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In the midst of exploring this new zone I was invited on a couple of adventures with some friends, so I didn’t get to explore it as much as I would have liked. But the zone is very similar to Jaggedpine Forest, even down to being able to forage plant shoots. The mobs are much lower level, but there are griffons and anaconda. Has anyone found them to drop meat? I only had time to kill two or three of each. I didn’t see any meat drop, but that was a very small sample. If they drop meat this zone will make baking much easier to grand master.
Just in case someone might be interested, I’ll add the zone description I posted on my guild’s web page:
Well, I visited the new zone last night. The graphics are really nice, with an ocean beach, two waterfalls and lots of trees. There are bears, wolves, panthers, griffons, turtles and frogs. I also found schools of salt-water fish swimming together in the crystal clear water. All the animals were very green to me at 62, but someone in OOC said that everything was blue at level 34. For the moment the only way to get there is to run through Jaggedpine Forest, which is a much higher level zone. But there is a wayfarer’s camp near the water and I expect that at some point we’ll be able to access the zone via the adventure camps.
This will be a nice addition for mid level characters. The zone is very reminiscent of Jaggedpine Forest, including the ability to forage plant shoots, but with lower level mobs. It will make a very good hunting area for many characters. I found some of the animals to be aggressive, such as the wolves and bears, but others, such as the turtles, frogs and ancient anaconda, completely ignored me.
This is also a great zone for farming pelts. I looted several varieties of bear and wolf pelts, including high quality bear pelts, while I was there. I’m hopeful that griffon and anaconda meat will also drop, but I didn’t see any from the few creatures I killed. I did a little fishing, but thunder salmon were the only zone specific fish I found. There are a few things you can make from the salmon, but nothing extraordinary.
From what I’ve read this new zone is simply a staging area for a new expansion connected to the wayfarers. Still, it’s useful in and of itself. It’s a good zone for level appropriate characters, it provides a new source for some trade skill items and it’s graphically appealing. All in all not a bad deal for a zone added during a patch.
Just in case someone might be interested, I’ll add the zone description I posted on my guild’s web page:
Well, I visited the new zone last night. The graphics are really nice, with an ocean beach, two waterfalls and lots of trees. There are bears, wolves, panthers, griffons, turtles and frogs. I also found schools of salt-water fish swimming together in the crystal clear water. All the animals were very green to me at 62, but someone in OOC said that everything was blue at level 34. For the moment the only way to get there is to run through Jaggedpine Forest, which is a much higher level zone. But there is a wayfarer’s camp near the water and I expect that at some point we’ll be able to access the zone via the adventure camps.
This will be a nice addition for mid level characters. The zone is very reminiscent of Jaggedpine Forest, including the ability to forage plant shoots, but with lower level mobs. It will make a very good hunting area for many characters. I found some of the animals to be aggressive, such as the wolves and bears, but others, such as the turtles, frogs and ancient anaconda, completely ignored me.
This is also a great zone for farming pelts. I looted several varieties of bear and wolf pelts, including high quality bear pelts, while I was there. I’m hopeful that griffon and anaconda meat will also drop, but I didn’t see any from the few creatures I killed. I did a little fishing, but thunder salmon were the only zone specific fish I found. There are a few things you can make from the salmon, but nothing extraordinary.
From what I’ve read this new zone is simply a staging area for a new expansion connected to the wayfarers. Still, it’s useful in and of itself. It’s a good zone for level appropriate characters, it provides a new source for some trade skill items and it’s graphically appealing. All in all not a bad deal for a zone added during a patch.
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