Gottaa said:
Have a guide for it at all kicking around Flight ? I went to a trainer, got asked to make a tea (which is a level 3 item) and I'm only level 2 and it seems to be a slog to get the resources I need to get up to level 3. I'm gathering everything I see in the off-chance and the only thing I can use to level on seems to be tin ore as I can't find the other basic components or probably more likely just don't know where to go to get them.
Thats a bug. Make two items (food are easiest eg black coffee or sunfish rolls) will get you to lvl 3. Getting the resources you need for the quests is very easy; you really dont need a lot of anything. Make a stack of each kind of oil/wash/etc at the chemistry table with roots etc before you start them, saves a lot of running around.
Get pelts from trapping animal dens, roots are obvious, you dont need any fish, the white tea leaf is the only cooking item you need.
The only tricky thing is you need to make an isonoid reagent at the chemistry table ..... to get the isonoid by product to make the vial at the jewellers table ... to make the vengeance of the fallen poison at the chem table (thats one of the items you need to make nearer the end of the quests).
You only need 20 harvesting to be able to harvest in antonica/commonlands, thats from lvl 10 on. Once you have done the starter quests we are discussing I wouldn't bother doing any more harvesting until you get to there. I'd suggest maxing fishing before you leave the starter isle and get the others to 20. Oakmyst is by far the best zone for harvesting the bits you need for the starter quests; will take you 5 minutes max.
You only need something like 20 roots, 4 tin, a half dozen pelts from traps. a half dozen wood etc. If you have the white tea leaf thats the only thing that isnt really easy to get.
Gottaa said:
One thing I have read is at level's 9, your XP is capped (but still counted) until you speak to your trainer again, so you'll stay capped at 9 until you speak to them, at which point the next item you'll make you will suddenly get all the XP you had stored up back.
Max xp you can gather is one more level's worth. Then head to the docks in Qeynos, or the trade skill association in West Freeport, evil side.
Gottaa said:
So to fish do I dive in the water and harvest the swimming fish ? I know I didn't see any in baubleshire, oh there were some in the place with the castle on the beach now thinking about it.
Fishing can be a pita to keep levelled. Far easier on the starter isle and in Oakmyst than anywhere else. You just click on the shoals of fish, not the attackable mob fish, like any other harvesting node.