jaggedpine for baking

[eniamn]

with anaconda meat, griffon meat, and plant shoots foragable it looks like i am going to exp in jagged pine to get to 250 baking.
anyone done this before and know the skillup rate. the only merchant in game that sells cheese is in jaggedpine already so anaconda melts, griffon melts, and cheesy vegetable casserole are looking tempting. i know mtps are more money but i truly enjoy eating my kills. (as a wizard its the only time i get physical with them. ) plus i can always do them later. the mandrake root is annoyingly expensive.
anyone know if this is a bad idea. was planning on getting to 202 with the cinamon sticks a guildie is donating or i can get other ways. at 189 atm and just need to get some more meat to go back to finish off patty melts. feeding 5 characters on my skillups with patty melts so far and after 4 weeks or so they are finally running out. man i wish i could brew something that would last that long. only to 151 on skull ale there though.

[Onetree Tallbarque]

Re: jaggedpine for baking

Actually, it's a great idea, particularly if you can get exp in the process. But even if you can't, the hunt is varied enough that you probably won't fall asleep. And the simplicity of the recipes is best for those of us suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome.

I've been hunting Jaggedpine for weeks after a little digging around showed how uncomplicated the recipes were. I'm level 65 so I don't get exp. However, compensation comes in the form of gratification from killing mobs swiftly: 4 in 5 Graffawns die to a single nuke, Griffons die to 2 dots and a nuke, and Anacondas perish to 2 dots and 2 nukes. Being able to track a griffawn down and drop it on the run is fun enough to keep me from dozing off at the keyboard (unlike fishing).

A session in Jaggedpine keeps me roving over much of the interior of the zone. Cash and sellable drops are decent. For the younger druids occasional quest drops will help them out. I let them rot most of the time because (a) I don't need them and (b) the zone is usually empty.

Drop rates for me have been roughly 1 in 3 Griffons/Griffawns drop a Griffon Meat, 1 in 4 Anacondas drop an Anaconda Meat, and about 1 in 8 forages yields a Plant Shoots. Spend two hours in Jaggedpine foraging and killing just these mobs and you'll walk out with a good number of ingredients for baking combines. Expect more griffon meats than anaconda meats and more anaconda meats than plant shoots. (For this reason I stay away from the Stir Frys -- they cut down on the number of combines you can attempt.)

You might want to do the melts but I stick to the 3 cheesy casseroles these days because the results sell for 10-15pp in the bazaar. Eggs (for noodles) are easy for me to forage in ToV (boring) or WW while hunting velium hounds, mastodons and the occasional ice burrower (more fun). (I'm ally to cov, btw.) If I'm hurting for pack space I just carry the eggs around. When I'm ready to bake I head to Jaggedpine then convert them to noodles.

But let me tell you, sometimes the RNG is your nemesis no matter what recipe you try. I've done upwards of 90 of these combines to get a skill up. Ouch. Going from 199 to 200 was one such leap. Then there are times the RNG has pity on you. Going from 202 to 204 took only 16 combines. Keep the end in sight and plug, plug, plug away.

You can benefit from others, too. Check the merchants in Jaggedpine for these meats. Sometimes people (who can't be bothered by baking) sell them to the local vendors. Snap them up. You also want to look for them in the bazaar, but if prices are too high then don't buy those. While you're at it, look for Justice Fruit. Making Justice Fruit Pies can also help speed you to 250 Baking.

Good luck!

[Calabar]

Jaggedpine is a great XP zone, especially if you happen to be a ranger or a druid. But for baking it can be a bit frustrating. If you can get XP there then by all means do so and take advantage of all the great baking drops. But if you are in a hurry to increase your baking skill then you may want to supplement your baking sessions with other recipes. I leveled both a druid and ranger in JP and though I loved hunting there the volume of baking drops left much to be desired. After a three or four hour session I would have less than 20 total combines to do, including griffon meat, anaconda meat and plant shoots. I was grateful for what I got, but skilling up on those items alone would take a very long time indeed.

[eniamn]

i am a wizard. anyway, i am getting sick of going to marus seru and quadding greyhoppers to up tailor and then going to ek to quad spiders and up tailor, and then killing hg for some pp and exp if they aren't overcamped already for the fs drops so i can do blacksmithing. i hunt hg mainly for loot and exp the fs is a bonus. i am going to start quadding gnoll spires in sk to up the fs drop rate. a friend has been donating me all his fs drops or i wouldn't be 130 smithing yet.
my problem is i recently had my availible play time cut dramatically and farming for a while and then exp and pp for a while isn't an option.
at 189 baking atm and any zone where i can get exp and do a tradeskill is very welcome. hard to get a group into cc for the spiders. everyone wants the geos for gem drops or the miners for velium.
jaggepine sounds like a place i can exp and then before i log, bake a few combines and maybe not make anything but i might skill ups every few days. that is acceptable. when i want to powerskill i will start farming stuff again but farming for so many skills atm is just depressing.
i love tradeskills but want my character to advance some too. lv 44 spell is 600 dmg. 8 more levels and double my dd per cast.
on the plus side i am the only lv 36 i know to have almost mastered tailor, fletching, pottery. and mastered blacksmith, baking and brewing when the 36 is there main. i really enjoy that. i have worked hard on tradeskills.

[Nairn Niteraven]

I like it

I'm at 237 Baking and made most all of it over 190 in Jaggedpine. I'm not sure this was mentioned above, but the eggs from the Cave Basilisk Genitors are phenomanal compared to other methods. They will drop up to 6 at a time, good for 2 noodles for each combine.

I love it there, eveything you need for the "hard" part of the combines is in that zone, and I'm not leaving before I'm 250.

The RNG is a harsh mistress, I've gotten 3 skillups in 24 combines and none in 80, but that's pretty consistent no matter what you use.

I'm a 58 Druid and still get experience from most Griffons, some Griffawns, and always from Anacondas. Even after you make 250 the plat from the Plant Shoots, Griffon and Anaconda meats are a nice source of income; I rountinely get 500pp for a stack of any of them. Making a few MTP's are nice for a break, but there's *way* too many subcombines for me to use that for my path.

Choose you're own way, but JP is fine for me until I GM Baking, the recipes are just too easy on the wrist.

[merkell]

i am a wizard. anyway, i am getting sick of going to marus seru and quadding greyhoppers to up tailor and then going to ek to quad spiders and up tailor, and then killing hg for some pp and exp if they aren't overcamped already for the fs drops so i can do blacksmithing. i hunt hg mainly for loot and exp the fs is a bonus. i am going to start quadding gnoll spires in sk to up the fs drop rate. a friend has been donating me all his fs drops or i wouldn't be 130 smithing yet.

Oh Boo Hoo

Try doing all that as a warrior solo cause no one wants to farm with you.

Sorry I just had to do that.

[Calabar]

Eniamn, soloing in JP will not be easy for you. The zone is wonderful for druids, rangers and even beastlords because the general animals will not aggro those classes. However, everyone else will be attacked by the bears, wolves and panthers that wonder the zone. This not only makes it difficult because of adds, but killing these creatures will drop your faction with the towns people. The faction can be fixed, but it’s a pain unless you enjoy doing faction work.

At your level you may want to try the basilisk caves. None of the above creatures wonder into the caves and the basilisks give decent experience until about level 41 or 42. And you can save the eggs for baking.

[eniamn]

argh. **** another zone to skillup baking where the mobs find me edible. i hate kitty's and puppy's. the normal fauna has faction ow. just have to get a druid to wolf form me then i guess. :/

[Tohm]

I didn't start working on increasing my skill level in Baking until I was level 58. At level 60, only the snakes were dark blue to me and, ater hitting 61, the occasional snake at best was light blue.In essence, try to do this at an earlier level, so that you can skill-up at the same time as level-up.

My own experience was closer to an average of 80 points per point increase. My WIS, unbuffed, is 259. As snakes are harder to kill (thus more time is spent for a piece of meat), I concentrated on the griffs.

There are two vendors in the bank area which sell cheese and bread, thus an excellent place to do your baking (if you have a portable spit).

For some four months or so, I lived in JP. If I never go back again, it will be too soon. As a Druid, I had it pretty easy, aggro-wise. A Shaman friend couldn't travel 22 feet without drawing an assortment of bears, wolves and cats after him - he did not stay long!

a word to the wise - I frequently went LD there - sometimes dying, sometimes logging back on and finding myself in the river, being beat upon by Potamieds. The first time that happened, I drowned before I knew what was happening. I took to wearing my Enduring Breath item whenever I went to JP after that. Putting 3 points AA into Run 3 also turned out to be a pretty good move, incidently. For some reason, SOW seems to run out at the worst possible times. hehe.

[andyhre]

I am a 52nd level ranger and it is time for me to start with cheese recipes. To date, I have been afraid of going to jaggedpine because of faction issues.

Could someone give a run-down of what NOT to kill?

[astianax]

bears, wolves, panthers lower your town faction
brell gnolls are best avoided, because they're another set of bankers/merchants
poachers and darkpaw (i think) gnolls are the ones that increase faction
snakes and griffons are there to kill
never tried a treant, so no clue what faction hits on 'em
dryads have their own faction, so kill or not, at your whim
potameids, just slaughter all the annoying fishthings

[YurienStonebow]

what lvl can a druid start hunting there for supplies?

[Quichon]

Well, I avoided the whole zone entirely.

I started out with fish rolls to 135. This can be done in PoK with a spit. Please look up my guide for details like merchant names and locations.

Then did pasta to 191. You don't need cheese. You don't need to enter the zone. Just one jug of sauces, one spice, and one noodles. Sure, you have to farm/forage the eggs, and Basilisks found in the caves in JP DO have good eggs for making noodles with, but it isn't necessary strictly speaking.

[Tinile]

Unless the war is going on, as a light race, you are perfectly safe at the zone in and town for cheese shopping.

[Ripsnorter]

This is for +202 baking Quichon not lowbie baking.