
Storm Chaser - 25 SP (27 for priests)
Blind Executioner - 35 SP
Centurion's Command - 45 SP

If you spend 7 on Gift of Valor like most people did, then you need a minimum of 104 SP to achieve this, assuming you go with Nightwind + Storm Chaser. If you choose to go with BE, then you need 112 SP, and 122 for Centurion's Command. Don't do this though, see the other achievement solution for details.

Gaining SXP:
Each SP takes 2000 SXP to reach. This does not change as you gain more SPs. Here are the current ways to gain SXP

Regionals - 100 sxp each. 20 for a full level
Battlefield - 50 sxp each match. Not worth it, but extra bonus if you like pvp
Memory Gems - Range from I - VI, 50 - 100 - 200 - 500 - 1000 - 2000sxp. These drop in many, many places and are a welcome addition in the recent update.
Quests - 100 sxp each

You can and should use SXP boosters, they give 50% extra SXP.

This achievement is also very long. When I finally unlocked Storm Chaser, I was one SP away from maxing it out. Be ready for a couple months of grinding.